If there’s, one question I get asked thousands of time a year, it’s this one:

How long will it take me to make money online?

Read how Mark at the Keyword Academy(an excellent make money on line site, by the way) answered it recently:

The title of this post is a classic question, and one Court and I get asked on a daily basis. In fact, I was just reading a friend’s article about how much he’s making online, and I saw the “how long?” question asked at least a couple of times. If you’d like to skip the rest of this post, here are my short answers to the “How long till I make money online?” question:

Longer than 99% of people are willing to sustain focus.

…and…

Not nearly as long as discouraged newbies think it will take.

Yes, those are vague answers. Let’s put it in perspective with a couple of specific examples:

In the last few weeks I’ve had some great conversations with former one-on-one students of ours. Both of them started effectively at zero online income. One of them is now plugging away at about $1500 per month (we started working with him about five months ago), and the other made over $10,000 last month (he enrolled in late January).

I just couldn’t be happier for these two hard-working guys, and couldn’t be more proud of the fact that we were part of their success. When I asked them about what it took to get where they are today, their answers were similar, and went something like this:

“Well, the truth is I was up and down for the first couple of months – in my motivation, effort, and results. It’s just not that easy to focus when you have a job, and you’re trying to have a life, and then you’re trying to build a business online at the same time. I just had to keep plugging away at it. I’d put in 20 minutes here and an hour there, and after a while I started to see some results.”

Can You Get Excited About $10 Per Month Online? I Hope So.

What did they mean by “some results?” A dollar here, two dollars there – heck, in the early days they were ecstatic if they made $10 one month and doubled it to $20 the next month. After all, that’s a 100% increase. I loved what one of the students – Steve – said about his longer term goals:

“People have to realize that making an income on the internet is a marathon, not a sprint. If you get into this game thinking you’re going to go from zero to thousands per month in a couple months you’re just going to get frustrated and quit. My plan is to increase my income by about 5% per month for the next three years. That will get me to my goals.”…

My friend Bob also is doing a whole series on making only a dollar a day … and it’s also recommended reading.

When I talk about a dollar a day or even $10 a day, am I toying with you or wasting your time?

Absolutely not.  The difference between the $100 a day folks and the #1,000 a day folks is just one simple thing.  The big money people started with a buck a day or five or ten bucks a day and stuck with it.

Making $1,000 a day is just reliably making $1 a day and then sticking with what works and doing it over and over and over.

The New Year is almost here.  It doesn’r matter if you are 18 or 88 … decide now to make you first dollar a day in 2009 and it will be onward and upward from that first extremely important milestone.

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