Brandon, Dude Awesome Story! I think that is the most I have EVER read without skipping ahead.. lol Yeah not just ADD but I have ADHD.
Your story is right on the money. This is something I battled with for a while because you have all these "gurus" saying the "easiest" thing to do is to make a "info product." Problem is I believe its the hardest.
You don't just need to make the product but you need to be a writer, copywriter, marketer, SEO/Adwords specialist, know about running a Affiliate Program and so many other things to start selling your own product from scratch. Unless of course if you have the money to outsource then your set.
Now if all you do is buy and study "IM" then the only logical thing you can think of to write about or teach is IM.
And for anyone facing this dilemma now, then here's a few suggestions that really changed things for me..
1. Go to elance.com or Guru.com and start "freelancing" your services. If you are a true IM'er then you know EXACTLY what to do BUT you don't have a product to start promoting. So do it for other people. And if your like me and like helping others more than doing for yourself then this is a great fit. And you can make A LOT OF MONEY DOING IT!
2. Start promoting "Affiliate Products" in any Niche (even one you know NOTHING about).
I started off with a niche I knew nothing about... "child behavior problems". And it was hard at 1st because I don't even have kids.
BUT I get a check every 2 weeks from Clickbank from a "Video promotion" I did on that product 2 years ago. ALL I DID WAS MAKE A CAMTASIA VIDEO OF A POWERPOINT I MADE POINTING OUT STUFF FROM THE SALESLETTER. I couldn't even tell you where the videos are or where the traffic comes from because all i did was blast the video out using Traffic Geyser.
** Yeah I know now its called "Video Skinning" (I missed that opportunity... lol) but I did 2 years ago when I knew NOTHING and I still get checks weekly until today.
3. Get use to writing articles about stuff. Find someone else's articles and re-word it with a few sentences of your own and BOOM... Its Unique!
Basically start doing stuff and stuff will happen.
And believe it or not...
When you realize that IM is the last niche you want to be in that...
IS THE DAY YOU GRADUATE from being an "IM Newbie".
We all go through it and after struggling for a year (or more), that day comes when you realize there is so much more money to be made by using what you know to sell other people's stuff and letting them (product owners) struggle to make one product and you get to blast out some articles and make 50-75% of the sales price.
Then when your ready, step up and make your own product. And after a few months of doing some of the things listed above, while you make your product, you will have plenty of checks coming in to get you by...
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