Jeremy Palmer is moving away from information products and making his ebook, “High Performance Affiliate Marketing” a free download!
I have a lot of respect for Jeremy, he authored a great ebook in “High Performance Affiliate Marketing”, and has an informative web site. He’s also a terrific example of someone who knows when he’s overloaded and admits it.
Here’s what he blogged the other day:
After careful consideration I decided I no longer want to sell “info products”. Quite frankly, I hate the “business opportunity” category – I think it’s filled with too many get rich quick scammers selling hype-filled ebooks with no real substance.
The fact is, making money on the Internet isn’t easy. It takes a lot of knowledge, hard work, and above all – persistence. But it’s hard to get people to understand that on an e-book sales page. Many think that if they just buy this one product or service all of their financial problems will be solved. This thinking is completely unrealistic and a recipe for failure.
The new goal of Quit Your Day Job will be to educate and support serious online entrepreneurs who understand the time and commitment required to be successful.
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It’s a bit ironic, before launching QuitYourDayJob.com (and related endeavors) I had the “Quit Your Day Job” lifestyle. But after launching the sites I created a new full-time job for myself. My increased workload created a lot of unwanted stress and caused me to drop a lot of balls. Juggling my own affiliate business and two other projects was too much.
Holy cow! An internet marketer that admits that making money online is a difficult endevour! Now that’s impressive. Pardon my cinicism, but most “gurus” gloss over the fact that they have to “work” at their business. Some have to put in a lot of long days to keep the balls in the air.
When I first started reading about internet marketing, it sounded like all you had to do was throw up a web site, grab some affiliate links, and run to the bank to cash your checks. (That may have been the case in 1998, but it is NOT the case now.)
