What Do ALL Newbies Need to Know?

are you suffering information overload like me?

Always!

Look forward to the responses to this one!

TonyB

The best advice I can give you is to learn how to set up a website, how to take orders, how to market your site, etc.

If you learn all these 3 very important aspects of making money online, you will do well.

Take your time. Master each step at a time.

Stay focused and follow through with whatever business model you choose. Take action. Resist the "shiny object" syndrome.

In today's environment, it's absolutely necessary to pay attention to various metrics. Internet marketing has become very sophisticated. Once you get the basics down, it'll be much easier to see positive returns - increase ROI.

Don't waste your time, get out there and go all out

Firstly DO NOT GET overwhelmed, its easier said then done, and I still do from time to time. But a lot less because I realized how simple making money online or offline is... here is the secret:

Just monetize something, like online content (blog), and drive traffic to it. Simple!

Now, monetizing is simple. Driving traffic is the hard part and would require me to sit in this chair typing for a good week about all the possible ways to drive traffic to your site.

So my advice, go create some pages of unique content that customers will love with affiliates links or other monetization applied, then drive traffic. Then simply sit back and watch the money come-in...

It takes time, it took my 1 year to achieve online success, so be patient, and I never knew half of what I am telling you until the 1 year mark, so you are in a much better position then when I first started out, goodluck

The word "time" stands for This I Must Experience. There's a lot to learn, so just learn what you can each day - and as other people have said, choose a direction and go. Focus = Follow one course until successful.

The money is in the list.

Hey there!

Just curious, what physical goods were you selling? Maybe there is an IM affiliate equiv that you could jump right into?

Example: In the real world you sold household high end candles

IM Potential: http://www.clickbank.com/mkplSearchR...eywords=candle <-- Candle products you could affiliate sell via Clickbank

Get it done man!

Focus on driving MASSIVE traffic to your squeeze page, build that list, and truly make a fortune.

Facebook Ads?

Make sure you stick to your game plan

Hi inconf!
I think everyone goes through the info. overload syndrome at some point so I get past it by creating a monthly/weekly/daily priority list and focus on my list everyday to help me make progress!
I recommend you spend time developing relationships and getting other folks that are in the IM Niche To help you leverage building an IM List,Also look for any opportunity to build a targeted IM List using safeswaps,co reg,Giveaways and more, Try doing a little hunting to see if you can find someone that's in the IM niche That May consider also Working in the Physical product area that maybe you can help them and vice Versa
Make sure you blog is related to IM and That You are continually giving good content/free stuff and recommendations, also try using a entry pop as well as an exit pop with a really good quality freebie(just make sure its related to IM also)
Look for other related blogs to try and do link exchanges( spend 80 percent of your time trying to find leveraged ways to get traffic and build a list. If you can afford it then outsource your blog content and link building and spend time cultivating relationships to hel each other. I could go on but we would be here for hours.
Good luck my friend and expect hard work and as you build a list and relationships, your efforts will pay off and life becomes easier!

Pick a niche and learn to dominate it. Then be productive!

The best advice I can give you is to learn how to set up a website, how to take orders, how to market your site, etc.

If you learn all these 3 very important aspects of making money online, you will do well.

Take your time. Master each step at a time

Just my $0.02.

Whatever you do, make sure it has a BIG pay off. Which usually means you have to be involved in / go after something very competitive.

For example, if you're building an affiliate website and want to use SEO to get traffic (like I do), go after a BIG buying keyword with LOTS of exact monthly searches.

Sure, it'll be tough to rank, but it will be a worthwhile goal, which will make you work harder and stay focused. And the pay off will be more than worth it.

The reason I think most people fail in this biz is because they get scared of the competition for competitive markets, and stick with less competitive niches that have a lower pay off. And they get discouraged when they put in a ton of effort but still don't see a decent pay off.

Again, just my $0.02, and I'm sure people will disagree with what I've said.

I think it's very important to first concentrate on your mission and vision. Staying true to what you believe in is what will help you to get through the obstacles you'll meet along the way. You really have to know your purpose for starting the business and stay true to it. Second, it's important to build strong relationships with your customers and this is best done by making sure that you're offering genuine service. The rest of the technicalities can be learned but it's crucial to have a strong foundation.

Hi:

Shireen here :-)

There're lots of ways to make money online.

Focus on the ones that make you consistent income :-)

build a strong relationship with customers.

customer loyalty is all that we need to earn huge money =)

it's effective

customers keep coming back and they even recommend us to their friends and acquaintances

To all Newbies stay away from PUSH BUTTON SOFTWARE , learn one thing become good at it Invest in the war room and respect what people write in posts ,plus you will never have to buy another IM Product again...

Asking a question does not hurt, it means that you can ask question and if you are not satisfied you can ask somebody, the key is never hesitate to as question and don't be satisfied to only one answer try to explore, there is always 2 side of the coin, one is the truth and a side that that he is the truth.

Research, implementation, discipline and consistency.

Really good to hear a forum group that actually provides positive feedback to a question.

as for the question...be very good at very little!

