Why Do So Many People Fail Online?

I think the biggest reason people fail is due to the overhyped earnings and underhyped time investment by the MMO crowd.

I hear commercials all the time about making $10,000 a month working one hour a week. Go to ebay, there are hundreds of listings promising huge sums of money while doing no work.

People read all this, assume it is as easy as they have been led to believe (by people selling MMO products) and then think they are a failure when they end up making little to no money working countless hours online.

If it wasnt for all the hype, more people would consider this a real business just like any other business. But the marketing in this area has brought in a whole bunch of lazy people who will never hunker down and do the work to get their IM biz off the ground.

People are looking for an easy buck. It doesnt take long to figure out that there arent any easy bucks in this biz.

I'm darn tempted to say MLM.

But I'll vote for lack of clarity which is caused by not knowing what they are looking for ( a proven online business plan/model ) which leads to info-overload and confusion.

TL

Interesting question.

I would say that online marketing attracts a certain group of people who are looking for easy money / get rich quick and aren't prepared to put the necessary work in

But there are also the people who are prepared to work, if they can overcome information overload, put together a plan and focus

Also, a large amount of failure in anything has to be down to simply quitting too soon

Katie

Two things...

1). Monotony. Without a doubt, at least in my case. I've failed on several ventures from going out of my mind with the monotony of the busywork involved. A good example is trying to build a small affiliate site empire a few years ago. I burned out before I got to the point where I had enough extra income to outsource anything.

2). Picking niches I had no interest in. And I mean no interest at all. I'll bet this is one a lot of others here can relate to. I don't believe you have to love a niche or even be passionate about it, but not caring about it at all becomes a heavy burden. You have to at least find something interesting about a niche to put in all the legwork to make a successful run at it. At least, that proved to be true in my case.

John

Zeus66, that's been my downfall...Monotony and lack of interest in the niche. Yep.

So many people fall for the auto-pilot profits, get-rich-quick schemes that it's easy to become disillusioned. I thought that I could make a ton of money at first, too. Now I have a couple of interesting 'gimmick' sites and 1 that I make my living off of. In order to make the money, though, I actually have to work for it...Orders may come in while I'm sleeping or sitting by the pool, but I've got to get to the computer a good number of hours out of my day to fill my orders.

I think the bottom line is that people want a "quick buck" and the reason is - everything is marketed so well that most people feel that they can male a million bucks over night... so when it doesn't happen - they give up!

Please correct me if I am wrong - but most successful IM's have made so many mistakes in the past... which has made them stronger and more successful. But they have only dont this through PATIENCE and PERSISTENCE!

What do you guys think?

for me it was focus. it was until i got laid off of my job that i buckled down and started making money.

Simple. They fail to take right action, if they manage to take action at all. There are all manner of explanations for why that is, from misinformation to downright laziness. But I firmly believe that to be the simple truth.

I think its because alot of people jump from project to project without ever really completing one thing all the way through.

Tim - GREAT question...

Part of what I do is coach people from time-to-time and I notice you bring up one of the main failure points: lack of a PLAN.

Personally, I see a lack of a plan as one of the biggest problems out there. And I think it has a LOT to do with the fact that most people never have to create a plan for anything they do professionally. As a sales rep for a major fortune 1000 company, my bosses were AMAZED when I proposed a detailed 52 week plan for them one year. They were used to a 4 page power point presentation that talked vaguely about what they were going to do on a quarter by quarter basis. I created a plan. And (not surprisingly) it worked! And when there was an unexpected dip or surge in business, we could go back to the plan and see why.

Next - and greatly related to the plan is the problem of focus. There is simply too much noise out there - especially for the newbies. They're consistently distracted by the latest "bright & shiny" idea / scheme / etc. and seem to think that this time they'll be able to immediately find both the rainbow AND the pot of gold!

