Why I REALLY Quit "Make Money" Marketing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- Late last year I completely left and took down access to any "make money online" beginner course I was associated with and committed to only working with existing business owners and my SaaS business. There's a ton of reason why and I think sharing them will help so many people avoid the same mistakes.
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I'm not a business man and probably will never be a millionaire with what ambitions I have in life, but I gotta say I have watched every video you put out in the last 1.5 years, and I really appreciate the honesty from you, it really helped me grow mentally as a person to tackle my own ambitions with more clarity and focus. There is just so much bullshit and fake ass people out here trying to sell you some shit and rob your time/identity. Finding real wisdom is almost impossible for the average person nowadays.
Just wanted to say thanks man. Your channel is a hidden gem.
Not all of us here are entrepreneurs. He's giving genuine life advice.
I'm a simple man, when I see the most woke, the most handsome billionaire, empty house minimalist post a video I count my lucky stars and and watch.
*PG (so grandma can wish)
That leads to the next question why u simple
I'm a simple man too. When I see Alex's window in a video, I take note of the weather behind it. (Side note, Yes! It's cloudly!)
@@isitcloudyoutsidealexswind3282 No way. He got tempered glass or something of that nature... High class privacy blinds... Nicee
TLDR: Cause he doesn't like it anymore.
Also: It WAS cloudy outside his window. :D
Also, he has a multi-million dollar safety net to catch him if the new direction didn't work out.
Fair/funny, but what he explained is much deeper than that.
@@corystewart1127 I know. I was actually just going for fair/funny.
@@guitaro5000 Well you pulled that off haha
Alex “if you can’t dedicate 5 minutes” Becker
For a 31 minute video
Its to train you to do 30 mins of work even if you think it'll only take 5 min. Or to just do something regardless of the time it takes, just because you want/need to do it.
Or maybe I'm looking into it too much and he's just trolling lol
Becker I'm 21 and moved to Austin after having 15 clients to further grow. I just finished my sales funnel and will start doing ads soon. Your videos helped me alot in staying focus and made sure I don't spend too much time just watching your videos. I never felt like doing that funnel and now I spent 8-10 hours a day on it. You are truly a badass and hope I can get to meet you someday.
Sure he's awesome by the way loved your progress
Hey Juan - I just moved out to Austin as well... also offering digital marketing services to clients.
@@RyanMoran awesome bro what's your niche?
@@RyanMoran I've seen your ads
@@RyanMoran nvm I mean your FB posts
You're the man Alex, I really like the direction you've moved in, it's helping myself and alot of my friends.
Yes he's awwesome
So true
trueeee
Always love your perspective on this whole online business world. Your videos make me think in a more fulfilling way versus just trying to make a buck.
I find it WAYYY easier to sell to people that already have a business. They are already committed, and they have money to spend.
That's wassup
What do you sell if I may ask?
@@dinardinar2657 I think social media marketing like services
absolutely man, trying to convince people that don't have a single penny to buy your services is SO exhausting... if you have the money okay we talk, if not go away I don't want you as a customer
Dinar Dinar high ticket informational training product to cosmetic surgeons
Pure content! I started waking up at 4:00AM to work on my goals before I work on someone else's goals, and it makes me much more productive.
Keep creating 💪 Thanks!
With the downtime forced by this quarantine, I have really been sitting down and thinking about my life and where I am. I'm currently 26, living in NYC, and can say I'm not happy with what I've been doing so far. I spent my early 20s getting a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, with some plan of continuing on to get a PhD because that seemed like the golden route (outlined by parents and other influences). However upon graduating I realized it felt like I just went along with this path and didnt feel happy - for the last year I've been working in brokerage operations because there's little work for a Chem Bachelors in my city and I had bills to pay. I'm now stuck with figuring out what to do for the rest of my life - a huge part of me wants to start a profitable business because in the end I simply want to do something I can be proud of and know that I as a person created something of value. Your content speaks to me Mr Becker, I hope to apply what you're teaching going forward
And I am just starting out or been in community college four or five years and still have not successfully passed chem and physics classes. Its super tough. Learning disabilities are just terrible
hits close to home
Any update since you posted this?? I’m 23 and feel the same way.
8:15 - Alex, during these 6 months that I've been watching your content, you've already literally changed my life (for the better) more than anyone else has - so yes, you definitely have more gifts to give to the world than those make-money-online clowns shouting buzzwords in their fancy super cars.
