It is the holy grail of the internet marketer – create a passive income and earn money online. Yet it is a fact that 99% of all new internet marketers never earn a cent through their online endeavours. So, what is it that differentiates the 1% who do earn money online and build themselves a passive income?
If you are reading this article then you have seen all the promises about making money on the internet. Make $500 a day by clicking on your mouse just 12 times! Website already set up for you! All you need to do is bank the money! Blog your way to dollars without any effort! Point and click your way to internet riches! Copy and paste my campaigns and make a six figure income in two hours a day! If, like me, you have purchased some, or many, of these products, then you know that the quality varies wildly. Some have useful information that you could probably have found elsewhere but still saved you time and educated you. Fair enough. Others are just shoddy ebooks that promote the owner’s own products and tell you to make money by promoting the product you just bought. Some are outright scams. Like one recent product with a big launch which promised massive, server breaking traffic in just days. Basically, it was just a glorified article submitter.
Again, we ask, what is it that allows the successful 1% of internet marketers to earn a passive income online? I will give you the answer in this paragraph. Can you find it? Consider the average, fledgling internet marketer spending his week working on his fledgling internet business.
Monday Spent two hours making a few ads for Facebook and Plenty of Fish. $140 spent. 135 click throughs. Nil Sales. Ouch. Did some research on autoresponders. They say the money is in the list. How do I build a list?
Tuesday Spent all day writing articles for affiliate sites and submitting them to various sites for approval.
Wednesday Checked out new product that promises to create simple squeeze pages that will drive thousands of targetted buyers to my list and earn untold riches. Hmmm… Squeeze pages are harder than I thought. Domains? Hosting? Opt-ins? Html? Php? Re-directs?Actual squeeze pages created = zero.
Thursday Went to four different blog hosting sites to create my blog. Actually succeeded in creating my blog at blogger.com! It looks so sad with only my one short post asking people to buy product xyz because I recommend it. Wonder if anybody will read my blog? Am I interesting?
Friday Went to Squidoo and spent a few hours setting up a lens. It looks quite pretty. They tell me you can set up a Squidoo lens in fifteen minutes. I must be dumb.
Saturday Spent all day trying to set up a shop on ebay. Checked around ebay and decided I should check around again later. What am I supposed to do with my shop when I get it set up?
Sunday Spent some time checking out Clickbank, Paydotcom and Shareasale. Lots of products but how do I know which one to choose? Keyword research? Alexa ranking? Competition? Gravity? Didn’t Isaac Newton discover that?
Monday My article was rejected for too much self promotion and improper use of url. 
Checked out my Squidoo lens. It is ranked 294,376. I wonder if that is good?
Total money earned for the week approximately equals zero.
Did you find the one crucial thing this internet marketer is missing?
The internet is full of dazzling possibilities. There are so many ways to do so many things. Some work and some don’t. So much money is sloshing around on the internet everyday! Mind boggling money. Just ask Google. Try not to be shocked, but sometimes the internet gives false or misleading information! It is easy to get lost in the information overload that is available, especially in the field of the internet marketer. So many promises, so many options to explore. Each more seductive than those previous seductive offers that you tried.
So, for the internet marketer, what is the one crucial thing you must have to succeed, create a passive income and earn money online?
You must have a plan.
A step by step, day by day, week by week, plan that will allow you to set up the base of your business and build upon it each day. Each week. Each month. You must have a plan that guides you from where you are now, to where you want to be in six months and one year’s time. A plan with actions for you to take on a daily and weekly basis that add to the previous actions you have already taken. You need a plan which has already worked successfully for others. A plan that is learnable and presented in bite size chunks of small, do-able successful actions. It is in the successful doing of small, purposeful actions which build upon each other, that success is built. Think about it. If each of your small actions is successful and focused, then purely by logic, the accumulation of these small successes must bring about greater success.
As Wallace D. Wattles says in his famous book The Science of Getting Rich:
There is a Science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches; once these laws are learned and obeyed by any man, he will get rich with mathematical certainty. The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way. It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.
You must have a plan.
Without a plan 99% of internet marketers flounder around in the ocean of internet information and never make a cent online. For a step by step, day by day plan which has worked for me, click on the link in my bio box. Follow the steps. Join the 1%.
You must have a plan.
Remember that kindness is more important than wisdom.
