How many IM out there never earn a single cents

There are many people in IM that don't make a single cent, but it is easier than you think to make money in IM.

There are 2 keys missing in most people that contribute to their lack of making money in IM.

Focus & Consistent Action.

Alot of folks who want to make money in IM jump from one opportunity to the next without any focus. If you do pick something, you give up the minute it looks like you're going to actually have to put in some work.

Next shiny object...and this sad cycle continues.

Contrary to popular belief, It Does Not take hard work to make money in IM. You must take action, but it has to be consistent, even if little by little.

The work you put in should be focused and consistent, not necessarily hard.

Most people here are selling products how to become rich. If it really made them rich why they sell it? Well obvious it doesn't, the selling of these things is their core business.

I ain't gonna outline either in exact words/steps how I came so far and if I would it wouldn't accomplish the same results as 2-3 years ago cause times change. Eg people are scared of SEO/Google so you'd make much less sales then I did back then.

So you can either go two ways to make a lot of money without investing too much:

1) Offer a real service, like writing service, SEO service, PPC service, web design service and give it a lot of time to grow, and obvious deliver a top notch service (for cheap if you advertise here) or you'll never grow, simple as that

2) Join the rest selling the idea of "making money online", do so by creating awesome sales funnels and what not, if others can do it so can you, but I wouldn't be very proud of it.

Anyway that are some ways to get started without investing much money and that can potentially grow out to a lot of money if you give it time.

Now I passed that stage and I do have money to invest so I wouldn't chose either of these paths anymore, sure I keep working on my service business but it doens't really feel like working anymore, more like maintaining it but that's a different story.

When you do have the cash flow there are again two ways to become successful (obvious more ways but generally spoken as it's all about traffic).

1) Paid traffic, PPC/PPV etc where you can make it quickly

2) Organic traffic (from Google), which is my preferred way for now, sure Google is making it harder but far from impossible and for me it's all about ROI and I think right now I can make a higher ROI from SEO then from PPC.

When SEO comes to a level where it becomes hardly worth it or takes too much effort then I'll have a closer look at paid traffic.

So when you think of it I let Google lead my life and I'm perfectly fine with that, it probably won't make me a multi milllionaire but I don't have much serious fancy wishes like driving a very expensive car, I already live in a large house with 3 bed rooms (for what we only use one) and a private swimming pool in a warm country (Thailand) and a very handsome partner so what more would I want? A private jet or helicopter? Lol that's wouldn't be too bad I admit

Oh I forgot to mention the whole point I'm trying to make:

Those WSO's are not very helpful as it's all based on one thing: TRAFFIC, and traffic costs money, one way or the other it always comes down to investing, so when you keep thinking the next method will make me money then you're in a loop that you have to break. A lot of money is a result of hard work and'/or large investments. There are no shortcuts.

Lesson: When you look to buy the next WSO for $7,- then tell yourself that you're not spending just $7 but that you are opening yourself up to spend thousands of dollars, so that WSO costs you let's say $1007,- to get started, if you knew that upfront would you still buy it? Guess not.

If I plan to spend $10.000,- as I like to make considerable amounts of money to sustain my lifestyle then I don't let some $7 WSO lead me, instead I look for real expert help or teach it myself by falling and standing up.

Quick tip: If you do want to provide some sort of value, don't want to be attached to a service and have little to spend then just focus on something like buy at Amazon/Alibaba and sell at Craigslist or worse start to resell Fiverr gigs or something. That's really the quickest way to some start up cash.

You knew back then with ALN/BMR/UAW and tons of others, that all required like $69/month? Most didn't want to spend that so what I did was combine these services and sell it as one diverse package and when I started I didn't have much bucks either but I found that some people at Fiverr sold these exact same links on 2-3 networks for $5,- I combined a few of these people to offer links at 6-8 networks, made my first bucks and signed up myself for these services as that was even cheaper and from there I moved to my own private network and so on.