Why Is It Difficult To Make Money Online?

I don't think it is hard to make money online. Online money making is easy but requires hard work. Make sure everything is scalable and work your butt off and continue working hard. Many people don't understand that making money online is so simple a 15 year old can o it, but it still requires a lot of hard work.

Also I'd recommend NOT being a jack of all trades in IM, just getting real good at one thing, repeating it and scaling it indefinitely.

Because so many are people are doing it, and KNOW what they are doing, while there are so many MORE people trying to do it whom don't have a clue. MMO is quite possible but only after you have a solid idea as to what you're doing.

It takes a lot of time. The only piece of advice I can give you is to go out there and simply TRY A METHOD. Find a method that works, and then scale it up. What people do wrong is they either give up to easily, or they simply never scale a perfectly valid idea to a good level. It all comes with experience, really.

It's not hard to make money. The reason most people struggle is that they have no idea what they're doing - they want someone else to tell them everything and so they do little bits and pieces of different things and never create anything significant that they could realistically expect to make good money with.

It's a process.

You brainstorm for ideas, once you decide on what idea you would like to try, you formulate an extensive and realistic plan, then you TAKE ACTION and follow through on implementing your plan. If your great idea fails, you just repeat the process until you find one that works.

The interesting thing is, with each failure, you gain more and more knowledge. Chances are good that, when you first try making money online, you are going to suffer some EPIC fails. As long as you apply you knowledge the next time around, you will eventually begin making money.

The reason people fail at IM is the fact that they don't take action/do not stick at a method for long enough. Simple as. Take Action at a method that works.

I think the main problem stems from that fact that many people don't put in the necessary work it takes to succeed. They have this idea that making money on the internet is quick and easy. They think they can download an ebook, read a few forum posts, pop up a wordpress blog, and wait for the cash to pour in. When they don't see fast results, they get bored and/or discouraged, and move on to the next "secret to success". Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. Just like any other business, it takes time, effort, and hard work to make it happen.

For instance, is the term "Download For Free Here" a keyword phrase that you are trying to rank for? If it is, you're doing a great job, if it's not you may want to change your 2nd sig link to describe in two or three words (if possible) what that product is or does.

It's little things like this, with each failure and knowledge gained, that you will begin to notice immediately.

You will fail. You will struggle. But keep at it and LEARN! You will begin to make money... GOOD money... before you know it.

It boils down to one thing----FOCUS!!!!!!

They don't follow three simple words: Take CONSISTENT Action.

You have an opportunity here to get a valuable text anchor link. This will help you in the search engines. Yet your text anchor is saying "Download For Free Here" (how many people search that and how many download sites would you be going up against to rank for that term? The first text link you have is good. It's brandable. However, the second one should be something along the lines of Click to get your *Worpdress Settings And Configuration Plugin*. The area in between the ** is what should be your text link.

Something to that effect. Something people are actually searching google for.

No problem. As long as you're willing to learn and implement what you learn, you will make money. As I said, it's a process. Sometimes it's a really long and grueling process but, if you stick with it, it will be extremely rewarding.

To actually make value out of this thread, I will like warriors to suggest or outlines simple steps to take in order to succeed with online business.

Thanks for the response so far

We can all chip in our 2 cents each, but are you realy going to learn anything??

Sitting on the fence is the worst part. Dont fall into the IM trap.. (no offence to marketers targeting make money online people) ALLOT of IM "guru's just want your money and will promise you the world to get it. They have given the IM game a bad name IMHO

For a noob, willing to put in HARD work to start a BUSINESS i would recommend the challenge.

The web is competitive which is why many companies hire internet marketing companies. I would suggest that you invest in some paid advertising such as Google AdWords to drive traffic to your website and work with an SEO company.

This is simple and at the end or beginning of nearly every affiliate marketing ebook out there.......98% of people never take action and build a business.....the 2% that do are the ones that make real money online.....

If you want to make money online, find a program/method, and take action!

Benjamin Ehinger

Yeah..I think the key of success here is about hard work, consistency, and the efficient strategies => ...no pain ...no gain..

