September 14th, 2010
ADVICE FOR INTERNET MARKETING NEWCOMERS
Hello my beloved readers and followers( I wish), no really, thanks for all the advice and comments I am getting, it is a great community we have here, loving it. OK, yet again I am not going to be giving out any secrets of how to make millions online just yet, you have to wait for that, it is coming though, I promise.
Well, I have been settling into my new home and I am almost finding some time now to get this marketing game really up and running. I have so many ideas to investigate its great to be so excited about something that I am involved in and which is going to finally get me out of the 9-5 rat race. We need to be 100% focused on this game or otherwise it will not happen, it is not a hobby or passing interest, it is the start of a new career and the rest of your life. That is the first bit of important advice for newbies, if you want it to work, take it seriously, or it will not happen for you.
When I first started this blog I was saying how I was never going to go back to working on a building site ever again, and that I was going make this marketing game work. Well, I have gone back to the building work, as I guess I was getting a little carried away with finding out about all the money making opportunities online. However, there is now a massive difference with my outlook and attitude to my job that was not there before. Why? Because instead of going to work and being depressed and spend allday moaning about it, I am now in the process of doing something about it. So now I know there is a massive light at the end of that dark depressing tunnel because I know I am not going to be covered in crap and dealing with jobsworths for the next 30 years.
That is the next bit of advice I can give, if you are thinking of getting into marketing, then actually start doing at least a little something everyday. Do some researching, get a blog set up, anything to get yourself involved basically. I can gaurantee it will have a dramatic improvement on your outlook and attitude towards life and your career in general. Get that zest for life back as its not as bad as we think, we just get stuck in a rut and our own little comfort zones. I have said before, there is a world of riches just outside our comfort zones.
OK, now this next little bit of advice is basically what I have learnt in the past couple months. It is about all the marketers sales letters we come across out there, claiming this ‘n’ that and how easy it is to make a packet within a matter of days.
The first issue I have is when certain marketers, mainly the big players claim that their product will earn you XX amount of thousands of dollars within days. They offer you the exact model they used to make their thousands for a crazy small fee. They show us receipts after receipts of proof, and testimonials after testimonials of recent product users. I am not saying that these are false claims, far from it, it would be unlawful, most are probably very true indeed. There is one very large important detail, or fact, that they never seem to mention in their fantastic sales pages.
What is it? It is the size of their subscriber list, it is probably in the thousands. The satisfied testimonials left by other marketers are also aided by the size of their subscriber lists. It is like the secret circle of big listed marketers who all big each others products up so that it looks like anybody can make money if they purchase the offered products. You purchase the product, you set it up, you dont make a penny. Why? Because you realise you have nobody, a targeted market to be precise, to offer the product to.
You are on that marketers list of targetted buyers together with thousands of other targetted buyers. If only a certain percentage buys then that marketer is quids in. Unless you have a substantial list yourself, then do not get taken in by the promise of making thousands. As a newbie, that is another bit of important advice, build your list before you can even dream of making any subsstantial amounts of money.
Hopefully that was a bit of advice that will help you on your way in the world of making money online. I want to write more but Kath is giving me that look of “how long are you going to be on that computer for?” So in a day or 2 I will have a part 2 to this post maybe and tell a little more of what I have learned and what to look out for when starting out.
Thanks for taking the time out to read my post, now get the ball rolling and keep your wits about you.
Nicky

