When you first start out in internet marketing no one starts as an expert. It is also true that it is up to you to decide when it has become the time for you to move on from being the newbie internet marketer to the more advanced levels of internet marketing.

For the most part the new online marketer has very little idea of the techniques and methods necessary to make money online, most of the time they don’t even know why they really chose the internet business path to begin with. They might have told themselves that they want to do it because of some abstract reasons in the beginning. However the reason they choose to market on the internet is much more important than the newbie may think, if he or she wishes to begin to move to the next levels of internet marketing, going beyond the newbie level, then he will at this time need to begin to get the answers to some important personal questions.

One of the most important questions you will need to ask yourself is why? Why did you choose to market online in the first place? Was it something as basic or as common a reason as you wanted to make more money? If so, you should know that you are not alone in that area. Needing more money is probably the most popular reason for individuals wanting to try their hand in the internet marketing field.

Unfortunately if needing extra income is your main reason for getting into this business you have made the mistake of choosing a poor reason and the harder road to walk. There are many other far easier ways to bring in an extra income, at your nearest restaurant, or burger spot offering part-time employment, Not only would you get a rapid payday, you will get a consistent one as well.

Many individuals have come to believe that by becoming an internet marketer they will automatically be on the road to “easy street”. They have heard about the loads of money, and cash that can be had easily for the taking, the blatant promises of get rich quick schemes, secret, hidden techniques, and make money fast programs. Sooner or later the newbie marketer will come to find that this is simply not the case, not the truth, and not at all how making an income on the internet works, in fact to be a successful marketer will definitely involve hard work, focus, determination, patience and a whole lot of other positive personal qualities that if an individual does not possess will have to develop to move on to the next internet marketing levels successfully.

It is very important for the new marketer to realize and understand that while making more money is not at all a bad thing, it should not be your main thing or reason to choose this industry to work in. If this is your main reason for wanting to be an online marketer, it is now the time for you to change your priorities if you want to be successful in this business. It is really much more important to figure out what it is you really would like to accomplish by choosing to be an internet marketer, so that your online business success will in the end be truly long and lasting.

Below I have listed some of the more popular reasons that individuals use as to why they feel they want to choose marketing online, by looking them over, hopefully you will be able to find some much more personal and motivational reasons to adopt for yourself to help inspire you to move beyond the newbie level and way of thinking:

• They want to have more time to share with their family and loved ones.
• They would like to one day be able to buy the house of their dreams.
• They want to be able to go on a vacation or take time of whenever or wherever for as long as they would like.
• The want to be their own boss, in control of what they do in their business and how much they will earn in income.
• They want to have the freedom to work from the comfort of their own home and dress as they please.
• They just want a change from the routine labor or office jobs that most individuals do each and every day.

The main reason for this article is to impress on you, if you are new to internet marketing, the great importance of having a clear and defined understanding of why it is you chose to become an internet marketer in the first place. Just to make more money in most cases will not be a strong enough motivation to get you through the hard times, obstacles or failures that you will need to overcome to be the successful online business person that you have started out to be.

There will definitely be those rough times ahead. We all face them in life, we all face them as internet marketers. What will help get you, just as it has helped others get past the newbie level to successful internet marketer is having strong, powerful, and motivational reasons for choosing to be an internet marketer. Make sure you think about it and have at least one before you go ahead.