Yesterday I watched a little kid trying to walk..he stood up wobbled for a bit then fell down. He then stood up again wobbled for a bit longer then fell down again. This happened 4 or 5 times each time he got up and tried again. About an hour later he could manage a couple of faltering steps before he fell down.

Looking at that kid I realised that we are naturally programmed not to give up and to keep on trying until we master the problem facing us. Why then do so many people give up Internet marketing after a few weeks?? I actually asked someone who once asked for a refund why they were giving up after only 4 days. They said “Internet marketing is too difficult, I want an easy way to make money”.

What can be easier than looking at whats working for other people, pressing a few buttons to create a site and then spending a few hours in front of the computer driving traffic to the site you’ve built. Once you master it, it is possible to spend 4 or 5 hours working on a site and have that site earn you hundreds of dollars every month.

Internet marketing might be a lot of things but it’s not hard.

I lost count at the number of times I built sites that failed when I fist started. I would built a site then sit back and watch as it made about 5cents a day.. So i’d look at what I did wrong, once I’d found the problem I’d make sure that I didn’t make the same mistake again. Soon I was like that little kid,  instead of being able to walk two steps I could create sites that would make 50 cents a day.  After that it was just a matter of time until I worked out how to make sites that made me $10 a day.

If I’d listened to the part of me saying  ”give up it’s too hard”, I would still be struggling to make an income I could live on and I would probably be working for someone else doing a job I hated. Instead I have a great lifestyle I work on my terms and I am doing something I love.

Start to look at Internet marketing in a realistic way and be prepared to fail, and you will succeed it may take time but you will be a success.  Failure is a powerful tool, embrace it and learn from it.

Of course if you want to learn from my previous failures and reduce the time it takes to be successful then be sure to check out Wordpress Goldmine. Next month I am going to be reviewing peoples sites and suggesting improvements.

This is the question that I probably get asked more than any other. Usually within 15 minutes of meeting someone and them finding out what I do they ask “Can I really make Money Online?”

My Answer is always very simple…”Do you believe that you can make money online” If they answer yes then I am happy to give them more information , If they say No then I change the subject.

So Let me ask you now… Do You Believe You can make money online???

If you answered no, then you really should consider if internet marketing is for you you probably won’t be prepared to put in the effort required to make money online.

If you answered yes then read on and i’ll give you some Ideas about how to make some money within 48 hours.

The quickest way to make money online quickly is to perform a service for someone else. You can find jobs on sites like elance or get a freelancer. You can also go to Amazons Mechanical Turk this is particularly good as you can withdraw cash when you’ve made $10. When I first started I supplemented my income from my sites by building sites and writing articles for people.

If you want to take this to the next level then you can subcontract the work out and just ensure that the quality is good and that the work is delivered on time. This way you can take on a lot more work than normal.

Another way to make money online is to purchase rights to a product and then sell it. Lets suppose that you buy rights to a product called “Make Quick Money Online” conventional wisdom would suggest that you set up a website and then promote it…forget it we want money now..so how can we do it.

Why not create adverts and place them in your local supermarket or print out leaflets and place them on cars. If you were desperate you could even print out a copy of the book place it in a nice folder and sell it door to door like people used to do with the Enclyclopedia Britannica. (ok it’s not strictly online but we want money now!) Also place free ads wherever you can usfreeads, craigslist etc.

Far from being difficult, making money online can be the easiest thing in the world you just need to believe you can do it and more importantly you need to take action.

Do you want to change you life?  Do You want to Work where you want when you want? Do you want to become a full time Internet Entrepreneur?

If You answered yes to one of those questions then isn’t it’s time you did something about it?

It’s June 1st today so why not dedicate the next month to laying the foundation of a long term business.

I am not suggesting that at the end of the month that you’ll be able to retire but I am saying that you’ll have a usable system in place that you can build on. Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither is an Internet marketing career. I’ve been doing IM for over 4 years now it’s only in the past 9 months that I’ve finally got myself organised so that I can work a few hours a week if I wish and still maintain my income.

If you are willing to sacrifice 30 hours this month and $30 then you can succeed.

The first stop you should make is ezinearticles.com. Ezinearticles is a great place to research business models.  There are loads of categories here find one that appeals to you. Once you click on a sub-niche you’ll see a link to the top Authors in each niche. Follow this link and you’ll get a list of the Top Authors in that niche. Now all you need to do is to click on some of their articles and look at where their resource links go.

