Help for someone new?

I think you've mad a good start by joining this forum. I'm relatively new to IM and have found the Chris Farrell membership site to be good. Plenty of free stuff initially too.

Welcome to WF!

It depends on which side of internet marketing you want to go into, there are quite a few directions you can go in but the important thing is to stick at one as many IMers more experianced than myself will tell you.

There is affiliate marketing to begin with, you need to find a keyword that you can use then sell other peoples things and you get a cut of the profit for every sale you make. There is an example of an affiliate site of my own here

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You can use things like clickbank, Google Keywords Tool and Microsofts Own Commercial Intention to find a range of interesting niches to go into.

A general rule is that you want less than 25,000 websites when searching for the exact phrase (using "") and more than 3000 views per month in the google keyword tool.

The next thing you could go into is article writing, brighthub will pay you $10 per article you write in the editors channels and give you a bonus for the amount of views you get.

You could also offer freelance work on the Warriors For Hire section of the forum.

To see a wealth of information (it helped me get started!) the War Room is certainly worth signing up for if you have the money ($37 i believe)

If you need any help at all feel free to write a message on my visitor wall in my profile with your email (use [at] instead of @) and we can discuss more

Daniel

Those are wise words, particularly about focussing on one thing.

share what you learned, search for a problem that you know the answer for it , make a blog post about it and redirect people to your blog for the answer. this way you start build your credibility

Thanks for that guys, I love how active this forum is

I wanted to try the affiliate marketing side of things, but seeing as I have experience in webdeisgn and programming I'm not sure this is the smartest thing to do.

The general direction for my blog was to provide people with information on getting started online, by documenting what I do and give tips on traffic generation techniques etc recommend free ebooks for people, then eventually write a book of my own or get a PLR one and start an opt-in and the rest is straight forward. The main reason I'm starting it now so it is easy to document what is happening now and I'm trying to avoid the sandbox and if I hit it hopefully it won't matter too much as I'll be out before the site would be making me money anyway.

Look there is plenty of great info on this forum by doing a search. Just you may find specific information condensed and quicker to understand in a tutorial format. When I first got started way way back, i read forums but I did fork out for some info and it was helpful, some was unhelpful but I was very picky about what I bought. A lot is learned though by doing

Welcome to WF!!

You have received some great advice already. This is an amazing forum as long as you stay on task. I have found it much to easy to ask a question or read a question that I have had in the past and all the sudden I am 2 hours into something I should not be wasting my time on...FOCUS.

You will find plenty of information on here that is FREE and you really do not need to pay for some of the best knowledge! So don't give into the "dark side" of thinking that you need money.
Pick your target
Set your goals (Be Specific, Write them down, post them on your wall in your office)
Maintain Focus
Find a Mentor (look on WF for others with your skill set but more experience and PM them, ask them question about everything)
Get what you want

One final thought...NEVER QUIT...Congrats!

Hi!

Hmmm... you mentioned you have programming skills and experience,

and from what you said: you want to focus on helping people start their own online businesses and Internet marketing ventures...

Plus, you would want to limit your finance investment to a bare minimum...

I recommend developing software useful for people without knowledge, skills and experience in building and running online businesses.

If you have PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, Web dev't (HTML, CSS) and graphics design skills, I'm sure you can develop easy to use software wich can:

1) automatically build WP sites and blogs, PHPBB free forums and paid membership forums, ecommerce portals and custom ecommerce PHP sites with themes/templates of their choice, just like this proprietary Web Builder Tool of ours which we're debugging;

2) easily help them in their keyword and competition research, much like our Keyword and Competition Researcher Tool;

3) offer them a more inexpensive alternative to Copyscape, just like our Duplicate Content Checker Tool; and

4) easily start article marketing campaigns, like our Article Spinner/Submitter Tool, which we're currently redeveloping with a wizard interface.

Then, you could offer access to the tools you develop along with necessary documentation like easy to follow ebook and video manuals for a monthly membership subscription fee.

Hope this helps.

Signup for a free autoresponder, then add a web form on your blog's sidebar. That will help you build a list. You can see mine if you visit my blog.

I use Aweber for my autoresponder, but I was saying if your on a limited budget a free one might work. I do agree with you though, you would risk loosing your opt-in list.

Burton, as you have already noticed OPINIONS aren't scarce here. Everyone has their two cents to add and most importantly their knowledge to share. I was going to recommend that you start by joining affiliate or referral programs but it seems to me from your second post that you have already discarded that.

Now, you can go ahead and listen to everyone in the forum and then run around like a chicken without a head because you are just as (or worse) lost as you were to begin with. Or you can set everything into a plan. Where you want to go? What is your primary goal? How can you achieve this goal? What resources do you have immediately available that can help you achieve your goal? These are some of the questions you should try to answer yourself.

There is one thing I have learned from my IMer husband and that is, everyone has their own level of success and what they consider successful. This means that making money online is not the exception to the rule.

Finally, if it helps at all, there are tons of freelancing sites which are free to join. These have employers and freelancers alike. You can perhaps find a few projects designing sites for other webmasters and get paid for it. Do this until you build a reputation and enough money to establish your own site and promote it. That is how I started out. But beware, there are a lot of third world country freelancers short selling themselves. Do not do it. Bid the price you think your work is worth, and when you win the project back up the bid with excellent work!

Good Luck and to your level of Success!
Dana

Hello,

Do you want to work as an article writer? Will you work for me?

Thank You

very helpful tips and advice here!

First of all, Welcome to WF.
If there are things that you want to know - you can ask questions or post thread in this forum. Many fellow warriors could help you most especially about IM.
I have been in this forum quite sometime and I have learned a lot.

Regarding your new site - congratulations and More power.
There are many strategies or techniques that you can use to help your site up. You can browse topics from this forum same what others do if they want to know something or they are unsure of what they are doing.
There are some pips here too that can offer courses that can help your business be successful.

Good luck my friend. =)

Biggest tip i can give you is to use the search function at the top of the page.