Top 5 things a newbie should learn first..?

I'm sure everyone has a different view on this but here is 5 things a newbie should known/have. There is more, but you asked for 5.


1) Have an actually plan
2) Be consistent in your actions
3) Don't disregard a proven traffic method just because it didn't work for you the first time you used the method
4) Learn some copy writing skills, and basic website creation skills
5) affiliate products are great, but you should have in your plan to have your own products.

1. How to network
2. Where to network
3. When and when not to automate
4. To use only fresh content
5. Good customer service practices.

If they are going to get in the cooking niche, #1 should be
"Never fry bacon naked" :-)

Willie

1-Learn to sell when not face to face. If you cannot get past that, nothing else will make up for it. (Except outsourcing a good copywriter).
2-Discipline yourself to work everyday until business gets off the ground.
3-Learn how to get traffic.... other than from search engines.
4-learn how to find a dire need for a lot of people that is hard to find a solution to.
5-Research and provide a solution for them.

(But that is the easy way. )

Learn how to sell

...now repeat that 5 times

1. That you intend on starting a new career in Marketing

2. To have realistic expectations

3. To expect a learning/training period

4. How to create a plan

5. How to stick to a plan

here's a bonus... when to admit defeat

1. Find a solid niche
2. Make a valid business pan
3. Develop a free product - either a report or a video
4. Create a list
5. Create a product or find a good PLR product to upsell them to
6. Create great autoresponders and be consistent
7. FOCUS on one thing at a time

hmmmm... what can i add ? ....

I would say :

outsourcing

1. It takes work to make it
2. There are no shortcuts
3. Build relationships with your customers
4. There are no legitimate instant cash formulas (see #1)
5. Stay on task, don't switch horses in the middle of the race

Its about knowing the importance of the product, knowing the target audience of the product, knowing how to reach them, knowing how to sell the product and lastly maintaining a repu in the market place

How to earn money
repeat this five times.

Here I will give you the top steps

1) build a big ass list of people that like you and trust you.

2) build a big ass list of people that like you and trust you.

3) build a big ass list of people that like you and trust you.

4) build a big ass list of people that like you and trust you.

5) build a big ass list of people that like you and trust you.

If you can do this, well... log off and tell the wife she can have that big dimond ring and house on the beach she always dreamed of.

1. A Free Plan to build a website or blog
2. Search engine optimization
3. Article writing/marketing
4. Backlink Building
5. List Building

Now, let's get one thing straight, newbies should learn one thing at a time until they have a good grip on it before they move on. If you learn how to build a website/blog and to market it with article marketing and SEO, then you can move on to backlinks and list building. Only take on what you can handle and do not overload your brain.

Benjamin Ehinger

Aside from constant researching and learning which goes without question, I'd say the most important at start is to take by heart that:

1. It is absolutely possible to earn good money online
2. It takes work, time and investment.


As for 5 things you should learn first:

1. Basic stuff about domains, hosting and website design
2. How to drive traffic to your website (SEO and other methods)
3. Autoresponders and how they work
4. Building a list of targeted prospects
5. Creating and delivering valuable and relevant content to your visitors and/or subscribers

1. How to join the Warrior Forum
2. How to CONTRIBUTE to the Warrior Forum
3. How to learn on the Warrior Forum
4. How to network on the Warrior Forum
5. How to choose and buy ONE WSO

1. Understand the community you are trying to help.
2. Build a list and make connections within that community.
3. Offer a combination of useful free and paid resources to the community.
4. Test and rack CONVERSIONS, not traffic.
5. Master your niche and the craft of Internet marketing.

1. Have a solid seo strategy
2. Research keywords and competition(no.1 reason for why most people fail imo)
3. Discipline and hard work. Building backlinks and promoting your site takes time!
4. Be willing to learn and improve. Always.
5. Adsense first. Then affiliate products later.

You're income will generally correlate with the number of buy buttons you have out there.

Time Management !!!!!!!!


CHAD

1. Choose a niche
2. Learn and master your niche
3. Learn SEO
4. Learn how to market
5. Have patience

#1- Finding the 'right' niche
#2- Keywords
#3- Content
#4- Backlinking
#5- Track

Find a profitable niche, get your aweber set up, drive free traffic, get a squeeze page, and then follow up. Step number 6 is make money... I know plenty of marketers who follow that precise format. SEO takes a little too long sometimes.

