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Originally posted by Anthony_A
Kimmy,
I can can count on one hand, the newbies that came onto my board back in the day that made it really big. Some made it mediocre, make a good living, some stayed where they were, happy with the money the made.
95% of them are gone, never to be seen again. You think just cause there's new ways to move traffic (which isn't really that new, ask Colin) around or different ways to market paysites is gonna change anything?
Delusional. What is the definition of Insanity?
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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I didn't mean every newbie would pass you up. That's obviously impossible. My original post was directed at the webmasters who are so stuck on what they do to make money that they think it's the only way. They bash every newbie, every new idea, and anything they aren't doing to make money.
There are many veteran webmasters that have what it takes to make it in any market and there are new people in the same category. Usually program owners fall into this category because when you have an affiliate program you of course work with new webmasters on a regular basis.
And about doing the same thing over and over, I of course advertise the way many other webmasters do but I also have traffic sources that are completely different than what everyone else is doing. I just make it a habit to keep what makes me my bread and butter to myself rather than brag about it and have 10,000 people copy it within the year. Hell, I started this business in January 2001 part time and I still get traffic from sources with no competition.
I'm not saying that even the most hard-assed verteran webmasters aren't making money because of course they are. But you see some that keep making less and less money and do nothing to fix it. That's part of being in business, if you bottom line starts dropping because your competitions is flooding the market, etc you have to be able to compensate. Some just sit here bitching about how much shittier their sales are compared to a couple of years ago and bash everything that is a threat to their income when they should be taking steps to compensate before the first drop in revenues ever touches them.
Anyway, the majority of webmasters get the big picture and a small percentage are sitting on a decent stash of money they made in the "good ole days" but make less and less every year. And instead of doing something different they bitch about how stupid newbs screw up their business. That's the entire point.