Because we set our expectations too high. We expect everything to to be working optimally at all times, and that is the way we project. Thats not the way it works though. Things work in cycles, so that sometimes they arent going so good.

The answer is to have multiple things going, so that as one thing is going down, two more things are going up...

Algorithms. The tides advance the tides recede-Expect failure, see it coming, and have enough things going to keep it at a steady minimum, and deal with algorithms through working the numbers. When your lowest dips are still a comfortable income, then the rest is just gravy.

IM is difficult because most people never wake up from their dreams of making millions over night.

Human nature says to look for the easiest way to accomplish something. This is why hyped up crap (excuse my language) sells so well..because they are selling to every single human being in the worlds dreams and hopes (well except those who genuinely don't care about money)

The reason IM is so difficult is because since people are trained to find the easiest path they naturally lack the focus it requires to be successful in IM. The really difficult part of IM is the focus and determination it takes. You can learn all the knowledge you need, you can learn all the methods you need..but only once you wake up from your dreams will you be able to gain the focus that it takes..that can't be taught to you no matter how much people say it..you just have to get a wake up call one day.


Gregg

IM is usually advertised as a "get rich quick" scheme and I fell for it.

But now that I understand that you have to treat it like a real business and a lot of work is involved, I'm sticking with it all the way.

The biggest reason it is so hard for many people is they try to paint by numbers.

I could tell you to open Google's External Keyword tool, find phrases which match this criteria, create articles based on those phrases, get a domain name, setup up a blog, etc....

But, if you do not learn along the way to be yourself, create value, and become involved in your niche you come across as a spammer, faker, marketer, not as someone to trust and buy from. All of your efforts become tainted by your underlying thoughts.

You can still get some results with massive efforts, but someone with the right mindset will have made great results because their message connected with their readers and buyers. You display passion, interest, and create curiosity in your readers.

Are you chasing numbers and processes, or connecting with PEOPLE?

Another Warrior recommended reading The JackRabbit Factor recently in a Mind Warriors thread. It is a great read to help get your thinking about your business on the proper terms, not just following a paint by numbers approach to failure.

Jackrabbit Factor - Great Free Read..

I personally struggle most with motivation and hard work. You have to work hard it isn't a illusion of easy money maker.

You can reap great rewards but the ride isn't easy...not at all.

Simple answer why they don't make money......they don't do 'exactly' what they were told to do.

That's it

I guarantee that if you are NOT making money.....you didn't do 'exactly' what you were supposed to!

I think it's part of the human condition to want something for nothing, and thats what these 'make $1000's in 1/10/24/48 hours' kind of offers appeal to.

I believe if you stick at and stay focused at it over months, maybe a year or so you will make progress.

Yeah.. I mean just find another idea and replicate it. Don't try and create the new Google just yet

I think one big reason is that most people don't have a plan ... and even when they do they do not stick to it.

It seems most want to see results instantly and when that doesn't happen, they drop what they are doing and move to something else. They never stick with something long enough for it to bear fruit.

Lee

Because this is a business and should be treated as such. People come to IM thinking that they can apply a magic system and click a few buttons and start making money right away. Running a business is difficult, and IM is no different.

I think the reason it looks hard is that there is serious competition on what works to make money online. You find that with whatever you are selling or promoting, others are doing it as well. So that is why it requires that one should work very hard in order to be successful. Doing many things at the same time also affects the results that one gets from online business.

You make it sound like "Make Money Online" is a method ... like it's actually doing something.

What about Make Money in California or Make Money in Your Hometown. What would you do to Make Money in Your Hometown?

If it were me, I'd find a career that interested me and become as good at it as possible. Just apply the same logic to Make Money Online and you've got it.

Don't buy any methods ... find something you're interested in and become really good at it, whether it's PPC, website flipping, Adsense, product creation, offering a service ... you name it. You have to make the plan and implement it. There's no easy method and no free lunch.

I think the biggest enemy of making it online is losing focus and chasing after (and unfortunately often buying) every new course, software or whatever that hits the market.

Just makes your head spinning.
The best way is stick to a few ground rules and just keep doing what we already know.

Put out your daily articles, videos etc.

