Fear is holding me back, HELP!

15 years ago

the number one weapon against fear is action.

stop worrying about everything and just do it the more you do it the easier it will become

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newBum76 15 years ago

Originally Posted by nicholasb

the number one weapon against fear is action.

stop worrying about everything and just do it the more you do it the easier it will become

I second that!

I spent all of July just reading and twiddling my thumbs wondering "if I do anything will this work?". In August I finally got to work and set up a couple landing pages, then wrote a few articles.

Now I'm seeing my first few sales from that little bit of work I did last month.

I've only made 4 sales so far, but these sales are important because it's confirmed in my mind that yes, this really does work. Now I just need to ramp up my efforts and I know I'll see a ton more sales.

From one newbie to another - just find a plan and follow it, the sooner you get to work, the better! I would personally recommend the free guide from Casey Gentles.......very comprehensive, and very newbie-friendly.

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cherylmusicfreak 15 years ago

I know people say right away to quit worrying and take action!! But I feel like I'm paralyzed by the fear right now so it's hard. But I think I have to wake up tomorrow and go with my gut instint of what niche I want to sell and what keywords and just see how it goes. Wish me luck!
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- kevinhauff 15 years ago
  
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  "The best way to gain Self Confidence is to do what you are afraid to do"
  
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Ravi Kumar 15 years ago

Originally Posted by nicholasb

the number one weapon against fear is action.

stop worrying about everything and just do it the more you do it the easier it will become

Completely agree with nicholasb.
Just look back and you fill find numerous instances when you felt the 'fear' and you did it anyway. Just keep taking actions, however small they are. Take action everyday (whether you feel like it or not). No pain No Gain.
Enough of preaching. Get on with it PLEASE..!
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TLTheLiberator

15 years ago

So, you've decide on the affiliate model right?

Marketing products/services for a commission.

You've got some decisions to make.

Do you have a step by step outlining what to do??

If not...

Sounds like you need to purchase a step by step on the affiliate model or piece together a step by step from threads at this forum or somewhere.

Getting visitors from the search engines is not the only way to get visitors to your offers.

Get over your fear because nothing good will happen for you if you don't.

Doing everything perfectly is not as important as getting into the habit of getting something done and then learning from your mistakes.

Are you interested in a particular niche in regards to Amazon.com because you don't mention it?

You've got some decisions to make.

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cherylmusicfreak 15 years ago

Well, being a newbie my business model is to find a niche with decent amount of keyword search and low competition. From there set up a blog (Not good at designing my own site just yet) and write some articles, social bookmark them, add my own videos, develop linkswheels using Web 2.0 sites, Rss feeds etc.

Basically I know how to get traffic to my site. I'm not great at writing articles but I'm going to try. The hard part is keyword selection.

I was going to choose any Amazon product and market that OR choose something in the health niche where people are looking for a treatment or cure and sell a Clickbank Ebook.

Thank you for your advise.
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InternetMarketingIQ

15 years ago

I can highly recommend that you get started with a site like Squidoo and Hubpages... get your feet wet. Then go from there. No cost to learning on those platforms.

Autoblogs will get you nowhere fast. You have to learn what you are doing first. There are no shortcuts to successes. It's all about planning and execution.

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cherylmusicfreak

15 years ago

Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ

I can highly recommend that you get started with a site like Squidoo and Hubpages... get your feet wet. Then go from there. No cost to learning on those platforms.

Autoblogs will get you nowhere fast. You have to learn what you are doing first. There are no shortcuts to successes. It's all about planning and execution.

Yes this was another option I had. I guess I don't like how you have to share your income with them but I guess on the other hand it's easier to get the traffic.

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Cheryl

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RhondaGiarraffa 15 years ago

The only thing to fear is getting a hold of the wrong information which in turn will lead you to loss of time.

There are definite steps to take and you must have a plan of action and a mind map on exactly what it is you want to accomplish at the end of each day.

If you like you can go to my site and get some tutorials that I made for beginners. There is no charge for the first set. I made them to help others out there that are in the same boat I was in when I started out.

This is not a pitch for business...This is just a heads up if you think they can help you.

They go over how to get your site up and running using word press as your platform and how all the pieces are put together.

You must remember that affiliate marketing has many levels to it and many directions you can go with.

It is important that you start with and finish one task at a time. Take small action steps to accomplish each goal.

