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Reality Dawns

August 22nd, 2007

Two to three weeks now after my online marketing seminar season it is dawning on me rather abruptly that making money in online marketing is not as simple as the gurus would have us believe.
The adrenaline rush that you experience after the gurus motivational spiel soon ebbs away when sat at your own pc flicking through your accounts and while the expense column grows the income column shows a big fat zero. Still, I continue to live in hope (and expectation).
If there is one phrase that is repeated time and again in this business it is ‘that you get out what you put in’ and I truly believe that to be the case. It is just that, unfortunately you don’t get it out straight after you’ve put it in!
I’ve been working mainly on three projects over the past few weeks, and I know this itself breaks one of the golden rules ‘complete one project before moving on to the next’. This is easier said than done.
You see, at the start just getting to grips with the basic building blocks of an online business is pretty time consuming itself.
The mounting expenses also make it difficult to resist having a punt at some of the seemingly easier income generation techniques like affiliate product marketing and google adsense. These also to a newbie, at least,  are not that easy and a bit of a horse and cart situation can arise i.e. A good adsense site needs to be highly ranked and to get a lot of traffic, but to get highly ranked you can’t just load a site up with google adsense. These projects can easily become distracting sidelines and although I am not giving up on them, they leave me convinced that concentrating on developing your own quality product is THE most important thing.
 

John
www.ObtainSolutionsLtd.com

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