Newbie entering world of Internet Marketing

That's right. You can learn a lot here and from the people who participate. There are a lot of people who share really useful information here.

Welcome to WF!

You'll learn a lot here for sure. My biggest advice to you is to "stay away from the shining objects" in the WSO section. Don't waste your money on junk WSO - take your time to learn who the reputable merchants are.

Best of luck!

Thanks for the fast replies guys, good to see this forum is active.

I really want to take action, but don't have a clue where to start...

You are in the right forum, its a place where people are very active and are ready to help you out by giving you answers.

My advice for you is to be FOCUS. There are lots of programs and businesses online but you will need to FOCUS on one at a time. is it affiliate, blogging, service providing, list building etc. just pict one of them, browse this WF and get all the details needed for it and the next part is start ACTING ON THEM. Welcome On board. As your sound, Just Keep Refreshing yourself here.

The key is to focus on one thing and make sure you master that before moving on. Too many people spread themselves too thin or try spinning too many plates at one. Work on website, get traffic to it, make money from it before you move on to the next project. It can become overwhelming with all the acronyms and various ways to get traffic, make money, etc. A lot of ways require money such as ppc ads, media buys, solo ads. SEO is the cheapest way to get started.

Welcome to the forum.I guarantee you'll get a Refreshment here as your name says.At the some time yo will make some nice amount of cash.

You'll discover very quickly that there is a huge amount of information out there. Experts and Gurus showing you every imaginable way to make money online. Whether all of these are actually replicable is another question. There's no need to spend vast sums upfront - find some good quality material (hint - see image below this post) and get to grips with the basics before embarking on any exotic adventures - enjoy the journey!

Lots of people say take action and i personally do not subscribe to this train of thought.

The first thing you can do is read and get an idea what you are getting into before steaming ahead. This is important because when I first started (and I'm still sort of a newbie) the promotional part of internet marketing was a horrifying experience and now that I have certain tools, my life in affiliate marketing is a lot less stressful and a lot more fun. Goodluck

You will need to attempt to find newbie - "step by step" threads. They exist around here, and are extremely helpful.

Welcome! My advice is to pick one model and stay focus until you start to see results!

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I'm a newbie just like you. Good advice, just put away your money for now and read the posts from the beginning and then you can buy the resources you need.

You should read more blogs and all the articles you can find right here on WF.
Good luck by the way.

this is really an awesome place to learn
i recommend you start building a blog with wordpress so you can get your name out there

look for your NAME.com

great way to start


dan

Hi welcome to the forum

My advice is simple...

Read as much as you can, figure out what area/s you would like to work in then find an excellent coach in that field and get on his one to one coaching if you can.

I wish I had known this when I first started, an excellent coach makes all the difference, saves you time, lost effort and money.

Good luck to you,

Mark

Welcome to Warrior Forum! My advice to you is to to not get too overwhelmed with all the material you get from the forum. Stay focused on one thing then move on the to other. People sometimes try to do as much as they can at once and end up accomplishing nothing. Do things one by one and see what you actually are successful with. Always come up with real value in your work!

Blackman75 - I recommend John Thornhills affiliate marketing course. I haven't used it myself but he is my coach/mentor and his partnership 2 success course has changed my life.
Top notch, no BS coaching.

Check out warrior forum for other recommendations and testimonials for johns courses.

Thanks

Mark

Affiliate Promo Formula

Welcome Tom

You first have to know where you want to go,follow a proven system and follow it through until you start to make money...do not fall for the 'magic bullet' and jump ship every time something else comes along.
If I can be of any help leave me a message on my blog and I will get back to you.

Hope this helps

Kevin

The first step is to identify an audience that needs help in a niche where you can stand out. An Internet marketing coach can help you with this.

Just doing what everyone else is doing with affiliate programs will doom you to failure. You need to find what is "uniquely you."

Welcome!

This is a great forum. George Brown does have a great system. Essentially, anything that can go viral is a great place to start.

