Type in phrase "work from home" or "work at home" into any search engine and we all know what will happen. How many millions of ads on internet use these words? It's what we all want, right?

Do we really want to work from home? I don't think so. What most of us really want to do is just STAY home. We want to PLAY at home. We enjoy sitting in front of our computer and PLAYING with it for hours! We don't want what we do at home to resemble what we do at work. If we really wanted to work from home...we might as well go to work! What would be difference? A commute?

There's absolutely nothing wrong with this. This isn't an assault against work ethic. It's just an honest look at our true motivations. Is it possible to flip switch from playing at computer for free to playing at computer for money? YES! We use same muscles, physical and mental. So what's difference?

Focus. I must make a confession. I play games on my computer. Role Playing Games (rpgs), strategy games, even online poker. Last night I finished 2nd in an online poker tournament with 156 players (brag), it lasted 3 hours and 40 minutes! One of my favorite rpgs (Baldurs Gate ll) has an estimated completion time of 200-300 hours. (If I live long enough I'll finish). So is there a way to get that kind of focus on internet marketing? Can it be that much fun?

Yes to first question, maybe to second. To get laser focus in internet marketing, first we need to identify activities that we're going to call "work". Unless you're a web designer or in some capacity work for an internet company, these activities fortunately are probably far removed from what most of us do at our jobs.

You need to learn to enjoy writing. Most of your "work" will involve writing. Writing articles, participating in forum discussions, writing and answering emails, helping solve peoples problems will involve email or telephone conversations. You will write ad copy for sales letters and websites, you'll write to your upline and downline, to affiliates and partners.

So you got your own website now. Exciting isn’t it? You're ready to start putting your website to work for you. What will you do first? So many ideas going through your head...you want to make it best website on internet. You want to make it unique and different from anyone else's.

So many ideas popping in and out of your head you want to do so much. After all besides things in our home, when do we really get to design anything? Before we know it we have added a little of this and a little of that and maybe some more of this. It's almost like waving a magic wand over everything giving it color and making it pretty. To us, our web site looks great we have color and we have animated graphics we also have a lot of content, after all that is what gets website recognition, isn‘t it?

But wait, take a closer look, is all that content really necessary? We know google likes content but maybe some of us are confused as to which kind of content google is looking for. I admit, I once thought content is content. But I was very wrong, not all content is created equal. If your website is a business related site then your content should be business related as well. Your content should be interesting and helpful. Something you know your visitors would enjoy. Color and graphics is not useful content.

Many websites have articles on their site. This is probably one of best contents to have on your site. Most articles are interesting and provide useful information. What makes articles on your site even better? If they are your articles. Articles are not hard to write just pick a subject you are familiar with and write an article about it. Just remember to keep your article topics related to type of site you have.