How to find success on the internet

Why is it that 97% of internet marketers fail? What sets apart the other 3% which allows them to “win”? And how can we become part of that 3%?

(This is a statistic which is commonly spouted by internet marketers. I don’t know if it is a true statistic, or not, but for the purposes of this story let’s just say they are true. The exact number doesn’t matter.)

From what I can see on the traffic exchanges, there are a lot of people looking for the magic key which will unlock the door to success, and just as many touting their particular product or method as the answer. Yet each proposed solution ends up becoming just another thing which people compete to promote, while the statistics seem not to vary.

What if the key to success is not in finding the “right” approach or the right product? What if all those things which people try so hard to implement and understand are only secondary? What if most of us are looking in the wrong place for the answer?

I don’t know who the “typical” internet marketer is, though I have heard that internet marketers are amongst the richest group of consumers on the internet. Maybe we’re not that rich, just really, really optimistic, eager and hopeful to the point of imbalance.

What is it that makes people jump into the unknown waters of the internet and decide they can make huge money here, when they couldn’t do it in the physical world?

Are we over-reaching ourselves?

Perhaps it is time to look within and find our balance.

There are stories on the internet of “kids” of 21 who have suddenly made a fortune with this or that. I won’t argue and say the claims are false. Maybe some are, probably others aren’t. So if a 21 year old can do it, why is it so hard for others? I know why. A 21 year old is fresh and new, they haven’t yet been dumped on their ass a hundred times in a hundred ways by life, until they no longer have the confidence that they can create or sustain anything. For the battle-weary, the first and most important challenge is to build up our confidence in our own ability to create what we want. This can best be done by taking small steps and seeing results along the way. It is not helpful to make grand and heroic gestures in the hopes of making huge amounts of money. That money will come once we rebuild ourselves from within, and not the other way around.

So, if you choose to be part of the 3% who “succeed”, begin with patience and tolerance for yourself. Develop your trust in yourself again. Know that you too can find success, one step at a time.

Wishing you success,
Carol Walczak.

p.s. Success is doing what you want. This means that only you can decide whether you are successful or not.

Why this site?

I’ve been on the internet for months, promoting business opportunities which looked very worthwhile but with very little result. You can see all the stuff I’ve been trying at my blog, Carol’s adventures in online business.

In that time I learned a lot, though.

I wanted to start bringing in money reliably and easily, and now! So, I turned to paid-to-click (ptc) for a manageable solution.

Paid to click is good for seed money or spending money, and many people are happy to do that alone, which is fine. It’s a good way to bring in some extra cash without stress or cost.

In addition to earning spending money, I wanted to build my own mailing list and have something to offer my readers. I wasn’t sure how to go about this, but I’d seen ads for free mentoring programs and so I signed up for one. It was very confirming to find that my new mentor was heavily into ptc, and he quickly got me started in some programs I hadn’t heard of before, but which pay well. He is also into “passive” programs (which I will build a list of soon) and traffic exchanges. I am learning his methods now and gradually setting myself up, so that soon I’ll be ready to take on people to mentor myself. You’ll know I’m ready when the signup box appears on this site!

I am very happy to have found something productive which I can do, after working hard for so long with nothing to show for it. This project will help me to make money, tie together all the things which I have been doing successfully, and allow me to grow my business into the future, step by step, as I am able.

The good online marketers say that you don’t need to be a sales pro if you are helping people to get what they want. I would like this site to be helpful to those who want to empower themselves financially, but don’t have massive amounts of money to throw at their projects just yet. It’s actually a good thing to start with very little money, it saves you making expensive mistakes!