My only tip to any new internet marketer. Lets hear yours!

My tip Create a game plan. Remain the big picture person.

dont buy books, etc.....buy tools and outsourcers for your business ...become a master researcher to seek out the best workers for the money. or pass preliminary info off to a VA and have them research.


i.e. Need articles written look at previous comments in warrior for hire.....go to other networking sites.

Mines along the lines of what has been said already, dont get sucked into push button methods and promised riches products. If it looks to good to be true then it probably is, if you havnt got money to waste then dont! Start by looking round the forum at free methods, find one that works and then progress from there

These tips are all good and really should be listened to !!!!
my only one would be don't listen to people that say Im is hard. Don't listen to anyone that says it's easy, make your own mind up!

if you think its to hard you wont try.
if you think its to easy you will get a fright (most the time).
HOWEVER: a little time a little effort and some patience and it will payoff in the end

Choose your keywords carefully. Don't just run blind into a niche. Spending a few hours in the beginning will save you days, weeks, even months, of frustration and wasted time and effort.

Joe

Split Test.

You will always do some things wrong. You will never know how to improve upon those failures without simultaneous testing of another system to see which does better.

When you find which test converts the best, put that system up against another.

Rinse and repeat.

My tip to any new Internet Marketer would be, be yourself - market you the "brand" and be unique. Everyone else is already taken..

Thank you for that tip I am new to affiliate marketing and you start to think of all the different possibilities and site that you can create rather then focusing on just the one and really giving it 100%
Lisa

Some great tips here.

Here's one: Dont just keep reading and waiting till you feel you have sufficient info to start up; you will always find a new method and jump onto that in this way.

What you must do is take action, and learn from your mistakes. Thats the only way you will know what works and what doesn't.

Just my 2 cents. :-)

Focus on being as helpful as possible and providing value, then the money will follow. Don't waste your time looking for the "easy loopholes" and you'll make money.

or, as Albert Einstein says more elegantly:

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."

My Tip: Find a hobby or something that truly interests you and create a blog that you don't expect to make money from - simply learn the process of creating content, online marketing and handling a community.

If your site fails, no biggie because what you've learned is the most important.

If your site takes off than you're doing something you already love

my tip is focus on building a list and treat IM as a business. becoz it is.

Also, your business should be solution oriented. Understand what your customers want and create products to meet that needs.

You can be rich if you enrich others...

Pick one niche. Any niche. Stick to it. Find all the sub niches within it and market to them. If you are creating a new website, create it in the same niche, but with another angle, or, targeting a different demographic.

If you are operating in the same niche, you'll be an authority in no time.

All helpful comments. For me Matt nails it for newbies. I just started making decent money late last year and it was from a site that I started 18 months ago and neglected for a long time until I noticed some affiliate conversions and resumed creating quality content to the point now where it's a steady earner. Had I stuck with it from the git go I'd be further along. Even now I easily get distracted by the next idea, you have to have a plan and focus because it's too late in the game just to step in ****, you have to work hard to earn these days.

1. It Is "Impossible" To Escape, Dodge, Or Avoid Mistakes
Or Challenges

Did you "give up" when you fell off your bike more than once?

Did you "give up" when you were learning how to tie your shoe?

So why then, if you KNOW instinctively the only way to succeed
is to screw up sometimes, do we assume success comes "easy"
all of a sudden?

Would you make the argument that "your teachers and parents"
made you BELIEVE mistakes aren't normal?

...if THAT'S the case, are you not of sound mind to make the
decision for yourself to CHANGE the way you WANT to think to
go back to EXPECTING and HAPPILY making mistakes so you CAN
have the success you want?

2. I Don't Care How COOL (or real) Someone Went From ZERO To
Making $10k A Month...

what that person doesn't tell you (and often, never will) is
that he or she went through their OWN unique challenges and
made their own mistakes to get to where THEY'RE at.

Are their systems that eliminate many common mistakes and the
learning curvee? Yes. But not ALL mistakes and not YOUR learn-
ning curve. Your learning curve maybe accepting your new found
wealth...who knows.

3. It's Beaten To Death But...

Action wins -- everytime.

I learn 1000x more and, ironically, make more MONEY when I
take action...even if when I don't have all the answers and...

I NEVER do!

I used to be a "book junkie". You couldn't pry me out of a
bookstore or convince me to go to a club because all I would
do is read, read, read and study variables to EVERY possible
situation that existed.