Finally - I think there's a sad shadow on our industry that it involves "no work". We are fortunate in that we can employ a number of systems in our businesses where a lot of it can run on autopilot - but work is most definitely required and involved. I remember one particular coaching call with a potential new client. He at least had a half-baked plan (which was better than nothing), and he was asking my advice on how to make it work. When I made some suggestions as to how he could monetize this business (which was actually really good!), his immediate, word-for-word response was: "but... that sounds like work..." I chuckled at first until I realized he was being serious. He then proceeded to get a little ticked off that the "no work" promise was a myth. Needless to say, I ended the call and didn't accept him as a client!

So I'd say those are the three root causes of failure in this business from my experience. Great question!

The never ending search for that one missing link or the magic pill that just does not exist is the first reason people fail. Once they get into something and see how much work it takes to succeed they quit and go off on their merry way buying the next magic pill product out there. They refuse to do the work and accept that hard work = success. They look at others who are making money online and think that it just happened overnight. One day that guy woke up and thought of the missing link to success. That's not the case though. It can take months and years to get to making big bucks. But they are usually sold on overnight success that can be done by a blind chimp with two fingers. I could make a huge list of products that make these promises and never deliver but I'm only allowed 5,000 characters per post...

People basically are honest and cannot be taken in by the tricks of IMs for long. Telling people that you are making millions when the facts are you are probably fighting to earn a quid turns me off. When some Marketers provide emails to their members for distribution you get the same spiel from several people. Being at the top of the pyramid they make money from all below it.

It stops me opening emails or notifications from people claiming to have so much money or whose 'good friend' has suddenly hit the big time with a new product or invention. While some do, without a doubt, make a decent living online unless known to me or something tells me otherwise I question their tactics.

Those who send emails after supposedly arriving back from some cruise or other or some world trip, as though it is something they do every second month or so, need to think again. This is not incentive but off putting for those who struggle to survive. Most people don't need to know of their mansions, newest cars, wealth, whether these things exist or not. but would like to know how they got started, where they learned the basics, what they did to overcome failure, and how they can help others to do the same.

The other thing that stops people in their tracks is a lack of discipline to govern their time properly and plan for success. While many do this part time while holding down a job, and rightly so, they are heading for disaster unless disciplined enough to put in the time and overcome tiredness and distractions when it matters. This is a career maker if done right, just as a university degree is.

Rejection is another off putter to success. The wrong words, the wrong approach and/or the wrong attitude by some marketers can be a serious rejection of someone's ability. People need encouragement and a steadfast boost of confidence to continue with a project. Those who manage Membership sites or affiliate programs must become aware of this and use friendship and tolerance towards members who have questions and need help.

A case in point happened recently when I joined a membership site that promised the world. There were problems from the start as I had to take a new host which I could not work out. So I paid for a niche site (part of the packet) to be put up. There was 6 months membership for the host required by the owner to get better products etc. from which he got an affiliate payment, It put me out of pocket by a fairly large sum (probably around $au200) after the high membership costs.

When I tried to upload the site there was trouble. Some html script landed in a Front Page writer that made no sense to me and which I could not get rid of but kept asking for payment. After a couple of email requests for help I posted my problem it in the forum. My membership was suddenly canceled. No apologies, no questions asked. I had passed a hidden barrier that said 'don't expect any help because you are on your own.' Was that a failure on my part or his?

Many dismiss pleas for assistance as too big a drain on their time. Mainly because they are, after all, 'earning millions' themselves so they are "too big" in their own estimation to come down to the little guys level. They forget who they might be earning that money from and how long that income might last. My take on it, however, is that many are too raw to know the answers in the first place. All they want is your money.

The other thing that faces those struggling in IM is information overload. Being bombarded with emails from people whose lists are joined for one reason or another and then being blown away with all kinds of offers generates major confusion.

A personal hate of mine is being offered a so-called 'free' gift and then landing on a squeeze page demanding purchase of some product of other that will disappear in seconds if not immediately bought for some outrageous price. This is a definite way to get me off their list and themselves into my spam box.

These tricks are against the honest persons character and method of doing things. There must be more honesty in IM. If something is worthwhile then people need time to ponder it and make up their mind whether or not it suits them, otherwise it is nothing better than a high pressure flea market where you pay through the nose for something that in the end may be junk.

