Have you ever done one of those draw-by-numbers pictures yourself or with children? There are a bunch of numbered dots on a piece of paper, and if you draw a straight line from one dot to the other in the correct order, when you get to the end, you will see a picture of something that you may not have seen in the beginning.
This analogy just popped into my head one day and I like it for several reasons. First of all, think about people and products as dots on a piece of paper. Your job as an Internet Marketer is to simply identify which dots can be connected, and then go about connecting them. The more dots you connect, the more money you make. You are telling people interested in buying blue widgets about the blue widgets you have on sale. That's one line connected. The next day, you may find more people interested in blue widgets and link them to your blue widgets; another line. Sometime later, you identify a group of people interested in buying red widgets, so you affiliate yourself with a red widget dealer, and let the potential customers know where to buy them. All of these connections are connecting buyers and suppliers that simply don't know about each other. For your services, you make a small fee, and build a reputation as someone that is very helpful. This is Internet Marketing done right.