How did he change your life? New guy here
@@joelmiller2601 Alex has videos on many different important subjects, but for me personally the most impactful ones are the dopamine related videos - how dopamine basically strings your primitive brain (and thus, you) along throughout your whole life unless you take control of it. Thanks to Alex's videos I've started noticing those patterns in my own life and taking action to minimize the negative effects of it.
Same man, changed my whole life around
Same here. I hadn't heard about him since two weeks, and his content about mindset is the best I've seen on TH-cam, and I've seen a lot.
I'm currently doing dopamine detox, but then I realized Alex's videos are giving me the strongest dopamine hits. I'm kinda addicted to the channel... As soon as I see the TH-cam notification of Alex just released a new video, I'll immediately stop everything I'm doing and devour the whole video even it's 2:00am in the morning.
Daniel Horng woke! 👍🏻😝
If you're doing dopamine detox, why the hell are you receiving notifications for TH-cam, or notifications at all? ;)
Why are you on TH-cam to begin with.
@@bigalbertino to catch you, hah!!! 😌
Unfortunately, your dopamine detox is not working.
Hey Alex, this is the first time I’ve commented on your video and I wanted to say that this really resonated with me. Thanks for keeping it real!
"The world is very loud, but it has nothing to do with you." brilliant
Dan Lok would have no problem charging 100k for a mediocre product.
Robert Hurley Jr add Kevin David, KT Nine, and 85 percent of people running youtube ads in the make money online niche
Sadly, that's most of them. They're assholes.
Like religion, they prey on the weak and vulnerable to gain for themselves
True
Hey Robert did you do Dan Lok HTC or HIC
You just saved me 3 years of f@#&ery. Cheers Alex
Learning from other people's mistakes is so valuable, yet so hard. Watching all these successful people talk about how they failed and succeeded is inspiring, but sometimes it feels in vain, because I make the same mistakes in the end...
The pain is what ingrains it in your mind, it’s why people learn from the painful mistakes, people when people first learn to love it’s the begginning of their understanding of Hardees people don’t understand they love something till they lose it, it’s all relative to the pain that experienced, sometimes the pain they experience is too much and breaks a person, whether it was their X or their family member, thier friend, their dreams and goals etc 😢.
Essentially
You aren’t going to learn if it isn’t hard that’s and you haven’t learned anything until the piece of knowloege you have in your head is applied/ changes your behaviour.😎
100% agree with this! I experienced most of what you said in this video. The "make money online" space can be extremely unfulfilling and to be successful, most have to bend their line of what's ethical. Doing, building, or working on something that makes you happy and feel fulfilled is absolutely key and what's most important.
Hey dude. Thanks to you I started working on my projects more than ever. Also, I did the serotonin-detox thingy. It worked wonders! Thanks a lot!
I hope you're doing a dopamine detox, not a serotonin detox.
Multilingo dopamine detox is the shit if you want anything done*
Multilingo distraction=failure. Detox eliminates distractions. Congrats 🥳
That wolf mug part 🤣🤣🤣... Bdw that was my favourite ads of yours so far.
I resonate so hard with this video.
Sup Adam
16:00 It's amazing hearing this. I've felt like the Make Money Online niche is pretty toxic in a way, because there's so much crap being sold - and as you say, basically, people need the education to change their mindset if they want to become rich - but people don't want to work on their mindset and no one wants to sell mindset. Status quo. Thank you for your videos, Alex!
It's like the niche is the 2nd Stage of Market Sophistication (which Eugene Schwartz explains in his book Breakthrough advertising), where the only way to stand out from the competition is to promise more (to the absolute edge of believability). From $100 a day with SEO or whatever to $10k a month in 6 weeks + Victoria's Secrets models blowing you off... Someone needs to take their 'make money online' business to the 3rd Stage. Where the mechanism of how the product works are more important. This is exactly what Alex is trying to explain i.e. "making your bed". Or maybe, someone needs invent something new... like delivering actual results for the people or giving them so much value for free that they can start making money online with just the free stuff, and then transition to the paid products 🤔
Brail Petkov build ecosystem of your own = 🏋️♀️👏🏻 success!
What do you think the equivalent is on Facebook? TH-cam seems to have relaxed compliance on “make $ online” FORCING people to make outrageous claims to win, but Facebook is tougher (compliance). Ecom wise, Since everyone has access to the same suppliers do you think the value comes from brand building and almost the “alchemy” of building out an offer (upsells, subscription, etc.)
