Internet Marketing Newbie: Please Help.

I would suggest trying to laser focus on one thing...
Maybe you could join Ezine Articles and write some articles that point to an affiliate product. You can't put affiliate links in the articles, but you can top-level redirect domains to your affiliate link if you have a hosting account.

If you don't have a hosting account, then set up a squidoo lens or blogger blog with your affiliate links on it (and good content), and then just write a bunch of Ezine articles that point to it.

It really works, in my experience. It just depends on what the product is, how good it sells (and how good your content sells), and how good you can make your articles/article titles/article resource boxes to get views. If you get ONE article that hits it big, that could make you a good amount per month.

It's a game of numbers, and NOT giving up!

A good way of starting out is as an Amazon Associate. I know you have already done this, so you may have to invest a little in your education. Here is an excellent, inexpensive first course:

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...very-time.html


Once you get going on the above you will find you can start extending it and adding new methods to it (for example - start making link wheels - see Daniel Brooks courses, they are also good). You could also apply the model to clickbank products. It's a simple but effective blueprint to follow.

Here's a challenge - pick 1 amazon or clickbank product a week and use the above course to get traffic to your affiliate links. Do this for a year and you should have built up a pretty good business!

Dear buddy!

I hope instant success for you because I feel that you need quick money.

But,

You're a newbie

And,

The truth is, The internet marketers who earns around $2,000 per month didn't reach to that level over night. Their success has embleded with lots of courages, dedications, sacrifications and perhaps tears also.

So, what're the solutions you've?

1. Do it your self. But, it would have been little considersble time (depends on you) to achieve your target.

2. Meet a trusted (very important) consulter and tell him everything. He'll help you (You've to pay him)

Find a hungry market and learn all about what their problem is. Find out what people want and give it to them. Learn to create your own products ie. ebook, video, audio etc. There is plenty of free information on how to do this. Now this does take a lot of work if you do it yourself, or you can outsource it.

The first thing you want to do though is look for a starving, hungry market. Not for a product to sell. If you look for a product first, you are making a big mistake.

After you find the market you want to solve a problem in, and create a product for it, then learn how to market that product to the hungry starving crowd that needs the solution you have to their problem.

The best and free method to start out is to create a blog on www.blogger.com or WordPress.com — Get a Free Blog Here. Select a product from clickbank,amazon or cj and write a review on your blog. Write articles about the selected product. It must be a cake walk for you since you are a transcriber. Submit your articles to ezinearticles.com, articlepool.com, amazines.com, articlebase.com. The signature in your article should be pointing to your blog with the review.

Selecting the keyword is the key here. You can use the Google Keyword Tool to research the keywords.

You should also try to use www(dot)squidoo(dot)com and www(dot)hubpages(dot)com. It will help a lot on your marketing.

Sorry I can't post links yet.

I agree try Hubpages especially if your new I have made some decent money through my affiliate links on Hubpages. You can take it 1 step at a time just be persistent. You can also add Amazon links, and Google adsense to your hubs for 3 potential revenue sources

good luck!

Cyberdenizen, you've gotten some good advice already. I would underscore process: specifically, give something 3 months for you to feel you're getting "the hang of it".

Otherwise, you'll end up wasting far more energy jumping from one thing to another.

Good luck

I can't really tell if you wanted to work for yourself or someone else. I came across a web page about companies that hire freelance writers with a list of 50 companies. Here is the link if it will help you make some cash until you can strike out in another direction if that is your wish and hope this helps :-)

50 Places that Hire Freelance Writers : Freelance Writing Jobs | A Freelance Writing Community and Freelance Writing Jobs Resource

Watch ya there.

It's no good just reading about information on Internet Marketing, you must take action. My advice to you is to take one step at a time. (Build a website/blog became an expert at this then move onto the next stage) There is no magic button that you press which is going to generate you a massive income, it's going to be hard work but it can be done.
If you are looking to make a quick dollar than l suggest you take the affiliate route but if you are looking for a steady income create an evergreen product.

