Starting anew, in real life.

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Fellow Warriors,

I have been a member of this forum for nearing 4 years. During this time, I've learned much, given back at least some, and hopefully been beneficial to at least some warrior forum members.

I find myself recently facing new challenges. I hadn't given up my day job, even though I was doing reasonably well in Internet Marketing. Then the economy had it's problems.

Most of my sites started suffering a loss of income.

My day job laid me off.

My goddaughter needed medical attention that her mother could not afford to pay for, and her mother lost her job as well.

I took an emergency distribution from my retirement funds for the sake of my goddaughter's healthcare.

I traveled from the USA to Europe on a project to help make ends meet using my 'brick and mortar' world technical skills to offset the loss of my day job and reduction in internet incomes.

Now, I find myself confronted with another setback. My wife of 8 years and I are getting a divorce. I find myself confronting a serious lack of income, and my financial resources are getting extremely thin.

This made me think about all of the threads that keep cropping up here about "If you had to start all over again..." and "Where should a newbie start..."

So I find myself coming to the Warrior Forum, for a series of reasons different than many of the posts I've seen here, but ultimately searching for the same information.

How to start replacing my now nearly zero'd income.

I've never tried to sell in the IM niche, because I've never felt myself to be qualified enough, and it's a heavily populated and competitive niche. There are many other niches where I could work easier, and work with my existing knowledge.

But I went through that accumulated clutter of MMR and PLR materials that I accumulated (like most of us have) and I found myself looking squarely at almost ZERO MMR and PLR material that I'd be comfortable selling, because it's almost all focused in the IM niche.

I was going to use these materials as a springboard, but being IM, they don't do much for niches I would be comfortable selling in, and I don't consider myself enough of an expert to have a large amount to contribute to the IM niche.

So, I'm starting with just my knowledge, access to the Warrior Forum and a collection of IM specific products I either do not wish to sell, or do not have the rights to sell.

Any advice or insights would be appreciated. Meanwhile I'll be posting back to this thread as I move forward.
#anew #life #real #starting
  • Profile picture of the author Tyson Faulkner
    If you've been doing this for 4 years, you no doubt have some very valuable information locked away in your brain somewhere. Start out by teaching new marketers stuff they don't know (which is a LOT :rolleyes.

    Release a free WSO (or paid) and just start building a list. Set up a free report and squeeze page and just be persistent sending traffic to it. It won't look like much at first, but if you keep at it you'll build a solid business over time.
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Burton
      I appreciate the idea that I might have useful information, but there are so many products competing for the attention of new internet marketers.

      While I know it's the sizzle that sells the steak (the promotion that sells the product), I also know that many people will become agitated if the steak doesn't live up to the sizzle (the product is lousy compared to the promotion that sold it).

      This is the fatal flaw I see in my entering the Internet Marketing niche. With so much competition, I have never had the confidence to say that my own knowledge is sufficient to create something unique and of value.

      Reflecting though, on what you have said. I realize that I'm making the commonplace mistake of not refining the niche sufficiently.

      "internet marketing" is a valid niche. But within that are sub niches, such as types of marketing (affiliate, CPA, PPC, etc), and within those are micro niches (experience of the audience, MMO vs Non-MMO specific marketing, etc)

      After reading your reply, I have taken a few minutes to start putting some of my knowledge that I would have Begged for when I was starting out into a series of notes. Which I will be organizing over the next few hours, so that I can start creating at least my first IM specific introductory free report in the niche.

      Sometimes it just takes a small change of perspective... Thank you for that!
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      • Profile picture of the author Tyson Faulkner
        Happy to help

        I think you're on to the best place to start though. Thinking back to when you first started and what kind of thing you would have wanted to buy. It seems like theres so much advanced stuff out there nowadays, a simpler approach that walks someone through the starting process might be just what some new marketers need.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheKeys
    If your looking to try to become "the next IM" then I would suggest, if you have any free time, write an ebook or WSO and sell it for free, or paid, and start building a collective list.

    What about a blog, because looks like your life is interesting. Do the proper link building/backlinking and i'm sure people would read it
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    • Profile picture of the author John Rogers
      My advice to a person in your position would be to find a mentor that has a number of successful students, and get immediately to work following their instruction.

      Keep your monthly income needs in mind while you're looking. Avoid the stuff that promises overnight riches while also avoiding the stuff that won't get you quickly to your immediate positive cash flow needs.

      Spend one or two full days exploring the WSO forum and you will discover the handful of legit marketers who can get you quickly to where you need to be. The key is finding the ones who have successful proteges that pass your scrutiny.

      After you've found your potential mentors, contact them, pick one, then immediately get to work.

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    What about the dropshipping?
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  • Profile picture of the author dberen
    I agree that your best bet is to start something in the IM space. I also believe that there is a need for a clear roadmap for newbies to get started.

    And don't discount all those PLRs and MMRs that you have collected over the years! There is a lot that you can do with them, such as cutting down research time when developing your own product, providing your new list with follow-up messages and free reports, re-writing articles and posting to article directories and on your own blog.

    Don't despair! Just work on your new business a little bit EVERYDAY and you will soon start seeing results.

    Go for it! You can do it!
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