by Mark Thompson

How many of you reading this have seen those ads that tempt you with pictures of Ferrari’s, yachts and big houses. Do those programs work? No, not unless you are the owner. You are probably wondering if there is actually a way that you can make an online income

Well the answer is yes there is a way to make money online. But now the bad news is there is no quick fix you’ll need to work at it. I takes hard work and focus to succeed. I started online marketing because I had to. I worked 12-18 hours a day at the beginning. And it took several months before I could cut back and spend time with my family. The reason i had to work so hard was that i was trying to do it alone without any advice or help.

The first thing you need to do is to sit down and have a long hard think about what you want from life. I would bet that most of you will at first think about the fast cars and mansions and the celebrity lifestyles that are depicted in many aspirational adverts. However think harder, these are things you would like to have not what you want from life.

If after you’ve thought deeply you decide that you want to see your family grow up, you want to be able to make it to your children’s school concert and not have to work late on that important project. If you decide that you want to be able to take your wife for a romantic lunch before you collect the kids from school then you have the correct frame of mind to start making an income for yourself. If you don’t have a family and you decide you want to be self reliant and not a wage slave then you are on the way. Be realistic and you won’t be disappointed.

I look at building an income the same way I look at building a house. First of all get the strong foundations in place, then work on putting in the walls and finally add the roof to make it all water tight. The foundations should be a really strong income stream that you can rely on and that will provide you an income for a long time.

For my foundations I built a number of content websites and monetized them by adding Adverts and Amazon feeds. I write articles and submit them to directories. I do everything I can to get the sites into the search engines and get traffic to them. Once the visitors started coming and I was getting a steady income then it’s time to branch out and work on the 4 walls of our strategy.

When it comes to building your next level of income you can afford to take a few more risks. Speculating in domain names or flipping websites might be ideal income streams to add to your portfolio of sites. These “walls” should have a bit of a fun element involved. They are the type of projects that could make you a heap of money if done correctly.

The Roof like in your house is the top level of our strategy, this is where you take everything you have learned building your foundations and walls and apply it to your own programs and products, by now you will know what works, you will have developed a network of contacts through programs and forums and you are ready to develop your own products.

What is really good about this strategy is that you can get started without spending money. Just by using the free resources available you can start to build up an income. then when you have money coming in start to invest some of the profit to speed up the process.

If you are focused and you stay realistic about what you want you will achieve it.

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