information overload

You could pick a big enough niche that your site could become an authority site, but if you are going for micro-niche kind of sites, you are going to wait a long time before you get enough feedback to change anything.

Only because there is usually not so much traffic going to niche sites as to bigger sites.

It is so easy to be overwhelmed with all the various methods and advice, and then sorting what is real from the fake is a whole other topic for another day. I will say this.. if you are playing with mini sites because working on a big project scares you.. you are not alone.. but sometimes it takes going out of your comfort zone and just doing it to see the real results.

If you want my advice, it has always been when I took the leap that I got the reward.
Take the leap you know has the higher reward.. if you fall get back up and try again, you can make it

You will be a perfect person to join the team

http://www.warriorforum.com/local-me...irections.html

It is well worth it

When i first started, niche sites was what i got into too

To keep things simple your best to just work on 1 site and brand the hell out of it

These days, social media exposure and links and interaction play a much more important part

Not only that but you can generate some excellent traffic doing it too

Focus on one site, keep adding great content and you can even start to build a list. If you go down this route then make sure the niche is profitable and it`s a niche that you have good interest in otherwise you will get bored far sooner than you think

Paul

Information overload? Look, it's very simple: as of this writing, there are 170,538 threads and 1,928,832 posts in the Main Forum. Read all of them and then take action.

Focus...

Pick one teacher and follow him.

In school you don't have 10 teachers to teach you maths. You get one teacher and learn from start to finish.

When I first went to college in the late 70's I felt information overload. In 4 years I graduated slightly drunk and much smarter then when I started. Same thing with Internet marketing overload. View your new Internet career as a college education. Don't worry about learning everything at once and you will be amazed where you are 4 years from now.

Information overload is really something every aspiring and beginning (and even experienced) IMer need to take very seriously, like a disease that is actually contagious.

Get into contact with others who suffer from this, and are unaware of it, and you might find yourself being overloaded with their tips, advice, techniques, and of course, products, products and products...

You will lose money, time, energie, motivation, and you give up in the end...

Sad scenario but true for many, so yeah, it's a very real thing, that I would have taken strong immunisation for if I could when I started with IM. Alas, that medicine has not been discovered yet, but awareness of who you are and what you are really doing in the IM adventure is important to combat this stuff.

So like Donald already said earlier, one thing, one method, one product (ideally one that has a proven business model behind it) etc...stick to it, then move on and keep learning while you have success already with one thing.

One of the ways to counter information overload is to first analyse HOW you take in information so as to not detract from your goal.

1) Are there any underlying assumptions that I haven't been told about this information?
2) Is there sufficient evidence for the claim?
3) Does the claim being made follow logically? Are there any fallacies? (Studying logic helps with this)
4) What possible motives could they have for telling me this?
5) Does this help with my goal, does it get me closer or further away from my goal (you are only getting closer or further away from your goal, there is no middle ground)?

Also, wishful thinking needs to be stopped. Check if there is anything you are overlooking that you normally would not and be honest with yourself when you realize that you want to believe something rather than being logical about it.

(Above is from one of my earlier posts)

Also, do well in one niche first, evaluate it for its potential and stick to it. Don't branch out already.

When I first started in IM I didn't know about the WF (was it around in 98?) The first person I talked to taught me how to market through email. I didn't know how to do anything but drive traffic to a squeeze page.

I made money on week one and consistently made more money each week. I arrived on the WF in 09 I believe .. full of myself .. thinking that because I was making $400 a day I would be king of this place in no time.

Things were a little different here then and it didn't take long for some of the old timers to put me in my place. I soon realized $400 a day wasn't enough for a lot of them on here to even get up in the morning for.

I decided I would learn all of these amazing new things I was being exposed to. You know what? In just 6 short months I had implemented all the new tactics I had learned and was losing my butt on a daily basis. All of a sudden I was too freakin smart to make money any more.

It was Don (zerofill) that pointed me in the right direction again. I went back to my old simple ways and have no inkling to ever be that smart again....

Even though you probably don't know you did it Don .. thanks a million.

Throw yourself to the wolves and get started. Don't let procrastination get the best of you.

Sell the sites you have. Rinse and repeat for quick dollars here and there. Meanwhile, think about a more long term strategy involving a biz model you like and a niche you have expertise in.

Take notes from good stuff you find here and be real with yourself about what you know, what you can do, and what resources you have at your disposal. A lot of ideas might sound great, but you might be unable to follow that path because of your own unique situation and circumstances...there's no "one size fits all".

Authority site or muli-niche sites, doesn't really matter. If all you do is blog, then your blog content is your product, your offer, and it better be good if you want to make any money from it. Whatever you do, THAT is your offer, so make it great.

