Best Advice for Newbies?

Myself being a noobie the best advice I can give is just do it.

Trawling a forum for 2 weeks with 0 action seems like a massive waste of time IMO. from 3 days of research I figured out my niche and the content I needed the next day I got hosting and my website up and now im making the final tweeks.

Being active and talking to people on the forum is one of the best things I have done. Instead of just looking at posts I try to be as active as possible, Iv had nearly 80 pms in the last 2 days from people helping me out. Thats flipping awesome!

So yea, my advice is do a little research and then take action. People love it when noobies take action and it seems they want to help you more

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Best advice to newbies?

1. Don't believe the hype
2. Don't expect it to be 'given to you'
3. If you aren't willing to put in the time, get a 'real' job
4. Success doesn't happen overnight (OK, well it does....but if your a beginner dont think like this, it won't help you out)
5. If you need $xxx by x e.g. $1,000 in 7 days see number 3.
6. I need money now, I'm about to lose everything, I have $xx to my name will this really help me?, again see number 3.

Optional - Have some start up capital. Not required, but it helps you out tons.

Ah yea and the most important.

Stay away from shiny objects

I nearly got sucked into a couple but I know they are a waste of time/money

I have heard learned a lot from many strategic internet marketers and it can be summed down to this:

1. Always have a plan before starting anything.
Many newbies who attempt to make money online have let their emotions get the best of them. Everyone wants to make a lot of money in a very short amount of time and they often just jump right into things without having a strategy. The newbies should know what their primary and secondary goals are and they should develop a plan to achieve those goals.

2. Originality is the key
Regardless of what your selling, promoting, or describing to an audience you always want your content to have clear distinctions from everyone else.

3. Don't give up!!
Almost every internet marketer will tell you that there is no magic formula to making money online. The possibilities are endless, so it's important to realize that you will face many bumps along the road but it's important drive over them. If you stick with it and do the right things the possibility of succeeding will only increase.

Be willing to learn. One of the things I do is sign up for various newsletters in IM and other business e-zines. I even read business magazines.

occassionally, I get an "Ah Ha" moment that makes it worth the time.

My best advice for beginning Internet marketers is this...

Keep It Simple.

To make money online, there are almost always just 3 main steps:

1) Find a product (or service) to sell

2) Build a sales/landing page

3) Drive traffic

Yes, there are additional steps and strategies you can take advantage of as you progress (such as testing & tracking). But those 3 steps are the "core elements" of selling online.

So don't allow yourself to make things overly complex or become overwhelmed.

Hope that helps.

John

Keep it even simpler imo.

Learn how to sell.

If you can't do that, you can't drive traffic, you can't sell a product, you can't build a list, you can't do much of anything.

The better you are at sales, the more leverage you give yourself in everything you do. So my recommendation to a newbie. Start learning copywriting, pick up some books on nlp and marketing psychology, THEN build a website, and start applying what you've learned.

Yes, that will be a nice idea. Reading out all the discussion thoroughly is definitely good for a newbie in marketing. Besides this you can check out this page of Email Marketing Tips For Start-Ups . You can search by marketing here for other contents.

Not only this blog, google for some other blogs like this. It's really easy to gather knowledge right now.
Nothing, I just want to share my thoughts like I did when I was first.

1. Build a List!!! (set up a squeeze page and start driving traffic)
2.Build relationship and a community for your subscribers
2. Do not try to sell instead just give your recomendation and the people who trust you are going to want to buy from you.
3.Promote stuff that you have bought yourself and that you actually know is good stuff!
4.Do not scam people
5.See what the leaders in your industry are doing insted of doind what they are telling you to do.

Go out on a mission to actually help people instead of trying to sell alot of products!

The most important one:
Never Never Never Give Up

When I first started online I created a personal development blog which became very popular. Unfortunately this was more like a hobby to me. I knew nothing about Internet marketing so never made any money from my blog, but I loved writing the content and interacting with my readers.

Then I found out about affiliate marketing and spent the next year building review sites to promote Amazon products. I spent less time on my blog and fanpage and more time building backlinks. I found out after a year of hard bloody work that I had made a big mistake.

All of my time was spent building nothing. I mean absolutely nothing. Google started to update their algorithm more often and I found myself pissing in the wind. The work got harder, the sales diminished and I wasn't remotely passionate about what I was doing, so I dropped it all.

Because I was spending so much time on affiliate marketing, I spent less time on personal development. I realized this was the biggest mistake of all. Your mindset in this game is clearly just as (if not more) important than whatever strategy you're implementing.

My advice to anyone starting out in this industry would be to get very specific and clear about what you want to achieve over the next 1 - 2 years. These 3 - 6 month plans and strategies many marketers are pushing are not going to do you any good in the long run.

I'd also suggest you work on yourself every single day. You will never outperform your own self image and may wake up one day very soon in the midst of chaos. You don't know where to go next, what to do, or if you have what it takes to do it. This can happen when working on tactics that make you a quick buck here and there, but never on a consistent basis. At this stage of the game your motivation takes an almighty beating. You see, it's hard to keep going after you have worked so damn hard on something that can be taken away at any time. And without a solid plan/structure in place from the beginning - it is more than likely that this will indeed happen.

Passion for what you are doing will force you to think more strategically about what your plans and goals are. It will also be much more likely you will attract people who see your passion. This is what happened in the beginning with my personal development blog. As soon as I deviated from that path, I got lost - and in this game it's very easy to get lost for at least a couple of months before you even realize you're lost in the first place.