Good content is still king.
Unfogging my head from all this new strategies and bestest of the best new IM programs did the trick for me. Since I shifted my focus from chasing after products to creating and selling products I started to make money.

Alex

Making money online is just as easy, if not easier than going out and trying to start my own offline business. Maybe it is my mindset, but I know once you've figured out a good scalable business plan with the right demographics it gets easier. When you set up advertising its all about conversions. I love how if I choose my ads properly or my organic rankings properly I can guarantee myself X amount of extra income because I know how these keywords perform.

I think the main problem we face when we decide to "look into" setting up an online business is knowing where to start ( and knowing who to believe )

I have just googled the search term " setting up an internet business " and it returned me 173,000,000 results! And there lays the main problem. Which one of these 173,000,00 'Gurus' is really going to show you how to do it ?

In truth, making money online is not easy but IT IS do-able. Unfortunately we get knocked down so many times by people out there who claim to have the answers, take our money, and not to mention our time and then let us down. Of course they are going to try and convince us that their system works because they want us to buy their product. But not only do these people take our money they also take away our enthusiasm, motivation and ultimately our dreams.

My advise to you would be this.
[LIST][*]Believe that you can do it and you will. But instead of looking for a 'quick fix' look to setting up a long term profitable business.

[*]Be willing to invest some time into this. Don't expect to be making money in the next few weeks. This is where alot of people fall down and give up. You will get there but as with most new things that we try, we need to learn new skills and invest some time and hardwork to see results.

[*]If you have opted in to numerous lists to receive advise and information then OPT OUT of all of them except maybe a few that you feel really are giving you quality advise/resources. There's nothing more distracting than an 'In Box' full of promises that won't work - You know the ones I mean - "You have a cheque waiting for you" or " Please check this product out now" or " Make $1000 while you sleep".

[*]Most of these will come from googlemail, yahoo or hotmail addresses. Ask yourself this. Does a successful Internet Marketer who has all the answers use 'yahoo' to send out his emails? If you signed up to Toyota because you were interested in buying a new car, would their emails come from hotmail?

[*]And lets be realistic, If we could make $1000 while we sleep then we would all be millionaires!

[*]Choose one method of marketing online and become really good at it, whether its article marketing, blogging, etc etc, don't be a " Jack of All Trades and a Master of None". Research the various marketing methods and use one that suits you and your current capabilities and time you have available. When you start seeing results from this, then maybe try another method.

[*]Lastly, and this is where all of the above will fall into place, FIND ONE GOOD, GENUINE MENTOR who will take you by the hand and show you how it is done. Find a membership site that has lots of free resources for you to try BEFORE you part with any money.


Good Luck & don't give up on the dream !

Its not that hard, just go to the areas where you're good at. Try to update and upgrade yourself, from time to time, technology changes and you must cope up with that changes. Also, it really paid off if you excert more attention to it.

Not Setting Goals

Anyone can "choose a path" and even stay on it.

But, unless they have an idea of how far they will be traveling, their journey just becomes a endless smudge of impressions that saps energy, breeds doubt and makes most people restless, all of which is counter-productive.

The trick to traveling is to do it in stages. The rest-stops provide quieter moments for reflection, evaluation, a sense of completion and accomplishment.. even if it all wasn't superbly great.

Not setting goals that can be reached within reasonable time means never getting the confidence boost of crossing the finishing line... That confidence and satisfaction is what provides the power for the journey towards the next goal.

Same as life in general.. one step at a time.

To Have a Successful Business online you need a good business and mentor to teach you how it is done. Alot of businesses sound great and you go and try to make money but the money always goes to them and not to you. You have to learn step by step how to start a Business and make it work.
I have tried many businesses and have put more money out than I recieved. I finally got to know a person from Facebook and finally I am on the right track. I would love to talk to you more. Let me know what I can do to help you.

I'm gonna have to disagree with the majority of the posters here - Making money online IS hard. Like, borderline impossible. It's just way too much contradiction to it all, confusing newbies and irritating the struggling ones.

While I have made money online, I've had to go through too much BS and drop thousands of dollars simply because I did something wrong that other people have left out.

