It Involves The In-ter-net... By Dan Reinhold

There's a song by a group called Bare Naked Ladies ( yes, I'm serious!) entitled "Never Do Anything". One line states, "I could make a mint, fill my pockets with more than lint, I'll give you a hint - it involves Internet".

Never do anything. Involves Internet.

Sound familiar?

When you're first exposed to Internet, it's mindblowing and full of promises. Heck - if you're not "making money online" within five minutes of signing on, you must be some kind of vegetable. It's a big candy store, and everything looks sooooo good. If one program sounds really great, then a few dozen will make it happen even faster...right??

You're gonna do great big things, until...you don't. And you quit, with all those "Told ya sos" ringing in your ears.

What you don't know about Internet when you first see it is that things of real value have nothing to do with endless stream of dazzling get-rich schemes and scams and financially fruitful flims and flams.

You have been slaving away at your computer designing a web site, picking right affiliate programs, network marketing programs, submitting to search engines, directories, safe lists, FFA's or even buying some targeted advertising with ezines or email lists.

Now your ready to quit! You have more traffic to your site or your affiliate/mlm replicated sites but little or no money coming in. However, lots of expenses.

And all 'experts' said it could be done this way. What's wrong?

What didn't you do that might put you over top? At least, make more income than expenses, and forgetting about all your time.

This is what 1,000's of wanna-be net marketers are feeling, frustration, anger and discouragement.

So what do you do?

My advice is to copy 'experts' that are making a substantial living online. What Ken Evoy, Terry Dean, Jimmy D. Brown, Marlon Sandors, Declan Dunn, and many others do to create wealth online. Read their stuff. Determine where your focus should be. What market niche is in need of a product/service. Develop that product/service yourself or go in a joint venture with someone that already has developed it. A great search tool to use is Copernic. You can download a free copy at http//www.copernic.com It searches all search engines at once and gives you top results.

However, most important advice is not mine, but Tom Hopkins, a top sales trainer. He states, it isn't about your sales ability, marketing skills or ad copywriting, it's about lasting! Perseverance is name of game in Internet Marketing but if you are heading up wrong road or pursuing same customer as 1,000's or 100,000's you are going to go down in flames.

After re-thinking your market plan or focus, it's time to find targeted prospects this niche market.

The first are Search Engines. They are essentially free, even though it costs more and more to get a listing. (Yahoo! charges $199 just to get your site looked at). But major ones, Hotbot, Google, AltaVista, don't charge for you to add your URL. But only way you are going to get any traffic from them is to be listed in top 30 for any keyword or keyword phrase. You are competing with thousands, if not millions of competing web sites for that keyword, so unless you plan to spend most of your time searching for this elusive grail... find a niche keyword or phrase that has little competition. I have seen my web pages steadily climb in Search Engines using Michael Campbell's "Nothing But Net". He tells you how he made $750,000 in first year selling cell phone accessories, and spent $0 on ads! http://nothing.alturl.com