Making money with your own online business can be a complex undertaking.

You need to:

• Decide what kind of online web business you want to create
• Decide what kind of back-end your website will need
• Decide what marketing tools you need
• Decide what kind of website business tools you need
• Create your products or obtain your products and content
• Create your actual website
• Market your website
• Maintain your focusAnd most importantly, HAVE FUN

One of the keys to being successful on the web is to have a goal, a focus and a plan.

Join web marketilng forums, like Digital Point. Post and ask questions.

Don't discount what anyone has to say, it can all be useful.

Go to individual blogs done by successful web gurus. Clear your mind of distractions and if you don't understand what they have to say about making a living on the web, re-read it. If it talks about an approach to doing business online or has a bunch of anacronyms - you need to research what they are. Chances are the person creating the material, and his/her audience are not newbies and have forgotten what it was like to just be starting off.

Just thinking that you are going to make a living online without understanding the basics of web marketing is like thinking you're going to win the lottery. It does happen, but not to you (or me.) Web marketing and SEO are complex issues. And the playing field changes all the time.

You have to have a clear understanding of the basics of online business, before this material will make sense to you.

So, first things first. Do your homework and research what it takes to create a successful online business.

And don't quit your day job!