What part of "getting started online" do you think is the hardest to accomplish for a newbie?

I'm yet to put anything into practice with regard to getting started online so for me the answer to your question is definatley taking action and focus!

I buy ebooks and other courses but before I put into practice what i'm taught i've already purchased something else and i've completely forgot about the previous idea! This just confuses the hell out of you and results in information overload!

Since joining the Warrior Forum and taking on board the great advice on offer, i've now made a conscious decision to FOCUS on one method and TAKE ACTION!

Good luck with getting started whatever route you decide to take.

Sam

Having to ask dumb and obvious questions like this:

"How do you thank someone in a post here?"

I've seen the stats on "X was thanked YY times in posts from A, B, C, etc", but for the life of me, I can't find anyplace to thank someone.

Do you just write it out in a reply? Or is there some button someplace that you click?

Thanks --

wizard77

At the bottom left of each you will see 4 black buttons "Quote, Multiquote, Quick Reply and Thanks".

I know that you have to have 50 post in order to send PM's. so admin might have set up that new users that have anything under a certian amount of post are allowed to "thank" someone. You might want to check it out and see what you find.

Thanks, texasmom64.

So that's why I couldn't see it! Because it's not there yet! Thank you Thank you. That would be a nice thing to put into the Knowedgebase. I searched it and couldn't find anything about thanks, thank you, thanking, etc. So I'll just post away and wait for that button to appear.

I tried to invite you to be friends, but the link is not there in your profile. If you'd come to my profile and invite me, that would be great. This is a tough crowd sometimes and a few friends can be a big help.

Here's a little more about me:

I'm an American who's been traveling in SE Asia for the last few years. I like most of what I've found here including the people, food, and even the climate.

I'm a daddy now for the first time and I'm surprised to find I love it, and love our daughter. I never wanted to be a parent before, but I'm really happy to be one now. I can finally see what all those new parents were talking about!

I'm retired from law and advertising and for hobbies I like movies, traveling, motorcycles, trekking, scuba diving, computers, photography, and audiobooks -- oh yes, and internet marketing.

I don't know what else to tell about myself. I spent a lot of time at a lot of schools, so I can put a few letters after my name, but that doesn't tell much about me. And it doesn't help much with internet marketing. If I've learned how to dig in and learn something new, then it will be time well spent. Knowing how to write, too, I guess will help.

I used to list my age, but these days I think the picture is enough. I'm just getting into Wealthy Affiliate and so far think it's one of the best things I've found. Hope I'm right.

I've messed around for almost a year in IM and done nothing. But the year is over and I'm digging in!

A wonderful little daughter and a big bunch of school tuition bearing down on us can be a big motivator. I'm digging hard now. And having a great time doing it.

Anyhow, thanks again --

Wizard77
Eric Taylor (real name)

Staying focused on one system. Staying with the basics. Article marketing for traffic. Cpc ads. Banner ads for backlinks. It's tough finding a system or blueprint that uses these time tested strategies that worked 10 years ago, work today and will probably keep on working.
There are too many easy and get rich schemes out ther that will sidetrack you from finding the right system thay uses the time tested methods. Using a proven system that integrates these methods can't lose.

I think creating a website that is professional looking and a squeeze page. I have opted to order Affilojetpack by Mark Ling so I can have the 5 sites that will also come with autoresponders to help me build a list.

Staying focused on one system as michaelromero63 said above is also another one, but for me - I just don't have the patience to do a site when I know I could be writing an article or something to help drive traffic to my site.

Writing articles! I don't believe in just throwing an article together with little research, so I spend so much time researching and then when I actually start the writing, I am too nit-pickeddy! Then it takes me forever! I guess I'm a perfectionist in that area.

Anybody out there wanna swap article writing for their niche research?

Plus, I spend so much time reading and learning and not enough time DOING!

Maybe I'm slow or too nitpicky, but I spend a lot of time hitting problems or something I don't know and then taking hours to learn it or figure it out. Like article spinning software. Or Social marketing. Or making small changes to my Wordpress web site.

I like to be able to control every part of my site and with Wordpress, if you want to go much beyond filling in the blanks, you HAVE to know css and it helps to be able to read at least basic PHP and HTML. I have spent weeks learning those things, and I can SLOWLY, PAINFULLY make changes to my header now -- center up the headline and change that sickly green color to something better -- but I really question whether I'm using my time efficiently.

The model I'm following is "do it once yourself, the first time through. THEN if you want to outsource whatever, you'll know how to do it right and be able to properly manage the people you're hiring". But at this rate it's going to be at least a year before I've gotten a good site up and running and (hopefully) bringing in some significant money.

I'm getting there. Friends and acquaintances even think I'm "very knowledgeable" and "know a lot" about hosting, Wordpress, SEO, etc, but it seems SO-OOOO SLOOOWWW. And like SO MUCH HARD WORK.

By the end of the year, I'll have worked through buying domains, setting up hosting, basic SEO, building Wordpress sites, tinkering with the themes, splicing in Aweber mailing lists, article writing, spinning software, article submission services, etc, etc, etc, and I've put days and weeks into some of those areas. Am I just not very smart? Doing it the hard way? Right way? Stupid way?

To be fair, things are not all black. I just spent an hour on the phone with an old friend who's a doctor. I'm going to re-do his website and make almost $1000 for it. Also updates monthly if he likes the site. He fired his old webmaster and hired me because he was impressed with my comments about his site and changes I suggested. So I can see SOME progress.

And there's more to my life than only IM. I'm 68 years old, married, have a 3 year old daughter and make time every day and weekends for some exercise and dinner/evenings/weekends with my wife and daughter. Add 10 hours/night of sleep, maybe a nap, a few computer glitches, other tasks, and whole weeks can go by where I don't see much IM progress. For example, I'm in a 30 article marketing club. The club is on day 12 and I'm still on day 3. I might be getting to day 4 tomorrow or the next day.

Any comments, suggestions or opinions would be welcome.

Staying focused and finding free or cheap resources. Getting past the hype.
I have a collection of websites that I wished I had when I started. Places where you can create free stuff and use them on pdfs, websites, blogs or wherever. badges,buttons,banners,webtenplates,wordpress templates. Most are easy to use and you can customize. If you want this I will give it to you for free. Just PM me me and I'll give you the link from which you can download instantly no webpage no optin.