{"id":435,"date":"2009-05-24T07:46:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T12:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bly.com\/blog\/online-marketing\/the-3-biggest-myths-about-internet-marketing\/"},"modified":"2009-05-24T07:46:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T12:46:36","slug":"the-3-biggest-myths-about-internet-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/online-marketing\/the-3-biggest-myths-about-internet-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3 Biggest Myths About Internet Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Myth #1: It&#8217;s easy.<\/p>\n<p>Reality: It&#8217;s a lot easier and more fun than most of the careers and businesses you can do. But it isn&#8217;t really easy. To paraphrase Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own, if it was THAT easy, EVERYBODY would be doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Myth #2: It&#8217;s the lazy man&#8217;s way to riches &#8212; no work.<\/p>\n<p>Reality: Because online marketing generates passive income, it is much less work than many other businesses ONCE IT GETS GOING. <\/p>\n<p>But it takes an enormous amount of work to get it set up and started at the beginning. <\/p>\n<p>Myth #3: You&#8217;ll make a million dollars within 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Reality: Maybe you will. Most of us don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Bob, what about all those Internet marketing promoters whose online ads SAY they are making a zillion dollars a week?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To quote my friend Fred Gleeck: &#8220;The only numbers you can really know and trust are your own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Am I saying that perhaps some of these promoters exaggerate their success?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really know HOW much money they make. And neither do you. So I follow Fred&#8217;s dictum and you should too.<\/p>\n<p>Now, do you agree with the above? <\/p>\n<p>What has been your experience and degree of satisfaction with the &#8220;Get rich on the Internet&#8221; programs you&#8217;ve purchased and conferences you&#8217;ve attended?<\/p>\n<p>Any other Internet marketing myths or lies you&#8217;d like to puncture here?<\/p>\n<p>Be my guest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myth #1: It&#8217;s easy. Reality: It&#8217;s a lot easier and more fun than most of the careers and businesses you can do. But it isn&#8217;t really easy. To paraphrase Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own, if it was THAT easy, EVERYBODY would be doing it. Myth #2: It&#8217;s the lazy man&#8217;s way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}