If you do thing's the right way then you should soon have more than $1 in your PayPal account.

Good luck to ya

I'm new to Internet marketer also. I'm learning so much.

If you're pretty good at writing why don't you hire yourself out to write articles etc. Get yourself some money under your belt doing this, then branch out into IM.

Kim

I am going to be honest with you, this is NOT the right time for you to start on internet marketing. You need at least to be able to pay for domain name, hosting, and an autoresponder to get started the right way, attracting free traffic? Do not believe a word about it, there are thousands if not millions of people trying to attract free traffic to their blogs and websites, 99.9% of them fail.

note: I could tell you right now about a program which offers free squeeze page, free video squeeze page, and a hosted salespage, but what good would that be for you? you still need to be able to pay for a domain and hosting for your squeeze pages, then you need to be able to drive traffic to the pages.

if you still want to know about it send me a PM, I will send you the URL.

There are so many different ways you can do Internet Marketing, but you should only try one at a time. Focus on one technique until you have it running well and then pick another and focus on that. If you try to learn and build too many things at once, you may find you succeed at none of them. The more time you focus on a technique, the faster you will be able to start making money. So..
The two most important things you can do are:
1. Find a good step by step course that can help you with the WHAT to do and the HOW to do it. (See my link below)
2. Stay focused on that until you have momentum before you branch to something else.
All the best to you fellow marketer.
Gale

You'll probably get the quickest results by offering a service. What skills do you have? Writer, set up blogs, build blogs or sites .... If you can do stuff that people need to have done and are willing to pay for it, you've got an income.

From there, you can also build products to sell yourself, if you have the skills to do it. Like site flipping, write an ebook, write PLR articles and ebooks to sell, etc.

You can also go the affiliate marketing route, but I see so many flounder for so long, it might not be the quickest method for you.

I'll give you one of the best ideas out of one of my bonus reports if you PM me.

Regards,

PCRoger.

With just 4 posts... the OP is very unlikely to PM any of you guys that offered help IF he sends a PM...

Internet Marketing is not an easy job. Especially if you do not even know where to begin. I suggest before you even start you sit down and analyze everything. You need to begin by establishing what you have experience in, what skills you possess and where you have deficiencies. Doing this will help you avoid major frustrations. You will need to invest a little bit once you are ready to launch this is why you need to have a plan, so you can avoid overspending. If you want to start earning fast money to can join some freelancing sites like scriptlance and getafreelancer. There you can set up a profile with your education, skills and experience.

You can listen to a lot of Warriors who have been around for a while, yet you will not get very far until you have a clear mind and plan as to what you want to do and where you want to go.

While Hubpages, Squidoo, Wordpress and Blogger are all good options, everyone agrees that nothing beats building your own site using your own domain. Set-up a free web hosting account and install wordpress on it. Then you can use the web 2.0 sites mentioned above to build links and drive traffic to your site.

Work on your new online business a few hours a day, as often as possible, and with time you will achieve your goal.

Good luck!

I agree with Kim... what you need to be doing to start out is providing a service to other internet marketers such as article writing. It doesn't make you a ton of money but it's a start and the money is much more "guaranteed" than other internet marketing ideas.

Also check out the website Elance as well. Think the url is Elance | Outsource to freelancers, professionals, experts, and consultants - Get work done on Elance.

You can get jobs on there that will give you some seed money and it's free to get started.

Good luck and I really hope that things work out for you.

Whatever you do don't hop around from one system to another, find that one system you're comfortable with and stick to it like glue. Get a notebook and keep a journal of all your daily activities in your chosen niche (system) so you can have continuity. Stay laser-focused, DON'T SWAY. The only way to stay encouraged is to find that one system to make you your first dollar online and you're on your way by scaling up.
Good luck.

Dear cyberdenizen,

Keep walking. Don't quit. Keep climbing. I started out with direct affiliate linking in mid 2008. I spent several hundred dollars on Adwords and made ZERO sales.

