You’re too right! I must have 10 ebooks or reports ready to sell. I have 8 websites but not all fully functioning. My hang up? I am scared of aweber. I have this idea that it is way over my head. I am going to make myself LEARN it this week. I’ll get on a forum if I get stuck. But I will do this thing!

Hey, everyone! What’s your excuse? Whatever it is “Get over it and get on with it or get out of it”. No more excuses! There is just too much help out there with guys like John around!

John,

I think that my greatest problems are getting overwhelmed with information and “bs”.

Also, there is my fear of the unknown. I need to learn to be adventurous and take chances.

Hi John I agree with everything you have said, also I can identify with what others have said in their comments. For me personally I have come to the conclusion that staying focused is the main problem. A comment above about aweber is not uncommon setting everything up can be very time consuming and it is easy to get overwhelmed, especially with all the technical things. That is why guys like you make it easy by creating information products that explain the process in simple terms. This cuts the time in half.
Keep up the good work and all you guys the fact your posting on Johns blog shows your in the right place just stick in there I intend too.
Rita

Hey John;

I enjoy your info and am working at following your steps.

I got my first ebook product completed, then approved at CB just before Christmas. I got my first web site up and am working on a Blog to build traffic.
I have no list and this is my first effort – after watching on the sidelines for a couple of years.

To Cheryl – who is scared of A.Weber – I went through a little of that, however I began to understand how many marketers use A. Weber.

Go to their web site and use the Free Tutorials and Videos. They help overcome the fears and after enrolling I am impressed at how quickly the support is for my ‘newbie’ questions. So far what few problems and questions I did have after watching and reading the support staff have handled easily and understandably for me.

To those who have trouble staying Focused and Overwhelmed. I have experience also. I was swimming – rather drowning in all of the info and temptations with hyped offers.

Finally I went through the best of them, and narrowed all of them down to 3 marketers. John Thornhill being one. I won’t mention the other two, however I can tell that all three are foundational marketers. I have committed to follow their instructions and shut out most of the others.

There are a lot of good, honest, believable marketers and are making good money and I excluded the million dollars each day group. However some I just do not seem to fit with.

Being on a fixed income and a newbie at marketing, does limit what I can do as far as buying expensive products, hiring out web masters, ebook covers, and a lot of other things.

My old computer is not even capable of handling Paint Shop, so graphics are limited to Free Cut and Paste.

I bought a couple of books, “Creating Web Pages for Dummies”, and “HTML and CSS”, and worked most of the way through them and discovered they get deeper than I can dive. But in them I found out about “NVU” a free download html editor and between the NVU and the books got my web page at least presentable.

Last Monday I got my first sale and now have two on my email list, and thus far without marketing, ads or pay for clicks.

I am headed off to do some classified ads on ebay and learn video making to put on my web page and Blog to begin marketing.

Thats my response.

Keep up the Great work John.
We need you.

Mike Selch

Just getting the wheels turning now John, after too long!

How do you eat an elephant? – One bite at a time ;o)

I am a member of John’s new mentorship program and I can tell you that what he has said in his blog is bang on!

If you need time you can make. Sacrifice something else, like an hour per evening of couch potatoe time. That equates to 7 hours per week. This will give you nearly the same amount of time you put into a normal day’s work to get stuck into your new venture.

If you lack the skills required, go and get the information you need and apply that knowledge as instructed. I know there is a sea of information on the internet, enough to drown in, but once you find the right source drain that well dry

To save you some time I cannot recommend John’s new mentorship programme enough. I have not made a penny yet but within five weeks of starting I have a website and have started my first ebook. Now that’s progress!

Remember every business requires investment, not only in the form of money, but also in blood sweat and tears.

Great advice John,

Dave

Great information John. I have been reading the information you have been sending me and applying it to my service business. It is a lot easier when you have a uniques product or service to offer. I am also working on several e-books within my industry that I will be using a lot of these techniques to promote and sell. Thanks again.

Hi John, I have been reading all of your emails and blogs, and finally decided to write because of this blog. All of the excuses are true but I think I have overcome it. This comment I am writing is an example of overcoming to take to take the next step. I wanted to have a mentor and found a few but I have decided to go with you John. Thank you for all your advices and comments from bloggers. I have decided to work harder with your mentorship. My problem is I lose focus on what I am doing while trying to get my web site up, changing my website all the time. I want to get my priority straight,so can you help me! Take a look at my web site bytes2read.com. Look forward to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,
Tom Tumbale

Great post John! I often ask myself why I haven’t completed certain project and my lame reply is, “I just got caught up with “.

