So what's you attitude like? Are you open to information? I am not talking about school learning (I was really bad at that) but taking advice, applying it, and measuring results. It's also learning from those who have already made all mistakes for you. Trust me, anybody who has any success has got it wrong many times!

So what do you do when you are frustrated and things are not going where you want them to go? Look for someone who will help, someone who has been where you are. Now to do this can take a lot of time, so if you want best advice you are going to have to pay -that's just way it is.

Anybody who thinks they can have a successful business without spending any money is dreaming. I am not saying you need to spend a fortune, but you need to invest in your business, especially when it comes to getting visitors and right help.

A private members site is likely to get you information you need. This way you get access to someone who wants you to succeed, and you become a higher priority, because you are a customer. Also you have shown some commitment by paying where others won't take that step.

I have just become a member of Jim Daniel's make a living online site, now I get a response from a proven successful business online person.

Jim has been online for a long time and built up a large following and an email optin list over 150 thousand. He knows his stuff:

Check it out here:

http://www.make-a-living-online.com/

You won't be disappointed.

Lots of people are still in "job mode" ­ turn up and get paid. With any business, its more like, turn up, work, make some mistakes, learn, move forward, learn more, and improve what you are doing. There will be some struggle, which makes success so much better but pay you get in end can be overwhelming.

Expecting huge success quickly will frustrate you, instead, expect progress inch by inch.

And what of our business owner who wrote in? It's likely they are to be frustrated for a while longer and likely to become an "Internet knocker" saying that Internet business doesn't work, well for him, his is right until some changes are made. A for attitude? More like an F.

------------------------------------------ Paul Easton is a self confessed Internet Marketing Nut and Editor of "Power Promotion Plus" -An ezine dedicated to web site promotion tools that work with 3 free gifts for subscribing. Check it out here: http://www.CreateToolbar.com ------------------------------------------

Remember who your friends are - and why. Your core customer base is reason you're still in business. Take a moment and thank them for their continued patronage. Take particular note of reasons why your most loyal customers stand by you, through good times and bad. Ask them, if necessary. As economy shifts gears, you have an opportunity to discover very profitable facts about your market that can go unnoticed in both recessions and expansions. Learn those facts and refocus your communications appropriately.

Finally, get back to basics. Now's time to take a good look at your business, in light of long-term goals and your original reasons for being in business. Dust off your business plan, reload your mission statement, and evaluate your core communications in terms of fundamental principles that make up your company; use your marketing to not only bring in new business, but to also inspire your company to grow great into vision that gave birth to it in first place.

Your written communications are instrumental to bringing your company's vision into world; coming year is going to bring great opportunity to those businesses prepared to take advantage of it.

As economy shifts gears from recession to expansion, make sure your marketing does as well.