The lesson for IM's is treat your website like a shop not like something Dictators employ. Put your product up and if people like it and buy it they will come back. That's called 'loyal customers' and the good sellers are remembered for a long time to come.

The list goes on but I will stop there. It is not a question of why people fail but more a question of why we teach them to fail, why we help them to fail. The bottom line is that most people would be happy making just a little each month without the pressure, hype, lies and promotional demands of those who should know better.

Norma

Hello,

I have been trying to market on the internet for quite a while but I think part of my problem has been not staying FOCUSED. You have got to stay focused because there are so many things bombarding you from every side. I have been hearing about Mass Control as well but for now I need to stay FOCUSED on what I am doing or I will once again go buy the new thing and never start to build any kind of base for myself.

One of the reasons so many people fail online is for that reason alone - not being FOCUSED.

Have a good evening.

Paul

Lack of direction, lack of focus, lack of persistence. AND this has to be something you really, really, really want. Like a career choice. I know that I want to be an Internet Marketer when I grow up. I don't want to be anything else...this is what I want to do. Some just don't want it that bad...and that's not a bad thing. It's just there's no quitting or failure to those who really want it.

they give up too early.

Great question, I personally believe the reason why is because most people who enter the IM biz are just opportunity seekers. They jump from opportunity to opportunity and never actually STICK TO A PLAN like you've done.

I've learned that when you finally buckle down and make a commitment, create a plan, set goals and deadlines for yourself, you actually start to work more efficiently. Also, a lot of people who come into this get frustrated and give up way too easily..

Well, an entrepreneur would never give up. Ever. No matter what circumstance. If being an entrepreneur was so easy then EVERYBODY would be doing it. Sure, they might like the idea of it and think it'll be cool to make money on the internet and try to get their feet wet but as soon as an obstacle is in place (which is the case for almost all businesses) they quit.

I've failed many times, and still failing today. But am I giving up? Hell no because I know what I want and I'm going to get it. And I honestly find business, sales, marketing and the psychology behind it all intriguing. I love this stuff and that might be why I'm so driven towards my goals.

For me the answer is simple:

People don't succeed in building an online business because they don't keep going. Why? Perhaps they were expecting everything to be easy. Maybe they haven't developed their determination. Perhaps they still have more to learn. The tragedy is that many people will give up when they're on the dawn of victory.

And my advice to everyone still learning (and to myself because I'm still learning) is to:


Keep taking action ... Keep making those strides that will bring you closer and closer to success ... Keep making "mistakes" and "failing" ... Keep learning and improving ... And remember as Edison said: "I'm not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." Learn from your "failures" and use them as fuel to ignite your passion and drive your forward towards your goals.

We'll do well to remember the Japanese proverb: "Fall down 7 times, get up 8." And you absolutely must get up. Because that's what successful people do. Success may be closer than you think. Don't stop now. Because as I once read: "On the battle field lay the broken bones of those who upon the dawn of victory rested and while resting died."

We were born to succeed. And all we have to do is keep plugging away.

Consistency, I used to suck at making a dime online because always turn to every product that launch in the market. But after I get consistency with one method and doing it over and over again, this is the key why people fail online.

Most people are conditioned from the time they are kids to avoid and have a fear of failure. That is why some people never get started online or fail. That is also the reason behind the american "quick fix" culture. No one wants to fail. When we are kids we dont think of it as failure, when kids try something new they enjoy the process and actually see blatant "failures" as huge successes because they had fun and gained a new skill in the process!

Trying and testing new things is a natural way to learn children kow this inherently but as adults we are conditioned to avoid failure. We want to hit a home run first time at the bat or we consider the experience a failure. And being hedonistic by nature, most people will avoid failure, because it doesnt feel good.

You only fail if never try again.

I'm finding as far as internet marketing goes, too much competition. Particularly in affiliate marketing.

Also, not sticking long enough to a method. I'm very guilty of that. I start a strategy then I don't see any results and I've put in a lot of time into it, so I put it on hold and start another one, and so on.

Mostly people fail because of lack of dedication, commitment and perseverance. Procrastination plays vital role and pre occupations and distractions do have a role also.