For instance, I just created a video, and drove some traffic to it. It was a funny video, but it went viral. I did a few things to make it search engine friendly (like adding an article with LSI Keywords and made it interesting to read). But it was the video that got people going. Right now, after 10 days, its at 1.2 million views. Fun stuff. So that's the direction I would go in. Viral is good!

Hi

I don't agree that you should read lots of stuff before getting started, you will learn more from any mistakes and you only need the budget for a domain and cheap hosting.

In the long term building a list is the way to go but building affiliate sites is a good way to get started.

There are some good tips in this thread below from another warrior and a free pdf guide.

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...uin-panda.html

Welcome to the warrior forum and I wish you all the best learning internet marketing

I Wish you Good luck,Welcome to the world of IM.

This is definitely the place to be if you want to learn internet marketing. You will probably wind up buying a few products on here (called a "WSO"... Warrior Special Offer), and being a newbie, I'm sure that you'll find the first few products that you come across as "new". But not all WSO's are truly worthy, so don't buy everything at once.

Since I'm a total newbie I have to start from scratch. I find Affiliate marketing very interesting but apparently there are more ways of IM to make good money. Weird question; So it is true that people make a lot of money with this kind of marketing?

So I have to learn how to make a site, and then implement Affiliate marketing on it. That's why a full guide is very appealing to me. I think that's the reason why IM beginners buy guides like the one from George Brown.

So tell me, is there a way I can learn everything from the bottum up, without having to pay for some fancy looking guide? I don't mind paying tho, just want to learn everything without having the focus on the big money they talk about.

There is so much information here that it's very hard to have a good overview. I will have to get used to the forums.

My word of advice is to invest your time and money wisely and make sure you don't regret failing. Instead learn from it. Failure is path to success. I would also recommend you to get a mentor whose expert in affiliate marketing.

I would love to have a mentor, how to find one?

Working on learning how to build a website now...

I have collected some wonderful threads for newbies, and you can check them, and I am sure they will help you a lot.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ng-fed-bs.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...w-5-steps.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-help-you.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...first-1-a.html

Just what I needed

Sounds good, but the weird thing is that I have to sign up for webinars or something at specific times?

create an authority site, focus on branding and valuable content. Put on page/off page SEO on your second tier of importance.

IF YOU BUILD IT RIGHT THEY WILL COME!

Here is thread I made about zombie profits that kinda spells out what I mean: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...king-dead.html

Reading all the links you guys post:

Soo any more of those usefull links?

For the people who PM'd me, thanks for the help! Can't reply so that's why I post it here.

I was just going to write a reply on The Challenge.

It is awesome, checked some of the lessons and I love it. Will be checking it from beginning to end as soon as possible. They explain everything very well, even I can understand it.

Have to get used to the fact that there is some paying involved in these lessons.

So my question: I guess paying for hosting and domains is required for these lessons, even when just starting? (which brings me to a silly question; are all these payments easy to stop when wanted (for example: hosting for a month, stays hosting for a month? and buying a domain which you have to pay for yearly, can be stopped after a year?))

Ah oke, that sounds fair

So guys, the last couple of days the WSO forum is starting to become really appealing to me. Is there any (very) newbie guide that you guys could recommend to start using and get some experience with making money on the internet? I saw a guide about selling domains on flippa for example.

Just to get some experience with making money online while reading and learning stuff about AM.

*Full guide explaining everything from scratch

I guarantee you my first site was ugliest! LOL

As a writer by trade I am very interested in anything to do with Kindle (and Nook, but that doesn't seem to be nearly as popular). I don't mean to hijack your thread or anything but do any of you seasoned Warriors have some good info on Kindle related stuff and marketing?

Thanks,
Pserah

WOW, you really have hit a nerve with this post...
Ok here's my two penny's worth of advice. Ignore 99% of the advice you will be given!

Granted you ARE on the best forum for Internet Marketing, but still so many people on here are peddling the same stuff just reworded and repackaged.

The first thing I feel you should do is affiliate marketing, I know lots will argue against that (and of course many for it too, but here's why...
Affiliate marketing is by far the easiest way to start the ball rolling, much better than selling your own products off the block.

