Is Internet Marketing for me?

Sounds like you did get a solid start since you have earned some money. That's
more than a lot of people have made.

I'd suggest you stop buying anything more until you decide to "do it" or walk
away from it.

IM is many things including frustrating at times, and boring sometimes with the
many small (very important) marketing tasks.

Right. Many things sound fascinating and cool until people realize there's actually
work involved to get to the fascinating and cool experiences, or feelings. But you
can alter your perspective, if you want, and realize that "doing these things" is
really fascinating and cool because of what it represents.

You can make money without doing a lot of writing. If you can afford to outsource
writing, then I would consider doing that "only" after you make a decision and
commitment to be an online marketer.

Your personality type can fit in with anything YOU sincerely decide to do. Don't
take a test like that and think it's gospel about you, your abilities, or what you
can do IF you put your mind to it.

Your personality type will more naturally fit in with some things better than others.
Ok. So what? That's true for all of us.

Maybe ask your self why you want to do IM. What would being successfuly mean
to you, and why would you want it? For some, like me, I want to have more control
in my life and not suffer the whims of managers and businesses who do not care
about me. There are other reasons, but that's one reason why I do it.

If you're lazy, and I suspect you are not all that lazy because you managed to
make some money at it. Yes, sometimes it's difficult doing the small tasks that
comprise being in business of any kind. If you can outsource those tasks, then
you'll become a manager of sorts.

Success in any endeavor requires many things not the least of which is paying
due attention to the small things. It's the little things done every day that will
make or break you no matter what you do.

So just accept, or not, these things and concentrate on what you want to
accomplish.

But if you decide to walk away from it, will you find your self unhappy working
for someone else for the rest of your life?

Hope that helps in some way.

Regards...

Ok I'm going to be honest...there is going to be a lot of work involved. It's a business! Most of the time it's not exciting... writing frustrates me like hell. I hate it, it makes me stressed, but it's a part of it.

Anyway, try to see it this way....do you want to work for a boss for a minimum wage for the rest of your life doing crappy tasks or do you want to have more freedom and be your own boss...? Make up your mind.

Good luck.

Don't believe the test of "personality type".

Every man has his faults, The most important thing is you know what your fault is and you try your best to change it by yourself or be forced by reality.

To be honest, nothing can excite you if you do it everyday.

Let me put it this way: you have two situations -

1.) You can work your ass off for a year, working for someone who doesn't care about you, make $40,000/year and be grateful you have $10 left in your bank account

OR

2.) You can work your ass off for a year, set your own hours, treat yourself often and make as much money as you f***in feel like.

Which would you take?

#1's easy. #1 doesn't require any thinking. You show up at 8:00, you do your gruntwork, then go home and watch the Daily Show in bed.

#2's hard as MOTHERF***ING HELL but has soooooo much more potential. It requires thinking for yourself. It requires depending on you and you alone to make sure the bills are paid. You may find yourself working at weird hours, but nobody will glare at you if you've got LolCats in another tab. You keep doing what works, you find new things that work, and then after awhile hey... this isn't so motherf***ing hard after all.

It's your choice.

Think long and hard about it. Hopefully the answer will become obvious.

Only you can answer these questions, based on what you desire and whether you think you have the skills and determination needed.

Regarding your "Personality Test", just forget about it. Don't let some Psychiatric Psychobabble put some erroneous label on you.

Sam

There are so many great answers in this thread already, which I would have said myself too.

But I will add this. Everyone trying to build their own business gets the same feelings. They get bored or impatient at certain tasks, eagerly waiting for the excitement of what they might lead to.

How do I work around this? I try to form a picture in my mind of why I'm doing it. It's a reason behind my work. If you have this image in your mind of what you're working for, everything you do will be worthwhile even if it doesn't instantly make you thousands.

I agree with the others that your 'personality type' doesn't matter - yes it might mean you have a different style in IM, but not that you can't do it at all. Perhaps it's that you haven't found your own individual style yet. Stop buying products, start focusing on less and you'll probably find it.

Hi!
I'm not really that familiar regarding internet marketing but to be successful in it requires
persistence and hard work. BE optimistic on everything you do. Learn to love your work.

