Another "new guy" question...

This isn't sage advice, rather something that has been going on for decades: Offer something of value to a group of people in exchange for money, develop free materials that can show them you have more than enough expertise to know what you're saying, establish your reputation as someone who knows what you're saying in the places where they hang out, promote your offers in those places, entice your buyers to sign up to your mailing list, continue providing valuable content, develop or choose new things to offer and promote those to your mailing list, and continue doing what works for you...

I'm actually glad this thread is created. Sometimes veterans don't realize how many beginners actually want to succeed. I myself appreciate the response of veterans that have demonstrated IM success.

As stated, read, research, read, research. I used these forums just to learn for a good few months before I even posted or bought a WSO.

Yep the sticky threads are awesome. Warrior forums are especially good. But also try DP forums and sitepoint forums.

Yes, avoid getting overwhelmed

Work out what you want to do and then plan to do that.

I'm not sure if this lives up to the level of 'sage advice', but here goes...

The first thing to recognize is that Internet Marketing is not a business in and of itself, so you'll make yourself crazy trying to "learn the business." At best, IM is a collection of different businesses that all use some of the same tools and techniques to accomplish widely varying goals. Better to approach things as investigating which variant strikes a chord with you.

• A blogger looking to make money from Adsense clicks
• An article marketer looking to build a mailing list and earn commissions from recommending products
• A product developer looking to sell, both directly and via affiliates
• A freelancer making looking to make money by providing services

All of these might call themselves "Internet Marketers", but the underlying business models are different.

The one thing they all have in common is that they trade value for value. Find out how you want to do that, and can offer enough value to get back enough to meet your goals, and you'll be golden.

seriously listen to what John McCabe says. Search his comments as well as Alexa Smith. You will learn masses

Wow, thanks for the quick and insightful replys so far ladies and gents! I will keep looking around the site as much as possible to gather more knowledge.

I would say..

Keep an open mind. Be able to ask questions (no matter how simple they might seem). And, of course, enjoy yourself -- it really can be fun stuff.

The best advice: do a MARKETING course.

Internet marketing is marketing, first and foremost. If you understand the basics of marketing, you'll succeed.

The WF is a wonderful place, but it's an open secret that a high percentage of the folk here never make a cent online.

That's a real shame. I'm convinced it's because the people who fail think there's a magic bullet; some system or loophole or trick which will help them to make millions.

People do make millions. But they understand the basics of marketing. Everything builds on that. It's the foundation.

I've no idea where you live, but many countries have some kind of open university system, or night classes.

Do a marketing course. You'll never regret it.

Failing that, grab a marketing 101 text book, which contains exercises. Once you understand the theory, you can get practical experience online.

Big tip: marketing starts with a market. There are unlimited markets.

To succeed in IM, you need to choose a market which responds to YOU.

Once you understand the basics of marketing, you can research markets which appeal to you, to see whether they respond to you. Many markets won't, even if others are hugely successful in that space. Once you find YOUR best markets, success is inevitable.

Enjoy the journey. It's huge fun. I wish you much success. :-)

Cheers

Angela

Hi Shaper,

I know the feeling. I would suggest you start out by understanding the basics first. There are so many forums here that you can look for info on as well forums like digital point & site point.

I wouldn't buy a paid WSO just yet. But I would take a look at free WSOs in my area of interest within IM that I want to increase my knowledge on.

Basics -
1) You need hosting for a website. I use hostgator & I'm happy with them. Ask others.
2) You need an autoreponder. I use aweber & I'm happy. Ask others as well.
3) You need to create a "network" for all your social media because google likes that
ie link your FB, twitter, youtube & website.
4) Use google adwords keyword tool to do research for keywords to include in the titles of your articles. Use the keywords only 3-7% in the article to avoid google-slap

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

-Jay

Try Alex Jeffreys's coaching program. He bases his whole program on teaching to a beginner.

Hi Brendan Carl,
My name is Ken Gorenc, I might be able to help you out. I have been online since 2007.
I own sweetsunrisemedia.com I can help guide you if you want.
I have thousands of training material videos and eBooks, software geared toward IM. Take a look around my site and I can give you a few items at no charge. I also have other items I haven't built the pages too yet. I can make you a list of the titles.
Let me know
Have a good day
Ken Gorenc

IMO you will be lost because you will be tempted to try out a lot of the products etc... pick a niche... start with that... and become an expert on it. Internet Marketing may sound like a simple thing where you see a lot of people making money... these people were where you are today. I myself am not an internet marketer, but have a WSO... so I brought on a JV (Joint venture) partner and he launched it for me... point is this... if you have a product that will contribute something original find people to work with that have been here for a while... if you just want to promote products, WF is the best place to learn, but I would also check out:

CLICKBANK.COM
JVZOO.COM

There are others I'm sure, but start off with those and most importantly have fun and don't let all the opportunities you find throw you into a spiral of confusion like it did with me when I first started, lol.

