A couple of months ago, I found a site called fiverr that basically allows individuals to either sell or buy services for five dollars. When I first found this site, I went a little crazy buying stuff – cartoons of myself, cartoons of my kids, ebooks and all kinds of cool and weird stuff. I mean, it was only five dollars right? Well, I must admit that the first month I went a little crazy with my five dollar purchases and those added up to about $100 or so. Then, I realized how much stuff I had bought and decided that I needed to recoup my money so I started selling a few services too. I set up projects selling internet marketing coaching, mini marketing plans, articles, and a few other internet marketing services. Now, mind you, none of the services I sold took more than 15 minutes to complete so I guess fiverr allows me to make $20 an hour that isn’t great but not bad either. Definitely better than working at a fast food joint.

Anyway, the key to succeeding on fiverr is to exceed expectations and only set up projects that you can do fast. Once you get a satisfied client, try to upsell your services once they fall in love with your work. For instance, if a client purchases an article from you, try and sell them a press release or something else. Now mind you, you can’t get rich with fiverrs, especially since the company takes $1 off the top of every five you earn, but it is a great way to make a little spending money while you’re waiting for your internet marketing efforts to pay off.

So far, I have completed over 71 fiverrs and am having a blast selling my services. Check out my profile and purchase some internet marketing consulting for only 5 bucks!

I am a proud member of an incredible community of internet marketers at the Wealthy Affiliate and it always amaze me when one of the successful Wealthy Affiliate members posts some advice to other members to motivate and inspire them to achieve greatness too. Today, I read such a post and it really changed my mindset and gave me hope for the future. This post discussed the fact that over 95% of internet marketers will fail at internet marketing. It isn’t because they don’t have the education or knowledge to succeed in this business – it is simply because they allow their self –inflicting negative thinking to permeate their minds and they give up too soon. According to this Wealthy Affiliate member, we must be grateful for all achievements (no matter how small) and must continue to take actions that will increase those successes.

I totally agree with this member. Here’s why – for the longest time, I was stuck at $2000 a month and although this is not entirely chump change, it was not what I had hoped for. Instead of being grateful for this amount and doing more to increase this amount, I simply gave up and allowed my negative and self-limiting behavior to kick in and I totally stopped working at internet marketing for a while. I started freelancing more and put my internet marketing dreams aside. Luckily, the passion to succeed in internet marketing was too great and I honestly couldn’t give up.

Now, I realize that in order to succeed, I must be grateful for the success that I previously experienced and know the facts. My past success (be it $2,000 a month or merely $.20 a month) is PROOF that internet marketing works and that I have the knowledge and skills to make internet marketing work for me. What about you? Will you join me as one of the 95% that succeed or the 5% that don’t?

So, today is Monday and it is the beginning of the week for this internet marketing writer and there are so many things that I want to accomplish this month but I just realized that I don’t have much time. Now, typically I would go into panic mode and start doing a bunch of stuff to increase my revenues but this week, I’ve decided to stay focused on my goals. That is, although I would love to write a bunch of DS articles to make some extra cash or bid on a bunch of Elance projects to make some more money, I am gong to resist the temptation. Instead, I am going to focus on increasing my residual income. As you know, I have quite a bit of blogger blogs that haven’t made any money and my new goal is to make each one make at least $10+ a month. Now, mind you that $10 each is NOT a lot of money and I’m totally open to them making more but when you have 31 of these blogs and each one earns you $10.00 a month then you have $380.00 extra a month to add to the pot and that, my friend, starts looking much better, right? Well, it most certainly does to me!

Now, how am I going to increase the revenue of each blog to $10 a month? I am going to market those blogs like crazy. I am going to build quality links on higher PR sites and blogs, use Yahoo Answers to drive traffic, and write and submit articles to article directories. By doing this, I should skyrocket my search engine rankings and move up the ranks so that more people see my blogs and purchase my products or generate ad revenue for me. Well, gotta get to work so that I can put my plan into action.