There are a lot of people selling on the Internet already and making a pretty good living at it. However we will debunk some of the Internet Myths that new webmasters are suseptible into believing.

If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Don't believe those sites hype that say things like "create a cash cow overnight" or I saw one today that said "make $1500 an hour". There is no one....no one.... who makes that much money in a day, a week, or even a month on the Internet unless their product is popular already offline.

Do not buy into the hype that you are going to get rich quick. There is no such thing online unless you are ripping people off. Working on Internet Sales is hard work. I have been in the business for 7+ years now and I am still learning tricks of the trade and sometimes I work 12-14 hours a day.

Just because you built a website doesn't mean you will have instant visitors. In fact the opposite is true. Unless you purchase traffic, link exchange with others, write articles linking back to your site, or promoting your site in other ways you won't get any visitors at all. It's quite hard to get visitors to come to your site and it take a lot of know how.

Just because you have a lot of visitors doesn't mean you will have a lot of sales. I had one site getting over 40,000 page views a day at one time and making very little sales. That is because it was poorly marketed and I didn't really know what I was doing. Marketing is very important to your website.

Find your niche market, not everything will sell. Sites that have micro niche products or less available products do better. For instance I wouldn't open up a website selling digital cameras or computers because then I would be competing with big companies like Best Buy or Circuit City. How can a small guy compete with that? Sell harder to find products and rare services for best results.

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