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Internet Marketing Business - as I said yesterday, the best business in the world really. The lifestyle allows freedom of time, freedom in making huge amounts of money, freedom in choosing where, how, and for how long you work each day. It’s a fantastic way to be in business. “Business” being the operative word …

Being in business on the internet, versus say, opening up a retail location, or working out of an office versus your home, is exactly the same as business anywhere. In short, you still have to work. You still are “in business”. You have to spend money, you have to put in the hours, you have to lay a foundation and slowly grow.

The main benefit to opening up your business on the net, as I said yesterday, are the “instant on” abilities, fast pace of change, worldwide reach, and you can do it all at a fraction of the cost of opening a street corner location. Retail space on the corner, $5000 a month, and reaches people who drive by the corner. Retail space on the internet equals $50/mth (domain and hosting) and reaches everyone around the world. In both instances you’ll need a lot of marketing, promotion and advertising to succeed, as well as a great product and sales process.

There are so many scams, and so much false information about doing business on the internet that I simply wanted to make things clear. I am still “in business”. I still consider myself a “business”. I’m incorporated, I try (operative word “try”) to work every day. I have systems in place to manage tasks, and I create products and sales processes that take a lot of time and effort. Dispel yourself of the notion that internet business is not work! It’s a lot of work. Just as much, if not more, than opening up that regular business.

What internet business is, fundamentally, is far cheaper to start, and far quicker to open, allowing far broader a reach, and far more automated and long lasting results once you have your structure in place. Very cool indeed, but not the silver bullet all those internet marketing scams make it out to be.

Your business, on the internet or otherwise, will fail miserably if you do not have the entrepreneurial spirit and drive to make it succeed. Saying the magic words, “I own an internet business”, unfortunately, does not magically cure a lack of work ethic, laziness, poor marketing, bad products, or any myriad of bad business decisions and practices. Quite the opposite, in this day and age, competition is tough, wherever you may find it.

So, in preparing my pre-requisites for coaching, and who I’ll accept and want to work with, and whom I will not, I think it’s important that at their core, they have an idea they are passionate about. An idea, that ideally, has been with them for quite some time. A gift they want to get out of themselves and expose to the world, and a real passion to do it.

People often ask me, how can I be so successful at what I do. They look at, and envy, my success. They ask, “why can’t that be me”, or they simply brush it off, and say he “just wants to make money” (as if that’s a bad thing). Unfortunately, they miss the point. I believe success is a difficult thing to craft, and while we all seek to attain it, and in fact it can be mathematically achieved in many cases, it’s never the money that matters. In fact, I view my complete lack of interest in making money to much of my success (and I’ll get into that later).

My success is due to a simple thought pattern - I had gifts that I wanted to share with the world, I had a passion to make those things happen, and I worked extremely hard to do it. I also had a medium (the internet) which my father would have dreamed of having. Sounds easy when you put it that way, eh?

At heart, I was an Entrepreneur, and that’s the type of people I want to work with. Passionate, enthusiastic, positive people. I want to dispel the myth that internet business is somehow different than “regular business”. It’s not! Business is business. There are a few massive unique qualities to business on the net, but in a nutshell, you’re still going into business, and the real money makers, and passion seekers, will view it that way from the start.

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I just don’t stay this enough. Being an entrepreneur on the internet is the way to go.

Note, I didn’t say “work at home on the internet”, and I didn’t say “internet biz”, or “make money on the internet”, or any number of internet business scams that exists out there, attaching the word “internet”.

I think, at the root of internet success, is your understanding, and desire, to be an Entrepreneur. Those people whom work on the net as entrepreneurs, and treat businesses as real businesses, and not hobbies, or portrayals of vanity, will almost always succeed. It’s the nature of Entrepreneurs to eventually find success (often through failure).

Anyone can do this. And yes, I really believe anyone can be successful in business on the internet. The barrier to entry is very low, and the barrier to success is fairly high. If you have a computer, an internet connection and a passion, you have what it takes to be successful online.

While reading this, realize that you, yourself, could have all of these things if you don’t already. It’s all out there, and entirely possible!

So, as an internet entrepreneur, and internet business owner, I enjoy a lifestyle that is unbelievable, even to me. I often find myself amazed at what I have accomplished, and what is possible. The benefits are vast indeed! Yes, it’s very financially rewarding, but honestly, the benefits of internet business go far beyond that, and I’ll mix a few business and personal benefits.

Let’s talk job satisfaction!

Passion! I work on, and in, my passions. Those areas that interest me, that’s what I do on a daily basis. You can focus your internet business around that which motivates and drives you. How cool is that? Really, work is only second to sleep, in the amount of our lives we’ll spend doing it - so you really must love your work.

Speed of Execution: I work on something, and it’s live in hours, or days. Compare this to my past corporate jobs in Video Games, where projects would literally take years to see results. This creates real job satisfaction, and after my first foundational year, allows me to see nearly daily results from my work.