Many folks get stuck in the weeds when starting out due to information overload and jumping around too much to find answers.

This wastes time and eventually money.

I like to take step B to step P...

Starting point B: Beginners
Ending point P: Profitability

Think about it this way as well: If you are in this to run it as a real business, you will have to focus on your tasks at hand. Affiliates are the promoters of the world and once you get in your groove with it, you will make money.

It is always best to pick a niche that you are passionate about.

I have written several articles on this that you can view on my blog page as well.

Pick out the BIGGEST thing that is holding you back right now and PM me if you like. I will try to help you work through the weeds on it.

Stay well,

Rhonda
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Jack Chua 15 years ago

How about wordpress? I think it is a nice place to start too. All of us has our own fear and it will only depend on our will to give it a try and be ready for whatever circumstances.
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SurviveUnemployment

15 years ago

Not to self-promote, but I'm looking for bloggers over at surviveunemployment dot com. You should keep it topical to unemployment, but you have built-in traffic and you keep 100 percent of revenue generated by your posts.

Or you could start your own blog and work your butt off to drive traffic to it. Either way, you should just figure out something to blog about and do it. What are you afraid of, failure? I did everything wrong for the first six months. That's how I learned.

What are you afraid of? Every day you're not blogging is costing you money.

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krishnaGopal

15 years ago

First of all, Take a Deep Breath!

If there is one thing I have learnt in life it is that you can only learn by making mistakes. It is a huge part of the learning curve !

So why not try both seeing as it is the same niche.. try one first and if it doesn't workk out, try the other ! even if it does work out i would try the other too to see what happens !

Just get the ball rollling and do it without hesitations; yes you probably will make mistakes, but thats part of it.

release the fear !

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ebookdaddy

15 years ago

Hey if at first you don't succeed then you know the rest. Find something you really enjoy and pick your niche around that. Make sure though that it's a viable niche. If you find something you can promote in a niche you are passionate about the sky's the limit. Good luck, and rember..."There is nothing to fear except FEAR it's self.

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cherylmusicfreak

15 years ago

Originally Posted by ebookdaddy

Hey if at first you don't succeed then you know the rest. Find something you really enjoy and pick your niche around that. Make sure though that it's a viable niche. If you find something you can promote in a niche you are passionate about the sky's the limit. Good luck, and rember..."There is nothing to fear except FEAR it's self.

Thank you to you and everyone else who responded. I got the kick in the butt I needed.....

Cheryl

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Louise Green

15 years ago

This is a common problem and you're not alone.

Thankfully it is one that is easy to overcome.

You obviously know what you want to achieve so you've already got a head start, regardless of the route you take to get there.

The route you choose depends on the level of time you have to spend working on your project, but the process for achieving your goal is the same no matter which you choose.

There's absolutely no harm in making mistakes, as long as you learn from them. In fact mistakes have greatly improved my business acumen.

If I were in your position again, I would set myself small daily tasks that are easily achievable - and reward yourself once you have completed them. Remove the word 'if' and replace it with 'when'.

For example, tomorrow set yourself the task of picking a domain name, registering it and buying a cheap hosting package. When you have done this reward yourself with a glass of wine or whatever it is that you enjoy. But promise yourself you will never again allow yourself to have a glass of wine, or whatever, until you've completed this simple task.

Next break down and keep a list all the steps you need to take one by one and set yourself a daily goal of achieving 2-3 of them a day.

After a week compare how far you've come. You will be amazed.

Wishing you the very best of luck

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cherylmusicfreak

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Lovelylou

This is a common problem and you're not alone.

Thankfully it is one that is easy to overcome.

You obviously know what you want to achieve so you've already got a head start, regardless of the route you take to get there.

The route you choose depends on the level of time you have to spend working on your project, but the process for achieving your goal is the same no matter which you choose.

There's absolutely no harm in making mistakes, as long as you learn from them. In fact mistakes have greatly improved my business acumen.

If I were in your position again, I would set myself small daily tasks that are easily achievable - and reward yourself once you have completed them. Remove the word 'if' and replace it with 'when'.

For example, tomorrow set yourself the task of picking a domain name, registering it and buying a cheap hosting package. When you have done this reward yourself with a glass of wine or whatever it is that you enjoy. But promise yourself you will never again allow yourself to have a glass of wine, or whatever, until you've completed this simple task.

