There are many reasons that people get involved in internet marketing but the two most common that I hear of are:<\/p>\n
The biggest difference between these two routes into internet marketing are:<\/p>\n
The first is a conscious decision to start an online business in order to make money and gain the freedom of doing it from anywhere with an internet connection.<\/p>\n
The second is because a website started for fun became bigger than expected to the point where it needed to make money in order to cover the costs of running it.<\/p>\n
In my experience it\u2019s the second type of people who are, in broad strokes, the more successful.<\/p>\n
Why?<\/p>\n
Because they started out doing something for fun. They enjoy it.<\/p>\n
Without a doubt there are people out there who are motivated enough by money to be successful at something for no other reason.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019m not one of them. And in my experience there are far more people like me than not.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong. There are a lot of people who think<\/i> that money is enough motivation for them. But they never succeed to the level they want because\u2026 it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
The bottom line is that 90% of people need to enjoy what they\u2019re doing if they going to run their own business or become freelancers.<\/p>\n
Because it\u2019s hard work. And if you don\u2019t enjoy it then you end up wondering why you don\u2019t go back to the easy life of having someone pay you for your seven hours a day after which you can forget about everything and go home.<\/p>\n
However, that doesn\u2019t mean that you can\u2019t want to start an internet marketing business because of the money AND do something you enjoy.<\/p>\n
It just means that you need to start in a different place to what most \u201cgurus\u201d will tell you.<\/p>\n
An internet marketing \u201cguru\u201d will provide you with a strategy to make money. It doesn\u2019t matter whether it\u2019s getting traffic, writing sales copy, optimising conversion, social media or one of the hundreds of areas that can be used to market on the internet.<\/p>\n
They sell thousands of copies of their products and 99% of people who buy them don\u2019t succeed because\u2026<\/p>\n
…they don\u2019t take action.<\/p>\n
You hear it time and again. I bought this product but I haven\u2019t used it yet.<\/p>\n
Hell, I\u2019ve done it and you\u2019ve probably done it to.<\/p>\n
The question you should be asking yourself is why haven\u2019t you done it?<\/p>\n
Is it because you haven\u2019t had time, or the course was so long you got bored?<\/p>\n
I would guess that the majority of the time it\u2019s a combination of both.<\/p>\n
So, you want to make money online. You may already be making a few hundred dollars a month and unable to make more, or you may be struggling to make your first dime.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t matter. You have the skill and ability to be successful<\/b>. You\u2019re just not focusing on the right thing\u2026.<\/p>\n
Having fun.<\/p>\n
And today is when that changes.<\/p>\n
Start by re-assessing the niche that you\u2019re in and ask yourself two questions:<\/p>\n
The answer to both of these should be yes. If they\u2019re not, then you\u2019re in the wrong niche.<\/p>\n
And when I say \u201cknow a lot about\u201d, I mean that you need to know more than the average person out there.<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t need to be an expert or a guru. You just need to know more than most.<\/p>\n
The reason that you MUST say yes to both of these questions is because you\u2019re going to be spending a lot of time working in this niche. So you\u2019d better enjoy it. And you\u2019re going to need to know what the biggest obstacles are. So you need to have been there and got through them to really know.<\/p>\n
Ultimately if you\u2019ve been through the obstacles then you\u2019ll know:<\/p>\n
If you enjoy the niche then:<\/p>\n
And if you do both of those things, then you\u2019ll have a successful business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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