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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  The critical posts here in the forums tend to scare away the more enthusiastic people -- a pattern which occurs whenever I recommend something with a price tag -- so those who are really interested usually just email me. |
Steve,
You are still not understanding what we are saying. Most of us have NO PROBLEM with paying money if something is worthwhile. I know I don't -- in fact, I've spent (invested) over $3000 in ebooks, online courses, software, and equipment in the past 6 weeks to learn more about Internet marketing in order to eventually build my own membership site.
Please, REALLY get what we are saying here. The title of your post is "How to Build a Successful Online Business." This genuinely excited me because that's exactly what I have been working on for the past two months! And yet at the end all you're doing is selling a sitebuilder product. You built us up with this fantastic title and first few paragraphs, and I was excited because I really hoped this would be another set like your How To Make Money From Your Blog series, which was invaluable. Then you dump a SINGLE product on us at the end and promote it as the "solution." Do you get the incongruity here? It is NOT about the money. Heck, if the sitebuilder product was free and just required me to opt-in to their mailing list, I'd probably be just as disappointed. What we are saying is that your title and lead-up is incongruent with your single suggestion at the end.
Now, if you want to make this into a series and have a ton of content about how you built your business, what you did wrong and right, etc. and at the end of each post have a sentence or two about the sitebuilder product, I don't think we would find anything wrong with that. In fact, I agree with you that non-techies need more products like this! But the way you presented it, at the end, was classic slimy Internet marketer "give me your $300 and I will solve all your problems" stuff. I felt like you pitched me here -- sold me a line. And that made me sad, because I really love your blog and don't want to read a "pitch."
-Erica