I know many of you experts don't want to admit it, but NONE OF YOU genuinely want to help the newbies and the struggling ones unless there is some sort of monetary investment involved. I do know that no one is perfect, and nothing in life is guaranteed. However, you feed the newbies and the struggling ones a bunch of BS so that they won't become your competition.

Yes, making money online is next to impossible. I have yet to crack the code, but I am getting close. It's a cutthroat game to play, but if it is what it takes to never have a boss again, I'll be happy to play and win.

I don't think its hard to make money online. I think the reason why so many people never make a dime is because they keeping looking for that one system that will make them a ton of money without doing any work. So instead of actually doing some work, they just jump from program to program. Every time they do, they start the process all over.

It takes work to make money online. And sadly most people don't want to do any work. They just want to reap all the benefits. If people would just take the time to actually implement what they have learned, they would start to see some success.

I don't believe there is one sole reason why many people fail online.

It varies depending on the person. For some it is just lack of consistency and persistance. Some find it hard to motivate themselves (especially for long term goals), others are really motivated but are working either inefficiently or in the wrong direction.

Making money online is not hard. It's a mental game of how hard you are willing to work, i found after my making my first $1 online, there was no stopping me making $10,000... if i can make 1 i can make 10, if i can make 10, i can make a 100 etc...

find something that works and scale it up.

It is because of scam sites in my case . I have lost a lot of money from different sites. After doing certain jobs for months and reaching to the pay out threshold, the site turns to a scam one. I have wasted enormous time on PTC sites clicking the ads.

I think the hardest part is consistency. Some people just try for a few days and give up. You need to keep working at it to see good results!

The problem with ppl they want more money rather than learning the process "How the money being generated?". You must understand the process first before start doing your thingy. For me do the simplest form first and confirm that it can work! Understand the process and the "value" of doing it. Check the best programs that are suitable for you. You must be focus and do it passionately. Without passion I can guarantee your failure..

It's not difficult. Most people fail because they don't take it seriously. They're
dreamers not realists.

Several people waste all their time reading and dreaming instead of doing
any real work.

Because too many believe the BS in that first quote. And, when it doesn't happen, they jump ship and go after the next shiney. Sticktoitiveness is lacking in the majority of wannabe marketers. If you do not stick to a plan, you can never succeed.

Because they have to first learn that making money online isn't some form of "push button magic". It's learning how to discover, then implement a specific marketing strategy that's been proven to work.

Learning how to pick a good niche with a product that can sell.

Learning that people are mainly looking for quality information online to help them make a decision on something.

Learning how to create content that appeals to real people and not just search engines.

Learning how to focus and stick with one system until you master that, and you're making money with it. Then rinse and repeat or scale it up.

Learning how to ignore all those dangling carrots in front of your face that offer another way to make great money.

Looking at your internet marketing efforts as something serious, and not just playing around.

and finally . . .

Understanding that it will take many hours of tedious research and work to make the dollars come rolling in.

The bottom line and simple answer of WHY people DON'T make money online or anywhere else for that matter.

They DON'T TAKE ACTION.

If you are a member here on the WF, then you have access to some of the most successful marketers out there. They give blueprints, game plans, practically hand deliver a lot of great information.

So why don't people follow it?

I guess if everyone followed it and took action, there would be no one to sell the NEXT BEST THING to.

You ultimately control your future with your MINDSET and with your ACTIONS.

Take MASSIVE action and you see MASSIVE results.

Guess what is also true, take NO action receive NO results.

Sorry to say it goes both ways.

Which category will you fall into?

As per me, I choose MASSIVE ACTION and because of that, I have seen MASSIVE RESULTS.

One WSO, One Product, One Five Figure Business in 30 days.

It really can be that simple.
Keith

I think that most fail because they have lottery mentality and expect to do very little work and have money flying out of their computer.
Since 2007, I spend 1 to 2 hours per day educating myself on Internet Marketing and then 3 to 4 hours implementing what I have learned. It's also important to have a product that is in high demand. Good luck my friends....

I agree with you, although some people knew already the idea on how to make money online but still it is difficult for them to earn. I guess some people still do not know the basic.

