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How to Use the Internet to Make Money

By Peter Nisbet

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Published: 27Aug2009
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If you want to learn how to use the internet to make money there are two ways of doing so. You can believe all the promotional hype thrown at you and spend a lot of money to get nowhere, or you can take it easy and learn how to make money properly while building a strong foundation for your future business.

I know it is hard to do, but the second of these options is best. Of the three little piggies, it was the one that built his house of brick that survived, and your business will have a better chance of survival and success if you build it on a strong foundation and not on empty promises. Claims of instant success are empty because there is no such thing. Were it so, then who is going to sell that secret for anything less than thousands of dollars!

In spite of what people claim making money online is not easy, and although it is possible to use the internet to make money, you have to learn how to do so in a planned and methodical fashion. Of every 100 people that start full of hope, 99 fail to make money. I am not saying that they don't actually sell anything or receive no orders, but they don't make money. It is a statistical fact - any money that they do earn is insufficient to cover what they spent in doing so.

You can put a website up online for $5, but if you only make $4.99 in sales then you don't make money. You can get a bigger and better website up and running for $1000. But if you only make $999.99, then you are losing. In fact, you should be able to get a good, well designed and fully functional website, with unlimited email addresses and all the software needed to run it automatically, for under $30 a month. With the right teaching you will be able to do that fairly quickly, but you need the right teaching and the experience of people that have done it before you. Then, using the internet to make money gets easier.

It's the 'teaching' word that puts many people off. If you want to learn how to use the internet to make money you have to be prepared to be taught how to do so. Consider the case of Bill. Poor Bill has been made redundant from his job and desperately needs a source of income to keep his wife and kids. Let's assume that Bill has seen two online adverts:

1. Jim makes money online and has been doing so for a few years, and is offering to show you how to do the same.

2. Adam is promising you that he can make you a millionaire in 6 months.

Who should Bill go to: Jim or Adam?

Most people will run straight to Adam, pay Adam a whole load of money, and then wait. That's what Bill does. It is my experience that one of two things now happens.

a) Bill will hear nothing more from Adam, or b) Bill will receive 5 photocopied sheets showing him how to tell people they can become a millionaire in 6 months, and then how to send every customer a photocopy of the pages he is now reading.

Believe it or not, this actually happens and is happening right now online.

Now, let's say that Richard chooses Jim's offer. He receives information on what is involved in starting up an online business. He receives some videos explaining the salient points and how to set up a website together with information on alternative web hosts. He also receives some products to sell now while he gets his real online business set up.

Over the next couple of months Richard gets more and more important information in the form of videos and eBooks, and also details of free software available and more products to sell until he has his own niche and business properly set up. Bill, on the other hand, having paid a lot more than Richard, is struggling to sell his 5 pages because not everybody is a mug like he is.

Not only that but all of Adam's customers are trying to sell the same thing and have basically the same website to sell it from! Bill can't even make the money it cost him to find out about the scam. Richard has only to sell one product a month to make profit from what he is paying Jim for his monthly membership fee - and he knows he can get his money back if it doesn't work. Bill has no chance of that - not even Adam's email address!

Which option would you rather take? How long do you think it will be before Bill gives up and tries the same as Richard?

There is more than one way in which you can use the internet to make money, but in the example above, only Adam is making money his way: his customers have very little chance of doing so because all Adam's customers are selling the same thing from the same design of website. Jim, however, is being honest, and Richard is not only making money, but also learning something new every month and his internet business is growing on a strong foundation.

That is a very basic story on how to use the internet to make money: two ways. Either find a few mugs and sell them a couple of pages on how to find their own mugs, or genuinely help people to build their own businesses. You can build on that yourself, but if you are Bill or Richard, you really only have one choice. . .

Haven't you?

For more details on how to build your own business on a strong foundation visit Pete's website at Marketing Membership and start off the right way. If you prefer Adam's way email Pete and he will help you out.

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