It’s quite simple to make money online. It really is. But it is not easy… Most people quit out of frustration, because they don’t ever get to the earnings, irrespective of their actions. Here are the 5 mistakes that hinder success in most cases:

1. Disbelief

Disbelief is one of the 5 mistakes that hinder success, as it is a very limiting pattern. You think: “this is too simple to be true” or “They are just after my money”. So you don’t act. You pass up a good chance instead of giving it a shot. Trial and error are far better for your advancement than doubting everything. Not that you should naively and wildly throw your hard earned money around (see further down), but when you have to make a choice, then don’t let disbelief prevent you from getting started.

2. Self Doubt

Self doubt is as limiting as disbelief. You are not sure, whether you can do it. You doubt that you will be able to apply yourself to a process, or to market successfully. You hesitate to enter a new field, because you think it is too complicated, that you are not clever enough, not strong enough, not convincing enough… Self doubt is is maybe the most difficult mistake to come by on the list of the 5 mistakes that hinder success, because you start breeding over eventualities and paralyze yourself.

3. Lack of Vision and Purpose

You need to find the true reason, why you need to be successful. If you just have the idea of making money, without a clear purpose, then you will find yourself losing interest at some point. Succeeding online takes a lot of consistent effort and without having the fire of a vision propelling you into the next task, you will probably start to look for more pleasurable activities than to get down to the nitty-gritty. Once the question “Why bother?” takes precedence over your urge, then you know that you have fallen prey to one of the 5 Mistakes that hinder success.

4. Lack of Commitment

Very similar to no. 3 above. But it is more related to the action that follows your vision. Vision is the fuel, Commitment is the engine. You have to find a certain routine and commit to it. You have to stick to your duties. The vision of moving into a beach house alone will not move you any closer to that beach. Your action will. Commit to your cause and to the required action.

5. Loss of Focus

Finally, one of the 5 mistakes that hinder success is the dissipation of your energy. Don’t try to cover too much in too little time or to juggle too many balls simultaneously. It’s advisable to narrow your focus on one particular issue and get this one done, before moving on to the next. Otherwise you will find yourself spread too thin all over the place. A very good method to prevent this from happening is to not down your pending tasks on a to do list. This can simply be a piece of paper, on which you tick your achievements, or you can use an online tool that you can access from your computer or your mobile device (I personally use the excellent tomorrow list that comes as part of my GlobalNPN membership).

How to avoid the 5 mistakes that hinder success

Look for a business model that appeals to you and do your due diligence. Don’t be distracted by the negativity of others, but don’t ignore any weak point neither. Take your time for research, don’t act on excitement alone and make an informed choice: If the opportunity appeals to you and if it looks solid enough, then decide to go for it.

Dont’t expect miracles, but more important, don’t let nagging self doubt hinder you from taking action. You can do it. If there is something you don’t know yet, then you can learn it. No one is born a master. Allow yourself to make mistakes (but not one of the 5 mistakes that hinder success from above) and learn from them.

Get clear about your underlying cause. Take some time daily to fantasize and dream. Paint a picture in you mind of your dream life. But don’t forget to return to reality and deal with the tasks at hand.

And finally get organized. Write down your tasks and establish some routine to complete them. Irrespective of the time you have available. The more time you have available, the bigger the risk you squander it. The less time you have at your disposal, the more you have to make good use of it. So in any case it is absolutely crucial to plan a bit.

I hope you can benefit from this short article and avoid the 5 mistakes that hinder success.

Really, I had enough. I was at the point where retreat was the only option. I was looking for a simple way to online earning, not for a career in pitching products to my fellow humans. I knew, I didn’t want to buy overpriced ebooks – why should I sell them to others?

Online Marketing? 6 Figures? Quick Money? No, dammit! I wanted to just earn some bucks to pay for my breakfast cereals while I was dedicating my time, my brain and my heart to some more compelling tasks, than to figure out how to sell stuff to the gullible.

Now, just to make sure you’re not getting the idea I loathe money. I don’t – and that’s why I started to explore online earning. But I’d rather see the figures in my pocket, than on some overstated sales copy. The carrot dangling from the stick just doesn’t make me run.

My motivation is born from curiosity. I am an explorer. An adventurer. I need the kick – but not in the butt. If I wanted to dedicate my life purpose to fantasize about big figures, I would have applied for a job with a bank or an insurance company.

Online Earning – just like… “make money online”?

Who makes money online anyway? Only the people who are ready to work for it. They don’t make it though, the earn it  (some steal it…).

I knew I will never make a dime, before I haven’t found my own angle. I wanted to deliver something of value in return for the earnings. I wanted to sell solutions – not products. But hey, that’s just me…

To make the long story short: I decided to not believe or participate in what did not appeal to my senses, but instead to explore and learn the online earning stuff. I wanted to find a clean clever way to earn money with my very own qualities.

And yes, I think I have found some answers along the way. It took me quite some while to translate my findings into an actionable plan and then to follow through on this plan.

It’s now, about a year after my first contact with the “make money online” scene that I am ready to start with online earning. No problem. After my initial disillusion I now feel stronger and more capable than ever before.

I have met many people along the way who experienced quite the opposite.

If you’re on twitter or facebook or on any other of the many other social media platforms for reasons of finding prospects through social media marketing, you might have asked yourself sometimes, if this is really it: a place where everyone shares his views, drools over his credited ‘likes’ and endures the spamming of others on his wall.

Where has the ‘social’ aspect of social media marketing gone? These networks may allow to be quite casual, but the definition of ‘social’ implies more – it carries a notion of sharing something. Not sharing like on the ‘share’ button, but sharing like having a common denominator, a common interest or something that interconnects. It implies a dialogue.

Sure one can have a dialogue – it’s a personal decision to use social media marketing as a means to stay connected and to bond with the people that are labeled as ‘followers’ or ‘friends’. It is however something that seems to have gone totally missing in the online marketing scene, where ‘friends’ and ‘followers’ have been equated with “idiots waiting to buy my stuff”.

Social media marketing for lead generation!

How far have we come to believe that people on twitter or facebook have chosen to be there to suffer a fusillade of uninspiring advertising slogans. Whether we call it social media marketing or not… believe me, if they wanted commercials all over the screen, they would have chosen to stay in front of the TV.

Online marketing has had a sudden surge on the networks and it’s dying there equally fast. Only some uninformed still remain and send short-link camouflaged pitch to others in the hope that somebody stupid enough will click on them. And the brightest of the dull minded even try to direct message their unsolicited junk, assuming it was a bright approach to social media marketing.

Yes, I believe that social media can be a great tool for lead generation. It can be a very opportune place to find fresh interesting contacts and to build relationships. That’s finally how networks build. But to disseminate worthless publicity to people that have not even asked for it under the flag of social media marketing, is like declaring everyone in the vicinity for a retard.

No wonder the so called ‘online marketers’ are now depressed because ‘social media marketing doesn’t work’. But it simply ‘doesn’t work’, because they lack the soft skills. Nobody has taught them. Online marketers are being sent on a mission to pitch products and bring in returns. They are often quite unaware, that their target is a human being.

Building a business through social media marketing means being human, interacting with humans and cultivating human relationships. It’s got a lot to do with respect and with listening. Then it also means to strive for a win/win situation, where everyone gains and nobody looses. And finally it has something to do with appreciation, when the other one finally shows readiness to listen to a proposal.