The first thing we all do in our quest for online riches is ask google or one of it’s popular counterparts “how do I make money online.” The ironic thing about this question that we all ask in the beginning is, most of the people that are trying to give us the answer are simply just trying to make money online. One of the most popular and most lucrative online businesses is in fact teaching people how to make money online, simply because it is a very popular subject and it draws a lot of traffic from the search engines.

Unfortunately for us, in the beginning we are constantly duped by “sales lines” on fancy landing pages on the internet. Ones that promising overnight riches with only three hours of work every day! The probability of this promise materialising is about as likely as me getting pregnant.

There is a reason why only 2% of people who try and make money online actually make it and I have a theory. My theory consists of two parts. 1, failure to finish & 2, lack of knowledge. I will elaborate on these now for you.

Firstly, we are going to talk about “failure to finish.” This is important because if you have been trying to make money online for some time now, you will probably be stuck in this cycle, the cycle being, you buy a product, use it, see no results, buy another product. I personally was trapped in this cycle for 14 months when I first started out and kick myself everyday for doing it! If you’re going to try and learn something, then spend the time learning and implementing it, and you should see results.

The fact of the matter is, if you want to make it online as a successful internet marketer, just like if you were trying to make it in any other business, you have to know your subject. There is no magic, “click a button” for money. There is no “build it and they will come” website opportunity and to be honest, if something sounds too good to be true then guess what, it probably is!

Nothing in this world comes with out honest hard work but, the beautiful thing, and I’m going to stress the word beautiful here is, once you have done the work on the internet, it “stays done.” This is what they mean by only “three hours a day of work” or “autopilot,” because once you have put the hours in working on different techniques that will drive potential customers to your website, you won’t have to do that work again, in fact you will be able to spend more time improving those techniques and getting better results from your efforts

The next point in my break down of “lack of knowledge” for this article is maximising your efforts. If you spend three hours a day doing something wouldn’t you rather those hours actually gave you results? Not only results, but the best results you can get from three hours of work? I know what I prefer!