Do you need special skills to become a doctor? Yes.
Do you need special skills to become an engineer? Yes.
Do you need special skills to do Internet Marketing? Yes.
Fortunately these skills can be learned and can be acquired quite quickly provided you put your heart and soul into it. Too often the problem with Internet Marketing is the hype and the hoopla surrounding our industry. Thanks to the get rich quick schemes, making money online is almost made to appear ridiculously easy. This illusion alone can lead to so many frustrations and failures.
Shift your thinking from "make money online" to "building a business". Once you do that you will understand that it is a business and not a hobby. And you will no longer chase after the latest black hat methods or the Google loophole only for the tactics to be abused by several thousands of other marketers to be eventually rendered ineffective.
As far as skills are concerned, it helps if you have an entrepreneurial mindset. Unfortunately as human beings, we are not naturally gifted with entrepreneurial mindset as a result of which we see about 90% of new businesses failing. The other skill you need to develop is focus. A lot of Internet Marketers have a mind of a monkey that keeps jumping from one place to another.
And it is precisely for this reason you see people buying products after products without putting anything that they learn into action. Spend more time on doing action and less time on learning new things. Information overload is not uncommon among Internet Marketers. Too often Internet Marketers know what they need to do but are just truly overwhelmed.
So it is important to pick a business model and just stick to it. Keep working on it, shut out all the noise and it is just a matter of time before you become successful.