[Help] Hey Warriors please help me.

As a relative noob myself, I have to agree with the above comments. Every time I read about a new method or a better way to do something my inclination is to jump ship and try something different but I'm glad I didn't.

Even though I'm not seeing results yet, just the learning experience you get from following one method is well worth it.

I'm now pretty proficient in just about everything from niche finding, keyword research, market research, site building, writing reviews, writing articles, on page seo, off-page seo.

Had I kept jumping from method to method I'd have nowhere near the knowledge and skill I now posses. And I'm probably a few hundred dollars better of for it too.

Can't give any better advice than this.

Don't jump from one 'greatest thing' to the next. You need focus.

Find something you are interested in knowledgable in and become and expert in that field. Produce an ebook - it's the easiest way to start.

Find out how to choose the right domain name, learn simple SEO and get your product created and online. If it's well written, for a good audience who are actively looking for that information and at a good price, it will sell.

Do you have any hobbies? Any great loves in life? If so, you have your content there - just put in down in writing and go for it.

Success doesn't come easily in this business, there's no magic button - you need focus, determination and hard work.

You are preparing the foundations for success. It will come.

Good luck!

Gary is absolutely right. Your focus should be finding ONE BUSINESS MODEL that works for you. I will go so far as to say that Libby's advice is very dangerous (sorry Libby). Because she's right, but what she's saying works only for some business models.

Anything that you're going to be successful at has an end to end business model - you have to go through the steps Libby outlined in general. But "right in general" loses people loads of money. You need to be "right in specific" to make money.

Here's an example. 18 months ago I was heavy into article marketing. Some people said - pick a product, put up a review site, write articles driving people to the site, get people on an autoresponder, promote your product, keep doing it and you'll make money.

Here's what I found out. Different products require different business models.
I sold earth friendly energy and government auctions very successfully (a grand or more a month) by using article to drive people to a review site that recommended a good system and sending them from there to the vendor site. At one time, about 7 of the top 15 articles on EZA for each of those categories came from me.

Cover letter and resume sales don't work that way at all. You can't sell cover letter generators from a review site that way. To sell those, you write articles that send people directly to the vendor site and bypass your own site. If you try to use the government auctions business model in the cover letter niche, you'll lose your shirt. In fact, Career Jimmy told me that when I wrote to ask him why his product wasn't selling for me. When I followed his advice and sent people directly to his page, I started selling.

Products for feminine issues work very differently from both of those. You have to build a list and it can take a long time. Someone who is an expert at SEO has a thread on this forum where he tried to crack that market for 60 days and had very little luck.

I could go on and on. As Libby says, Facebook works very well (if you are promoting something trendy or a lifestyle product). If you're doing offline for personal injury attorneys for example, it's not such a great idea.

So the idea that you can just learn these basic skills and string them together and make money is a huge misconception on the Warrior Forum. It's propagated by people who have done it successfully. But most of them have gotten lucky with the right combination of products, audience and tools.

What Istvan and Gary are telling you is the way to go. Find a business model that works end-to-end first. Get it going and prove to yourself that it makes money. THEN and only then, look at the WSOs that push one particular part, facebook marketing, or article marketng, or pushing traffic, or etc.

The business model comes first. Because if you have 1/3rd of it down, or 1/2, or 3/4's it will fail. And you can lose money easily.

I think Istvan is right. Years ago there used to be threads where people hashed out whole business models. Those are often evergreen. Find those. Find one that feels like it fits you. Then be willing to really work it (like Gary said) and make it your own.
Tim

Great advice and probably the hardest thing for newer IM people to understand and implement (myself included!)

Glad you appreciated it

The post was meant to be addressed to you .. think I was reading Sonya's reply below yours and addressed it to her accidentally.

When you say 'this optin stuff' do you mean is there a free way to start building your list?

If I had ZERO dollars to start this is what I would do:

• Join GetResponse (free under 100 subscribers. MailChimp is great too but not for affiliates or home business niche)
• Create a Facebook fanpage around your chosen niche (choosing a niche is a whole topic in itself too)
• Add an opt in form to a custom tab of your new page. Set this page as the default landing page.
• Create something juicy to give away to your subscribers.
• 'Suggest' your new page to your Facebook friends. They don't need to opt in to your list - just 'Like' your page. When they do this it will kick off the viral nature of Facebook and their friends will come and Like your page and join your list if your page is relevant to them.
• Start a Facebook group on the same topic, get your friends to join this group then direct them to your fanpage to opt in (can't add optin form on a Group page unless FB has changed this recently)
• Get active on other Facebook pages and groups on the same topic. Once you have shown you can add value to a group you can PM the administrator and ask them to message their members with a link to your own Fanpage.
• When you get friend requests direct them to your fanpage.
• Join ezinearticles and write 3-4 great articles a week, with a link to your Facebook fanpage in your bio

And go from there

Of course if Facebook kills your page you're munted but one of the trade offs of free is that you don't control your own real estate.

You will still have your list though and that's the main thing!

Libby

PS: Feel free to ask more specific questions and I'll do my best to answer.

I know this sounds weird but...for now - stop searching and take action on something thta you already bought. Read the posts here...ask questions and make some money.

You have to try what you buy. If you keep looking and do not take action you will always be right where you are...looking for that next thing. I hope that helps.

thanks for those strong words i honestly thank everyone of you. you saved me money and a huge headach. quick question is it work the get market samuri just saying this so i dont have to do alot of work for keyword reaseach. if not ill just do it the long way