You opened my eyes on a lot of things regarding Entrepreneurship and helped me a lot refining my habits. Thank you for everything :)
great video Alex.. all I can say is that the "make money online" business niche is like the gold rush.. and when there is a gold rush (like a gold rush of people who wants to make money online) you sell the shovels (the training courses) then add the lambos, big houses, expensive lifestyle etc for maximum effect.. The training courses makes the training course provider rich not because of the method but because of the sales from the courses.. then up the "standard" more lambos, big houses etc.. like fueling the hype more.. (feedback loop)
@Alex Becker's Channel Wow!! I got a reply from TH-cam's most woke, Empty house billionaire guy!!!.. I was a victim of this and "woke up" too because of you - many thanks for that! In line with this, what are your thoughts about Survivorship Bias and Luck? I watched your video way back about Entrepreneurs getting Lucky but well most of them just thinks that all of their success is from "grinding" and "hustle" ONLY and doesn't acknowledge that part of their success is from luck and their current circumstances/timing
you have officially passed Sam Ovens in pumping out amazing content, im rethinking how to structure my youtube channel form now on. THANK YOU ALEX this is life changing.
Another fellow Alex here, been watching your vids for a while and they have been a big part in a giant discipline/mindset shift in my life, thanks
AGR4 Great attitude! Focus is the key 🔑 and you’re on your way, good luck!
He's right I got into his videos when they were how to make an extra $50 a day with SEO and now everything in this niche is about how to make millions
Thank you again for your uploads. Ive been watching all of your videos back to back trying to get the full understanding. I've already started doing the dopamine detox. I gave my sister the playstation, im removing distracting items and giving my focus to my design for which I want to build. I'm excited to see more of your content
Kevin’s David needs to watch this! Dude made all his money from selling courses to newbies 😂
And copying content and flexing. He's just another Tai
drubio exactly, all those dues are jokes man!!
It's funny because your long term approaches have helped me most, even in the short term. I've gotten more done this past week after committing to a more hardcore dopamine detox than the rest of the last month. Truly valuable stuff.
I would avoid charging in any way, however, for this advice just from a trust/honesty perspective. Your message is more trustworthy if you have zero reasons to upsell for a course/membership of any sort. I think by keeping your content free it will give you more value through your increased reach and validity as a personality than the money you would make through charging for it. Just a thought.
the 'make money online' industry for the most part is cancerous.
Simon Hilton They make money by selling courses on “how to make money”, literally contributing nothing to society, simply spewing pseudo science bullshit which only adds to the already noxious layers of ineptitude. Its all quite sad. When it’s all said and done, no amount of money is going to fill that hole in their hearts for not having put energy into something that helped their fellow man. There’s a difference between cunning and intelligence. I get needing to make a living, but millions? You want to be a millionaire from deceiving your fellow man? That’s quite sad.
Eric Calhoun What you described id the FTC definition of an illegal pyramid scheme.
Love how you make me feel guilt at the beginning of all your videos, in order to watch the whole video. It works!
You know what I love about youtube I would never be able to meet you and spend time asking you questions but I can come on here and listen to your advice
YOU FUCKING DID IT ALEX!!!!! What an inspiration bro, thank you for not being afraid to do you.
I’m trying to give up video games and screen time in favor of consuming more books and focusing on work during this lockdown. Thanks Becker for your youtube content! You are changing lives for the better.
You've made such a huge change since I started following you. You used to be one of those guys, one of the make money online gurus but now you're the anti guru content creator. You're so transparent with your stuff that you actually increased the amount of value you give by a ton. I admire the twist and turn. You're my age as well so that adds up to how much I get from your videos.
Thanks Alex! Love the insights that you offer on this channel. It is literally the only channel I have notifications turned on for.
Yes! It's cloudy outside of Alex's window! I've been waiting for a while for this.
Being is more important than doing and having.
I’m 50 and I’m starting my next company right now which will be bigger than anything before because of the wisdom I’ve developed from everything else I’ve done. It’s not age based. It’s market cycle based. Don’t limit yourself to an age thing.
Becker, youve been an inspirational figure for me. Keep doing what you do. Maybe you know, maybe not, but your leadership is helping a lot of people. Many heartfelt thanks, bro
I cannot thank you enough for forcing me to think about my bad habits... I know I'm not a top performer, but I also currently don't know my "WHY" if I want to optimize my life. So, before I optimize I need to know why I want to optimize. Can't walk into changing my life blind.
Thanks Alex
I can relate to this in a lot of ways. Listened to this while going for a run and I feel super inspired to get even more locked in with my business 💪🏼
I appreciate that someone who's been successfull obviously really honestly gets fulfillment from teaching others to reach their potential
Makes me feel hopeful in humanity
Alex your authenticity is fucking intoxicating. All power to you.
I have not watched it till the end just yet! But loving this so far, this is why I am a die-hard fan of you! We will meet soon bro!
