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Emphasizing Vikash's advice: DON'T QUIT when the going gets tough. Yes, you will hit bumps and obstacles. Yes, you will feel like quitting at times. Yes, you will likely doubt yourself and your direction at times. However, never stop. Just keep going.

Have a strong "why" as to the reason you are doing this. Who are you doing this for? For you and your own personal freedom? For your family and loved ones? To contribute to society? Have a strong "why" in writing to keep you going. Write it down before you even begin IM. Those who persevere succeed. If you don't yet have that quality of perseverance, then make a decision to develop it -- or don't even bother pursuing what is probably the single, greatest source of passive, residual income there is (Internet marketing systems on autopilot).

I went to Armand Morin's "Big Seminar" in Atlanta about 9 years ago. One of the presenters (it might have been Armand) asked how many marketers there were earning over a million dollars a year and a very good portion of the audience raised their hands. Before that, he asked how many were making over $100k/year and a huge portion of the audience raised their hands. That should tell you something. You're in a great line of work if you choose to do IM.

Keep in mind that if you succeed in generating a mere $3,000 per month in passive, residual income (PRI), you will have achieved the equivalent of those who have slaved and socked away $1,000,000 into an investment that earns them about 3.6% annually. Would you rather put in 3-6 months of hard, smart work to achieve the equivalent in passive income; or would you rather slave for God knows how many years to earn and save $1 million to live off investment income?

You can play with numbers here to see how much you'd have to have in an investments in order to achieve the equivalent in per-month IM PRI.


Had I done this from day one, I would have saved myself 15 years of 40-80 hour work weeks. Entrepreneurs, while often being out-of-the-box thinkers and innovators, are also often hard, stupid workers who have to keep working to generate money over and over again because they failed to focus on PRI. This is dumb, Dumb, DUMB. Because it is just as easy to focus on PRI as it is to focus on "one hit wonders" like product launches, one-off affiliate promotions, etc.

Having done $90k in sales in a weekend and about $200k in over three days... and yet generating pretty much squat (by comparison) for months and months after those, I can tell you I would much prefer steady passive, residual income that lasts for years, than all the hard work executing a big hit-or-miss product launch or the huge expense of doing massive media buys to generate a big, exciting pay day.

The worst part is that I didn't even build my own email list off those promotions. I generated over 7,500 opt-ins for the weekend promo I ran and yet I got ZERO email addresses out of it. Those 7.5k opt-ins belonged exclusively to the product owner I was an affiliate for and likely made him another few hundred grand. That was the height of marketing stupidity. Don't be me. Please don't be me. Be smart, not stupid. Work hard towards developing PRI from day one -- then you can retire within 1 year or less and do what you want to do with your life---assuming, of course, that freedom is important to you.

Yes, WordPress is a great place to start and easy to use. Host a WordPress site on your own domain and hosting though. Don't use their free service.