1. He who dares – wins!
How can you go from where you are today to where you want to be in the future? Is it by sitting down, folding your hands and waiting for things to happen?
I guess not.
No matter what you want to achieve in life, either small or big dreams, you’ve got to take the necessary steps to achieve those dreams. You have to realize that no one will help you achieve your dreams. You are the only one responsible.
You want to become an Internet millionaire?
First, you should look at the skills and talents you’ve got. Your talents are just there untapped. In what ways can the Internet help you make money using your current skills and talents?
People who started out online and got rich weren’t that special. What they did is they take a look at their skills and see how they can use it online. They use their skills to either create products or services thousands or millions of people are willing to pay for.
For example, I know I’ve got a writing skill. I may not be an exceptional writerbut I can write in simple ways people can understand. So now I’ve got to convert that writing skill of mine into something online. And that’s what I’m doing right now: Writing for the world. Writing to help people achieve their goals. Writing to help people quit their boring jobs and become their own boss.
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2. Be Willing to Take Baby Steps
While I used the word “overnight” in the headline, the truth is that I don’t believe in overnight success.
The word “overnight” is a lazy man’s word who wants quick success without putting in the work. Lazy people want to enjoy the good things of life but they are not willing to make the sacrifice, put in the hard work and time.
Don’t live in the lazy man’s world if you want to achieve any success online. While it’s easy to achieve success in anything online, the competition is even fiercer than it is offline.
Sometimes, for you to experience success online, you may have todevelop new skills which requires taking a lot of baby steps.
This is where many people fail. They want instant gratification. They decide to quit once they are not seeing any positive results after a few months.
While it’s possible that you can become an Internet millionaire, I want you to keep in mind that things don’t happen fast online. Sometimes, you may have to wait for more than 6 or 12 months before you start seeing tiny results. You just have to be willing to take those baby steps even when things aren’t looking promising.
You’ve probably read numerous Internet success stories, but they wouldn’t tell you the sacrifice and hard work they put in. All they want you to know is how they quit their day jobs and become millionaires online. Don’t fall for that. You have to take a lot of baby steps if you want to achieve your dreams.
3. Build-up Your Network
It’s easy to envy successful people because they have the capital, the connection and all the support they need to be successful in everything they do. But most successful people don’t have all those things when they started out. They were nobody like me and you.
No one will argue that Ernest Hemingway is a writer whose writing style has had a strong influence on the 20th century fiction. You have to be aware that Hemingway works didn’t pick up until he moved to Paris where he met Gertrude Stein who lead a community of writers, poets and artists there.
While in Paris, Hemingway also met Ezra Pound, James Joyce and many others who would shape his work for years to come.
Then he met F. Scott Fitzgerald who introduced him to Scribner’s Sons, the publisher that would later publish his novels and change the course of his career forever.
Without all these connections, Hemingway may never become a great writer.
Vincent van Gogh is no doubt a talented painter before he came to limelight. But his work matured much more quickly once he met the French Impressionists.
And although van Gogh did not sell much of his work in his lifetime, it was the tenacity of a well-connected sister-in-law who eventually brought his paintings to market.
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4. Use Your Unique Abilities
What are those skills you’ve got that people will like to have? What are those skills you’ve got that people will like to pay for?
There are lots of ways you can transform your skills into money online. Like I said above, you’ll have to use your skills if you want to become a millionaire online.
5. Give First Before You Ask
Here comes the power of the reciprocity rule in the online world. Your dream of becoming a millionaire is even more achievable when you tap into the power of this rule.
The rule states that you should give before you ask anything from anyone. This is the secret of most successful multi-million dollars Internet companies. The big billion dollar companies are also using it too.
For example, Facebook gives you the opportunity to connect with your new and old pals. The company is making billions of dollars from showing you ads and making them enticing so you can click on them. Google has a good search engine that lets you find any information you ever need right at your fingertips. Google generates billions of dollars from those ads they display to you when you use their search engine.
6. Never Stop Learning
For you stay on top in the online world, you have to constantly teach yourself new skills, develop new capabilities, and reinvent yourself as a brand. You have to be aware that we are living in a world where things are constantly evolving. What’s useful today may not be useful tomorrow. And what’s so effective today may become obsolete tomorrow.
Companies and individuals who refuse to adapt are always at the back. This is the case of big sites like Myspace, Yahoo and Flickr, they’re all behind the times now. In today’s world, companies rise and fall in a matter of months.
What should do?
You have to keep learning new things to keep yourself at the forefront. You have to know things before they start hurting your personal brand, your company, and your products. You have to know some powerful marketing tools and secrets before your competitors discover them. You have to be able to predict the future. The only way to do that is to keep learning.
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