What is your definition of success when it comes to Internet marketing? If that sounds like and odd question, you’re going to love my oddball response to it. See, not everybody has the same definition of success and while one person may consider himself successful, another may look at that person as a failure. Who is to say who is right and who is wrong? For that matter, is anybody right or wrong? Okay, let me get to my oddball response and then we can kick it around a bit.

My definition of success is this. “A level of progress achieved by an individual that places that person’s mind in a state of satisfaction with their level of progress.” In other words, if you’re content with where you are at the time, then you are successful. Now, do you see what this definition does? It opens up the opportunity for growth.

For example, when I first started marketing online, I was making about $2,000 a month my first year. I actually considered myself successful. After all, I was making sales and I could see that it was possible to make money online. Was I a huge success? Not at all. But I considered myself successful because I had achieved something I didn’t think was possible at the time.

As time went on, I started to make more money. By my fourth year, I was making close to $50,000 a year. I had a new personal definition of success. I no longer looked at my $2,000 a month income as successful and if I were to somehow go back to making just that much today, I’d consider myself a terrible failure, especially after coming off a $20,000 month in December of 2008. My personal bar has been raised and therefore, my definition of success has changed.

Look at it this way, an Internet marketing who is making $250,000 a year, which is certainly a decent amount of money…would Donald Trump consider him a success? I sincerely doubt it. Would you and I consider him a success? Honestly, it doesn’t matter. What matters is what HE thinks. If making $250,000 a year makes him a success in his eyes, then that’s what he is.

So, what is YOUR definition of success? Is it a moving bar or do you have a firm goal in mind?

Either way…there is no right or wrong.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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