Building a Successful Internet Business: Get the Right Mindset First

Building a successful Internet business can seem a maddening slow and agonizing process. Is it really? Well yes and no.

If you fall into the "yes" category of thinking a successful Internet business creation is a slow and difficult process, you no doubt suffer from a common problem the majority of beginners have.

Too many of you severely underestimate how much work is required in order to succeed.

Here is just one example:

A person who was struggling with getting traffic to her site wrote to me. Her niche was too competitive to expect much traffic from Google. Therefore, she was using article marketing to drive traffic. Submitting articles is a valid method; it works well for many people. She was on track I thought to myself!

She told me it was not working well for her however. She said she had a handful of articles up on EzineArticles and was getting traffic, but not much. I tried raising my voice a bit while I typed my response (in a nice way of course). "A handful of articles"! My-oh-my! Article marketing is a tried and proven. However, if it is your main method for driving traffic to your site, more than just a "hand full" of articles is required. I am talking 4 or 5 a day...and more on good days!

Once she had many hundreds of well optimized articles out there and still had major traffic problems, then she could be concerned.

Did I say many hundreds? Does that shock you? If it does, then you are one of those who are underestimating the process required. Although I used article marketing as an example, the same idea carries over to every other area as well.

My point is that a LOT of work is required. Most of us don't write 4 or 5 articles a day for the article directories. Most of us spread our efforts across multiple traffic generating methods. IF article marketing is your only method, it really will take that much effort to see results for your Internet business. Now carry that thought over to your own chosen methods.

The beginners who get discouraged and quit (about 95% of everyone who tries Internet marketing) simply never get past the mindset of, "it surely must be easier somehow". Every beginner starts this process with wild eyed dreams of almost instant online riches. Yes, I was included in that group too! We all tried to find that magical shortcut; the one which guaranteed hundreds of dollars of income daily for an hour of work. Remember those days?

The frustration brought on by lack of results can be a real motivation killer. It's tough to keep going when you expected to see bank deposits already! Success for a beginner requires the realization of just how much work is required. When one's thinking progresses to that level, putting in the effort required becomes far easier.

If working most nights and weekends for as long as it takes to realize your dream sounds like "too much work", I am afraid you are soon to be in that 95% category I mentioned above.

For those with big enough dreams to work past the early frustration, a world of opportunity is here for your taking!