Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The Internet Marketing Revolving Door

People try to make money online, but most fail to make a living online. They fail for a lot of different reasons. A lot of times it's just their own fault. They didn't take action, they couldn't cut out the distractions, they couldn't resist the temptations that the home life provides and focus on work.

I don't want to sound like I'm all high and mighty because I'm making a full-time living online because I used to do all of those things when I started out. I felt like an idiot and a failure. I wasn't either of those, but I felt like I was.

How bad do you want it?

I always ask people that because, if you want it bad enough you can do it. It's just like anything else in life. There was an ebook that was put out a few years ago it was over 200 pages long. The subject was 20 different ways to make $100 a day online, or something along those lines.

Twenty people each wrote a chapter about a strategy to make $100 a day. $100 a day is pretty good money. That's about $3,000 a month before taxes and about $36,000 a year before taxes. That's above the national average. You could, of course make more than $100 a day from each strategy or use multiple strategies if you applied them.

I mentioned this because that is 20 strategies to make a full-time living online. There are a bunch more that weren't in that e-book. The point of this is that the information to use to make a full-time living is out there and there are a TON of people making a full-time living online.

So, you can do it. You just have to want it bad enough and work hard enough to build your online business. Want it bad enough to cut out the distractions, focus and finish.

When I started out online, I wanted to make a full-time living online, but I didn't want it BAD ENOUGH! I didn't put in the hours, I let the distractions get to me. I would sit on the couch and watch TV when I should have been working. I found lots of other things to do besides work.

I was always telling myself, well I'll do this or that and figure out this making money online thing tomorrow, I would keep saying that. Well, those tomorrows kept adding up and the bills also kept piling up. I finally wanted it enough to make it! You can too!