4. Work to eliminate negative thinking. When a negative thought comes into your mind, take a moment to think about what is beneath it. Then, tell yourself that thinking this way is not good for you. Make a decision to drop thought and try to think of something (anything) that is positive. It can be as simple as focusing on what a beautiful day it is outside, to feeling grateful that you survived current wave of lay-offs in your company. Use this technique for situations as well. Ask yourself how you can view situation differently. Try to find one positive angle or outcome that could result from an otherwise bad situation. For example, you are being laid off from your job. You have been unhappy for a long time, but could not motivate yourself to do anything about it. Now, you have motivation to look for a new job, or perhaps change careers. Think of all possibilities that could open up for you.

Negative thinking is a downward spiral that leads to negative behavior and possibly depression. Consciously choose to challenge these thoughts, and empower yourself with a more positive outlook and approach to life.

Hopefully these tips will assist you in having a better "solo" Valentine's Day than you might have been headed for. Enjoy day by doing something fun. Then focus on your relationship plan and empower yourself to build healthy, lasting relationship of your dreams.

Toni Coleman, LCSW Helping Singles Find Lasting Love www.consum-mate.com

Even purely informational sites, like search engines, are popular because they save people time. While these sites don't sell a product directly, their income comes from many ads they sell on their site.

No matter what product or service you choose to sell online, be sure to write information that goes on your website in such a way that people will see how they save time, save money or make money.

3. Automation. Automation is simply a fancy way of saying "Let computer do work for you". A great example of automation is an autoresponder. An autoresponder is a program you use to send same response to everyone who asks for a certain type of information. Instead of typing email yourself, program responds for you.

You can use automation to process payments for your products, send our your sales letter, do your advertising, ask for referrals from happy customers and much more.

4. Advertising. At its core Internet is one giant marketplace. The vast majority of people who sign on do so in order to buy something. This means you will need to advertise in order to succeed.

While you don't need a college degree in advertising, you will need to acquaint yourself with basics of advertising. It will be important to know about classified ads, banners, direct email, ezines, sales letters and more.

Success on Internet is not rocket science. It just takes some basic knowledge and a burning desire to succeed. If you offer a great product or service, learn to advertise it well, automate tasks you can in order to save time and don't give up success will soon be yours.

Jim Kelley has been marketing online for over eight years. He leads a research group that tests new ideas and reports on those that actually work. If you want to save time, save money and learn what really works when it comes to making money online, visit Jim at http://www.seldomrest.com