An Open Letter To All Newbies... From A Newbie

Hey people.

Most of you won't know me but that's not the point. It's been a while since I've posted, and to be honest, this might be the first real post from me that might actually help someone.

Let me start with this. I first went into Online marketing at the end of 2006 (aged 15). And up till recently, the only money I made was the occasional sale. Not much to show for more than 2 years eh?

Right now I can make anywhere between US$80 - US$100 a week. And yup, that is a pretty pathetic amount for a lot of you guys. But for an even greater amount, it is something that they would LOVE to get! Why? Because though small, at least it is a consistent amount of money that I'm bringing in. It most certainly beats the few dollars I would have been lucky to make once every few months in the past!

Now after doing much thinking, I came to realize one thing. And when I did realize this, I thought to myself "Jeez Prashant, you must be one of the biggest idiots around!"

You see people, I used to look at Internet Marketing as some sort of get rich quick thing. I used to think that you can pay no money upfront and make a decent living, by which I mean you'd be making a few thousand bucks a month.

Now while I'm aware that this is possible, I haven't seen the results from my own efforts. I'm not saying bum marketing sucks and doesn't work or whatever, I'm just saying that it hasn't worked as well as I would have liked for me. Evidently I screwed up somewhere along the way. But that is not my point.

To actually believe that money can be made online, you need to be making something regularly, no matter how small. And $100 a week is a mighty small sum! So many easily make that a day. But the thing is, by seeing this amount come in weekly, it has helped me to believe that I can make larger amounts as well. I mean come on! If you don't see anything coming in, you aren't going to believe that you can do it too.

I mean in my case, whenever I see success stories, I don't feel any great amount of joy for the person. I do feel motivated to do better though. But you know what drives this motivation?? JEALOUSY! And while most of you may not admit it, I'm pretty sure you feel jealous when you are screwing up while someone else is making money. It's like at school when your classmate would get an A while you'd barely scrape through.

And after long last, I come to my next point (which might be the final point as well! ha). You may see a lot of people have great success with article marketing, ppc marketing and all the other forms of marketing out there. But don't focus 100% of your allocated time and energy on making these campaigns work. Because it is going to take some hard work (unless you have someone literally guiding you step by step).

Here is what I suggest you do on top of these marketing campaigns. Do freelance work. Because are pretty much guaranteed to make money. And guess what? You can use some of this money to invest in your marketing campaigns. Overtime you may be able to hire a coach who could guide you to making your campaigns a blistering success! (with the cans, mays and coulds in these last couple of lines, all this sounds rather hypothetical. but i can't help it, i'm an economics student )

Freelance work is what I've been doing. My strengths are in my writing, so I do writing jobs (articles, sales letters etc). You could be good at graphic design or website design. Or maybe you have a thing for programming. There are loads and loads of jobs out there that you can do. Obviously don't work for just any price (unless you are in desperate need for the money, or if you are fine with doing so).

Get yourself out there, make it known to people that you have a service that can potentially make life a hell of a lot easier for them. What are your sigs for?? haha.

Well I'm off to study for my econs test. The teacher has made it rather clear he will be pretty pissed if we fail (he's the new head of department, he can't have his class doing badly for the subject he's in charge off..)

Cheers

Prashant