Not good. This pissed me off no end. But I did not quit. I was tempted to pack in, but instead, I got angry and I directed that anger at educating myself.

So I spent the remainder of 2008 (and all of 2009, and now, into 2010) learning about direct response marketing. In early May of last year I started a modest blog (see the link below--it's nothing fancy), and I also started answering questions on the Know-How Exchange over at MarketingProfs: Marketing Resources for Marketing Professionals. This site is mostly free. You can pay an annual fee to get the premium content, but I'm a free member.

So, when I first began answering questions the big names on the site's "Top 100 Experts" list scared the crap out of me. I thought "Bloomer, you haven't got a prayer". But I stuck at it. I answered questions and told people what I thought.

Also in May of last year I started a Twitter account. I now have 1,850 followers. Not
a huge number, but still, good exposure. One of the people that follows me is Tony Robbins. Know why? Because I had the balls to ask for his follow AND because I gave value.

Last October I became the MarketingProfs top forum contributor on social media. I sent out some thank you's to people that had helped me do this and I sent those notes via Twitter. One of those people was Tony Robbins. He then invited me to send HIM links.
And I was like: WTF? is this cool or what?

So, then I made it into the top 100 listing on marketingprofs. Then into the top 75. Then the top 50. And so on. And now, less than a year later, I'm in 6th place. Several people on the same site have been contributing FOR YEARS.

My point here is not, "Hey, look how cool I am!" it's this: give great value OVER TIME and the results will come. So far I've made a little bit of money. I'm building a modest list. I send out a weekly newsletter (this week's is a day overdue--whoops! better fix that TONIGHT), and I'm beginning to build a following.

If you need PLR or MMR e-books to sell or to rebrand, let me know and I'll give it to you freely. No strings. No opt ins. No continuity. No catch. No BS. You need to find a niche and become the "go to" person for that area. For me, I'm working on direct response. I have NOT mastered it, but I've made some good progress. And finally, for a dollar, you can get a month's trial to aweber.

All you need is one offer in one niche that's significant enough to get people to sign up and listen to you. Then give them value over time. The money is NOT in the list. The money is in the RELATIONSHIPS you build with the people on that list.

I hope this helps. Good luck to you. Kind regards, --Gary B.

cyberdenizen

I am a newbie and also in limited resources. As such, from beginning, my effort is to not to get lost in IM information overload. It is just huge!!

Sorting good information from much less important information is taking my time right now, but it is worth it. I need to know what I am getting into before hand.

I purchased one WSO about an Amazon affiliate system produced by one of the members here, and it clarified a lot about the Amazon affiliate system for me. Without knowing the basics in the affiliate system, I could be lost by now. :rolleyes:

Being in a budge is hard, but I would suggest buying some trustworthy affiliate program and learn the basics if you are interesting to become an affiliate. Some investment is necessary to avoid critical mistakes. I think eliminating possible mistake beforehand is very important.

Good luck to you.

The most important thing you need to keep in mind if you want to avoid losing your time is focus on 1 idea and keep working on it until you get some results. Choose something that you know work for other people and make it work for you. Might sound simple but that's what most newbies fail to understand. There are SO many ideas & strategies & training courses all over the place that newbies tend to jump from one to another without really taking the time to go to the bottom of things. Success comes from doing 1 thing right, not plenty of things wrong...

To everyone who replied to my initial post, thank you very much. As I said, I will blog about my Internet marketing efforts in a blog. Here's the link: 2000-a-month(dot)blogspot(dot)com .

I will write about this thread soon.

More power to all!

Stop trying to make money.

Start trying to create something somebody else actually wants.

It sounds like you are in a position where you need to make some immediate income. I feel your pain, and in all honesty affiliate marketing may not be the best way for you to start.

What skills do you have that other marketers would find valuable? It sounds like you may be able to write some good articles, so I would try to write articles for people. This way you can get guaranteed income delivered right to your paypal account.

Once you have a few freelance clients, then you can get out into the affiliate marketing world.