Creating Your Long Term Business

Up until this point, we have guided you as an Internet marketer, and given you direction as to getting started. In this section you are not going to learn any new skills, techniques, or strategies.However, you are going to learn about creating a long term business and what it takes to truly become successful online.

Creating "Your" Business

You have joined Wealthy Affiliate, so you have made the initial commitment to your future online. We would love to make this a long term relationship and help you create a long term business online. Internet marketing is a business...and like any other business it will take work to create long term success.

We could give you all the advice in the world and all the tools and services you need (which by the way we plan on doing), however, you are ultimately the deciding factor to your success. You will need to continue working on your business and implement what you have learned within the 8-week course in order to succeed. And here is the good news; anyone regardless of your location, age, or gender can create a huge income stream online.

Your business needs YOU to grow. Becoming successful will take a time investment, but it will be time well spent. The Internet is the only place where you can start earning money within pretty much any industry with less than $100 in your pocket. Think about how much it costs to start a restaurant or retail business and all of the overhead involved. It costs $10,000's minimum. You have chosen the right business and you have come to the right place to learn how to succeed.

The potential for success has really never been greater because as the Internet continues to grow, so does the online spending. If you capitalize on what you have learned thus far and start building for the future now, it will not be long before you are a true Wealthy Affiliate and are writing your success story about how you just quit your Day Job!

Advantages to Running an Internet Business

There are TONS of advantages to becoming an Internet marketer and these are things you take for granted once you become successful. We thought we would give you an idea of what life is like for Internet marketers and the advantages an Internet business will give you over a normal job (or another business for that matter).

Make Your Own Schedule

One of the huge advantages of becoming a successful Internet marketer is that you will get to make your own schedule. If you want to take a week off you will be able to do that. If you want to work at night (instead of the day) you can, and if you only feel like putting in a 4 hour work day, you can do that as well.

Having a schedule that fits you and your families needs is something that people seek out their entire lives. If you spend some time working to become a successful Internet marketer, you can have the "dream" day job. There is one thing you need to remember though. If you are not willing to work, then you won't make money. Your business requires a time investment and if you have a poor work ethic, your plan to make your own schedule will "backfire".

Work from Anywhere

There truly are so many perks involved with running your own business, especially one that is Internet based. One of the opportunities that the Internet presents is the fact that you can work from anywhere that has an Internet connection.

This means that you can work from wherever you like in the world, you can work while you travel, and you can also plan your "business" trips as vacations so that you can use them as write-offs for your business. Essentially, if you have a computer and a connection to the net, you are as good as gold with your Internet marketing ventures. We travel 4-5 times a year all over the world, and are always able to monitor our online businesses from where we go!

Make Money 24/7/365

Whether it is a Sunday night at 10:00PM or a Wednesday morning at 4:00AM, your Internet business is always working for you, and if you have a successful campaign set-up, making you money.

That's right! An Internet marketer gets paid 24 hours/day, 365 days/year...your business is always working for you even when you are not there. You could be on vacation, sleeping, or off for the weekend and your business will still be making you money.

Runs on Autopilot

A successful campaign can run without much maintenance. We have campaigns that are over three years old that are still profitable and we have spent less than a couple hours per year maintaining them.

Once you have the formula down, your campaigns will remain profitable as long as you are receiving the same traffic, and your website is still running. Additionally, once you set-up one successful campaign, it is easy to duplicate your success. After you get your campaign to a certain level of success you can put it in "autopilot" mode and it will continue being highly profitable with little or no maintenance. This means you do not have to work, but the money will continue to come in. When was the last time you had a boss that continued paying you money for three years after a project that you completed for them?

You Can Promote Anything

As an Internet marketer you can promote absolutely anything you want. This means that you are never going to be refined to doing work that you don't like. You can pretty much work within any industry, promote to any audience, and choose the subject matter which you work with on a daily basis. This leads into exciting work that can also be very gratifying.

Working online is fun, exciting, and always changing!

Become Inspired

By becoming a member at Wealthy Affiliate, you have taken your first step to becoming successful online. This is a lot more than most people would ever do and the fact that you have taken the initiative tells us that you are have the desire to succeed, now all you need is the mindset.

Everyone will fail at some point, so if you try one thing and it doesn't work for you, keep working at it. If it continues to fail then either ask for help from us (Kyle & Carson) or get help in the forum. You will find that you may have a knack from particular aspects of Internet marketing and at some point things will just "click" into place for you.

This may take one week or it could take one year, however, if you stick with this you are guaranteed to succeed. How do we know this? We started with nothing and were able to create huge success as affiliates without any prior experience. All we had was a few bucks and a dream of succeed online. You can do the same!

There have been many stories here at Wealthy Affiliate that is truly inspirational. We have gathered a few of these and think that you should read over these. Success comes in many different shapes and sizes and everyone will follow a slightly different path to achieve online success.

Here are some of the great inspirational success stories:

At this point you have more than you need to succeed online. If you have followed the 8-week course you will have begun to develop the skill set necessary to succeed. You also know that you have a huge support system to help you out along the way. Regardless of your location in the world or how much money you have, success is at your fingertips.

The Fun Never Stops

There is always a way you can improve your business and something new you can learn that will increase your earning potential. We still learn new techniques and strategies every day, and that is the great thing about the Internet...it is always evolving!

The money will never stop growing if you continue to stick with it. Like we mentioned earlier, for some people it will click right away and will start earning money within a month, while others it will take longer. However, if you stick with it you will only continue to grow as a marketer and become more and more successful.

If you want to make $100K in a year, you can. Break it down and start setting some goals for yourself.

$100K/year = $273.97/day = Less than 3 sales in many cases

This is definitely achievable by each and every one of the members here at Wealthy Affiliate, and we would not be exaggerating in saying that $1,000,000/year is possible if you stick with it and stay focused on goal-setting and building your business.

There are many resources that you can use to advance your Internet marketing skill-set here at Wealthy Affiliate and they are continually going to be added to and updated. We are going to make sure that all members will have the opportunity to stay current and stay ahead of the rest of the marketers out there. We highly suggest that you take full advantage of the forum to communicate with us as well as fellow WA members. Shared knowledge is one of the key contributing factors to success.

If you really want to succeed, you will. You have to look no further than the "Success" forum within Wealthy Affiliate to see that many individuals are succeeding. Is this because they are better than you, or smarter than you?ABSOLUTELY NOT! Members who have achieved success all have one thing in common -- the drive to succeed. If you have the drive to succeed, are able to learn from your mistakes, and can continue to learn over time, you will succeed too. Don't forget that we will be here along the way to help you.