Blueprint For Newbies! (plus a small rant)

Most of you guys and gals don't realize that there is some serious work involved in learning this skill that is internet marketing.

So the first thing you need to do is identify the skills that you need to know.

Now every one of these can be outsourced (hired out)...but you have to have the cash laying around..and you'll need to learn HOW to outsource which is a skill in and of itself. If you don't have that kind of cash you'll need to learn ALL of these skills YOURSELF!

So here's my shortlist for essential skills of IM:

1. Copywriting
2. Keyword Research (market research - finding buyers)
3. Traffic Generation (Can be blogging, PPC, SEO, Article Marketing, JVs or Web 2.0)
4. How to Put Up A Website/Payment/Lead Collection System
5. Product Creation/Product Selection (for affiliates)

Ok.

So now that you know the skills that you need to know you need to figure out which ones you don't know yet.

If you aren't expert in any of these and you don't have a lot of money to outsource it you're doomed.

The solution is simple.

Open a thread here on the forum.

Say:

"What are the absolute best courses out there on (insert skill you don't know yet e.g. Web 2.0 traffic, article marketing, copywriting) for my money?"

When you see a few products popping up again and again in the thread you know those are the winners.

Buy those (What? You thought you could start a business without some expenses? Nope!)

Read it. Learn it. Practice it until you're expert in that field.

Rinse and repeat for each skill you don't know yet.

Once you have all of these five major skill sets under your belt you are ready to start making money.

Once you start making money you should quickly realize which of these skills you like doing and which of them you don't.

Invest your profits to outsource the skills you don't like doing (which means you'll need to learn the skill of outsourcing...do the same thing I suggested above) and stick with what you love.

You only need to learn all these skills once. But you'll make money from the combination of all of them together for a lifetime.

It's really not that hard to learn these skills. Most of you did much more reading and learning in one semester in school than it would take to learn this stuff. Most of that was useless info. This info makes you money. So why did you spend so many years and spend so many thousands of dollars to learn that stuff and yet you're not willing to buckle down and study this for six months and shell out a few hundred dollars?

So stop being crazy and just do it.

And remember. There isn't a course in the world that will make the money FOR YOU. So just forget about it. It doesn't exist. If there was a course or software like that they wouldn't be selling it to you. They would be using it themselves all day long and not telling a soul about it.

So just forget the idea that any of this will be done for you.

You will have to take your skills and put them into ACTION! YOURSELF!

Now go and do it!

Any questions?

P.S. Another great option that was brought up later was to get good at outsourcing and then you don't need to learn many of these skills I listed above. Good outsourcing can pretty much take care of most everything but I do feel you need SOME knowledge of the topic in order to outsource properly.