Try and find a product that you know something about, then find a supplier of that product and find the affiliate program that works with that supplier. Once you have done that, you can spend time NOT money marketing the product.

You will get stuck, you will wonder off for the greener grass for other products, but when you come back to the first product stick with it.

Finally don't affiliate with anything unless you get serious money per sale. a MINIMUM, I will say that again a MINIMUM of $50 per sale. If you do anything for less, you will find yourself fighting an uphill battle.

Finally whatever you do choose to do ONLY do it for 1/2 months, then step back and you will understand much more and be able to focus on important things such as recurring income, and list building. but for now, I would recommend the steps above, it really will open your eyes and cost you much less than jumping in at the deep end.

I am online most days and I am more than happy to help you. Not as a Mentor, not as a Coach, just as someone who has been there and fell down every hole along the way.

Best regards
Arran Wood

You can learn so much valuable things on this forum. Read some threads, test things out and see what works for you.

Good stuff being optimistic guys, but the reality is that you could potentially put in 2 years worth of work for no recompense. Often these projects take a while to gather momentum, particularly traffic building.

Try not to be too bedazzled by success stoies, learn the relevant crafts and keep on trucking. As long as you can accept you may not get immediate results, you'll be all good

Welcome to the world of accountability my friend!
Let me encourage you and warn you as I wish I would have been!

You're in a world that will sell you fast, easy, and free! When it's the exact opposite
for the most part.

Come in, do your due diligence. Work your butt off. Brand yourself and be better than
you were they day before.

Find the reason why you want to do this. Is is for the money? Is it for the fame? Is it for
your family? Find that reason that will keep you waking up every morning completely
excited to work, work, and work some more.

Hit the ground running. Read, apply, then tweak. Get results, then give back to the
community!

You can do it, kid!
Much love and success your way!
Gil

I think I may have said this before, but if your serious get a mentor/coach.

Will save you money, time and kick you in the butt when you need it, in my opinion there simply is no better way to get ahead of the heard.

Mark

You're in great hands here. This forum has nearly everything but you've to explore in detail to get to the nuggets.

Blackman75 - I recommend my mentor/coach John Thornhill.

Do some research on him here on WF and ask people about him, you will get only 100% positive feedback of that i am certain.

Changed my business and the way oi look at my online business.

Mark

+1 on Rockong`s advice

Welcome to amazing forum at the world.. Don't forget to read rule first..

Thanks for the fast replies guys, good to see this forum is active.

I keep saying it but I love all the feedback you guys are giving, really helping me a lot!

Am I doing something wrong or can't I see your signature?

I am new too and I have checked out some products, I did pick a program to work with and I am focusing on that one system and working and learning and DOING. Best of luck to both of us!

What program did you pick to focus on? There is too much information for me to make a good choice on whose advice to follow.

Update: just tried putting my first affiliate link ad on my wordpress blog and it said wordpress doesn't allow affiliate links to be put on your blog. So how do you guys fix this?

haha, yep you're right. I tried to PM you back from my phone last night but I was denied! I checked the site out though. Have to say I had a small laugh (in a good way), only because I could relate 100% thinking back to my first site. The site really isn't that bad. I could at least tell what it was about and make sense of the content. Well now I feel a bit embarrassed since I can't PM you the link yet.

I agree, and I guess it probably depends on the product you are promoting and what methods you are using.

My counter argument was just me playing devil's advocate.. and based on gaining some easy victories for the beginner so they don't get discouraged too soon.

Much like Dave Ramsey's debt snowball approach to pay off smallest debts first in order to recognize progress rather than the debts with the highest interest rates (which would actually cost the least in the long run).

But I totally get your angle and I think it is a 100% valid way to approach affiliate sales.

Tom congratulation and welcome to the world of IM.
This is the beginning platform , but it's need only dedication and regularity .

My only one suggestion is that , please learn a lot before starting and involving it ,
gather experience and then utilize it.

Pick one thing at a time that you need to learn and focus on just that until you're starting to get it right, then move on to the next thing. The most sensible thing to start with is content, then move on to traffic building.