Automation: Let’s call this multiple streams of automated income. Work once, get paid for years, regardless of whether you keep working or not. Try doing that at your day job - it’s not going to happen! This, to me, is one of the greatest benefits of the Internet Marketing lifestyle. I create an automated business in my areas of interest, and they just keep earning, and earning, and earning.

Worldwide Reach: At the touch of a few buttons, I am no longer a local business, but one with worldwide reach, and worldwide sales. Try doing this in our parent’s time - it would be unthinkable, and costly. In our time, it’s a click of a mouse … I love this benefit, and my customer’s are worldwide, in dozens of countries and cities.

Work Time and Results: I determine when, if, and for how long, I work. Each and every day, I am master of my own time. Whether I work at all, go running, play out in the sun, or stay in front of my computer it’s all up to me. I can visit Hawaii, Singapore, or Fiji on a moments notice, and run my entire business from there (and yes, I do actually do this). It’s amazingly freeing - and is entirely different way to live your life. While I’m not married, if I were, this would allow me time with my wife, and children, that otherwise most Men (or women) entirely miss in modern day society.

Now, there’s good and bad to that. With great freedom, comes an even greater ability to not work, to lose focus, and to become unhappy, due mainly to lack of structure in your life (human beings crave structure - hence cubicles). That’s why I think it’s important to be of an entrepreneurial mind when working on the internet.

Each and every day, the motivation to work, the desire to build your business, and put in the hours, has to come from inside you. There’s no one telling you what to do, but yourself. You have to find your way, create and believe in your plan, and then execute it. You have to do all this, with no one telling you when, or how, to accomplish it. You have to be an Entrepreneur.

I used to ask myself, why wouldn’t everyone live this way? What stops people from doing what I do? I just can’t imagine that everyone wouldn’t want an internet business? Why the hell not, right?

The truth of the matter is, and what I need to truly understand, is that this lifestyle is not for everybody. I can’t imagine why everyone wouldn’t want it, but they don’t. For a quick example, It’s not for the cubicle workers, the non dreamers, the people who crave structure … in essence, it’s really ONLY for entrepreneurs. That’s it. I said it. That’s what I’ve found out. The interesting part is, that while not everyone IS an entrepreneur or has that drive and spirit to be one, everyone CAN do it, if they desire. That being said, many people just don’t have the willpower or desire to do it …

And that’s ok … but as I launch my internet business to train and consult others on internet business creation, I need to make sure I understand what type of people I’m going after. I need to imagine my ideal client! I need to really, truly, understand the type of person I’m trying to reach.

And for that, I need to understand the Entrepreneur - but not just how to reach them … I think I know that. I think, perhaps, I need to know how to create them too.

And that’s enough work for today …

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Think you can’t do it? Think you can’t make 2k a day with no hands?

YOU ARE RIGHT!

But a good percentage of you might try anyway, right? Why is that? Never-ending hope? That’s rigth! Every day I am hounded by products that promise this (or that), with no work. Not just less work, but NO work.

For the newbies, let me cut to the chase - buy NOTHING, EVER that’s main selling point is that there’s NO work involved. Never, Ever, buy a single thing that starts that way. In fact, buy precious little that ANYONE is ever trying to sell to you on the internet …

Do those words confirm your worst fears?  That everyone on the internet is a scam?  Here it is, said by an internet millionaire, whom is sure as hell out to sell you something, confirming your worst fears. Pretyy scary eh? Yet, not scary enough, because…

That being said, many of you will purchase anyway, lord knows, I do.  I’m a spendaholic. I buy no less than a course or tool a week. I’m a true-bred US Consumer though. I get panic attacks if I’m away from Amazon.com 1 click orders for a day. I fear I may have become addicted to the purchase process of internet marketing junk…

So, now that I have come clean, and protected those internet beginner’s whom might listen to me in their quest for internet freedom and lifestyle, let me share a single golden rule!  This, learned from tens of thousands of wasted dollars …

If a product’s main selling point is its lack of work - it’s NOT for you.  It’s likely a scam.  Simple as that! Why? Well, simply put, if you really want to make money, you DO want to work.  We’re smart people - we realize that success does require work. In truth, we simply want to work smart - we’d like to save time, but we know there’s going to be a significant time commitment regardless of what we invest in.

So, where do you start? Where do you start if you really want an internet business? I wish I could give you a solid answer. When I look at the sheer amount of misguided information, to say nothing of the scams, fraud, and outright lies out there, I tremble for those getting started. Honestly - it’s not a path I’d like to tread. I’m happy I got my training in relatively early …

So what brought this rant of a post about? Well, the 10 offers in my box, each terribly similar to the last, each landing page well crafted (very well crafted), and an honest fear that … how can I break through that amount of noise? Honestly, how can anyone not willing to sell out, or honestly trying to stick by their principles EVER break through the sheer amount of hype-noise? It’s a scary marketplace not just for consumers, but also for the real internet marketing teachers, and business builders and consultants …

It’s a scary prospect, and one I will ruminate on as I buy my next course on how to make money without a website or a list …