Whats next for me?

Hi, I'm Eric Thörn from Sweden. I'm excited to be here, seems like an awesome place and I'm ready to work hard to get good at this

I read Steve Wagenheim's free ebook about the four different you can earn money online etc. And he recommended to make a forum post to get advice on what I should learn and do next. (btw, Steve seems to have some solid stuff, probably gonna end up buying something from him )

So my goal in IM is mainly creating my own products, but also
earn money on affiliate marketing.

So here is where im at:

I'm a beginner in IM, but I understand the foundations about market research, traffic, conversion etc. I did the 30dc and the end goal in the 30dc style is to ultimately create your own product when you have a good niche, good traffic and good competition. The only strategy i know and the one that was in 30dc was this:

Find a niche, do market/competition research and create a blog with affiliate on it. Then just get try to get to #1 on google for my keyword with articles/backlinks(SB)/web 2.0 sites. And look on the traffic, if the affiliate sells and other statistics to determine whether I'm going to continue with the niche and create a product or try another niche.


About affiliate, i just know the basics of how affiliate marketing works. That you can sell affiliate through blogs, articles, website with sales letters etc. I don't really know much at all about this (how to be a good affiliate marketer at least).

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Now that is just the very basic stuff, and what I'd like to learn more about is how to handle affiliate marketing, what the good strategy's are and what makes great affiliate marketers great ($2,000+/month).

Anyone have any tips on where to go? any good ebooks or articles? maybe even some subscriptions/membership sites?

Thanks,
Eric.