What got you started with your internet business? Were you trying to make some extra money every month? Or were you trying to get out of a job you didn't like and work for yourself full time like I was?

How's your internet business working out for you? If you're like most people in the internet business market, you haven't reached your goals yet. You might not even be making enough money to cover your costs every month.

If that's the case with your internet business, there's something you need to think about.

Do you see this as a money maker or as an internet business?

It might not seem like there's much difference but there is.

You see, a money maker is something that can make you money. It might even make you tons of money. But there's no security in it. It could all come falling down around you if something changes one day.

Just ask all the people who went from making thousands of dollars in Adsense every month to making nothing when Google clamped down on all the spammy autogenerated websites.

An Internert Business, on the other hand, can be a money maker but it's built with a solid foundation. There is more to it than some trick for getting your website ranked well for a while.

You provide useful information, products or services to your customers. You would actually be proud to be associated with what you offer, instead of hiding your identity because you don't want anyone to know all those crappy websites are yours.

Your internet business is an asset. If you wanted to, you could sell it because you can show that it has value. Just what that value is depends on how much time and effort you put into making it successful.

Quit chasing the dream and going from one new technique to another. Start building an internet business. Focus on something of value and work like heck at it until it's either successful or you know you've done everything you can to make it so.

If you did everything you could and it still didn't work, don't despair. Learn from your efforts and move on to another strategy until you find the one that works.

Believe me, you'll make a lot more money in the long run with a successful internet business than you will with a successful money maker.