I think people fail because there is WAY to much HYPE.

It's in a lot of the sales copy that promises millions in 5 minutes. The truth is, most of us all thought it was "that" easy but its not. But the people who seem to be successful can weed around all the junk and stick to a certain plan and take action.

Nothing just comes to people, you have to go out and get it.

=-)

There are many reasons for why people fail to make money online and one of these reasons includes, these people try to deliver their information or market to the wrong people.

Failing to identify the potential customers is a sure way to fail despondently online. It is necessary for any person to identity niche market to earn a lot.

It doesn't matter what the business you have or what the service you provide to your customers, but it is necessary for a person to make sure that he is marketing to the right group of people.

Regards

First, I would say that most of the people who fail do so simply because they have underestimated the task. Second, I think most - if not all - people underestimate the task - I underestimated it myself (lol).

The winners are not those who don't underestimate the task, but those who are prepared to stay with it once they have had the realisation.

Will

I think they just don't understand the mechanics of making money online. For example if you don't know html and you've never heard of bum marketing then your're stuck. If you haven't even tasted a slight bit of success then you'll never believe MMO is possible. Determination is the key but that only works if you know money can be made online. Although I've had limited success, I know for a fact that money can be made online. By just understand "The money is in the list" is enough to convince me.

Information overload and not taking action are two of the biggest reasons people fail to make money. Just start doing things, learn and keep taking action. Don't be swamped with the latest get rich schemes. Most of them are the same thing packaged differently.

I agree with Tush's second point.

2. Lack of a step by step guide...Everyday,there is something with the secret to success from the latest Guru...newbies don't know where to start from...

I believe there is still room in the market if a learned Warrior created a "simple to understand" step by step guide to IM. I have seen a few guides but to me they are still too complicated. I guess that says something about my intelligence or lack there of.

Regards,

Geoff.

You are right. 95% of the venture is mlm in nature , whether the owner admit it or not. in any mlm, we learn money from our downlines, and 95% down there will suffer. I did earned some money from some packages but it domino effect will come one day when it getting harder and harder to recruit and we lost the trust of our downlines and we need to start all over agasin. So now i change my biz model which is grow my list and well treat them and FULLY TESTED any of my affiliate products 1st before send my sales pitch to them.

Look at what ALL GURUS are doing, grow list is the top priority ! and you will have decent income once you have big list and sell product with REAL value that BENEFIT the people behind your list ...

A few observations from my neck of the woods, seeing how I have been observing the IM marketscape for years. A few here mentioned something about not having a well-defined plan. But believe me, some do and even then failure looms near.

Truth is, some plans are just more effective in making their implementers money than others. Not only because the former plans themselves are deficient (a plan for making money with adsense tends to be less profitable these days, compared to one for making money via affiliate marketing) but also because some niches are just not "rabid" enough compared to others, or are more RESPONSIVE to one form of being reached out to (say, via video marketing) than others (say, via articles).

Here is a solution: Taken on a funnel approach to marketing, and then narrow your plan down to the most EFFECTIVE one or two strategies as far as reaching out your market. In other words, if video marketing is the most effective way for you to make money, having tried article marketing or PPC, then STICK TO VIDEOS! Create raving fans out of your viewers, and from there, when you gain "social proof", it merely becomes a case of giving your chosen niche(s) the full gift of who you are, and the research you are capable of doing to fill in the "how-to" gaps there.

Finally, can I just say that regardless of your success of failure levels, you've all tried and (hopefully) are trying despite the odds. I love you all and look up to each of you as an inspiration, so keep at it! Finding the "blueprint" that's most effective for you is only a matter of time...

Peace out!

Rick

Most people online are looking to make a quick buck. They're not thinking in terms of building a business.

It's the biz-opp mindset that's killing them before they even started. And will attract them to the easy, push-button solutions that sells so well when you're looking to make a quick buck, instead of building a business.

If you're in the mindset of building a business, chances are you will stop looking for the quick and easy stuff, and start focusing on the fundamentals, that are universal in business building.

