If you want to be a successful Freelancer you should expect to:

• Put on weight
• Work till late on a Friday night whilst your mates are down the pub
• Exist in poverty for many months whilst you get your reputation built
• Suffer from Carpel Tunnel Syndrome at least twice a year
• Lose about 30% of your off-line friends
• Be ripped off by at least two clients
• Lose that tan
• Waste your time with a lot of losers and wannabes who think that
  because it says they are an expert on their Twitter bio it makes it
  so.
• Never read a novel again
• When you go to sleep dream about google results page and scoring bigg on digg
• Think of time in a global 24 hour zone and something that is normal
• Spend hours and hours learning stuff that you later find out is now obsolete
• Learn that the so called seo/marketing/personal coach/blogging guru
  actually leaves in a trailer park in the bad side of town and is
  selling ebooks to pay off the debts he owes his crack dealing Mother
• Wonder why no one cares that you joined Twitter in it’s first month
  and that no one wants to hear that it’s not as good as it used to be

OK, now I have covered the good stuff, maybe we can do the bad in the next post

Mike Filsaime laid out the reasons for his success

• Established brand
• Good buzz created
• Great work with affiliates
• Excellent product
• Kick-Butt Sales letter

I have to say I am shocked at the power of this. It’s chain marketing every link in that chain must be connected to the next, it must be as stong as the other links and it must all pull together.

But does this mean that everyone will know how to make millions online? I doubt it. I am still reading through my Butterfly Marketing Manual as I just havn’t had the time, let alone write the review. I am sure my review will come out as soon as the last person on the planet has bought it

The real point of the review is to coral the main points and analyse them. It’s one thing buying a marketing information product, it’s another thing sitting down to read and study it.

The content of Butterfly Marketing Manual is really good stuff, but it’s not for every marketer, sure everyone can pick up something that can help them in their marketing efforts. But not everyone will have the discipline to put such a system into place.

 You need discipline to be succesful online.

There are so many things to distract you from reading something like a marketing manual that it can become impossible. I wrote about the problems with Multitasking on my personal success blog.

Don’t just think about whether or not you have the money for an informational marketing product, think about if you have the time as well. Time is far more expensive than money.