You’re a true role model Alex. Thank you for the words of wisdom.
“ The world is very loud but it has nothing to do with you .” 🤯 Resonating with me!
How can i get involved with Iron, I spend 15k on ads per month willing to spend more if i have a detailed ad strategy
This channel clarified a lot of important things and changed my life
Very interesting.
1. "Only a few big swings from 20-45" --- totally agreed. Id personally say that from what I've seen of others, 45 is a bit lenient. Another number I've heard is from some billionaire investor type is that every entrepreneur has a 20year 'golden period'.
2. "The biggest challenge in the MMO niche is changing the person, but its not what people want" --- yea. its annoying. tony robbins type stuff. Totally 100% agreed on the incongruency between marketing (flash) and product (changing the peoples mindsets).
3. "...focused on growing a company through WOM" --- Totally agreed. This is obvious to me (now at least).
A few questions:
A. Have you considered becoming a fully transparent organization like Convertkit, and make all your financials public on baremetrics? What factored into your decision?
B. Im assuming here that a number of your Hyros customers are in the bizopp niche; did they exert any pressure on you to get out of the bizopp niche? I recall a buddy of mine released a clicktracker (Voluum) focuses on affiliates, and there was lots of pressure from other affiliates for Rob to get out of his own affiliate business.
C. What are your thoughts on working with investment advisory firms, that work with companies like ours to either be acquired, or to rollup other similar companies (M&A) in preparation for a sale? I ask because Im probably pulling the trigger on working with one of those right now.
Hi john. A) Yes we aim to do that probably at the start of 2021. I think its just more about being transparent as part of the brand. B) No one has at this point. Zero % C) I think its a great idea, its just so hard to get a high value on a info business (I could be very wrong, you are way more informed than I am usually on these things)
Alex why don't you make a video on that Cybernetics company you said you wanted to start in the future? Does it involve Elon Musks Neuralink? That'd be a really cool topic
Been dealing with the exact issue today and am thankful for the timing of your message. I believe that the world is changing and that your ability to influence lives will bring you even greater fulfilment in times to come. Perhaps if it wasn't for your earlier 'money-making' methods you might not have had this huge following now ... it serves great purpose.
What is IRON? I feel like I’ve seen 75% of your ALL of your videos, and don’t remember hearing this. I know Hyros, and your past ventures HCOM, Market Hero, but haven’t heard of IRON. Looking forward to it!
Really digging the new landing site for Hyros. The new branding is a really good look
if you're wondering why he says something along the lines of "if you don't watch this whole video, you're not really invested in your life" in the beginning of every video, it's because it hurts the algorithm if people click off the video before watching the whole thing. very clever strategy.
@@oDannyMitchello Alex is a master at tricking his audience into believing he's doing things differently in terms of his online money making approaches. But, his content is still great, so more power to him. I respect the hustle. Feigning complete transparency has made him very popular. He's just a step ahead of the competition in this aspect.
Hit the nail on the head. I had built a 20 person call center in an industry I had no passion for and it absolutely drained me mentally and financially. Walked away and am now focusing on something I like and am 1000xs happier.
He saved almost 200 years of my time if i count on other videos that i watched , every single video is saving a decade of my life
I didn't like you when you were selling make money courses, but as soon as I started watching your youtube videos I immediately subscribed thank you for sharing your thoughts and wisdom.
Thanks~~~~
I woke up, watched your video, was making my bed when you mentioned bed making.....please put out a video of you actually making your bed. I want to know what mattress you use.....for reasons
Whenever I get a new video notification from Alex my dopamine goes through the roof
Hair cut looks great my dude!
It’s like Chamillionaire saying he doesn’t want to be a rapper or The Rock saying he don’t wanna be a wrestler.
You’d have to make a MUCH GREATER Impact in another area to pull that off. It’s very very hard to do. Especially if you’ve been extremely successful at what were you doing before.
I still see Will Smith as a rapper and he’s a GREAT actor.
I have been really enjoying your Videos!
Thanks! There is a lot of mindset stuff, which i have never considererd before.
And feel its the right time to implement them
REALLY GOOD NO BULLSHIT Video where you pour out your soul. Good stuff
First time watching this man, my intuition tells me he seems to be the wokest handsome illuminated billionaire youtube guy
great transformation brother. I have the same thing in my "music production online courses" now I am doing my TH-cam channel and donation based stuff.
I think one main issue you are forgetting is that you are still developing as an entrepreneur in the beginning stages. You’re not going into entrepreneurship and after a month you know, oh this is the business model I like the most. You first have to try out things and that takes time too. ;)
You have the most Djent outro ever and I love it...
