Surprising

I've just been looking at my traffic to my website and the number of signups I am getting in some of my affiliate programs and I'm really surprised. I guess I shouldn't be though... I do show people that they can get started in there own online business for free. That is what most people are signing up for, simply that it's free. Then they never do anything to actually use the business to make any money. I guess they not only want free but they want to do nothing also and expect to make money. Gee, I've been looking for that magic business all my life but I haven't found it yet...

The fact is that you will actually have to work your business to make any money. I show people how to get started and I'll help and coach but people have to make an effort to succeed. I can tell the ones that will succeed right away. They sign up and learn as much as they can and then apply what they have learned to build their business and move it into profit. These people are far outnumbered by the other sort that sign up hoping they will somehow make money from someone else's efforts. This isn't a problem other than these people just won't achieve anything and I hate to see people fail simply because they didn't make an effort.

I think some are afraid of the fact that they have to make sales. This scares a lot of people but it is really the only way to actually make money. This is the very nature of business. You sell a product that people buy and you keep the profit or commission on the sale. I can see the ones that realize this by the number of signups I have in the Jerky Direct program that requires you to buy some product every month to be a distributor, compared to the free signup to SFI. Without fail, the people that sign up for the paid program also sign up for the free program and they are the ones that start working the free program too. About 98% of the people that just sign up for the free program don't actually do anything with it and never even sample the products that they have to offer.

I'm sure others that work these programs have noticed this also, but I find it interesting...