I thinkn I am suffering from IM saturation syndrome

You'll be fine. It's this forum-Your surrounded by a lot of people that know a lot, and it's east to forget that most people online aren't as knowledgable. Good luck on your first project.

Regards,
Kevin

IM is so interesting, and addictive. Once you start learning you realize there aren't just a couple of ways to make money online, they are TONS of ways to make money online. The problem comes when you have to choose just one way and run with it. Stick with it until you know its a failure or you make it. Give yourself some guidelines before you start anything. For instance, I am going to try this, I will invest this much time and money, if it works great, if there is any hope I will continue, if it sucks I will move on. Then sell off what you have of the project and move to the next project. Don't ever expect to make it perfect the first time around. Practice really does make perfect.

Good Luck,
Mary Green

I had to laugh when I read your post Mark.

Today, I had a man come over to repair my furnace. He asked what type of work I did. I mentioned IM and he said, "Oh, my wife is doing that now!" all excited he explained to me the 'make money' programs she was promoting.

He started talking about how "The Money's In The List" and rattled off how easy it was to get ranked first page for Google etc etc. ...mind you he's never done any of this himself and his wife probably hasn't made anything either. Pretty funny!

I think it's easy to think EVERYBODY is in IM, just the way people used to think if they were in Real Estate, EVERYBODY was in Real Estate.

In fact, with the exception of that fellow today, 99% of people I tell I'm in IM have no idea what I'm talking about - young or old.
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Bruce

I've learned A LOT in this forum, but the best advice I took to heart was "Take Action."

Stop reading about the next "opportunity" or "marketing method" that's sure to make you rich. Choose your niche and focus on it. Take action with it.

Stop reading and WORK.

Awesome thread. My brother comes up to me the other day and says he wants to start a website for insurance and asked me what it would take. At first I laughed because I knew he didn't realize what he was asking. After a couple of mins of telling him how I would go about setting it up he says "stop". I just wanted something simple. haha I was actually being simple and told him only the basics but it was mind boggling to a newbie. I predict there will be an avalance of people getting into IM thinking they will accidently hit the magic button and turn on the profit faucet or something like that. haha -but I also predict the 80/20. The top 20% will always make 80% of the money. I hear ya man- it seems like everyone is into it but I believe most people will never put the effort into it like you did and you will slay 'em. Cheers.

Choose one thing that you want to do for example; affiliate marketing and start one website and drive one form of traffic to it. Learn that and move on to another method of traffic etc. The key is to focus on one thing at a time.

By the way, my brother-in-law got me semi interested in IM 3 years ago. He has been reading, researching, surfing the net for the last 3 years. In May he got his first website up - I installed it for him. It still has nothing on it. Lesson? Start doing stuff.

All the best

Leanne

The reason why action is so difficult is because that is where risk begins.

There is no risk in reading or "studying". Its safe. We can take comfort in our pdfs, books and podcasts. When we step out into "doing" we are exposed. But without that risk, there is no reward, only regret.

I can completely relate... I spend every waking moment either at the computer or doing good old fashion research at the library just to get out of the house...

The hours go by so quick and one week rolls into the next but I absolutely love IM. I went out and got a double screen HP2335 with a new 64 bit computer just to keep an eye on my stats. That's the only function of that computer - obsession???

Mike Hill

PS. Just jump in and put something out there. That will be your best educator... learning from experience. Don't worry about the failures just learn from them and keep on going.

Hi bigmark,

Wow, dreaming about it? Hey, got to relax a bit. A balanced work life is important.

It's important to stay focused on a strategy and plan that works for you. Get it to work well, tweak it and improve until such a point that you feel that you can automate it, then move on to the next.

That's how businessmen build businesses just like what marketing gurus do.

But I must applaud your hardwork and diligence. I can see that you will make it one day.

But most important of all, NEVER GIVE UP! No matter what. Conviction and the faith in yourself is important to push you forward.

Have a Vision/dream, then develop your plan to reach, followed by setting milestones.

Davion

Yes you are thinking too much.

You need to start taking action...that's how you drown out that stupid voice of doubt.

Pick one thing you can do right now that will take you forward...a simple task that will take 15 minutes or less...and just do it.

Then pick the next small task and keep doing that until you're making money.

There are many people on the Warrior Forum who aren't making money...it's nearly always because they're simply not applying the knowledge they already have.

Put simply they know a lot but they're not doing anything with it.

Take some action right NOW.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

Taking action is the key. It's funny how we study, learn, get excited - and then do nothing. Why? Many times we are afraid of failure, that we will look silly, or just can't do it. Stop thinking that way and JUST DO IT.

Here is a little story of what has happened to me. I began doing affiliate marketing, which I am still doing quite successfully. However, my true love is writing.

Six months ago, I would NOT HAVE DARED to post any ads offering my writing services - I was too unsure of myself.

Last week, I finally made that big step and published an ad on Craigslist. Actually, I published two. On that first one, it took me great courage to hit the "post" button. But I did it. I nearly fainted, but I did it.

Within a day, I had a reply. I have now written my first 10 articles for this person, and he loves them so much that he has given me 100 to write in the next few weeks. Even said that if anyone was unsure of my writing skills, send them to him. Then he said "on second thought, don't - I want to keep you all to myself".

This goes to show you that jumping in there and doing it can pay off - BIG TIME. I am now so excited about my work, it has given me more motivation than ever.

Moral of the story - if you don't do it because of insecurities, you are never going to know just how successful you can really be.

Good luck!

If you need to absorb a lot of information fast, the techniques in Paul Scheele's book: PhotoReading will improve your efficiency in taking on board new information. Also if you go to the Enhancements tab in Windows Media Player and select increase speeds you can increase the speed of a the audio files, I find I can increase to 2X and still be able to follow comfortably. This should increase the efficiency with which you absorb information. 6 months is not along time and if you are to do this seriously it takes at least that to get usable knowledge and importantly your own analysis or take on it. You were right not to jump without an preparation.

The reason that it looks to you like "everybody" is into Internet marketing is because that is what you're focusing on. It's a well known phenomenon. Before you got into Internet marketing you probably barely registered when someone talked about it, or when you read something about it. Now that you're into it, your attention is grabbed when you hear someone mention it or when you read about it, etc.

For example; a woman finds out she's pregnant. Suddenly she's focused on all things pregnancy, childbirth, and babies. It doesn't take long before she's thinking to herself "wow, there are a lot of pregnant women/new mothers around all of a sudden...isn't that strange!" Not strange; it's just what she's focusing on now.

People who make money with Internet marketing are still a small percentage of the overall workforce. However, you're surrounding yourself with them so much right now that it seems like everybody is doing it!

If I were you, I'd stop wasting time posting on the forums. You should be able to get a site up by the end of the week, have it indexed, and start driving traffic to it.

I've been in the same place and I realized that it was easier to read and fantasize about it than it was to take action. I kicked my own ass and now I have more sites than I can manage. Find a proven system and stick to it until it works. Tell us when the $ starts coming in