I've probably made more mistakes than most people can handle
in a lifetime -- and that's just my business related mistakes.

But it's the most FULFILLING experience my soul could ever
yearn for, and I've had a TON of success when I put down the
"book" and traded it for putting my head on the chopping block

Now, I almost never visit a bookstore and, the only time I go
is when I completed a MAJOR project and take myself a deserved
break...and I do this once every 3-4 months.

Taking action, no matter the amount, will not only make you
more money...it'll fulfill you and help you fill in the blanks
that are missing...

like "experience". What you are here on this earth to do...

anyway.

What DO you really have to lose? If you DONT' do it, will you
feel better knowing you did NOT, versus knowing that you did
anyway?

In the grand scheme of things, nothing REALLY matters...it's
the experience we ALL want, so when you avoid it, you die a
slow and more painful death then a gunshot wound to the chest.

put on your "patience" hat

My tip would be to learn proper keyword research techniques. For me, that one tip has doubled my IM income every month since I figured out how to correctly do it.

Promote your own products.

All the above are important. The main things have to be stay with one plan, ensure good content for one site and learn from your mistakes. Or learn the hard way like me !

Hard work and persistence -
you need not have one site!

This is my tip: make a log on everything you do.

And I mean EVERYTHING: the day you started, how you find keywords, buying domains and web hosting, setting up your website, etc.

That way you can closely monitor everything that you have done from day one. So in the event that you screw up, you can make changes easily, or better yet, open a thread on things you did and seek help to many seniors here who are more than willing to help.

Now this is the fun part: the moment you did everything right and you started earning money, make a step by step report on how you did it (your reference would be your log).

Now it's up to you if you want to use that report as a copy to many of us here for free or as a WSO.

Hey Matt,

Good post. I like your idea and think it is very powerful. It's hard enough to make ONE website work properly and market properly... soo sticking to ONE Website and doing it RIGHT is a great tip.

MY TIP would be: THINK BIG

Based on my own experience of over 10 years full time on-line I have discovered that it is just as easy to sell a $3,000 product on-line as it is to sell a $30 product on-line.

The TIME spent, the money spent and the EFFORT spent is almost always the SAME.

It takes just as much time to Write an article for a $30 product as a $3,000 product.

It takes just as much time to Get a LINK for a $30 product as a $3,000 product.

It takes just as much time to POST A FREE AD for a $30 product as a $3,000 product.

It takes just as much time to Set up an Auto-responder system for a $30 product as a $3,000 product.

It takes just as much time to Set up a BLOG for a $30 product as a $3,000 product.

It costs just as much MONEY to Advertise in a Magazine for a $30 product as it does for a $3,000 Product.

It costs just as much MONEY to HOST your Website for a $30 product as it does for a $3,000 Product.

It costs just as much MONEY to do a SOLO Ad for a $30 product as it does for a $3,000 Product.

It costs just as much MONEY to do PPC Advertizing for a $30 product as it does for a $3,000 Product.

It costs just as much MONEY to Advertise in a NEWSPAPER for a $30 product as it does for a $3,000 Product.

It costs just as much MONEY to for a Virtual Assistant for a $30 product as it does for a $3,000 Product.

It costs just as much MONEY to Hire Workers (Website Design, Article Writers, Video Producers, Bloggers, ANYTHING) for a $30 product as it does for a $3,000 Product.

Sooo WHY spend the same amount of EFFORT, TIME and MONEY building a $30 product when you can build something of value that millions of people want and earn $3,000 profit or more per sale.

Sooo PROVEN TIP is....

THINK BIG...

or, in a few words

"plan the work and work the plan.."

First though, you need to know where to start...

Study what other people are doing within your niche and improve on it. You can never do enough research and the time you put in the research will pay off.

Good points!! I was doing the same thing and my head was spinning. I just couldn't keep up. Right now my only focus is working for clients and auto-blogging. I might add squidoo back in the mix in the summer, but I really want to focus on one or two main methods for now.

It's all about focus - some quick tips - already mentioned above - choose one thing (product, website, whatever) and stick to it until it works
Don't get stuck "learning" - no money comes in until you act!
Organization is important - one technique is to you Clocking it - it's free - and it will let you list each part of your project, plus you can add times to it. It's for project management.
Another technique is the Pomodoro technique - again timing how long you spend on each task.
Are you seeing a trend? You need to be aware of where your time is spent. The goal should be 80% action 20% learning.

