When it comes to making money on the internet, my partner and I have a combined 25 years in this business and I suppose we can say we have seen it all in this industry. Just to think about all the different ways we have seen over the years to supposedly make tons of money on the internet is rather mind boggling to say the least. How confusing it must be to the new person trying to get started in this mysterious business, as the Guru's would have you believe. Most of the written material is only good for the person writing it so they can sell it to the masses with all the links in the material describing that you must have this and that so they can make more money. And it goes on and on and on. In the beginning of our mission to try to make it big in networking, we wasted more money than either of us wish to remember, but remember we do.



Sad to say, much of the garbage is still on the internet and no doubt it will be for a long time. This is one of the main reasons the failure rate is so high in networking. It seems like it's very hard to find anyone that will tell you in simple terms how to promote a product on the internet so the average person can make a very high yearly income without having to keep purchasing all the so called get rich material that everyone and his brother is promoting.

Find an experienced company that has the answer to anyone that wants to listen. Let's just take a simple example to try and make a very substantial point. If you were going to open up a shoe store the first thing you would do would be to meet with a reputable shoe company to find out how much money you had to put up and exactly what you had to do to become successful.

After you had an understanding of exactly what it would take to get started in the material side of the business, you would then be told about how much advertising you would have to do monthly to keep enough people visiting your store so you could pay your bills and hopefully have some profit so you cold stay in business and start all over again next month.

Starting a traditional business in very costly, most don't survive the first 5 years. Every business owner wants to experience the American dream of having your own business, but don't understand all the trials and tribulations that go along with the dream.

Staring at the top is not always as easy as one might perceive. The difference in starting a traditional business and starting an internet business is, the internet offers you a chance to build a residual income where most traditional business do not.

There are many qualities one must have in any business, and the main one is determination and never quit. There is one simple rule and that is, you must advertise. If you plan on starting a business on or off the internet and you don't have the necessary capital to advertise, then your best bet is to stay out of the business world.

There are many ways to advertise. Short little 3 lines in the newspaper will work. Internet advertising will work, you just have to know how to do it and that's where good companies come in.

Find a company that will take you by the hand and teach you how to make whatever amount of money you want. Some companies will handle your advertising as long as you pay for it .

Copyright (c) 2007 Carroll Payne