I get asked many times as to what the most important ingredient for succeeding online are. I have to say that there is no single key and that in my opinion there are at least 4 keys for succeeding online. There may be other factors which contribute to online success but in my opinion these are the ones that matter and I have listed them below.

One of the secrets to being an online success is being organized and disciplined. Even if you are the smartest person on the planet but cannot sit down and do a single day's work, then it really would not matter in the least. There are many people with high IQ who have not gotten anywhere with their lives and all because they lacked the necessary discipline and organizational skills to do anything much about it. Take my mother for example, she was a brilliant pianist and a great opera singer and as a result of her poor organizational skills, her career pretty much met a dead end. That really sucks for me but then again, that is the truth.

The key to online success is to start creating your own products or services .One can make money online as an affiliate marketer by promoting the products of others. But remember, you would be competing with hundreds of other affiliate marketers who will be selling the same product. By creating your own products you would not only eliminate the need to compete with other affiliate marketers but you can also use them to promote your product for you. Having done this, I ended up quadrupling my income within a year.

One of the key factors to any online success is advertising. Your site may well be the greatest one but if no one knows about it, then you will find it difficult to make even a dime off it. I am not going to give an explanation as how setting up an online site without any promotion is useless. I shall save that for a later article. But the point being that until and unless you utilize the proven methods for promotion, the chance of you succeeding is minimal, to say the least.

Finally there's communication or rather, writing. This is one important tool, one that we all use at all levels of our business. From the sales pages to the page contents, from the auto responder emails to responding to customer inquiries, they all have to do with writing in one form or the other. If you cannot communicate effectively then the chances of you capturing the attention of your target market is slim. You can always outsource such ?writing? tasks, but they will prove to be expensive.

These are my 4 keys to success. There may be many others but these are the ones that really deliver as far as I'm concerned.