I currently have 4 eBooks I have been selling for years. I know they sell well, I know people like them and I know I could make even more money offering hard-copies or audio versions. Why don’t I do it? I just get caught up in other “stuff”.

I have found that we often get confused with keeping busy, and accomplishing something. I like to make list but the first thing I do everyday must accomplish something long-term. If I get just one long-term task done everyday the process is easier and much more successful.

I hope this helps!

Hi John,

I think I need a mentor I just do not know were to start I have the two websites which I advertise in newspapers ,but nothing comes from this ,and I sell a few e-books on Ebay.

Can you help?

Kind regards
Nigel

Great information again John,

Confucius Says….

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop”

Chris

http://www.estuff4all.com
http://www.dropshippingandebay.co.uk

Could’nt have said it better myself, I get caught up into other things online, and do not stay focused on IM. John your book so far is excellent, showing how to build a resale rights empire. My biggest excuse so far was time, however, I realize that it’s just an excuse.

Best,
Alex Price
http://alexpricelive.blogspot.com

John, I read the other comments and agree completely. I have been trying to look at other areas in which to make income, instead of staying focused–I should stay the course. Thanks for the blog. Jack

Those are fair comments for items “under one’s direct control.”

There are others somewhat beyond one’s direct control. Such as, necessary equipment, connections, etc. In my case, I saved for 1 whole year to be able to buy a ‘state of the art’ Sony Vaio laptop to run my ebook biz that I bought from you last year. I pay $50 a mo. for Internet access. I just paid about $85 for 1 year hosting at D9. But, the videos won’t play right!

Today, I took off a whole day from work (lost $75) to come to a large University in the Middle of Tennessee (where I graduated from) to use their powerful (Dell) Desktop models (they lease 800 of them) in the library to watch your videos, praying to catch up to the group. (*) As a test (when Daniel raised the question of my Internect connection speed?). They still don’t work right! the librarian cannot get them to work right either!?

I’ve put 16 hours of frustration into trying to get the videos to run right – on 2 different systems (over the mo. of February) and still they freeze up, sound breaks up, etc. it’s unbelievable.

NOW LETS COMPARE YOUR VIDEOS WITH OTHER PERSONS:
Dave Guindon’s videos play fine (on my laptop).
Real Estate coaching club in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S.) play fine.
Other person’s videos on the Internet (from time to time) play fine.

I’m not giving up yet, I just do not think it is all fair to only point the finger at the person investing hundreds of dollara at, and many hours into doing their darndest to access learning materials that don’t work right (temporarily). I am not saying it is the fault of the videos yet, I don’t rightly know where the problem lies. Daniel (PlanetSMS support) is helping me thru email support, bless him, and with “perseverance’ I believe we will whip it. Josh Holliday, lost in the woods in Tennessee (Joke, trying to keep a lil humor alive).

I was interested to read the exchange of letters with Bob,who had no Web site.

I am not enjoying any success and I have a Web site,actually built for me by Divinity.This site offers a multitude of choices and I have to wonder if that is the problem.Visitors have so many choices they leave without buying anything.

Unfortunately,the site has no squeeze page so I do not even get any follow-up opportunity.As I did not build the site I have to learn how to add a squeeze page and access the software to add the page.It may be that these operations should be separate.Have a squeeze page offering a free gift to get prospects to my multi-product site.

Any suggestions on finding good inexpensive advertising sites would be appreciated.

I have a website that is just about ready. I will be following your advice and keeping tuned in.
Norm

