Almost every time someone sees me playing tennis during the middle of the workday or as I’m leaving or returning from traveling with my family, I invariably get this question asked to me…

“What do you do for a living?”

The internet marketing lifestyle is golden. The freedom and flexibility that comes with success in your internet business is the real value in this “job”.

It’s also what eludes 95% of those who attempt to start an internet business.

What I want to do in this lesson is explain two core steps for making a lot of money on the Internet.

Picture this:

My son Jacob, now 9, comes to me and says, “Daddy, will you show me how to hit a forehand?”

Re-read that sentence. Study it for just a moment. Let the magnitude of this simple request take root in your mind, because his question is the key to you making big money as an internet marketer.

If you’re an affiliate marketer, then you’re always looking over your shoulder to see if the competition – your fellow affiliates – are catching up to you. Or, worse than that, you’re looking up ahead trying to catch up with them!

At times any market can be crowded, so selling the same thing to the same group of people means you’re lucky to get just a small share of the market. Imagine having thirty-five Wal-Mart stores in one small town, all competing with each other to get the local business. You get the idea.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. The easiest way to outsell other affiliates is this…

Internet marketers often complain about “slow sales” during the holidays.

With many people concentrating most of their spending on Christmas gifts and travel, selling digital goods generally takes a backseat.

I haven’t seen a single “top ten gifts for Christmas” list that included a “how to make money as an affiliate” infoproduct. After all, it’s hard to gift wrap an ebook and put it under the tree.

Many internet marketers simply take the month of December off and enjoy the profit they’ve made throughout the year.

That’s good news for you and I.

It leaves a lot of extra money for IMers who want to implement some age-old Christmas retail practices.

If you want to get some extra sales before Christmas, here are three ways to do it…

2010 will mark my 10 year anniversary of going “full time” as an internet marketer.

One of the questions that I’ve been asked a lot as I near this mark is this…

“What do you know now that you wish you had known 10 years ago?”

If I had to narrow it down to one core truth from the “Money making” side of things, I’d have to answer this way…

There are three simple things you can do in order to “kick-start” your busines in the next 24 hours. And, truthfully, they probably are NOT what you’re thinking.

I’ve bee doing these same three things for almost TEN YEARS now online and I continue to make more money while working less.

What are these three keys? Here they are…