Here we go again,

Over coming the " Chaos Brain"

This is from a March, but at about the two minute mark I am talking about Zerofills post on his SMPro blog..

But yea , I have focused on just two methods right now. I have really started to change my focus... You don't need to watch the whole video but at the end I say

"if you can't write it down on a legal pad then you are over thinking things"

Oh , and I still have "Chaos Brain" Just not nearly as bad and I control it now, it don't own me anymore.

There is no right or wrong answer, as you can see there are warriors that does the above and still make money...

I would suggest that you list out your skills and the time that you are able to spent on working it out...you can always starts small and grow it big...

You should start taking actions and learn the mistakes made along the way..

It is easier to jump off to every shiny object when you are starting out. Just find something that works, stick to it and perfect it. Don't lose your focus. I know its easier said than done but you need to concentrate on 1 method before you see a nice of amount of money pouring into your account.

Start off small.

For me i have serious ADD when it comes to marketing. I have to take it step by step. plus i think should you go with a small site should you happen to lose money on it you wont lose a lot. Thats kind of the theorem for IM. Find what works, then scale, then automate.

There has to be relevancy in information. As too much information coming across to you from too many directions with too many people telling you too many different and contradictory things is not going to do you any good whatsoever. That is overloaded of information.

You say this is though there is or should be a delineation between "authority" sites and "niche" sites.

If by "niche" sites you mean thin sites, no, don't bother because that's what every other newbie does online. Just learn by doing. No system, here or otherwise, is going to lay out exactly how you're going to move toward success.

Haha I understand how you feel with an overload. The KEY to being successful in business is to take baby steps for sure. Start small, and work your way up. Instead of wasting your time trying SO HARD to make something happen, most people get nothing done.

Its like "I have so much to do today, I'm stressed so... I'm gonna take a nap instead."

You got to take baby steps, one at a time.

Find something that works.
Apply it to your website.
SCALE IT.

This is the key to making money online!

Start in a niche that is HUGE!! HUGE!! I am so over small niches... I did that for a while, but thats a mistake.

You want a niche thats HUGE so you can BUY traffic, and theres plenty of traffic to buy.

That way, even if you don't start with paying for ads, you could get your conversion rate up etc... And lets say you get it so you can spend $100 and make $210... Well, once you are at thatpoint, you can just send MASSIVE traffic to your site by paying for ads, and you WILL make money! Keep scaling and you could make $1,000,000 for sure! Thats the power of scaling in a LARGE niche!

I'll start with your question about whether you should do a micro site or an authority site.

I feel like this is a pretty common question but is really simple to answer, all sites start off as micro sites and over time they expand into authority sites if you make them. So what I would do if I were you is this:

With micro sites everyone says register an EMD (Exact Match Domain). Don't bother, while EMDs do help with ranking a bit, google is slowly taking the value out of them and what you lose by registering and EMD is of far more value then the boost you get for having an EMD.

So your next question would probably be what do I lose by having an EMD?
The fact is when you register an EMD you are officially declaring the max potential of that domain. What I mean by that is when you get the domain RedKitchenCeilingFans.com it doesn't feel right to post content about white living room ceiling fans because that doesn't fit your domain, whereas if you register TheFanMan.com the potential of your site is as far as you want to take it(as long as it has to do with fans). You can now find low competition keywords on any kind of fan and write an article on it. Not only that but you are now open to looking at who is advertising their fans on google adwords and seeing if they have an affiliate program, granted you could probably just promote fans from amazon but being that I live in one of the states where affiliates are banned I see that home depot is advertising their fans and I do believe they have an affiliate program.

Essential mindset to have:
Google Ranks Pages Not Sites
Sure ranking you're main page in google is good but you can pretty much just as easily rank your subpages in google, when you do that whole EMD micro site stuff, each keyword you want to target is costing you 8-10$ give or take just for the domain, but when you shift your mindset towards ranking your subpages, each page you want to rank is essentially free as long as you make your own content, so once that page is making any money you are officially in the profit margin.

To sum it up the main idea is leave room for growth in your domain.

Okay now the last and most important part. Ditch what doesn't work and expand on what does.
Remember the last step where I talked about getting domains that have room for growth here's why. Even if you are awesome at keyword research you still can't always pick out what niches will be profitable and which ones will flop, so how you deal with this is you target super low competition keywords to get started and see how the traffic converts for you, some sites will do horribly for no apparent reason then you'll get lucky and one will convert good or even great, the ones that suck will suffer a life of being a permanent micro niche site and the ones that do well will have the opportunity to blossom into an extremely profitable authority site with you adding content on a regular basis.