Information Overload in IM

Ya I agree with you there. Newbies should consider doing what they like / what they are good at rather than getting into something that worked for someone else. I also believe that, when you do what you like, you have more chances of finding your own method or new concept of making money within your niche.

One thing i have noticed is that many newbie IMers go from one train to another and end up not making as much as those that started with one target in mind.

I started by focusing on product creation, had been on it, and had grabbed all that should be.

There is no need to mention that i have made some pretty some from the niche and still making.

If want to diverse now, it will be much easier for me than it would have been several few years back.

I'm still new in this internet marketing business. Used to have information overflow for few years back, and my biggest problem would be my own inaction due to the overflow, or is it I'm overflown with information due to my own inaction? Well, whatever. :p

Recently (starting January this year), I really started to push myself hard, that I need to do something since I had wasted few years getting information and doing almost nothing (did something, but the persistence is not there). There were few dollars of affiliate commission (less than $20) I got since last year, unexpectedly, from the sign ups of the webhosting that I promoted on my blog. Never really thought there were people going to sign up through my relatively new blog.

So starting January, I did try promoting a couple of stuff that have affiliate commission attached, mostly through light social promotion via Facebook after having few reads on soft selling. Managed to get a total of 3 sales amounting to about $110 commission. I was really excited, but that's it, I'm not sure if I really liked doing what I did.

Having said that, I'm now moving on to product creation. Going back to the basic passion + skill + demand = $$$ formula, I'm working in a software development team for my day-to-day job, I like it, so I'm now starting to develop my own software product during my free time. Will start doing "small" products first to see if I can manage to make money from it. I guess I should be able to, but I need the first sale to happen to motivate myself more.

Oh well, I think I had let my fingers run own its own. Going back to the original topic, in regards to the information overflow issue, I decided to stop reading most of the information I received in my email. I'm slowly unsubscribing from mailing lists, which I don't really read most of the times - I randomly open few of them from the same mailing list, if there's nothing valueable, I'll unsubscribe, search for all emails from the same address, and archive it all. I set 2-3 hours of my night time Mondays to Fridays and up to 8 hours on Saturdays for my first product creation, and I'll try to rest on Sundays. Doing those really helped me focus more on what I should do, instead of endlessly learning new / repeated information I already knew and gaining nothing from it.