I’m going to lead off with an analogy.

Let’s say you wanted to lose some weight (This is hypothetical! Pitchforks away!) Bathing suit season is just around the corner and you decide you want to drop 50 pounds.

How would you do this? Well, you’d probably join a gym, start eating healthy, and make some lifestyle adjustments. So you have a goal in mind and you set out to achieve it.

Day one. You work your butt off at the gym, eat a salad, and walk around your neighborhood for 30 minutes instead of watching reruns of Seinfeld. The next day rolls around and you’ll look pretty much the same as you did the day before, despite some putting forward some effort.

Do you quit because you didn’t lose 50 pounds immediately?

Hell no!

Of course not.

It would be ridiculous to expect to see that kind of success in such a short amount of time.

You can’t treat an online business any different. People send me emails all the time saying “I’m going to try this for a month, but if I can’t make back what I put in within 30 days, I quit” and it’s incredibly sad to see. Thirty days is just not enough time to get things going for you. Building an online business is a great undertaking, but all too often, people give up and quit because they didn’t see success immediately.

The hardest steps are the first, but you’re already well on your way to building a successful online business!

Don’t give up!