I found a site by a guy names Chris Farrell. He has a lot free info on his site that has been helpful so far. However, I am not sure if it would be worth the monthly fee to access the other info...anyone subscribe to this guy or know if his material is worth it?

do not recommend you to use a "coach" most doesnt even know what they do

1. Get a niche that you have interest in.
Find out if others are interested in that
niche by going to big-boards (dot) com
and seeing if there are any forums devoted
to that niche.

2. Then, go to Google's Keyword
External tool and see if your niche's keywords
are searched by over 1,500

3. Get a Wordpress self-hosted blog using your
niche's main keyword as a domain (either .com,
.net or .org.-if they're taken, add suffix, like "blog",
"news", "times", etc..). Use Hostgator. They work best.
* Articles: study how to write them using these forums;
* Videos: create easy ones using Animoto. Great for newbies.
* Podcasts: Blogtalkradio and and other similar sites.

4. Post to your blog 1-3 times a week. Write articles,
create videos & podcasts using your niche's main
keywords-phrases of 3 words or more searched
1,500/month are best (these are called "long-tailed
keywords"). use your keywords in your titles. Make
your titles attractive, sticky and get readers curious:
"5 Ways How to...", "How to...(keyword phrase)", etc.

Cjeck out Digg and Stumbleupon for the most popular types
of titles. Use them for templates.

5. Get an autoresponder service, like Aweber or Getresponse.

6. Study how to market. Study how to market. Do this as you
go. Ask questions. Apply answers. Step-by-step. IM forums like
this one, DP forum and sitepoint forums are great.

7. Get an "exit pop", which captures visitors when they visit your
site to your autoresponder.

8. Market to your autoresponder list products that you can sell to
them as an affiliate through Clickbank-products that solve problems
they may have in the niche. Later, learn to build your own products
and sell them, eventually recruiting affiliates to do the dirty work for
you.

9. For each step, learn exactly how to get each step done before
undertaking it. Study the basics of such skills as copywriting. Copywriting
is salesmanship in print. Look up Gary Halbert, Ben Settle, etc.You need to
at least understand what motivated prospects to optin onto your lists and
what gets them to buy from you. This is key in marketing.

Build a swipe file that show the best of everything listed ere. From articles,
videos, etc. to autoresponder messages and salesletters, you should bookmark
and copy to a folder anything that is successful and seek to mimic the spirit
of these successes in your business.

10. Always study how to best get traffic to your website. Free or paid,
Google or Facebook, social media or forums. Find out the best ways to get
your messages to the masses to get them to visit your blog. It's all about being
"sticky".

HTH,
Vince aka makingiants

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna stop talking; I need a nap!

My best advice would be to find several reliable sources of free quality training and instruction.

The Warrior Forum is a great place to start. You can find a wealth of free training here. Look in the internet marketing forums. Youtube is another good source of free training.

Start small, building your business, and reinvest in your business when you began to make some money online to grow your business.

Forgive the blatant self plug but this is exactly the type of site I'm developing right now - the link is in the sig. I'm concentrating on articles to help not just complete newbies but also publishers who've been at this for a while and need help fine-tuning their sites for SEO and revenue.

My advice (and this comes from someone that was in your shoes like most of us here) join the war room and start looking through there. This is an investment that will pay dividends over and over and over again.

Benjamin

Make a list of marketing strategies to do everyday, then do them.

I am a newbie too, and I actually started my internet business a few days ago. However, I am already receiving subscriptions and sales. I went for tons of workshop and I can finally categorize non- SEO traffic to these five types.

1. Article marketing : By writing articles related to your keywords, it adds your ranking and creates many backlinks and clicks to your web, besides branding you. Just submit articles to Ezine articles( use it a lot), and start building traffic. Oh yeah, you can also get others to write for you if you are not one for writing. Something like freelancers.com should work for you well ! Post as many articles as you can as fast as you can to get better results.

2. Video marketing : Make and post videos on youtube with your link! Make it funny or interesting and soon viewers will be flocking your site. As long as the content you give them is good, youtubers generally will see it. You can also make videos of you reading out the articles you have written and posted, it might be boring but at least it has good info!

3. Blogging : Frankly, I am still trying it out and it is not really working for me, but other bloggers say that it is working for them. Just post a blog every day or two and try to put in good content in it. It seems you can also write it in a diary sorta style, as long as it is interesting! Use wordpress.

4. Solo Ads : Paid traffic that does not guarantee subscribers. It is a great way to start out when your list is low, but start out slow. Test the waters first. See how many clicks or subscribers you are getting with them and reevaluate the worth of the solo ads. Generally, if you can get a certain amount of subscriptions or sales then, it is worth investing on. Really the trial and error system for internet marketing.

5. Classified Ads : UsFreeAds is the classified ads strategy I am using right now. There are actually more targeted people to your niche by marketing it with classified ads. And besides it ranks fine on Alexa, the traffic ranking is 1k++ which is considered not bad. You might wanna try it out too !

Hope I helped, good luck !

I have heard of IM as well, and was looking into it to make money, however is it something that takes allof of time, do you have to invest allot of money into it to get it going? i just dont have much to get started however but I am exploring the opportunity.