My daughter just brought to me her homework where the teacher is asking for the keys to success in business. Personally I think that’s an evil assignment since my daughter is only 12 years old. I am very sure she has never been involved in any business.

I know it’s not kosher to do your kids assignments. So I have an alternative. Instead of me doing her homework, I can write what I think are the top online business keys to success and she can read it in her free time. Hopefully, I have brought up a clever child.

I still remember the first time I started on my online business journey. It was about 3 years ago when blogging was supposed to make you a very rich man very quickly. Of course, a quick Google search on “make money online” will reveal that many of those who were doing it disappeared. Through the years I have realized that the key to success in online business is no different from what you need to succeed online.

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One of the things that I hate about internet business is that  things change very fast. I guess there are those out there who think that change is good. I doubt you will think so when you get to my age. I was looking at my WordPress admin page and found that some of my plugins are obsolete. I was forced to do a major update to my WordPress blogs and create my essential WordPress list.

If you looking for a comprehensive tech advanced list, look elsewhere. I am only listing the plugins that I must have when i set up a WordPress blog. Any other plugins come later.

I think this is one of the reasons I prefer Joomla to WordPress. I seem to be able to keep with Joomla changes but somehow I am always behind with WordPress. Since I wrote on the 17 WordPress start up list, a lot has changed in WordPress. I have to say most of the change is great.

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I will never forget the early days when I was looking for success in my online business ventures. I may be one of the few to admit that success online took longer than I ever thought possible. What used to annoy me more were the numerous blogs that used to claim that they were making thousands of dollars a day while I could never manage more than 10cts a day on adsense.

It was very obvious to me even then that I needed to rethink my online business goals if I was not going to wind up losing my mind and going crazy.

Factors to Consider While Setting Online Business Goals

Set Realistic Goals

The power of the internet is that it is hard to lie. You may see from this blog that among the first articles I wrote was my goal to earn a million dollars from my blogging.

Granted that it shows that I am rather ambitious, it still shows that I was rather naïve in my thinking at that time. It didn’t take long for me to realize that it is easier to type 1 million dollars than doing the work that is necessary for that to occur.

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It’s been a long time since I started my path on online business success and to be honest, I think I have tried everything that is suggested as a way for me to be successful online. In short, I have been hoodwinked more than I care to talk about online money making programs.

In the final analysis, I have come to the conclusion that there is absolutely no difference between online business and brick and mortar business. The same business success principles apply. You can make money online doing anything that you like doing as long as you are consistent and have a strong stomach.

The problem is figuring out what you like doing and sticking with it.

I have the luxury of time so I have managed to divide my online business activities into groups. I have blogs, authority sites and portals. I did try proxies but I got bored with them. There are those that also add affiliate marketing but to be honest, I don’t feel comfortable with affiliate marketing so I just leave it alone.

All these have different goals and tactics when it comes to profiting from them. My online business success has been simply to find something that works and stick with it. For example, my blogs goals are totally different from my authority websites goals. While in a blog, I am interested in short term profits, in an authority site, all I am looking for is a gradual rise in profitability and yes, Authority!

That being the case, I really don’t care much about page ranks and great content in my blogs. I am more interested in keywords and serp’s when dealing with them. So somehow, I have to get money making programs that work well with my blogs.

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