1. The first point I want to make is that the majority of the time that you spend online every day should be marketing your home business. I’ll even go one step further and say that you should spend a good portion of your time every day blogging.

Search engines love blogs with fresh content and so do readers. There are many resources available online that can teach you how to blog successfully. For example ProBlogger.Net is one of the best websites online for teaching people how to blog.

You can learn everything you need to make money on the Internet as a blogger just by following other successful bloggers who hang out at this site. I would call this an authority site because of the amount of content available to you, and the quality is outstanding.

Blogging allows you to make money in a niche writing about things you enjoy. It also allows you to generate a tremendous amount of free traffic over a long period of time. Therefore having a quality blog with high traffic is an excellent way to sell products, sell advertising, and make money.

2. Be cautious about the advice that you accept. It is very easy for a person to call themselves an expert and take money from others who do not know any better.

You see this happen all the time! Someone makes a couple of sales and then decides that the market they are going to target is the ‘how to make money’ market.

There certainly is nothing wrong with being in this market if you know what you’re talking about. However as an Internet marketing newbie yourself you need to be cautious about accepting advice from someone who does not have the credentials to back it up.

If you are unsure about someone’s credentials go to various Internet marketing forums and ask about them. For example you can go to the Warrior Forum and quickly find out whether someone is legitimate or not.

With social networking you can also make friends and see for yourself who is a good person to follow the advice of. One place to do this is with Twitter.com where you can build up a list of followers and watch their updates.

In summary, these are two things you must do to make money online. Watch out who you accept advice from, learn how to blog, and become an expert at it.

Understanding your niche is obviously very important if you are serious about making money on the Internet.  After doing your research and identifying your audience, you may well wish to allocate an advertising budget in the early days in order to give your home business an early boost.

How and where to advertise are obviously important but thought should also be given to when.  If you are an affiliate marketer who wants to make money on the Internet by advertising the best home business ideas for example then consider this: – Can you remember when and why you started as an Internet Marketer.

Let me explain, do you think many people will respond to your offers in say July or August, probably not.  Many people are pre-occupied with saving for holidays or are actually away and their mindset is mainly on the holiday.  Holidays are for some people a time for rest but also to reflect on their future plans and what they want to do with their lives.

After a holiday those same people are looking for ways to make quick money maybe only part time at first and that may be by taking up one or your work from home business offers.  That is why September/October is traditionally a good time for the Internet Business niche to pick up.

You may want to consider spending some of your advertising budget to coincide with this post holiday period and exactly the same can be said of Xmas.  People spend a lot of money at Xmas time and make a decision quite often to change their lives in the New Year and try a home business but are not at all interested in the run up to Xmas.

Timing is critical and your budget may be tight so use your money wisely and make the most of these two busy times of the year to maximise your impact and make a success of your business by capturing these customers with your home business ideas.

SKILLS….

Well maybe I should say three words—Internet Marketing Skills!

Forget all the other things about choosing a niche,finding the right product,hiring a copywriter or setting goals, although these are all part of internet marketing.

What I am talking about are the same skills other business’s in the world struggle with. You need prospects, website visitors, traffic… etc.

This is why people do not make money online. Not enough eyes looking at their sites every day.

This should create a ‘DOH” moment for you.

If it takes eyes on your site to make money how do you do that?

99% of all Internet home business ideas fail because of lack of traffic. That is the hard part. That is what you are going to get paid to do.

You should and must develop internet marketing skills and become a professional internet marketer. At the very least you should be professional enough to get people to stop by your website and see what you have to offer.

First and foremost you should learn how to get traffic. Once you do that the other things fall into place.

I see websites that look rubbish but because of the shear traffic the owner is probably sitting in Hawaii drinking on the beach and laughing all the way to the bank.

You can perhaps have similar success with your home business but only when you develop internet marketing skills. And specifically this…

Develop skills on how to generate traffic and you will make money online too. If not then it will be a struggle for you.