This... isn't soooo hard to do. Like eating an elephant! One bite at a time.

Here is the thing most people have a problem with...

What are you doing right now to make $50,000 per year?

Work?

Right! What do you suppose you're going to have to do to earn the same amount of money working for yourself?

Acck! ...and they said it would be easy. It is... all you have to do is save $100,000 per year;-)

People you will never hear about are using the web to live their dreams. They aren't rich, they aren't famous, and you don't know them and will never hear about them.

Glenn quit his teaching job last year. He replaced his income by playing in 5 different musical bands plus has employees that setup in small clubs and do Karaoke gigs for him. He doesn't have a website. He uses a mailing list to keep the folks who hire him informed of his openings and specials. This keeps his name fresh on their minds.

A Carpenter and teacher (married couple) quit their jobs to rent cottages. Using traditional advertising and Internet marketing they had their cottages full by the second year. Internet marketing was responsible for 35-40% of the bookings they received that year.

Harry runs a local directory for the county. He has businesses paying him to be listed on his website.

These are all people who were SERIOUS about wanting to replace their incomes, and they did, using a combination of offline, and online marketing. This is a sensible approach to using the Internet. Sure, most the stories you hear, are about how people have made fortunes. It is newsworthy, and of course the exception to the rule. We get bombarded with similar stories so much so that IF you hear John Smith finally replaced his income from a job he hated for 17 years, no one listens; no one cares. I bet John does though.

Steve MacLellan is the author of "Used Car Websites" and has been doing web development for small/medium sized businesses since 1998.

http://carsite-marketing.com

steve@homebusiness-websites.com