Time for Spring Cleaning in the Middle Summer

I find that I owe you, my readers an appology. I had promised that I would get back on track with the series since I last posted on 24 July, 2009. And now look it is almost the 29th. Wow, where did the time go?

Well I owe you an explanation for the delay. Let me answer by giving a very valuable word of advice, and I am certain that any readers who happen to have been married for at 19 years as I am, will concur. When your spouse asks, the politically correct word for demand, you to go through the house and get rid of the stuff you do not use anymore it can take several days. Why? Because you first throw the stuff you know without a doubt you'll never use again, but then you have to return to the pile of stuff you are not sure about and sort through it trying to come up with excuses why you should keep it. You might need it someday, like in 2910 or sometime, but I am making progress, I think another couple of days and the "Stuff" should be a much smaller. and less noticeable, pile that I should be able to get away with until at least next year. Guys out there now what I am talking about, while most of the gals are trying to resolve my ip addresses so they can try and let my wife have a heads up on the situation.

If my wife happens to be reading this just ignore the previous paragraph, it is not real honest.

Anyway, I thought I would try and get through Step 3, whilst I had a chance.

Step 3.
Why you can't get Rich Overnight
Yes, I have touched on this a long time ago, but I still get lots of people asking why it's happening to them. So let's take another look at the process.

I read all over the internet of people getting rich overnight, why can't I?
Why?, Because it just doesn't happen like that. Sure there are exceptions and those exceptions are the ones you are reading about. But honestly, you have a better chance of either winning the PowerBall Jackpot, all six numbers plus the powerball, or getting struck by lighting. And getting struck by lighting is even more likely than getting the PowerBall Jackpot or Making Millions on the internet overnight.

So how do you get rich on the internet? SLOWLY and with PATIENCE. If you can master those two you got it made. Yep, it takes both time and patience to make money on the internet, or anywhere else for that matter. Why? Because you got to generate traffic and then get that traffic to buy.

Let's say you make Crappie Jigs, Crappie are a fish in case you were wondering, and you plan to sell them at 6 for $1.00. If you don't tell anyone on the internet about them and where to get them, what are your odds of selling even 1? NONE. So now we have to get a website up touting the benefits of your Crappie Jigs and how to order them. That takes a day or two, longer if you need to locate someone to make the page for you. Now it's been a couple of days and we have our fancy looking website all coded up, now we will be making the big bucks right? Um, No. Now that we have our site up, we now must show people how to get there and how to order. Yep, even though you have your website up and active, the rest of the world does not even know it exists, yet.

Now we got a website, but how do we make money with it?
We now have to get people to our site. This is called driving traffic, simply put you nee to let people know the site is there and give them a reason to go check it out. And once they are there you need to intice them to buy what you are offering. Remember, you only make money when they buy.

Now depending on how much time you commit to your product, you can be making money in as little as 48hrs. But most, will start making money sometime during the first month. Because you are probably like most of us. You still need to get a few bugs worked out, decide on what email services you want to use, what formats you want to deliver, looking for more places to advertise on without spending more money, etc., etc.

To really make the real money, you have to patient and make each decision count. Pick a marketing strategy and stick to it. If you keep trying to change horses midstrem you will get nothing but wet. I recommend Micro-Continuity for information products and Arictle Marleting for non-information products.

I recommend considering information products and using Micro-Continuity to market them. Why? Because it is probably the least work intense of all products.

But no matter what your product is, you will make nothing until you first make the commitment to market it. And then, over time you will make money. There is no "Get Rich Overnight' secrets, ask anyone who actually makes a living on the internet. Check out ConquerYourNiche, a forum for internet marketing, some the top-notch brains in the industry hang out here. And by the way you can joing for free, no problem. I recommend this forum to all my clients, because you by joing for free you get to hang with some of the "best of the best" and you get to pick their brains when you need to. If you check it out, you are sure to find replies to people just like you who were asking, "Why am I not making millions overnight, like all the hyped-up claims?" And you will see that they are saying pretty much the same thing, "It takes time and patience..." to be successful, and some times even failing before you get there.

One parting thought,
Once you do get in the money, be smart with it! Give some to your favourite charity or church or both. Take Dave Ramsey's Class on Financial Peace and Financial Peace University. He will teach you how to be a good steward of your money. So many people make it to the money, only to lose it all, due to financial ignorance. So educate yourself, and then you will not only get rich, but you will stay rich.



Until next time, remember you should be the only one responsible for yourself. Then you have no worries, you can handle it. Quit making excuses, and do something about it!

Cheers!