As someone who previously struggled (and if I’m honest, still do) with the idea of perfection I can well understand why so many folks fail to make any money on the Internet. You think you have to know it all first, you have to come up with a terrific product, your website has to be a killer, your SEO has to be spot on, your copywriting has to be mind blowingly effective…. So let’s get rid of all the myths and excuses you have about why you’re not making money and maybe then you can actually get round to changing your fortunes.
Perfection
Perfection doesn’t exist. You will always find a way to improve upon what you’re doing, and if you wait until something is perfect before you actually put it out there you’re going to be waiting a very long time before you see any money coming in. Until you put something (anything) out there, you have no pressure to get it right and make it work. So you end up just playing around and convince yourself you’re ‘working‘. BS.
Time
Yeah, it’s hard to find the time to actually make money when you’re busy spending your time reading up on the latest ways to do it. After all, there are only so many hours in the day and its much easier to watch a video showing you how to install WordPress than it is to actually go install it. (Trust me on this one, it really is. 
I still watch this video as I’m doing it). Should you be studying how to earn money on the Internet? Of course you should. But once you’ve studied it, get out there and do it. Learn and apply one skill before you worry about learning all of them.
Money
So you don’t have any money to invest in your Internet business? Simple answer – give up and go back to work. You don’t need a whole lot of money before you can start earning more.
- Domain name – about $8 buys you a domain name. Has to be renewed on a yearly basis.
- Hosting – anywhere from $4 – $12 a month and many hosting companies let you host an unlimited number of domains.
In total, you’re looking at shelling out less than $100 for your first year online. Do you really think you can’t make that back before the year’s up? And it’s not like you have to pay for it all up front. Admit it. Money isn’t really what’s stopping you.
Fear
I’m going to assume you aren’t scared of making money so what the hell are you scared of? If I was to take a wild guess it’d be that your biggest fear is not making money. Nobody likes looking dumb. And if you don’t end up being a hugely successful Internet millionaire, then of course you’ve failed. BS.
You may never end up being a hugely successful Internet ‘guru’, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make enough money on the Internet to at least supplement your income from your job, or even give up your job altogether. If you’re thinking you have to start out by earning a million bucks in your first year, you’re already setting yourself up to fail. Before you can earn that sort of money, you have to earn $1. How hard is it to earn one measly buck?
KISS
Find something that people want to buy and sell it to them.
How do you know what they want to buy. Go do some research. Look on Amazon, look on Ebay, look on Google. It’s not hard. But most folks don’t bother with this step which is why they don’t make any money. Instead, they try to sell something that they think folks want or they look at selling whatever offers the biggest commission. Bad idea. Really, really, bad idea.
Rinse and Repeat
If the number one reason folks fail to make money online is not actually doing anything the second is not repeating it. You think you only have to do this once and you’ll hit the big time? Wrong.
One of the absolute best posts I’ve seen on making money online is this one. Go read it right now. Then come back here and try coming up with some more excuses as to why you’re not making money on the Internet.