Any business whether offline & online should start with
Your Plan- Plan of Action- Which path you need to go
Need Strategy - What is the best way to earn money on Internet
Conviction with Action- You must do it with the correct knowledge
Must have result - If there is no result meaning it is time for you to take necessary action to overcome your problem
Ready to Change - In IM you must prepare to seek opportunities and jump to the wagon cause a lot of people doing it.
Most important know your ROI = Return of your Investment
That's why for me I need to know my Budget Planning very well.

it really takes discipline and more knowledge than a regular ebook...

The first thing you need to get right is your mindset!

Remember, IM is not a get rich quick thing!

There are no magic pills...

You need to put in a lot of work initially before you see results!

Read my blog post on how I generated a six figure income online last year... there's a link in there as well that talks about the huge mindset shift I had to make... from working like an employee in my IM business initially and generating no income at all... to behaving like an entrepreneur and watching the checks fly in...

Feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions...

Making money is a matter of thinking alive and having a strategic in place. I realized one fact. if you have never make money online, it always seems difficult to breakthrough, but as long as one have made something, all becomes so easy.

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE E Enthusiastic.


Just wanted to say that.

Try think of your plan of making money or at least take your own twist on a method, instead of just downloading many ebooks and not taking action.

It's really difficult if you don't know where to start. It really requires hard work and time. If you're going for IM, part time would really take a lot of time and sometimes it's better to work hands on than just hiring people to do the job for you.I guess it's different when you know what and how to do it than have someone else work on your success.

Hopefully people take advantage of the resources around like the ones you mentioned - free ebooks & this forum.

I think the reason many people find making money online to be difficult is because they are looking for a "magic bullet." They want to get the results immediately, if not sooner, and they don't want to accept the fact that work is required in any business.

The old adage that "the only place success comes before work" is in a dictionary is very true yet sadly overlooked by many wannabe Imers.

Nigel

Find a method that works, and then scale it up.


try this

When i started online business never believe that i will earn $$ but i did . its not easy to earn for sure u have to put your effort + 100% hard work will give good results .In that case warrior is the best in teaching new bees.

There is a simple reason: people do not have enough patience and organizational skills to go through the myriad of tasks that need to be done in order to rank keywords that bring money.

Anybody can build a MFA site, but ranking it, this is another story.

No blueprint describes in details the intricacies of day to day tasks that need to be done; they only show the very top of the iceberg...

Any thing big start small and before you can get big , you must put some things at the back of your mind to keep you driving to higher level. DETERMINATION , FOCUS, TARGET AND GOALS SETTING. this are the main tools to use to achieve your goal online. finally IM is the best if you want to generate stead income for life.

After reading a great deal on this forum, I decided a while back that before I even consider putting together a web site, I will learn exactly how to do it.

I am also spending a lot of time learning about keyword research, which I now realize is very important.

Once I know exactly what I am doing I will build my website and continue learning from there.

There are some technical glitches to money making as well. By working full time many marketers are not given credit cards and in turn it's hard to buy or even use services online. Paypal's recent move in india made life more difficult. Now those who used virtual credit card to verify are going to miss storing money in account for purchase. Now they need to find other virtual card services to use for online purchase. Such technical and governmental glitches are not in hands of marketers. Of course you need to find the solution to such problems but still there are some such issues.

I also have strugled with not sticking with one method, info over load has been a problem for me.

I am just beginning to look into this field and I really don't have any experience yet but what I am finding is it is very difficult to know who to trust and what to try. I don't want to waste money and buy $1000's of dollars worth of products that will not lead anywhere. Not to mention I don't have a lot of money to waste. Free ebooks are usually evasive. They tell you general info but nothing that you can build off of. I was going to try and buy a program from a blogger but a lot of people who had bought the product said it wasn't worth the money so, I continue to read and search.

I think also there is a problem with information overload. There are so many people going in so many directions it is hard to decide what to do.

Making money is easy. Getting traffic is the hard part.

Part of it is due to the fact that success is not guaranteed in this business. As such, those who are new are always looking for opportunities were success is fixed.

What they don't know is that a lot of work is needed in order to see results.

