Money Secrets

So many folks start an Internet business with absolutely no idea of how to do it, how much it will cost, how much time it will take, what they’ll need… It’s no wonder that so many wannabe internet marketers fail.

Take it from one who knows; if you’re considering starting an internet business, it’s worth putting in a little background planning first. Don’t think it’s as simple as all the adverts make it out to be. Honestly, 99% of them are out to make money, not to help you start your own internet company.

What Type of Internet Business

To be honest, there are way too many internet business ideas to list. Just do a little research over on Google and find a model that suits you.

Internet Business Tools

No matter which business idea you decide to run with, there are certain tools you must have if you’re going to end up with a successful internet business.

Setting Up Your Internet Business

Once you have everything in place, you’re ready to put it all together and finally start your career as an internet marketer. Woohoo. This is where the work comes in and if you thought the whole point of an internet business was so you wouldn’t have to work, then think again.

Now you have to get down and dirty and get a website up and running, get the word out about it, start attracting vistors, get them to sign up to your list and follow up with them using your autoresponder. There’s a whole load of good training available on every aspect of setting it up and much of it is free.

Don’t be tempted to buy something you don’t need. Unfortunately, when you’re new, one of the biggest pitfalls to working online is the amount of hype and bullshit that you’re going to see everywhere you look. A good rule to abide by - “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is".

Don’t worry if you’re not a millionaire within the first week of setting up your new business. And don’t give up when the novelty begins to wear off and you’re still up at 3am trying to figure out why an image in your website isn’t showing up, or why nobody is visiting and buying your stuff, or wondering what the hell folks are talking about when they come out with words you’ve never heard of…

Pretty soon, you’ll turn into a ‘technogeek’ and things will get a whole lot easier. The beauty of it all is that you’re your own boss. You only have yourself to answer to. If you don’t want to work on your business today, you don’t have to. (of course, in the beginning if you dont’ put in the work every day it’ll take you a helluva lot longer to get into a profitable situation).

Working an internet business is meant to relieve you of the pressures of going to a regular job every day. It should be fun as well as earning you a living. If you aren’t enjoying it, you won’t stick with it until it’s profitable.

One last thing. If you start jumping from one thing to another you’ll never strike it rich. Like I said before, you’re going to see a lot of hype and all of it is designed to take your money. If you’ve got money to waste, that’s fine. But it will also take away your focus and no matter which latest money craze you jump on, there will always be another bigger, brighter, shinier one tomorrow.

You’d have thought that as folks got more savvy, the amount of hype and bullshit that surrounds the ‘make money online’ niche would have lessened somewhat. Yet it only seems to get worse and even more hypey, if that’s possible.

Admittedly, I’ve only been online for a few years so I have no idea how much bullshit was spouted before that time. But I honestly thought the majority of folks searcheing the internet for ways to make money had wised up and so naturally the marketing crowd would have to stand up and take notice by promoting less crap and more solid content.

But alas, it seems I was wrong. Instead, the outrageous claims just get worse. Hands up if you’ve seen the latest offering that will create a fully functioning, highly optimised, money raking website in less than 30 seconds? (Note, I’m not going to give you the address because there is no way I’m taking the risk of you getting suckered into buying it).

You have to hand it to these guys. The sales page is awesome, complete with videos, testimonials, proof… everything in there to guarantee high conversion rates. And a really low price for what it claims to provide.

But of course,the low price is just the starting point. As usual there’s the forced continuity, the upsell, the cross sell, etc. Before you know it, you’re shelling out more money for yet more hype and bullshit.

There are simple, quick, effective ways to make money online. But they all involve the one ingredient that nobody wants to admit to doing - WORK. I don’t give a flying pig’s ear what the guru’s tell you, they are working their business, same as you, me, and every other wannabe internet entrepreneur out there.

Guru’s might be able to pay someone to do the grunt work. But they still have to check that grunt work is being done and being done right.

If you buy into something because of the hype and bullshit, you are heading down a deep dark tunnel that is very hard to get back out of. If you let every online trickster and scam artist convince you that “this time” or “this product” will be different, you are on your way to bankruptcy my friend.

Of course, then you’ll be able to come up with your own hyped up, rags to riches, story that you can use to scam someone else out of their hard earned cash.

And hey, I’m not saying this latest product is a scam. It’s just not what it claims to be. And that’s the thing with hype, it blinds you to what’s real. So, all you have to do is come up with a single keyword? Great, what chance of you picking one that you can actually rank for?

One keyword and an instant website appears targeted around it? No - one keyword and a crappy, automated, full of scraped content, wesite appears.

Search engine friendly? Social media friendly? Bullshit!

No major search engine is going to bother with your site when they already have all the information available from the original sources. And nobody is going to bother sharing your stuff because it’s already been seen a thousand times before.

If you want to learn how NOT to make money, then keep on reading the hype and bullshit out there. On the other hand, if you’re sick of listening to the crap, then get ready to put in some work. Start with the basics and work your way up. It’s a lot quicker and easier than you might think.