Title: What Successful Internet Marketers Know That You Do Not Word Count: 842 Summary: Do you consider yourself a successful business? I'm sure the answer to that question is, of course. Guess what, you're not alone. Not too long ago, I too thought I ran a successful business. As an Online business owner, I have a website and an email autoresponder which is all you really need when running an online business. For the past two years, I have followed the advice of untold gurus about easy Internet marketing cash. I have purchased many ebooks and attended quite a f... Keywords: Article Body: Do you consider yourself a successful business? I'm sure the answer to that question is, of course. Guess what, you're not alone. Not too long ago, I too thought I ran a successful business. As an Online business owner, I have a website and an email autoresponder which is all you really need when running an online business. For the past two years, I have followed the advice of untold gurus about easy Internet marketing cash. I have purchased many ebooks and attended quite a few teleseminars with hopes of creating a successful online business. During the first year and a half of working on my business, I did see some success. With lots of discipline, I did what most netrepreneurs would do. SEO for my website and spent my days searching for link partners. I did experience traffic to my site over this time period but at the end of the day, there was very little in the way of sales conversion. After watching many new marketers come and go, I've carefully reviewed the movement of the more experienced marketers to SEE what they do. Talk is cheap as the saying goes. Children learn from what you do not what you say. It is with these child like eyes, I began to put my research hat on and take careful note of what successful online businesses do really well. 1. Business Systems - They all start their business with a plan. Too you and I it would seem otherwise if you only look at all of the marketing emails received for product launches. But if you are privilege to be a fly on the wall, you'll soon see there is a method to their madness. Even an area like affiliate marketing should be approached methodically. Once I understood this point, I stopped being willy nilly with my work and created a simple plan to make things happen. 2. Focus - This is a Biggie! I don't know about you but my email at one point would receive about 75 emails each day. As a new marketer, I subscribed to just about every list known to wo-man. I was afraid of missing out on anything that was news of the day. I'm sure you might relate to this. Just remember this little fact: Confusion = Poverty........That's right! Stay focused on your goals. Success does not happen overnight despite what those sales letters may say. The Guru's know not every product will strike gold, however, my sales manager who I no longer work for used to say: Just Sling enough mud on the wall and see what sticks. Although I do not personally agree with this mantra, there are many who do in terms of their internet marketing business. 3. Traffic Generation Systems - Yes, there's that word again....systems. Systems are equivalent to the air we breathe on the internet. Without them you really are destined for failure. Don't believe me, no problem. Are you still using any of the big website generation software that spat out thousands of pages? I bought into the hype also. Don't cry for me yet though. I have since studied the best marketers and built a real traffic generation system that will last no matter what the search engines do today, tomorrow or even next year. 4. Web 2.0 - So popular yet is the least understood. This area can be an Internet Marketer's goldmine or a big black hole. I've been able to actually use Google to spy on my favorite marketers to really see what it is they're doing in part with their Web 2.0 systems. Although Google has been a great help in some areas like telling me in an instant about the who, what and when as it relates to product launches and internet marketing buzz. Unfortunately, It has lacked in the money area which is the How! How do they do what they do baby. As Ray Charles used to say. Once I figured this out thanks to my good friend and mentor, I soon began to apply this to my internet business and have seen positive results. Although it has been a pretty tough road in the beginning through my own trial and error, I don't regret the set backs for one minute. If you've figured out the secret to long term internet marketing success and are experiencing the results of your dreams then I'd like to congratulate you right now. You definitely deserve it. However, if you're not experiencing what so few consider success in your online business, then I would encourage you to download a free report written together with the help of my friend and mentor Henry Gold. This report will help you as it did me to clearly understand Web 2.0 and how it is affecting your business. I am confident we can build that dream of yours. It did mine and it will yours. I encourage you to go ahead and download the rest of the report not for me or Henry but for yourself. It changed my life and I am confident it will change yours.