Understanding business models, direct-response marketing, traffic-generation, time-management, project management, hiring, leadership skills, etc... NOT... How to get #1 ranking on google in 10 days, or how to make $5,000/month by posting ads on CraigsList... or whatever the hell sounds easy and promises to "cheat" your way to the top, without actually taking the time to learn the fundamentals.

The truth is that people that get into this busines in the first place, get into it because they are typically desperate for money. They didn't get into it, because they were already rich and wanted to learn how to build a wordpress blog to make 4,000$/month or whatever

Hopefully though, there will come a time where the biz-opp seeker becomes a business person. I personally don't think everyone has what it takes to go through this transformation though, and that is why I feel that so many people fail online and why you NEVER hear anyone succeed big after a few weeks.

Read a bit about the history of most of the successful people online, and you will most likely discover that they have grinded their ass off, have had a lot of failures, and studied a thing or two about direct-response marketing from Dan Kennedy.

I don't think I've heard of anyone that has ever become rich just by doing the part-time 2h/day "I'm going to tip-toe my way safely to success" method.

Have you?

I would say lack of direction, or upline support.

MLM, in my opinion isn't flawed, it is the people in it. If you are driven and focused, anything will work. You need to be honest when explaing to some one how things work, and help them. Do not get them to join, and then dump them. That is not going to benefit anyone. You need to duplicate you success through your downlines. The only way things will change for the better in the MLM niche, is if we decide to change. Make it a point to cut the crap.

If everyone did this, it would make things run smoother for everyone. Not just the MLM people. It affects everyone trying to earn online. If some one get turned off to MLM, it is going to turn them off to other things, whether it be buying a forex program, a success program, etc. Even people running a company online, If you are not a big name brand, you get looked over, because the person doesn't trust the internet.

Lets all be honest and keep things clean. Then pass it on, and on and on. Who knows we just might change things for every niche.

Great thread, Lets not take offense to any of the posts. Everyone is allowed there opinions. To all, I wish you success in your online ventures.

I think there are many factors involved in success or failure - an element of luck being one of them, and being in the right place at the right time also helps. Having said that - some people will use the excuse that 'you have to be lucky' in this game to succeed is a reason for not following through on projects.

In a way I can sympathise with people who are looking for easy ways to make a fast buck because the sales letters are geared to their emotional triggers - nothing really wrong with that because most advertising is done this way. You only have to look at car ads on the TV to see that they are selling the dream and not the reality, playing to our emotions.

It's up to us really to pick out the good stuff from the bad and a quick browse around this forum will give some clear indicators on that.

The reason people fail is due to the 'Get Rich Quick' mentality , I have two friends suffer from this syndrome and have bunny hopped from one get rich quick scheme to the next get rich quick scheme out there, and they never follow thru with it, if it doesnt make money then they bail out and find the next best thing, as one guy mentioned above - people join IM for two reason 1) To make a quick buck 2) They are desperate for money and need to make it fast!!

If you want to make money online then its going to take HARD WORK!!! There is no way around it regardless of the countless gurus and programs out there say to the contrary...

HARD WORK = Success

Once you do that then you can enjoy the benefits of making easy money

That sums up the issue in its entirity... Hyped upped, rehased systems that only make the person selling them money.

Simply put people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan. In order to plan you need a goal/objective. Then you need to breakdown the goal into steps. Then those steps into smaller steps. Until you have a size that you can say "I can do that." Time committment is key within those steps. If you can't accomplish your goal within 30 days, is it O.K. to do it in 300 days? Why not, it is still accomplished. But most people want it fast, want it now and want it without effort. Myself included. But it never works that way for the long term.

In my personal experience, often the COMPANY ITSELF has disappeared just when I started making some decent money. You can be dedicated and build a team, but what then happens when the company goes out of business?

So that can be a cause of failure as well. You have to pick the right business to join. That business has to have a good product(s) and it has to be proven (around for YEARS AND YEARS).

You have to join a good TEAM (upline) that can get you over the inevitable rough spots. There is no such thing as 100% success without disappointent or setbacks, so you need someone there to guide and help. Failures are steps on the road to success and we have to learn from them and carry on.