Next break down and keep a list all the steps you need to take one by one and set yourself a daily goal of achieving 2-3 of them a day.

After a week compare how far you've come. You will be amazed.

Wishing you the very best of luck

Great advice. Thanks I appreciate it.

Cheryl

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LegitBlogger

15 years ago

As has been said above, ACTION is the most important
remedy for fear. Isn't the popular saying - do what you
fear and the DEATH of fear is certain!

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peteinoz

15 years ago

Hey Cheryl

Fear = of what potentially can happen in the future, = failing...

How about if I put to you, that your very first blog is going to fail anyways..

But and its a Big but, its going to give you the lessons you need to get successful

I know I learned a lot more from my failures

So what have you got to loose.. get started right now on failing.. what is there to fear?

Honestly you need to get the first couple under your belt. so you have experience , with experience comes a better understanding of what is happening and what others are experiencing.

We all still have failure sites, after tons of experience, but have the experience to know it means nothing and we move on to the successful ones

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edhan 15 years ago

Fear is something we cannot help for you. You have to overcome it yourself.

As for business online, you will need to FOCUS and TAKE ACTION.

Do some research on the niche product you want to do online. Keywords research will get you started. Once you have done your homework, go and take action. You will never get started until you take action.

This is the first step to SUCCESS. Once you overcome it, you will be moving towards success.

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AvidAZ

15 years ago

If you're confused about 2 or 3 niches, here's my suggestion. Do all 3. Start with one that is very niche, and one that you feel has more competition. Install analytics and you will learn fast. Trust me. It takes a lot of patience, but if your dedicated, you will make money and at worst...supplement your income.

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don21stc

15 years ago

I've only been online a few months and I spent the first couple of them agonising over business 'models', SEO, niches, keywords etc but not getting anywhere or learning anything worth knowing - only theory. Eventually, I got the courage up to take the plunge with EZA, and stuck to a couple of keyword phrases that looked promising and just worked at those for as many hours per day that I could and then started on other lines as my confidence started to grow. As others have said above, taking action is the key - I now realise that I was just hiding behind all these business theories and stuff because I was afraid of looking stupid and amateurish.

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maverick927

15 years ago

As they say "Failing To Plan Is Planning To Fail"
I personally feel you should be starting with a Website first and when your website is getting some decent traffic you can later build up a blog related to your website. Link the both together so that you don't have to worry about the traffic. Driving traffic to your website or blog is a big challenging task and it is where all the newbies fail and give-up. So be prepared for all the things that are going to come your way.
Hope this helps you!

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barbling

15 years ago

As Yoda would say...DO....or do NOT.

The cool thing about fear is that every day you DON'T try something, it's that much more stress that gets piled upon you!

I firmly believe that life gives us all the lessons we can use...if we're courageous enough to face them in the first place.

Sometimes we do lack that courage...which is okay. You cannot force a caterpillar to transform into a butterfly before the time is right.

I've enjoyed far more mistakes than I care to remember...but in ALL cases, the lessons I learned were something no mentor could have taught me. Just like someone else CANNOT gift you with the ABILITY to swim...nobody can grow your own marketing skills for you.

The worst that could happen is the results you encounter are NOT what you had expected. In that case, you simply learn from the experience and try again (but this time, with said experience under your belt).

Best of skill!

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cherylmusicfreak

15 years ago

Originally Posted by barbling

As Yoda would say...DO....or do NOT.

The cool thing about fear is that every day you DON'T try something, it's that much more stress that gets piled upon you!

I firmly believe that life gives us all the lessons we can use...if we're courageous enough to face them in the first place.

Sometimes we do lack that courage...which is okay. You cannot force a caterpillar to transform into a butterfly before the time is right.

I've enjoyed far more mistakes than I care to remember...but in ALL cases, the lessons I learned were something no mentor could have taught me. Just like someone else CANNOT gift you with the ABILITY to swim...nobody can grow your own marketing skills for you.

The worst that could happen is the results you encounter are NOT what you had expected. In that case, you simply learn from the experience and try again (but this time, with said experience under your belt).

Best of skill!

Well you're right about the stress piling up on you the more the days go by and you don't take action. I've had a couple sleepless nights this week. I guess I want to learn and be successful as my financess are dire because I live on a disablity pension but things don't happen quickly do they. I have to learn to be patient. And I see the jewel now in taking action and getting better by making mistakes. But hope I get alot of it right the first time around. By hey I'm a newbie so doubt that will happen.

