How much time have you spent reading blog posts and articles about making money online? How many hours have you spent in forums reading, and asking questions about affiliate marketing? How many ebooks, videos and home study courses have you spent money on, hoping to learn the secrets to Internet Marketing?

Now the big question… how much of what you learned have you put into action?

If you’re anything like me, and I know from chatting to a ton of people about this that many people are, you’re an information addict. You try to soak up knowledge like a sponge, devouring every article, ebook and video you can lay your hands on.

When I was first getting started online I spent a small fortune on products. I would read a sales letter with the intention of trying to find out why it worked, what the key factors were in the hope that it would improve my copywriting – and by the time I finished I found myself clicking to buy, believeing that one more ebook, or one more ‘killer product’ would make all the difference and I’d be successful.

In fact all that happened was my office got fuller and fuller. I like to print ebooks and reports off, spiral bind them and read them away from the computer so my office was piling up with half read books and manuals dotted with highlighter pen, but I still wasn’t making any money.

Taking action – going from learning to earning

Learn as much as you like, get your attitude right and a great work ethic and none if it means a thing unless you take ACTION. Massive action is what separates the massively successful from the ‘also ran’.

Now, I’m going to tell you something your unlikely to hear from any other Internet Marketer – You don’t need to buy any more products! I bet that 99% of the visitors to this site already have enough material to build a successful online business. What you need to do is put that learning into practice… Get a website online, a blog, a review site, whatever. Start driving traffic to that site by any means – forums, articles, social media etc. Then get yourself an autoresponder and start building a list. Now, finally, start promoting affiliate products to that list and via your sites… what do you know, you’ve made a sale! Now rinse and repeat!

Once you make your first sale everything seems a little easier. You’ll build on previous successes and start to develop your business. Sure you’re going to want to develop your own products, build relationships with JV partners and explore some of the more advanced techniques of Internet Marketing but the first step has to be action to create that first sale. If you really are just starting to learn and you don’t have a ton of reference material then start with somthing simple and cost effective like Russell Brunson’s Free DVD offer. You can then reinvest some of your early profits into other products and courses to further your development.