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The Three Stages of Internet Marketing Consciousness

By • November 2, 2009 • Internet Business Models, Internet Strategy, Marketing Effort, Marketing Strategy, Online Success • 14 Comments

There are three stages of Internet marketing consciousness. Outlined below.

1. It’s All Bullshit
This is the stage where you don’t believe that anyone makes money online, and every “guru” is a scam-artist.

2. It’s Not For Me, But I Wish I Could Do It
This is the stage where you finally realize that not every “guru” is a scam-artist, and that they do in fact make a ton of money and help people. This is also the stage where you wish you could do what they do, but you can’t bring yourself to do it.

3. Let’s Just Make Some Money
This is the stage where you say to yourself… “My ego is stopping me from being successful.” You finally realize that most of your “organic” efforts to monetize have failed completely and you need to make some cash. So you start buying into the system. You create products, you start teaching, you put ads on your blog, etc… You “sell out” per say, and you realize it’s not a big deal because you’re helping people AND making money at the same time.

Sound familiar? Which stage are you in? And how long did it take you to get through each stage?

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The world changed on 9/11 in so many different ways. Since that day, there has been a major shift happening in the way people think and live their lives. Sure, many people still chase the dollar as their ultimate goal. However, many more people have begun to realize that the world could, well, end tomorrow.

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Take a look around you and you'll see that this shift to becoming a lifestyle entrepreneur is being adopted by more and more people every day. Some of those people are falling into it because they have been laid off from their jobs and are literally forced into it. Some of those people just figure out a way to make it happen because of the "end of the world" thinking mentioned above.

14 Awesome Comments So Far

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  1. Mark→
    November 2, 2009 at 10:11 pm #

    Stage 4: You've done it all and realize, in fact, it really is all bullshit.

    • @JimKukral→
      November 3, 2009 at 5:07 am #

      Haha. That's the next post Mark. Stage 4-7.

    • David Walker→
      November 9, 2009 at 10:53 pm #

      Ha ha…so there really is a stage four? I was at stage three years back after many mistakes. Now I’m teaching about how to make money online, hopefully much more this time without those costly mistakes. I’m still not at the bullshit stage yet so it’d have to be 3.5 ?

  2. zen→
    November 3, 2009 at 6:36 am #

    Yeah. Really nice blog which is useful for all internet marketers. Thanks for sharing.

  3. Rexanne→
    November 3, 2009 at 9:21 am #

    I started at stage 3 and am still there – did I miss something? ;-)

  4. Franck→
    November 3, 2009 at 11:40 pm #

    I remember being at stage 2 in early 2006. I upgraded to stage 2 when I see Mike Filsaime showing his paypal account while launching his butterfly marketing back in the day.

    I'm beyond stage three now though.

    Franck

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  6. @eggmarketing→
    November 5, 2009 at 2:11 pm #

    I just evolved into Stage 3 thanks to Prfessor.com. But now what? I'm not even sure how to leverage what I've got!!

  7. W Davies→
    November 12, 2009 at 7:41 pm #

    I started at stage 3 two years ago and in that time have gone full circle.

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