Wednesday, 13 May 2009

Is There A Short-Cut To Making Money On Internet?

One of the most common questions found on Internet forums is "What is a short-cut to making money on Internet?"

To answer we need the definition of “short-cut” and how much money.

If your view of short cut is “by next week”, then no, there is no short cut, no matter how much you want to earn.

Making money on the Internet requires dedication to learn, on-line knowledge, hard work, patience and a daily commitment, especially in the early weeks.

And if your knowledge of the Internet and Blogging is limited, then you have a very steep learning curve ahead of you. It could take you months of research.

I hope I am not putting you off because I don’t want to. I just want to be realistic. I want you to know there is no short cut to making money on Internet.

You may have heard or seen stories about people making their millions, driving around in their flashy cars and relaxing in their big houses. Well, that's true for a very small group of individuals.

But they have worked hard for a long time to get to that position and now they can outsource a lot of the administration activities and solely work on product creation.

Going back a few years, I thought there was a short cut.

I thought I'll quickly build a website, create a product, do a little bit of promotion and retire on the millions of dollars I receive as a result. I saw myself owning numerous properties and simply relaxing in the sun, everyday. How wrong could I be?

I'm fairly technical and thought it wouldn't take me long to build a website. It did. It took me a month. I just didn't know what I was doing. I was spending hour upon hour searching on the Internet, jumping from technical forum to technical forum looking for advice.

It didn’t take me long to create my first product but I made a huge mistake. I created a product that no one wanted! I thought there would be a huge demand but there wasn't.

I wasted hours and hours of my time and a lot of money!

Here I was spending my money rather than making it!

I sold 4 copies of that first product making me $120. I must have invested $1,000.

I eventually, through embarrassment, withdrew the product from the Internet.

But I was determined to succeed and I learned a couple of lessons with my early failings.

Your website has to include some unique free content for your visitor. Customers want to see what you have to say, what advice you are giving before they will actually buy any products from you.

I do suggest you create your own products but don't make the mistake I made and think your product will sell. Spend some time researching first to see if a similar product actually sells via the Internet. There are many products / niches that just don't sell via the web.

One idea I would recommend is find and follow one person who has been successful and has a good reputation for making money on Internet.

Why do I say one person?

If keep getting advice from different “expert” is can be very confusing as the advice you’ll receive will be different and confusing.

Where if you stick with one person, one mentor with a track record of success, it will be much less confusing.

I've had many Internet mentors and followed many Internet gurus.

Some good, some bad, some very good.

Who would I recommend?

Yaro Starak.

He is a great character, very willing to help and is good at getting his advice across. Yaro has a huge following and the majority of them sing his praises, as I do, and some have been very, very successful.

Click here and check out Yaro for yourself.


By following one successful Internet blogger you can reduce the amount of time it will take you to be making money on Internet.

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