To add one very important thing: don't rely on old, obsolete SEO courses and articles. They will not teach you almost anything effective. SEO and internet marketing in general has changed tremendously even during the last year.

Make sure everything you learn is up-to-date and from the current year: 2012. Of if you go into 2013, then read materials from that year... 2011 already is a bit "out of fashion"...

Obsolete techniques can be very harmful.
Most newcomers do plenty of old techniques, because they are reading about them online. And they overdo them, believing that they should put more effort, energy into the techniques they are using. Google will simply penalize them and when they don't see the desired results, they do even more... It's like if they were "digging their own graves"...

This is the absolutely right place to start learning. Have a look around, find what you're interested in, and focus on it.

Hi Tom,

I think the best piece of advice I could give you is to go out and make your own mistakes. While there is an abundance of great tips and information out there; it is easy to become overwhelmed and lose focus on your own goals.

Do not rush out and waste money on software / tools, there is always a free alternative.

If you are going to make a success of this then it will require a hell of a lot of work and individuality. I can assure you it is very enjoyable and well worth the effort.

To quote a line from Ratatouille "not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere"

Good luck Tom and I hope you find what you are looking for!

It has been a long time that I have been so interested in anything like IM. I really hate reading but since I found this forum I am reading stuff day and night. Looking for all the free information I can get and absorbing everything you guys are saying.

I am very dedicated and willing to put in work for IM, it makes learning fun again. And hopefully profitable too some day.

Any thoughts about newbies joining War Room? I'm thinking about it, seeing a lot of positive stuff about it. Is it good for a newbie to join War Room? Cause that will be my first money spent then..

Well Tom and other self-proclaimed newbies, I am sure this thread has given you some great inspiration and some good advice to boot. Really guys and galls the internet is packed full of money, in fact I would say it's harder to fail than succeed!

Having said that IF you don't focus on a single system or a single product niche then I can almost guarantee you will fall flat on your faces.

I hope you take on board the advice that so many have said about keeping focused because distractions are everywhere and not surprisingly so are the failed internet marketers who never stayed focused and lost their time and money dabbling in IM.

Best regards all
Arran Wood

Keep learning and action, but you must find your own formula.

I said this before and I'll say it again and again when this issue comes up. Focus on a niche that you care about and in which you are knowledgeable. Provide quality content through a blog and provide quality products that people want to buy. WF can help you a lot with how best to market and get targeted traffic.

Best, Chris

remember to create a business plan before jumping into the exciting world internet marketing!

Quadxnet, I love your "spinning plates" metaphor in describing what not to do as a beginner. You are so right about that. I'm a retired teacher and have been exploring IM possibilities for longer than I intended. I know what it's like to have too many plates going at the same time.

Me again, sorry if I seem to be dominating this thread, but I have received so many messages asking me to help clarify certain IM terms and provide help, of course I am happy to do so for anyone breaking into the field of IM, but rather than repeat myself in every second message, I will put some info here too.
Most of the questions focus on two areas:


1. 1. The niche
2. 2. The products to promote


The answers below are the way I see things, they may not be exactly (or remotely) what others see and the answers but that’s the differences in opinions and the terminology should be irrelevant as long as the solution is suitable.

Within the messages people are mentioning micro-niche, mini-niche and so many other types of niches that they have seen someone mention on other posts. Here’s the way I see things.

Let’s take “Leisure” as a topic for the sakes of example only, some may call this a niche or some other term but to me it’s a TOPIC.

Within Leisure you have hundreds of smaller RELATED FIELDS that others may call mini niches. Let’s say for example Fishing, Tennis and swimming as related fields.

Now down another layer you have the subjects that are often called micro niches that are encompassed within the related fields, again for example you could have fishing rods, fishing reels and fishing hooks all being within the Fishing RELATED FIELD and all again within the TOPIC of Leisure.

If you wanted to you can even go down yet another two layers, for example a BRAND NAME within that subject, such as Shakespeare fishing rods and Shakespeare fishing reels.

The final level that is common would be a specific MAKE or a brand, to me this is in MOST cases too excessive in depth (in the case of the example fishing) but for other brands it’s essential; the name Apple 32 gig IPod for example would be one that you WOULD target but some a model like Shakespeare XYZ fishing rod is something you would not.

