CREATING A SUCCESSFUL INCOME PRODUCING INTERNET BUSINESS IS NOT ANYWHERE CLOSE TO AS "EASY OR EFFORTLESS" AS IT APPEARS.

This fact is self-explanatory. If creating an internet business from scratch was anywhere near as easy, effortless or inexpensive as many "gurus" attempt to make it appear, we would all be millionaires, don't you think? I can attest to this one, personally. I worked 18 - 20 hours per day, 7 days per week, for 18-solid months to build my business to the point of producing a six figure income (and I also spent six figures in the process!)

I was married in July, 2005, and still have yet to take my honeymoon with my wife! Why? Because I could not leave my business alone long enough to take the 10-day Caribbean cruise we paid for! There was customer support, affiliate emails, market testing and product development to tend to. This is NOT an easy task, and unless the idea of living your life chained to your keyboard with a Starbucks IV drip in your arm to feed you synthetic energy intravenously appeals to you, I don't recommend that you try it yourself.

Folks, if you intend to build your own internet business, you had best plan on sacrificing the majority of your family life and leisure time for a minimum of two years. I say this from personal experience.

By the time I had built my internet business to the point of being semi self-perpetuating through the promotional efforts of my affiliate force, my children and wife barely knew who I was anymore. I was working more than I had EVER worked for any employer in my lifetime, had not sat down for a nice dinner with my family in at least six months, and was ready and willing to bribe "Alice" from the Brady Bunch to triple what Mike and Carole Brady paid her just to run my household and provide me with some semblance of balance and sanity!

My experience was ANYTHING but reminiscent of the happy and smiling fathers you see with carefree toddlers playing quietly on the floor of the living room while daddy works contently on his laptop. Understanding the reality associated with building an internet business from the ground up, those pictures always make me want to gag! This is why I feel very strongly that anyone who is serious about making money online NOT follow in my footsteps and try to reinvent the wheel, but instead join a company that has a complete and proven system already in place. But you have to find the right system. The system must allow you to use the power of leverage to benefit from the efforts of others so you can grow your wealth faster and with less effort then the example above.