How to finally succeed in making money online
by Tony Hetherington on July 15, 2008
in Affiliate Marketing
Forget the hype and the next greatest offer there is one and only one way to make money online and that is to follow a plan from start to finish. This takes dedication and commitment to not only take action but continuous action.
We all know what can happen if we don’t make a plan, we dither, delay and fail. As the mantra goes – people don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan” – and yet we seem to be destined to fail and give up, time after time. So what goes wrong?
We get distracted – We’re far too easily distracted. It’s hard to admit but it’s true. We buy a new ebook or course and think that this is our path to riches. Then a few days later our mailbox gets swamped with the next great offer and we succumb to it. The former path to glory now lies in ruins and will gather cyber dust with the others that we’ve bought and forgotten. Gurus and their affiliates are quite within their rights to offer you the next big thing – and they’d rather you’d buy that then focus. Look for someone committed to your future not your wallet.
We catch the learning bug – This is when the insatiable hunger for more training and the latest product takes over as you buy and devour them at an alarming rate. The problem is that most online guru training sells you hope not results! This means that they are quickly forgotten as we move on to our next digital fix.
It’s too easy to quit – When the going gets tough the tough give up according to those trying to make a living online. I think it’s a psychological problem that we don’t actually beleive that online success is possible and therefore take the slightest failure such as the lack of traffic after a single article as proof of this negative thought. If we were given not only a blueprint but also step-by-step instructions backed up by support that we could beleive in then our chances of success would be greatly improved.
We don’t take action – There are those who plan and pontificate and never ever take action. Taking action is the single attribute that differentiates those that succeed from those that fail. If you aren’t prepared to invest the time and effort then you can’t succeed. They are destined to fall for scam after scam such as those wonderful lotteries that produce winners even though you haven’t entered them!
It isn’t your fault because everything you’ve been told about making money online is wrong! Stop being conned and scammed and take control of your own destiny.
The path to succeed is surprisingly simple.
1. Choose a path or a product – I’m going to recommend a method below but if that doesn’t appeal then find something that does.
2. Read everything twice. Read through all the information at least twice and make note of everything single step that you will need to complete. The detail will allow you to complete it.
3. Create a detailed plan of what you need to do. The keyword is detailed – break this down further into a task list.
4. There are many different approaches you can now take. Either start at the top of the list, start with some easy tasks or tackle them in a mixture of the other two. The important thing is that you keep going and get those tasks crossed off.
5. Do a task whenever you have time. This approach will make you very efficient.
6. Just keep going and then have a big push to finish the list.
7. Enjoy the landmarks such as the first sign up to an autoresponder and that first sale.