One idea is to break your time up - work on something for 15 min., 30 min, or 1 hour - and do only that until your time is up...

Just a final note...I read an article the other day - I think it was called the 2 Tab method...Basically it said you do not need more than two tabs (in your browser) open at one time. One tab that you are working on, and one for reference. The idea is - the more tabs you have open, the more unfocussed your brain is....I noticed I had over 10 open at the time -
Focus is an ongoing project!

Focus! it's easy to get caught up in the next best thing with all the new product launches coming out every day....find a strategy that works and stick to it!

Don't give anyone a cent of your money unless your sure they're not "faking it until they make it".

Too many WSO's and "coaching" from people with half a days field experience.

Don't rush. It should take 6-12 months to see success from this, not 6-12 days from push button software.

Believe in yourself. If you don't nobody else will...

thx matt cool tips for newbie here, i'm using autoblog now!

Focus on one thing until you get it right!

My 3 keys to success recommendation

1. The keyword advice given is absolute GOLD. A highly competitive phrase in a competitive niche will drive you nuts as a beginner...but then again, you are forced to learn.

2. Prepare to put on your 'big boy pants' and work VERY hard.

3. Use a schedule: almost militant works. Ex.: Mondays write articles in the morning and submit to strict/lenient directories in the afternoon. Tuesday is video day. Wednesday is podcast/Press Release or forum posting. Thursday is social media looney tunes day. Friday is RSS and ping


With a schedule, you can screw up many things and still get results. As you learn and gain more experience you can fix or delete your past mistakes...usually. As a real life example, where did I get the idea that 5 primary keywords on a site was a good thing? I'm on the first page in 3 out of 5 but talk about wasted time!

1. Go step by step, don't mess around yourself with 100's of sites.
2. Plan for long term goals.
3. Don't blindly believe what IM Gurus says in their ebooks.

That is my favorite tip. And I agree 100%

Build a List, Build a List, Build a List..

Rant over...;-)

My biggest tip.

Pay for Internet Marketing education. Don't go in blind and don't solely rely on conflicting information from forums.

Getting one good mentor, or joining one good training membership, will focus what you do and make you more likely to succeed.

Thom

An ounce of action is worth a pound of research.

Hopefully no one, but I think a lot of people do this is jump to the next big so called opportunity and never just focus on what your doing now.

I was jumping on every new opportunity I saw on the Internet thinking this is the one until I finally took a deep breath and settled down. Make a plan..Have goals..do something everyday..
keep focused!!

This is a marathon..Not a Sprint..we can ALL get there but no short cuts!!
Remember
Thoughts become things..Choose the good ones!

Don

My tip would be the same as many of the other suggestions posted to this thread. That is to stick with a basic plan, try to keep yourself focused on the tasks ahead of you that day and avoid distractions.

Nothing can stop your reaching a daily goal like wasting time on useless or non essential activities that don't take you closer to your main objective. Oh yea! try not to become overwhelmed with to much information keep it simple as possible for the best results.

My tip to you is don't provide any tips until you truly know what you're doing. back in 2008 i spend several months promoting a make money online site and got it to like 100 visitors daily. i made no money because i thought it was not enough traffic to meet my expectations . I wanted to make at least $2000 a month from it. Of course after spending so much time on one site and realizing it was mostly a failure i lost complete hope in internet marketing and threw in the towel. Now, to my point. Had I known to invest 1 month for instance with say 4 hours a week on this site hoping to see say 50 visitors daily , and then started another and another things would have been much different. Each site would now be a success since i only invested a few hours a week and my expectations for that time invested is acceptable to me.

So your quote about stick to one site and one thing no matter what you pick until you make it work is completely wrong and may end up killing your IM dreams permanently if you happen to hit one of these experiences. i was on the wrong path first by picking too competitive keywords and not willing to do all it takes to get it to page 1 or not realizing how much work it took.

Use judgement, are you progressing? Should you be progressing by now a little bit whatever that may be? If you are not at all, analyze what you are doing, maybe you are on the wrong path after all, all make money online gurus do that to us anyway. Why the hell would they tell you how to take a piece of their pie for 100 bucks?

Yeah, I think my one tip would certainly be to NOT start out with affiliate marketing, but with creating your own products.

Among many other advantages, this allows you to quickly build a quick list of buying subscribers as well as have your affiliates that already have lists do all the heavy lifting for you.