How Many Years Would It Take to Make $20,000 a year from Internet Marketing Alone?

One year ya daft apeth.

If you think outside the box you might be able to make $20k/month. Of course that requires lots of hard work and knowledge about what you are doing, but it certainly is achievable. There are so many things to do that you should maybe pick one area of IM you will focus on like affiliate marketing. After that it's studying, studying and studying (it never ends). You have to practice your skills and test your knowledge in the real life situations to become successful.

If you aim to be average you will be average. To make lots of money you have to aim high but remember that it's always riskier when the bets are high.

hi siocowiz,

with the right info or the right mentor to teach you it could be done in no time. 1st month, second month, 3rd, it's up to you and what paths you choose to take in marketing. Just don't get overloaded trying to do everything there is to do, pick something, get good at it, make money with it, then learn something else. Also don't get caught up too much in things that change overnight unless you want to be constantly course correcting instead of making money. Do something that is evergreen and will be more or less the same today as it will be tomorrow, true marketing.

The average internet marketer will never earn an income of $20k in a year: the turnover-rate of "people trying out internet marketing" is absolutely enormous.

siocowiz

You can make money with affiliate marketing, plenty of people are doing it, but your income is still dependent on someone else's program. My advice is to learn something, get good at it, and create a product teaching what you learned. Creating your own products will allow you to control your income much better and build a following of subscribers and fans that will buy repeatedly. You can do much more over the long term when the products you are selling are your own.

I started out in affiliate marketing too, and found it difficult as well. I find creating and marketing my own stuff a lot easier and more rewarding and I can get affiliates to sell it for me too

I sold a variety of affiliate stuff, relationship products, different ebooks, internet marketing stuff. There's one thing about marketing, if you are affiliate marketing you will definitely be common among the rest unless you find ways to be different, but with your own products you will always be unique and in control. Don't worry too much about not knowing enough, you only have to learn one thing well to teach it and i'd be willing to bet you know more than you think, most people do. Your credibility will come if the product is good, you really only need to know what you are teaching well, no matter how small it is at first.

I sent you a PM but I don't think it went through. Let me know if you would like to chat about it further, no sales pitches or anything.

at my current rate it will take 23years to take $20KPA!!!

You can make that in a month, if not a week with IM. 20k a year is nothing for IM. Not going to tell you about ideas and such, just letting you know that 20k a year is NOTHING.

yes that is fine, HMU on FB and we can chat about it.

Depends on how dedicated you can focus on one thing at a time, how much time you can put in and your budget.

Internet marketing does cost money just like any business a lot less but there's still money needed.

If your going down the affiliate marketing route.

Learn:

Niche research (including how to spot which niches buy) -> product research -> Keyword research -> competition research (recommend Market Samurai) -Basic copywriting -> how to build and host a simple wordpress self hosted site -> internal seo research -> Newsletter research (how to build one ect)-> build yoursite (make it at least 15 pages) -> external seo research (backlinks - articles, blog commenting, press releases) - testing (looking at your tracking account).

Each step is important, it seems like a lot but there's quite a bit of cross over between the steps.

With that your need at least $10 for a domain, $54 for hosting, $15 a month fo Aweber (an autoresponder) and you can try Market Samurai for free. Plus around $50 to kick start your backlinking.

That also presuming that you make your website yourself.

Check out share a sale, clickbank and paydotcom.com for programs to promote!

Good-luck!

Sam

Years or tears?

I would suggest that if you are the type of person who is afraid to commit to anything for fear of not being successful and having wasted your time as you said, any type of entrepreneurship, including Internet Marketing, is not for you.

I'm not saying this to be mean - but simply to save you the frustration and disapointment you are likely to experience by going into IM.

The fact is that probably only 5% of people ever become really, truly successful at it (meaning long term (5 years +) independence accomplished from IM).

There are some people who are not cut out for self employment, and that's nothing at all to be ashamed of. If your the type of person who is better suited to work for someone else and you do your best every day, you have more to be proud of than the "successful" internet marketer who puts out crappy products.

Anyway good luck to you regardless of what you decide to do.

It's not so much the number of years, but finding the right stragtegy for the poduct or service you are promoting and then scaling it up

Answer to thread title: 6 months is a good goal. Break it down, $20,000 =

200 $100 SALES - 400 $50.00 SALES - 10 $2,000 SALES -

Figure out a product, that meets the standards of your goal - Could be 2 $10,000 sales, or even one $20,000 sale.

In six months you could easily make 800 $25.00 sales... How? Its all around you... you are swimming in it. Look at the forrest. Look beyond the trees.

Break it down man. You got this.