There are many affiliate marketers who are making huge bucks on the internet. Most of them don’t talk about it — they do it. For a sneak peek at some interesting stats, take a look at the excerpt of Shawn Collins (affiliate marketing consultant) AffStat 2006 report over at Internet Retailer (good mag and it’s free) — http://internetretailer.com/article.asp?id=17458

Also, just this week, I was on Anita Campbell’s Small Business Trends radio talking about making passive income on the internet. The show is archived at http://smbtrendwire.com/making-a-living-on-the-internet-through-passive-income/ where anyone can download the mp3 plus get a free 22 page guide I put together just for show listeners.

Thanks so much for sharing this sensible and inspiring post by someone so young yet so wise.

Even when we know that get-rich-schemes don’t work, it’s easy to become impatient when we read reports of high figure profits from other website and blog owners. This post tells what we already should know, but need occasional reminding: success is a result of hard work and tenacity.

I feel so encouraged that I’m on the right track: set goals, research, log my changes, work to create unique sites with quality content and most of all, be patient with myself.

“Three ways to make money; work hard, find a unique angle or idea and exploit inefficiencies (he said he isn’t in to the first one)”

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/002802.html

I created a few sites recently and the one that has been the most successful has been my budgeting site. I owe that to it solving a problem with a unique angle or idea.

Seriously, though, it is good to see more success stories willing to freely share their secrets.

I think the most important piece of information is that it has taken time and hard work to get into such a strong financial position – this isn’t a fly-by-night, here-today-gone-tomorrow business and to earn the sort of amounts talked about takes dedication.

Its also highlights the importance of research – know your subject and know your competition.

I pretty much agree with what you mentioned in the post. As owner of two sites, I found marketing research and contents building take up huge number of time. I hold a day job, and spend at least half of my free time developing my sites. I do my best to make my site useful and unique. And because I really focus on quality, the quantity of the pages are not satisfactory! I sometimes find it frustrating as there are so much to do and so little time!! What’s more, I work as engineer. Therefore, I used PC a lot, both at work and at home(webmastering).
This is definitely not good for health. Sometimes I have muscle strain due to overuse of mouse.
I do not buy the get-rich-quick scheme and I work hard on my site. However, I sometimes feel tired as there seem to be sooooo much to do.
Well I will stop moaning here. Thanks for the post anyway :) . Your blog is always an inspiration to me.

I don’t think this is a get rich quick scheme; but maybe a get rich slow scheme, which I can deal with!