Best way to learn Wordpress/Online Marketing

If your just starting out and you want to learn as you work then I suggest you check out Ed Dale and his site The Challenge its 100% free to learn. And eight week battle plan to get you up and running to include keyword research, site set up, seo and tons of other stuff.

Sorry for a stupid question, but why you just don't start from here? WordPress has a very intuitive interface and it's really easy in use. Simple install one blog at your host and start using it. If there will be any questions, you will also find the answers in the standard docs and FAQ's at wordpress.org which is a hugest source of WordPress knowledge I know about. There is nothing to pay for - all information is free.

Welcome OP. I commend you for wanting to be financially free, that’s a great goal to have. However, in order to reach that goal, change your focus ever so slightly to what you can offer of value to others online, and work towards achieving that aim. Start by getting a background of which aspect of the online sphere is of interest to you, then look to learn what is required to offer value within that sphere.

As for learning Wordpress, it's actually very easy. Your hosting plan will almost certainly have a one-click Wordpress installation ability, and Wordpress is one of the easiest platforms to jump in and start using. You can change your site's appearance very easily by using themes, and more in-depth modifications can be done by editing the code from within the Wordpress dashboard. Just jump in, and you'll quickly see what I mean.

That's great, you have found that online marketing has given you the "spark" to take all-out, massive action.

Learning to build Wordpress websites is a useful skill, but BEFORE you do that, a more useful skill is to plan and understand what business you will be in.

Wordpress, blogs, email marketing, even the internet itself are simply tools - you still must put together a sound business which means you need to understand:

1. What you market you will be targeting
2. How you will offer value to that market
3. Confidence that they will buy what you offer
4. Brand yourself, your business and your products as uniquely valuable to that customer base

Once you are clear on your business and method of monetization, then blogs can be a terrific way of generating traffic, creating a relationship and brand with your market and even as a method of creating static, sales conversion pages.

Just don't make the common mistake that the internet itself IS the business, you still need to create a business and then apply the tools available to ramping up traffic, sales and profits.

Jeff

I strongly suggest you consider buying this WSO offered by Istvan Horvath: http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...void-them.html (NOT an affiliate link).

Istvan is highly experienced with WordPress and I'm sure his report will prove useful to you.

I would also like to highly recommend to you a series called WordPress 101 Tutorial Videos. These videos are meticulously scripted, narrated and edited and will be automatically updated to keep up with the latest release of WordPress. I give them with all my WP installations, but this recommendation is NOT an affiliate link.

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Wordpress is my favorite platform for building money making web sites. There are a lot of great free tutorials on YouTube you can check out.

Of course, tutorials work best when you are doing a project with the software, so decide what site to build first and go for it.

The most important thing you can learn about online marketing has nothing to do with ONLINE.

Marketing is marketing. You need to learn about Human Behaviors and Copywriting.

Learning Wordpress means little in this equation. If you want to learn WordPress... install it, and read the docs they provide. It's pretty easy to catch on.

I recommend Unstoppable Affiliate by Andrew Hanson and Josh Stanton. Once you learn all the ins and outs of Wordpress, I recommend making use of the upcoming holiday season and getting ranked for stuff that either hasn't been released or advertised on t.v. yet. There is often a lot less competition, which means less work. The sheer volume of traffic will keep the money rolling in, and you will see faster results since people start shopping online earlier. Now is the time to get going.

Good luck,
Joey

Learning wordpress is a great place to start, but I suggest you also research this forum for advice about how to choose a profitable niche (this is what your Wordpress blog/site will actually focus on). If your goal is really to get rich, you need to choose a good sized market to be in.

Once you pick your market and have mastered wordpress, focus on making a name for yourself and branding. It's helpful to look at what other quality sites (including community sites) and blogs are doing and model some of their techniques.

Hi

You want to make money...so perhaps you want to be a successfull marketer/entrepreneur not just a successful site developer - with wordpress.

I suggest you spend your time more on building ur business, than just to build a webpage.

anyway its great that you have a BIG and Written goal at this early age.

All the best

Vivek Goel
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I don't like the title of the thread... kind of makes one think that "online marketing" is synonymous with "wordpress".

Those are two very different skills - I know of many, many successful bloggers who are masters of WordPress yet they are not interested in "online marketing".
And, on the other hand, I bet many successful online marketers made it without ever touching WordPress.

Just my $0.02

Wow thanks for all the help guys, it's been extremely helpful reading all of this! I just bought Istvan's book and am awaiting for it! After spending over a week on this forum reading every piece of information I could to familiarize myself with IM, I feel i'm ready to start taking action. Thanks everybody keep it coming! I proclaim this moment the beginning of the rest of my life.

Reading some online marketing blogs and participate in marketing forums will help you to know more about internet marketing.

Get a mentor! Honestly. When I first started out online I struggled for months trying to build my online busienss and the minute I invested in a mentor I started seeing results. Best thing I ever did without a doubt