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I’m guessing if you had a food franchise business offline, you would treat it as if your life depended on it. You would probably even be willing to work 12-16 hours a day to keep your franchise running smoothly!

What you need to realize when starting an internet marketing business is that it is still a real business. Since you already invested up to a million dollars to start up your franchise, it makes perfect sense that you would do whatever it takes to first break even.

And after breaking even you would then wait a few years before you see a positive return on your million dollar investment. Most of you have a realistic mindset when it comes to a ‘real’ million dollar business like that.

But what happens when most of you start a home based internet business? For most of you, the first thing to come to mind is ‘fast money’ and ‘get rich quick’ and ‘effortless cash’. That’s okay, that’s what I thought when I first started in internet marketing.

However, this kind of mindset leads you into thinking that all you need to do throw up a fancy website, watch TV, hang out with friends, and play in your local sports league and you would be rich!

The reality is, to make decent money over the internet it takes time and effort, just like a real business. The only difference is that you are running a business over the internet and it also requires time and commitment.

You already know that an advantage of an internet marketing business is that it has virtually no overhead compared to a traditional franchise. BUT because it’s so cheap to start up, that is also internet marketing’s disadvantage.

Naturally, you and I tend to treat an internet marketing business more like a hobby than a real cash flow generating business because it’s easy to get in and easy to get out. Your life would not dramatically change if you started and did nothing with it and failed.

But in a traditional fast food franchise, you would starve if you had that kind of mindset. But because you put down everything you possess (home, life savings, etc) into your franchise; your focus, determination, and sacrifice to perform and treat it seriously is an absolute must.

You understand that about a franchise, so let me ask you what would happen if you treated your franchise like a hobby? What if you treated your fast food franchise like you treated your internet marketing ‘hobby’?

If you have a J-O-B, what will happen if you didn’t feel like showing up to work for a week because your friends were coming to visit?

What if you decided to close your franchise a little early because you must watch that new episode of “Sex In The City”? With that kind of attitude and lack of discipline, you would get fired and your franchise will close down.

Before starting an internet business, or if you haven’t given your internet business the attention it deserves, ingrain in your mind right now that you need to treat your internet marketing business as seriously as your job or business.

Like your job and business, expect to put in the time and effort into building your foundation with internet marketing. Only then will you be able to see the rewards and freedom lifestyle that your internet business can give you.

Alan Quan is a certified Internet Coaching Empire coach and specializes in helping
people build their own successful internet marketing business. Visit his website at http://e-bizcoachalan.com and find out how he can help you to quickly accomplish your goals and boost your internet profits.

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How to Leverage Free Trials to Create a Money Making Online Income on a Shoestring

A lot of basic services that you will need to get started on the web such as web hosting, web templates for your web site, sales materials, autoresponders (automated email services), credit card services (so you can take credit cards), and even products to sell can be achieved for very little up front, or even the first 30 days free. They are designed that way so you can try them out. The companies are willing to give you their service for free for the first 30 days because they know that if you are making money after the 30 days, then you will continue to pay for their service after the trial period.

Now the key to working these trial periods is not to sign up for everything the first day. If you do, you will have a whole bunch of products free for 30 days, but some of them you won’t need until half way through this program, or maybe even later. There are a few products that I really feel you should spend the money on to get started, because it will really save you some time. However, there is a free method for just about everything I teach so that if you are heavy on time but light on resources, you can still make this work. But trust me, once you have some income, you must switch over to a paid form that does most of the work for you.

So before you get started, create a list of all the things you will need to get started online. For example, this list might include: domain name, web site, web hosting, autoresponder, traffic, email scripts, articles, product, and a credit card processor. You can get just about everything on that list for free, except for the domain name (like $10) and the credit card processor (use paypal, they don’t charge you until you make a sale).

When you go to set up your business, even if it is on a shoestring, do it right. Set it up at the beginning like you want it to look when it is running strongly, long-run. The only difference is you will be using free resources to get started, and then once you are making money, you can switch over to paid products.

Do it completely and correctly. If you think you are going to get rich cutting corners, you are plain wrong. Do you know anyone rich who cuts corners? Of course not. Now you may know a person or two that has had a lucky streak and made some money before without too much work. But contrary to all the hype online, the internet is not like that. It requires genuine work. But the nice thing about the internet is that once you do the genuine work and set things up, they will generally run and make you money without a lot of intervention.

Now does that mean you can ’set it and forget it’? Nope. It means that once you have it set up, you don’t have to continue re-setting it up. But you will still have to tweak things here and there. Sometimes a particular product or service sells really well for 6 months or a year, but because it is such a hot seller, lots of people start selling it. Then what happens? If 20 times more people are selling it, then you aren’t going to sell as many of it as if you had created it and have the only promotion. Then you will have to market to different people or find a new product to sell. That is just the solid truth.

This has been an edited excerpt from “15 Steps to Internet Success” .

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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has created over 300 articles in print and 8 published ebooks.

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