“What in the world am I doing? Am I accomplishing anything, other than reading e-mails all day, making a few lame attempts at social media, and hoping that I can make this internet business work? I mean, I’m trying to be a self-starter and I’m reading all of the hot tips out there to be successful, but why isn’t anything working!?! What do I do now?”

There’s a lot of hype out there in the internet world, but there’s also a lot of success. There are many internet marketing “gurus” who know it all, and “their” system works the best! Trust me, most of them believe it too. I know many people who have been successful in internet marketing, whether they:

• Sell their own products
• Are Affiliates for other people’s products
• Are PPC campaign managers
• Are social media gurus
• Are SEO experts
• And on and on….

These people could all teach you how to make it happen online, and they’d be the best people to do it too. But, they don’t have time because they are too busy being successful making it happen! So, I glean whatever information I can from my friends that are making it happen and then turn to the self-proclaimed (and public proclaimed) internet marketing gurus that sell systems.

When my e-mail inbox starts to fill up faster every day with loads and loads of “valuable” information and I’m beginning to fall behind, I have to ask myself, “Am I missing the mark somehow? What can I do to fix this problem? I have the attention span of a 5 year old for crying out loud! My spam filters work fine, so most of the e-mails that come to me definitely have ‘value,’ but I’m finding that the value is irrelevant when I start moving from one method to another and results are mediocre.”

In a moment of deep reflection over my actions for the past couple years, I realized that, surprisingly, there wasn’t one system that I followed to the “T” and implemented to make things happen. I realized that I had taken bits and pieces of many internet marketing guru messages and tried to piece them all together. Their messages all seemed solid and they all had successful stories of making it themselves, but I realize now that I don’t have a complete puzzle because I’ve been trying to put puzzle pieces from different puzzles all together in the same puzzle. It just doesn’t work without a system!

My advice to you would be to find a guru and use their system. Only focus on that system and that guru. Don’t get distracted! It might kill you (the stress) if you don’t follow this advice. Some people have made it. In fact, I’ve made it and I’m having a good time doing it, but it would have been much easier, and probably more successful, had I given more focus to everything I did. Like I said, I’m like a 5 year old and I’ve got to check out every shiny nugget that I see. Distractions can kill!

Good luck in all of your internet marketing endeavors!

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