Now I only join proven, 10 year old companies with solid and attractive compensation plans and that have been paying their affiliates consistently.

The next reason I have had trouble is lack of knowing how to get traffic to my website. I always wondered what is the right way to market? How do I get people interested? Now I have found that there are MANY ways to market and I am developing one at a time.

I found out how to get 10,000 hits per month to my sites with Traffic Exchanges and what type of website you need to be successful with that kind of marketing. I found out exactly how to generate my own leads with this and am now building a list. The money is in the list.

I found out that the LEADS that are being sold or given away out there are USELESS as you cannot do anything with them (unless they are FRESH LEADS loaded straight into an autoresponder). Any other leads are almost pure garbage and just get you into spam problems. You need to generate your own leads.

I have always been able to build a network marketing team. I am now mastering MARKETING ITSELF. I now have stable businesses to work with (10 years old and debt free). I now know a lot of things I did not know a couple of years ago.

And most of all, I know that you have to plant your seeds before you can have a crop. In business that means you need to have a worthwhile product or service to provide to others. You have to do as many different things as possible to get your message about that product in front of as many people as possible. And when you do build a team (that is part of building a business and leveraging other peoples time, money and effort), you then have to TAKE CARE OF THAT TEAM.

I KNOW I HAVE TO PERSIST. I know I have to find someone that is doing what I want to accomplish and DUPLICATE THEM as closely as possible.

The guru's who sell the systems to make $5,000 per week have spent YEARS building up mailing lists and warming them up so they are responsive. Or they have mastered google adwords to get a flood of traffic that way. But there is a lot of detail behind the scenes that you have to work to find out and use PROPERLY.

Anyone that is allergic to work will fail online, just as they would fail in any job. Anyone that is not willing to study and learn will fail.

I honestly think that most people that have failed just have not had the right business or did not have the right team, did not study to find out what to do and did not persist until they were successful. You cannot flip from thing to thing. You need to find something decent and stick with it.

It seems EASY to give up and walk away. But then you are there expending your effort again next week or next month with something else. It is easier in the long run to just DO ONE OR TWO THINGS WELL AND CONSISTENTLY.

A magnifying glass that is moving will never burn anything. But FOCUS it for a short time and wow ...watch it start to burn! Same thing. Focus, learn, persist, join a good team in a good business. And treat it like a business and BUILD IT.

Nothing else matters if you are willing to learn.

Ron

Why so many people fail online.:confused:

I don't think not having a plan is the core reason. I think it is much more basic like Napoleon Hill says, that the desire, faith, and perseverance were not strong enough to begin with.

For those with a plan, and lacking those three ingredients above - they are doomed to fail same as those with the big three and no plan.

I know I have the big three, and I have a plan. So why do people like me fail?

I know I have a difficult time NOT wanting to learn every new thing there is to learn and then try to implement it -- immediately!

This takes me off tasks and prevents me from achieving goals in the phase of the plan I am in. It is totally my fault, I have to control this urge. I need specialized knowledge, yes indeed!

But I don't need instant specialized knowledge about everything... now. I need to focus.

I am sure this is the case for others.

So now I am in the stage of focusing on building my opt in list instead of sales.

Thus I am specializing my knowledge in finding ways to increase targeted website traffic.

I need highly targeted website traffic to get highly targeted buyers. I constantly drifted off this goal in search of sales. I need the targeted website traffic first....

This brings opt ins, who I develop trust and confidence with, then I lead them to sales.

A much better way to do things.

Why I think people fail online:

Sure there's lack of knowledge, bad advice, having no plan, not knowing the steps.. however above all that.. someone who really wants to success will get past all that I think the main things stopping people are:

1. They aren't naturally driven to want success.
I truly believe that most successful people and people that are destined to success have a deep need to success INGRAINED in them. It's at the core of their identity and without success they don't feel completely themselves.

2. They don't have a passion for the business.
Seriously this is heavy. So many people jump from one idea to the next hoping to find the "right" way to make money. Make sure this is really what you want. Are you doing this because you love it. Do you live and breathe it every day? Does getting up and working feel like work? Or is it fun? If it's not fun, step back and reasses the situation.

