Information Overload

This is probably the biggest problem all Internet marketers have when it comes to making money online. To make you feel better the vast majority of people suffer from information overload in the Internet marketing arena – there is just so much information that is being rammed down our throats each day by people trying to sell you stuff.

The best advice that can be offered here is to unsubscribe from mailling lists and don’t get caught up in the hype. Stick to one thing that interests you and focus all your time and attention on that. If you like the idea of affiliate marketing then build affiliate websites, if you like the idea of making money from Facebook Ads then spend all your time doing that. If you want to create AdSense sites, build just AdSense sites until you are making money from it.

Too many of us get distracted when we hear about other people earning thousands of dollars per day. They either got lucky or concentrated everything they had learning how to make money from that. Stop reading sales letters, stop reading emails sent from other marketers, just focus on one area you want to make money in and ignore all the noise around you.

Giving Up Too Soon

Here’s another truth for you: Making money online isn’t hard but it requires commitment and dedication. Even if you have purchased and are following the best system in the world from the latest guru who’s cutting 5 figure checks each month, it’s going to take some time to see results. If you put up a squeeze page because you want to start building a list (which is a very good thing to do) and find that no one wants to enter their information, don’t give up! You’ve learned something, either the offer wasn’t tempting enough or the copy wasn’t enticing enough. Try something different and keep going until it works.

The same goes for affiliate marketing. I know there are people out there making all this cash by putting up simple affiliate sites recommending a product and they’ve proven that it works. If you have tried it and the site didn’t bring in any sales then you need to keep going until you have found something that works for you.

Too Much Reading, Not Enough Action

Action, or lack of, is probably the biggest mistake made by Internet marketing newbies. They read all the latest strategies and techniques, they ‘live’ on the various marketing forums (you know what I mean!) but they don’t actually do any proper work which makes money. Every time you do something you need to ask yourself a question: how will this help me make money?

Writing an email to your list is a fairly obvious way to make money, submitting articles to article directories can make money in the long term by helping your search engine rankings. On the other hand, filing all the PLR and resell products in to catagorized folders on your hard drive or setting up filters and labels on Gmail so you can see all a ‘gurus’ emails in one place doesn’t help you make money – it’s a time wasting task.

If you sell 7 products then your commission goes up to 6% and as I found out today the commission is applied to the first 7 products too, for some reason I always thought you get 4% of the first 7 products and then 6% on the next 22 products and 6.5% on the next 100 products etc. I’m happy to be wrong in this case!

Another point to note is that this commission is reset each month so every month you start off on 4% and have to work your way back up to 7%. Oh yes, and the commission structure doesn’t apply to electronic goods, you earn a flat 4% regardless of how many you sell.

Phew, why do they insist on making it so complicated! Still, I’m chuffed to bits to see sales coming in from Amazon when I’m not even promoting my Amazon sites!

But I think Google must have changed the rules a bit because despite my AdSense account reporting dozens of clicks and CTR’s of 5-10% on most of the sites, the amount I’ve earned from all those clicks is precisely zilch. Nothing.

This is unusual because out of all the sites in my account only one of them is now earning money from AdSense, and it’s not even designed to! It does get plenty of traffic though.

Over 50 clicks and no AdSense earnings

I’m guessing that my sites are under some kind of filter which means that they don’t earn any money for the clicks they generate. Maybe Google thinks they are not high quality sites, maybe the CTR is too high, I’m not sure. There is also the issue of Smart Pricing in AdSense, but even if this applies to my account, I should be earning something for those clicks.

Does anyone else have the same experience? Lots of traffic, plenty of clicks but still earning nothing in AdSense?

I think there is a certain mental block and ‘earning money’ and ‘earning money online’ suddenly become two very different things. Where earning money is something you do by working for other people and earning money online is when you kick back, relax and watch the money role in.

The truth of the matter is that you need to do work to earn, there is no such thing as a push button that you can press to dispense cash from the Internet. Even the ‘magic bullet’ products from these guys that are raking in a fortune started off by them putting in lots of hours and hard work sat infront of a computer screen.

I recently read about a guy who claims he makes $50,000 a month in affiliate commissions by ‘just’ doing a few hours of work each week and for ‘just’ $497 he’d give you his step by step guide. Now while I can’t comment on the legitimacy of his claims, he does say that his system took three years to develop and get right. That’s three years of hard work, often with seeing no results at all.

If you have been struggling to make money online by setting up a website, adding adsense, trying your hand at affiliate commission etc and it’s all turning up empty, before you claim that it can’t be done, try this…

Most people can write, a few more of us can string a few words together, and yet more can write really well. If you can write without any grammar mistakes (and know the difference between they’re, there, their) then you can easily make some money online as a writer.

There are thousands of Internet marketers who are crying out for affordable writers – and we’re not talking about a writer who could get published in the Wall Street Journal here, we’re talking about everyday writing.

It would be extremely easy to start earning $50 a day just from writing because you can charge around $8 per 500 article, if it takes an hour to write an article that’s $50 in a day (or there abouts). Even if you do half that, it works out to $750 a month in additional income. I don’t care what part of the world you live in, an extra $750 a month is a decent income!

So how do you find this kind of work you may ask? It’s extremely simple, head over to the Warriors for Hire forum (you’ll need to sign up), post an ad that you are available for hire for writing work and the enquiries will come in.

If you think that you might have a problem writing because you can barely manage to write an article for your own business then believe me, when someone is paying you to do the work, it becomes much easier!

Being paid to do other people’s work might not fit with your idea of ‘earning money online’ but I don’t see why not, you are finding the work and being paid online, it’s (hopefully) additional income for you, so where’s the problem? Once you start having the money roll in to your PayPal account, you’ll definitely get the motivation to do some more work to earn that ‘passive’ income that we all crave