Hi, John
After reading your blog for the last two days, downloading all the ebooks from your newsletters, watching the two videos from the coaching thing etc, etc, I know I do have to take action. It all seems a little overwhelming, though and I tend to get lazy. (Something you implied in your blog) I am quite sure all of those reasons apply to me and millions of other people as well.
I created a challenging situation for myself and am trying to dig myself out of the consequences of past decisions.
I am getting some experience from selling on ebay, (computer parts) but I do feel that I have a lot of products that I can create myself. (especially ebooks and guides)
I am a craftsman/jeweler and will be designing jewelry and how to guides about that and also dog related ebooks. I am the only person in the world to have successfully trained dogs to find 4 different kinds of cancer in humans and am a co=author of that data published in a medical journal.
I don’t want to keep pouring money into various “GET RICH” programs from ebay ebooks and have settled on your info to study and develope. You do provide just a ton of stuff. Thank you so much.
The next time you start your coaching program for 16 weeks for UNDER $500, I want to be there and I hope to be able to afford it.
I am sure I will.
In the meantime I want to get a head start, read your already gotten materials again, get at least my first website and product up etc, etc. But that is where I am stuck at the moment: just pulling the trigger on that without the upsell product quite yet and still not quite understanding what I SHOULD do first. Sell the ebooks I already have from you? set up the affiliate stuff? the JV stuff?
Of all the information available on ebay concerning this kind of business your stuff has impressed me the most.
Keep up the great work. I am sure you have made a huge difference in many people’s lives
On ebay I am “kirk1668″
Thanks
Kirk

John —

As always, advice I try to follow, though so far it hasn’t done me much good, but then, I always was a late bloomer. My problem is low productivity compounded by my area of expertise(writing/marketing communications for SOHO business owners and “eBayers.” That means, in my case, the medium really is the message. I have to take my time and write it as if I knew what I was doing. That takes too much time, but I’m stuck with it. Like most of us, I suspect, I’ve jumped from one “system” to another for a year, then I realized I had to pick one or two and stick with them. You’re it.

Thanks. . .Steve

Also have greatly enjoyed the responses.

Hi was going to make my first comment on your blog, but have just learnt a reason why you have a blog To Capture email addresses.

Also before I am supprised you allow rivals to advertise on your blog.

My comment on why not having web site for information product is cost of setting up site, ie domain name and annual fees and not getting hits and fear of not getting return from investment,

All this is due to lack of knowledge and experience of online market place.

There always is a ton of worthwhile info.

Hi John,

I am also just start focus on internet money making system… your guidence really great for me..

Thank You,

Amit Chivilkar
Mumbai, India

Excellent post. Enjoyed reading it. Thank you for your time.

Is everyone ready? If you’ve not yet made yourself some popcorn, then go do that now. I might be here for sometime!

So were shall I begin? Tell you what, I’ll just list EVERYTHING down!

Aweber – Let’s just start by saying that I’m NOT scared of it, but in a way…it’s kind of nervous investing in some equipment like that. I’ve looked around the site many times and have even talked to their ‘Live Support’ a couple of times.

Confidence – Put it this way, I like everything to be 200%. So if I write anything that could be used for say an article, I always need to go and rewrite it 5/6 times to get it how I really would like it.

This is probably something that I shouldn’t do, plus it takes up even more time. But at the end of the day, it’s the way I do things.

Experience – I would say that this is a BIGGIE! After all, I am only a 16 year old. If I was to get a few products out there, then I know that I’d be more inclinded to keep on going. I don’t want to stop, since I’ve met many great people in various places.

Writing Ability – Well, this maybe is what EVERYONE says…and I know that people think I can write. But inside me, I still feel that things need to be rewritten to reach my 100%! Might be strange, but again it’s me.

Too Many Ideas – Well that’s me! I have at least 6 other ideas that I’d like to do, possibly all the year…but at least 3. I do write the ideas down on paper so that I can come back to them at a later date.

While some would love to have too many ideas, I just can’t get these ideas out there, making me money and creating a brand for myself.

Funds – Now I’m sure when everyone started…they lacked the funds that are required to get started in this business. But for a teenager, it’s even harder…although I do have cash.

Starting Out On The Wrong Foot! – When I started, while I did search around eBay looking for something that took my fancy, I DID start off by spending quite a bit of cash on POINTLESS items. It’s only really now that I regret doing that, cause at the time…I thought it was going to work! As most people do… 😀

Inspiration – This really is a killer, I spend 30 minutes think what to write were an experienced marketer would have had a chapter finished in that time.

Personal Goal, But Nowhere Near It – For me, I think this is the real murderer! Now, for obvious reasons…I’m not going to go into great detail because afterall, it’s personal. (John, if you’d like to know a bit more…you have my email) I have only told a select few, well 3 people. ALL 3 of the wish me to succeed and do help me out whenever they can.

Well that’s basically all I can think of at the moment, so we’ll leave that now and get onto what John has already said.

DONT’T TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY JOHN, OR ANYONE!

Sometimes I find that when people talk about them needing to get a Dedicated Server now because of all their sites and that, it puts me off. While I can understand what people like John says, I’m sure others will agree with me.

