by Tony Hetherington

They promise you the world with each new guru off but the truth about making money online is kept from you because it takes hard work and commitment - as any business does. The only true path to success is to form or get a plan or blueprint and take the action needed to go from start to finish.

We all know what can happen if we don't make a plan, we dither, delay and fail. As the mantra goes - people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan" - and yet we seem to be destined to fail and give up, time after time. So what goes wrong?

We get distracted - We're far too easily distracted. It's hard to admit but it's true. We buy a new ebook or course and think that this is our path to riches. Then a few days later our mailbox gets swamped with the next great offer and we succumb to it. The former path to glory now lies in ruins and will gather cyber dust with the others that we've bought and forgotten. Gurus and their affiliates are quite within their rights to offer you the next big thing - and they'd rather you'd buy that then focus. Look for someone committed to your future not your wallet.

We catch the learning bug - This is when the insatiable hunger for more training and the latest product takes over as you buy and devour them at an alarming rate. The problem is that most online guru training sells you hope not results! This means that they are quickly forgotten as we move on to our next digital fix.

We don't fully understand and the doubts make us give up - If you're trying to follow any plan that you don't fully understand then you're bound to have doubts. These doubts eat away at your confidence so that the slightest setback is magnified out of all proportion. For example, you see your first sale as a failure because it's not 100 sales. If only we were given the full true picture that things take time so that we could have more realistic expectations then we may not give up so easily.

We don't invest the necessary time and effort - In one word that means that we don't take action! Action is what will drive us forward, step by step to success. Even if you feel frustrated or feel like you're losing ground you must power through and keep taking action or you are bound to fail again.

It really isn't our fault because everything you've been told about affiliate marketing is wrong! We need to stop being lead around like sheep and start taking action and responsibility.

It's actually surprisingly simple to find a route map to success.

1. Choose a path or a product - I'm going to recommend a method below but if that doesn't appeal then find something that does.

2. Read it through twice. The second time take notes of what steps you need to take and what else you need.

3. Create a detailed task list. Break the plan down further into a task list with everything that you need to do.

4. There are many different approaches you can now take. Either start at the top of the list, start with some easy tasks or tackle them in a mixture of the other two. The important thing is that you keep going and get those tasks crossed off.

5. Whenever you have some free time do a task.

6. See it through to the end.

7. Take the time out to celebrate the first sign up to an autoresponder and that first sale and other landmarks.

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