TOTAL FEELING OF DEFEAT!

go to weebly.com and you can fire up a free website until you make a few bucks to put your own domain on it.

Number one problem right there.

Do you have a list?

Do you have a product or service?

You need at least 2 out of 3 of these three things in order to make any real money in IM.

1. A site
2. A list
3. A product.

Or else you are doomed to make pennies when others are making benjamins.

Bum marketing is alright if you don't mind writing 50 articles a day and getting super crappy conversions until you have so much crap floating on the web that it all adds up to something, but if you want to be realistic, get a freakin website. They're not expensive.

Just follow the steps I've outlined for you. There's no magic trick, there are no secrets.

How much can you make? I don't know, it deppends. But does it really matter? It's a dead simple strategy that will get you going (and that's what you want isn't it?).

Dear hsk2010,

How long you have tried ?
How much money you have spent on learning internet marketing ?
What internet marketing basics you know now ?

Sorry about all these questions. The most important question actually is "what is your definite chief aim for yourself ?" If you can't answer this question, that's the reason why you can't get unstuck to continue your success journey.

The above serves to spark soul searching, no criticism meant.

Cheers

P.S. - If it's financially possible, get a mentor to help lights up your way.

EZA will not accept articles previously published elsewhere so that won't work. I never personally used Buzzle before but my advice is to just stick with EZA if you have fresh content

Articlesbase is my second favorite directory and I got plenty of traffic from it. Unfortunately I can't say the same thing about Goarticles (decent number of views but very few clicks).

They're just trying to scare people off and sound more professional then they actually are:p when in fact, all they care about is their Adsense money. If you submit decent content you shouldn't have any problems (of course, don't make it too salesy either).

Hate to piss on someones parade, but I'm starting to believe there is a luck factor in this. If not that, then you need deep business sense. The people making the big bucks probably have it, but don't realize that. I don't care about the stories that say "16 yo homeless girl makes 40K/mo online." That means absolutely nothing. It is the same thing as saying she got a perfect score on the SAT, does that mean you can get it too?

My friend plays the piano and tells me how effortless it was for her to learn it. Does that mean it is easy for everyone?

I was researching the PUA market yesterday for a niche, and I can't help drawing analogies. Here you have guys who are probably below average looking, not rich, etc but they can (well claim anyway) to get hot women at the drop of a hat. Put them in a new city, and within a day women will be all over them. Why? because they have a subtle skill that others just don't.

I know from the fourms I researched that guys buy every PUA guide, but yet fail to get to a second line in a conversation with a lady. Some guys are in their 30s with barely any dating experience! The scary part is its not their appearance in many cases.

I used to teach math and programming in community college and I taught students who put in massive efforts(hours in tutoring, trying every homework problem), but yet never seemed to get it. Sure, they can eek thru a passing grade (hopefully) but I doubt they would be able to move on to a more advanced course. Maybe some people take more time to learn. If the algebra course was two years instead of 4 months that would be another story. Even so I believe some may not conquer it. Now imagine trying to push these students into more and more advanced engineering classes. Is this what is happening with some internet marketers?

I think internet marketing or brick and mortar business in general is similar. Some people do not have the organizational and thinking skills to make it as an entrepreneur. This does not make you a bad person! They have an employee mindset where they need guidance and have difficulty coming up with original ideas. Most employers do not want original thinkers, unless you are very top management.

They are not risk takers. Not having a website in this business (unless you are an expert in PPC with 4 figures to blow) is a recipe for failure. Not bashing the OP(I'm far from successful) but not having a website in this business is means you are not serious. This is more in the class of students who just put in no effort and fail the class.

Teens do very well in IM because they are ready to take risks (very constructive in the case of IM). They don't think of the consequences, they just do it. That combined with business sense is a synergistic recipe for millions.

The other two factors are focus and confidence. If you have ADHD(or jump from one thing to the other, have more than 3 tabs open in Firefox, etc) you are at a major disadvantage. Also, confidence, to keep trying after repeated failure helps too. But then there is that "luck" or more likely "talent" factor that kicks in, otherwise you are (as we say in programming) recursively recreating your own mistakes with no limiting case. This a guaranteed recipe for a stack overflow and ultimately failure.

Now in the time I wrote this I could have written an article for ezines....

I agree, I read your story where you made 100s of Animoto videos until it started to take. How many people would give up after 10, or even 20? Honestly me. I made a few for a zip submit for a free TV, but i never got any conversions.

I'm in that spot now, I feel I know everything in THEORY about it, but the distractions and taking action is going to scuttle my efforts. I'm also not comfortable with risking 100s in PPC. I bought videos from a guru (I wont say any names) where he makes it seems like childs play (placing ads in PPV, 2nd tier networks) but I'm still skeptical.

My next strategic move though is article marketing. I wrote software that does a great job of analyzing completion, search volume and how articles are backlinked and ranked.(nothing you probably couldn't do manually but I like to program and get distracted).

My PPC/CPA guru taught me the importance of reverse engineering others campaigns and adding your own twist. I disabled adblock, and I watch my browser headers. I like penny auctions - I think people are making a killing with a certain type of landing page.

Great advice from Kenster as usual.

Will,

You have amazing ways of motivating people. Really nice one using probability.

How about this one.

Out of many offers, I got lucky in 1 offer. Suddenly IT WAS PAUSED when the momentum was about to pick-up. The network gave notice only after pausing it. Is this normal?

I quickly replaced it with an identical offer by another network. Otherwise my visitors kept going to a smiley factory.

Amen to this.

Just keep trying. Despite what all of those WSO's say, it requires work to get a business started. Internet Marketing is like anything else. You have to be in it to win it. The thing that makes Internet Marketing more attractive to a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs is that you can do it all from your own home.

Use your brain to think of things that are popular, people would be interested in signing up for or buying. Go to Amazon and browse different products, or go to Ebay. Ask your CPA affiliate manager for an offer that does well.

Then do some keyword research with the Adwords Keyword Tool and WordTracker. Find some keywords getting 3,000 Google exact searches per month. Check WT and find keywords getting 30+ searches per day, at least.

Then check Google competition, and find phrases with 50,000 "quoted" results or less. Write some articles and/or press releases. Use your kw phrase 3 times every 300-400 words. Once in the title, opening paragraph, and anchor text in the bio-box. Redirect to an affiliate offer.

As long as you write a decent article and have it well SEO'd, you should start to make SOME money.

Look at your profile page. Look at how many people have clicked on it. Do you know why they did? there's your answer

Exactly my sentiments.

Not only online, but OFFLINE as well, where the competition is minimal.

With article marketing you don't have to actually write a review of the product. You can write an article related to the product you are promoting then send people to a squeeze page through the resource box link.

ohhh... ok then... well that's alright then. i was wondering what the heck was going on!

but that explains it. i didn't even look at the date, i just assumed that it was recent.

thanks for pointing it out!

duh!