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Brett,

Great post.  I remember when I first got started n the whole making money online thing.  I was working a job where I was gone about 60+ hours per week, my son was not yet born and I remember thinking.... I got to find something else to do with my life.

Long story short; I found Internet Marketing and mainly affiliate niche marketing.  I was able to quit my job in about 11 months.  Now I'm teaching it to thousands of students.

I never looked back and I'll never work for someone else again.  I make a lot more money now, have a lot more free time and it's taken about 10 years of stress off my mind!

So stay with all of this, you can hit your goals.  Stay focused and never give up.  I respect everyone who gets into this biz and wish everyone as much success as possible.

Brett,

I started in Niche Market building.  In fact, small niche markets.

Then I just focused on ranking them in the top 10 for their keywords in Google.  I then got into email marketing.  So really my 2 main focuses are email and affiliate marketing.

Start off slow and build up.  Use tools, like the ones Jon creates to automate and save a lot of time when building.  Then simply reinvest as much as you can in this.  Treat it like a business and not a hobby and you'll see the most success.  I waited too long to start reinvesting or I'd be a lot further ahead than I am.  I also jumped around too much instead of narrowing my focus as I should have done in my first year. 

My best advice is pick one thing early on and get good at it.  Then stay focused on it.  Learn all you can and just apply it. 

Luke does not, I am certain give away his whole business plan. But there are significant clues in the original post and the following thread. You will not, I think go far wrong in using his model as a base for future income - not least because he has identified how to work on and not in the business and he has a business, not a revenue stream.

Before jumping in with two feet though can I suggest that you do the following:
Look at your life, look at your assets (skills, competencies and passions) and consider what you want from your life. Having carried out such an audit, look at how to attain your life goals with the assets that you have at your command.

For example, what LukeP seems to be doing is a 'proper' business, but even with the automation that he hints at using, I am sure there is still a fair chunk of ongoing work on a daily/weekly basis. Does that suit you for the rest of your life of does a model where short sharp bursts of intense activity suit you best?
If the basic business model does not suit your personal style or your life goals then the business you create will fail to meet your expectations.

If you choose to work a model along the lines of Luke's Adsense farms I'd suggest that you research fully the model, get the tools together to get started out and write up a business plan. Compromise between getting too mcuh info and not enough.

By the way, is his system viable?
Yes, in essence he is doing the same as we were doing with our autoblogs (We used to call 'em Little Automatic Money Makers) which we launched many years ago. A core of good quality themed content to identify the site and provide the revenue value, streams of content to maintain interest of search engines and real visitors and multiple income streams that accept the premise of ongoing, relatively low, income. Luke is correct, sites like these can work for many years with little intervention.
Unstated, IIRC in his post and his followups, is that he aims for sites that look of decent quality with decent quality content. Crappy quality in the implementation and marketing of these sites will lead to failure.

Dear Kid in a Candy Store, sorry Brett I just couldn't resist. 

Your post and the replies have come at a good time for all of us. It has helped me to do some reflecting over the past year and rethink several things for pushing my IM business into 2012 and beyond.

Michael and others have pointed out how important "focusing" is to IM. And frankly it cannot be stressed hard enough for being successful with anything. By focusing and putting to work what you have learned is what will move you toward your passion, regardless if its monetary or otherwise.

Now its time for me to put my focus back to work.

Ken Leatherman
"The Old Geezer"

Michael,

I took a look at your Freebie information.  There's some good stuff there for anyone just getting into Affiliate Marketing.  I thought I would know most of it, but I did learn a few tricks, so thank you for making that available to everyone. 

ba

Michael,

I took a look at your Freebie information.  There's some good stuff there for anyone just getting into Affiliate Marketing.  I thought I would know most of it, but I did learn a few tricks, so thank you for making that available to everyone. 

ba

You're welcome.  That site is also getting a facelift today.  Have my team putting the new pages up right now actually   It needed fresh, modern look.