Where to start? Newbie needs a little advice

I just copied and pasted what I wrote about a half-hour ago to another newbie asking the same question.

I'm still a newbie at this, but I can tell you this much. Be very careful with all the products offered to you in order to help a newbie out. Be careful with the WSO section. It seems like newbies to internet marketing are the easy targets for SOME of the more experienced internet marketers. Just look at all the titles in the wso section, don't they all sound great?

The steps are pretty basic, I think the hard part is more on how to properly go about taking that step and the next. In other words,

Step one - would be pick your niche, o.k, EASY, but you need to learn to investigate this niche and see if its profitable and how competitive it is. This is crucial if not all the time invested thereafter is lost.

Step two - keyword research, well, if not done properly you don't know what keywords will bring the most traffic or how to seo your on-page and off-page content.

I won't continue, but you get the idea. Just do your research on how to best take each and every step. If you some money to invest, I would utilize the warriors-for-hire section. Use the right person for each step. Again, be careful there too. Make sure you look at their post counts, previous posts, what fellow warriors have to say and so on. Some have several fake profiles to provide fake testimonials.

Anyways, best of luck to you, it's not easy, and when your ready to quit like alot of people do, that's when you give one more shot.

Good Luck

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Hello,

It's nice to see you here in Warrior Forum... First of all, don't think your 'impulse buy' on this forum is a mistake. I can honestly say this can be one of your wisest purchase in Internet Marketing.

I know you might have heard that statement on every forum you could have probably visited. I mean who in his right sense of mind will say that the forum he currently into is "garbage"...right? Like you, I'm relatively new here, so when you said that the 'loads of information' coming from every direction are REALLY OVERWHELMING...believe me that happens to all of us--no exceptions!

The most important thing you should remember right NOW is that you're not in a race, so don't be rushing yourself to learn all the things Internet Marketing is. You can't do that...NOBODY can! So, just settle down a little & try to familiarize yourself inside this forum. Anyway, that will only take you a day or two to get acclimated here inside so its really well worth it.

As you familiarize yourself here, you will shortly find out that there's so much value here inside...Basic Lessons in Internet Marketing you can learn for FREE-- Lessons you have to pay for outside of Warrior Forum.

After these, if you want to learn a specific field of Internet Marketing Business, I suggest you go the 'Product Reviews & Ratings' Forum where you can find tons of infos regarding which products/services are excellent for Newbies, etc.

There you can get feedbacks from many marketers...& then decide for yourself which one suits you best!

Great advice on the focus of learning to build a list of people to sell to. The issue there though may be that this person is not able to afford an autoresponder just yet.

The best internet marketing business model (IMHO) is one with a way to capture email addresses and information on the front-end as cheap as possible and sell to an interested group of subscribers on the back-end. This is what experienced marketers are talking about when you hear these terms, just like a squeeze page is simply a page on your site which entices people to opt in for a free gift or something by submitting their email and name to you. There are many ways to build a list, but a brand new marketer may have trouble establishing a niche and collection of methods to do this.

Just my opinion here but a great way to start with affiliate marketing is to produce a review site which converts visitors into buyers, or even a few. I say a few because its rare that your first site will be all that successful, once you have a site which is converting and making money there is no better motivation in the world. Finding a product on Clickbank and positioning yourself in front of buyers which are looking to confirm if a product is worth buying or not was where I started. Not all products out there which have a semi good gravity on Clickbank will be too competitive for you to jump in and setup a review site. By review site I mean you take a product you are interested in and create a site using the product name like:

"productname"review.com or "productname"scam.net etc etc

Riding the curiosity and skepticism of potential buyers can be a good way to swoop in and gather up some sales but you have got to do your research. Not to mention you have to offer up a real opinion and advice, most people see right through affiliate offers which are nothing but that. The trick is to really put the time and effort into researching and finding out all you can about the product you are going to offer a review of. Buying the product is, of course, the best way but not always necessary.

