Building a Solid Internet Business for Beginners
You've read countless stories of people coming online and making
it big. It always sounds like magic, doesn't it? Almost like
there is some secret place on the Internet and if only you could
find it you too would become an overnight success.
Unfortunately, as nice as that sounds, it simply is not true.
Well, not entirely at least because there are indeed some
websites that will help you to build a successful Internet
business but I will talk more about that later in this article.
If you want to make money online by starting your own Internet
business and building it into a strong income stream there are
several options available ranging from creating your own product
such as computer software or writing an ebook to promoting other
people's products and services as an affiliate.
The problem with the whole Internet Business concept is that
most people, for whatever reason, believe the Internet changes
everything. Thousands of people who would never consider
launching a business offline are starting an Internet business
each day. I don't know the exact statistics now but the last
time I checked around 97% of all people who start an Internet
business make no money at all.
You see an Internet business is very easy to start if your
definition of Internet business is simply throwing up a website
or joining one of the many thousands of online business
opportunities currently available.
Make no mistake about it, creating a website or joining an
online business opportunity are great things to do. Both require
you to take some action, to take that so very important first
step. However, that is the whole key to understanding why some
people build successful Internet businesses and others do not.
Taking this action is only your first step. It is the beginning
of your Internet business, not the end.
I believe two of the biggest problems most people face when
setting out to build an Internet business are lack of experience
and impatience.
Impatience is probably the #1 reason why so many people fail to
make money online. Everything online is fast paced. We have
instant search for information, instant messaging and with
digital products we even have instant purchase and product
delivery. People expect things to be fast online. And this
thinking carries over when they set out to build an Internet
business.
Impatience is what makes a person sign up for a moneymaking
opportunity and then drop out of it a few weeks or months later.
Ask them why they quit and they will tell you "because I was not
making any money!". Is there really any mystery? Of course they
did not make any money. They joined an opportunity or created a
website, may or may not have done any marketing, and then just 3
or 4 weeks later they quit. How can anyone expect to make money
like that.
This part of impatience is tied closely to their lack of
experience. Lack of experience in business in general and lack
of experience in marketing. If they understood how business
works they would never expect to make money in a matter of
weeks. Yes, it does happen, but never expect to make money that
quickly. When people say you can build an Internet business
faster than an offline business they mean you can be making
money in a matter of months instead of years. Do you realize 80%
of offline businesses fail in the first two years? Those first
two years are the critical time period, if you can make it past
them your business has a very good chance of becoming successful.
On the Internet you still have that "waiting period" but now
instead of the first two years being the critical period you are
looking at 4 to 6 months. If you are honestly working on
building your business you will see results within 4 to 6
months. You will be making money.
There are new skills you need to learn. The most important will
be marketing your business and building a list of contacts who
are interested in what your business opportunity or website is
offering. There are many tools available to help you accomplish
these vital tasks and build your own very successful Internet
business. The key is for you to take the time and make the
effort to learn how to use them and then to actually use them.
I hope you have found this article enlightening as I tried to
cut through all of the hype you have seen online and deliver the
facts.
Are you still interested in starting a business and spending the
next 4 to 6 months building it into a solid income producer? Or,
having read that it will take 4 to 6 months are you now
completely turned off? Ask yourself where do you want to be 6
months from now? Still looking for a way to make money online or
would you rather spend the next 6 months building the way you
will make money online?
If you are still interested in starting your own Internet
business I highly recommend you check out <
b>http://incomestreams.probuilderplus.com because this
is one of the very few online business opportunities made for
anyone regardless of their level of experience.
You will learn the tools of the trade and belong to a community
of people all working to build a better life.
The author (Garfield Benjamin) hereby grants permission to
publish this article on websites, ebooks, newsletters and other
electronic publishing means providing all links are kept intact
and the author is credited as the original creator of this
article.
About the author:
Garfield Benjamin is probably a lot like you. He heard about all
of the people making money online and he wanted to know how.
After spending two full years just studying and testing Internet
marketing methods he started 2 successful Internet website
businesses and joined a solid <
b>Internet business opportunity to generate even more
income.