What was your 'Aha' moment?

None, there is no puzzle and there is nothing missing in the first place.

This mindset causes many people to go round in circles looking for the magic pill when there isn't any.

To be successful online, you have basically got to have more money coming in than going out.

I don’t know if that is what you looking for but for me the ‘Aha’ moment was after I read this article. The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model | Magazine. It was like, Aha, that is what I am up against.

Its not just about traffic, its more about converting that traffic

Understanding that my autoresponder and growing my list is 100% of how I am going to make money online.

I think for me it was reading some dialogue between cdarklock and steven waggenhiem that opened my eyes to a new way of creating.

For me, I think it was earning my first $39.95 for an ebook, back in 1999.

Up until that point, making money online was a great "idea".

That was when the "idea" became reality.

The day I made my first sale online and I kept racking them up. I look at the Internet as an endless possibility to make some real big money it amazes me that everyone out there doesn't see it the same way as we do.

Where else can you have a fully functional online business where you can sell your merchandise from your spare bedroom to people in China, Brazil, Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland, Japan and all over this great big world.

The Internet is the best invention ever it opened up the doors for normal people to compete with fortune 500 companies and make a lot of money in the process.

I was very frustrated at first. Everything I learned seemed like they were leaving stuff out. Either stuff that they didn't want me to know, or that they were so far past that they didn't think needed mentioning.
Being broke at the time didn't help when looking if I should actually buy something that might have the answers I was looking for.

I just happened to come across a Willie Crawford product that I took a chance on.
It was 278 pages of "aha!" moments.

It was definitely when I made my first sale on Clickbank. All my hard work had finally paid off.

I was like, "Woah, this stuff actually works".

Internet Marketing comes down to two main points:
1. Getting Traffic
2. Getting that traffic to remain interested/buy the product

sardent so did this book help u make $100 a day? how effective was it?

When I finally managed to get a website on the first page of Google and started to see some commissions. I knew then what had to be done to make money online.

I'm a blogger, and I had been writing news articles for almost a decade. The traffic would rise and then fall away a few days later, so I had to keep writing every day to keep going. Like keeping a fire lit.

The AHA moment for me was when I accidently wrote an article based on something that people search for. The traffic picked up and then it never dropped off again. Even now, two years later, it's still one of the most profitable articles on my site. I realized that I just needed to write hundreds more articles like it. Once I did that, I started to make seriously good money from my "blogging".

Realizing that "targeted content + backlinks + monitization = traffic and profit" and the more you build, the more you profit ( I,m promoting physical products ).

Also, if your traffic isnt converting very high, then dont be afraid of adding other monetisation methods and testing how they do, Ive just had to do this with a site while I build more targeted traffic and the combination is working quite well for now.

Nothing else to it really, no fancy convoluted gimmicks, its that simple. I think that's the key, not getting bogged down with gimmicks, just keeping it simple.

When i was in my first telephoning interview, interviewer ask me a question that answer i knew but cant understood the question. Suddenly i realized that and answer it correctly.

The day I made my first affiliate sale and I really did not know how it happened until I looked into it and went Ah Ha! But I also like to frequent forums such as here and every day by going through the threads reading is an Ah Ha moment. There is so much information here and so many people to help that it is impossible to not have them here!

Based from my experience, the only time I really made good money online is to model what the successful people are doing, (In this case, I follow my mentor) and don't reinvent the wheel.

Non of the products I bought made me money. It is when I signed up to a mentoring program, I started implementing everything that my mentor says and Aha! I got money coming into my Clickbank account.

It is due diligence and work smart.

Winson

My 'aha' moment was when I finally got it through my thick skull that online business was really no different than offline business because both are relationally driven....there are many who want to hold out the belief that relationships are strictly an offline business sort of thing....there is no difference....

I have several and I hope they NEVER stop. It's a great
feeling of accomplishment and personal growth.

Three MAJOR "aha" moments were:

1. Watch a millionaire and do as they do, parallel to what
they say...and if what they say doesn't completely match
what they do -- don't fret, it was most likely overlooked
and thought to be common sense or purposely left out to
FORCE you to think for yourself, which is a GOOD thing.

3. Think for yourSELF. Be CREATIVE, but be compromising
to your ego to "re-invent the wheel". In other words, don't
let your desire to be different sabotage any chances of
success by following what works...while at the same time
adding YOUR flavor to the mix.

(thinking for yourself is how you make money. It's HARD to
do when you were trained for years of your life to get a
job...not an easy habit to break)

3. Business is about QUALITY traffic, and using traffic to
generate leads for repeat business.

There is one method I followed that overnight made a few
hundred bucks, but it came when I knew it would take X
amount of traffic to get the results I want...the system
was missing THIS important piece of the puzzle...a piece
I suspect the author KNEW was important to know to some
one looking to "get rich quick"....

but I knew better, and added the extra ingredient (more
traffic)...suddenly, sales flowed in and continue to.

Before, one or two sales a year in clickbank was the most
I could ever manage...but upon learning the important of
quality traffic -- it all changed in a few minutes of work.

4. I know there were others, but I have work to do and
can't sit here and think of them all to put here...hopefully
what is written is helpful to someone...it was certainly
helpful to me.

Online business is just like every other business..I get those aha moments once i play enough with certain tool and learn how to utilize them fully to my online market.

I have aha moments almost daily but have yet to have "the" aha moment. I'll let you know when that happens though.

It was when I realized that the only person responsible for my success was:


ME

When I began to understand how seo worked.

For me it was when I realized that java and android are connected and that java is used in 8 billion devices

there were a couple of aha moments:

1. when i realized i should have studied computer science and web development bc the software is how to be profitable
2. when i learned that not all links are equal and pbns were the only way to go
3. when i realized there were web 2.0 pbns lols.
4. offline marketing! wow. seriously, everything online, take it offline.
5. voice broadcasting and push1 campaigns from callhub.io
6. thats pretty much it until now.

When I saw this...

10th Oct 2010, 05:13 PM