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Don’t Believe The Hype
Quote of the week comes via Yaro Starak’s post on understanding online advertising:
“when..you are advertising how to make “thousands weekly†when you don’t make that money yourself or the only way to generate revenue is to sell more people into the same program, then something is wrong.”
Why is that when someone tells me that they’re earning $200,000 per week that I skip over the article and dismiss it but when someone tells me that they’ve earned their first $50 that I take an in-depth look at how they did it?
It’s about believability.
Fifty dollars is more believable than $200,000 and on an internet filled with hype and pyramid scams, people have a desperate need for something that they can believe in.
So if you can’t be a credible source of information, at least be a believable source.
If your information is unbelievable - at least be entertaining!
Rich people subscribe to Cash Quests
This is exactly what I have done with my new ebook for blogging beginners. I said I’m not making a killing but I did make $150 last month after only 3 months of blogging.
I think it is so much more credible.
by Thomas Sinfield
I don’t believe the hype either. Clearly, the “how to make money” blogs are too much about making money off of others than to actually teach them how to make money. It’s just everything else where if someone can find a way to beat the system, they’re going to do it and exploit it to its fullest extent.
by Mark
unless they really do make big money, these claims of being a money making machine usually disappears into the blogosphere. cashQuest readers r too savvy to buy into these type of deceptive advertisings.
by johnCard
It always disgust me for those who have a landing page stating more than $40,000/month. It’s just so unrealistic.
by Etienne Teo
I sometimes do a series of posts called “Make beer money from blogging”. I always get more of a response than saying “Make $100,000 from blogging”. I do spend $100,000 on beer though
You’d probably think this is good too
http://www.buymystupidebook.com/
by Rhys
Yes the hype is always a scam…
How can you get 200K per week.. Even established blogger such as John chow only get 20K per month..
by shy guy
There are people claiming to make $1m a year.. I find that unbelievable as well judging from the site that he has that is really.. plain and … no words to describe..
by Michael Woo
I prefer posts like “how I lost $550 in stupid mistakes this week”.
Much more informative.
by TheMadHat
Its all about making it believable and credible. i notice that you have advertisers on your site that are questionable. beach bum makes $237,000 and page rank 0 to 5 in five months. if cashquests readers are savvy then those advertisers are not ver wise.
by bloggernoob
Yeah I agree. Somebody recently told me that it was pointless starting a blog when I was making no money - “wait until you’re earning a lot of money, then talk about it”, was the advice.
That’s rubbish in my opinion because real people who are still trying (and yes that includes me) are far more likely to be interested in the genuine struggles of other beginners. When some ‘guru’ posts about his latest millions it doesn’t really help anybody.
by Caroline Middlebrook
I belived the hype and then I went out and proved that it was (not) true
Actually, you have to drink the Kool-Aid just a little to beleive that you can create great results from your efforts.
People are attracted to success and they love to see train wrecks - otherwise TMZ would be out of business also - anyone remember a blogger named Casey Serin?
The key to success will always and forever be compelling content. The question is - is your content compelling people to read or compelling people to act?
Trust me - I don’t have it all figured out yet - but I’m trying to get there!
by denied