There has been an ongoing argument that everything you can learn about Internet marketing is out there for free, and therefore you shouldn’t have to pay for getting an education. Well, I’m going to try to explain why this sort of thinking is not only wrong, but also counterproductive to what many marketers are trying to do. There is an old saying that goes like this. “You get what you pay for.” Believe it or not, it is often true.

Let me start off by saying that most, if not all information available on how to effectively run a business online, is available for free. Nobody is arguing that. The problem with relying on free information is that it’s not easy to always find. The search engines, while they perform a great service, many times give us too much of a good thing. What am I talking about? Let me explain.

The search engines are to do one thing and one thing only; provide us with the most relevant search results for whatever it is that we’re looking for. They don’t care if the information is free, paid for or what have you. All they care is that it is most relevant. Well, as it turns out, if you do a search engine search for any particular topic in Internet marketing, you will find, more times than not, that the top search results are for sites that are not free. To get the information, you need to pay for it. The sites that ultimately have relevant information for free are usually buried deep within the results. This means that finding them can be a very time consuming process, not that it can’t be done. So why pick paid over free?

Here is my reason. My time is valuable to me, maybe even more valuable than my money. If I know that I can make $100 with just one hour of work, then I don’t want to spend that one hour looking for information that I can get in five minutes by going to a site where I pay $20 to get it. It is more than worth the $20 for me to have information instantly, rather than waste the time looking for something which may or may not end up helping me in the long run. Not all free information is quality information, or complete for that matter.

So when you’re deciding on whether or not to sink $20 or whatever the amount is into your education, or looking for it for free, please remember what your time is worth to you.

You just might discover that it was cheaper to spend the $20.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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