In the beginning, the hard part seems to be for people to learn the actual basics of marketing. Things like, buyer psychology, and what motivates us.

When I first started, it meant that I had to reverse-engineer why we as a human race do the the things that we do. I never gave it any thought before, but then I realized that even though I am a consumer, I had no idea what made me tick until I started marketing.

That can take a while to learn, and then you think -- Oh, now this is easy!

But then the real problem is the medium I think - the internet. You have to have a plan, be tough as nails and be prepared to deal with online specific setbacks.

Testing different offers until a few click, then doing the necessary work to get those select few offers in front of the right people. This part usually means dealing with how search engines operate, ad campaigns operate, not stepping on article marketing directory toes, etc.

I think that's a big problem right there. For instance, good example...

Say you are getting great rankings and are relying on search traffic. You get lots of visitors but aren't making any sales. So you tweak some things on your site. Now the sales are rolling in, but because you made too many drastic changes you might lose your rankings, and therefor your traffic/leads.

Really sucks, but internet marketing is often times a catch-22, where you just have to be tougher than the machines AND the people.

So in the long run it always goes back to that answer that you've heard SO many times before

persistence, perseverance, stick-to-itive-ness, total madness, competitiveness, growing a tough skin, "I'll be damned if....", etc

In conclusion, you've got to be Scottish, haha - no just kidding.
That energy is in everybody!

I have a stable job but i do need some residual income to cover a lot of my expenses but as a newbie its really very hard for me digest all the information I'm reading I don't where to start really.

Where there's trust there's money. Build trust and over the long term you'll make money.

Focus, hard work and such is a fail if there's no trust. You build trust by giving your best stuff away in exchange for that email address. Then you give more stuff away and one day you offer those who trust you something they want, something they can't refuse.

It's the best of the best.

You make the sale. You make money. You earn your way. Your successful.

Need proof. Check out any business person online or offline. The reason they're successful is people trust them. Just don't be like Bernie and get everyone to trust you then screw them.

In my opinion, Internet Marketing is not that difficult. It just takes time to learn, if you went to a 4 year college, you might get out and earn $50K+ a year or more, working for someone else.
With Internet Marketing, you can spend 1 or 2 years, really digging in and learning and make much more than $50K a year and work for yourself. You will have to invest money in training and marketing to be successful though.

At first, i felt like you now!
But i understand that i have to focus what i am doing. Take time and consistent action.

You will not make any money if you have the wrong mindset. It takes hardwork, dedication, focus, and patience :-)

There are 101 methods of making money online, but you need to stick to one project at a time. The worse enemy of most newbie is information overload. They sock up loads of info without taking any single action.

Choose a program, stick to it. Create a to-do list, work it every day for 6 months, and you will see result. That's it.

Don't let anyone fool you, there is no automatic money, if there was no one will sell it. Action action action.

To Make Money Online is absolutely not so easy, especially starting from zero. but it will be easier if you actually earn money.

I don't agree with the premise that it's "difficult" to make money online. It's not "difficult" to make money online. It's actually quite simple. Not easy, but simple. There are way too many people having success. And these successful people leave a TON of clues on how they got there. Sheesh, some of them even tell you how they did it period-point-blank, yet those threads rarely get the attention they deserve.

In all my years of coaching people, I've learned that it's getting people to actually understand that they have to step outside of themselves and realize that it's not a money making system or lack thereof that is making it "difficult" for them. Nor is it the bad "guru" who is making it difficult for them.

It's mostly about mindset. Until they "fix" their mindset it's always going to seem difficult. Whether it's jumping from one program to the next, buying the next, new shiny thing, not doing the proper research before hiring a coach, or blaming everyone and everything for their failures....it's always going to seem difficult.

Until someone cultivates a positive mental attitude, focus, self-discipline, and stops looking for every single short cut in the book, they're always going to find making money "difficult".

I have an ex-client of mine who has been at her list building business for 7 years. She contacted me on Skype a few weeks ago totally frustrated that she wasn't making that much money. She began whining and complaining to me. I simply asked her, "have you implemented the check list that I gave you 7 years ago?". Of course, she had not. She was too busy trying the newest, lastest thing.

