Questions, questions, questions from a newbie

You have to select either or both of the following to succeed online :

(a) Sell a product
(b) Sell a Service

What are you good at ? Selling product or service ? Between the two, product selling is a better choice than the service.

Create your own website (free or paid) and select some good products which you like. I would recommend "International Calling Card" and "Web Hosting Package" which will give you good sales and in turn you would earn good money.

Most of the people here spend a lot of time in driving traffic to your website through SEO. While this is unavoidable, I feel this is something which can be dealth with at a later date.

Your challenge is to get customers who can buy products from you. There are some proven methodologies which will give you definite sales. Proven systems like Direct Mailing, List Building, Emailing, Telecalling and so on. Pulling out data for sending direct mails is possible and it's just that you need to know where to go and get these datas. Google search can give you answers for any question under the sky.

If you just follow this guideline, there is no investment from your side at all. You just need to invest your time and that's it. You need to invest money only if you are looking for a "mentor", else this can be done on your own and it is not a rocket science.

Good luck

Hello Wannabetn,

I completely understand ( i think ) where you are coming from. I too like to understand as much as possible before I act. I have to say however, that this is as much of an obstacle as it can be an aide in IM.

For me, I spent around 6 months 'understanding' and moving from thing to thing, method to method with partial action taken on each until I began to A) really understand and B) implement what I understood.

Here's a quick summary of what I 'understand':

- when you are working on anything online to make money, it has to be approached as a business. this means you are working on it, not in it. this also means you set aside specific time, actionable steps and goals to achieve it. now you take action on those steps and thus, meet the goals. at some point, if you have a solid method, you will make money - even if it's $50 your first month. this IS success. it just needs to be repeated and then scaled up. success is a commitment to completion, period.

- when working to make money online, it is necessary or at least helpful to have the proper understanding and consequent mindset that you are a marketer. you are not joe or jane trying to make money online, you are a marketer building sites, creating lists, selling products, giving advice - whatever it is you are working on. this adds to the business mindset of being a professional service or product provider and for me, completely changes the way I interact with what I am working on and those who are my customers. additionally, mindset is important in terms of staying focused and believing in whatever it is you are working on. if you have four hours, those four hours should be spent each and every day achieving the steps of your actionable plan once you have that in place, period.

- it's not about finding the 'right' or 'best' method, it's about finding a method that resonates with you and that you can find multiple sources of info and steps of action for. then you basically have what you need. if you spend too much time here at the WF with the mindset of joe or jane trying to learn and make money, you will BE joe or jane trying to make money and not having the right knowledge or tools. maybe you'll be buying a bunch of things or tools to get you 'there'. but really, once you have the basic understanding, mindset, AND your method narrowed down, now it is just a matter of systematically taking action. from what you said, yes, teen weight loss sounds like something you could be comfortable with, so what types of methods might work? A variety, however, to me, what comes up off the top of my head is niche site building and then monetizing through/with a product or adsense. now, niche sites are a bit precarious now, so really, authority or just site building within your niche (teen weight loss) sounds doable. simply put, creating a blog/site about what you know and then driving traffic to it and monetizing it. but how? and do i need all these tools? and how do i get traffic and and and....

well, using the example of site building, you simply want to find successful site builders who offer wsos or programs that show how they have done what they have done (keyword research, site set up and structure, product selection / monetization and how they get traffic). there are a lot of them. personally, i would choose 3-5 and buy their $10 wso or guide. stay away from hype. then i would read all of them and put what i learned into my own framework of understanding and actionable steps and corresponding goals and timelines. then i would do it. might take me longer, might get stuck. that's ok. come back here and ask. you will learn as you go and there are people to help. you may be successful in 4 months or you may be successful in 12 months. who knows. but the only way to get there, especially for people like you and i that like to learn, is by taking action, period

conrad stuart is a successful niche and authority site builder. i believe he has a free basic blueprint available on WF. spencer from niche pursuits is a successful site builder using adsense. there are many more.

best of luck to you. success is a commitment to completion ( with the actual completion happening ;0 )

Aaron