The 5 Deadly Mistakes That Keep You From Making Money Online Today.

Making money online today, to many sounds like a trip to the fantasy land of "El Dorado", to others is a goal worth pursuing, but very few manage to reach the point of enjoying bankable results and breaking the "glass ceiling" of common reality. Success for an online business, is almost identically determined as that of an offline one. It's an extremely boring and slow -at first- process, consisted of a series of repetitive tasks that should always be executed with "pig headed discipline" -as Chet Holmes states in his book "The Ultimate Sales Machine"- gradually adding up and leading to a momentum which feeds on its own dynamics and sets the ground for exponential growth. The five "monsters" that sabotage online success are briefly outlined here.

Since the day I realized the tremendous opportunities Internet represents to the world, I strongly believe that making money online today should be a universal and indisputable norm. Nobody should be poor or broke in the era of World Wide Web, but this dream seems too good to be true and certainly the lack of common sense has contributed tremendously to this direction.

I'm a big fan of the saying "the more personal, the more universal", so I'll try to reflect my opinions -which are backed up by hard data- based on my own first hand experience.

And here I am, almost twelve years after my first reluctant experimentations, countless e-books, reports, webinars, teleseminars, courses and workshops, with a solid conclusion in my mind. There is a huge misconception about making money online. Maybe the experts deliberately teach you about the "shell" of Internet Marketing leaving the "core" dark and unknown to you. Maybe they don't do it on purpose. Still the fact remains that if you don't understand the importance of these five mistakes, you'll never make it to the "holy grail" of online success.

Mistake #1: Market, keywords and competition research alone, will not be enough for you to find the "sweet spot" and see bankable results.

Mistake #2: There are two processes you'll have to consider carefully while planning your actions and setting up your strategy. Knowing only the one of the two, will not be enough. You will be left exhausted, ripped off and frustrated wondering why all the thousands of visitors that hit your website, clicked away without giving you a single dollar.

Mistake #3: You shouldn't pick your "niche" and your marketing style according to facts and data collected for you by certain tools alone. Tools are great but there is a missing element which will break you or make you, and you can't afford ignoring it.

Mistake #4: Once you get things going, automated procedures and systems are not enough to give you the results you're after, at least not in this wildly competitive environment which is called Web. The missing element is what keeps silently eating up like a slowly expanding cancer, the "soft tissues" of the giant called Google, while strengthens enormously its big opponent: Facebook.

Mistake #5: Collecting and analyzing data, split-testing and optimizing, loses a big part of its effectiveness unless you are aware of the factor which focuses on your strengths and puts your weaknesses in the corner.

To me, these five mistakes are the only big monsters I consider disastrous for my efforts to make money online through any of my activities ranging from affiliate marketing to info marketing and business consulting. Of course these monsters may take various names and definitions, but learning to identify them and cope with their parameters effectively is what will make the big difference in your online business. A difference measurable with hard cash.

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