Internet marketing is not easy work. Stay away from the programs that promise you this and that, you'll only get frustrated even more. I've been learning about marketing on the net for almost 2 years now. I have had to drive and push myself to learn everything I need to be self-sufficient. My carer died with the recession so I had to find something else. There is a place that offers live training and gives you a system to work with and the best part it doesn't cost anything. It's full of people that interact and help each other. It's always hard trying do things on your own, maybe you have been bouncing around and never actually stopped long enough to master one system.

I have to be honest with you. Working online is not going to be easy. It is hard enough to find someone to help you.

Your personality type doesn't have anything to do with if you can do it or not. Celebrate every milestone that you accomplish. You made some money, celebrate it and go on to the next goal.

Focus on one strategy and don't go to anything until you master that one.

It sounds like you need to make a plan and stick to it. I've tried all sorts of things before such as SEO PPC and article marketing. And it was because I've been hearing that this and that are the next big things. But none of those have worked too well for me.

I eventually got tired and just focused on my offline businesses which have been proven to work the best for me. Now I have had some recent successes in terms of online promotions, but I'm still going to focus on my offline businesses. In fact, I'm going to use what I've jsut learned to keep promoting my offline businesses.

Stop that!

I did that. I did it for a long time. And then I said "I am not buying another damn thing until I make the money to buy it from something I've already bought."

And I started making money.

Just pick something. I picked Jenn Dize's ghostwriting course. I used her free report to get a few clients. I used some of the money they paid me to buy her full-blown course. I used that course to get more clients and make more money.

Four months later, I don't have or need a day job anymore. I haven't completely replaced my former income, but I get by.

Just pick something, anything, and stick with it. Come hell or high water.

Nothing about making money online is fast.
Nothing about making money online is easy.
Nothing about starting ANY business is easy and fast.

You need persistance and patience.
You need to developed a 'never say die' attitude.

That being said. Find a product/ebook that you can relate to 100 percent. There are a lot of them but find the one that you can relate to and follow. I love step by step instructions and they have worked well for me.

However, if you are not committed, then go get a job to find out you need to get committed.

Good luck!

Nothing (well, almost nothing) is given to you on a silver platter. And even the things that are never end up being free.

Hard work and perseverance!! If you really want to make money, it is possible. ANYONE can do it, in my opinion.

This ebook Click here will help get you motivated.
Just kidding!

Seriously this quote may help.

"No try, do or do not, no try"
Master Yoda

I'm in agreement with Hasan Barbary, I think the real question is, "Is Being Self-Employed For Me?"

I've found that having a small business takes dedication, persistence, organization, business sense, customer service, research and development and more. I mean it literally takes everything that you have to make it go and keep it going. Not only does the small business owner have to wear all of the hats in order to run the business, he/she has to work with your CPA and make sure that all of the accounting is accurate & complete.

I think the key is to have a business plan that you are willing to commit to and have an understanding of your purpose, mission and vision written so that you will know why you are doing what you're doing. Those 3 components will help you stay focused on the daily activities because the tasks will overwhelm you sometimes. When you have Purpose, Missions & Vision defined you know why your organization exists and you can employ others to embrace it to help you accomplish the organizational/entities goal.

The Vision is "Why your business exists"
The Purpose is "What the business fulfillment is in the marketplace"
The Mission is the "How you are going to achieve the business purpose"

Keep focused as you have already seen some success.

Keep away from distractions and reward every small achievement. Help others through forums like this and you can find it more rewarding.

Outsource to others things that you do not like to do. Focus on the main things that will help u succeed. Use exprtise of others. Work smart not only hard...

Michael T.

Since you already made some money form online business you are surely capable of raising it on next level.
But its all up to you.
You have to be pro-active to make any significant progress in online business.
This kind of business surely has its benefits but also has its cons, too.
And most important, if you do not feeling happy while doing such creative work, no matter of financial benefit, it could be serious issue later.
So, try to "interview" yourself to find your deepest wishes and put on table all pros and cons of three jobs: your current job, online business job you started so far and ideal job you would like to do.
Be sincere.
And you`ll get your answer.
Wish you all the best

you have always got choices in everything.If you do not want or like to write the articles then outsource the work.If you are going to deal with a niche blog then it might require up to 50 or 100 articles.so that would not cost you too much.Concentrate on the marketing part by yourselves.take baby steps and you will soon become good at doing IM.