A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet this fantastic woman named Aunt Melba who enlightened me on her take of all these opportunities to make money online. Though she had never done it herself she still had knowledge to share that applied to making money anywhere-whether it be online or off.



Until she retired a few years back, Aunt Melba had enjoyed a very lucrative career in offline advertising and marketing for a Madison Ave. type company that marketed everything from cereal to diapers. She sees the opportunity to make money online as just as extension of what was done for a long time through television.

Now in this information age the playing field has been leveled somewhat to include everyone that wants to try their hand at trying to make some easy money online fast. Aunt Melba feels that dreams are being sold to people but not necessarily effective ways to make money online.

All these claims of how to make money online fast and easy causes Aunt Melba to sigh and shake her head because that was the perception of her job when she worked. It can't be that fast and easy to make money online if the whole world isn't pursuing it.

Usually the things that are fast and easy means that it'll be fast and easy for you to dump a ton of cash into before you realize what is wrong. In actuality, people who do make money online work their fingers to the bone or pay someone else to and just want you to think it's easy so they can look like geniuses or gurus.

We talked a little about people who think they can make money online doing surveys. I told her that I had some experience working with a couple of companies but it never panned out- most of the time you would take a survey and be compensated with points or gift certificates. At hearing me say I had done this several times she jokingly called me insane.

She said that it made no sense to do the same things over and over again if you're not making any progress. Aunt Melba pointed out that there were three things that could definitely make money online-if you stay consistent and be patient for your rewards.

Aunt Melba's 3 things were: Having a System- Setting Goals-Do Something Each Day

For any online business opportunity or offline business situation you must have a system to follow. Kind of like an assembly line for making cars or bikes. What ever online money making opportunity should offer this way of doing things in a systematic and consistent way.

Goals consist of having goals for yourself as well as goals that are targeted by the parent company. What do you want your online business to look like in 3, 6, 9 months? Is this a hobby or a real money making online business?

Doing something each day to further your business is guaranteed to be advantageous. You have to treat this with the consistency of a brick and mortar business- show up everyday and do some work. Being lazy about your business is the fastest way to no longer have

It doesn't matter if you're an old pro or a fresh fish you should be looking for a way to make money online that has sustainability. You have to have a "WHY" that drives your business. Why are you doing this and is the alternative to doing this helping or hurting you?