How Long Does It Take To Earn Full-Time Income From IM?

It depends on how fast you can learn about it. The only time there is for making money is spent finding out how and even then you still need more time to make up your mind.

All newbies fail. All successors gets back up and try again.

I am still not earning Full Time income from I.M, still i am earning a reasonable amount every month and the best part is, its increasing as the time is passing by so that's something which motivates me to work even harder.

Most of the newbies fail because of impatience, earning online is not an easy task and it needs a lot of hard work plus patience. you have to understand the concept before before you start making money online which requires time plus effort.

About 4 - 5 months. I wasted about 3 - 4 months not knowing what I was doing and being badly advised, believing a lot of "urban myths of internet marketing", accepting the consensus of opinion without realising that it's often very misguided, and not having enough judgement to know who to listen to and be guided by.

A combination of two main things:-

(i) They take misguided advice, accept the consensus of opinion without realising that it's often wrong, and don't have enough judgement to know who to listen to and be guided by;

(ii) Some get disillusioned more quickly than others and decide "it doesn't really work" rather than "I'm probably doing it the wrong way".

one thing i find true is that... not giving up and just keep doing whats right. hehehe patience and dont give up attitude

totally depends on you. You could never do it or do it in weeks or months. Just keep going and never quit.

Its so easy to give up. I started using adsense about 2 months ago and so far i have made about £5. I wont stop though i know it will work in the end.

Surely it depends on the niche, the commitment and the ability of the marketer.

A few months if you do effective market research and then do several hours of actual work everyday.

It takes 5 months, 3 weeks, 8 days, 10 hours, 34 minutes, 22 seconds, and 5 milliseconds to earn a full time income online -- oh-know! wait! maybe that was my clock lol

I believe it takes a lot longer than is being implied in this thread.

You need to treat this like any other profession and work your way up.

You cannot expect to get to the top overnight. It takes hard work, and daily dedication to make it full-time.

I would say after you take the time to learn a business model, and put it into action, you can make it full time within 6 months to a year, but most likely longer.

Everyone is different.

I started about 2 years ago and I quit my job in Sep 2010. The bulk of my income came AFTER I quit my job and really focused on earning money online

I taught my brother what I do in January 2011 and he is making as much as me (on adsense and Amazon anyways ) in only a few months.

My bro went HARD to catch up to me with my proven system while I am always wasting / using my time testing new things and trying new tactics. I love to learn, my brother loves to make money!

everything depends on you...if you can master the techniques in a short time then you will see a small amount of income coming in your way...and most newbie fails because they don not have patience they just jump from one method to another which makes them frustrated and leads them to leave IM......I hope you got the answer..

If you start your business on a solid foundation, and are dedicated to making online buisiness work for you, you can expect to see results pretty fast. For example, create articles for syndication rather than back links and short term traffic, while spending time contacting relevant ezine publishers, webmasters and bloggers so you can get your content in front of their highly targeted traffic whom you can funnel into your websites and mailing lists and promote to, making you money.

Chris

I started the first of the year and am making thousands per month (won't say if that is 2, 3, 4 or 5)

I started with a good coach and have an extremely strong work ethic.

However, I have struggled with focus at times and am STILL learning how to be the most productive each and every day.

I think most newbies fail due to not knowing the steps and order to go in; no clear cut plan.

I highly recommend starting with a coach - accountability is key.

The answer to the first question really is that it takes as long as it takes. Meaning that it depends on how quickly someone understands and then takes actions on the principles they are putting into play.

The answer to the second question is that they do not have the right mindset. Most newbies come a this with a j.o.b. mindset. Thinking okay I will make a pay check each and every week comparable to my job. They are looking to get paid. They do not see this as a business.

That is way most newbies fail. If you look at the failure of small businesses. 95% fail in the first five years. IM is not different. Except that most IMers give up and fail much sooner.

It all boils down to the mindset though. Do you have what it takes to work for yourself? To push yourself and call yourself out on your own bs when you are not working? That sort of thing. No excuses. That and most people think that working on-line is easy. Yes it is easy in the sense that you are not digging a ditch, but it is still hard work. You have to make yourself work even when you don't want to. Keep pushing when others don't believe in you.

If you can do all that and put in the time, then you will still fail, but you don't give up. You keep coming back to learn where you failed and do better. That is what success is, finding all the ways that something does not work for you, till you find one or two that do.

That could take a week or it could take years. The choice and the decision is in each person that persues this dream.

Thanks so much for sharing so far guys, really appreciate your input! Looking forward to more insights :-)