It’s true!  For some reason a lot of successful Internet Marketer’s have created this illusion that you can become very rich overnight.

They are ruining our industry, why do they do it?  Why mislead people by putting up these websites where they are showing you flashy cars, mansions and pictures of money falling out of the sky!  Many of these sites are just scams, as any true Internet marketer will tell you it’s not all flashy cars, big houses etc., when you start in this industry, it is like any other business you have to put a lot of hard work into it and then if you are successful the rewards come.

Right, so the purpose of this blog today is to set the record straight!  So you want to be an Internet marketer and have your own business, well let me tell you this business is no different to starting up any other business, offline or online.

Like any other business it takes, hard work, sweat and tears, yes tears, as if I am honest with you and this is from someone that has had many offline businesses, I found it the most frustrating business out of all the ones I have had, reason being it was a completely new concept to me and I had a very long learning curve.

I get asked all the time from Newbies, “Can you help me make money today?”  This is from people that don’t even know what Internet Marketing is, my answer to these newbies is, yes you can make money in this industry and a lot of it but first you need to treat this as a business and not a hobby and you need to put the work in, as it is not an overnight get rich quick scheme. 

For example you wouldn’t expect to go into any other professional business and just start work without the right training or experience, eg if you wanted to be a plumber or hairdresser, you would not go into a salon and say, “Hi, I am here who’s hair shall I cut first?”, not having had any training, experience etc, so why do people think it is going to be any different in the Internet marketing industry, there is no magic wand that we are going to wave over you and make you successful overnight.

Every successful Internet marketer if they are honest with you, will tell you how hard it was for them in the beginning, yes sure once you have made it, it really is as great as they tell you and yes you can automate most of your business, but as a newbie you are way off that stage right now.

The first thing you need to do is to learn everything involved in Internet marketing, you need to learn a little of all the various areas involved in this industry and then you need to apply it, so yes you can make money but not today, you are looking between 6 – 9 months and sometimes longer before you will really see the money coming in.

It can be achieved but you have to really want it, desire it because it takes a lot of hard work and dedication and many a times you will want to give up, but if you have what I call a raw desire, you will achieve your goal, stick at it.