This way you’ll get to see the business model they are using, and believe me if they have bothered to write lots of articles it is working. Follow the process to the end and see all the tricks and tactics they use

It’s now down to you to replicate the business model.

Even creating your own product can cost less than $30.  The graphics on my Twitter Tips and Tricks Site cost me  $17, the domain cost me $9. I wrote the book in less than a day. Although I am giving away the product at the moment I could start to charge for it or even sell it as a complete business package via a site like sitepoint or digitalpoint.  Check out the graphics at www.twittertipsandtricks.com

Go On do it now!!  Build For Your Future

If you were to believe all the hype you would think that it was easy to make $100,000 a year online. It’s not!… it takes work. You should try to think of the fist few months that you are working online as an apprenticeship. Use that time to gather knowledge and don’t worry too much about How much income you will earn.

Following on from that it is best to start building your online business before you need the extra money or before you find yourself dependant on your online income. However if you need quick cash there are several things you can do and In this post I will look at two of them.

Traditionally Internet marketers build sites or products that will earn money over a long period of time. I have sites that have been earning money over the past 4 years each month I add to my sites and build my income even more. It’s like filling a bucket with a dripping tap every month you add a few extra drips and soon the bucket is filling quickly. That doesn’t help if you need a bucket full of cash now.

The first method is to offer a service. I spent 6 months building sites for people when I first started internet marketing.I Used to build autogenerated sites and host them on my server I could complete these in a few minutes with the tools I had. It was quite easy to make $50 to $100 a day doing this. It kept me going until my own sites took off. If you don’t think that this will be a profitable venture let me tell you that I regularly spend over $500 a month on external services and I am not alone. I know several marketers that spend two or three times that.

There are loads of services you could perform you just need to price your services at the right level. Too much and you won’t get enough business too little and  you’ll get overwhelmed with work and won’t be able to keep up. Some services you could consider are content creation, Forum posting, link building, graphic creation etc.

In addition to providing services you could create sites and sell them, Pre built sites can be sold for over $100. If you can build and sell 3 or 4 a week you will have a nice income that you can rely on.

There are two places that you can sell your services, Sitepoint.com and the Digitalpoint forum. It may be also worthwhile offering your services at the warrior forum. I recently found a great graphics designer there. 

For earning quick cash there is no better way that to offer services or sell sites..try it you’ll be glad you did.

Hi, my name is Mark and I am an idiot….

There I said it.  It’s true, last week I had an epiphony, a proper road to damascus moment..Actually in reality it was the road to the Kudu Bar but why let the facts ruin a good story.

I was walking up the hill to the bar thinking about some of my sites and admiring the views across to the Mountains in north Africa when I realised that I have been throwing away thousands of dollars.  Normally I build sites then pretty much leave them alone, I’ll do the odd bit of promotion once in a while but generally after the first month I’ll ignore them and leave them to their own devices.

This works well for me as they’ll continue to make sales or get clicks. There are some that do really well and will make sales almost every day or at least 3 a week and some that can make me $100 a day on a regular basis. So on the face of it everything is good the ones that only make 1 or 2 sales a month still earn me $300 -$600 a year which isn’t to be sniffed at.

My epiphony came to me when i realised that the sites that make me the most sales are obviously in very active markets and that I should be spending my time writing more articles about the topic and not leaving them alone.  Instead of patting myself on the back and saying “well done mark thats another $50 a day niche you have” I should be saying “right thats a good market to be in lets exploit it until i can’t squeeze another sale out of it.”

If a site isn’t making what it should make then sell it on. Take your good niches and try to get every cent you can out of them.  Be ruthless with your sites try to find the winners and promote the hell out of them, sell the poorly performing ones. Imagine being able to have only 10 sites that made 2 sales a day each of $30 commission clickbank items.  Or 20 adsense sites that made $20 a day each.

I am going to use this new thought process for the new step by step site i am going to create between the 14th and 28th of february. In the forum I’ll be documenting every step I take to build a site each day i’ll post a video and make a diary entry .  You’ll be watching over my shoulder as i build a new site from scratch. If you would like to see this sign up now. you’ll see a Wordpress Goldmine advert in the sidebar.