I am Rich from Internet Marketing!

Well said. Make an awesome product that you believe in, and the rest is history.

This is quite possibly the best answer I have ever read in my life. Sums it all up in one short little sentence.

People are too often caught up in the latest google trick or some fancy new bit of software.

@brian...wondering if you sell any product. how did you do your research? i mean, is this like the usual marketing done for a physical business?

^ That is pretty much everything in a nutshell!

It IS as simple as that the HARD part is taking action...

Chris

We'd be MUCH better off even in the states.

Hey Matt, I disagree with your position. I know I live in the US, but to some degree, I don't think location is important. There are probably just as many people in the UK making a full time living online than there are here in the US. There have been some great ideas given above about what people are actually doing.

What do you do well? Article writing or product creation? SEO? Web Design or graphic design? There are tons of ways that YOU can make a full time income working from your kitchen table or local coffee shop which is where i am right now.

Yeah living in blighty does suck sometimes... Although I'm off to NZ in Oct, so I'll feel rich earning in $US!... Now to put what Mr Rose just said into practice I think.

Well, not everything is hit or miss.

It is about educating yourself, and doing some proper research up front so some educated guesses can be to your benefit and help you get there quicker.

A small bit of market research before entering a niche can go a really long way.

I want to introduce a concept here.

If someone put a gun to your head and said you'd die if you didn't make $1000 this week online could you do it?

My guess is yes. Most times when people are not making the money they want to make it is because they don't really want to make that money as bad as they think they do.

Now, this might not be you. I dunno.

But try this...find someone offering web design or seo services.

Now, go out every day and pitch 10 offline business these services.

You don't even have to know how to do them yourself. There are warriors here who offer these services who are total experts. So go hire em and act as a middle man.

You can earn six figures THIS year doing only this if you are willing to put the work in it requires to obtain new clients.

Cheers,

James

You have the right attitude, to work hard. This is what I propose, as well, because frankly, not everyone can be good at marketing.

Sell services, build up a budget, make sure you are getting by, and maybe then you can slowly transition to higher payday marketing efforts.

I'm just starting out and I would also like to know if people are truly making a living doing IM. Obviously everyone's income varies but I wonder if the HUGE paydays are actually possible. Anyone on here making over $10,000 a month?

List building seems to be the best option that I'm hearing about in every forum. What is the best way to build a quality list? Are there people making money through lists without their own products?

Sell a product or sell a service and you'll make money, it really is that simple.

Most people who fail to make money Online are either thinking too much (and not doing anything), taking the wrong course of action, or giving up too early.

For example, i've seen countless people set up sites to promote affiliate offers and then give up because traffic hasn't been coming in... The thing is, they give up when they haven't bust their ass to generate any....

Sounds logical. You make the site, rank it #1 and then look for businesses to pay for the spot??? How do you know anyone will take you up on the offer?

It would be great if I can get some examples of "own product" from everyone?

Thanks!

Find 12 experts in your niche and interview them. There you have it, your own product you can start selling. This is the fastest and easiest way to make money, build your brand and build a list in that market.

Wow the thread title was misleading. At least you make $10. You have to scale that up.

The highway of earning money online (or offline) is giving people what they need, while they believe that they get what they want.

In other words, provide a solution to a persisting, massive problem, but make sure to sugar-coat it with a burning desire. Weightloss industry is a great example of this behavior: People need to be healthy but they want to be sexy.That's why they pull out their credit cards almost hypnotized every time someone sells to them sizzling hot looks

But there is a problem: People buy what they want, but get really frustrated when they find out that they didn't need it... :rolleyes:

So, you need to become a magician: You have to take care of your customers' real needs while they're busy satisfying their wildest desires!

words to live by. plan your attack, and do it. If it fails remember why and move on.

What ever you do in IM is useful, no time is wasted when trying to make $$$ online.

I am NOT rich from internet marketing, but I make my full time living online. I found a method I liked and made me a little money. I stopped buying stuff. I found a forum that taught what I wanted to learn. I started working and focusing. I measured my results.

Heather

Wanna make money today ?

Solve people problems .... Find out what they want that hasn't happened yet and be the one to give it to do them

Of course , you have to be competent .. You give crap , you would get boatloads of refunds

So ,the quality has to be there ...

What can you do ... I bet everybody reading can probably write very good English

You can offer an article writing service for people who need ...$6 a pop ... you are earning

Can you turn around and buy get an speech writer software like Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 and write 10 time more article and make 10 time the amount

Of course you can


As long as you are willing to do the work , there is plenty of money for you

I want to add something I know will change your look on marketing.

Specifically, I applaud the people saying "Find what someone wants and sell it" - but there's more to it than that which I want to explain:

FOCUS ON A RESULT THAT SOMEONE WANTS TO ACHIEVE

When you start marketing, most people tend to focus on the superficial stuff. That means, you look at products, services and "things" that you can sell. Everyone does it - it's just natural.