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mikenormal 15 years ago

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Jill Carpenter

15 years ago

Originally Posted by cherylmusicfreak

And what's your advice on finding keywords. Fear is holding me back as I can't decide what's the best thing to do and I'm afraid of doing everything wrong.

The basic plan you described sounds fine! Just go for it, and don't freak out if you don't get it all correct in the first go around. No one really does.

Until you do it once, you have nothing to compare to to analyze how you could do it better.

Put together a keyword list you think would be good. Go to the free adwords tool and type in your phrases one at a time. Go down the list of what other keywords are recommended.

It will tell you how many searches each phrase gets per month and how many advertisers pay to get that phrase. Find the best case scenarios where a lot of people are paying for the phrase, and a lot of people are searching the phrase - but then do a search on the phrase itself with "quotes" or using allintitle: and look for ones that reveal less than 500,000 results. Start a list on a spreadsheet, and take down the KW's and results you are getting for them. See if you can come up with 20 to start (I'm sure you can find a lot more).

Then go look up those phrases as domain names. Grab a dot com if you find one, but if you find a phrase you really want to use and the dot com is not available, GO TO the dot com and see just what is going on with it.

For example, if the dot com is just a parked page and the dot net is available guess what? That dot net can outrank the dot com just by getting developed.

Hopefully you can see where this is going. Good KW research can take a couple of days by itself.

Your list you created above can be used as all the terms you want to write articles about etc. so you will have some direction on how to proceed.

Don't take my word for it! Look up a few other methods on proper keyword research and follow the one you want to start with.

Point here is to set some numbers and goals you are comfortable with, research them, proceed with a plan and then you can go back into it and analyze what is working and what is not.

Disclaimer: I am not a certified SEO expert nor do I play one on TV

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angela99 15 years ago

Re fear.

Here's what helps: writing everything down.

First, write a list of exactly what you're scared of. Once you see the list, your anxiety will fade, because you can see how truly un-scary most of the stuff on the list is.

When you come across a legitimate fear you've written, for example "I might spend a year working on a site which makes no money," write down the benefits of that.

So what would be the BENEFITS of creating/ developing/ promoting a site which makes no money?

You might decide that benefits would include;

* I now know how to create a site/ blog AND promote it

* I now have an online property which, although it makes no money, will give my new big money-making sites valuable links

* I now know how to select keywords which are useless (since you know what doesn't work, you now have big clues to what does :-))

Tip: if you work honestly and sincerely, with the knowledge you have (no matter how minimal that knowledge is, you WILL make money. Just the fact that you're doing stuff is teaching you, and everything which doesn't work takes you one step closer to what works.

No experience you have is ever wasted.

I'm a big fan of writing stuff down; it works.

Here's a great book I've found helpful, "Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want And Getting It". Here's the Amazon link -- Amazon.com: Write It Down, Make It Happen:... . You may be able to find it more cheaply if you go to BookFinder at http://www.bookfinder.com/
Please write your fears down.

Also, write what you want to achieve.

Before you know it, you'll achieve exactly what you wrote.

Be brave. :-)
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- cherylmusicfreak 15 years ago
  
  @Jack Chua
  I plan to use Wordpress as I don't know how to do an HTML site. I have some idea but I think Wordpress would be faster for me right now.
  
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  No tips are very helpful. Thanks.
  
  @angela99
  Thanks for your wisdom. Maybe I will try to write my fears down. Maybe it'll get it out of my system. And I guess making mistakes is all about learning and with knowledge comes an income I guess!
  
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MJ Schaefer

15 years ago

I like what Eben Pagan says on the matter: "Look to fail as often and as cheaply as you can" (because you will eventually hit some home runs)

Just go to bed each night knowing you did a little to 'build your new house'. Then one day soon you will start seeing money coming in, and then the motivation takes care of itself.

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erickz

15 years ago

Originally Posted by cherylmusicfreak

Hi Warriors,
I'm a newbie and was wondering if you could offer some advice. I want to start a blog (I was thinking about using Hypervre but feel a blog has more user possibilites) but I keep going back and forth on what it should be about. I've heard lots of people having success marketing Amazon products and earning just Adsense on their website or earn from Amazon as well. But whenever I go to find a keyword about a product most of the time it's over saturated. Should I be looking for more broad names or stay specific. I would think specific but sometimes you can find broad names that have less competition.

