Making Money Online – Why Most Fail

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The first question you need to ask yourself: “Exactly why am I reading this article right now?” If you are anything like I was, then you must be very desperate for  money . You are looking for advice, answers, a recipe to success and all of these reasons need to give an instant result – right now!

I am going to start of with the truth. There is no such a thing as instant  money ! Unfortunately the internet industry works pretty much the same way as out there in the “real world”. Even though one can have huge opportunities to  make   money  on the internet at the fraction of the costs of starting your own shop, the fact is it will take some time, effort and commitment before you will reap your benefits. Your prospects or potential clients need to get to know you and you need to build trust in them before they will spend a penny on anything you have to offer. Unfortunately there are people in cyberspace that enjoy telling newbie’s differently. They advertise their products as “easy  money  makers” or “instant cash”.

When we as humans are all emotional and desperate, we fall for it, the marketer gets his pound of flesh and you, spent  money  believing in something that doesn’t exist. These lies are exactly what causes 95% of internet marketers to fail and give up. I have been there. I have fallen for the “easy” or “instant” words, I have been disappointed when it didn’t work out and simply gave up within two weeks of starting these programs. These words resulted in me jumping from one opportunity to the next, spend huge amounts of  money  I couldn’t afford to spend, hoping that the next opportunity will be the kicker and I’d be  making  instant bucks right away.

Eventually, after feeling very sorry for myself and believing that the whole internet exits out of nothing more than a load of rubbish and scams, I decided to give this “internet business thingy” one more chance. I spent weeks on research and reading on other people’s experiences and what worked for them. As it turned out, many people admitted absolute failure and cautioned in their blogs that internet marketing is a load of scams and don’t work. Then there were a lot of the “overnight”  money  makers and in amongst all the guff I finally found a couple of extremely useful articles, from successful marketers that  made  sense. Some felt freelance writing worked for them, where as others spent their time writing product reviews or filling out surveys for cash, and then of course, there were the affiliates.

The best advice I found in amongst all of these articles, was to start of by choosing a product that actually gives you work to do. For example: Becoming a Freelance writer. Once you have started with this and are well on your way, then only do you look in to affiliate marketing. Doing paid work, actually means you are providing a service for immediate pay. Unfortunately the pay can be rather low, but it’s extra  money  coming in and much better than nothing at all.

Affiliate marketing on the other hand, will take much longer before you will actually generate any form of returns. A lot of effort is going to have to be put in to marketing, writing reviews and articles on the products you are marketing on behalf of others. So by earning extra  money  on one hand from services you provide to others, you can take your time in setting up to become an affiliate marketer. You don’t feel the actual stress of not  making  any  money  at all. After about three to four months worth of commitment things should start changing for you and  money  will gradually be generated from all the marketing and effort that went in to your affiliate marketing business. I would like to caution you: Even though many affiliate programs out there offer superb commission, it will take a while longer before you actually make a decent income from your affiliate venture.

If you can understand and accept the truth about internet marketing, then there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn’t succeed. With the right attitude you can open a whole cyber world full of opportunities!

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Source by Michelle Van Rensburg

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