3. Scared of trying something "in case" they fail
For most people it's: What if this idea doesn't work? I don't have the money for that!
The real issue is never money. It's a confidence issue. If you don't work well in a model of business where you need to part with lots of money and you find it too risky.. find a model that works better for you... I did

4. New ideas give people a buzz / mild adreline rush
It all comes down to emotions. Emotions are super-ultra addictive. I once heard from a credible psychology expert that many people unconsciously ruin their lives just to get a certain emotion. And what do many people do when they CLEARLY know everything they need to do to succeed online? Right buy MORE info products. There's nothing wrong with getting more info.. we always need to keep growing but the info you buy should be equal the action you take. We don't chase the ferrari, we chase the emotion that goes with it, feeling important, superior etc) I grasped this concept recently and am noticed how it affects all sorts of people in their lives. (inside and outside business)

Hey,

Great question! btw: I hope you had a great time in Norway, that is my home country.

I think the reason most people fail online is the lack of attaining a mindset that is required to succeed. Without the mindset foundation, people quit when things get tough. There is this huge misconception that just sending out a few ads here and there, money will come pouring in.

In my experience, to succeed online, one need to become a true professional and build a foundation for success. With the mindset foundation, becoming a professional becomes a lot more easier and the foundation will help you stand against storms and bumps in the road throughout the journey.

There may be many other variables that causes so many people to fail miserably online, but I believe that failing to become a professional with a entrepreneurial mindset is the major reason and thus it got to be the first step before expecting any solid results.

Have a GREAT day!

People try to be good at everything and forget to focus on just one thing is one of the main factors of failure online..
Focus, Apply, Focus, Apply... and Focus, Apply.

This happened to me before and I'll always look back and learn from my mistakes.

I got too carried away from listening/reading all those "offers" and promises and I ended up with a major info overload. Too tired because I'm doing too much stuff and had to juggle from this product to another product. It was hell.

Thanks to some advise from fellow online friends, I literally started over and focused on one niche, and things started to shape up better.

As for some of my friends, they rushed. Always had that mentality that things would work in a blink of an eye.

I was a newbie, and would still call myself one cause I'm still learning. This thing requires work and focus.

I believe the reason people fail online can't be just 1:

Each person has their own story.

Some will buy a $7 ebook and think they own the world....and many times the ebook tells them they will too.

Some are not committed and they quit when things get a bit tough

Some simply have not gotten to "their" pot of gold - they may be tyring to sell software, but their niche is in telling people how NOT to sell software

You can blame anything you want to, I believe that ANYONE can succeed online, IF THEY ARE COMMITTED.

Jay NaPier

I think it can be boiled down to this:

Lack of critical thinking skills.

What does one expect when most of us are thought to follow orders rigidly from young.

Why else do we study subjects that have no use in the real world? This is because most of the work that people do in a day job is mindless and it is not something they truly care about.

School is a way of conditioning people to learn stuff they hate and to obey orders they dislike, all for the 'greater good'.

That's why entrepreneurs are of a different breed.

Something to think about.

Allen

You need a LOT of skill to become successful. There's just SO much to learn, the basics won't get you there. If you are completely green - then its everything from hosting, wordpress - all the techie stuff and some of its quite difficult - to becoming a marketer in some form. It all takes time and some money and its SO easy to lose money along the way. In addition I think yu have to have a good dose of faith that yu can succeed. Its sure not going to happen over night. You need a good plan, and someone you can trust to get you over the hurdles

I think the main reasons why people fail are:
Lack of focus - Wanting to become rich overnight and losing sight of the end result. Expecting results too quickly. Also people are easily distracted by the next new big shiny product to be released promising a get rich quick magic button.
I know I was overwhelmed by everything when I first came online. There is so much here and so many different ways to make money

They get too easily manipulated by the easy and quick methods that some people market, then they give up after seeing it doesn't work exactly as advertised and that it requires "a bit" of work"

IM at first sight looks fairly easy, atleast that was what I thought. It took me some time to figure out that black hat and "low quality" content doesn't pay off these days. I'm sure alot of people start out like I myself did, firmly believing it's a dance on roses and that I could easily improve what other marketers hadn't been able to.

