Simple 4 steps to full-time income from internet marketing

In the past year I've come to understand the success formula.

Right now it's crystal clear in my mind how success looks like and what it takes to make your dreams a reality.

Your goals might be earning $100 per day with bum marketing, publishing a new product that will attract a lot of affiliates and I'm sure some of you are definitely aiming a lot, a lot higher.

I sit here in my room and my future is finally clear. Not long ago I thought I'm at the mercy of random events that are happening around me. Obviously, I knew I can make sure I won't be just some homeless guy on the street but at the same time I had NO idea I can choose my future.

But now I know I can. And this is why I want to share a special piece of knowledge with you...

... you might not like it... but it's how reality works. In it's essence it's a bit like a step by step guide to success.

Once you'll really understand, and I mean UNDERSTAND TO THE VERY CORE OF YOUR BEING that you can literally sculpt your future, it will become inevitable you'll achieve everything you've ever wanted.

I'm not even exaggerating... See, once you understand that you can have a dream, a goal and that you can REALLY make it come true, you won't be able restrict yourself from crystallizing it in your life.

I think it's pretty obvious by now that the first step of GOAL CRYSTALLIZATION is to make a decision.

Don't get me wrong... I'm not talking about "wishing" something to happen. That's not a real decision.

What I'm talking about here is making a decision that's so strong NOTHING could make you abandon it - not even YOU.

See, the main problem with most people who get into affiliate marketing is they think they decided to make a full income with it while in fact they're only wishing it to happen.

It is the main reason why so many people quit from affiliate marketing. They mistake "wishing" for decision making.

Can you see a difference?

If you want to make $5000 per month
or
if you decide to make $5000 per month.

With the first type of "decision" you are wishing something to happen and once you put a bit of energy in it and it doesn't come true you say to yourself "I guess all those people are either gifted or they're lying" and you abandon your dream about financial freedom.

but... BUT with the second type of mental attitude you've told yourself what will happen NO MATTER WHAT.

This is why it's vital to understand the importance of decision. You need to make a decision about what you want. Make it and let it be so strong you're absolutely sure the only factor in when your goal is going to crystallize is THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY YOU PUT INTO YOUR GOAL.

It's simple. After you've made a decision you need to understand the more energy you'll put into your goal the faster it will crystallize. And the less energy you'll put in it, the longer it will take to achieve it.

1. Knowledge

After you've made a decision and understood that the only factor is ENERGY you put in your goals you need to start putting energy into gathering knowledge. Knowledge is the ingredient from which ideas are born. It's the fuel for your motivation. It's the MAP that guides your actions.

Consume as much of it as it's possible. Learn about copywriting, learn about PPC marketing, learn about bum marketing, learn about persuasion, learn about SEO, learn about design but above all...... learn from people who already achieved what you want to achieve. Model them and know that it's not long until you'll achieve as much as they did if not even more.

2. Action

Knowledge is important but it's worthless if you don't inject a good amount of action in the success recipe. In general one should dedicate at least 5 hours of work to internet marketing per day. These are called action hours.
What this means is that you don't learn during these 5 hours. Instead all you do is take action based on what you learned up to now. Do your daily dose of SEO, write that couple of articles, post a few blog posts, outsource whatever you can and take even more action after you've finished with all of those.
It could be said this step is the most important of them all. It is the step that is the most problematic for people. You may think you are a procrastinator. You think you are lazy.
But let me tell you, you're only lazy when you haven't made a strong enough decision that's aligned with your real desires.

3. Persistence

Trust me, you will have weeks and sometimes even months of no apparent success. It will feel as if the success formula isn't working. You will start losing motivation and thinking about trying out other ventures. This is good, let yourself discover other possibilites but at the same time understand you've made a decision and you accepted the fact your path won't be easy.

It is true that sometimes things take time. It is often like that in internet marketing. The only thing that really separates people who fail from people who succeed is persistence. Think about it... internet marketing is a whole new endeavour for you. It's not a simple thing and it takes some time to really internalize hundreds of concepts that are thrown at you.

Just trust me on this one and NEVER ever stop trying. Failure is simply not an option for you.

4. Creativity

Now it's time to get creative. You've learned a lot. You've taken a lot of action. You've been persistent.

You aren't new to this internet marketing anymore. This is the time to innovate and use all the knowledge and experience you've gained up to now. Sure, it's not that you shouldn't be creative up to now, but after you've been into internet marketing long enough and if you still haven't seen the results you want you should probably start being more fearless and trying out things which aren't so conventional.

As cliche as it sounds, you really need to spread your wings at some point, stop listening to gurus and do your OWN thing. See, at the start you couldn't really innovate too much because you didn't even understand the basic principles of marketing and persuasion. Now you do.

This is the four step success formula that got formed in my mind in the past few years.

All you need now is a belief it is possible to achieve your goals and a strong decision. People around you will tell you you can't do it.

It's VERY common to have people around you not believe in your capabilities.

When I started doing internet marketing I was told it's a scam and it's not possible to sell anything through affiliate marketing.

So then I made my first sale.

As I announced I made my first sale I got told I'll never get that money.

So then I made more sales and I saw I had my first check sent to my address.

