I see a lot of people who attend forums ask the senior members if they’d be willing to mentor them, as if having a successful Internet marketing is going to make them successful themselves. This article is going to take a very objective look at the whole business of mentoring and if it indeed will make you successful. This is coming from somebody who mentors and has been mentored himself. So I am speaking from experience.

Let’s first take this from the point of view of the person who is doing the mentoring. Provided that this person knows his stuff, most likely, his mentoring program is all laid out already. He has every step planned and it’s just a matter of walking the person who he is mentoring through the process. Naturally, there will be some questions that will pop up that the mentor will not be able to plan for, but they should be easily answerable. For the most part, the mentor doesn’t have to do an awful lot of work, and in most cases, he is paid very well for this service. So from his standpoint, mentoring is certainly worth his time from a monetary standpoint.

But what about from a results standpoint? After all, this is not just about money. There are easier ways to make a living other than mentoring. Mentoring does take a lot of time. So you want to know that the time you are spending is worth spending. And that’s where the person you are mentoring comes in.

There is an old saying that you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink it. The same thing is true about mentoring. You can teach a person everything you know, but unless that person applies what he learns, the mentoring does no good. For that matter, unless the person is able to even understand what he’s learning, the mentoring does no good.

From my own personal experience, about 1% of the people I have mentored actually went on to do anything with it. As most of these people usually just drop off the face of the planet, I can’t honestly say why the mentoring turned out to be a waste of time for both of us. It just was. The sad truth is, most people, once they find out what it takes to be successful online, don’t want to put in the work. They go back to trying to find the easy way.

If you find somebody who is really dedicated, then mentoring is worth is. Problem is, you never really know who is dedicated until you are far into the process.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim
I have a mentoring program that is by invitation only. If you’re interested, send an email to:

mentoring@stevewagenheim.com

And tell me why you think you’d be a good mentoring candidate. Prices start at $997 for one month.