Why 99% of People Give Up?

Hi,

I have been working online for so many years. I could refer about 25,000 new members to the first affiliate program I joined. It took about 2 years to do it. I thought everything I knew to all my referrals.

Although all of them loved to make some money, but most of them didn't even bother to give it a try. Some of them started working seriously but gave up after few weeks or maximum a few months. Only three of them kept on working so far.

Yes, three out of 25,000.
It is disappointing, isn't it?

- Why are most people like that?
- Why can't they keep on working?
- Haven't they learnt it or they have learnt but they are not able to be focused?
- What should you do to change them? (or maybe they can not be changed.)

Please let me and others know about your idea. Have you experienced this problem too?
Are you among those who are hard-worker and focused or you also give up easily?

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I think an example can answer those questions better :

Q: How many people want to drive a Ferrari?
A: (I guess) everyone

Q: How many of them want to do what is required to get one?
Q:.......

It is easy to convince someone to register to an affiliate program. Just make them feel like they will make a million dollars and they will. The hard part is to make someone believe in his/her self and finally work for his/her self.

Q: How many people want to drive a Ferrari?
A: (I guess) everyone

I don't want a ferrari now an Aston Martin vanquish or DB9...
Its strange affiliate schemes are of course the webs equivilent of pyramid schemes only very early adopters make any money. Having set up and ran affiliate schemes on behalf of clients in the past I recon about only 10% of affiliates will make any money and less then 10% will attract new affiliates. From a marketing perspective this sort of percentages are a nightmare, we used several techniques to increase the percentages including

Easy to use systems - KISS keep it simple stupid, simple pricing simple commision charges
Provide the means for them to succeed if people  are give the tools and told how to use them they are more likely to actually implement them
Mentoring - assigning new affiliates mentors established affiliates who can answer questions and just provide encouragement
Community and incentives - double whammy create and encourage a community with your affiliates and provide incentives beyond commissions to encourage growth and not just the highest earners

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I completely understand.

I'm offering a free service to SMF admins : submit your SMF forum, or your site that links to a SMF forum to my directory, and you get a free listing. I talk more about it here . When I'm on the SMF main site, I see that there are hundreds of people active, yet a very small percentage of them have submitted their link .. and I can't imagine why. My idea isn't even an affiliate program, per se.. I was hoping to generate more enthusiasm for the creation of links from willing administrators that would promote sites via displaying SMFoogle's RSS feed(s).

There's zero dollars involved, and I'm having a difficult time getting people interested. Any money being spent is mine in order to promote the directory's existence on other directories and blog posts.

I guess the moral to the story is that if I'm having a hard time generating traffic to my directory, I can only imagine the difficulties that those who are marketing a good or service that costs money are experiencing,

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Nite, I think you are a little offtopic, but anyway your site needs a lot of improvements. The smfoogle web site is a bad implementation of a very good idea.

Maybe you should post a thread in the reviews section to get some feedback.

Now regarding the activity, this is common. You just need bigger numbers, and people to register everyday. Here in webdigity only 5-10% of the new members are actually posting or do anything in the forums.

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