Sometimes all you need is a little motivation to get you up and focusing on your online business. We know this first hand as back when we weren’t making much money online all it took was for a sale to come through and we would be back on track. Motivation or more specifically ‘a lack of motivation’ is what usually kills most people trying to make money online. While they are motivated things happen – as soon as the motivation disappears everything falls into a heap and they start making comments like “internet marketing is a scam and nobody really makes money online”.

We’ve been in this business a long time now and we  have a pretty good idea of what it really takes to make it online. We have studied other people trying to make it and we can generally get an inkling about who is going to make it and who isn’t.

So first of all if you want to make it in this business you have to make an agreement  - right here, right now - that it is possible to make a good living from working online. In fact, you have to  change your mindset and get it into your head that you – yes you - can make a fantastic living online.

I remember an email I received from someone who purchased our Amazonian Profit Plan ebook who just couldn’t get it in his head that it was possible to average 10k a month from promoting Amazon products. He was quite sarcastic about it all and even went so far as to say that we should be on Oprah or something as no one could possibly do that. We had a bit of a chuckle at that but we also felt kind of sad for him because we knew that if he couldn’t believe that someone can make that sort of money online then he will never actually do it himself. He really needs to change his mindset.

You have to believe it first before you have any chance of making it a reality for you.

So if you’ve been around a while now but still aren’t making much money or none at all then this is for you. We know exactly what you are going through because we’ve been there too. In fact, we were there for quite a long time – around 5 years to be exact. Sure we made a little bit of money here and there and we made it to around a thousand a month but it was nowhere near what we needed to give up our day jobs. You see we were really just playing – we both wanted to give up work and become full-time internet marketers but because we didn’t see instant success we didn’t really maintain a consistent approach to it all. So in between it all, we started an online wholesale jewellery business, a Sunday art and craft market and an eBay business. We did all this whilst we were working full-time mind you, so no wonder we never really made it online.

We had a lot of excuses as well – among  our favorites was “the only people who make money online are those that teach others how to make money online”.

It wasn’t until 2008  that we decided to start taking it a little more seriously. We signed up to the James Martell Affiliate Marketers SUPER BootCamp -  which at the time was an 8 week online course in which James took us through step-by-step on how to build and make money from a website. We actually knew most of what  he was teaching at that point because we had purchased his handbook  a few years earlier but we really needed the reinforcement that James provided and it did the trick. From that point on we knew that this was what we wanted to do and we stuck at it until late in 2009 when everything started to fall into place. We  refined what we did until it worked for us and bang, suddenly the money started to pour in.

While we were doing the James Martell Bootcamp we listened to a ‘Coffee Talk’ by Bronwyn Bamber, a lady who at the time was making $30,000 a month online.  We listened to Bronwyn’s coffee talk whenever we started to flag in our efforts and needed to get back on track. Talk about motivational.  So we set this as one of our goals – to make $30,000 in a month. That was many years ago and guess what?…we finally exceeded that this month with our Amazon commissions.  We are actually in a state of euphoria at the moment, who wouldn’t be.  Our goal now is  to firstly maintain this level and then work towards doubling it.

By the way, you can listen to our ‘Coffee Talk’ and Affiliate Buzz interviews that we recently had with James. You might also want to listen to a talk by another student of James, Dan Maynard, who is also starting to see the real benefit of using Amazon as a merchant. He went from $500 a month to around $4000 a month simply by changing his affiliate links to Amazon links. Each of these talks is worth listening to whenever you need a bit of motivation.

Why we’re telling you all this is because we want you to know that we understand exactly what you are going through if you are not making your desired income. It’s painful, and family are not always supportive of your efforts, especially when they can’t see the fruits of your labor.

And although many guru’s will tell you that you can make vast sums of money overnight, this is a pipe dream for the majority. Internet marketing takes time, dedication and focus.  And by finding something that works for you and sticking to it, you too will have the success you desire and deserve.  We found it with our own plan,  and we have never looked back since implementing it.