. Starting bigger is definitely not starting better. Commandment 1 says you'll fail and you'll fail often. It's better to risk $0.75 and painlessly learn the lessons that failure can teach you than to risk $500 or $5000 and give failure the chance to destroy your business.

4. Thou Shalt Duplicate What Works
This goes hand-in-hand with Commandment 3. Things that work on a small scale have a wonderful way of scaling up. Learn the techniques to write an ad or a sales letter that converts visitors into buyers and apply that knowledge to every market you're targeting. Learn how to make $0.25 with pay per click advertising and use that knowledge to scale up to making $1 then $1000 then

Do you want to own a successful online home business? With the information overload that comes from trying to learn everything you need to learn to build an internet business, it's hard to distill all that knowledge into the absolutely vital things you must do to be successful.

It's easy to get caught up in list building, seo, article marketing, AdSense, AdWords, etc. and lose perspective on what's really important to both staying in business and growing your business. It's easy to get distracted by temporary needs or setbacks and lost sight of your overall business building strategy.

To help keep you focused I developed my "Ten Commandments" for internet business success.

1. Thou Shalt Not Be Concerned With Failure
You will fail. You will fail spectacularly, unexpectedly, and without warning or justification. That's business and that's life. There are no success stories that are not peppered with failures and your success story will be no exception.

The only real failure is when you fail to learn the lessons that failing at something has to teach. Study your failures, learn what went wrong and how you could have prevented it then get right back into the game and apply those lessons to your next project. Persevere! There is no wisdom without experience and there is no experience without failure.

2. Thou Shalt Not Believe in "Get Rich Quick"
Despite all the claims you're reading to the contrary, you probably aren't going to get rich quick in internet marketing. I know I just contradicted the last dozen or so sales letters you read that promised you would "make easy money overnight" but that's the reality. If you're upset that you'll have to work to live your dreams then you need to start playing the lottery because it simply won't happen. If being rich were easy everyone would be rich.

The good news is that internet marketing is one of the quickest, easiest, and most enjoyable routes to riches I've personally ever seen. It's one of the only real opportunities available to virtually anyone, anywhere and it will exponentially reward any work that you put into it. You can either work at an offline job making someone else rich or apply a small portion of that work to your internet business and make yourself rich. It's your choice.

3. Thou Shalt Learn How to Make $1 Before Trying to Make $1 Million
Having big goals is fine but trying to reach big goals too quickly is a recipe for disaster. Too many internet marketers try for the big score right off the bat with $500 pay per click campaigns, massive websites, or expensive software programs before they really understand how to make money with what they're building.

Start small. Learn how to turn $0.50 or $0.75 into $1 before trying to turn $500 into $1000. Starting bigger is definitely not starting better. Commandment 1 says you'll fail and you'll fail often. It's better to risk $0.75 and painlessly learn the lessons that failure can teach you than to risk $500 or $5000 and give failure the chance to destroy your business.

4. Thou Shalt Duplicate What Works
This goes hand-in-hand with Commandment 3. Things that work on a small scale have a wonderful way of scaling up. Learn the techniques to write an ad or a sales letter that converts visitors into buyers and apply that knowledge to every market you're targeting. Learn how to make $0.25 with pay per click advertising and use that knowledge to scale up to making $1 then $1000 then $

ong>1. Thou Shalt Not Be Concerned With Failure
You will fail. You will fail spectacularly, unexpectedly, and without warning or justification. That's business and that's life. There are no success stories that are not peppered with failures and your success story will be no exception.

The only real failure is when you fail to learn the lessons that failing at something has to teach. Study your failures, learn what went wrong and how you could have prevented it then get right back into the game and apply those lessons to your next project. Persevere! There is no wisdom without experience and there is no experience without failure.

2. Thou Shalt Not Believe in "Get Rich Quick"
Despite all the claims you're reading to the contrary, you probably aren't going to get rich quick in internet marketing. I know I just contradicted the last dozen or so sales letters you read that promised you would "make easy money overnight" but that's the reality. If you're upset that you'll have to work to live your dreams then you need to start playing the lottery because it simply won't happen. If being rich were easy everyone would be rich.

The good news is that internet marketing is one of the quickest, easiest, and most enjoyable routes to riches I've personally ever seen. It's one of the only real opportunities available to virtually anyone, anywhere and it will exponentially reward any work that you put into it. You can either work at an offline job making someone else rich or apply a small portion of that work to your internet business and make yourself rich. It's your choice.

3. Thou Shalt Learn How to Make $1 Before Trying to Make $1 Million
Having big goals is fine but trying to reach big goals too quickly is a recipe for disaster. Too many internet marketers try for the big score right off the bat with $500 pay per click campaigns, massive websites, or expensive software programs before they really understand how to make money with what they're building.

