You Won't Make Money Online Without Your Own Internet Mentor

...Or, it'll be a lot tougher, cost you more and take you longer at least anyway. I wish I'd realised the importance of having your own mentor when I first started online instead of trying to go for it alone.

When I first started using the internet to make money, I bounced from one program to the next looking for the holy grail that would make me a ton of cash with practically no work or effort on my part, and thanks to the hype, I believed I could do it in just a few days.

Well after about 2 months of trying these programs I realised that there isn't anything out there that allows you to make a ton of cash without putting in the work first. I wouldn't say that those programs were scams, they were on the most part very good quality, but they sold their products on hype and false promises. This leads to the wrong people buying the product and then not making a success of it.

What do I mean by the wrong person I hear you ask. Well if the sales page is claiming you'll make $10,000 a month and you can do it in only a week with practically no effort; that will attract people who are looking for something that'll make them a fortune very quickly without having to do any work. Those people will give up if after 3 weeks they still haven't made any money, which if they're looking to do it effortlessly, they won't have!

When I was using those programs I found I lacked a skill and they didn't help me with it, so I moved on. Thankfully it only took me 2 months to see past the hype, which is when I changed what I was looking for. Previously I'd been searching for ways to make money online etc, but I decided to search for things like online marketing mentors and mentoring systems. I realised that all the big guys who had made it big talk about their mentor and how that's when they started to make serious money online.

This little shift in my thinking lead me to my mentor who also introduced me to an online business without hype or bull. It's amazing to think I'd have missed this and still be looking for the quick fix that doesn't exist if I hadn't had that little epiphany.

So if I have one golden nugget of advice to offer you, it is without doubt, to find a mentor. Find someone that you like and trust to mentor you, so do a bit of research on them, find out how they'll help you and find out their personal like and hobbies too. Get a feel for what this person is about and whether you could work with them.

Remember, to make money online there is effort required and you can do it if you're prepared for that. That's the key difference, accepting you'll have to put in some work before you'll start making money and actually taking the necessary action.

It's not hard to make money online it just requires that you put in the work at first, it's well worth it when 95% of your business can run on autopilot, remember though that there is some work to be done when you're first starting out like there is with any business.

I realise this is quite a long post, so I'll talk about the mentoring system I used in my next post and the business opportunity I use.

I've set up a WhoIs page, so you can find out more about me, find out more here http://www.whoisashleysmith.com/