Join up with Clickbank and search for a slightly less then main stream product which answers a real world problem for people. Use the Google keyword tool and take your time to thoroughly research the sites which are selling the product first and foremost. Find threads on this forum about keyword selection and SEO and just try it. A great thing about internet marketing that people rarely address is that there is very little initial investment. The truth about it being a small investment though is good and bad at the same time. Its good because you can try try again without losing the farm, the bad is many people are only slightly motivated because they are minimally invested. Well....GET MOTIVATED!!

It can be done and the sooner you admit to yourself that there really is no easy button or silver bullet formula, the sooner you are ahead of 90% of other people out there trying to "make it."

Welcome to Warrior Forum, this is a good place to be and no you did not make a mistake joining the War Room.

Yes it can get overwhelming but take things one step at a time and start off with only one project/method/model and stick with it. Start off with a method that you are comfortable with, depending on your existing skills the choices will vary.

Creating a blog and learning how to drive traffic to it through free sources such as social media and article marketing will be a good training project. Learn how to track the traffic sources.

Keyword Research, learn how to do it. It will be essential to everything you do online from domain name, niche selection, marketing efforts, and on & on.

Action, don't sit around and wait for the perfect time to start, the perfect time is now. Don't worry that you don't know all of the in's and out's or your site is not perfect, get something up and tweek it as you learn. Far too many people fail here.

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good luck

Joe

Hello there and welcome! I'm new, too! But, I'm 6 months new! I love all of these replies - they are very helpful, but again, if you are BRAND new, these replies still can seem overwhelming!

DO NOT think that you made a mistake by joining the War Room - you can resort back to them when you are ready to. In fact, I wouldn't go there yet until you have at least one solid system you are working on. Then you can go in there to look for guidance or advice in that area. There is so many different ways to make money online, it is amazing! Yet, it is a good thing coz everyone is different - less competition in the area you choose to run your biz in.

It wasn't long ago that I was asking the same question - "where to begin?" I knew I wanted to make a go at IM, but the forks in the road looked like a centipede! I decided to do the (FREE) Thirty Day Challenge (you can Google that) and it was a wonderful choice for me. In fact, they are starting a new training program on July 1st. It's now being called just The Challenge because they break it up - one week on, one week off instead of 30 days straight. This will help you tremendously as it did me if you wanna give it a shot.

Best of luck in your new venture!

Hi -
I would first like to say that if you are serious about learning how to make money online, there is no better place to be than The War Room. As time goes by, you will come to realize what a gold mine this is.

If you know how to set up a free Wordpress blog, I would highly recommend Andrew's ClickBank Profit Storm. It is so step by step that you could just take it at your own pace. If you don't know how to set up Wordpress, it is easy to find tutorials all over the place that show how easy it is. Andrew's course is almost totally video. He has it broken into four sections, and each section has an additional video called "Look over my shoulder" where he actually does what you need to do and you see everything right in front of you. This is a perfect place to start if you want to set up websites for affiliate marketing.

If you are interested in selling products by building a list, it sounds like Silver Bullet Affiliate might be a good place to start. I've just been reading about the new 2010 version and a huge part of the process is done by Soren, John and Cindy of Clickbank Pirate. If you were to chose the option where you let them host it and send messages for you, etc., you will be able to see how the process works. The people on the list will "belong" to you as long as you remain in the program. It's a monthly fee type deal. OR you can set up your own hosting and autoresponder and the list will be yours forever, whether you continue with Silver Bullet or not. At least that's my understanding.

Hope that helps.
Lynne

Thanks for all the replies and the terrific advice!

At the moment I am leaning towards affiliate marketing through Amazon.com. By doing this, I will learn how to:

* pick a niche
* do some market research
* learn about keywords
* purchase a domain and build a website ( never done this ) although I've read wordpress is the way to go
* make a review site for my niche
* write articles on a regular basis in order to increase traffic to site and make it more relevant on google?
*hopefully make money

Does this sound like a good plan for a beginner? I know that I probably won't make huge bucks this way, but it seems that I will be learning and getting experience that I will be able to expand to other methods later on if I so choose.

What do you all think?