It’s all about the proper mindframe.
Did you know that 95% of the world’s wealth is handled by the 5% of the population? I firmly believe that if a global redistribution of wealth were to occur, in 2 years tops, the situation would be the same. Rich would be rich again, and poor would be poor.
To even strengthen my argument, take a look at all those lottery winners. It takes every single one of them, one year at maximum to spend all that money they earned and go back to their old lives.
Why is that? Why do some people know how to make (and keep, and invest) money, and most of the others do not?
Well, for one thing its education. I sincerely believe that the world education system is meant to produce spare parts for the existing generation of workers. Overspecialization makes people narrow minded, unable to think or seek out different avenues in their lives.
The system makes you a worker bee, a perfect piece of the larger picture, but not your picture.
Not everyone is a free soul, don’t worry, I am not that naive to believe that they were. I have talked about this issue with so many people, and I have reached to the conclusion that some people simply want to be used.
Some of them want to use you,
some of them want to get used by you,
some of them want to abuse you,
some of them want to be abused…
I have tried to explain the concept of passive income, of small constant investments and of cashflow to many people, and I have managed to break the mental handcuffs of only a handfull.
In the next few posts, I will try to explain these concepts. But for now, I will talk about the bigger picture, the proper mindframe.
People who think like workers will remain a worker their entire lives.
People who think like businessmen will ultimately become businessmen no matter how many failed projects they bury.
It is always about the way of thinking. You can always do a lot of work by the “brute force” method, but you are not a businessman if you think like that.
- A worker will work his ass off and write 200 original well written articles.
- A businessman will work his ass off and create a community of content writers to pump out original well written articles day in and day out.
Do you see the difference? Well, you fucking don’t. Everyone says that they understand the concept but the very next minute you see them do something stupid again.
To stick to the SEO issues, if you need 2 hours to get a link to your site you are a worker. If you need 100 hours to make a tool that will give you links at any quantity and anytime you request them, then you think like a businessman.
Sure, you can submit your site to every damn directory in the Internet, and outrank the businessman. But you will find out next month, that he has been spending his time writing one piece of linkbait that builds him 1000000 links overnight.
My point here, is that if you think like a bum, if you work one hour for 10$, then the next hour for the next 10$ etc, you will stay a worker forever.
Businessmen work one hour, to get 10 cents income. And the next hour, to get another 10 cents. Those cents build up, and they get to a point where you make money without doing anything. And stupid people call you lucky.
SEO issues again. Ask yourself, be truthful, you answer only to yourself. Hopefully, they will get you thinking. Here they are:
- Do you write and submit articles to article directories?
- Do you markov and rss scrape for content?
- Do you create content generating communities?
- Do you outsource the grunt work?
- Do you submit to social sites one by one?
- Do you make the social sites link to you?
- Do you fix every tech issue yourself?
- Do you have a dedicated techie who is a wizard in computers?
- Do you research keywords one by one manually?
- Do you utilize keyword suggestion tools to create large lists of “Shotgun spread” targets?
- Do you build a unique and sooooooooo damn cute template for every little stupid project you come up with?
- Do you simply use a template from your inventory, and work on the project after it has shown potential?
- Do you make tools that others are dying to use?
- Do you promote unique products in unique ways?
- Are you doing the same stupid things that everyone else does?
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October 27th, 2008 at 8:51 am
I disagree wholeheartedly. I think everyone would like to automate their processes, but that doesn’t make them a business man. Trying to classify people into 1 or 2 groups doesn’t make any sense. At all.
And your “article example” doesn’t make any sense either. Just because someone writes their own articles doesn’t make them a worker, they don’t have to rely on others for content. What if the businessman made his community of article writers (which is highly unlikely to happen successfully) and they all decided to leave? What then? He’s stuck with nobody and has no idea on how to write articles.
This whole post is totally flawed. And to further my point, I suggest you read this page - http://hubpages.com/hub/If-You-Want-To-Make-Real-Money-Online–Forget-Adsense , because it has so much good information in it that you realize the “businessman” you’re talking about goes through so much more crap than say an affiliate.
