Why are so many, making so little?

Written by jim Peters


Wherever you look on-line, you'll find thousands promoting online businesses, but ask them,and if their honest enough to tellrepparttar truth, you will find that more than 99% of them have yet to make a penny! I would like to take some of your valuable time and try to save you, even more of it. The subject! Why are so many, making so little?

One ofrepparttar 108916 main reasons, is that there are just so many Affiliate programs, Associate programs, MLM's, and Dealer ship programs, being touted everywhere you look, it is next to impossible to find a program that can actually produce what it's promoters say it will.

There seems to be little protection in place from dishonest promoters and con men. That is not to say all ofrepparttar 108917 programs available are dishonest. There are hundreds if not thousands of very viable programs available. The problem that we face is sortingrepparttar 108918 wheat fromrepparttar 108919 chaff.

The tendency seems to be, even withrepparttar 108920 legitimate programs, to stretchrepparttar 108921 truth inrepparttar 108922 effort to get you to sign-up in their program.

The proof is inrepparttar 108923 pudding. What isrepparttar 108924 first thing that happens when you join one of these programs? They send you to a site filled with promotional tools. There you find letters to send out and ads to post tellingrepparttar 108925 recipients how greatrepparttar 108926 program is and how much money your making. When in reality you haven't made a cent.

What induced you to join that program inrepparttar 108927 first place. You read one ofrepparttar 108928 same e-mail's you just finished sending or one of those ads you just posted to 10,000 FFA sites. Telling you how easy it is to get in and begin making money. How much money is being made and how it'srepparttar 108929 only program making real money onrepparttar 108930 internet.

While in reality that e-mail or classified was from someone just like you that readrepparttar 108931 same ad or e-mail. None of whom has actually made a dime withrepparttar 108932 program.

You'll hear phrases like, "the best system for building profit" "automatic business building system" or "Make thousands fromrepparttar 108933 comfort of your living room"

The above scenario is being repeated over and over ever minute onrepparttar 108934 Internet.

OK!!! Am I saying there is no money to be made onrepparttar 108935 internet?

Absolutely not!!

I'm saying that if your intent is to build an Internet business you will need to go about itrepparttar 108936 same way you would any other enterprise.

The only real difference is location, dress, and accessibility to millions of customers. What is he saying?, your asking yourself. Everything we have been told tells us that having an on-line business is an effortless mindless way to become rich over-night.

In reality if you look past allrepparttar 108937 hype and grandiose projections, operating an Internet business takes just as much time and effort as any off-line business. That is, if you want it to be successful.

So what's allrepparttar 108938 commotion about? That's whererepparttar 108939 location, dress, and accessibility to millions of customers comes into play.

Operating an Internet business allows yourepparttar 108940 comfort and convenience of doing business from whatever location you choose, and in whatever mode of dress you choose. The crowning jewel though, is that it gives you unlimited access to a customer base of hundreds of millions all overrepparttar 108941 world. Tell me any off-line business that can claimrepparttar 108942 same.

OK, OK, So tell us who's makingrepparttar 108943 money and how they're doing it!

There are those out sitting by their pool or on a beach inrepparttar 108944 Bahama's with their lap top, running very successful on-line businesses.

How are they doing it, and what do they know that we don't? It's no big secret,repparttar 108945 tools for success online have been around much longer thanrepparttar 108946 Internet itself.

The first thing they did was to put on blinders when it comes to allrepparttar 108947 hype! They are smart enough to realize that it will take just as much effort and time to build an online business as it does an off-line business.

Stepping Stones

Written by Bob Osgoodby


Many people, when they try to go into business, have at best a loosely defined set of goals. A goal isrepparttar purpose towards which any endeavor is directed or in other words, an objective. Whilerepparttar 108915 ultimate goal is to make an income, that by itself is not a realistic goal on which to base a business.

A simple analogy might be a stream with stepping stones. Whilerepparttar 108916 ultimate goal here is to reachrepparttar 108917 other side without getting wet, each stepping stone represents an intermediate goal that must be reached. If you miss one, you won't be dry when you reachrepparttar 108918 other side, and will not have attained your goal.

Business in general, whether it be "brick and mortar" or an internet endeavor, has intermediate goals. If you don't recognize these necessary steps, you will not reach your ultimate goal, which is financial reward.

In any particular business, of course,repparttar 108919 ultimate goal is to produce revenue, but there are numerous "stepping stones" that must be in place to do so. Atrepparttar 108920 risk of statingrepparttar 108921 obvious, you must have a saleable product or service. While you might scam a few people with an inferior one, you will not be around forrepparttar 108922 long haul. I personally get a real "kick" out of those who send out what are recognized by most people as obvious scams such as chain letters, hoping to lure inrepparttar 108923 unsuspecting.

So if you do have a legitimate product or service, how are you going to sell it? First you need a place from which to sell your wares. A website to an online entrepreneur is akin to a storefront. This is where you will make your sales. It has to be attractive andrepparttar 108924 merchandise displayed in a proper manner.

Next, you have to make people aware of its existence. This is your advertising goal. You must first identify a target market, and aim your advertising towards that market. But where do you advertise? Statistics have shown thatrepparttar 108925 best possible vehicle is one which actually reaches your prospects.

Let's talk about ezine advertising, which is one ofrepparttar 108926 strongest ways possible. Do you advertise in a publication that reaches 100,00 people or one that only reaches 5,000? Don't be too quick to answer. The one that reaches 100,000 may not be aimed at your target market, whilerepparttar 108927 one that reaches 5,000 might. While a humor ezine may reach many thousands (who doesn't like a good joke), if you are trying to market an affiliate program, an ezine geared to that market might just be your best bet.

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