To get this kind of income, I had to try a lot of things, experiment a lot, and fail many times. I sometimes wish I could go back to the days I was starting with the knowledge that I have now. Six years ago, I did not know how to build web pages with html. I learned by bits and pieces, and three years ago I could build basic web pages that helped me get to that $7,000 annual income I mentioned. By last year, although my web pages were still simple, I had learned a lot of tricks to make them more effective, and my income grew to where it is now. Recently, I uncovered a series of page building and internet marketing tools that are helping me to grow my internet business even more. It is February, 2006, as I write, and this year is going to be my best yet.

I think I've already gotten across the idea that success on the internet will probably not come overnight. You will have to buckle down, work at it, scrape your knuckles and get grease on your hands, figuratively speaking, to be successful with whatever internet business you acquire and build. It will take time.

That brings me to the second point. You may be someone who already has an internet business that is not successful as yet. You may be someone who has a business or product and you are thinking of putting it on the internet. You may be someone who knows that money CAN be made on the internet, but you are not sure what business to get into or how to promote and grow it once you are in it.

There is no guarantee of success for any business, on the internet or in that store downtown. However, if you wish to be successful, and if you have decided to commit the time and effort this new enterprise will demand, and if you are willing to stay the course, try to find a business that pleases you or that you understand. For example, years ago I tried to sell printing services. Although the services were very good and reasonably priced, the whole thing bored me. I couldn't get enthusiastic about it, and after a while just gave up. A few years later I became involved with a dental plan. It was an excellent plan. I believed in it, saved a lot of money with it, watched other people save a lot of money, learned all the things to say, but just couldn't see myself selling dental plans. My friend, Ed, became a millionaire with it. I quit after 6 months, and only made a few dollars.

Since 1970, I have been passionately interested in health, fitness, and weight loss. In 2000, I became affiliated with a major weight loss program for which I had a great deal of respect, and I loved it! It was something I would have recommended to a friend, family member, or total stranger even if I wasn't getting paid. Since then, I have found other programs and products that interest me greatly, and am using them to generate a lot of income.

A lot of people are going to invite you, even entice and lure you, to sign up with their program. Make sure that it is a program that you respect and WANT to be affiliated with, and one that you would be happy to recommend to anyone even if you were not going to get paid for that recommendation. Do not jump into the first program that offers to make money for you, because you will have to be the one causing the income to happen, and it is more likely to happen if you have chosen a program you can be proud of. There are also a few internet marketing training programs around that weren't as well-known when I was starting in 2000, and investing a few dollars in them now can save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars later.

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