But anyway I am still plugging along. I find it almost impossible to recruit. Everyone says go to your friends. Well my friends all think that I am a nut. I am about to believe them.

Mal Answers:

This is one of the most common dilemmas faced by newcomers online and one that I myself had a big problem with.

When I first came online in 1998 I spent $1000s on info products and online tools, not really knowing what I was doing. I also joined close to 100 different affiliate programs.

The first thing you MUST do when deciding to enter into a home based business is research the company you are about to put your time and effort into. After all, like any business, you WILL be spending money, if you are really serious about making a go of it online. You don’t want to invest in something that may not be there two or three months down the line.

It is a fact that the vast majority of businesses fail within the first 3 years of starting. So it makes sense to join an online business that has been going for at least 3 years. You can check out the history of a site at the Wayback Archive. This will show you a sites’ history and from that you can gather how long the business has been running.

You will also find that many of the successful Internet marketers are promoting many of the same programs. Visit the online forums to find out what they are. A good place to start is the Warrior forum.

Also, if there is a scam artist at work you can be sure to read about it at the numerous discussion forums.

This does not mean that all companies starting off are NO GO areas. If the person starting the business or selling a product has a proven track record online then it may be worth the risk to get involved. This is just a general guide. I still get burnt occasionally no matter how much care I have taken.

Another big problem with getting started online is focusing your attention in too many directions. This is a sure way to make little to no money online. Whatever Internet marketing resources you DO have, should be focused in one direction.

For instance, if you decide to make money from Google AdSense then spend your days setting up websites to make money in this area. No point making a decision to try out an online money making strategy and then go in a totally different direction the next day or the next week.

To make it online you must be focused and persistent. It can take a few months of focused work to bring good profits from any strategy. Most people give up before they get anywhere near succeeding.

Once you are making a profit from one strategy then move on to another. As your resources and contacts grow, you will find it takes less time and effort to get into a profitable position with each venture.

If there is a big group of people making money in a certain area then YOU can do it too. Find out EXACTLY what they are doing and stick at it!

I have NEVER approached friends or family members in order to build my business, nor would I want to, especially when starting out. How embarrassing! You want people to put their faith and money in a project that you cannot even work yourself yet?

The whole point of working online is that I don’t have to convince my friends and family to invest in my business or recommended products/services. I don’t need to tell you how big the net is and how many people are online.

There are loads of resources on this site to help you find those people and send them back to your websites.

Unless you have a very large family , I suggest you focus on the people online, not offline.

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You won’t earn money online by sitting on your backside, in spite of what you may have read on some websites.

You won’t make it standing up either, if you don’t apply certain principals. I think you get the gist of the title though.

IF you don’t have some money to invest then the above is even more true.

Without the cash to buy automated tools to make your promotional chores a little easier, you are going to have to put in a lot more work, than those who pay for internet software and marketing services.

Take article marketing for example – I pay a monthly fee for subscriptions to two of the most popular online article submission sites. It literally takes me around 5 minutes to copy and paste my article into the online submission form and click send.

Every site the submission services submit to can be done by hand, EVERY one. So shouldn’t I save myself a little cash per month and do them myself? No way, that would be plain stupid. To achieve the same results I get by paying for a service, I would spend days, not hours, submitting to different article databases.

This is true right across the internet marketing arena whether it is article submissions, search engine optimization or building niche websites.

Many people have an unrealistic view about making money online. They are either taken in by the hype or they are living in cloud cuckoo land.

Wake up! Business is business whether it is offline or online. You wouldn’t even contemplate going into business for yourself offline unless you had a few thousand dollars to get started.

You can get a web business up and running at a tiny fraction of the cost that you would pay the ‘real world’. Still, once your website is live, it won’t earn you a cent unless it gets some visitors. You must work to get your site seen if you are ever going to succeed online.

Another point, paying for services will lessen your workload but once the work is done you still have to make an effort.

Think about it – Who in their right mind would take your money to do ALL the work for you? If there is any chance at all that the work they do will bring in the bucks immediately then of course they will do it for themselves. Why would anyone take a one off payment if, they can do the work, and get paid forever?

What you don’t pay out of your pocket you will pay in time, IF you are going the free route. Any money made at the beginning should be invested in internet marketing resources or paying for the services that are going to leave your hands free to continue to build your business.

The good news is that every minute I have spent building my web business has been worth it. I can now take days off and generally take things easy but it is ONLY because of the work I have contributed in the past – since I began delving into online business back in 1999.

Some internet marketers could retire now and they would continue to make money from their sites for the rest of their lives, provided they paid their web hosting bills. I haven’t reached those heights yet but I know it is possible because of what I have achieved up ’til now.

Do you believe you can put in the work and time to achieve what many have achieved?

If you are truly committed to working towards your goals, making a positive contribution to the building of your internet business everyday then I have no doubt you will reach the heights in internet marketing.

If you believe that there are riches to be made without time and effort, then don’t give up your dayjob.

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