The simple fact is, very few people know what it means to be an internet entrepreneur. Most have never considered the possibility of using the web to earn a living. Many are fairly comfortable in their 9 to 5 jobs and see no particular reason to consider a serious alternative.

It makes you wonder if there is some comfort in knowing that you're being taken care of by the boss. Or they are afraid of the concept of working from home. Or they can't imagine a world in which they might become the master of their own destiny.

Even though many of the world's 9 to 5 jobs are uninteresting and often pay poorly, the people who hold them don't know of a practical alternative. After all, we have been told from the time we are little children that we must work to make a living. And for most of us that has meant "go to school and get a job" - working for someone else.

The usual route for breaking out of one job into a more fulfilling, better paying position is to take go through a training program consiting of a number of long-winded courses Most courses like this require years of study, thousands of evenings of hard work, and many weekends spent sitting in classes or in front of a computer. And they usually cost a fair bit of money. Most people simply do not have the time or energy to devote to learning a new career.

And many of those who do successfully complete a course of training are not much better off when they are finished. They find their new job is just more of the same - more "working for the man" - but now with an increased workload, greater expectations from the boss, more responsibility, and only marginally better pay.

Becoming an online entrepreneur is an option that many have not seriously considered because it is so different from what most of us do for a living. Just think, you don't need a diploma or degree to get into online marketing. There is no 9 to 5 grind. You don't have to drive into the office every day. There is no boss. And while there is no "security" to your income, there is also no artificial limit to the amount you can make.

That's why the idea of being an online marketer is attractive to so many people. It opens up fantastic opportunities for people who are unhappy with their current jobs, who wish they could make more money, or would simply like to break out of the straight jacket of regular employment.

But there are one or two little problems. The first problem is that internet marketing is so open-ended it is difficult to know where to begin. That's because there is no official version of what an online entrepreneur is or does. .There is no "authorized" manual that gives you a step by step explanation of how to become an internet entrepreneur.

The second problem is that the internet is filled with dishonest people who pretend to be successful entrepreneurs and are happy to tell you the secrets of their success All it takes is a small one-time payment of $79 and they'll send you a 50 page ebook where they will share their valuable secrets with you. Unfortunately most of these offers are scams, and there is no easy way to tell the truth from the lies.

However there is one way that most successful internet entrepreneurs agree is a good place to start. This is what you might call the "formula for success", and it is really quite simple: Find the right person to be your mentor - someone who will be your teacher and your example.

Believe it or not, there are quite a few successful internet entrepreneurs who are also successful mentors. They have taken what they have learned and put it into a form that makes it easy for a newbie to understand.

One of the most successful examples of this in recent years is Jay Kubassek. Jay has a story that many of us can identify with. As a young man in his early twenties he had limited prospects. In his own words he says, "I spent the first 25 years of my life barely making ends meet without knowing how I was going to come up with my next rent check or make ends meet." Sound familiar?

After three years of hit and miss, trial and error and false starts he hit on a formula that worked. This formula finally allowed him to make a go of it in internet marketing. In his first year as a full time internet marketer he made close to $500,000 in commissions.

Now this is where it gets interesting, because he soon decided that he could do much better if he shared his "secrets" with others. He decided to package his approach to internet marketing to help others become as successful as he had. The basic idea behind his plan was simple: he would show others how to duplicate his own success and he could then share in the rewards of their success.

The result was CarbonCopyPRO, a marketing program that gives would-be online marketers carbon copy of the techniques that Jay Kubassek uses to make as much as $100,000 each and every month.

If you are interested in leaving that old job behind and becoming a successful internet marketer this is probably the best place to start. Before you buy into another one of those $2000 training courses, waste your time with an online pyramid scheme, or even before you spend another $49 on an ebook you likely won't look at, check out CarbonCopyPRO. This is the real deal.