If you had to start all over again where would you begin?

Yes, this is vital advice for the area of internet-marketing. Don't believe ANYTHING until you've done it for yourself.

I'll make two of the significant points on this (there are others) . . .

1) not everything you read is true. For example, years ago I bought an internet-marketing course and followed the method (I was even used by the author, as the example of how to do the method "perfectly", in the private forum for that guide).

After several months, not one of the 88 members of the private forum for that method, had said they'd made a single penny from it (I hadn't either . . . I eventually did make one sale after 2 years, so a loss overall). Then, re-reading the method and trying to learn everything I could from it, I found that the lists of sites that the author "uses every day to make big bucks" had sites which had been down for several years (this was a brand new course), and others which didn't do anything like what the author claimed that he used from for.

Then my suspicions were confirmed when, after being asked by several us on that forum, the author gave us his best advice for getting more traffic, which he said he'd done personally, and which got him tons of traffic . . . he even gave us the exact Fiverr worker he said he'd used . . . and a lot of us on that forum did precisely what he'd recommended, and all got the same result . . . a 75% DECREASE in traffic, and no recovery weeks or even months later.

I realized that the "method" he'd promoted and sold was not a real method at all, it was just an over-hyped bunch of things he'd found on outdated sites somewhere. It simply didn't work at all, as described.

There certainly are methods that work, being sold, and given away for free, in the area of internet-marketing, but not everything is genuine.


2) Even with methods that do work, even the experts don't know what exactly will work for each new offer.

For example, email marketing or paid-traffic. Newbies often try one or two very small tests (often too small to give any real indication one way or the other), make a loss, assume the whole method "doesn't work" and quit.

In reality, the experts might do the same tests (although probably with a more realistic volume) and get the SAME results . . . they then do a lot of other tests, find ways to improve the best-performing, re-test, improve some more, all before finally finding a profitable funnel. Then up-scale rapidly.


So, that's 2 of the points about learning in internet-marketing. There are many other things to learn, of course, and this is a great place to do so.

If I was starting again, I'd understand the two things above, not get frustrated when things don't actually work as stated, and understand more about the reality of learning and success with internet--marketing.

Chris

Fair enough. Sorry if I came off snarky. Of course, suggesting great products is key. Everyone hears a word with different intensity, and "pitch" always sounds like a hard sell to me. I see where you're coming from, though.