The best thing you can do to make money online now is to get REAL about what it takes to make money online now.
Making money, whether online or offline, is indeed simple once you get the snowball up over the hill and the system cranking, it is also quite a steep incline when you are first learning.
Often folks come into the internet money making industry as a newbie or with some success in another profession and think they can run 10 miles before they have even run 1 mile (aka trying to skip over to advanced internet marketing strategies before learning, applying and mastering internet marketing 101)
I know this sucks to hear but, there are no shortcuts and you don’t get something for nothing.
It doesn’t help that there are thousands of offers, courses, business opportunities and “the next best strategy” popping up all over your computer screen daily like hot cakes to convince you to steer off your pre-planned focus and get tasks done path.
If you ask the most successful online business owners (and by successful I mean someone that is around for more than 90 days) what they did to make a lot of money on the internet they will all tell you this
1. I created marketing
2. I measured and tracked my marketing
3. I re-tweaked and improved my marketing
4. I did the first three steps over and over and over again
The easiest way to make money online now is to promote a product and system that is already in place so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
March 30th, 2010 at 8:40 am
Aloha Kd,
I love your bold point in saying “there are no shortcuts, and you don’t get something for nothing.” As humiliating as this may sound, I’ve tried that formula for five years and yup, you guessed it, it didn’t work!! Until I surrendered to work the true 90 day plan, everything was just smoke and mirrors. I love the point you make here…very insightful for anyone who is starting any new endeavor. You tell it like it is…a proven product and a system already in place is the best place to start!
Great post KD!
Love you much,
Shannon
April 8th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Oh man KD. Isn’t that just hitting the nail on the head. I have found that the steps that you just described are so important and they are truly important for creating success online. That is exactly what I had to do to create success. If I didn’t do that, I would have been dead in the water.