As I announced I have my first check flying to me I got told it'll never come.

So then I got the check and I got told I'll never get the money from it.

As I got the money from my first check directly into my bank account I got told it was the only check I'll ever get and that it was a fluke.

But then, lo and behold I started getting checks every 2 weeks. I got told that yes, I get the money but that I'll never be able to make more than a few hundred bucks per month.

And finally as I started earning a full-time income from internet I was finally told that this might work.

Yes, internet marketing might work afterall.

 

+1

Agree re 'energy'.

 

Thank you for the inspiration. I would subscribe to this thread, in case you have more tips to share

 

Very nicely written. You might consider writing an affiliate marketing ebook

 

Very motivational post Armando, thanks for taking the time out to write it. I am still very new to this game and have no desire to quit. I have not made a single dollar yet but like I said, I have no desire to quit, thanks once again.

 

Very great post and so true! Thumbs up for you!

 

Wow, stunning post +REP Added. Good luck to your future internet ventures.

 

You've given me advice in past threads. The main points in this post are 4 things I've very much grown to realize on my own throughout my research. I began february 4th, reading hours per day, and sometimes tinkering around. Within the past week, I've (coincidentally) put 5 hours of effort in every day applying what I've learned and further experimenting. Now I'm starting to go with the intuition I'm building, and it's working - I'm just taking bits and pieces from experts' advice and wrapping it up into my own plan.

Most importantly, I made the decision that failure is not an option, when I first began (and read enough to realize this isn't a scam).

I made my first sale today - for 20 dollars. Then I made another one immediately after it. 60 bucks in my pocket from tinkering around online, and after 5 weeks I'm only at the very 3 inch tip of the iceberg as far as what I feel I can accomplish and the amount of work I can put in.

Kudos on this thread, I agree 100%

 

Very inspiring, really cool thing to read with my morning coffee +repped

 

Good post +1 repped

 

There is a big difference between wanting to succeed and deciding to succeed. One is and will always be a dream whereas the other is able to be achieved through a structured approach - normally hard work.

Many drug addicts wish to quit their habit, but they do not decide to quit because they take the easier option to continue using drugs. The hard work is required when they decide to quit as it will put their body through agony before they are able to release their demons.

It is the same reason why less than 5% of internet marketers succeed as the majority of people take the easy option and quit. As JoseArmando pointed out, it is the majority who are just wishing to succeed that inevitably fail because they have not decided to be successful.

 

+1 agreed totally .. specially with the decision thing

 

Inspiration post

Absolutely true about desire TO SUCCESS. Rep added.

Here's a very relevant video > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NQREuc7JX8&eurl

 

Thanks Jose, would add rep if I could. I find this very relevant to me. You see I have a goal of reaching $50 per day, yet now I think about it, I haven't really 'decided' to reach that goal yet, otherwise I'm sure I'd have reached that mark by now, easily. I sort of take action sometimes, but then trail off, I really need to work on my persistence. When my college workload dies down, I'm going to 'decide' to reach my goal. Thanks again.

 

You can have your own decisions but I suggest you look at it from a bit different perspective. Don't make a big deal out of this goal of yours. Even though the first post was about decision making and how to follow through, I think it might be more beneficial if you put more thought into CONSISTENCY.

Sure, you don't have as much free time as you'd want but that DOESN'T mean you can't work on your internet marketing goals every single day. Be realistic about how much time you can put into this and decide to do it now.

I'm sure that if you OBJECTIVELY looked at your daily schedule you'd notice there are literally hours being wasted for mundane tasks that don't bring you closer to your goals. I'm not saying to become a workaholic - quite the opposite, I believe it's vital to have some time you can waste through the day.

But I believe it's not smart to use decision making as an excuse for not taking action. You can decide and work just 30 minutes per day from this day on. Imagine how much work would that amount in just one year. Just 30 minutes per day. ANYONE can find 30 minutes per day. In a year it's 182 hours. 182 hours of PURE work. You can build several sites and market them properly in this timeframe if you just laser target tasks that are the most important AND actually do them.

Just as a quick idea: the most optimal form of article is 250 words article submited to ezinarticles. It can take you 10 minutes to write ONE 250 words article. This means you can write 3 articles per day if you decide to put 30 minutes per day into internet marketing. 3 articles per day means 1095 articles in a year. If in one year each article brings you JUST one sale for $25 that would be $27.375 ... And you'd be set for passive income for months to come even after you'll stop writing.

This is why it's vital to understand the importance of consistency.

Small steps taken through a large enough time frame produce EXTRAORDINARY results.

 

Great post! +Rep added!

 

Now these are golden words - esp for a newbie like me who is starting out. Its been 10 days since I have been bum marketing. Got my first article approved on EZA after a looooong wait. Sigh ! Hoping to get my first sale soon .

 

Another inspiratonal post..

Rep added....

I was nodding my head as I read your post.

 

I see what you mean. I'm sure disabling the StumbleUpon toolbar will at least half the time I spend messing around on the net. Now I think about it that's quite a good idea. Ok, so I will try and be more consistent from now on, and use my time more productively. Thanks Jose.

 

Great post.. Very inspirational.. +Rep from my side for this excellent boost up..