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Today is September 1, 2010 and I am very proud of my accomplishments this past month. Oh happy day! I was finally able to pass the $2000 a month residual income barrier and I did it by a whopping $271.00. Now, that might not sound like a whole lot but how many employees can ask their bosses for a $271 raise and get it? Welll, if I continue with this pattern, I will have a whopping $3,252 extra at the end of the year and that is freaking awesome!

That said, today is a brand new day/month and it is now time to evaluate my strategy for this month. My plan is to continue building traffic to my 5 winning sites and also to try and get all my sites ranked using multi-backlinking strategies which consists of forum posting, Yahoo Answering, article writing, and Web 2.0 submissions, etc.

By diversifying my marketing strategy, I should be able to protect my interests and really market my sites and get them the traffic they need to be successful little niche money makers. After all, building sites and leaving them to fend for themselves is never enough. You have to optimize them for their keywords and backlink them like crazy if you want to increase your organic traffic and your income.

Only then will you rise up the SERPS and make money. Well, enough chatting – it’s a new month and I’ve got work to do. Make it happen!

I’m really beginning to feel as if most of the big gurus – you know the ones who brag about making a six figure income from internet marketing are not really making their money from traditional internet marketing. Instead, they are making their money from selling the hype of “ internet easy riches”. That is, they make their money by selling product after product after product to newbies who really don’t know the difference. Take me for instance, I spent so much over the past few years purchasing materials from self-proclaimed gurus who promised to teach me the next best way to make money online. And, all I had to do was pay a small fee for their precious information. Now, mind you some of the books were good and contained great background but none of them told the full facts about how much work was involved. Instead, these gurus only told me what I wanted to hear and encouraged me to buy more books for more information.

It was like a vicious cycle that I couldn’t get away from and I fear many newbies are experiencing the same thing. Well, now I realize that there is no “magic bullet” and no easy way to master internet marketing. Internet marketing is hard work and takes persistence, patience and a strong desire to succeed. Some days you make money (a lot) and some days you don’t (or very little). This is frustrating but it is the way the IM cookie crumbles.However, to be successful you must remain faithful even when it doesn’t seem like you’re making much or anything.

Now, back to the gurus that make their big incomes is by selling “the promise of easy riches” to unsuspecting individuals who don’t know any better. Just think about it – would someone really divulge all of their secrets for a mere $19 or $29 bucks simply because they want to help? Most marketers would not however, there are a select few that would. Instead, most of these gurus simply give their “desperate readers” a tiny bit of information and then encourage them to buy more.

But, what about those marketers who give out free information, what is their motive? Well, some of them really want to help you succeed however some just do it to build rapport with their readers so that they could hit them up later to buy more stuff – yes, sad but true. In 9 times out of 10 cases, most marketers are out for themselves when it comes to internet marketing and only a select few want you to succeed at the level that they’re at.

So, where does that leave me? I’m one of the good ones of course. My goal isn’t to become a six figure guru that sells the hype of internet marketing. Instead, I want to become a respected internet marketing teacher who makes a six figure salary by teaching others the fundamentals so that they can make a respectable salary for themselves and leave the rat race once and for all. I get no satisfaction of fooling anyone and I absolutely won’t prey on unsuspecting victims. I want you to succeed and I will tell you the truth. Internet marketing is hard but you can succeed at it!

Ok here’s the deal – I started this blog in 2008 and I had high hopes, dreams and aspirations for making a 6 figure salary within 2 years and showing others how to do the same. After all, I fell for the hype – you know those “make money quick” schemes promising riches within a short period of time. In fact, I bought so many courses, ebooks and other crap on new and innovative money making strategies that I still can’t believe it. Plus, I let my competitive nature take over – I watched other internet marketers pay off their debt, build successful IM enterprises and I really, really, really thought I could too. In fact, I was 100% sure that I could do it. Looking back, I was extremely hyped and very pumped to succeed. After all, I thought I had the knowledge (from all that stuff I bought) and enough marketing savvy to pull it off and I was super determined too.

To make a long story short, I did OK with my goal and was was even able to make about $2000 a month of residual income. I posted 4-5 times a week and then something happened. I got burned out, bored and frustrated with this blog and myself. I was frustrated because I couldn’t figure out how to improve my traffic, didn’t make any affiliate sales and the only comments I received were from people who wanted to advertise their own product and services within my comments. I was like, what is the point to all this? I felt as if I wasn’t making a difference, wasn’t learning anything new and simply quit.

I guess you could say that I couldn’t see the forest for the trees. I was so tired and frustrated with myself that I did something that I always advise others NOT to do, I accepted defeat. I accepted that I couldn’t get past the $2000 a month mark and believed that no one cared what I had to say or teach them. So, with my head hung low, I went back to freelancing and tried to forget about my internet marketing dreams.

Well, I did that for 9 months and I made some money but my heart wasn’t in it. I soon got even more frustrated than I was before. I was frustrated at clients who wouldn’t pay me for my services, mad at myself for giving up on internet marketing and upset because I couldn’t get over the hump. Well, a few weeks ago, I decided that I could not take it any longer – the passion to make it with internet marketing was too strong. So, I made a recommitment to myself and vowed to make it work. I vowed to become more focused, stronger and to never, ever, ever give up until I reached my goals of success.

So, here I am now. I have joined Wealthy Affiliate and am on a mission to make it as a successful internet marketer. I am committed to making at least $333+ extra every single month so that I can increase my monthly income of $2000 to $6000 within a year. I am now taking it a day at a time and am confident that I can succeed if I put my heart and mind into it. Won’t you please rejoin me in my efforts? I promise not to simply disappear this time around – no matter how frustrated I get. Promise.