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I would suggest you look at Unselfish Marketer it is a resale rights membership but its the Video products you are interested in for yourself. There are any number of Video series detailing "how to" you can learn everything you need from these.

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I have to admit, I come from a more "command-line" oriented background (DOS and Unix before all the fancy GUIs caught on), so the first time I saw cPanel I thought it was some kind of toy.. lol.. I never knew hosting a web site could be so easy, I was used to having to edit my Apache config, DNS config and everything else by hand. That being said, I can see how it could be confusing or scary to a newbie.

Have you ever played around with your Windows Control Panel to see what some of the settings do? Think of cPanel as a "Windows Control Panel" for your Linux web host, with one major difference.. it's a lot harder to do something in cPanel that "breaks" your hosting account than it is to do something in Windows Control Panel that "breaks" Windows.

For FTP I'd suggest taking a look at FileZilla, but if that's too advanced or confusing for your needs there are simpler programs available. FileZilla, like most mondern "graphical" FTP programs, has a drag-and-drop interface that makes transferring files to your server as simple and painless as possible. Just connect to the server, click to the folder you want to transfer the files to, then drag them from the left pane to the right pane and it handles the rest.

Let me know if you need any more help, I can try to "walk you through" FTP and some of the basic things you'll need to know how to do in cPanel (even setting up a MySQL database and installing a script isn't hard and a lot of people are intimidated by that, not necessarily just newbies either.. lol).

As far as the other things you need to learn about marketing.. sounds like you're suffering from information overload.. lol.. we've all been there (and some of us are still there).

My advice would be to "slow down" and focus on one thing, don't spread yourself too thin. Do some research and decide on a niche that "fits" you (something you're passionate about, and something that enough people are interested in that you should be able to make a nice profit). I'd stay away from the Internet Marketing/Make Money Online "niche" until you're more experienced, there are already too many people selling ebooks full of untested theories about how to make money selling ebooks (but that's not to say that there isn't good information available too).. lol

Once you've decided on a niche, get yourself an autoresponder account if you don't already have one and set up a squeeze page. Learn to drive traffic to that squeeze page and offer people an incentive to sign up (maybe give them a bundle of "relevant" resale rights products you have, or some exclusive content you've written, whatever the case may be) and start building your list. Your list is gold, treat your list like the valuable asset it is and treat your subscribers like good friends and you'll have an army of loyal customers who you can market to for years.. whether you're selling your own product, resale/PLR products, affiliate products or whatever the case may be.

Once you start seeing some success, then it's time to do two things. Focus even more on what's working, and start learning and applying "new" things that could make you more profit. Test everything. As a well-known marketing "guru" who I won't mention here (because his name's been all over this forum in the past few months lol) likes to say, "know your metrics". If something works stick with it, if it doesn't work for you either get rid of it or try to figure out why it isn't working.

Hi Debra,

Beginner to Knowledgeable is possible depending on how you apply what you will learn - what type of business do you want to build, internet marketing is just one part of running a business.

You will have access to all the basic tools you need included in the membership, education, products to sell, an autoresponder and a way to take payments and deliver goods.

Every internet marketer needs to learn basic HTML, but the basic stuff you need is not difficult.

Turbo Membership is not the only membership to help you with your goals but in my opinion it is the best (yes I have tried others - TM helped me earn money for the first time).

Brian

Hi Debra,

I have been a member of TurboMembership since Sept 2006.

Prior to joining TurboMembership, I was a complete beginner
to Internet Marketing. TurboMembership provides me with the
necessary knowledge, training and tools that enable me to
start my online business.

John Delavera is sincere in helping his members to succeed online.
Notwithstanding his busy schedule, he answers members' questions
no matter how trivial those questions are.

You mentioned Delavo. I understand that anyone can get this
great ecommerce platform free only during May 17 to May 24. So,
don't miss it.

Debra, please feel free to PM me if you have questions on cpanel
and ftp.

To your success.
Ng Yeo Nam

Hi Debra,

Yeah, John has been doing some revamping and housecleaning...
He even threw some good stuff out and some of us was there to pick it up.
I was there and I think I saw Brian too.

The week of May 17th will be your best time to join because as you
might know the 17th is John's birthday and he always throws a big
party...that's when Delavo will be released and you can get it for free
only during that week.

