Online adventures, or, just how the heck do you *do* that?

I have been delving into Internet based income ideas, trying to sort the wheat from the chaff.
I am *such* a dweeb.

I initially got the set of books from Robert Allen on 'Multiple Streams of Income.'
One of the stories about picking people right out of the unemployment line in St. Louis and following them through a 90 day Challenge really reached into me.
I felt every up and down as I read it. A lot of hard work and a real life-change engineered their success.

Could I do what they did?
Yes.
With just an e-book for a guide?
Not a chance.
I am lousy at charging into a wilderness in my shorts.
I need to have the tools to do the deed.

Next up, got hooked into 'Process at Home' with Sara Angel. Hmm.
Rebate processing ..looked simple enough.
Spent the extra for the neato website setup tool.
Once I logged in and started reading we were off to the Races big time.
I have to:
1) Put out ads everywhere for other people's products
2) Setup a bidness/choose a name
3) Sign up with Go-Daddy and buy a domain
4) Search products and..
.. holy COW wait a frik-kin MINUTE!!
Where is the rebate processing? Where is the simple idea?
To say I felt a little 'rushed' .. well .. lets just say it looks like its gonna take longer than just a few days, ok?
Tomorrow I will spend most of the day sending ads out for the stuff I decided to promote from Commission Junction ..ya .. you gotta get an account there, too.
And I probably left out another 20 or so steps.

Instead of pounding my head against a wall (which is what it feels like some days) ...I stumbled across Ken Evoy's Master Affiliate book.
It really opened my eyes.
I am still in the process of it's 10-day program, suckin in as much as I can, slowly getting a handle on what I need to do. It's a free download on his site ..how easy is that?
In my travels I stumbled across his Site Built It .. this is the most eloquent solution to the problem of how to setup a manageable website that I have run across.
The other e-books offered also do a great job of explaining the arcane science of what to do, what to do.
I feel like I am decompressing from Sara's ordeal.

Turns out the bottom line is do what you know. Any one of us knows enough of something to be a 'guru' ..and that's the basis for settin up a place for others to learn from.

Tomorrow I am gonna Prune down to 3 core ideas I have some passion about, research which has the best potential to produce both fun and profit ..cliche I know, but it is what I am after.

Right now I gotta take a coupla aspirin.

Mebbe log onto Age of Conan and go wack the *CRAP* outta somethin with Oott, the Barbarian.
(always good for a few laffs .. he's got a big AXE and he knows how to USE it :)

-Frank aka GE