There are a million of different articles, tutorials and e-books out there that want to tell you for just some bucks how to get rich on the internet in a short amount of time, for example by developing some websites full of spam and unoriginal content and slapping advertising on them. Most of those unfortunately do not work at all and most of them fail to realize or teach its readers that to run an internet business, just like for an offline business, some basic and general skills are required to have a chance at success.

In this article I will now showcase three of the probably most important of such basic skills and tell you why you need to have them and how to train and attain them.

1. Experience

This one might probably seem a little too general to you, yet I think it is the most important thing to have. When running a business, online or not, you simply need to know what to do when and how to achieve it best. And this does not mainly include programming or design knowledge for online work (since such are things you can easily outsource) but rather general marketing and promotion skills that will help you to get the word about your product or website out there.

For me attaining enough experience to be successful was mostly a matter of (quite much) time and more or less a trial-and-error approach where every failure was a important lesson for me that helped me to improve in the next approach. In general much practice and training over a quite long time span (depending on the niche your business is operating in of course) is the only way to obtain sufficient experience.

2. Creativity

It is widely know that you have to create something original to have success on the internet. Simply reproducing and copying the service or product of someone else usually gets you nowhere. Thus creativity is vital to get ideas on how to either improve on a competitors product or on how to develop your own original and new one. The unfortunate thing about creativity is that you can't really train or improve it. Either you have good ideas or not.

3. Patience

Now, no matter how creative and or experienced you are, it will still probably take you quite much time until you finally have success with one of your website or products (yes, you should have several and try different approaches) and your hard work pays off. So, the most important thing really is not to give up...ever!