Living the pro-blogger lifestyle by selling you the blogging dream
Reader Rick Henderson had an interesting comment to my how not to make money with your blog post.
What I can’t understand is how it appears that they really are making money from it. It is the basics of making money online (at least one way): gather a list of prospects and if you send them enough product options that they might be open to, they will eventually bite. They say it builds trust, and with the users who don’t possibly think as much as they should be, its an easy sale and can lead to the 6 figure income these guys seem to be making.
Personally I’m fed up with sites that use the same format (that came from some Make Money program I’m sure) with pages and pages of “testimonials”, the free offer, the upsell, the “added bonus” and the “buy now because I’ll raise the price in 2 hours” no matter what time you visit the site.
But… it does seem to work….
Selling the blogging dream
…or so they want you to think. What they are trying to do is sell you the dream of a life as a full-time blogger. They show you how fabulous it is to have an online business and tell you how you can have the lifestyle you want, live where you want, automatize your work, and earn a lot of money.
But what they do is they basically support themselves by selling you the dream. They sell you the image in a product that will show you how to make money online, and by buying the product you give your hard-earned money in hope of achieving this dream. By paying you are supporting their lifestyle, the exact lifestyle that they are trying to sell the idea of to you.
Consumer of the blogging dream
But you personally never get far with all these products. You become a passive consumer of dreams, you do not take actions towards producing something that will get you closer to realizing that dream.
We all have been sold the dream already. What it comes down to now is that we must take action into our hands. It is not enough to buy and read all the “become a pro-blogger” products – you must start creating something. You must put in the consistent hard-work, create something great, and you must find and connect with your audience.
And you must do this daily for a long time, before you slowly start getting the results, and start being able to live the blogging dream. It will only come from your personal effort and not from some membership site or some system that is selling you the idea of how to get rich online and live the sweet dream.
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