Unless, of course you do become a TurboMember then it will still be available.
But, why wait when it will be free during that week.

John says, and I quote "even your grandma can build web pages and web sites with Delavo."

So judging from that, I would say it's just the ticket your looking for.
I mean after all, FREE is the price I like best too!

Anyway, I'll be at the party on the 17th and I hope to see you!
(virtually speaking of course...)

Your friend,
Scott

Hi Debra,

afflliate marketing ---- Niche marketing--- CPA marketing is a good start and there are tools and knowledge available within the membership for this.

For all types of marketing you will have access to a really good hosting account and autoresponder which are essential to capture leads to market to.

You will have access to tutorials (video) on the why's and wherefore's for any technical task you are likely to need - you will have access to a true beginner friendly forum for help.

You can even get your hands on more articles than you will know what to do with (but we will teach you) - so don't worry about writing - just revising and research is enough.

Brian

Support is excellent at TM. As I stated earlier, you simply come to the turbocommunity and post your questions and you WILL be helped. If you have technical issues you can still either post in the forum or put in a ticket at the helpdesk. I personally have never waited more than 24 hours for a response....really I never waited more than some hours.

I cannot speak for the action of others, because once you've been burned you tend to think that everyone else will do you the same. And of course I mean that statement in general as I too have done the same.

One bit of advice I can give you is this: You can have 1000 people rave about how they love a product or service, and then one person chimes in that says "I didn't have such a great experience", and you start to think uh oh! Well based on my experience, usually there was a unique problem that person had or either failed to follow instructions properly. And of course I can't leave out the fact that maybe the product or service was really bad for "that person". But answer this question, What business do you know of that has never had a complaint? Even some of the businesses that you may frequent and love has had a customer complaint about something

Nevertheless, YOU have to make the decision to move forward with doing business with them or not.

Okay now the tools...again that's where TM shines again. In order to manage your business you need a system in order to sell online. You need a system that will manage your products (sales pages, order pages, download pages, your payment links, etc.). You need a system that manages your customers and affiliates. You need a system that tracks your customers, products and sales. That is the system you get at TM. You can either use the system that is given to you when you join TM or you can purchase it outright and host it on your own server. That choice is completely yours.


And I could not have summed up more than what Nathan has told you below. I wasted so much time and money before TM that I am too embarrassed to tell you how much . You can learn the long hard way or take a short cut. That decision shall be up to you. Of course if you have anymore questions I will be glad to answer them for you.

Oh and go back and read the Turbomembership.com site and you will get more details there about what is included in the membership too!

A good thread -

Wondering if TM offer a lighter version for intermediate level marketers, who have already used autoresponder and dedicated hosting account, as I believe $97 a month without the need to use those 2 functions would be an overkill, considering TM seems to be all-in-one package for newbies.

Thanks for your advice in advance.

Hi Donna,

Where is the link to those options? Thanks in advance.

Roy

Debra (Dostique),

You have gotten a lot of good information and responses already.
I would say that speaks very well of Turbo Membership- TM.

Yes, I too am a TMer, and I have been for a few years. And yes, I too in the past
have spent a ton on the "other" IM information. Actually, I looked high and low for
about 10 years for the perfect spot for a serious-minded entrepreneur.
After all that looking, TM is the only total package. I admit there are other ways
to work online, some very good and some very bad.

I say total package because John Delavera has made it simple for beginners and
also useful for advanced, established marketers. Lots of people make their first
IM dollar as a result of TurboMembership. And, there are also some established
marketers that are widely recognizable. Actually, another commenter suggested here
to you in this forum the membership of one of our TM members.

John delivers more than I could ask for. I've often wondered how he can
manage to do much for us for so little asked in return. I've said before, in the TM we
are like a family. Everyone provides to each other as much as they can.

As far as Delavo and Fantasos, a hosted account comes with TM. Beginners can
operate like the big boys. Centralized and automated. Yes, it still requires some
work, but don't believe those that say you can get rich overnight.

You had asked about HTML editors. I'm a firm believer in WordPress blogs.
WordPress is open-source and installs quick and easy. And, John provides WordPress
themes in the TM. Yes, it is good to still know some html, but with WP it will do
most things for you.

As far as support in TM, I've found that John's support team goes above and beyond.

A long response, I know. But, I tend to be passionate about the things I really
believe in.