Advice for a Beginner

Hi,

If these small blogs were bringing in money, no matter how little, why did you not maintain and improve on them? Just curious.

Mark

Why don't you looking for a partner for a JV? I know there's a lot of marketer looking for a JV, I think its a good action to initiate jump on it,

Don't let anyone tell you it is going to be easy. Making money online is difficult, takes a lot of time and work, and requires a lot of experience. There is no secret to 'making money.' Go read Ayn Rand, 'Atlas Shrugged', which is a book that tells it how it is when it comes to making money. Those who work really hard, and are willing to provide value to others are the ones who make the big bucks. If you are capable of this, and do this, that is where you are going to end up with the million dollar house on the beach.

The biggest mistake I've made and something very common for many is chasing every new "gimmick" and not working enough at any one of them. What is your niche? What is your business model? SO often people are confused about where to start so they procrastinate by trying to research everything first before they make their decision. By the time they finish reading all the ebooks, listening to all the audio and watching all the video you can download in just a few hours their will be new "gimmicks" that are even more promising than anything else you've ever heard of. Just pick something and ignore all IM offers and gurus touting anything else until after you've succeeded with it. You're probably already familiar with this. It is probably the reason you've been "lurking". Decide to be a master and not a dabbler and make it happen. Good luck!

Making money online is only difficult when you get the wrong advice. Be very careful who you listen to. When i first started out I was introduced to a very well known marketer who thought me how to make money online. I bought his course, went through it with a fine tooth comb and implemented his strategies. I made about $100 within the first 6 months and put a hell of a lot of work into it. Do you know what? The advice was bloody awful for creating a long term business.

If you are looking to set up a lot of sites, create lots of content and build lots of backlinks to rank that content...then best of luck, you will most definitely need it.

I used to read all the BS saying that most people fail online because threy give up, that is a very bad assessment of why people REALLY fail to make money online. The main reason people fail is because 99% of the information floating around is garbage, and 99% of the people out there are still using it. When they don't see results from implementing this garbage information they then tell you that internet marketing is hard...bulls**t!!

It took me about a year to wake up to all this nonsense. If you are serious about setting up a sustainable business then your focus should be solely based around learning marketing...attraction marketing to be exact.

The truth is, affiliate marketing is very difficult and time consuming when you are implementing the wrong strategies. The fastest way to making money online is this...

1) set up an autoresponder

1) Find a quality product to promote

2) Set up a squeeze page to capture leads

3) Drive traffic to that squeeze page through forum, social and solo ad marketing

4) When you capture email addresses, provide FREE incredible value to that list either through a 7 day video course, ebooks etc

5) Promote that quality product after you build trust by providing INCREDIBLE FREE value

There's a bit of a learning curve to the above strategy but it is only a fraction of the learning curve compared to building sites, creating content and searching for baclinks.

The only push button money making system out there is your list...which is your asset. Be smart and think of your long term goal and strategy.

Forum marketing should only take 30 minutes a day. Social marketing should only take you 30 minutes a day. Solo advertising & banner advertising should only take you 10 minutes to set up.

I could do all my marketing in less than 2 hours a day overall and create 10 times the wealth than I would have achieved by creating websites, writing content and building links. Remember, your main goal is to build a list, provide value to that list and eventually sell to that list after they know and trust you.

If you're only starting out I recommend you invest the time now to learn marketing. Master this skill and you will be ahead of 99% of every other so called affiliate marketer on the net.

If you have no money to pay for advertising then go out and get a part time job to fund it. This is a real business and if you think you can succeed without investing money into it, then your mindset is all wrong.

I can understand that a lot of people out there take a year or two before they start to gain traction and begin to make money, the reason is that they have it all wrong. It should take no more than 6 months to earn a full time income if you have the right strategy, mindset and the willingness to invest in your business at all costs.

Sell membership subscriptions to your prospective customers to build residual income. (can you find 200 people in 6 months on the whole internet to sign up for a quality membership site that gets you $20 commission every month from each person?, if you don't think you can do that then get your head straight. 200 people on the whole internet is bloody simple if you have the right strategy)

Sell high ticket items that get you $1000 commissions for each sale. Do you think it's possible to sell 4 of these products a month? of course it's possible, there are plenty of people on the whole internet that purchase high ticket items...think "travel industry etc)

You can also be promoting $20 dollar products along with the above to your list for extra income.

You will find it difficult to implement the above strategies without building a list, but i'm sure you can see the potential in it...yes?

Slow and steady wins the race...B****x!! quick and painless by implementing the right strategies and investing time and money into your business over the next 6 months wins the race, and it has been doing that for all the big boys for years.