#1 Build a great list
#2 Write some great copy
#3 Have a great product (your own)
#4 Learn WordPress (its easy!)
#5 Track and Test EVERYTHING

- Goal setting
- planning
- motivation and taking action
- time management
- marketing principles

Cheers,

~Gary

1. Find a niche
2. Create a brand
3. Get a logo
4. article marketing
5. video marketing

Jermaine "Lead Monster" Steele

1. Be patient
2. Get a formal education also
3. Do not give up
4. Learn from others
5. Make sure that you are able to enjoy the process

This is a great post! The 5 things that I think are the most important for any newbie to know are these:

1. MINDSET
-Hands down the most important piece of success with IM. Mindset is everything, epically if you are a newbie. It can be so easy to get down and discouraged when a project or campaign doesn't work out the way you had planned...And if you are serious about starting a IM business you will have your up and downs, weather your making $100/m or 1M/m you will have discouraging times. But with a solid mindset you will be able to learn and gain data from those failed attempts and continue forward towards your goal!

2.PLANNING
-Plan your work and work your plan. That simple, you must have a plan of action, even you do not know how you are going to do every detail, just have some soft of outline to refer too.

3. OUTSOURCE
-You either have TIME or MONEY. In most cases newbies just have time very and little money. Just remember you can always get more money but you can never get more time! You MUST outsource simple tedious tasks that take up to much of your time. Work "on" your business NOT "in" your business!

4. ACTION
-You have to be taking HUGE action every single day! Action = Results, PERIOD. As long as you are taking action, different opportunities, resources, ideas, products will start to pop up all round you! Try it if you do not believe me

5. HAVE FUN
-You really have to have fun doing this or like most of us IM junkies you have to LOVE it. Whoever said making money online was easy and glamorous differently forgot to mention all of the hard work and countless hours spent that goes into building a successful online business. If you dont love doing this and dont have fun doing this, you will not last long and probably not make a single penny.

Anyways I know Im rambling, but Making money online is not as easy as do this and that, it requires passion! It is a psychological business!

Personally I'm taking this approach...

1. Create or Buying rights to products
2. Building a list
3. Finding affiliates (not got this far yet)

And just going to focus hard on these three things... they'll compliment and all earn money.

I'm personally drawn to email marketing more than anything else so I'd like that to become my main area of speciality... writing emails suits my attention span and they're good fun to do.

Wow.. to restrict what one needs to do to a list of any size is seemingly easy and universal; list building, site building/management, SEO, creating or finding quality products to promote (monetize)...

BUT

the devils in the details. There's a thousand different opinions on how to proceed with our small list. I mean just look at the size and activity on this one single forum dealing with your question alone?!

I will say, that if there were a few top points I would give and even follow myself they would be;

Never stop learning...the world of internet marketing is constantly mutating : )

Be persistent...try and stick it out with one strategy at a time before moving onto the the next firestorm process

and

most of all, do not believe for one second your going to have a 4-hour work week just yet... that will take time and seems to be the holy grail of IM'ers everywhere, me included!

1) Renew Your Mind
2) Decide WHAT you want to do (strategy)
3) Find a HUNGRY market
4) Ask them what they want
5) Offer them what they want

Be sure to pay special attention to #1.

I've completed an interview with Aaron Darko that will help you develop and maintain your entrepreneur mindset. Check it out here:

A Mentor of Mine - Episode 03: How To Develop An Entrepreneur Mindset | Billionaire Belief | Wealth Creation Network

I'm not going to make a list per se for various reasons -- but the single most important factor is having a Plan. (Working that Plan is second.)

If you FAIL TO PLAN then you PLAN TO FAIL.

Excellent answers in here so far, I must say.

Find someone who has succeeded and model them and ONLY them...

There are not really five things to learn. Some of the most successful online marketers - and I'm not talking about Joe Blow who makes millions of amazon sites - I'm talking people like Yanik Silver etc learned & mastered only two things:

-Copywriting
-Traffic Generation

and that second one is possibly optional. I know Yanik lets his affiliates worry about the second bit.

Here are the top 5 things a newbie learn:

1. Learn
2. Apply
3. Test results
4. Modify (If necessary)
5. Apply and learn more...


- Steve

This way is almost foolproof...

1. Find a business coach or a mentor to personally help and guide you. They would be someone who is already doing what you want to be doing (this is what I did).

2. With the help of your business coach formulate a plan of action and stick to it as close as possible but allow some flexibility.

3. Always be looking at how simple you can make things (entrepreneurs are very good at making the simple complicated, which gets in the way of sales).

4. Make sure your plan includes list building and email marketing.

5. Make sure your plan includes selling multiple products to the same group of people at different price points. (It's easier to sell to people who have already bought from you than it is to find new customers).