I Want to Become an Expert

The resources out there are endless, I would firstly recommend that you choose a niche that your comfortable with and have some knowledge about and begin to build on that to start with.

Theres so much to learn, I personally started off with building a Blog with Wordpress and taught myself how to use it. Then follwing that I began building websites etc....

My advise would be one step at a time, when you reach one mile stone then move onto the next dont try to hit; web building, marketing, SEO etc.... all in one go as it may be too much to take in.

Loads of good people on here happy to help you.

BF

ok, I used "website building for dummies" when I first started.

Then, I used YouTube for training videos. Some Tutorials for Wordpress are really helpful and show what you need to do step by step. You'll find most things on there.

Is there anything specific topic you want to discuss?

There are books and guides but I will recommend to read forums, news, blogs etc.

If you want to be an expert in internet marketing. You should have to learn and implement things in real time. Exactly you should not be an expert only by learning things in forums and blogs you should have real time success stories....

Dude, you're already LIGHT YEARS ahead of most people on IM forums.

Most people are into "I need money now" mode. You're smart for wanting to take the time to learn marketing from experts.

Once of the best things I ever did was invest my profit into courses on Twitter, social media marketing etc.

Of course, you learn a lot more when you actually do the stuff in the course. But you can progress much faster with some guidance.

The best course I've taken recently that covers a lot of the stuff you're interested in learning is the Start a Blog That Matter Course by CorbeTt Barr. Good stuff.

"Outsmarting Google" is a great book as far as SEO goes. Definitely the best I have read.

As far as copywriting/sales, there's a book called "The Unfair Advantage - Selling With NLP", that was another classic imo. Although its more centered around verbal sales than sales in writing. If you want a classic copywriting guide then read "The Ultimate Salesletter" by Dan Kennedy.

Then the final book I'd recommend is "4 Hour Work Week" which gets deep into automation/elimination/outsourcing. It also provides you an endless list of resources and tools.

On top of that Eban Pagan released a 15 dvd seminar called "Get Altitude". Its about 30 hours worth of everything and anything you could ever need to know about running a successful business. It covers a TON of material like web design, landing pages, marketing, testing, tracking, marketing psychology, etc etc.

I have watched all 30 hours at least 5-6 times already. And I'm always refering back to it to learn more. Although the seminar was done in 2007, you'd be suprised how "cutting edge" a lot of the material still is. Its truely timeless business expertise that you will never hear on WF. Eban Pagan practically invented the landing page.

Between those 5 resources, you can become an "expert" in no time. I don't recommend anything else. Just keep going back to them over and over and fully absorb all the material. If you do, you'll know more than 99% of the people on this forum. I love WF don't get me wrong, but its a very slow and convoluted way to learn things. I mean, I'm yet see even 1 SEO case study, done by an "expert".. who has properly controlled all the variables. There are no real case studies at all, just poorly ran marketing experiments that are littered with dozens of confounding variables. The "scientific method" on WF is as common as people making 7 figures a year.

-Red

Awesome post from RedShifted.

I think once we get out of "make money fast" mode (Backlinko had it right) then you suddenly realize how much "schooling" you really need. I started from the ground up learned Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS before I learned Wordpress. Then moved on to IM basics then SEO basics from there you get deeper and deeper... you never arrive Learning how to use SEO tools for good took some time. There was a lot of stuff I decided to learn along the way to become a better-rounded SEO... like Photoshop! Becoming proficient at photoshop for SEO might sound silly but I use it all the time now... it's enabled me to save a bundle: e-book covers, logos for clients, presentations, countless branding applications for photoshop... Of course, Photoshop is just one example of things that I didn't set out to learn but realized would be useful along the way.

Anyways sounds like you are at a good place... might I offer one resource not mentioned in this thread? A mentor. If you find someone that is where you want to be that is willing to teach you that is just... invaluable. Not impossible either, plenty of folks have found their mentor here on WF. Just be careful not to get sucked in by the scammers. Make friends, keep learning and maybe you'll find a mentor.

I just discovered an interesting blog about an internet marketer. It contains some interesting information like monthly income reports and so on. Anybody who has opinions about: SPI?

Best way to do is get hold of a coach who can guide you well. Infact i was fortunate to get one such and my life was changed

Only you can learn how to become an expert. To start read Chad's Traffic Black Book.

Try to get help from blogging. Blogs are best part in marketing of a site. On the other hand its a good source of traffic as well.

TAke your own time and don't be in a hurry to learn everything at once. you can learn SEO only by implementing it yourself on any website and you will not be able to learn much by just reading resource. You need to have a combination of learning plus implementation to make you a successful SEO pro.