I get that a lot.
"Woods, if what you're saying is true, why doesn't everyone [fill in the blank]?"
A reasonable question.
Take, for example, what we've been teaching over the past couple of weeks, about building an affiliate business (that doesn't require having your own products) similar to the one I have.
Why doesn't everyone do this?
Here’s one reason: almost nobody knows about it.
Clickbank is the largest affiliate network in the world. It is the gold standard. Yet I would be shocked if even one percent of my readers had even heard of it before I told you about it.
Here’s another reason: like anything, it involves learning and persistence. Dollar bills do not magically drop from the sky at the push of a button no matter what course you take or software you use. Not everyone has the desire or the attention span to learn, and it’s rather an understatement to say that not all people are especially persistent.
Here’s still another reason: for whatever reason, very few people act even on an obvious opportunity. Why on Earth am I still the only person in the universe running a Google AdWords ad to a Ron Paul Curriculum affiliate link? This is ridiculous. (Trust me, though: I’m not complaining.)
“Woods, if it does so well for you, why isn’t everyone doing it” rings completely hollow to me.
My answer, at root, is: I have no blankety-blank idea why more people aren’t doing it.
In general, don't let other people's cynicism or lack of ambition stop you.
I wouldn't have done any of the things that have transformed my life if I'd thought, "If any of this worked, the whole world would be doing it."
That's like saying, "There can't be a housing bubble or everyone would have realized it already and it would already have been corrected" (which is how some Chicago School people thought).
There really are good things out there that haven't been spotted.
This is one of them.
But watch our presentation before it comes down tomorrow:
Tom Woods