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What’s Holding You Back?

I work at home as a full-time internet marketer. I’m an affiliate, so I sell a lot of different products, but among them is a program that I absolutely love. I am not dependent on sales of this program in order to make my living, but it’s got great residual income potential, so I’ve been working on it for a while now, and I’m having trouble connecting I suppose. So I’m curious about people’s opinions.
This is not an MLM – is is for internet marketing education. You can learn almost anything – affiliate marketing, website development, keyword research,SEO, etc, but I’m having a little trouble competing with all the “Make $1,000 a day!” ads. I know the work at home niche is very competitive, but I get a lot of traffic to my sites, and I offer real information – not a scam “system.” So I would think people appreciate my honesty and candor. However I’ve been told I need to completely rewrite things before because they were considered too “negative” (which I take to mean honest – I give people the good the bad and the ugly about this industry.
So I want some real people’s opinions out there. What do you think holds people back from trying to start their own online businesses? Is it fear of failure? Is it skepticism?
And secondly, do you think people are right about having to pump up your claims in order to get sales? Personally I like a straght-forward person, but maybe I’m not the typical consumer?

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  1. Karl says:

    I think that overwhelm and lack of action are what hold most people back when trying to succeed online. In the long run people are most attracted to someone who is a leader and shows up with integrity. There are plenty of strategies for writing quality ad copy without having to make baseless claims. The only reason people do that is because they don’t yet have the success they want. The funny thing is that when they make those claims they’re actually coming across as desperate liars and pushing themselves further away. You should show me what you’re working on lately! If you’re interested you can check out my site at http://karlklausewitz.com.

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