26:50 I agree 100%. Honestly I just listen to the mindset stuff. I've learned so much about dopamine and habits with your videos. I can now wake up at 5am (without an alarm) pumped to get on my computer to code, for 5 to 8 hours a day. By the way that nightmare mode is hard AF bro. Thanks for the content man. Wilfried.
Hey how did you start out? Was it easy to cut out your smartphone at once or did you do it gradually? For me it is a struggle to stop watch youtube videos. I'm intrested to know if you have experienced big changes.
@@jsean7456 For the coding part, I started 4 months ago. As for the nightmare mode, I am on day 5 right now, I had deleted my social media accounts (Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook) last summer. That helps a lot because I don't want to try to create an account, so that's another reason for not being on my phone often. But obviously I still have a couple friends with whom I am used to exchange text messages so to go gradually I just respond 10 mins after waking up and never again ,so that they can't respond right away. After that I just put the phone away from where I work. After a couple days you will feel a little difference. As for the videos I just cleaned my TH-cam account of all the stuff I had been watching that was not relating to business/mindset/coding. I suggest you just unsubscribe from gaming channels, fitness channels etc... For example I am just subscribed to Alex, Sam Ovens, and a couple of serious coding channels. That way, if I feel like watching videos after a day of work, I can watch videos that will benefit me. The n°1 change is that I enjoy coding much more. Hope that helps.
awesome video ... Alex this is the video that makes me your fan . Now I can say ... Alex Rocks
Interesting when he talks about the state of the niche and how the claims have gotten so outrageous.. Its exactly what Eugene Schwartz talks about in Breakthrough advertising with a markets sophistication & awareness and what headlines will hook them and what "mechanisms" they will buy.
Thank you for the clarity you provide and showing how good business should be like
I've been dopamine detoxing for the first time in my life for the past 2 1/2 weeks and it has juristically changed my life. Because I recently found your videos! Thanks for being yourself
Thanks as always for taking the time to do this for us!
I needed to hear this. Its like a breathe of fresh air listening to you uncover the underworld of the make money online niche. Thanks for keeping it real hear. You earned a sub and a like
Thanks for your honesty and being 100%. Stay WOKE
I've been lost, but these videos are showing me I've been doing things backwards.
I'm so glad that I found your channel. Thank you for making these videos!
Thank you for the videos Alex, they are very motivational and informative keep them comming you are helping alot of people.
Looking forward to this! Happy for a Sunday upload.
Man I think I've gotten rid of or in the process of getting rid of all my bad habits and I'm loving it man. Thank you Mr Alex. You're changing my life with your dopamine detox philosophy.
I definitely remember the, "If you wanna see how how I make over a million dollars online selling these wolf mugs on Shopify [etc], click this link" ads he used to do lol
How do you feel about your the book you wrote now? Would you change anything?
Some real talk. Really diggin' this new you man.
So glad you switched! 🙏🏽
Thank you for your help, Alex. You are seriously making a huge impact on your audience.
I'm going down the go to college route to "build my own business". Sharing tips on whatever you want to share is what im subscribed for!
I think lower key promises can work in the mmo space. -just cause it's different.
Alex, do you practice any sport or do exercise to balance health and work? What do you think about marriage and kids?
Greetings from Colombia, thank you for your education and feedback.
The irony is that a Kevin Zhang money online guru ad popped up for me at the end of this video. Not sure if he’s legit or not but I’ll literally see like 5 different make money online ads from 5 different gurus a day.
this is the realest video I have ever seen about making money online, thanks for being honest Alex.
Thanks Alex, really good point of view, your videos have helped me a lot, keep that I honesty love your work!
For someone who is in a phase of a crossroad somewhat a beginning point, this encourages to take the initiative. And helps keep me in check. your sincerity is scary and rare
seld discipline ts the hardest thing for me and the most needed aspect for my life at the same time
thank you for sharing our experience and knowledge
Thanks great video Alex!I’m a hairstylist ,photographer ,and I have an apparel line this helped me a lot thanks bro. Letsssgoooo
What event caused you to have this fundamental shift?
Because I’ve recently been experiencing the same thing after spending 5 years building a successful company, have the cars, motorcycles and all that shit, but i totally relate to what you’re saying.
Rob
I love that this channel is basically exactly what you're saying is missing in "make money" marketing
@alex becker - Did Nathan Barry play a part in your decision making to drop your business? just curious.
Wow. I am following you for more than 2 years and this was a really really great video! Keep it up man :)