Dear Noobs... (plus: Why I love IM)
We're all new at some point and it's a great thing :-)
I remember learning so much so fast when I first got into IM. It was awesome ... new ground and new territory to explore everywhere! Now, it's rare to find one new nugget of knowledge ... to find something I don't already know. I'm not trying to come off like some know-it-all, it's just that when you spend enough time learning IM (and I guess anything), you hit a saturation point and the occasions when you learn something truly new and valuable gets further and further apart.
So to the beginners out there: hang in there and stay strong. Soak up as much as you can. If you are persistent you will get everything you want from IM.
There is nothing like IM on the planet. No other field lets you start a business for so little cash and to start experimenting, learning, growing. No other field lets you make money from obscure niche markets like teaching your parrot how to talk (Kern) or selling green socks (Vanerchuck) or digital baby thermometers (nichemarketninja) or whatever!
It doesn't really matter what niche you go for. Or whether you use articles, PPC, organic SEO, build membership sites, CPA offers, Ebay Partner, Amazon affiliates, Clickbank products, list building, link building, use Wordpress or Joomla or whatever! Because if you are serious about changing your life with IM you will eventually learn ALL of this to some degree and only you can decide which mechanism(s) are the best to apply to your sites.
Over time you become like a chef in kitchen who cooks with his gut and decides ... "Hmmm yeah, I think a pinch of Articles submitted to EZA along with some backlinks from Angelas Backlink packets would do nicely to boost SEO ranking on that long tail keyword I'm after."
As far as resources go ... This forum alone is incredible and you could literally learn everything you need here, for free, in order to create a site that makes you $100-$500 a month. And if you can make one site that does that, you can make as many as you're willing to.
Which gets me to why I love (LOVE) Internet Marketing...
Once I learned to create a small site that makes $100-$500 a month ($1200 to $6000 year) I move on and use the the same tactics to create another one ... and another one ... and another one.
Each site I build I apply new won knowledge and improve the offering.
And that's why I love IM. These little sites keep on paying month after month for very little ongoing input and maintenance. They are like micro-cash machines that will trickle in moola for years to come (perhaps decades).
If you are struggling ... I can only say this ...
Just keep at it.
Turn off the TV and instant messengers and other distractions when you can.
Take action regularly: small consistent, incremental action ("...baby steps..." - What About Bob) is enough to get you some victories.
Those little victories will give you steam to go onto bigger and better victories.
And so on.
Lastly, be patient.
Think of IM as a game of base hits rather than looking for a home run. For most of us, it's way easier to get to first base twenty times than it is to hit a home run once ;-). At least it was for me.
Cheers and good luck.
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