My other question is.......I'm trying to decide between doing a site on Amazon products or a health niche. What is best? I hear how Amazon is so great as people are searching for those products and are ready to buy but someone searching for help or a cure is apt to buy too right? I guess that's the hardest thing for me, deciding which way to go. Using Amazon, really how much content can you put on your site for one product? Maybe alot of these people's sites is just a couple pages and then they move on to make their next site?

I'm using Google Keyword tool and Micro Niche Finder. MNF puzzles me as there can be a tonne of exact pages(competition) like 400,000 but yet there's a green light telling me it would be easy to rank for that term. Their reason is alot of sites may have that keyword only in one paragraph and it has no backlinks to it and it's on a site that's unrelated so they figure you can rank for it as it's SEO isn't great. I don't know if it's best competing with that. I think it's best to use words less than 30,000 competition right?

So can anyone advise me what route is best to take for a newbie........Amazon or selling Clickbank ebooks related to health problems.

And what's your advice on finding keywords. Fear is holding me back as I can't decide what's the best thing to do and I'm afraid of doing everything wrong.

My idea and you may not agree with this is to use the WP ROBOT plugin. This will do autoblogging for me (add scraper articles, you tube videos, yahoo answers) and add product links for Amazon, Clickbank or Ebay. I'm also going to write original content for the blog as well and add my own videos. I may also include a Aweber form to collect emails once I get some traffic to it. This is my plan.

Yeah! You just need to take action based on the plan that you lay out. No one knows whether or not the niche or the plan that you carry out will or will not work! As long as you followed the basics of Internet marketing (which I think you can find tons of information here, don't need to purchase anything yet, just get the basics right) and after taking action, need to analysis the result you achieve (or didn't achieve) and try to improve on that. I am also a newbie :p and I know the fear. Or rather for me it's not fear but it's information overloading. LOL.. I take too much action but never focused on anything and never analysis on the results to further improve the projects and campaigns that I am working on. I keep jumping fro methods to methods trying to "make money online".

I think you really need to sit down and go through your "plan". If you think it will works, just go for it! Drive traffic to the niche, see if it converts, then improve on that. If you are getting traffic, and the traffic still doesn't make you any cents, then you need to move on and find another niche. This is what I learn so far. Also, regarding niche selection, do not be blinded into so called "low competition but high searches" keywords. The important thing is targeting the "correct" keyword, buying keyword. I also learnt this the hard way but I am always learning keyword research. Target those "desperate" keywords for micro niches and those "buying" keywords for product niches which can be the specific model, brand name for a product.

So go take some action and you will see results.. Believe me.. You just need to learn along the way.. There's no easy way out..

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cherylmusicfreak

15 years ago

Originally Posted by iMerickz

Yeah! You just need to take action based on the plan that you lay out. No one knows whether or not the niche or the plan that you carry out will or will not work! As long as you followed the basics of Internet marketing (which I think you can find tons of information here, don't need to purchase anything yet, just get the basics right) and after taking action, need to analysis the result you achieve (or didn't achieve) and try to improve on that. I am also a newbie :p and I know the fear. Or rather for me it's not fear but it's information overloading. LOL.. I take too much action but never focused on anything and never analysis on the results to further improve the projects and campaigns that I am working on. I keep jumping fro methods to methods trying to "make money online".

I think you really need to sit down and go through your "plan". If you think it will works, just go for it! Drive traffic to the niche, see if it converts, then improve on that. If you are getting traffic, and the traffic still doesn't make you any cents, then you need to move on and find another niche. This is what I learn so far. Also, regarding niche selection, do not be blinded into so called "low competition but high searches" keywords. The important thing is targeting the "correct" keyword, buying keyword. I also learnt this the hard way but I am always learning keyword research. Target those "desperate" keywords for micro niches and those "buying" keywords for product niches which can be the specific model, brand name for a product.

So go take some action and you will see results.. Believe me.. You just need to learn along the way.. There's no easy way out..

Well I can definately relate to information overload, maybe that was causing my fear. I have also been guilty going from one thing to another not sticking it out. But I've come to realize it's all about getting traffic to your site and if you aren't using the right keywords the right way you're going to fail. As a newbie I feel I will lose my shirt on Adwords, so I'm going with article marketing until I feel comfortable with that first. From there maybe PPC but not unless I have the right tools to analyze what I'm doing and usually these tools are a monthly fee so I will stay clear of that for now.

