When am I going to Start Making Money? - By Bill McRea

This is the hard part because everyone is so excited about their new internet marketing venture, and they’ve read the hype about making $3,500 a week and becoming an instant dot com millionaire. Well, it just does not work that way. But you can make money doing simple things.

First you need to be reasonable with yourself, and learn patience. It’s going to take several months of work until you start to see any results. It’s going to take time for the search engines to find your site and index it. It’s going to take time before you have a stead stream of traffic coming to your site. If you want success, you have to plan to be persistent and have plenty of patience.

Set your goals in small steps. First begin with the end in mind. A boat never left port that did not have a destination, that would be foolish, so plan a easily attainable destination. My first goal was $1 per day in Adsense and Chikita, and I wanted to be at that goal within 30 days of launching my first site. A reasonable goal, and it covered all of my cost for the site. My next goal was $100 per month in income from Adsense, Chikita and Clickbank. I expect to hit this target within 3 months…..WHAT, I’m not a dot com millionaire yet? This is reality, these are real results.

My next goal was $500 a month. I started selling hard goods as an affiliate in addition to Clickbank and advertising income. This took only one month after reaching the $100 goal. Now we’re talking! The snow ball effect, growth would surely be exponential in the future…. NO...again I kept adding sites, doing research and working on scripts that will automate my ecommerce operations. Oh yea… I found some free one that are making me tons of money NOW!

The goal of $1,000 per month was much more difficult to reach, but after 3 months of reaching the $500 goal I was consistently making over $1,000 per month.

Next step for me is $10,000 a month! I will achieve this through repetition and replication. More sites, more Blogs, and more affiliate marketing. I expect to be at this level of income within 6 months.

I’m not getting rich quick, but I will be making a nice second income. One that should continue until Google, Chitika, Clickbank or some of the affiliates programs I belong to change their policies. Then, I’ll have to rethink my strategy and continue to plug away.

Bill McRea is the publisher of The Guitar Warehouse and Free Information About Internet Marketing. Both sites offer free information

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Separating The Work At Home Opportunities From The Scams - By: Steven Bishop

People who dream of working for themselves in a home-based business have plenty of business opportunities to choose from. Unfortunately, they also have to sort out the legitimate opportunities from the growing number of scams.

Online scams are being created on a daily basis. They usually promise something that sounds too good to be true. Regardless, consumer advocates say people keep spending money on them without getting any results as promised by the promoters.

The demand for running a home business is also growing exponentially. Everyday entrepreneurs keep searching through Google, Yahoo, and MSN for of ideas, and opportunities.

But how can consumers avoid thef Internet scams? Scam investigators say most people are victims of their own greediness and that's what makes the scam artists successful with selling their information.

There are simple steps consumers can take to protect themselves from being cheated.

* Always do research on the website or business opportunity you want to participate in.

* Do a search on Google for the domain name and include words: scam, review

* Contact the website owner and evaluate the way he handles you as a customer.

Following the steps above should decrease the chance of people being cheated out of their money for worthless home business idea.

About the Author:

Steve Bishop is an independent writer for http://www.work-at-home-magazine.com/, the internet's premiere online magazine and resource for work at home jobs, home business opportunities, ideas, information and all the support and advice for work at home moms and dads.

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