As you guys know, I’ve been trying to figure out this internet marketing stuff for a while now. Although I am definitely making some progress and have learned ALOT this past year that I’ve been at this, I am no where near where I want ot be. However, I had an Ah-ha moment last night and I wanted to share it with you.

I was cyber chatting with one of my friends last night and  I was telling her that I wasn’t getting enough traffic to my niche sites. Now I was making some sales but I wasn’t making many and I really wanted to increase my efforts. I told her that I planned to write more articles and submit them to Ezinearticles.She then told me that was fine but what I really needed to do was create a niche foundation.

She told me that if I had a good niche, I needed to create articles to Ezines and then create a Squidoo, HubPages, Freewebs and Weebly site all interlinking to oneanother. Each one of these would create a nice little network of sites and boost my rankings, traffic and and sales.

I immediately thought about what she said and realize that this was the ticket. This is one of the things that I hadn’t really learned how to do….create networks…and that this is the missing piece.

I was so excited that I almost couldn’t sleep well. When I fell asleep, I had dreams of PayPal cash flooding into my account.

So, my challenge is to create a ton of these niche foundations for my profitable niches to see if I can increase my efforts. What do you think?

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Consistency is the key to success and you must never, ever, ever give up your goals.

I, for one, have been tempted to give up lots of times. In fact, I even gave up for a few months in order to make some active income. Although the active income was very nice (while it lasted), once it was gone, it was gone. I put in so much time and energy into building someone else’s library of articles and they’ll receive the benefits of those articles for years to come and I, have been paid, spent the money and that is that.

So, my plan is to keep working consistently to meet my writing goals – no matter what! I am just going to keep churning out high quality content and effectively marketing it to make sure that I get it out there. Because the more content I have out there, the more potential income that I can make.

In fact, you can consider me the mean IM writing machine. This is because I believe that slow and steady wins the race. It is easy to get fired up and then let that motivation and energy dwindle when you don’t see immediate results. I know because this happened to me. However, I truly believe that if I just keep chugging along, doing my best and writing about topics I love, the money will come to me eventually. On the same token, if I give up, I will never accomplish my goals.

As I previously stated,  my goal  is to make at least $179 a day. I am confident that I can accomplish this goal if I use both active and passive income. You see, active income is income you make right now. It includes ghostwriting for clients, etc. It is income that is like a job. If you stop working or don’t do the work, your income will cease as well. In most instances, once you complete the task and get paid for your efforts, your income ceases at that point. On the other hand, passive income continues to pay you, long after you stop working. For instance, writing for sites like Bukisa and Xomba are passive income. You complete the work today and get paid tomorrow.

So, the question is, which one should you use? In my case, I will use active and passive writing streams to meet my $166 a day writing goals. My plan is to spend 50% of my time on Active incomeand 50% of my time on residual or passive income.

By dividing it up half and half, I will have income now and later. In addition, I will be building a business and not just working a job and to me, this just makes good financial and common sense.

So, what do you plan on pursuing? Active writing income, passive writing income or both?