Without a plan, you will inevitably jump from one strategy to the next. So it's very clear to me at this stage that people don't suffer from information overload, they suffer from instant gratification and will do anything to get that fix as soon as possible. But as we all know, instant gratification is obviously not sustainable, and soon enough another new product arrives on the scene promising to scratch that itch with another instant result based strategy. And so the cycle continues.

Sorry, was I supposed to give some advice, I just went off on one there.

My advice:
1) Work on your mindset and plan for your future. Action is all well and good, but action without the proper mindset, strategy and methodology is useless.

2) Ask yourself every day what your end goal is - and is what you're doing in that moment, contributing or taking away from your end goal.

3) Realize that implementing these get rich quick, money making at the end of the week tactics are NOT contributing to a long term successful outcome. Implementing quick tactics to get leads into a solid sales funnel is fine, but using those tactics to send people to one time offers is not a consistent model that will help you in the long run.

4) Study marketing as a strategy and not as a tactic. Tactics are wonderful, but they're short term. If you find you are just using tactics in your business, then you have no business.

5) Stop visiting the WSO section and looking for the next great thing. It doesn't exist as a WSO. They are tactically based products that provide nothing more than another way to generate traffic and make money. In case you haven't noticed, you are swarmed with this nonsense for free across the web at any given time. Nothing new is coming from a $10 product. Even if you purchased a great WSO, what do you think it's going to do for you?

Sure you might learn a new tactic to get more traffic, but traffic is useless unless you actually know what to do with it. If you have no plan, then any tactic learned out of a WSO is not going to help you - it will more than likely have the opposite affect, and distract you.

P.S. The WSO in my sig does not relate to what I just said. It's not a product to teach you anything.

6) Enjoy your journey. Back to the mindset again. If you are not enjoying what you're doing then you're being dumb. It's stupid to spend your time working on something you don't enjoy. If you succeed, you'll still be bloody doing the same thing, you'll just have more money. Money is great, it sure takes the sting out of being poor, but the novelty wears off after a while. Your work, is far more important than most things in life, excluding family friends and health. You will be spending most of your time either working, or thinking about work, so don't be foolish. Promote your passion.

Bloody hell, I just can't stop writing. I doubt anyone actually read all of this, it's probably best they don't, I'm drunk

Only create content that you are proud of. Think about what YOU want to see when you do a search. If it isn't up to your quality standards and you wouldn't spend money/take action on a site like that then chances are your visitors won't either.

A lot of this industry is geared towards making thin affiliate or adsense sites. Avoid this at all costs if you want to make a long term income. Also, read this blog. It has more useful IM info on there then the rest of the internet combined.

My advice for newbies:

1. Be 100% sure that this is what you want to do. You need this for when it gets tough; it's easier to stick with something if it's what you want.

2. Don't come in with a sense of entitlement. Just because others are making a few bucks doesn't mean they owe you a living. Most successful people are willing to help, but if they do help you, treat it as a privilege. It isn't your right.

3. Don't give up. Unless you've been at this for donkey years and haven't made $1. That is probably a sign that you need to find something else.

4. Be hungry, but don't be desperate. If you're hungry, you'll read and ask questions, and ACT. You will do what you need to do to get to where you're going. If you're desperate, you'll buy every new product that comes out and not make anything. Then after donkey years, you'll have to refer to no. 2.

5. Listen and take advice. But sharpen you BS detector. Learn who to trust and whose advice you need to take with a grain of salt. Before you kowtow to some 'guru' research that person.

There's more but I'm already getting long winded.

Perfectionists do not do well in internet marketing. Its better to have a small understanding and take massive action then trying to learn everything first. Invest in your education. Not a $37 ebook but a real training platform. That will cost a pretty penny.

Pick a niche, create a product setup a wso launch and do it! Learn from your mistakes! You're never going to get a perfect product first time but with experience you will get better!

The best advice I can give newbies is to not spend any money at first. Read all you can about making money online through quality sources(start here) then pick and choose how you want to earn. The problem is there are too many ways to make money, all you need to start with is just one way. While you are learning, pick something that you can get paid to do for free like writing articles(Yahoo Contributors Network), or doing micro jobs(Amazon Mechanical Turk) etc. Then use that money to buy into whatever legitimate program you can find.
When I first started out, I wanted to find 'anything' to make money to replace my day job. Of course you can guess what happened. I ran into a lot of scams, maxed out my credit card, and made no money. The first money I ever made online was getting paid to write articles, and selling my stuff on Amazon. So, don't spend any money. Earn it free, and then invest in a great program you really want to spend time doing.

for newbies to read 2 week this forum, should be big headache! Just look around & try to take the most likable method, then figure out it more deeply, if it will not work, go for another.

I'd suggest that noobs should read this post over here: For The People Asking, "How Do I Get Started?" I think that will give them a decent foundation to work off of. No fluff or BS either.

Take action and never give up.

I wanted to give up in my first 2 weeks of doing this, but I stuck around and now am living the dream.

You'll be amazed how effective persistence and mindset are when you have a goal to achieve.

One thing: "when it's too good to be true, it probably is"! Second thing: Pick one thing--"blogging"-- how original lol--, anything-- and focus on it 120% of your time and by this I mean, TAKE ACTION! Thirdly: Carry on until you are making $$$ and are comfortable with it and then move onto something else!

Also, you can spend some time reading forum posts during the day but only a minimum amount of time! This won't make you any money! Taking action will!

Yoan

Best advice is to sell something valuable to your customers. Be confident with what you are marketing and know that what you represent should help people achieve their goals.