Monthly earnings

If you're talking about the ones promoted as "get rich quick schemes", there's almost no possibility at all of your earning anything worth talking about on a monthly basis from those.

One of the most fundamental and important rules of thumb for anyone in your position, thinking of earning additional money through internet marketing, and wanting to be able to earn enough from it to do less (or no) other work and to have more "family time" available, is to stay well away from anything being promoted with an income claim.

If you're asking more, in general, what sort of earnings you might make from "internet marketing" on the assumption that you set up your own profitable online business, there are many threads (including quite a few recent ones) in which people discuss their earnings in general terms, albeit not often with specific figures, and they can certainly be inspiring to some people. And were, to some extent, to me when I started.

Welcome to the forum, and good luck with your learning-curve.

Thank you! Its a lot to take in! I am really looking forward to learning more and developing! :-) thanks for your post

I'm sure you're already aware of the following fact, but as a Internet marketer, you are a business owner yourself in the earning potential is limitless. Unfortunately, the average amount a Internet marketer mixes $0 as they come into the industry with the wrong mindset and quit before ever making a penny. Your best bet is to think of it like college you take classes do a heck of a lot of work building up your education before ever expecting a solid, consistent income.

You can certainly create a decent second income with internet marketing and in time do it full time. I started while working a full time job. It took a while to increase earnings to go full time, but it's doable.

I've purchased countless courses, guides, reports etc. on how to make money online. Some were helpful; many were not helpful.

The thing is there are many models you can choose from that work. You must determine what you like doing, find a model that requires as much of what you like doing as possible and focus like a laser on that model.

For instance, many people do well promoting Amazon (and many people don't do well).

Many people do well offering services to businesses (writing, web design, SEO, graphic design, marketing ... types of services you can do from home).

Many people do well focusing on building up subscribers of readers with an e-mail software platform (autoresponder). Many will tell you this is the best method. I've had some success with it, but not nearly to the degree of many others on this forum and elsewhere.

Some people build up large websites that attract plenty of traffic and monetize that traffic in a number of ways such as affiliate promotions, building up their e-mail subscribership, ads (such as Adsense), Cost per Click offers and/or to sell their own products. Some sites do all of these methods. Some focus on one or two monetization methods only. It depends on your audience. For instance, some don't use Adsense because it sends traffic away from a site while some people are content with sending traffic away for a few cents or dollars (the amount of a click depends on the site/web page topic).

Some people run e-commerce stores selling products that they carry as inventory or have inventoried elsewhere.

Some people build membership sites where they charge a monthly fee for access to content/software/forum ... something of value people are willing to pay for every month.

Some people create a digital product and sell it. They may sell it largely through recruiting affiliates or as a Kindle book on Amazon. Of course they often promote it themselves.

Some people create small sites with a cost per click offer and some info and send as much traffic (paid and/or free) to those sites. Similarly, some create simple one-page sites (plus the usual disclaimer/contact/privacy pages) with a free offer in exchange for an e-mail address and then focus on generating income through the e-mail autoresponder.

These are just some of the common business models. There is a lot that goes into making them successful such as choosing a niche, getting traffic and converting that traffic.

That said, every one of the above models can work. People have made them work.

Most courses out there discuss one or a few of the above models. It's not often I discover much that is new in a course (free or paid). Most of the info you can buy is available for free on this forum.

Probably the number one reason people don't succeed is they jump from one model to another. I've fallen for this many times (fortunately I stuck it out with a few models that ended up working and carried on with them).

It's natural to jump around a little in the beginning to get a feel for how it all works and looking for a model that works for you. BUT once you find something that appeals to you and that matches your skillset, put together a plan and focus on it until you get results. Assess your results to see what works and build up on the things you do that actually works (i.e. earns money).

Don't fall for the "there's only one way to make money online."

Regardless of which model you choose, when it comes to attracting traffic, work to acquire traffic from different sources. Many people (me included initially) acquire traffic from the organic search engines. I love organic search engine traffic, but the search engine results can change dramatically. Just do a search in Google for "Google Penguin" to see what I'm referring to. It can kill a business quickly ... and this is one reason many people emphasize building a list no matter your model. With a list you have traffic or an audience any time you like if done well. E-mail marketing a topic all on its own and no matter which model you choose is worth studying and working on from the start.

The above models approach internet marketing from a "how can I make money" perspective which is what most of us do. However, if you try to approach from a "how can I solve peoples' problems" (or a problem or help in some way), it's probably a better mindset because you're immediately thinking of how to add value for someone.

This is by no means a comprehensive list of how to get started, but it's something to chew on and investigate further.

The frustrating thing, especially when doing this internet marketing thing on the side, is you spend a lot of your disposable time at it. It's addicting, frustrating and exhilarating. If when you get started you get the bug, you'll probably succeed because you'll plow through mistakes and failures.

And if/when you go full time, you may find that you spend as much time at it as you did working your 9 to 5 job. I do. Maybe more ... especially as you continue to build. BUT, there's no substitute for being your own boss, working when you want to, working on projects you choose to work on and of course helping other people with what you do. It's the best job I've ever had, but it's not without its problems and challenges.

My advice for you is choose one thing and stick with it.

Because there are so many people on this forum using different strategies that have been successful for them, its tempting to drop everything you are doing and take up what they have done. But avoid that at all costs. You don't want to fall into the trap of jumping from one strategy to another, and then to another, and then another.

Small focused consistent steps will get you to where you want to go, better than inconsistent unfocused big steps anyday.

My second piece of advice for you is to find a way for yourself to return to a place of clarity and focus. No this is not mystical mumbo-juimbo.

Here is what I mean. Being on this forum at some time in the future you are going to run into "information overload" There are going to be so many people talking about different things, different strategies, different techniques, using different words that you might not have heard before, some will be saying article marketing is the best things, and others will be saying no it's not it's a waste of time, and others will say you need to have an OTO, where more will say no OTO's are no longer effective, etc.

It can lead to you wanting to pull out your hair and scratch your eyeballs, lol.

So figure out a way that helps you deal with this potential information overload and get persepctive again.

For me personally, what I do is when ever I find a post that gives me perspective and allows me to see the big picture I bookmark or copy and paste it into word.

Then if I am in information overload I will pull out that post, or article and read it. Works for me everytime.

As an example use the search function and search for a woman names "Nightengale" she just replied to a post a few days ago caled "I have 300 and I want to start newbie"
Her post is such great advice for someone just starting out. and she is right most people make things too complicated. Her posts simlpifies things. Check it out.

So find a way to help you deal with information overload.

and make sure to just choose one business model and focus on it.

there is no limit really to be honest with you, realisticlly if you worked hard within a couple months you could be at $3-4k monthly and solidly growing quickly.