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Originally Posted by AllStar
This industry like most has a hard time looking to the future and focusing on the past.
Their is money to be made( and a lot at any time) Just because something worked three years ago does not mean it will work today.
The guys who are scared the most in this industry are the ones with the most to lose.
They are scared because in the ten years of history this industry has had, every big company has fallen, every single one of them. Whether it be from laziness or arrogance, they all have had difficulty changing. From free sites, AVS, Paysites, reality sites, tgp's to mgp's, buying and selling traffic, very few people can change with the times.
Is their opportunity? of course their is. For anybody to think that their isn't millions to be made has no imagination or common sense.
Why have most of the previous posters complained about not making enough? Simply they had no long term plan.
The guys who have been here 5 or 6 years fucking around will still be fuckin around in 5 more years, it is the guy who comes here and sees how to do something better, is the one that is gonna make bank.
That guy who said he was clearing $5k a day could clear $100k a day and still would have no money and be looking for job. Simply he was a "lottery" winner, he never learned how to make money or what its worth is.
Oh and just so new people who read this thread know, in 96 I had a friend who had a site and was making 25k a month, a couple years after he said the money wasn't easy to make any more and was doing something else.
In 98 I had a friend who started up a very large program that did very well and had 10k to 15k members a site, until 2000 when it went down the tubes.
In 2000 I knew some one who was making millions from his site, he said in 2002 that the industry changed and moved onto doing other stuff.
In fact every year I have heard the same fuckin shit come out of peoples mouth, yet every year I meet new people who are making millions...how the fuck can that happen?
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Not every company from way back has gone down. Clickcash, AFF to name a few are from the 1996 era and still making a lot of money.
Why you know so many people who made a ton of money one year and the next it stopped.... They didn't know how to adapt. They would come up with a way to make money (mainly a traffic method or a unique site) and people copied them and they eventually got surpased by their competition.
They probably got comfortable. Come up with a great idea make a lot of money and get comfortable is a sure way to stop making money. While you are being comfortable people are copying you. It is just a matter of time before their build on what you were doing and they offer something more innovative, better, etc than what you were doing. And you stand there scratching your head saying, WTF happened.
You not only need to find a way to make money, but you need to stay 3 steps ahead of your competition once you do. Let them copy you, if your traffic method, website, whatever is always better than theirs you will continue to make money.
The other problem (a result of being comfortable aka lazy) is people should diversify once they start making good money. Branch off into new projects, locate new traffic sources, buy up smaller sites, etc...