The first question I am going to ask you is how long have you been trying to earn an income online?

Have you just started recently to try to figure out whether it is possible to earn money online?

Or have you been trying for some time to generate an income from the internet, but have struggled to get the right system going. And you have spent, you do not know how much, money on every program and system that you have seen, but have not been able to achieve any success!

And you are sick of being told that you can make $$$$$ by next sunday, or by tomorrow night! But you are certain that there must be some truth behind the claims of people making money online!

I mean, where there is smoke there must be fire right! You just need to find the source of the fire and you will be able to light your online business and make it glow!

Two quick tips to shed some light on achieving success at internet marketing:

1. You may have many megabytes of information about various internet marketing methods and strategies stored on your hard-drive. You may have read several ebooks on the latest internet marketing method, but until you take action you will not achieve any success, that is guaranteed! When you commit yourself to taking action, you will be applying the things that you have learned and then slowly and steadily you will build up a business over time that will provide you with a good income.

2. Begin to see anything that you spend on internet marketing as spending on an education. That being said, you want to spend your hard earned money where it will give you the best value for your money. Will the money that you spend on that product which promises overnight riches truly deliver? Remember the old maxim, If it sounds too good to be true it usually is! Rather spend your money on products which promise to teach you a solid method or methods of generating an online income over time.

When you ask yourself the question: “How do I earn a passive income online?”, you need to realize that in this context 'passive' is a relative term. What I mean by that is that you can earn a passive income online, BUT you will need to get that business set up and that is actually going to take a fair amount of work.