While a lot of what has been said is of course true, I just want to say that don't let that discourage you into not even attempting it.
I recently released my new information product (an in-depth video course related to photography) and the excitement of getting sales after sales while you are sleeping/working out/having food is just amazing and beats any other feeling out there.
This last Saturday I was out on a Tinder date and my phone was blowing up with sales and more sales. We would order wine and the cost would be recovered as soon as it arrived on our table thanks to these passive sales I was making. I would say after 5 years in the online (mainly) entrepreneurship game, this was kind of pleasantly surreal for even me since most of my success in the past was based on services and not products. For the first time in my life, I'm kind of getting the taste of what passive income feels like. I still have to provide customer service but that's nothing but an exchange of one-two emails, that too with only some customers. I may not be making an absolutely crazy amount of money but if my products keep performing the way they are, I'll be on the road to making most of my money relatively passively and be able to give up the services part of my business, especially considering my frugal lifestyle.
I'm not bragging. Just pointing out that yes it's tough. The 4-5 months it took me to make this information product were fucking painful at times and at least 4-5 times during the course, I really thought I was not going to finish the product. But I would wake up the next morning and it would all seem fine and I would start again.
In my last five years at Rooshvforum, I've mentioned this quite a lot but I'll do it again. One of the things that keeps me going during the tough times is that I LIKE WHAT I DO. So no matter how tough it gets, at the end of the day, I'm still doing what I like doing. I see most guys out there ignoring this point because it sounds a little melo/feminine. But that's the biggest mistake you can make. At the very least you should never start something you hate just because of the money/less effort involved.
The most recent example I can give is of the Dropshipping business. After I started the Facebook advertising thread here, I started getting so many messages form the guys here asking me to check their "business website". All I've ever seen in a website that is so unprofessionally made with zero hint of branding and zero business sense. But why are so many people doing it? Because it sounds an easy way to make money without having responsibility. The same is the case with affiliate marketing to some extent.
If you are professional about things, aren't doing something to take the easy way out, willing to start a PROPER business especially with your OWN products/services, then there is no reason why you can't succeed. Trust me it's actually easier than doing a job for someone else. Just do it the right way.
I recently released my new information product (an in-depth video course related to photography) and the excitement of getting sales after sales while you are sleeping/working out/having food is just amazing and beats any other feeling out there.
This last Saturday I was out on a Tinder date and my phone was blowing up with sales and more sales. We would order wine and the cost would be recovered as soon as it arrived on our table thanks to these passive sales I was making. I would say after 5 years in the online (mainly) entrepreneurship game, this was kind of pleasantly surreal for even me since most of my success in the past was based on services and not products. For the first time in my life, I'm kind of getting the taste of what passive income feels like. I still have to provide customer service but that's nothing but an exchange of one-two emails, that too with only some customers. I may not be making an absolutely crazy amount of money but if my products keep performing the way they are, I'll be on the road to making most of my money relatively passively and be able to give up the services part of my business, especially considering my frugal lifestyle.
I'm not bragging. Just pointing out that yes it's tough. The 4-5 months it took me to make this information product were fucking painful at times and at least 4-5 times during the course, I really thought I was not going to finish the product. But I would wake up the next morning and it would all seem fine and I would start again.
In my last five years at Rooshvforum, I've mentioned this quite a lot but I'll do it again. One of the things that keeps me going during the tough times is that I LIKE WHAT I DO. So no matter how tough it gets, at the end of the day, I'm still doing what I like doing. I see most guys out there ignoring this point because it sounds a little melo/feminine. But that's the biggest mistake you can make. At the very least you should never start something you hate just because of the money/less effort involved.
The most recent example I can give is of the Dropshipping business. After I started the Facebook advertising thread here, I started getting so many messages form the guys here asking me to check their "business website". All I've ever seen in a website that is so unprofessionally made with zero hint of branding and zero business sense. But why are so many people doing it? Because it sounds an easy way to make money without having responsibility. The same is the case with affiliate marketing to some extent.
If you are professional about things, aren't doing something to take the easy way out, willing to start a PROPER business especially with your OWN products/services, then there is no reason why you can't succeed. Trust me it's actually easier than doing a job for someone else. Just do it the right way.