New to IM Want to Start From Scratch Advice Needed

I'd suggest you go down the WordPress route wordpress.com. Most hosting companies will have it as standard and it's extremely easy to get advice when you get stuck. Haven't looked but I'm pretty sure there will be tutorials on you tube, or clear installation instruction found via Google.

Forget school, it'll slow you down. Keep reading forums like these, find what you need free on Google. Pay nothing for anything other than your domain and hosting and learn as you go.

Welcome!

Are you wanting to sell something related to your shipping passion?

Guessing your content is ship related. Always better to stick with subjects you are knowledgeable about, and even better if you have a love for - it helps keep your motivation up!

(PS - my uncle used to be the chief first class steward on the QEII)

IMHO Absolutely the #1 highest value course to find your feet would be the Thirty Day Challenge by Ed Dale.

Don't be fooled because it's free. There's a huge amount of value there and you can sample a bit of everything IM and develop what interests you the most.

Cheers,
Phil

Hi
Welcome to IM world. I guess you have a nice experience with general marketing. Spend more time to read warrior forum. You will find many stuff in war room.

Good luck

Hi ShipGeek,

I like Submarines. Those surface ships can sink, ya know? You are in a good position, with your skills, to do it quickly, easily and without much effort. Do what?

Have success as an Internet Marketer. HOWEVER, I see some potential navigational hazards, some nasty currents, hidden rocks and sandbars you could crash into.

Just MY opinion, but I believe you will be wasting a lot of time to learn all those things listed, why not do that WHILE you are building your Internet Marketing business?

I'm going to include a link, so you can download a report I wrote called, Before You Buy Anything. Please read it, it's quick. And pay attention to the 'ESCALATOR' of information products, and I'll show you how to get started quickly, using what you know and LOVE, to get out of the gate fast. OK?

Here is the link to the report: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/gjbiz/byba2010a.pdf

Feel free to contact me via email at gjabiz@yahoo.com

Gordon Alexander

I really enjoyed the webinars at inboundmarketing dot com. I think they're more geared toward an active approach than a passive income. I'm not sure which you're looking for.

Bruce Teague

I have a reasonably detailed guide to get started with learning - the "school way" here. I do hope you find it useful.

I can take you through the process of doing one simple squeeze page website from scratch - beginning to end, and interactively. Please feel free to send me a PM. For whatever it's worth, this won't cost you anything!


Best,
Aarohi

Congratulation for you, you're in the right path joining this forum, start your research here, read what others offer, and what they wanted, most member here is IM marketer you can learn from their experience.

Hey, how about looking at free courses online?

Join the lists of the big names online like Frank Kern ,John Reese, Ewen Chia, Mike Filsaime, and from time to time they give out free stuff (of course to market stuff), but I have learnt ALOT from free info they gave out.

Granted, these guys will try to market their wares to you, but you can actually learn from their marketing too!

Hmm, just get your feet wet, look around at what others are doing, and then try it. You don't have to spend money if you don't wish to... Drop me a PM if you want a free course for a headstart (i don't want to unnecessarily post links here)

P.s. I'll not make any money when you PM me for the freebie.

Cheers, and best of luck to you!

A few points....

1. This business is harder than it looks. The low bar of entry is very deceiving.

2. Beware of the "Make money online!" people regardless of how professional or convincing they sound. Realize that the biggest name of them all has been fined by the Federal Trade Commission close to $1 Million. This very gullible industry has an odd desire to trust these guys.

3. For every person that makes it, there are literally hundreds who will remain perpetual newbies because they chose to tread water instead of putting the hard work into moving forward.

4. Diversity. Diversify. Diversify.

5. Just go with your gut feeling regardless of what you read, but be smart about it.

I would recommend starting with article marketing first for 2 key reasons..

1) You can find tons of free article marketing info (bummarketing etc) on the internet
2) It's free and all your need is time and a simple lander (blogspot/squidoo etc)
3) It helps you get your basics right. Once you grasp the technique of listing article after article on they keyword you want on Google, it'll help you understand what type of keywords work and would probably help alot when you go into paid search marketing.

Good luck!

Hi ShipGeek,

The very best advice that I can give you is to not to try and do everything starting out. You will find success much faster if you pick a specific segment of Internet Marketing and focus in on it like a laser.

All too often people try to learn too many things and get overwhelmed and give up. If I had it to do all over again I would start with list building because that is an asset that will pay you over and over again...

Best of luck to you!

Jay

Hello,
There are many ways to build websites as you say. The easiest way are CMS or Content management Systems.

As someone mentioned above wordpress is fairly versitile and can be use to make squeeze pages as well as sales pages. however it was actually meant for blogs so there are limitations.

If you choose to go the html route which is a lot more harder I would recommend only using it for squeeze pages or sales pages since you don't need to deal with too much stuff. But it's actually really easy once you have a designer help you design the template. However hte key is using a good html editor and not the basic wordpad since it can be really hard and confusing. Personally I use coffeecup which is free and it's quite good. After that the only key thing oyu need to remember is <br> to separate lines. From there you can just basically write in your content to the design.

As for autoresponder many scripts aren't very good as some don't get delivered and are often considered as spam. This route would better to go with a service like Aweber. It is currently the norm in the industry since it allows affiliate links for internet marketers and has a high delivery rate of a supposedly reported 99.34%! The price isn't cheap though I have to warn you however you get the first 30 days for $1 which can give you a chance to kick start.

But just a warning don't sign up until you've learn what you need and ready to start so you aren't wasting your time.

Another important thing is building a email list as those are highly valued and can bring in a lot of profit.

If you have any questions I'll try my best to help. I don't consider myself a pro or experienced in anyway but I've learn a lot from browsing forums, and reading and I'll be more than happy to help and answer any questions.

Yo Ship Geek,

Now that you've decided on the 30DC you need to focus 100% on it. One of the most difficult things to do in Internet marketing is maintaining focus. If you continue to search for free ways to learn Internet marketing you will get caught in the marketer's trap. The pros know that newbies will get tired, overwhelmed and confused by the enormous amount of free information out there. Then the newbies will start buying products and get caught in the vicious cycle of buying and learning, but not doing.

Learn and focus on the basics:

• How to choose a product to promote
• How to build a website/blog with WordPress
• How to drive traffic to the site
• How to convert that traffic into $$$

John P

P.S. Also, be careful with free stuff, sure you can find everything on the Internet for free, but it may take you weeks or longer to learn what you could learn in 2 hours with some good training.

I suggest you to find good mentor that can teach you everything from the scratch.