You may have read comments from me in the past where I refer to taking an "Engineered Approach" and "Slow, Natural Growth" when it comes to IM. I've been asked to explain this in more detail by numerous readers and to demonstrate how the non-engineers among you might implement my methods.

You read that right - I'm dying out here every time I get an email from someone that starts out, "Mike, my biggest problem is I lack confidence in myself."

My lovely wife often tells her friends that I've got enough confidence and self-esteem for 10 people (she's right), so for me, visualizing a lack of confidence can be difficult. And then I think back to those awkward teenage years and the feeling comes flooding back, LOL! In fact my palms even start sweating, hehehe.

Well, it looks to me from the emails I'm receiving that many of you are catching on to what I'm trying to accomplish with these hubs. Call it motivation, confidence building, or even a solid kick in the butt, my goal is to get you to start or to continue and intensify your efforts at Internet Marketing.

I read something today that absolutely blew me away - from someone asking about answering emails from his list. Here is the first relevant part:

"I have a growing Aweber list which focuses on gardening. I have about 52 week's worth of material and it's sent once a week filled with affiliate links.

Everyday I get about 5-6 people emailing me with questions asking they should plant this, what's wrong with their plants ect.. I really don't have time to answer these questions so I have been just deleting them...<snip>"

Wow! Wow! Wow!

There was an insightful discussion going on at the Warrior Forum, which is related to helping out a newbie customer. Today I want to look at both sides of that coin, hence my subject line.

Back in the day, I used to print out just about everything - ebooks, word processing docs and spreadsheets; you name it, I printed it and had everything organized neatly in binders and folders.

And if you believe that, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn, NY you might be interested in as well, LOL. However, I will share with you some ideas on making money that are legal, relatively easy to do and can generally be accomplished without spending much, if anything starting out.

One of the problems that face many people running a business online today is spending more and more time sitting in front of a computer. Whether actually being productive or not, this leads to self-isolation from family, friends and activities they would otherwise normally participate in. I think it tends to be worse in single business people who live alone and have fewer family obligations

Today's tome is in response to a young man looking for guidance on how best to get into and succeed at Internet Marketing. Unfortunately, I was not in a position where I could take him on as a coaching candidate, but I did give him a brief summary of what he should be doing. I'll share that today along with other insights into what makes an online business successful.

I've begun to notice a trend with people I'm coaching and wanted to explore it here a bit. It doesn't apply to everyone, but I found this to be a bit disconcerting.