Apr 07 2009
Make Money Online?
You’ve probably heard that it is possible to make money on the internet.
The chances are you’ve bought stuff yourself – books from Amazon, shopping delivered from your not-so-local supermarket, maybe presents for friends and family. Yes, you know people have businesses that sell things over the internet!
You might also know that even in the middle of a recession, internet sales are buoyant. People are looking for more for their money and are shopping online.
The question is: How do you get a piece of the action?
Can you use the internet to make money rather than just spend it?
Actually, it’s really very simple to make money on the internet. Assuming that your house has it’s fair share of books, bought, read and weighing down the bookshelves gathering dust, assuming that you have a selection of unwanted presents that you’d be happy to never see again, yes, you could make money by selling your own unwanted items.
But that’s not a sustainable solution is it? It’s one way to make some money, but selling your second-hand gear is not a business.
There’s been some discussion on the Money Gym email discussion group about this recently. Personally I believe you can create an Internet Business System that makes a regular, profitable income.
Would you like to know how?
You can create a business that generates regular income, that provides stability and security… and you don’t even need to have a product to sell.
The internet has changed the way we think about business.
Yes, we are all buying more things online, from plant pots to baby-grows – but the biggest thing being bought and sold online is… Information!
Information products come in many shapes and sizes, from free reports to $7 ebooks to secret “how to” seminars costing $4,997 or more.
If you’ve had anything to do with “Internet Marketing” you’ll have seen some of these products. If you’ve been trying to learn how to make money on the internet yourself, I wouldn’t mind betting that you’ve already spent hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars on different products.
I can’t confidently predict that you will have made any money online!
The big problem with Internet Marketing is that, as an uneducated beginner, it seems much easier to spend money than to make money!
I’m going to say this upfront and possibly repeat myself many times.
It is very easy to spend lots of money on learning to make money on the internet and not make a single dollar – if you don’t do it right…
Now this isn’t going to be another hard sell either.
I’m not selling you my brand new, patented, 100% guaranteed magic wand to make money – magic wands don’t exist!
When I first started dabbling in internet marketing I read the hyped-up emails and sales pages, I spent my $19, $47 then $97 on the bigger and better package that would guarantee to make me money – and these packages sat on my computer hard drive as I hardly knew what to do with them.
Now don’t get me wrong – I’m not blaming the seller and I’m not saying for one minute that the products didn’t work.
The honest truth is that I hardly gave them a chance, didn’t know how.
And then the next guru offered me a different product, a new way, a proven system – and I bought another product that I never used to make a dime.
Unconsciously I was expecting a magic wand or a genie from a bottle to do the work for me – and they never appeared.
Passive income, that elusive promise of the internet world, isn’t un-earned income. It is more accurately, recurring passive income. This means you do the work once and then reap the benefits again and again.
Are you willing to do the work, even once? I bet you are!!!
To succeed in Internet Marketing you really need to pick something and really use it.
Focus on just one thing until it is profitable.
Now that is the best bit of advice I can offer you – FOCUS!
And if you come back in a few days I’l begin to fill in some of the gaps showing you how to create an internet business.
