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This is a reply I made to someone's post but thought some people might get value out of this story and might not see it buried in a response.
Let me tell you a story. I went to a Stompernet Live conference. At the time to be part of Stompernet you paid close to a thousand dollars a month to be part of Stompernet which has online coaching, live help desk, free conferences, etc. - it's changed since this conference occurred. I got to go because I subscribed to their magazine and they opened the conference to subscribers if you wanted to pay to get in, so I did.
Now there were over 700 people there from all over the world. So one of the speakers got up and asked "how many have made your 1st hundred online" almost every hand went up.
"How many have made over a thousand in the last year" Surprisingly a noticeable number of hands went down.
"How many made over $5,000 in the last year" at this point about half the hands were down.
"How many have made $10,000" by now only about 25% were left.
"$50,000" the hands up were getting thin.
"$100,000" there were about 20 hands left
"$500,000" maybe 10
" A million or over" you could count them on one hand.
Now this was a crowd of over 700 people who mostly paid over $10,000 a year to be part of this program. Most people weren't even making enough to cover the cost to be members.
At that moment I relieved how rare online success is, for that matter any business success is.
It's all a fricken facade. If you think most people are doing better than you, you're wrong.
Go take a look at how many people join this site every day. Then look at how many people post and respond on this site - it's a very, very small percentage. Most people might tell themselves they want to be a business success, almost none will be.
If you are a entrepreneur and you make enough in a year to pay for a nice vacation you are very much a minority.
Let me tell you a story. I went to a Stompernet Live conference. At the time to be part of Stompernet you paid close to a thousand dollars a month to be part of Stompernet which has online coaching, live help desk, free conferences, etc. - it's changed since this conference occurred. I got to go because I subscribed to their magazine and they opened the conference to subscribers if you wanted to pay to get in, so I did.
Now there were over 700 people there from all over the world. So one of the speakers got up and asked "how many have made your 1st hundred online" almost every hand went up.
"How many have made over a thousand in the last year" Surprisingly a noticeable number of hands went down.
"How many made over $5,000 in the last year" at this point about half the hands were down.
"How many have made $10,000" by now only about 25% were left.
"$50,000" the hands up were getting thin.
"$100,000" there were about 20 hands left
"$500,000" maybe 10
" A million or over" you could count them on one hand.
Now this was a crowd of over 700 people who mostly paid over $10,000 a year to be part of this program. Most people weren't even making enough to cover the cost to be members.
At that moment I relieved how rare online success is, for that matter any business success is.
It's all a fricken facade. If you think most people are doing better than you, you're wrong.
Go take a look at how many people join this site every day. Then look at how many people post and respond on this site - it's a very, very small percentage. Most people might tell themselves they want to be a business success, almost none will be.
If you are a entrepreneur and you make enough in a year to pay for a nice vacation you are very much a minority.
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