The reasons for this are varied. Here are just a few reasons why the majority fail, and how you can avoid them and be successful.

1) Mental Attitude is probably the biggest, yet least acknowledged, reason why people fail to make money online.

Not only the natural, and normal, fear of failure either.Their subconscious negative mental barriers stop them actually wanting to succeed and make money. The fear is that they will become greedy, and obsessive, leaving less time to spend with family and friends. Maybe they think they will not not know what to do with the extra money they make, unbelievable though that may sound.

Obviously, these barriers have to be overcome and people have to consciously want to succeed, want to have more money to spend on family, friends and/or themselves. If you have tried for awhile to make money online and failed maybe this is the first place you should look - inside yourself, your motivation, or lack of it. As that old saying goes 'Where you are in life is where you want to be' - so start by wanting to be somewhere much better.

Following a Proper Method or System.

There are many e-books and courses available online to help you succeed, but unfortunately most of them are just theory and fluff. All mouth and no trousers, as we say in the UK. Very few are step-by-step guides and even those that are often miss out the one vital step needed for success.

3) Competing with the experts, big spenders and the majority of Internet marketeers.

If you are just getting started it is almost impossible to compete successfully with people who are many times more experienced at making money online than you are. If you are trying to sell Internet marketing products as an Affiliate, or selling your own product(s) online, and enter a market where the competition is so much stronger than you in every way you're bound to have problems

It doesn't matter what method you use - PPC, SEO, etc the market place was probably saturated even before you came along so you are almost bound to fail. Even trying to enter markets that were once niche markets, such as dog training, stop smoking, acne, pregnancy have now become so popular they can no longer really be called 'niche markets'.

It is necessary to know how to effectively target niche markets, and penetrate those profitable little gems on the world wide web to really succeed online. Take this to be one of the best pieces of advice you'll receive as a new online marketer!

So you see, despite the loads of crap out there, despite studying the million e-books, courses, memberships and reports on how to make money online with so little success, it CAN be done.

With a combination of a positive mind-set and the right approach making money online via Niche Marketing can quickly become a reality for you too. If you follow this advice I promise you'll surprise yourself when you find how easy it is!