Thanks for reading.

I know there’s 2 reasons poeple laugh:
1) humor: somethings funnny
2) tension from discomfort/awkwerdness

You hit both for me.

holy grail of greed (HGOG): funny
…about 6 months ago, (er, maybe 3 months ago. OK, last week.): funny

The rest hit too close to home and made me laugh to keep from crying.

Keep it up man. This is like free therapy.

“Therapy’s expensive. Bubble wrap is cheap. Your choice.” Dan Kennedy

Personally, I believe everyone has been suckered into the notion that success on the Internet equals mega $$$s every month, especially when we see headlines such as “Learn how I made $164,374.28 in 7-days” or “Do you want to know the secret to how I make $28,578 a month with Google AdSense?”.

Crazy!

We all know there’s no such thing as instant success. So why do we all get caught up in the mythology and then wonder why it’s not working for us?

Worse still, everyone seems to want that short-cut to riches. Whatever happened to mastering the basics, not only of the Internet but of business itself. Is this because the Internet is so different from any other form of business – expenditure is still money off the bottom line, and cashflow and profits are the things that put food on the table and petrol in the tank…

At the risk of being radical – might I suggest a new focus for everyone who, right now is NOT making money on the Internet?

Step 1: Be thankful for what you have today: Opportunity!
Step 2: Forget wanting to be the next Internet Millionaire: Focus on a more practical goal
Step 3: Take stock of where you are: If you could make what you make in your job – right now – so that you don’t have to go back and you can take control of your most vaulable comodity – your time – isn’t that a worthwhile goal?
Step 4: Work out how much you need to live your current life and divide by 30: For example: If you need $3000/month to live and cover all of your expenses, etc. then you need to focus on making $100/day in profit.
Step 5: Now focus on answering the question: How can I make $100/day profit.

Once you can consistently hit $100/day profit you can give up work FOR EVER!

Now you can start working towards your dreams…

By the way, a millionaire coach of mine said “Wealth is not about the money you make, but the money you make on the money you make!!”

In other words plan for the future. The safest form of financial security and wealth is INVESTMENT INCOME. Did you know that if you were living off your investment income (rather than your Internet income) then everything in life is FREE no matter what the price tag?!

Of course, because you never worked to make the money – your investments did it for you – so plan to get trained well so that you can convert your internet income into a vast ongoing investment income.

Now that’s what I call living!

Tony MB
Copyright 2006 Future Lifestyles Today

Excellent concept…You mentioned something in your post I think that is very valuable.

“Marketers are so much more smarter than the consumer.”

Are we the consumers? Or are we the marketers…

Not so much a question b/c I know in your context here we’re the consumers buying the Gurus, how ever I’m a big proponent of putting on our marketing caps when it comes to building these VRE, Blogs, Websites what ever the buzz word of this qtr calls them.

As website/blog owners we have the ability to market to our consumers…which are our visitors. Viewing our sites with this cap on rather then HOW CAN I GET a BILLION pages indexed with adsense on em and enough content that won’t get me banned.

That game is a long haul with no end in sight b/c the SE’s will always and I mean ALWAYS be smarter then us. Building quality, with paitence is the anwser.

You’re right it ain’t easy

It is possible

It takes work.

good luck,

spikey