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Kevin AKA Hubcap

15 years ago

Hi Cheryl,

The warriors here have given you some great advice. Pick a plan that you want to follow and act on it.

As for Adwords you can set a daily limit and you can advertise on the content network. The traffic isn't as targeted but it can get you in the game.

Kevin

Originally Posted by cherylmusicfreak

. As a newbie I feel I will lose my shirt on Adwords, so I'm going with article marketing until I feel comfortable with that first. From there maybe PPC but not unless I have the right tools to analyze what I'm doing and usually these tools are a monthly fee so I will stay clear of that for now.

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Ehanson 15 years ago

Great advice in this thread.

If you're afraid of taking action just think of what will happen if you do not take action. That's something to be afraid of. Reminding myself what would happen if I let fear overtake me is what helped me pay off my $2,500 bill ahead of time.

Don't worry and wonder. Take action.
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Kevin Riley

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Yoda

Fear is the path to the dark side

To the master, listen. What he speaks of, he knows.

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Ravi Kumar

15 years ago

I also suggest you read 'Conquer Fear' by Lisa Jimenez. One of the best books on the subject of Fear.

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cherylmusicfreak 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Ravi Kumar

I also suggest you read 'Conquer Fear' by Lisa Jimenez. One of the best books on the subject of Fear.

Thanks, I'll take a look. I guess having fear stops you from conquering things in life. I've had fear in a lot of things so maybe reading a book like this may help me. I have a chronic illness and this may be affecting my confidence and maybe where some of the fear comes from.

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Jollowen

15 years ago

Replace fear into faith , with burning desire & action & everything will run smoothly.

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AndyM121

15 years ago

Hi there,

I know how you feel about the fear holding you back but reading your next post in the topic you certainly seem to have an understanding of what you want to do.

Just get started and you will find your direction as you go. Its just a matter of taking action. If you take the time to plan out what you are going to do and work the plan then you will start to see results. If you start in one niche then even if it doesn't work out you will have learned so much about what methods work and what suits you.

I am part of a coaching program that is following the same sort of system that you are looking at and everyone in the group is very helpful so if you need any more help just come over to my blog in my signature and we'll see if we can get you moving in the right direction.

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cherylmusicfreak

15 years ago

Originally Posted by AndyM121

Hi there,

I know how you feel about the fear holding you back but reading your next post in the topic you certainly seem to have an understanding of what you want to do.

Just get started and you will find your direction as you go. Its just a matter of taking action. If you take the time to plan out what you are going to do and work the plan then you will start to see results. If you start in one niche then even if it doesn't work out you will have learned so much about what methods work and what suits you.

I am part of a coaching program that is following the same sort of system that you are looking at and everyone in the group is very helpful so if you need any more help just come over to my blog in my signature and we'll see if we can get you moving in the right direction.

Andy

Thank you for your advice. I'm blown away by the help and advice I'm getting on the Warrior forum. I think I need to come back more often as there are so many people here to help.

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KristiDaniels

15 years ago

Fear has no ability to actually hold you back.

Feel the fear and do it anyway!

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robinincarolina

15 years ago

I was laid off in June, so I know all about the Fear. I had already started affiliate marketing but had not really done a lot, I was in information overload. I spent the first week after the layoff in fear and then I just jumped in and have not looked back since. Sometimes you just have to jump in. I started with blogs and squiddo lens.

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MilitantHippo

15 years ago

"Nothing happens until something moves" Albert Einstein
One of my favorite quotes, and has helped me overcome "analysis paralysis" at times.

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cherylmusicfreak

15 years ago

Thank you for all your comments. I see the how worse off I am by not taking action. Because of your advice I don't feel paralyzed by the fear anymore!

Thanks again Warriors.

Cheryl

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John Romaine

15 years ago

Sit and speak with someone earning $5000 a week and I GUARANTEE you wont be fearful at all.

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cherylmusicfreak 15 years ago

OK guys, I've buckled down and found myself a niche. There are some low to medium competition keywords and they all have high adsense costs plus good SOC (commercial intent). Now I will make a Wordpress blog around this niche. I have a few questions before I get started.

I have other keywords that have low competition and good search amounts but the commercial intent isn't great. Can I still include those keywords in articles just to bring traffic to my site?