Your brain, more specifically, your reticular activating system is VERY powerful. People use it to scare away people or use it to attract the mate of their dreams. People use it to ignore sound advice or use it to listen to sound, practical advice. People use it to self-sabotage their business or to make it stronger.

How difficult this is, is really entirely and whole-heartedly, up to you.

RoD

Actually the whole concept is new compare to other offline money making opportunities.

There are so many sites ready to rob you, if you are very new in this field. And that is the reason so many people believe that it is not possible.

Making money online is a target.
Many people forget that it isn't a solar power generator.

You need to invest something to get something in return.
Time is of course an essential resource that many forget that they need to pay.

Would you rather pay 3 months of your life focusing on hard marketing efforts, or 9 months of your life reading repetitive and outdated information on the net?

Guess it boils down to the mindset.

I have read many comments that speak to getting focused on one method at a time. It is true, most don't make money online because they fail to focus on one thing that works. They are distracted by every new "toy" that comes out, and they never get to applying what they have already learned.

I don't think it is that difficult, but people tend to associate online income with "get rich quick" schemes. They don't expect to have to work for their cash online, so get bored and give up pretty quickly.

When you first start out I found it hard work to know where to get started and suffered from information overload and jumping from one offer to another. If you take action and focus on one marketing strategy at time I found it is much easier than trying to everything at one.

Just take it one at a time, since we can't really try to cater to all those information about how to make money online in 10 - 15 hours or probably in a single day. As what fellow warriors have said, making money through online takes time and hard work. It is not instant money, since one has to undergo the process on what and how to do. In short, we need to study and learn how it is done so we could operate our online business in a smooth way.
It's like looking and wanting to work in a company as a computer technician or an engineer, you are not assigned to work in a complex task but rather you will be trained first in the task tat you are about to be working. Same as here in the IM world, we need to be learn and willing to be trained and mentored if we want to succeed. I will not say that it is a requirement to have a mentor, but it is easier for us if we have this someone who will teach us the basics on what and how to do it.
it is not that difficult to make money online, just be patient and do not be discourage right away. Never give up if at first you will fall short to your expectations. Just continue on what you have been doing and don't hesitate to ask for some advise from fellow warriors here.

I've talked to super affiliates. What they always say to me is that: try and find your own way. There are millions of coach materials out there, and there are people who didn't succeed themselves as an affiliate but sell millions of books coaching how to be a successful affiliate.
Too many people might just spend too much time reading all the tips instead of actually get their hands dirty and do it. So I think it's wiser to just read a book or two, get a general understanding of this industry and the tools, then get on your feet and start working your ass off!

The problem really is, they are just too many people all trying the same thing and hoping to make a profit like the guide says, when in actual fact, the person who wrote the guide is making their money from people buying the guide and not from implementing the "get rich quick scheme" guide, which the writer of the guide knows has already been saturated

I think making money online is HARD if you don't put anything to action,don't implement nothing that you've learn in a specific course,ebook,or learn too much.

Many people who want nowadays to make money online suffer from information overload.They learn today about offline cpa marketing,the next day about facebook fanpages,than about flipping domains and they do this until they give up without even trying to implement something and see if it works.

So,it is easy to make money online if you implement a method that has potential and don't give up on that method until you make some serious autopilot cash daily and you can begin implementing another method.So go take action!

I for one think it's mainly because people don't realize that getting taught on how to IM from different products is only the beginning. Even if you quote and quote "take action" on whatever someone tells you, that generally will not be enough for you to succeed in the way that you want to succeed. In order to succeed, you need to "take action" but also eventually find out what works and what doesn't down to the specific details from your own experience. This obviously isn't going to be specifically taught by people who sell products since as in any other marketing business, that would just be plain stupid.

In short, IM takes time like any other work out there to make it successful. You don't see people succeed because most of the time people are trying IM while captivated by it's supposedly instant money making potential.

It takes hard and consistent work ethic, determination and a vast knowledge of exactly what you are selling and promoting. This forum is a great and valuable tool for a vast amount of information!

Wish you all the best!