Perhaps. If you know how. If you try different things until one of them works. And if you read how others did it and emulate them. Take Ewen Chia, for example.

As a young man in Singapore, with a good job, Ewen spent four hours every night, from 11 p.m. to 3:00 a.m., on the Internet, trying to learn how to become rich. He did this for five straight years, trying various business ventures and purchasing all the e-books and e-courses on Internet wealth he could find (even though most were in English, which wasn’t his first language). He spent close to $50,000 doing so, charging most of it to credit cards.

Finally, in 2002, he settled on affiliate marketing as the business model to focus on, and began putting his hard-earned know-how into practice. Last year, a publisher in New York published his 354-page book, “How I Made My First Million on the Internet—and how you can too!” It’s filled with details, examples and proven advice.

No matter what kind of business you might choose, Ewen offers (at the end of his book), “two basic lifetime principles of money-making, online or offline, which you must fix firmly in your head before you start—because they will serve you for life, make you incredibly rich, and set you free financially.” They are:

1. Provide a product or service that people truly want and are willing to pay for. You don’t really have to “find a need and fill it.” Often, the need has already been found by others. It’s what people want and attach their emotions to. You just have to provide the wanted product or service faster and better than your competitors.

2. Learn the two most profitable and necessary skills of all time in business: copywriting and marketing.

 

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