In selecting a domain rich name the domain I want which has good search counts is already taken. I've read to put a prefix in with the domain name. When I do this the search amounts for it are terrible. Is this something to worry about as if someone puts in the main keyword I'm trying to rank for won't my site come up anyway? For example instead of Keyword12and3.com I want to use buykeyword12and3.com.

For this niche I don't see anything on Clickbank I could sell but I see things on Amazon and I could use Adsense. Do you think that would be OK? Looking at 2 other sites related to my niche, they are doing paid offers. What do you think of that for a newbie?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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peteinoz

15 years ago

Hey Cheryl

Congrats on making a move and getting started

I just saw this wso.. http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...ss-themes.html

$7 will get you into a sales page theme for your wp blog

You say the other sites are doing paid offers, can you see which company they are doing them for? and can you register with this company to do the same?

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cherylmusicfreak

15 years ago

Originally Posted by peteinoz

Hey Cheryl

Congrats on making a move and getting started

I just saw this wso.. http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...ss-themes.html

$7 will get you into a sales page theme for your wp blog

You say the other sites are doing paid offers, can you see which company they are doing them for? and can you register with this company to do the same?

Cheers

pete

Thanks for the WSO. I'll look into it.

Yes I can see which company they are doing the paid offers from. The company doesn't provide an area on their website to sign up as an affiliate but yet have an affiliate agreement on their website. I had to Google the brand name of the product and the word affiliate to find out about the program. I don't really like how it's not plain to see no their website. I may just go with Amazon and Adsense and see how it goes. If I don't make much I can try the paid offer.

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DASHBOY

15 years ago

Hi Cheryl

It depends I wouldn't waste as much time with the keywords which don't have good commercial intent, I call them buying keywords, but in saying that you have nothing to lose by testing out a few of them and if they don't get you sales stick to the buying KW's.

Your domain name can you not use a .net or .info with the original KW's?
As far as using buykeyword12and3.com and the site ranking for keyword12and3 on the search engines not too sure.

I would do similar to what the other sites are doing but you could also stick Amazon in there too so you have more to offer no harm in that.

"Don't Get It Right Just Get It Going"

Good Luck!!

Graeme

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cherylmusicfreak

15 years ago

Originally Posted by DASHBOY

Hi Cheryl

It depends I wouldn't waste as much time with the keywords which don't have good commercial intent, I call them buying keywords, but in saying that you have nothing to lose by testing out a few of them and if they don't get you sales stick to the buying KW's.

Your domain name can you not use a .net or .info with the original KW's?
As far as using buykeyword12and3.com and the site ranking for keyword12and3 on the search engines not too sure.

I would do similar to what the other sites are doing but you could also stick Amazon in there too so you have more to offer no harm in that.

"Don't Get It Right Just Get It Going"

Good Luck!!

Graeme

Hi Graeme,
.Info, .net, .org are all taken. .Ca is available though but I would rather have .com and that is why I asked whether it would matter if I put in a prefix or not. I guess I could put hyphens in but I'm not keen on that either.

This is not the domain I want but as an example say gibsonsguitars.com is the domain I want and there is decent searches for the term 'gibsons guitars' but the domain is already taken. Instead what if I try to register buygibsonsguitars.com but realize the search counts for 'buy gibsons guitars' are low. Will that affect me when someone searches for Gibsons Guitars. Will I still be found in the search engines? Sorry I'm a newbie and I'm not sure how it works. I would think searching for a broad term would pull up anything to do with Gibsons Guitars. Just depends how well I optimize to get on the first page. But maybe I'm wrong about that? Does anyone have advice? I don't want to start out with a bad domain name.

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Steven Fullman

15 years ago

Cheryl,

If your niche is guitar related, let me know. I ask because your example domains would suggest it

Steve

Originally Posted by cherylmusicfreak

Hi Graeme,
.Info, .net, .org are all taken. .Ca is available though but I would rather have .com and that is why I asked whether it would matter if I put in a prefix or not. I guess I could put hyphens in but I'm not keen on that either.

This is not the domain I want but as an example say gibsonsguitars.com is the domain I want and there is decent searches for the term 'gibsons guitars' but the domain is already taken. Instead what if I try to register buygibsonsguitars.com but realize the search counts for 'buy gibsons guitars' are low. Will that affect me when someone searches for Gibsons Guitars. Will I still be found in the search engines? Sorry I'm a newbie and I'm not sure how it works. I would think searching for a broad term would pull up anything to do with Gibsons Guitars. Just depends how well I optimize to get on the first page. But maybe I'm wrong about that? Does anyone have advice? I don't want to start out with a bad domain name.

