I myself have fallen for the “Guru’s”, you know the guys online who started from nothing yet ended up having millions and knows all the secrets that nobody else does and is willing to share with you his proven method of making millions online, for a small fee of course.

Now don’t get me wrong, I know there are a handful of people on the Internet who genuinely believe that they can help you make money and want you to succeed, but there are plenty more who only care about turning a profit for themselves and the information they share is only bits and pieces of the entire puzzle of making money online, or just complete garbage.

When it truly comes down to it, the product or the service being sold isn’t nearly as important as the person who knows the marketing skills behind the product. With the right know how you can basically make money from any avenue online, any product, or any service just as long as you have the right knowledge of how to do so.

See most of the get rich quick schemes you see online won’t go into detail to teach you how to actually learn the set of skills that it takes to achieve any kind of income on the Internet. They keep you in the dark, they only tell you to follow commands as you go through the steps blindly and not really grasping how and why you are doing what you are doing.

As time progresses eventually you’ll become confused and frustrated and eventually give up and try to find the next best thing to make money, jumping from one thing to the next. This process can continue on for quite some time as it did for me, yet with every experience I realized that there were certain things that worked and certain things that didn’t.

I knew that I had to learn the “skill sets” that the real people online knew that they were using, I slowly put the pieces together and used what worked and discarded everything thing else that didn’t.
Instead of worrying about the money I knew I had to learn the skills first and then the money would eventually come.

Skills like market research and traffic generation and converting visitors to buyers is more than luck, there’s a science behind the entire process. I knew that investing time into learning how to apply these techniques would ultimately bring me the revenue that I was searching for online and help me build my online business one step at a time.

If your trying to make money online and haven’t seen any fantastic results I suggest investing some of your time into your own education and possibly taking a crash course on the basics of Internet Marketing, out of the everything I’ve tried online honestly nothing has been more worth the investment.

I find that after a night of laying in bed thinking I tend to wake up with so many ideas about things that I want to write about.  For me this is my magical time to pump out all of my ideas before they dissapear forever from my memory.

So what I do is grab a quick breakfast, fire up my laptop, then open up my word processing program and begin writing since for me this is the best time to capture my greatest thoughts.  Now this could be different for everybody, some people may find that their best time to write is before bed, some may find it in the mid day or before lunch either way everybody should notice a time of day that they notice is most enjoyable to write articles.

On a typical day I can write anywhere from around three 250-500 word articles to five.  Now that may be hard for most people to do, but sticking to writing atleast 1 article a day is a good goal to get started with.  That’s 30 a month/360 a year give or take..not bad at all if you look at it like that.

Once you write an article, proof read it and go ahead and submit it to various article directories, I suggest going to www.EzineArticles.com, if your not an author yet I really suggest you sign up for their free membership and start submitting your written work and start getting some highly targeted visitors to your website.

I tend to find that it is more productive to write a handful of articles at one time and then just save them to your desktop, and then choose a day to submit all of those articles.

Here is a cool tip -

On the day that you choose to submit your articles try to submit 1 article and then wait 2-3 hours before submitting the next, and so on and so on.  This way all of your articles will get approved all around the same time gaining more exposure for you as more people will notice your work as they appear next to each other.  Also this gives you more of a chance to have your articles appear in the most viewed section on Ezines, resulting in more and more exposure.

Writing articles is a skill and can be a pain in the rear for alot of people, most writers will face writer’s block as they sit starring at the front of the comptuer screen trying to figure out what they should write about…this is a natural thing and as time progresses you’ll get better at writing articles.  Try to write articles as though you are speaking to a close friend, this way the words will just flow and your articles will sound more smoother to your readers and be more enjoyable to read. If you still find it difficult to write articles don’t worry, the great thing about this business is that if you can’t do it you can damn near outsource any if not all of the work by searching on websites like www.Elance.com.

You may find that as your online business grows it is very unproductive to spend your time doing all the ‘grunt work’ and it’s more beneficial to just hire others to do so.  Remember, it’s all about writing little checks and cashing bigger checks so make sure to be as productive as you can!

So find that time of day that you can focus your energy on and use that magical time to capture some of your best material!

You’ll thank yourself later for it -

Tuan