If you could offer a first-time entrepreneur only one piece of advice, what would it be?

Never trust anyone that says "I'll pay you $2,642.57 a day to click a mouse for 3 hours?

Be consistent. What ever it is you are trying to do, whether that be CPA, blogging or facebook marketing, become a master at it. If you fail at it keep going. Don't give up too quick.

To look up the meaning of a "wantrepreneur"

Don't get overwhelmed in the world of internet marketing, learn one type of business and try it out before learning others.

I would say, just focus on few things, usually starter do start work on many projects at the same time. Just start one and focus on one objective at a time. when you get that objective then you can move to next

1. Read
2. Research
3. Repeat

Learn to manage your time and budget. to save time go for white label solution or ready made solution so that you could save time and you could hire freelancers to build you the solution the point is you need to take care of these two things.

Build an email list.

Look into promoting PPL (pay per lead) offers. There is no credit card / payment required for someone to complete an offer. All a user has to do is fill out a form, so conversion rates are typically much higher compared to offers that require a sale to be made.

The above is how I started 17 years ago and still do the same thing...It Works.

Get your eye OFF the shiny object ball and on to the revenue generation ball.

Instead of the latest "gee whiz, can't miss, must have" marketing tool other marketers push your way, concentrate on figuring out how you are going to generate traffic and achieve conversion of some of that traffic into buyers. Point being to have something repeatable that you can control, instead of somebody else's idea at the core of your business. Somebody else can disappear, stop working, or never work in the first place.

You want a business that's run by a system that you know well...that when you put your foot on the gas, you know what will happen.

Get a job.

Lmao, OP changed their forum sig,

Don't assume you are smarter than others on a forum....

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

"Smack me in the chops so I can't never speak again."


Yeah, so I would say THAT to a first-time entreprenoor.


Then I would shoot the f*cker.

Set a goal. Take consistent action. Adjust. Set new goals. Blah Blah Blah.

Just get in the game.

None of this is rocket science.

There are idiots making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.



P.S. Also - draw as many straight lines to your goals as possible. Most of the time, the reason why folks think things are hard or it has to be slow or whatever, is because they are not drawing a straight line to a goal.

And often, the "idiots" do draw straight lines. So they get there faster, even if they aren't the brightest bulb in the box.

Join a good, highly recommended beginners class online.
Preferably one that has lessons in webinars or videos. Also look
for one with its own forum, or some way for students to communicate .with each other.
Then study like the dickens, and talk with ideas from the other students.
This will give you a great basic start plus lots of ideas from every one else. :-)
ENJOY! and work and study constantly.

Daylynne

Follow your passion because doing so gives you the energy to learn, fail and succeed over the long haul. If you follow profits or do stuff solely on the needs of others you are afraid, or, enlightened. No enlightened entrepreneurs out there because we seek a worldly life. The Dalai Lama ain't chasing profits LOL. Follow your fun then from there you do the market research and see if you have a match between profits and problem, and you'll persist like hell when paper chasers come and go.

I wasn't thinking that deep - had just run into a couple of threads by newbies of the "oh, look at the great site I just found" variety....and guess what site was in the sig?

Face it - any of us with half a brain should be doing something more fun than answering questions like this one in the first place. But - here we are.

See there only 3 keys to success for me:
1. Dream big
2. Work hard
3. Never give up

And as a new entrepreneur I can only say always trust your instincts, never depends on other and do not trust everyone.

Validate your market and idea before you start any work on it.
Oh, and learn how to validate them before.

I would say love what you are doing. What evever business you choose to build upon please love it so people around you will feel your passion. If your doing a particular entreprenuership offer just because you see the money in it, most likely you will come across as a scam artist and you will feel bad about yourself eventually.

If you put all of your passion, ideas, and piece together an enterprise you build around something you enjoy... You will be happy, your customers will be happy, and you won't have to worrry about anything negative that may come your way because it won't touch your heart.