The problem with thinking about what products you can sell is that you forget why people buy stuff in the first place -> everyone wants a result. And normally, they don't care about how they get that result as long as it seems wacky, has good packaging and seems trustworthy.

This means that when you're starting out - look for people who need help. Don't even think about products or services or yourself. Think about them - think about how you can provide something that's really going to help them achieve the result they want.

I CALL THIS "MARKETING TO THE CORE" (FRANK KERN CALLS IT THE CORE INFLUENCE)

Each time you want to buy a product, it's not because you want to get that thing. It's because you have a deep-rooted passion, want or need to get the result that thing promises. That's why diet pills sell so well - because they are meant to deliver a result that most people want (to lose weight without thinking about it).

This is the reason why some products can sell for an astonishingly high price without many people even flinching about paying, because they want to be part of some super exclusive club and expect to pay top dollar for doing so. It's funny because if I went up to someone with a marketing product and said "this costs $3,000 will you buy it", I'll get laughed out of the building. However, if I laid the pitch out correctly and marekted to their CORE - and said "what if you could have a system where you didn't have to work again and just relied on a series of websites to bring in an income, how much would that be worth?", they'd proably be willing to write me a check for $5,000 or more.

WHEN "RESEARCHING" - ALWAYS LOOK FOR A RESULT THAT SOMEONE WANTS, AND THEN DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU CAN GIVE THEM THAT RESULT

One of the biggest markets ever is weight loss, right?

Want to know why? It's because almost everyone in the World wants to lose weight. And when a solution is created for that, demonstrates that it can provide results - you can build a $400 million empire from it.

An Advanced Tip To Make Big $$

I want to share a sneaky tip on this topic.

If you want to make big money, just locate where the MOST PRODUCTS have been produced for a particular group of people. The presence of products, as many of you will point out, is a sure sign that people want the result those products provide. This means that these "product pools" are actually going to provide you with a bread-crumb trail right back to people who want to buy something - therein solving your problem.

What I like to do is to find a large group of people buying products. I look at the products and work out what their core results are. Then I look to create & promote a product which is different, but still helps achieve those core results.

That's how you create a product with a USP. Then you just got to promote it.

Well im quite new to all this internet marketing but I read ALOT and paid for different trainings, WSOs, etc.. and seriously, what you say is exactly what I am doing right now...(trying to )

However, im lucky enough to have some money to invest and am able to pay experienced people to create my stuff and promote it so I can learn from them and after that I will take all this knowledge and probably do what im best at by myself and leave the boring parts to other people (paid).

I have an offline business (not into marketing at all) with employees,offices and eveything... Over the years I have learned that you have to do what you are good at and let other people do the parts you cant do or are not good at.. Thats what I am trying to implement here.

My goal is to get some affiliate sites working and from there decide if I want to go on the flipping side or the keep-them-all-for-accumulated-profit side.

I havent made a dime yet, im pretty new to all this, no site yet (getting one built right now) but my goal is to have enough income every month to sell my business and stay at home with my family selling stuff online/ or services offline. I KNOW I can do it. When you KNOW you can do it, it happens. When you THINK you can do it, you end up never making it most of the time..


Sorry my english isnt perfect

You hit it on teh head.

Find something that works, and just keep doing that, do not deviate from the plan. Too many times marketers try to go and find the holy grail secret da vinci code to how to make money online. Only to find that there is nothing but hot air.

Just stick to you guns, and stop swaping from what one thing to the other. Once I did that, the $ and chunky change came

Yet you can figure it out by putting the pieces of the puzzle in here together. People collectively share a LOT of information.

The other side of the coin to that comment is to much information and to overwhelmed to do anything substantial with it.

I agree with nearly every comment on here. You will make money from the different steams mentioned here, but the one thing all these comments have in common is that they're all multiples. Multiples websites built and sold, multiple review sites, multiple articles written make money, multiple adsense and amazon sites.

Alot of people who start out in internet marketing assume that their first website will make them rich and thats all that needs to happen. While granted their is the odd case where someone stumbles onto a gem and makes some good money from their first site or article a majority of us won't and don't. The secret is to build your first site till it makes it's first sale or income stream, then while your scaling that site to generate more, you build your second site along the same lines, and then your third, fourth and so.

Same goes with article marketing and offline sales, figure whats the best angle to approach a new client offline and when it works, upscale it and use it again on a new client.

Making money online is about multiples. I have alot of sites which make a little bit of money, but all those sites together make me a fair bit of money which is all going into my next site which even though has been up and rebuilt in the last few weeks is already making sales and pretty much well breaks alot of the rules of IM and niche marketing.

George, can YOU edit your post to remove his links?

His post is already reported btw.