So, what's your goal? to make a living promoting sh***y clickbank products on websites that took you forever to get to the top of the serps? or to look into what i have laid out in this post?

The choice is yours, you will have to learn this stuff of course, but believe me, the pay off is incredible if you understand how to really make money online. Stop listening to the majority because it is the MINORITY that are making it big.

As a programmer why don't you launch a WSO? That might be something you want to do... but you did say PASSIVE and the most passive thing i found on the internet where you do NOTHING, LITERALLY other than build a squeeze page is this...

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...of-inside.html

hope this helps.

The above is excellent advice from retsced.

Focus on the medium to long term, give value and build a list.

The only thing I would add to that is perhaps consider making your own product when you are comfortable doing so. Like your list that is an asset for the long term and coupled with a membership site you are creating a solid business vehicle.

Good luck with all your online efforts.

So guys, what do you think about niche blogs? Would that qualify as more of a shortsighted thing? I think it might be a good way to get my foot in the door. I'd be providing value by writing good articles but it wouldn't take as much investment for seo/marketing as an "authority site" (I think that's the term).

I don't mean crappy blogs with a bunch of affiliate links but just a few articles, maybe an affiliate link here or there but quality content not just keyword fillers.

I have quite a bit of knowledge on things like computers, cars, firearms, etc so I was thinking about putting out some small blogs for very targeted parts of those industries and slowly building traffic/links/subscribers. Maybe throw some ads on there for a few bucks a month just to keep myself motivated.

Also are there any recommended ebooks on the topic? I know most of them are probably "get rich quick" crap but there has to be something good (or at least honest) out there somewhere!

What I'd really like to break down is the common types of IM (niche blogging, digital products, affiliate stuff, etc) and start by getting a more fundamental grasp on the whole thing, I'm on information overload right now trying to get into the specifics without doing the fundamentals.

Build a team of Web programmers. Talk to your friends, relatives and colleagues with Web programming expertise. Ask them if they're interested in accepting Web programming projects for income. Train them. Motivate them. Inspire them. Love them. Develop your team's portfolio. Showcase on your site the greatness and coolness and awesomeness of your portfolio. Develop mind-blowing Web programming service offers. Develop mesmerizing sales pages that can make them do anything you want them to do. Promote your Web programming service offers by:

=>> Acquiring affiliates. Develop an extensive yet easy to understand, simple to follow Web programming guide and video website maintenance tutorial useful for your target viewers and customers. Sell this on your site. Buyers should also be able to opt-in to your mailing list during payment. Post this as an affiliate product in affiliate networks. Offer 90% or more commissions per sale, to entice others to become your affiliates. Mention relevant pages of your site and service offers in this product...

=>> Hang out in Web forums, blog networks and other online social networks where your target viewers and customers also regularly hang out to discuss things relevant to Web programming, your content, services and products. Help others in those networks so much that they'd be, in no time, thinking and feeling the purpose of your team's existence is to remind them how inferior they are and how much they should learn and how superior they can become in Web programming...

=>> Implement content syndication and guest authoring and PPC/PPV/PPM or private ad space advertising and solo email advertising. Offer content, money, services, dinner, flattering comments, collector items or anything that they would find valuable enough for them to promote to their regular viewers and active mailing list subscribers your content and ads...

=>> Continue working with your team, managing and training them and marketing their services, until you know them and their habits more than enough for you to know the most probable things they'd be doing in certain situations that require the ability to think and come up with creative solutions for problems and issues that may happen. Hire and train the best member as the marketing head of your team. Hire and train the second best member as the manager and HR department head of your team. Hire and train the third best member as your team's trainor. Assign and have your trainor train the fourth best member as the Q/A supervisor. Motivate and inspire them with promotions, rewards and incentives for great work, as your business continues to grow and expand. At this point, your business becomes a sustainable source of growing passive income...

Why not try teaching others about what you know? Launching a WSO is a great way to do this.

I need help on how i could start making money online. Please you guys should help me

I couldn't agree more with Randohm.

You need to know what item you like to promote. Everbody has something they like and promote it. If you are looking for affiliates, try Clickbank.

You can get some good free tips from these guy Adam Short from Niche Profit Classroom 4.0. His first video is more promotional and blah blah, but his 2nd to 5th video are very good tips. Its free.

