This post contains no money making information. Instead I’m going to tell you how to NOT make money.

Here’s a few reasons why you probably aren’t where you want to be:

• You spend ALL your time trying to listen and find out what other people are doing
• You spend time on forums, social networks with no real intention of learning. Sure you opened the site in your browser but you are more interested in Dick Rolling someone actually wanting to learn (could that be a hint of jealousy?). No, you would rather make poop pies with others and join in on the next bashing.
• You actually make an effort to associate yourself in places filled with people that arent going to help increase your business.
• You get useful advice and screw it up by not thinking on your own.
• You try every offer and make zilch and blame the offer, the advertiser, the tracking, the network or your girlfriend for being in the room and screwing up your concentration.

We’ll stop for a second and go over a few of these. First off we have the listener (or as I call the leecher). This person hangs on every word that is said, reads every dumbass blog online (including this one), reads EVERY thread in their favorite forums and at the end of the day is probably so unmotivated they finish it all off with a “I’ll try that tomorrow” before they sleep or has so many ideas that they have so much information it’s going to take even more reading just to understand what the hell it is they learned today.

Second – This person is even worse off. They would rather crack jokes and support their e-buddies in making jokes and not even try to learn something in the first place. Hell, maybe they are making their living online and just choose to refresh stats all day and have a good time. Good for you on making it, you dont owe anyone anything right? Nope, I would rather spend my time surfing for hotties on my favorite social network or chatting it up in a room or AIM. These people are incredibly fun to laugh at about the time a major Google slap comes or Facebook changes their advertising TOS.

Third – Associating yourself with places, maybe businesses but definitely by people who really dont have a clue what your doing let alone be able to offer any real help. You want an honest reason why the 300+ Direct Track Network Convert2Media is able to double its revenues and growth each month? It’s because most companies employee people who have never marketed online a day in their life. How is this person going to “manage” affiliates and help increase their business when they themselves have never done it? That’s not even the worst part. The worst part is the amount of publishers who put themselves in that position.

Fourth – Useful advice. Nobody is EVER going to flat out give you the platinum platter. I’ll admit, I’ve given out a lot of silver ones but ultimately there are two types of publishers in this world. Those who take the information seriously and apply it along with adding and testing their own ideas and of course the ones who come back a week later and bitch that it didnt work. It didnt work because you didnt make it work.

Fifth – This is my favorite. Everyday I’m asked what are the hot offers and everyday I tell publishers. Out of all of them I can usually garner a few of them that will come up with every excuse to NOT even try it such as “oh that offer shaves”, “oh that advertiser is dirty” or “I heard the conversion rates fluctuate”.

Right off the bat, I will tell you exactly what it is I am doing. I’m doing my best to ignore you. As a matter of fact, I’m going to do my best to NOT get you to run that offer. Want to know why? It’s because I’ve seen this person before. I’ve seen them everyday since I been online. Next week, you are going to be back and you are going to ask the same thing but guess what? ………..

What’s the point of helping someone who really does not want it? I’m counting on you to make up excuses to not get going. I’m hoping to god that you take the offer and go run it on myspace or facebook or some other lame ass traffic source and tell me the offer sucks. Want to know why?

It’s because in the time it takes you to give up, more are going to succeed and you just make it easier on them. They dont give up because something doesnt work the first, second, third, 10th time.

In this business, NOT giving up is THE only option you have.