While I am sure this answer could be debated, my answer for the missing ingredient is: passion.

If you have no passion or interest for your business or the topic of your business, you will not be motivated to do the necesssary work. There is work.

There is no push button. You will have to learn and apply various technical and marketing techniques along the way of growing your business. If you have no passion, you simply will not have the fuel to do the work. It’s that simple.

There are enough areas that are marketable, in which people do commerce, that you can find a merging of a marketing venue(s) on the internet that attracts you in alignment with your skills and talents blended in an area(s) in which you have a true interest.

There is a saying you probably have heard.

If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.

If you can find that kind of field in internet marketing, or rather, in marketing on the internet, you will have made a big leap forward as you will enjoy far more all of the many steps you will take on the way to success.

As a matter of fact, the “how” will become more apparent, when you make a quality choice of what it is you want to do. If you don’t make that choice, that “inner you” will fight at a subconscious level the learning that is necessary because that “inner you” doesn’t want to do something not in line with your highest talents, abilities, and dreams. When you choose to do what you love and feel a purpose in so doing, you will embody “when the student is ready, the teacher appears”. You will fight and sabotage your own success if you choose wrongly as subsconscious forces will not work for you until you get on track. Choose wisely.

I suggest reading this post and watching the video if you are having trouble getting a clear direction of where to go with your business. Watch the Susan Boyle video as well.