Contradicting advice and misinformation about working online!

August 4, 2016

Lynne Author Level 1 August 4, 2016, 2:19 pm

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Something that I really struggled with when I first started working online is all the contradicting advice that is available online.

I spent such a long time trying to figure out how to learn everything I needed to know, bouncing from one website to the next and it seemed every time I thought I had figured something out I would be given completely contradicting information.

Being a newbie I felt completely alone and like I was just being pushed all around. It was incredibly frustrating.

There is just so much misinformation! What has your experience been with this and how did you manage to learn everything you know?

Oh and it is great to have this community discussion now, I place where I can discuss ideas and check the things I have learned or heard about.

So many different experts that can each share their knowledge and debate the answers to questions!

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Cristian 10 years ago

Solution to figure out misinformation is testing stuff yourself. Don't just trust anyone point black, research and test those claims for yourself. If both the experts and you have the same conclusion, well, that's pretty much to most relevant "truth" you'll ever get right?
Also, be careful in choosing your "gurus" - I choose mine by looking how successful they really are not how successful they're telling me they are...

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Everett 10 years ago

When I first started to make money online, without programming or any marketplace I was trying to be an affiliate for Clickbank, or sell traffic for those Traffic Exchanges. I had read a lot of stuff that contradicted each other. . and when I say a lot, i mean A LOT.. like hundreds of ebooks, or articles.

The best advice I have is to figure out how things work for yourself. This way you won't get pushed around, and you wont have Bob saying that that is not how it's done, or Sue trying to tell you this is how its done. Many things work differently for people. Not everything will work the same for everyone. That is my advice when trying to earn a buck working online. Find what works for you. If others say it doesn't work, than it didn't work for them.

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Lynne Author 10 years ago

Everett says that is something I have really found too, that things work differently for different people. I have often learned about someone's method for ranking, taken out the bits that work for me and added that to my methods. So the way I do things is uniquely my way with little bits and pieces taken from all over.

This is very much about finding my own unique way.

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TommyCarey 10 years ago

Oh man

I wish I had something like the community discussion when I started out. I wouldn't have wasted thousands of dollars on courses, ebooks, and memberships just to learn what to do in order to make some money online. So many times I fell into the "Guru" trap and just flung money at something that was suppose to help me make a passive income online. You know, the type of income we all are chasing so that we can put in 60 hours of work and then 1 hour a week after that lol.

When I started I was making my own path since I never had a mentor or someone showing me how to do something. Or even more important, I didn't have someone telling me what NOT to do lol. I learned by trial and error and figured out everything as I went. With the Community Discussion you can just post a question, discussion, debate, theory, etc. and people are more than willing to help you out, which is rare.

I actually like helping people online because I don't want them to struggle like most of us did in the beginning. I actually have people think I'm trying to scam them because of how nice I am. I recently posted online on a newer website and I was willing to help someone get a free design, hosting, and marketing... but the thread I posted instantly became a "Razzy is scamming people!" thread lol. I did get a couple people send me emails about a niche they wanted to get started in but didn't have enough money to get a new website up. All I had them do was buy the domain and I did everything else

If you guys and girls like the community discussion, like I do, please pay it forward and help out a stranger

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Lynne Author 10 years ago

Yes Razzy I totally agree, there is so much misinformation out there. I do think the best way of learning is to figure things out yourself, however this can take so long and of course if you make a big mistake with your website you could get penalized which is awful.

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CryptoGuru 10 years ago

Yea I can understand how frustrating that can be getting led in the wrong direction due to bad contradicting advice but you do have to understand this is the Internet first rule of the web would be to not believe every thing you see hear or read on the web lol other then that a lot of times you have to give your self trial and error runs my advice is don't put all your trust into some ones advice endless your are willing to take it upon your self to test every single persons advice and if so understand you will not always get the same results so don't be disappointed

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Lynne Author 10 years ago

Oh yes I know that now! But when I first started I was let down over and over again. It took me a bit of time to realize that I need to research and then test for myself and get other people's opinions.

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ajlancer 10 years ago

Hi Lynne thanks for your nice question. You explained very well from your practical experience learning of internet how you were struggle to start work as freelancer. If, I would like to say about my teacher of freelance. Simply I would say google and YouTube my best teacher. I know how had to struggle for leaning verity things from online for authentic information. I agree with you all information was not accurate and some information really misinformation and contradictory. Among all of them as a newbie really I worked hard to learn things from online.

Yes! community discussion such a wonderful area, where many experts share real and own knowledge.

Regards by Ajlancer

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Lynne Author 10 years ago

Well I'm glad it is not just me Ajlancer, there have been times when I thought I really must be going crazy!

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Corzhens 9 years ago

I became a freelancer because of some writer friends who suggested that I try earning. And although I am already into some forums to hone my written English, earning was not part of the agenda. When I joined the first earning site, I had read a lot about advice and suggestions on what to do and what not to do about forums. And then it dawned on me that some of the information there are not true. That gave me the idea to be discerning. Not everything that is in the forum are true.

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