I know that they are trying to teach us, and help us succeed. Do you not think that it can be off-puting?

While I totaly understand the ‘Many Streams Makes A River’ effect with websites, it’s just trying to be as good as the experienced marketer.

So that’s me done, I’ve said my bit and would love to see what sort of outcome this post possibly brings. If you’ve still got some popcorn left then you’ve been eating it far too slow… 😉

Thanks
Mark

Hi All,

This is what has happened to me.

For the last two years I have been trying a few things, buying ebooks, learning, etc. At first I was totally lost until I finally found John T.
I am in the process now of installing the website that I bought recently from PlanetSMS and yes, I am still scared, but 8 months ago I had idea of how a website worked, now I understand a website is just a bunch of files and images.
My point here is:
After reading, watching videos, more reading, finallly things are starting to fall into place.
What I would do if I had to start again?
1) Find what you want to do. Do you want to sell physical products or do you want to sell and write ebooks?
2) Find a trust worthy marketer to follow (for me is John T.)
3) Once you find that marketer follow their advice and don’t deviate buying lots of other material that does not directly refer to what your want to do. I know there are thousands of way of making money but if you want to try every one of them you will never get anywhere.
4) You can read a couple of other marketers material just to see where the market is going but DO NOT jump into any new opportunity, keep focused on one thing at the time.
5) Read the books from John T. and listen to his videos many times over. I find that when things are not working properly for me I go back to the info and there it is, something is not working because I missed a part.
6) I believe that if we follow John’s advice we will get there. He is always there to help.
7) Must of all, the ebook business is not a get rich quick scheme, you need to spend time on it. Watch TV? I don’t know what that is at the moment. But I tell you what. I am so proud of myself for all the knowledge I have acquired in these last two years, I feel like I have been to university. Just keep focused and you will get there.
8) PlanetSMS membership is the perfect partner for MentorshipMonthly. Thanks Daniel for pointing this to me. You can get all sorts of help in the forum, AWEBER, MyDD and many, many more topics. Great helpful people there.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE, JUST KEEP GOING!!!

I would love to hear all your comments at the end of 2008, what have you done? Has this blog inspired you to improve your business? Maybe we can all get together here in December 2008 and look back and say “This is where I was in February 2008 and this is where I am now”, I am sure that then we can all measure our progress.

Talk to you in December.

Ana-Maria.

Hi John,

I agree 100%. When you really break it down, it is all just excuses and nothing that can’t be overcome. I like to think in terms of analogies. So here goes. Think about the process of learning to ride a bike or learning anything really.

Everyone had a lack of confidence learning to ride a bike but we did it anyway. As a child we didn’t have the knowledge to ride a bike but we asked our parents and was given that information. And I don’t know any kid that said “well I’d like to learn to ride a bike because all my friends are, but I just don’t have time”. Finally, a child who desires to learn to ride a bike will keep practicing until he/she has enough skills to become an expert.

I have heard many times from different sources that “anything worth doing, is worth doing poorly at first”. And the people who have said this are all very wealthy. I think one of the biggest factors is the lack of clarity or direction.

With all the opportunities presented on the internet it is easy to have information overload and become confused. A person needs to take a step back and get that clarity. There are many ways to take an idea and discover whether there is a good market for it. If not, move on to the next one. And then stick to ONE. I personally have several ideas that are all pretty good, but I know that I need to focus on just one at a time, get it up and running, automated and profitable and then go to the next one.

John has an excellent coaching program that I am blessed to be a part of – Thank you, John. And even though I am just in the beginning stages, I know that I will become successful because of it. So find someone to model after or join a forum and just begin once you have your specific clarity. Don’t let fear and excuses hold you back from the lifestyle of your dreams.

Expect Abundance and Miracles,
Ken Schumacher
http://www.ken-schumacher.com

Would just like to say that I empathise with Stacey King, re having bought some Stores Online websites, and having trouble getting them to the “live” stage. Would like to see if she would share some experiences, through email, and see if we are having the same problems. Thanks to John, I am getting much more focussed on getting closer to “making this eSelling stuff work”.

Regards
Joe

Hi John

That’s an excellent article and something that everyone should read. From personal experience I can say that when you stop thinking and start doing, the profits come so much faster!

Like you always teach – creating lots of products and sites really is the key to online wealth, and hopefully your article will inspire others to take action!

Thanks

Lee McIntyre