Start small. Learn how to turn $0.50 or $0.75 into $1 before trying to turn $500 into $1000. Starting bigger is definitely not starting better. Commandment 1 says you'll fail and you'll fail often. It's better to risk $0.75 and painlessly learn the lessons that failure can teach you than to risk $500 or $5000 and give failure the chance to destroy your business.

4. Thou Shalt Duplicate What Works
This goes hand-in-hand with Commandment 3. Things that work on a small scale have a wonderful way of scaling up. Learn the techniques to write an ad or a sales letter that converts visitors into buyers and apply that knowledge to every market you're targeting. Learn how to make $0.25 with pay per click advertising and use that knowledge to scale up to making $1 then $1000 then

Despite all the claims you're reading to the contrary, you probably aren't going to get rich quick in internet marketing. I know I just contradicted the last dozen or so sales letters you read that promised you would "make easy money overnight" but that's the reality. If you're upset that you'll have to work to live your dreams then you need to start playing the lottery because it simply won't happen. If being rich were easy everyone would be rich.

The good news is that internet marketing is one of the quickest, easiest, and most enjoyable routes to riches I've personally ever seen. It's one of the only real opportunities available to virtually anyone, anywhere and it will exponentially reward any work that you put into it. You can either work at an offline job making someone else rich or apply a small portion of that work to your internet business and make yourself rich. It's your choice.

3. Thou Shalt Learn How to Make $1 Before Trying to Make $1 Million
Having big goals is fine but trying to reach big goals too quickly is a recipe for disaster. Too many internet marketers try for the big score right off the bat with $500 pay per click campaigns, massive websites, or expensive software programs before they really understand how to make money with what they're building.

Start small. Learn how to turn $0.50 or $0.75 into $1 before trying to turn $500 into $1000. Starting bigger is definitely not starting better. Commandment 1 says you'll fail and you'll fail often. It's better to risk $0.75 and painlessly learn the lessons that failure can teach you than to risk $500 or $5000 and give failure the chance to destroy your business.

4. Thou Shalt Duplicate What Works
This goes hand-in-hand with Commandment 3. Things that work on a small scale have a wonderful way of scaling up. Learn the techniques to write an ad or a sales letter that converts visitors into buyers and apply that knowledge to every market you're targeting. Learn how to make $0.25 with pay per click advertising and use that knowledge to scale up to making $1 then $1000 then

ward any work that you put into it. You can either work at an offline job making someone else rich or apply a small portion of that work to your internet business and make yourself rich. It's your choice.

3. Thou Shalt Learn How to Make $1 Before Trying to Make $1 Million
Having big goals is fine but trying to reach big goals too quickly is a recipe for disaster. Too many internet marketers try for the big score right off the bat with $500 pay per click campaigns, massive websites, or expensive software programs before they really understand how to make money with what they're building.

Start small. Learn how to turn $0.50 or $0.75 into $1 before trying to turn $500 into $1000. Starting bigger is definitely not starting better. Commandment 1 says you'll fail and you'll fail often. It's better to risk $0.75 and painlessly learn the lessons that failure can teach you than to risk $500 or $5000 and give failure the chance to destroy your business.

4. Thou Shalt Duplicate What Works
This goes hand-in-hand with Commandment 3. Things that work on a small scale have a wonderful way of scaling up. Learn the techniques to write an ad or a sales letter that converts visitors into buyers and apply that knowledge to every market you're targeting. Learn how to make $0.25 with pay per click advertising and use that knowledge to scale up to making $1 then $1000 then

. Starting bigger is definitely not starting better. Commandment 1 says you'll fail and you'll fail often. It's better to risk $0.75 and painlessly learn the lessons that failure can teach you than to risk $500 or $5000 and give failure the chance to destroy your business.

4. Thou Shalt Duplicate What Works
This goes hand-in-hand with Commandment 3. Things that work on a small scale have a wonderful way of scaling up. Learn the techniques to write an ad or a sales letter that converts visitors into buyers and apply that knowledge to every market you're targeting. Learn how to make $0.25 with pay per click advertising and use that knowledge to scale up to making $1 then $1000 then $10000.

Instead of simply rejoicing when you find something that works, instead think of how you can apply that knowledge to other parts of your business. When you find a good way to get traffic, use it across all your websites. When you learn a successful way to set up niche affiliate websites duplicate that process across more niches in more markets and build your empire.

Too many people spend their time looking for that next big thing or blockbuster new idea to grow their income instead of simply looking at their business and taking what's already working and duplicating it in a new market.