Many have ask for the video link, but I am short of the 15 post required to include the link into my thread, so I put the link below into my signature for now. Just register and get the free videos. You can also search from Google.

when I started the toughest thing was to decide from all the different ways of marketing. The most important thing in my opinion is to pick about five like blog commenting, link exchanges, etc. and focus on those. If you don't you'll be all over the place

One of the best ways to succeed at internet marketing is to use a search engine’s ad service. Many search engines offer a service where you can have your company or product’s website listed first when someone is searching for a certain criteria. This means that the people who are coming to your site are already searching for a similar company or product.

You will be driving an enormous amount of traffic to your site, all of whom are already interested in what you’re offering.

One way to optimize your site for a specific keyword is to use a <b> </b> tag around your keyword, which will bold the word, the first few times it appears. This both draws the reader’s eye to the word and tells the search engine spiders that your site thinks that word is important. However, don’t abuse this or your site will end up looking like spam.

Small businesses looking to expand their base through internet marketing can get a fast leg up by analyzing the marketing approaches used by the competition. Check out company websites and marketing materials for similar businesses in your locale. Figure out what really works to grab your attention and devise ways to distinguish your own marketing efforts from the masses. Knowing the weak spots in your competition can help you step right up to fill in the gaps!

You should set aside time to thoroughly test every aspect of your website weekly. Broken images, links to 404 pages and errors in ordering forms will only frustrate your customers and hurt your image. Customers may be inclined to leave an order in progress if a website is annoying to use.

Your bonuses should be useful to the entirety of your customer base, so consider buying things unrelated to your product for bonus prizes. For example, gift cards to popular chain restaurants are an excellent way to reward loyal customers.

If your business is engaged in advertising both on- and off-line, make sure your marketing strategies in the two spheres complement each other. An internet marketing plan should work with and enhance your other efforts in print or other media. Make sure your website points visitors towards your adverts in other media – and make sure your TV, radio and print ads mention your website.

One of the things that you can do in order to build trust with your customers when it comes to internet marketing is by offering them free telephone consultation before they choose to order your product. It will also get them to know you personally which could lead to more sales in the long run.

It’s important to test any new service or feature before you launch it. You can always add different services and features to your business, but it’s very hard to take them away without your customers thinking there’s something wrong. Test everything before you decide to add it to your Roberto Luongo Jersey business or campaign.

As stated earlier, internet marketing allows your company to greatly increase its visibility. When conventional advertising just won’t give product the exposure it needs, internet marketing saves the day.

Using these simple tips to help you on your way, you can design the perfect strategy to reach your target demographic easily.

I recommend getting started as an affiliate marketer in a niche.

During this time you will learn invaluable skill sets like copy, conversion, *list bulding, tracking and most importantly driving traffic.

Once you have multiple income streams coming in you can scale up everything and also create your own products!

You should start with 1 main blog and monetize that one. Make it your main site and make money from it with Adsense and affiliate products. Become a master of 1, instead of a master of none.

Sounds like you already have a great skill that many here don't have which is a big "head start."

Like retsced said, as will I, LEARN ALL YOU CAN about actual MARKETING. You can have an "average" product and superior marketing skills and sell that average product like there's no tomorrow. You can have a superior product and limited marketing skills and not sell much at all.

Take your passion or things you have interest in and create your own product. Set your site up, find the traffic, use PPC if you have to, to get started. I did when I first started and for me it was a good thing. And test, test, test.....

"Nothing works all the time but everything works some of the time"

Do you have a list?

In my opinion, a targeted list is one of the major asset in your online business.

Create a free report/video/audio to give away on your blog & start building your list :-)

Thanks for the thread, and great responses in the thread. Up until this point I have just been working with Adsense and Amazon sites. Some of you may have read my thread a few days ago about the issues ive been having. The whole concept of list building seems very interesting. While I appreciate and have read all of retsced comments, since I know nothing about list building and squeeze sites, most of it felt like I was trying to read a foreign language or something.

Is there a good thread, breaking down how you go about this concept? For example, are you targeting a clickbank product, and then trying to sell it threw your site, and then giving more offers threw your email list, or are you trying to sell a totally different product.

When you say squeeze pages, I have no clue what they are. Ive heard people talk about content lockers before, is this basicly the same thing?

start up a blog, and create a list of prospects.

IF I have one regret, it was not creating a list of prospects sooner.

You can help them, and also offer them affiliate products at the same times....in a way you are EARNING while you are LEARNING!!! and you get better at it, each and every month!!

You must start thinking about building a list from day 1 for long term sustainable income.

10+ for the post.... Awesome share for beginners !! Cheers man

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Many have already said it in here but it's worth repeating again...

Build a list! Build a list! BUILD A LIST!

Seriously,

You'll thank us later.

I wish someone would have smacked some sense into me
when I first started on-line marketing lol.

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