Newbies need to have a proven method/formula/system to follow and for the best results I believe it would be best if they got an experienced mentor to hold them by the hand and show them precisely what it is they have to do in order to make money selling digital products. Thank God for my mentor, (Jon McNeil) he revealed the secret of selling in the IM world in an email for free and I've been working with that idea since. So far it's been working out great and I can't thank him enough for it. One of the tips he gave me was to provide a lot of value to your list and build a relationship with them. If you don't do this then you can definitely prepare for a lot of unsubscribes when a product launch comes out...

Inconf,

Here's something I missed when I was green, either from lack of paying attention or listening to the wrong schm-- err experts: pick a market segment that loves to spend money. There's plenty of low-hanging fruit out there, and there's a maxim you can follow to find it: "If other people are making money in this market, I can too."

Hope this helps,

Jon

take peoples advise with a grain of salt.

Think of your venture like the business that it is, and not to get some quick cash.

Focus on ONE thing, keep working at it, keep going, keep going until you have made money with it. Then tweak & test til the cows come home until it is the most effective you can make it.

Do not allow yourself to become a jack-of-all-trades and a master of none.

EDIT: and track EVERYTHING!

1. Don't choose the most profitable niche. Choose the right niche FOR YOU.
2. Don't expect much fast
3. Focus
4. Persevere

Build a List of Qualified Leads!! Every time you generate an online interaction try and capture their email address!

Lets so you promote a hosting company, and are making a ton with a huge downline.. and now the hosting company goes out of business randomly with no warning...

What do you do? You have to start over from the ground floor..

BUT if you had been building a list of leads you can easily just plop out an email or two and have a huge leap on your new product you are promoting... Many people on your email list will even be receptive to multiple offers and you can sell multiple items to these same people as opposed to just one and done..

Every website should have an opportunity to input an email address and you should be leveraging this info with a great auto responder and automatic email series that is sent to each subscriber..

And like the above said, track everything, improve upon what is working, drop what isn't.. find a good product that people NEED and stick with it, brand yourself, build relationships.. It's not as hard or as complicated as people make it out to be, just look at it as what it is - a business! You will have expenses as well as incomes, you will need to generate leads and leverage them to generate sales.. as well as offering follow up and support to leads and previous customers.. it sounds like a lot but make a daily, weekly, monthly, plan.. and do it.. as you start coming up with a formula that is working, scale it up

Hey All Thanks a million for all your advice, Time to get working hey!!

I will keep you posted on my adventures!!

All newbie need to know is watch out for the next new shiney object.

But realistically what alot of newbie do not understand is that the next shiney new object is the gurus way of keeping your tied down, so you do not become more stiff compeitions for them. LOL.

its a conspiricy!

**insert X-Files music here**

My mind is blown reading about IM. There's soooooooo many ways to make money. I think I am going to focus on generating leads for now.

Very good suggestions already given and I'd like to add mine.

1. You can start at ANY age and be successful
2. You don't need a lot of money to get started
3. If you focus, you can do well with only small bits of your time at first
4. No matter what the state of the economy, people will always be buying online. Why not your stuff?
5. You don't need to be good with computers in order to succeed

This is just a shortlist but some that I know will always be true, no matter what year, age or the state of the economy at the time someone decides to get involved in IM.

Bayo

First of all you have to find your market. Look for buyers before looking for products. Then, sell to these people what they are already buying from someone else. Offer better conditions and bonuses. This is the easiest way.

I did everything the other way around. I created my products, then I looked for my market, etc. You have to begin by finding buyers and give them the products they are already buying if you want to make fast money as an online seller. Otherwise you’ll have many adventures like me.

My top tips to any newbie are:

1) Get a good understanding of how seo works - craig rg and seoslayer offer the best courses on here.
2) Decide if you are going to look at the local, clickbank or affiliate markets
3) Ask questions if in doubt - the warrior forum is full of genuinely helpful people
4) Persevere and don't expect miracles overnight

Good luck!

Mytoy78

A major thing that people need to know but isn't taught much is being able to handle the inevitably "bad times" and rejection that your business faces.

Let's break some of the most common ones down...

Someone is on your list and sends you a very nasty email

---> Odds are they aren't really that mad it you they are probably having a very bad day but this will throw a lot of people off for the entire day

Someone unsubscribes

---> Good for them plenty more people out there and heck congrats are in order for you taking action and getting someone on your list in the first place - but people tell me they are too afraid to email their list because someone might unsubscribe... what's the point of having a list if you are afraid of them unsubscribing?

You get a refund

--> Not always a bad then... lets say you have a 10% refund rate (if it's a lot higher than that something is probably wrong and you should improve your product) that means for every 10 sales you'll have 1 refund... heck retaining 9 out of 10 customers is better than most ClickBank launches as of late. So congrats again!

It just isn't working

--> We all encounter tough times the person who scares me the most is the one with the Midas touch and who will NEVER ever admit that they've "failed" at something

You send traffic and they don't buy

--> What was the quality of the traffic? How's your offer compare to others in the market place? Are you split testing? How can you improve it? A lot of people will send a miniscule amount of traffic and just give up don't be that guy.

Once you have the mindset right IM really isn't that hard and a lot of it's outsourceable but when that mindset gets shaky that's when it starts going wrong.

Be consistent, don't take on to many projects at one time, focus on one project.

Make a plan.

Take action.

Lie around the pool with hot chicks (or dudes) and a mango margarita.

.....then go back to taking action when all your money's gone.