October 27th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Hi,
Good post, I agree completely with everything you say and, although you may not believe me, I DO fully understand what you’re talking about.
I think the way you think, I see everyone working all their lives, going from paycheck to paycheck and not understanding how to leverage their time and money to create more money.
There is one thing you haven’t taken into account though, most of the time, it takes one of two things to gain momentum, time or money.
In other words, if a person doesn’t have the funds to, say for example, hire a writer to produce content for a website, then they have to do it themselves.
So, even smart business minded people have to work like a worker bee at the beginning, unless they’ve got cash to invest.
Anyway, good post and look forward to your coming ones.
Cheers.
October 27th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
@ Damn.
Damn! I need another post to answer to you…
Ok, the article example was not too perfect. Replace “article writing” with “whatever other 9-5 job” and “writer community” with “business that employs a bunch of people doing the same 9-5 job”.
Does it make sense now?
What if all the employees in a bank decided to leave the investors? Would they be left with no people, and no skills to run a bank? No, they simply hire another bunch… So that argument simply does not stand on its own…
And the page you suggested is a STEAMING PILE OF CRAP. A wannabe loser who got ripped off by get-rich-quick ebooks, learned something along the way and finally wrote that reality is not as the marketers tell you. NO SHIT?
Of course adsense is not a business avenue, especially after the last April 1st. And I am a businessman, I know the crap I go through every single day.
I am talking about the mindshift. The worldview. How you think, and how you act, when you think like a businessman rather than a worker. How you perceive situations, and how you recognize opportunities.
@ Adam.
Thanks. And of course you need to work your ass off at first, until you gain the momentum. I never said its easy.
Most people should keep their day job, and start a part time business, slowly learning and building it, and expanding it. Until it gains the momentum to grow on its own.
Actually (I did the same) you need to work your ass off even harder at first, to study and learn when others go to the cinema, and work on your part time business when others are relaxing at home.
But when the momentum finally comes, it is all soooo sweet… You have no idea unless you lived it.
I will write about the businessman way of thinking in the next posts. Stay tuned, and hit my big bad Rss button.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:44 am
There is a difference in mindset between the business owner and the worker. As well as the one who works to create assets as opposed to the one who works to create income. The amount of work is the same in either case, however the results are vastly different. It’s like using the same effort to swim upstream as you would to swim downstream. One way you will go much farther. It is all in the matter if what direction you focus your efforts in.
There is also another component that wasn’t mentioned and that is your internal beliefs. It doesn’t matter what you do or how you do it. If your internal beliefs say you don’t deserve it then you may have it for a moment, but not be able to hold onto it. It’s like the business person who goes from rags to riches to rags again. I feel the internal belief system outweighs mindset (because it affects mindset) and also outweighs what you do.
-B
October 29th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Yes, internal beliefs are an important factor. Your only limit is your own mind. If you think that earning 1000$ a day, or owning a Porsche is impossible, then it actually becomes impossible for you.
October 29th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
So, what are you suggesting man?
That all of the people that go to college and go out and find jobs are workers and will never make it in this world? That every “worker” out there who gets paid by a salary are losers? Hate to say it, but “businessmen” would be nothing without 2 things: the “workers” and the customers.
If I could make a suggestion to you, I’d suggest posting some content in which we could learn from you on how to invest money and become one of those people that creates assets. In that article I posted, which you called a steaming pile of crap, there is a part where he tells a story of the lobsters. If you read nothing else in that article, then just read that part. I think it’s important to understand how being a “worker” can pay-off. Businessmen deal with a lot of stress and headaches sometimes, and it’s important to weigh your happiness.
I would also like to point out and say that I know quite a few people that do VERY well with bum marketing. It takes little start up cost, but does take a lot of time. There’s a lot to build from bum marketing (email lists, article generation, etc), that can last in the long term.
Just my $.02
October 29th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
“If I could make a suggestion to you, I’d suggest posting some content in which we could learn from you on how to invest money and become one of those people that creates assets.”
I am working exactly on that.
On the other points, I don’t exactly disagree. We just perceive things differently.
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:08 am
i’m fucking addicted to your blog.