Start a quality niche blog with serious quality content, then build a mailing list from the readers of said blog. After you have a fair amount of readers, work on a product and sales page in your blog's niche and promote it on your blog and mailing list while also contacting affiliates in that niche. Do some YouTubin' on the side. The Tube is just great for free advertising. You may promote other products in your niche to your readers, too, but make sure that you're promoting stuff that's actually good. Don't treat your readers like caddle, ever. They don't want a salesman promoting something in their inbox, they want a respected person in your niche to recommend a good product.

That's my best advice for those who want to go through as little trial and error as possible.

I wrote about what I thing why most people fail in this post of mine:

http://www.warriorforum.com/mind-war...ml#post6194808

In summary, here are my reasons:

1. By default, the great majority will always fail in anything, and only minority will succeed

2. People are unwilling to make the effort and do what needs to be done

3. People are not taking action

no taking action is a killer of profits and business.

Many have experienced this first hand...and many have given up in the process.

The answer to this is the same answer as why people fail at anything. The answer is YOU!

Wealthy people simply have a different mindset than people who live paycheck to paycheck. I forget where it was but I read somewhere that if all the money in the world were split up evenly, in 5 years it would all end up divided the same way before it was split up. People who consistently make money just know how to do it. And it's not "education". It's their habits, discipline and mindset.

I know very few rich people who know the contestants on American Idol. It's hard to find a poor person who doesn't.


Another thing is this. Making money is no different than loosing weight, quitting smoking, quitting drinking, or anything else. To loose weight you need to eat right and MOVE (gym, running, etc.). The problem is that no one ever sticks to it so then they resort to blaming the plan as opposed to themselves for quitting. When I was in school we studied people like JP Morgan, Vanderbilt, Ford and others and it's amazing how while they all had different business models and personalities, their habits were mainly the same. You can go and look at people today like Trump, Gates, Welch and others. Different models, different personalities, but the exact same habits.

So the answer is YOU. If you mimic the daily habits of highly successful people you'll likely reach a level of success as well.

If you want to succeed online, you need to invest both time and effort. For example, building a website and hoping it gets like a thousand visits in a week is like an impossible goal to reach... unless you have roughly a thousand people in your network that you can ask to visit your page.

Patience is the key to succeeding online, as well as proper planning. If you want to win at a game, don't you need a game plan? The same thing applies. A good plan will bring you good results, however that only works if you're really willing to invest your time and effort.

Having a GET RICH QUICK MENTALITY

Trying too many things at once.

Giving up too quickly.

Failing to improvise and experiment.

Being too eager to compromise INTEGRITY.

Reason y most people FAIL online....

We just dont stick to a single source...instead we would jump tree after tree finding the other tree better than the current one.....

If we had simply stayed firm to a plan...and not chase shiny objects

And had determination and Paitence....

Success would way ur way...

People want big money quick and that's just not how it works. Need to put in the effort

It is because most people tend to go to shortcuts rather than working their way to the original path. People who fail do not focus to the details of their market. Before you venture into internet marketing, you need to do extensive marketing research towards your target market. Being successful online takes a lot of work and cannot be done in just a matter of weeks and sometimes it takes years.

Cool post. I have also been thinking the same thing recently.

I think many people fail online because they quit before giving themself a chance of success.

Everyone seems to be in such a rush!

They come in with unrealistic expectations thinking it will be easy and then drop out when they discover that they actually have to work hard at it and build an actual business rather than constantly looking for something that "works".

I personally think most people fail online because they have huge expectation.They want success quick and try to play in different fields without any particular focus and they don't know what they are doing and where they want to see themselves after a certain period (They don't have any plan).

Whether it's in real life or internet marketing, even the best plans can fail sometimes. It's true that failure is a part of life but once we learn from our mistakes we're on our road to success. If we have not learned anything at all then we are so far away from succeeding.

A lot of people fail online, because they give up easily. They think of failure as an obstacle rather than a step closer to success.

You can't succeed if you do not fail.