The first time you try to do anything their is a learning curve. Most of the time in the beginning you might fail a few times before reaching the end goal. You have this great idea but unfortunately the idea just doesn't pan out for whatever reason. Most likely if you made some mistakes along the way, you can either correct them, or start again not making those same mistakes. Not everyone is going to knock it out the park there first time. Do not be afraid to fail. Just don't turn those failures into a way where you see a golden nugget that scams people or other businesses.

I have failed so many times in my life, including my entrepreneur goals that I almost gave up. I said to myself if I fail again that is it I am done. However there is this inner passion in me to be free. Free from having to worry about a boss controlling my thoughts, telling me what I can and can not do, free from basically thinking the way I want to think and doing a job i do not love. So many times we are trapped to be slaves to make a wage. Not slaves in a nasty controlling way, but just forced to maybe dress a way we don't really want to dress, or say things we do not agree upon. If we don't say or dress that certain way then we will lose income.

So many people like writers, actors, entrepreneurs get to dress and talk the way they want because they have created an income stream that allows them to not hold typical 9-5 jobs. They have enough income to sustain themselves while still being themselves. When you grow up out of the mentality that you have to get a job to live and start thinking to yourself... hey maybe I can be one of those rich people who can dress and talk the way they want. At least I know that is how I thought when I started to look for ways to earn some additional income online. Then I learned how to develop an actual business.

There will always be roadblocks along the way but don't let it be the reason for not moving forward and rising up again.

don't give up your job until you have a viable side hustle that can turn into a real business

The best advice I could give a beginning entrepreneur (or internet marketer) would be to learn the fundamentals of marketing.

To make money you need to sell something. That might be your own product, an affiliate product, or a service.

Once that decision is made, only two things really matter -- traffic and conversions.

You need to get targeted prospects to your page, and then convert them into buyers.

So, if you focus your efforts on: 1) Product, 2) Traffic, and 3) Conversions, you'll be on the right track.

Tip: If you're really clever, you'll choose your product and traffic source simultaneously. They depend on one another, because you can't sell a product if you can't profitably reach your target audience.

Many beginners get distracted by marketing "tricks and tips." And they fail.

Why? Because they're looking at the fine details and ignoring the big picture. In other words, the fundamentals.

Think of virtually every post-game interview you've ever seen with a losing football coach. They almost always talk about how the team needs to get back to basics and focus on the fundamentals.

The same is true of most endeavors.

John

You dont have to 'trick' people into your sales funnels.

Eat your vegetables, keep your elbows off the table and life will reward you!


I was kidding by the way.

Build your business around (1) EXISTING DEMAND THAT IS (2) GROWING.

Failure to learn or understand the lesson above ensures your online marketing business will join the 90% of online business that FAIL

Get rich or die trying.

Beware of forum posters asking questions answered in their sigs.

Start Lean --> Execute --> Learn --> Iterate --> Scale

Before all of this, find your passion.

Practice concentrating on important stuff each day... Minimize all the clutter (opening email 100x daily, reading news, things like spending hours on forums and reading bunch of stuff that you will have no use for, and similar stuff) and focus each day on becoming a better entrepreneur then you were a day before.

NEVER GIVE UP! KEEP HUSTLING!

Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
'Till you find your dream

TAXES...Make sure they keep an account of everything they spend (and make) on their business for tax purposes, especially if the business is located in the US. This is something a new entrepreneur rarely thinks about until they are forced to and that's too late.

Become proficient in at least one core operation skill which your business revolves around. All management, sales and delegation can be fatal.

keep Going whatever what happend don't never Give up and remember there is always light at the end of the tunnel !

Sometimes it's the headlight of an oncoming train....


Another platitude: honesty is the best policy.

Hint: location, location, location

Master marketing in one area,you need clients you can serve. Without a consistent client base you will have no ongoing business.

Study the market - look at what is selling and ask "why"...never listen to what guru's are saying, instead look at what they are DOING!

Try to learn a skill be it graphic designing/wordpress/movie making etc etc and then grow.
Don't try to be a jack of all trades but be a specialist in one.

To pick just one area to get involved in and learn everything you can about that market or product and to not give up and stick with it till you start making money and figure out what you did to make that sale etc. and market more that way to generate even more sale.

I wish you much success!

