Why to bother with personal growth ?
It seems that we are already grown up persons, who have already achieved many things in our lives?
I ask this question at the change of the year, which is usually a time to evaluate our success, review our goals and refocus our actions and energy.
Usually on the list [...]

Making money in direct marketing (online or offline) follows a clear sequence of actions:

Traffic Generation: You need to get visitors to your website, and lots of them.
Initial Sale: To receive money, you need to gain trust of your audience. The willingness to give you money for a promised product is certainly an expression of trust. [...]

There are two types of traffic:

Traffic which comes from internet users who find you thru search engines, or by following a link, paid or unpaid, to your site.
Traffic coming from mailing lists or socal networks, which you can induce by sending an email to your list, or by making a post to facebook, twitter [...]

Traffic is like the blood of all online activities: If nobody sees you article, photo, video, there is no sense in publishing it.
But not all traffic is equal:
The people who see you message on their screen need to

be interested in the topic
believe that you can give a valuable input
give you at least some trust [...]