Everyone always tries to over complicate things but you definitely nailed it. It really does come down to just creating or affiliate a product, launching a site, building a list, subscribers and traffic.

You don’t have to spend hours upon hours to learn these techniques being told in different voices; the fundamentals are there, work with those.

This sentence:

“Making money must be factored into the equation, but money isn’t enough to drive people to push through all the resistance, patience, and hard work that is required to be successful.”

Is golden – it’s been proven that money is a poor motivator, there needs to be that added extra passion.

Your comment is something that I’m always thinking about, yet haven’t ever really been able to describe in such an effective way that you have.

Nice one Terris !

In the planning stage, which must be done, you need to narrow down on why you are marketing and what you marketing. Making money must be factored into the equation, but money isn’t enough to drive people to push through all the resistance, patience, and hard work that is required to be successful. If your primary goal is making money you are subject to take the path of least resistance which may potentially land you in jail and/or hated and scorned by your customers.

If you have a passion for a product or service that people want you will endure hell and high water to get it to them. A Chinese proverb says, “The longest journey is the first step.”

However, there could be few more sub-points like

- When you create the website you need to make sure the logo and design first.
- For building list, email subscription is surely the priority but you can also use other techniques like facebook fan page/group, twitter followers