How many of you do IM full time?

You can make money online, but keep in mind 97% of people fail because that give up early. I spent a couple of years until I found success.

In my opinion, the one major key to success online is having a mentor/coach to guide you for the first 3 - 6 months.

To your success.

Richard

First I would get your goals all laid out specifically! Not just "I want money" or "I want to work part time" those aren't very descriptive goals that will help you in any way get to where you want to be.

Think of it like a business plan. You need to almost map out every step of your process to getting to the end result now so you know what to look forward to in the future.

You don't want to jump into anything too soon or without enough knowledge... if you need to research...research. You want to make enough money to only be doing that and not rely on another job? Then treat it that way. Treat it like someone came to you right now and gave you their IM business and said take it!

Just some ideas to help get you motivated and try to keep you on the right path.

Although the time i spend doing IM / doing work online has steadily been decreasing over the past year or so, my income has actually been rising at the same time. So i guess you could say i make a full time living from the internet, but i no longer put in full time hours.

Now that said, like most others, when i started out i put in obscene amount of hours. Most of that was spent in learning the ropes, and building a sound strategy. And I'll admit a heck of a lot of time was spent in jumping from one method to another. I'm almost afraid to look at my WSO collection sometimes - it numbers in the thousands! But like others have said before me, true success came when i chose one method, stuck to it, perfected it, and only once it was working did i then add others to mix.

My personal bias is towards offline consulting when starting out, because for me it allowed me to put all my knowledge into practice, and i also learned invaluable skills such as project management, cost projections, customer service, presentation skills, team management, outsourcing... and a whole lot more, which has allowed me to expand into other methods very easily. That said, there are a ton of other methods that work just as well - Article marketing, Forum Marketing, WSO's, Niche marketing, PPC, Offering services (writing, graphic design.. etc.) and so on, that are very effective provided you pick and stick to one

I quit my job September of last year to start an online business. Started making 'livable' consistent income this August. Don't 'do' internet marketing, treat this as a business. If it's what you really want, put everything on the line and make it happen.