I personally didn't have any real success until I started building a mailing list.

It's really hard to sell someone on their first visit to your page, but if you can offer them a free gift, something valuable, as incentive to sign up for your mailing list, you can build a relationship that is win/win with your potential customers. This leads to more sales, and with some perseverance, you can eventually make a full time living online.

I'm not by any means rich, but as of march of this year I went full time online. No big bucks yet, but enough to pay the bills and put food on the table. It all started with building a mailing list, specific to the products and services that I promote.