At first I said, yeah right, but offers just kept coming and coming and coming until finally I said...

"Honey, could you pass milk?"

Well, I wasn't thinking out loud at dinner table, I was keeping it to myself. What I was thinking, however, was this.

If all those idiots sending me offers are claiming they can make money on Internet, then there has to be at least a few people that actually have made money inspiring them, right?

So I looked, and there was!

Yes, upon looking I did actually find proof of real, live, people making money selling products and information over Internet.

Cool, I thought. If they can do it, then I can, too!

Upon realizing this, I then made STUPID mistake of following direction of inspired idiots instead of real marketers that were actually making money.

Why, you say?

Simple.

The inspired idiot's stuff was free and real marketer's stuff cost money. (That right there ought to have taught me something!)

So, with zest, zip, vim, and vigor, off I went raving about like a true inspired idiot!

And guess what?! All of other inspired idiot's promises came true!

I made a six figure income! ($0000.00 has six figures, you know)

I fired my boss! (and my paycheck!)

I was working from home! (heck, I did everything from home. I couldn't afford to leave house.)

I was my own boss! (my wife quit speaking to me)

I had a residual income! (what better word for change scraped out of depths of furniture than 'residual')

I was an Internet Marketer on inspired idiot's path to glory and nothing could stop my drive towards success! (until bank repossessed my pick-up that is)

Then, suddenly, with an even stronger thirst to succeed I said...

"Honey, could you pass milk...? Never mind, there isn't any. Honey? Honey? Darn, I could have sworn I was married."

When I started my first online business I?ve spent about 100$ in first 3 months and earned just 5$ (It was my only sale during period of 3 months!). And I really wasn?t lazy! I worked about 25 hours per week placing ads, participating in discussions, submitting to search engines and directories, studying various promotion tutorials and so on. Now I?m in online business for 2 years. I?ve tried a huge amount of different programs, and now my income varies from 2 000$ to 5 000$ depending on how many hours I work. In this article I?m going to give you some advise how to start your online business and don?t fail because of common mistakes.

First of all let?s figure out what online business really is. It?s selling. It doesn?t matter what to sell: some service, some product or an opportunity to earn money. Mostly what you need to do is to find customers. And it?s not so easy as it seems. Here I?ve got some tips how to be successful in finding potential customers: