If An Okie Out In The "Sticks" Can Do This, So Can You!

[steveweber]

The longer I am around Internet marketing the more I realize that the amount of success one has with it is directly proportional to the level of implementation. Success has little to do with how much or how hard one works. Instead it is about the systems and marketing methods which are implemented.

You can “work” until you are blue in the face, but that is no guarantee for success. It’s all about having a workable plan in place and focusing action there.

Beginners to online marketing often say they just don’t know what to do or how to get started. Come on! There is no reason to reinvent the wheel. Simply study a successful marketer in your chosen area and watch to see how they do it. Take note of the basic methods (which are often the same ones many marketers use) they use to market and build their business with.

Then write down those methods and adjust them to your own style and personality. If some of the skills and techniques are new to you, then learn them! For example, if you don’t know anything about publishing videos, but think video marketing could really work for your niche, then buy a Flip and start teaching yourself!

Nothing about the online marketing process is rocket science. Either you will learn the skills and implement a system required for success or you will simply become frustrated and quit.

[JeffLam]

Agreed. Many times we work really hard trying to do something but not taking a step back to look at the bigger picture - are what we doing really worthwhile in promoting this? Is it really that great at achieving that? Etc etc..

You gotta have a plan. Then the steps and actions follow up where you put in the work!

[success_wins]

Internet marketing because of its low cost entry point gives people with even a modest budget the ability to try things out and build a success.

It may take some learning to find what topics and products are a match for them.

Yet it is still is an affordable option for people to either add income to their household, or learn to replace their full time income.

[Matt Maiden]

Hey Steve,

Good post.

Here are some other ways to learn from the "pros".

Look through the posts and find someone who is answering your questions in a way that sits right with you and makes sense to you.

Find a couple of those people and go to their profiles and "Find Posts by..." and start reading some of their other posts.

Look at their "About" section and check out their links and products. Just look through their sales pages or blogs and get to know them a little better.

If they have a newsletter then sign up for it and you can learn more from them.

Before long, you will be learning some great marketing lessons from some very successful people without being overwhelmed.

Matt

[TLTheLiberator]

Steve's absolutely right!

The basics of successful online business are very simple.

Newbies can cut your confusion and info-overload by studying and then selecting a proven online business model to work with.

Then it's up to you where you go from there.

You can...

- search online business forums for step by step & how to knowledge on the model:

- purchase a course on how to conduct the model:

Understand & actually conduct the basics of the model to gain experience.

If you have to learn a new skill then learn it.

Look at everything as a test and remember, if you do nothing, you get nothing.

Hope This Helps!!

TL

[Fernando Veloso]

One piece of advice:

Join the Private War Room + choose one method, follow it to the end and stay focused.

IMO it's the sure shot strategy in Warrior Forum.

[Steven Wagenheim]

Steve...love your post.

Yuh know, the problem with way too many marketers, especially the ones who
have made it, is that they forget what it was like when they first started.

For one thing, everybody, and I do mean everybody, starts from a
different place.

Somebody who has sales training and/or some kind of marketing background
is going to have a much easier time adapting to the Internet than somebody
who has been mopping floors at a Mickey D's.

Some of us turn to the Internet, and without any prior knowledge or
experience, have no clue where to even begin.

So while what Steve says is true, the simplicity of the process itself is
lost on somebody who's been slinging hash for 20 years.

So the biggest problem is, once you turn on that computer for the first
time, and with absolutely no guidance and nobody to turn to (you don't
know anyone or anything at this point) what do you do?

Do you even know enough to go to a search engine and type in something
as basic as "How do I make money from home?"

If more successful marketers would spend the time to understand the
mindset of a person who is literally starting from that point, I think they'd
realize that in reality, it isn't quite that simple.

Yes, once you manage to figure out where to look (it took me 5 months)
and get some solid information and apply it, it's really very simple.

1. Find a niche with a need or problem to solve.
2. Find or create a solution to that need or problem.
3. Market that solution.

Anybody who thinks it's more complicated than that is seriously over
analyzing this whole process.

The bigger problem is getting to the point where you know that those 3
things are what you have to do.

And for some of us...it takes forever to get there.

[steveweber]

Great replies everyone!

And Steven, my wife and I were just talking about the need many of our clients have for basic marketing help. We've put that on our list...as either our own product or as an affiliate.

[rapidscc]

Hi steve..

Thanks for the advice..For other newbies, here's what I did sometime ago to check out how a known successful internet marketer "Made It"

I usually read the post of this marketer..and from most of his post he kept saying that his start was as hard as most newbies..so what I did is to re-trace his earlier post..

And then I went to an article directory and listed all of his articles there..it was all there (since he started posting)

Here's what I found out..

During his first few months he posted on several topics with a gap of a month or two before posting another article..after half a year his post became regular and increased. Then after a year not only was his post 3 to 4 articles per day it even focused on just a single category..and I guess most of you here know what category it is..

And that made me think how this particular IM dude made it..

oMar

[steveweber]

Originally Posted by rapidscc

I usually read the post of this marketer..and from most of his post he kept saying that his start was as hard as most newbies..so what I did is to re-trace his earlier post..

And then I went to an article directory and listed all of his articles there..it was all there (since he started posting)

hehe...that's some pretty cool detective work there oMar! And a great idea to boot!

[ryanzona]

I actually think a newbee can a learn alot from a marketer just a little further down the road than he is. When the marketer is very successful its often hard to relate and the things he or she did may not be as effective now.

[Mustafa Khundmiri]

It's all about focus and balancing it with having a bird's view ... Zoom in, Zoom out ... Couldn't agree more with you on this ... The sooner people realize this, the better for them.

[Matt Maiden]

Originally Posted by ryanzona

I actually think a newbee can a learn alot from a marketer just a little further down the road than he is.

Very true. I have been marketing "old school" for so long that it is only recently that I have been trying to understand and get into more Web 2.0.

If you find someone only a year more experienced than you they are probably tuned into those marketers that are familiar with newer marketing techniques.

Matt

[steveweber]

Originally Posted by ryanzona

I actually think a newbee can a learn alot from a marketer just a little further down the road than he is. When the marketer is very successful its often hard to relate and the things he or she did may not be as effective now.

That is a VERY good point! I completely agree. It is up to the information marketer to keep that same perspective as he progresses in order to best help his clients. I am afraid that, for some reason, most lose that perspective as they gain more and more success...not sure why.