I’ve discovered recently the big catch with Internet Marketing. When you first start making a few dollars on-line seems impossible. You start a few Blogs and Squidoo lenses then slap some affiliate offers up. You sit back and wait for the money to come in

After a few weeks with no sales you scratch your head and can’t understand what’s going on. After all you’ve built it so why don’t they come? Realisation slowly starts to dawn that maybe Internet Marketing isn’t easy money after all. Once the shock is over you start to buy information products that promise quick and easy results. Eventually after much trial, error and a lot of cash you come up with a system for promoting your assets.

At last you get your first sale and you’re made up. You’ve discovered you can make money on-line but it takes a lot of work (understatement of the year). You smile to yourself and think you’ve cracked it fame, riches and twin shaving heads will soon be mine.

Now if your goal is to make $500 – $1000 a month that’s all you need to do. Rinse and repeat.

The problem comes when you try to scale this method up so that you can earn a lot more than that. You start to run out of time. All that bookmarking, article writing, Blog posting and web site creation is just taking you so much time you can’t expand any more. You’ve already got so many plates spinning it’s impossible to expand any more.

This is the big catch. To earn any more money you are going to have to outsource a lot of the work you’re currently doing to someone else but you need the money you’re making at the moment to live on! So you keep working hoping that at some point you’ll be able to afford to outsource.

I’m at this stage now I’m earning a reasonable amount but not enough to live on and outsource.
I’ll let you know how I get on.

Wish me luck.

Robert E Bartram

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Internet Marketing And Catch 22

Wrong! It isn’t at all easy to make money on-line. Sure you can be lucky and find a profitable niche the very first time you try but trust me that’s not typical.

Making a small amount of money say $500 a month isn’t that difficult as long as you’re prepared to put in some work but earning thousands of dollars month in and month out is a completely different story.

When I had a full time job and was working in Internet Marketing part time I could easily earn $500 a month the problem I had was getting more. No matter what I did I just could not get my earnings any higher. I built over a hundred Squidoo lens’s and Hubpages I built multiple Blogs in many niches did the whole Web 2.0 thing to promote them but did I get anywhere? No not really sure I earned a few dollars on adsense and affiliate products but nowhere near the amount promised by the Gurus. Where was the $55,000 a month I was supposed to earn by only having to work for a few hours a week? Well I’m still waiting

The long and the short of it is it takes hard work and a lot of time to earn any money at this game. I work at least 10-12 hours every day on my Internet businesses and that’s work not reading forums or researching but real work writing articles,bookmarking,promoting and maintaining all the assets I currently have whilst at the same time looking for profitable niches.

Am I complaining? Nope I love the work but I get cross when people spend hard earned cash on systems that are not going to make them rich in a few months as the sales copy would have you believe.

I’m going to show you what it really takes to make money on-line or at least how I’ve manged to do it and I’ll let you in on a secret that not many in the industry will tell you. This secret won’t make you rich by itself but it will show you what’s really required to make money in this highly competitive business.

If you’re trying to make your first dollar online or you’ve hit a plateaux with your earnings what I’m going to reveal will strike a chord and I’m sure you’ll get that Ahh Haa moment like I did when I worked out what was really holding me back.

I wish you all the best of luck.

Robert E Bartram

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