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So this online marketing has gotten you down. You read about all the ways that others are making mints from the internet and they’ll certainly tell you how to do it too, if you’ll only send them a calculated $47. You won’t even have to wait for the mail because it’ll be in your inbox even before you go to bed that evening.

Or how about this one: you see the million ads on Twitter for teeth whiteners, internet riches, becoming rich through the latest and greatest Forex program, how to gain a thousand more followers a day, or even how to tap into Donald Trump’s new internet millions scheme. You’ve clicked on them all and dabbled with them: GoogleCash, Google Adwords, Made for Adsense, affiliate programs and marketing, article marketing to promote your affiliate programs, and the absolute latest niche or mini-niche marketing. That’s all that came to me as I typed. Do a search on blog and WordPress riches and see just about a few million sites that have focused on those two areas alone.

You’re exhausted from all the things you’ve tried, and your bank or paypal account has not reflected all the time and energy you’ve put into it. That’s a gross understatement. You want to give up. You just want to forget the internet marketing thing ever happened and pack it up, because there are just a bunch of schemers and dreamers on the internet. It doesn’t help that all of those programs tell you that 95% of the programs out there in that niche don’t work because [fill in the blank].

Well, they’re right.

They are absolutely right in that there is money to be made on the internet. People are doing it every day. But here’s what you need to do: focus. If you hop around from program to program to marketing guru to marketing guru you probably won’t make a ton of money. What many of them are not telling you is that, while they may say that it took them 3 months (or whatever the latest length of time on the annoying popup ad) to make those riches, they had to have three years of trial and error to get to where they are! Of course, on occasion you will meet someone who really didn’t know what they were doing and hit it big. It does happen but I suspect they are the exception to the rule.

The fact that they are taking your money to teach you things you can learn online for free is evidence that you can make money online! They’re makiing money with YOUR money! But I think they are also banking on you not following through with their program. It doesn’t matter much to them whether you do or not; they already have your money and your email address, and will market to you again and again with the newest program they’ve created until you put a stop to it

Again the key word is focus. If you played out one of these programs for a full year, you will make money, perhaps not as much as the teacher but you will make money. It’s like we have attention deficit disorder on the internet. This program isn’t working after a week, so let me try that one (sound familiar). So many things fly past us and we want to capture it all.

Listen, if you do anything in life for an hour a day every day for years and years, you will get good at it. I learned that from a man who spent nine years bowling two or three games every night. He was ready to turn pro but decided against it (his reasoning was as complex as the future wife who told him not to!), but the fact that he could have turned pro was his point. He had plenty of opportunity to hone his skill night after night. Think Bill Murray in Groundhog Day!

So it is with internet marketing. Stick to one thing until it doesn’t work any longer. Period. I know you don’t like that answer but it’s good advice. Don’t go from program to program. That’s not the recipe to success at all. Focus. Hone in. Test. Refocus.