Stop being a joiner, and support just one business

After reading the article, which was well written and made some very good points, and reading all of the responses I find myself agreeing most with what Philippe said, "at the end of the day, it's whatever suits our needs." There are too many factors that make a huge difference in what people are able to handle effectively. Are they full time or part time marketers? Are they experienced? Are they part of a team or group that they can rely on for support? And, to me, the biggest one of all,

Stephen, I will post the link to this article in a APSense eZine I created a few months ago, it will appear in issue #3, along with your profile link, I hope it's ok

Well, liked the article, but have a question here: what is the TeamPromote than? Is it a bussiness for us or just gurus uses as to promote their products? ...just provoking :)

Warren, I agree with you, at the end of the day, it's whatever suits our needs :)

I think the bottom line to this is I don't want a business, a few of those cheap programmes that send me money is just fine with me. I spent 40 years running my own business and now the freedom I enjoy if a breath of fresh air.

I think some members don`t realize that's what the tags are for, Roosevelt, even though their use is written clearly

That's a good point, Philippe. There are many good articles with great comment threads yet many forget to "Like" the article, which is unfair to the article writer, in my opinion.

This discussion turned out to be very interesting, so can I remind everyone to click on one of the tags above the comments section to add a "like" to the article?

nice thought, I have also encountered the same experience.

Liz, you just revealed the way the gurus make money on the Internet: they find all the newbies and they keep selling them "new" products which are repackaged old ones

I was also guilty of being a "joiner" at first. Then one of my coaches responded to one of my excited comments about a new program. He told me that there is always something new, a new launch, an exciting NEWBIE, on the internet. The way to make money is find something you like doing, whether it be an affiliate program, a talent, or a home business, and stick to it. Don't go changing your mind every 90 days, which is the average by the way, and focus on the one thing you like doing. You will sur

Thanks Sean for the clarification about many brick and mortar businesses being agents/affiliates. I didn't realize that point. Thanks Philippe for expressing more clearly what I am trying to say on this subject. Hey, The MG's, you don't ever have to apologize for disagreeing with me. I love diversity of opinions.

Great article Stephen, well writen and informative, it is obvious that if you chase too many rabits you end up with none. @ Roosevelt I can understand where you are coming from, however there is very little difference between creating a offline business to creating one online, many offline businesses act as agents/affiliates and sell to order in these austere times to reduce there stock outlay. so it is possible to create a core business and use a varied number of affiliate products within your

I think that the main point here is to focus on one business to promote at a time, else you risk failure at trying to promote many things at the same time. When you start getting some success, you go to another, and so on. I'm pretty sure that's what Roosevelt meant.

Stephen, a great article, which gets across an important message. It is the same as hopping from progran to program because you dont get reseults and money "yesterday". Roosevelt, I am sorry, I do not agree with you. An online business is very similar to offline. You need to put time and effort into building a business wherever, whatever it is - and you cannot do this if you have fingers in too many pies.

Nice article man, thanks for sharing it with u

Roosevelt, because ou are an affiliate of a business does not mean that you have "joined" that business. If you use the replicated business web site you are sacrificing any autonomy associated with a business of your own. You can create your own business as an affiliate by being original or different, Far too many marketers feel that using the business web site is sufficient but they are not creating their own business - simply advertising someone else's. Look along the high street, how many of

Where is the common courtesy in some of these responses?

Arthur, most online marketers are affiliates of created businesses. Everybody can't create a business.

Stephen, your article is very nice, that kind of message can't repeated often enough. Focus is the way to go. By doing on promoting one business at a time, you increase your chances of success a lot, then the money you make with it helps to promote thr next one, and so on... As for your signature, look in the APSense Wiki, in the General section, click on Tutorials or on "How to add links at APSense" you'll see a video about making your signature work. You might not be able to have 3 since we