Ok I think I have explained what I see as the various levels or niches as some may say, now where should you start????

The answer is virtually impossible to answer in general, because I have no idea what your personal knowledge is and what your current abilities are. If for example you have been working for a manufacturer of Fork lift trucks and you know all about 3 of their models, I would suggest that you jump straight on that and make some kind of comparison between the models and talk in the terms that fork lift buyers use such as maximum reach and how that would benefit them over and maximum lifting weight. In short if you are this person YOU know what buyers want to read and what makes them buy a truck better than me.

Of course in the case of fork lift trucks it would be easy to offer a commercial seller some kind of deal where you refer them customers in return for upwards of $50 commissions. Or you can see if they already have some kind of affiliate referral program in place.

Again taking a step back, if you have been working making fishing hooks, that sell for penny’s then you would NOT want to waste your time promoting them because you would have to make a ridiculous amount of sales just to make it worthwhile. So I say this again as I have many times “High Profit – Low sales” is better for you than “Low Profit- High Sales”.

Once you have found your product to promote, than and only then should you even think about ways to promote the product. There are so many different ways to promote different products, some need extravagant websites others a simple sales page. Some need no website at all. In my opinion again, you should look for the cheapest option here, as you may discover a little later you did not understand the product as well as you imagined you did not know the market. Once you do make a few sales then following the methods you learnt on Warrior then you can work out your next steps and budget for them.

I personally have over 300 websites, no two are the same and my approaches to the markets are also equally different on each site. One thing I will say is essential is don’t talk about YOU on the home page. I am sorry if this upsets you, only a handful of people actually care, the vast majority care about the product and what you can do for them, not who you are and why this and why that.

Anyway enough rattling on, 800 words for a single post is more than enough for even the most dedicated warrior to have to read.


Best regards all
Arran Wood

Big thumbs up for you Arran, I dont mind reading 800 words if they are full of useful information.

yeah as a newbie, you will want to become an affiliate first and then learn how to drive traffic to a landing page. See what traffic converts via tracking and then scale up. Use clickbank and register free there. Those are digital products and are much easier than jumping into the CPA game.

Yeah I am focussing on learning how to get my own website up the right way for affiliate marketing.

So I am focussing on affiliate marketing.

Welcome to the Warrior Forum. This is effectively the place where you could get some pointers about particular internet marketing techniques. The search feature could hep you search many marketing methods as well as products you want to know more about.

While you may or may not be familiar with some topics, making a search for them could help you gather free information.

The WSO section is a good place to learn about ways to earn money online. However, really try to be focus on a training from beginning to end. It can be easy to purchase more than one of those training without applying them and have a return on the investment made.

Welcome to WarriorForum!

You'll learn a lot here for sure.

Good luck!

Welcome to WF!

Great post ArranWood. Yeah a bit long, LOL, but good!

Welcome and enjoy! Ask any questions you have and learn as much as you can. There are very knowledgeable people on here.

I know you have heard it 1 thousands times in here, but ok, time to go again.

1) TAKE ACTION

2) BUILD LIST

3) OFFER VALUE

4) SELL STUFF TO THEM

Dunno what else you want us in here to keep telling you.

You keep hearing it and seeing it in here, yet these posts show up time and time and time again.

Time to take action aint it

I am trying to post a reply, no good.........This system is keeping me out.

There we go. Whatever you do, stay away from George Brown, he is a thief.

I Would Like To Suggest You To Start From Promoting Affiliate Programs And Products And While You Are Sharing Your Affiliate Link And Convincing People You Will Exactly Learn To Communicate With People In The Real Internet Marketing Manner.. Keep On Growing Your Network In Social Media Sites, In SEO Sources, Do List Building And Signup Some Of The Best Internet Marketing Platforms Just Like WF..

Do All The Basic Things You Can First.. Build Strong Foundations And Then Go For Something Of Your Own.. This Is The Overall Thing I Can Say.. Never Stop Researching And Take Action On Valuable Things That Can Really Produce You Results..

