Top 3 Misconceptions About StrictlyOnlineBiz

NOTE: This post might appear to run forever but I implore my regular readers and the new visitors with time on their hands, to please take some 5 – 10 minutes to read the entire post so as to get the real situation of things on this blog.

It’s just over 1,200 words long .

If you care to ask most bloggers who blog with the primary aim of making money online, you’ll find out that @ in the beginning we all were hounded by one of the most popular yet annoying catchphrases in internet marketing: FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT!

In good ol’ Wikipedia’s words, it means to imitate confidence so that as the confidence produces success, it will generate real confidence.

As we can all see, this catchphrase had a clean and mighty purpose behind it until companies and individuals started twisting it, the most annoying of the lot being some internet marketers who in reality are still living like "regular folks" BUT claim to have made MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ONLINE which has afforded them the opportunity to DRIVE LAMBORGHINIS, go on EXOTIC WEEKENDS, PARTY LIKE CRAZY, LAND THE SUPERMODEL PROTOTYPES and the list continues.

If there’s anything I’ve learnt in life way back in high school, it is faking to be somebody that you’re not can have severe repercussions.

Take for example the internet marketer who claims to have made $500 a day through surveys and is offering to show his clients/customers the EXACT WAY he made that $500 in 24 hours. Imagine the backlash that would follow after 10 clients purchase the product and realize that it’s all a f**king dream! They’ve been gamed. That could mark the end of that internet marketer’s business with no hope of redemption in the nearest futures.

Take the real life example of Nigeria’s self proclaimed internet guru, Austin Azubuike also probably known as Kenneth Ifeanyi. For the price of N6,000 ($44) he was offering a blog setup service that promised amongst other things; a unique blog in a high paying adsense niche that pays as much as $2 per click and 10 unique blog posts written by him. He has practically failed to deliver on his promise and now has angry customers after him. He has even gone underground coincidentally after I wrote the posts; The Plenty Fishiness Surrounding Austin Azubuike and Austin Azubuike Needs To Cut The Cr*p NOW!. He now sells to his email list ONLY and he’s yet to get his act straight !

NOTE: I’m still subscribed to his list under a pseudonym.

Some of my loyal readers have started to put me on a pedestal which I don’t really need @ the moment. A few even think I’m a guru when it comes to making money online. I’ve been getting emails from folks impressed by the layout, content and PR of my blog  to the extent that they all want to guest post, exchange links etc so as to benefit from the "success of my blog" thus today might probably be the day that I’ll shoot myself in the foot and as a result lose some respect and the few rss subscribers I’ve managed to amass.

Today I’m going to tell it as it is: THE TRUE STATUS OF STRICTLYONLINEBIZ.COM

FIRST MISCONCEPTION:    STRICTLYONLINEBIZ GETS TONS OF TRAFFIC !

Thou shall not be fooled by the Google PageRank of 3 and Alexa Rank below 60,000. After 1 year and 6 months of being online and having made some mistakes, the real situation of traffic here looks like the capture below which shows the Google Analytics Traffic Stats for this blog with regards to the month of August 2010.

1. If you’re planning on guest posting here so you can get some juicy traffic, you’ll be disappointed for now!
2. If you’re planning to guest post for a couple of quality dofollow backlinks, feel free to as this blog has maintained it’s PR 3 for almost 6 months in a row and I don’t see that dropping soon as I’m playing heavily by the rules put in place by Google .
3. If you’re planning on advertising your goods and services here then I think it’s best you know that with the traffic stats above the poorest performing "above the fold" ad got a total of 21 clicks last month. With this, I’m considering moving the management of the 125 x 125 "above the fold" ads to Google Adwords. I’ll be updating the advertise page when I’ve finally made up my mind on what to do with advertising on this blog.

SECOND MISCONCEPTION:    STRICTLYONLINEBIZ IS MAKING SERIOUS MONEY !

Below is a capture of my Adsense Earnings for 1 year ( My account was inactive for about 6 months due that Verification PIN of a thing that Google sends in the mail once you breach the $50 mark )

As you can see, I’ve only made just over 100 EUROS from Google Adsense since I started this blog. Add that figure to about $40 in affiliate commissions and the total earning for StrictlyOnlineBiz till date will be close to 140 EUROS ONLY!

Believe me you, if I really wanted to make more than this I would have done that. All it would have taken was my gaming all the folks who contacted me via email and phone for help. I would have faked my Google Adsense and Clickbank stats and splashed the captures all over this blog for people to ogle at and believe me you, most folks would have taken the bait .

I’ve taken my time to learn the make money online ropes so as to find what I’m pretty good at offering and delivering with 100% quality. I found that only about a month ago when I launched my wordpress blog setup service, which in my opinion is nicely priced @ $30 (N4,000) since there’s no logo/web design involved .

THIRD AND FINAL MISCONCEPTION:    THIS STRICTLYONLINEBIZ GUY IS A GURU !

I’ve done the very best I can cut through this illusion that people have about my blog and I’m yet to succeed. Some are just so "mesmerized" by the "quality of posts" I write each week that they think I’m the SH*T!

Well guys for the UMPTEENTH time, I’m gonna say it again: I’M NOT THE SH*T. I’m NO GURU / MAKE MONEY ONLINE EXPERT. The wealth of knowledge showcased on this blog is knowledge that has been gathered and refined in my search for answers online.

I’ve read and read and till date I’m still reading other blogs to better myself. Not every tutorial out there is 100% foolproof which is why I take time out to try each and every one of them then fix hidden issues arising within them before I share with you my readers.

As we say in Med School: All That Matters Is If You’re Trainable or Not! Thank God I am and I’m learning pretty well without much fuss ( Thanks to my mum for keeping me awake most nights with a cane/whip just within her reach so I could be trainable in school and real life )

In conclusion, the reason for this post is to make things as clear as possible for individuals wishing to do business with StrictlyOnlineBiz.com. I don’t want you having some distorted notion that once you collaborate with me, you’ll garner some measure of success.

I’m learning, you’re learning and together we’ll learn better how to make money online.

Have a great week and thanks for the taking the time out to read and digest this entry .

P.S: While researching the idea of this post, I stumbled on the following excellent posts which strengthened my resolve to write this post. PLEASE READ THEM!

1. Don’t Fake It Until You Make It by Dave Lorenzo
2. Fake It ’til You Make It by Jerry Kennedy
3. Follow Friday: Must-Read Posts, SeededBuzz, and Why Faking It Sucks and Why I’m Not Impressed with Your Traffic Numbers, Bubba! by Tia Peterson

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