2. Too many people venture online without understanding
which type of Internet business they are best suited to.
They either go for the first one they come across that
promises early wealth, or, having viewed a few options
(without gaing any real insight on what exactly each one
will deliver), they hurl themselves at several simply
because they can't make a choice.
3. Both of these strategies is dangerous. The first, because
any site that promises pots of cash early with very little
work is nothing more than a scam (1000's of people have
lost money to these schemes) and the second because if
you try running too many ventures too soon you'll spread
yourself thin and be unable to devote necessary time to a
single opportunity.
4. There are many legitimate ways to make money online
and discovering which one is best for you is an excercise
well worth taking some time over.
5. In part one of this series you posed 4 questions to
yourself:
11. These four simple questions were carefully worded and
directed at understanding not necessarily *which*
business you should go for, but whether indeed you
should look for an income online at all.
12. No matter what you're told by all the get-rich-quick sites
about how easy it is to make a residual income on the
Internet, or how your life will change as soon as you
become a member of their program, there will still be the
necessity for some input from you. In fact a lot of input
from you - a lot more than they ever let on in their sales
copy.
13. Once you are signed up therefore, and you have
experienced your first few sessions working on your new
'opportunity', you will then go through a period of
disillusionment as it finally dawns on you that alot more
work is required than you originally thought, and alot less
income is forthcoming than you were promised. Many
people give up here, or go and find something else and the
whole process starts again.
14. You can save yourself this heart-break and inconvenience
by being honest with yourself at the start. Just take a
moment to write down an answer those four questions.
(each one should be a number from 1 to 5). Do it now
before you read on.
15. So, lets see whether you should be pursuing an income
online after all. If you scored less than 8 then you
shouldn't even think about it. With a score this low, you
will definately not have any success online and you'll be
wasting valuable time if you try. With a score of 9-12 you
might be OK but there will be something that will have to
change - perhaps you need a backup plan so you can
afford to fail a little more, or perhaps you should brush up
your computer literacy with a software course. Maybe you
marked yourself down on your positive outlook because
you were in a bad mood at the time. If that is the case on
any of the questions, revise the score to reflect your
average outlook over a number of months. (remember,
there are no zeros scored here).
16. With a score of 13-16 you should be good to go, and with
anything above 16 you're either lying, or you should be
kicking yourself for not starting online sooner!
18. Right, so once you know you're OK to continue, your next
step is to research and critically assess the full range of
options available to you as a budding Internet Marketer.
19. In the next part of this series, we'll examine each of the
money-making opportunities that exist online and identify
characteristics of each of them so that you can decide
which ones you're best suited to.