You need to be patient in your marketing efforts. I spent the first year not making a dime. Of course, I had no real idea how to market my products. After that first year, I gave up. My products lay dormant for another two years. Then one day, my eye caught one of my traffic exchanges in my bookmarks folder. I realized that it been two years since I logged in. So I logged in and started surfing and really paying attention to the sites that I was viewing. I made notes of key terms and the different types of programs that were available. I then started to get an idea how they all were being marketed. I opened up a new browser to do research on these terms and concepts. I found a lot of information that really showed me the different ways that were successful in bringing the product to the viewers.

Many of these methods of marketing are free. You can get pretty good results by using these free resources. I would recommend staying away from the paid resources until your business starts to become successful.

Make a daily schedule and stick to it. I have found myself spending all day online working and not really accomplishing anything. Spending every five minutes checking your stats and email doesn’t get you anywhere. Check it first thing in the morning and the last thing at the end of the day. Spend a little time doing research each day. In the beginning, that will probably be a big part of your day. Once you have your research done, you can focus on promoting.

In the beginning, start with one or two programs to start promoting. It gets overwhelming quickly when you start subscribing to nearly every program you see that has an attractive offer. Start small and gradually build on it by adding another program or two when you get going on the previous ones. As you go, it will be easy to manage all of your programs.

In summary, here are the first rules of a home business:

• Be patient, it will take work and time to start earning
• Don’t pay for programs and marketing right away
• Manage your time
• Take on only one or two programs at a time.