Marty

Read books on your niche. If you read an hour a day it'll be one book per week and if you read one book per week that is 52 books on one year. Brian Tracy says: There is a 1000% formula on getting successful in 10 years and what this is, is reading books of course! You can search on the web top 10 or 20 books on entrepreneurship and after reading them you can get all the knowledge it takes to be a "STRIKE"! Not only will you develop your brain but also you will get value that will contribute to your life the most.

Lots of thoughts here.

As some have already mentioned, there is an enthusiasm and an energy that is created when you get into Internet Marketing and when you start fantasizing about the potential results, and then there is the harsh reality that hits home when you finally discover (after having spent hundreds, if not thousands on SOS products) that there is NO MAGIC PUSH BUTTON formula to making money online.

So, rather than looking for the NEXT BEST COURSE, I would start by asking a few questions:

1. What is the Market asking for?
2. How is the market asking that this product or service be delivered?
3. What skill do I have that is of value in this particular area of demand
4 If I don't have that skill, what am I willing to invest in and learn in order to be a unique provider of the requested solution
5. What is my estimated budget to research, learn and come up with a strategy/business plan (starting a business online is not lottery. There is a science to it.)
6. How many hours am I committed to spending building my business CONSISTENTLY?

The bottom line is that there is more personal development work to be done than you are probably considering right now. The SOS problem is simply because you don't have the confidence or trust yourself enough to believe that you can figure things out.

There is quite a lot to say on the matter, but if I were to give some initial advice, I would start there.

Hope that helps...

Richard

The most critical and valuable piece of advice for an aspiring entrepreneur is to accept failure as a part of their success story.

"A-Players Hire A-players, B-players Hire C-players." - Steve Jobs

Surround yourself with the best talent you can, the top people you can find. They are worth the cost. Do everything you can to hire, retain, and motivate them.

Build your list first!

That money to invest in your business is just important a tool, as the tools used to build everything else. Too many people get in this IM world and treat it like it's some type of game. They want to make the magical $10,000 a month and try to find a way to do that by spending $100 bucks. You don't create a foundational structure to any online business unless you have the actual money to do it or are in the position. Money and knowledge, these things are critical.

It's simply a game of math and perception.

If I could offer a first-time entrepreneur only one piece of advice it would be to keep hustling! Often times people get discouraged because they don't see results right away. In the beginning, it is going to be the hardest, and you might want to give up. You just have to keep in mind that it is not going to come easy and hard work is going to pay off. Keep hustling, stay motivated, and push forward!

I would say get into a Legacy MLM Network Marketing as soon as possible and get your Business Tax ID to buy Wholesale and resell through E-commerce.

My advice would be:

If your soul lies to what you do, then make every effort to achieve the goals.

And if you do not like your work, the soul is not lying, it is better to throw and start something new!

Find one thing. Master that one thing and stick to the one thing. When that one thing starts making enough money scale it!

Surround yourself with successful entrepreneurs and use the 80/20 rule. Spend 80% of their money and 20% of other people's money. It must be true.. I read it on the internet.

1. Don't get caught with shiny objects
2. Avoid get rich quick scheme
3. Finish what you started and stick to it to the end
4. Persist in the face of setbacks, obstacles, defeats and failures.

Never Give up ,most people dont understand this .In general the real word its you have 2 option never give up or die this must be your mindset
Next work on your mindset as this makes in my opinion more than 70 percent of succes
In every day and morning imagine visualize program your mind how you want to be
Try to be very productive every day and try to evaluate every second of your life

1) At SOME point, you'll have nothing else on your mind...and at THAT moment, you'll have won. You'll not give up and you'll make it through

2) Look at what successful people DO, not what they say they do

learn all you can about EMAIL MARKETING

this is what changed my life and financial future, and going into 2019 will work better than ever!

Find a good, reputable, successful mentor early on and do what they say until you have enough experience to go it alone. That was instrumental for me - basically model what a marketer who is already making money online is doing.


And take time to educate yourself properly by investing in training in your chosen field. Keep up to date with the changing market trends, don't stand still.

Think slow and act fast.

Never trust anyone, be patience, do the math and strong will power

Just do it with Youtube!