Getting Started from Nothing

yes, its called a keyboard, your brain, time, and start

why would you spend $400.00-$1,000.00 for a course when there is some really great free information here, and on the web. Use the search function here as well as on google and you will be surprised at what you can learn. There are also plenty of great courses for less than $50.00

al

I could start a dozen businesses on Craigslist in one day If I wanted.

The key is testing traffic first.

It's not difficult.

IMO the best thing to do is just start. It sounds like you are just going back and forth and not moving forward. Just pick something and start, the longer you wait the harder and longer it will get. Just start!

How did you start a blog without deciding what your target market is?

How many posts have you added to the blog? What have you done so far to bring traffic to the blog? What are your future plans for that blog?

Are you looking for 'affiliate programs' that provide products for you to sell on commission....or for 'programs' that take you by the hand and teach you what to do?

If you have put up your blog - work on it. Choose your target market - decide what you will use to monetize your blog now or eventually - learn to bring traffic to your site...step by step is how you do it. If you don't understand something - use google and forum search and learn what to do about that one thing - then keep going.

I was specifically looking at CPA networks such as maxbounty, w4... maxbounty has the training that I was interested in.

I personally started by just doing research and learning as I went along. As you probably know...that takes a lot of time and you make a lot of mistakes going that route.

These days there are companies that have a done for you model that you can follow. In other words...they run the business and your job is to just send traffic to the offer.

there are pros and cons with this approach, but you can start there and still learn how to do the things yourself and then eventually run your own business.

If I were to restart from scratch...here is what I would do.

1. Build my email list - set up a simple sales funnel which consist of a landing page, a front end product to promote, and at least 5 to 10 emails in the follow up series.

2. Add content to my blog where I can send my email list to. This helps to build up traffic to your blog and build a relationship with your email list. The traffic to your blog can be monetised with affiliate products in your blog too.

Again, this is a simple summary and it is not meant to be a get rich quick blueprint or anything.

And the reason you are paying for a course is this...the information inside the course is properly organised so that you will be able to take action in the shortest period of time.

Some times, you will discover methods which will help your online business and often, you would not have thought of those yourself. Surely, there will be free information if you search it up, but the mind does not knows what the eyes cant see.

Sometimes, you pay for information and knowledge which will otherwise take you a lot of time to actually acquire them.

If you are looking into CPA networks, it might be difficult to get into the networks because you still do not have a clear plan of what you are going to do.

If you are in the make money online niche, head on to WarriorPlus and create an account and look for affiliate products which you think you can promote.

If you are in other niche, try ClickBank. You do not need approval to actually promote the products there.

Hope this helps!

Not going to happen on a network worth promoting.

You're trying to go from the beginning to the end with out the in-between.

Start with the basics. Keep working on your blog even if you have to delete it and start over. Experience is what you lack and that takes time.

Study email marketing, traffic generation and social media marketing.

I spent my first six months studying and building test sites and deleting them. I learned a staggering amount and six months later I had my first online commission. $10 in my PayPal!!

Brent

I wanted to thank everyone again for their contributions to this thread, it is really nice to see such a strong community here and people actually trying to support others. For some reason I had imagined that it would be so competitive that everyone would be in it for themselves

Researching here on Warrior can give you the clarity, the insights and the confidence to pick a few established mentors, and to perhaps invest in a course if you resonate with it. As a rule, the guys who provide real, genuine value here, in a generous way, put out similar, real, genuine, helpful products void of BS.

If you see a ton of helpful responses, zero in on those guy's products.

I think the great majority of people who come online are stuck because they are trying to full understand this IM Beast before taking the action.

This action is the real learning.

No matter what you do, what you read or what you buy...you will still make mistakes!

Just pick one thing to sell and pick another thing to market it. And master those 2 things.

Lastly...don't be afraid to buy courses. You don't have to buy the most expensive ones.

But there is some good ones out there...find them.

Not all of them will be to die for.

This is a great resource...Warrior. Yes!

But the people who lurk around here reading for free can end up reading for years!

I once had a guy Private Message me here for help.

Kept calling himself newbie.

I asked him how long he has been online 'learning'.

He said 10 years.

I said...Holy Shit!

Yeah it is possible to join an affiliate network without a successful social following. All you need to provide to them is your experience. What can you do?

If you have no experience then educate yourself with affiliate marketing, starting with a sales funnel.

It really boil down to how bright and how motivated you are. If you're a slow learner then you might want to spend some money on a good course or coach. That way, you won't waste more $$$ on testing something you have no idea in.

If you're on a budget, then you can always google or search here and learn piece by piece.

My apology for answering your question from the bottom top the top.

It is too hard to start from Zero. If one can invest some money, he will be able to success easily. If you are a big zero in case of money , you need to have some experience of work. Without skill, you will not be able to earn even a single amount of money. Thanks for your advance.

The biggest flaw with free info is when you get advice
from 1,000 people, you will end up with 1,000 different
ways to get started from zero. In this case, analysis
can lead to paralysis.

I've done the "find the free info" thing, and I've
done the paid info/coach/mentor thing. The
paid route was the fastest and most lucrative
because it was a shortcut to where I wanted
to go. Plus, I was able to reap a return on
my investment a lot quicker.

The free route works somewhat, but it takes
an incredibly long time to sift through all those
blogs, YouTube videos, ebooks, and websites
before you find some decent information you
can actually use.

It sounds like you want to go after CPA so
that's awesome. To increase your chances of
getting approved by a network, I suggest you
join Clickbank and/or ShareASale which does
not require an interview to be approved.
Then pick several products and write a blog
post to review the products.

Let the networks see that you have put
some effort into affiliate marketing so they
will give you a chance. I'm a member of
MaxBounty and Peerfly and they do NOT
allow advertising in FB groups. But they will
allow you to purchase paid advertising on
FB.

If you're ok with buying FB ads, then focus
your attention on learning more about it.
Run some $5 FB test ads until you come
up with a winning ad. Use clickbank
or shareAsale for practice. When you start
making sales, you can let the CPA network
know about your results.

yes is it..when you signup just tell them how you are going to promote their offers and drive traffic.

$400 - $1,000 on a course about internet marketing? Those are the old school Jeff Paul and Dan Kennedy courses right there lol. Seriously you don't need to spend that much. You should know that it's very simple to make a sale online - and it doesn't have to be for a cheap price. Usually i experiment with low prices to test an offer and conversion rate, then once i make an analysis, i go with the better result. So just study here on the WF, and keep that $400 in your bank account and go see a movie tonite. Do this to get ready for your future career in online marketing for your online business.