Yeah that's the spirit. I want to implement the stuff I have learned and learn from that. Keep learning, but practice what I have learned too.

So yeah, now I am working on getting my own site up. So hosting and domain..
Found some people telling about Hostgator being the best hosting? Also saw something about Hostdeal?

Choices, choices choices

Hi, welcome to the forum, I am also a newbie and would appreciate if someone could point me to a place where I can begin my reading on the topic of affiliate marketing. I already have a clickbank account but how do I go about making my first $ dollar?

thanks

Just a little something I wrote up and thought I'd share with you guys. I usually turn this kind of stuff into ebooks but I decided to be nice and crack it out with a few paragraphs.

Clickbank products aren't the easiest things in the world to convert so I'm going to help you guys out by letting you know how I promote those products. You will see your hops increase dramatically and hopefully you'll get some conversions out of it.

The first thing you need to do is sign into Clickbank and go to the marketplace to find products that you want to promote. Facebook is becoming more and more popular by the minute so I would start with those. If they don't convert well for you, try my tactics on other products that you think will sell better.

People who use Facebook usually play the games or use an app that requires you to play certain games in order to "unlock" something in the app. So start by browsing the Clickbank marketplace for Facebook game products. If all else fails, just search for the two most popular games on Facebook - Mafia Wars and Farmville. For me, Mafia Wars converts better. The product that converts the best for me would be Mafia Wars Annihilation. Go to the marketplace and search for it. Now that you have your product chosen, get the promotion link/your affiliate link. Copy and paste it into Notepad for easy access.

For the next part, you are going to need a Twitter account that has at least 50 followers. You yourself are not going to be using Twitter to promote the product(s) so 50 followers is sufficient. If you don't have a Twitter account with at least 50 followers just go to NamePros.com and under NP$ Incentives start a thread asking for followers. It's a quick, easy and free way to get some followers. Once you have your Twitter account ready, go to retweet.it. This site allows you to get free retweets, all you have to do is tweet the messages on the homepage to get credits. They also give you the option to buy credits but it really isn't necessary. That's a lot of retweets for just one of two products and you don't want to put all of your eggs into one basket. If you're promoting a bunch of products it would be a good option. So once you get at least 20 credits or so, go to Notepad, where you copied your Clickbank affiliate link, and copy and paste it into retweet.it under Submit A Message. After that, retweet.it does the rest and you'll get a bunch of retweets for free. That's one way I get my conversions.

Another method of mine is Facebook. I have a fan page with 20k fans and it grows everyday, this is the first place that I start. I take my Clickbank affiliate link and update the fan page with a new status containing my link. Another way I use Facebook to promote Clickbank products, especially the Mafia Wars products, is I go to Groups and search for Mafia Wars groups. I look for all the popular groups, groups with at least 20k members. I post my Clickbank affiliate link to the walls. Make sure you don't overdo it though. Do around 5 every few hours. Facebook is getting pretty strict these days and if they see that you're constantly abusing the wall feature they will block you for hours, sometimes days, from posting on any walls.

That's basically it. I'll be honest and say I'm not one of those people making hundreds a day and thousands a month but I still make money from just using the above methods. I hope it works for you guys as well. GOOD LUCK!

I'm on the same boat as you are, Refreshment. Good thread.

Never be afraid to ask questions! Everyone here is extremely helpful in answering anything you may be confused on

This forum is definitely a great place to be. You can share your learnings and learn from other people's success and failures.

You are definately in the best place to learn!!

If you need some quick cold hard cash to keep your head above water while you're learning the ropes as it were, check out my sig.

All the best

If you want to learn, you came to the right place. This forum is jam packed with useful information and really good people willing to help.

I am really liking to work on IM. Very very happy that I found this forum.

Wow, good luck man,

Don't listen to empty promises..

Start with small budget..

Try to replicate things that are absultly working.. and require mimal moeny investment..

Good luck..

Create multiple sites and build separate types of strategies for each.

Either one, two or more... or all of them will rank well enough to bring you profit!

Otherwise keep in mind that there's not just the search engines that can bring you traffic.