Written on May 10, 2008 – 1:36 pm | by Ross |

Now it all depends on what you want from the internet. Do you just want to supplement your wage each month making a little extra or do you want to run a highly successful business online working for yourself and making a great living. It’s up to you but you cannot succeed without a plan. You will fail sooner or later without goals and objectives.

When it comes to making money online you really need to understand it’s very similar to setting up a business in the offline world. (Not as expensive though)

Would you risk not putting a business plan together in the offline world and risk loosing absolutely everything if it all goes wrong? Even banks wouldn’t risk loaning you that business loan without a good solid business plan.

A Plan of Action

You need a Plan of Action - A Business Plan and the ability to see the bigger picture.

A Good Solid Business Plan is what you are going to need to make it big. You are going to need to be able to look into the future and see where you want to be within the next 12 months. You need to break down your tasks to get where you want.

It’s no good running round in circles jumping on the latest fad and never really giving anything a real try. This might make you a few dollars here and there but you would just be a jack of all trades!!

You need to sit down with a piece of paper and write out a plan of action and what your future goals and objectives are. Write each task down and dedicate 2 hours a day to getting closer to your goal. At the beginning of the week break down what you will do each day for your up and coming business.

The reason I say 2 hours is because it is so easy to get distracted with emails, forums, reading blogs, facebook, Youtube, etc. If you just dedicate 2 hours the minute you turn on you computer before checking emails or doing anything else then the rest of the day can be used for that. You can do longer than 2 hours but I promise you will get more done if you work this way.

Dedicate a couple of hours for your business, a couple of hours for research and a coupler of hours for playtime..!!

This way you will succeed. Make a Plan and stick to it and don’t get distracted.