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cherylmusicfreak 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Fullman

Cheryl,

If your niche is guitar related, let me know. I ask because your example domains would suggest it

Steve

No it's not guitar related. I was just using that as an example.

Cheryl
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Deek3870

15 years ago

Cheryl,

You are putting way to much thought into this. There is a saying that goes ," when you pray move your feet". Blog on something you like because chances are someone out there likes it to. Go to my site listed below on a free guide to setup wordpress to start your blog. Feel free to pm with any questions... i would be glad to help!

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cherylmusicfreak

15 years ago

I hear so often that health niches are good to get into as people are always looking for ways to treat or cure a problem. But when I find keywords for a particular health problem the commercial intent is poor. I guess this is because you wouldn't be buying a product but looking for information? But once they get to your page you could sell them an Ebook. In your guy's experience is their money to be made in health niches? I guess this would be the same in other popular niches like improving your credit or dating tips etc.

Any advice on this?

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pauljeaston

15 years ago

Health is always a good niche. Focus on anti aging and other related wants in life. There are many cpa offers on this niche.

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Big Al

15 years ago

I prefer clickbank over Amazon simply because digital commission are some much higher and as Casey Gentle says in his ebook... if you want to earn $1000 per month that's about $33 per day and it's easier to aim for one sale per day that earns $33 than try to 10 sales that earn say $3.33.

There's a saying 'Feel the fear and do it anyway'. The only way to ever learn, gain experience and make money is by doing it. Personally I think newbies are sold the idea that you can pick one niche and hit a gold mine.

Yep it can work but the fear of failure gets too great.

Now I have the mindset that I'm going to go into maybe 10 niches. 3 might work and make some money. Then with experience I hope to increase that number to say 4, 5, 6, 7 in 10 working.

The important thing is to do it quickly and test the market. If it fails then you've only wasted hours - not weeks. I can now get into a niche in the time it used to take me to decide on a niche (and still do nothing).

Feel the fear and do it anyway : )

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15 years ago

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cherylmusicfreak 15 years ago

Originally Posted by bertuseng

Great for deciding you want to start your own thing. Get a niche and start, I always say. If you want free courses on how to start, check out my signature.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Cheryl
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la dominatrix

15 years ago

Regarding action............ if you don't
take any nothing will happen...........
.......................IF YOU DO YOU MAY FAIL.
Then you pick yourself up and learn from your mistakes.
Fear of tasking any action at all will always
be a failure
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cherylmusicfreak

15 years ago

Originally Posted by AnnaL

Hi Cheryl,

I love the advice by LovelyYou. Please realize you have already taken the first step in conquering the fear -- you've asked for help and now you are doing! Look at your progress between the first post and the most recent one. Do stuff every day. Keep digging and I have no doubt that you will turn your fear into knowledge and then profit in due time.

Anna

Yes, I guess I have made some progression. I hope to start a site by the weekend and see how it goes. I feel alot more confident now. I know more than I did before.

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JBorhez

15 years ago

READY, FIRE, AIM !

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jasonl70

15 years ago

Here's my 2 cents:

The first thing that jumped out at me was that you were getting bogged down/stressed, all over ONE site!

Here's the truth: you may or may not make ANY money from one site.

You need to be willing to accept that it might fail, and that you will most likely need to create several other sites.

Do NOT get all of your hopes wrapped up in only one site - this is simply putting too much pressure on yourself. Most of my sites do not make much money at all. But some make several grand a month each. Those that don't make money, I simply use as part of my link network and move on

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15 years ago

Dear Warrior;
You can do it! And might I add that the more you learn the more
you will love being an IM. These forums are FILLED with success stories -
I spent years twittling my thumbs and making this a hobby.

No longer. Not this year. I'm tired of being tired. So should you.
Don't YOU deserve some success??

Don't make this mistake! Listen to these Fantastic warriors.

I resisted joining this site for over 2 years - I am still kicking
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JOIN THE WAR ROOM -what I have learned in this amazing place is worth
easily thousands of dollars. There are TONS of free and powerful gifts;
It should be your best and first investment.

Read. Learn. Grow. YOU can do it!!
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