For me, to make money and enjoy myself of course, at least that is how I am attacking this enterprise, any other way I would go mad. Take a look at my previous articles to give yourself a bit of background.
I have joined a programme and here I am fully ensconced with this program. It lives up to its promises and set me up with my web site and a complete 30 day training program. Whoopee! I am off and running, sit back and wait for some money to roll in.
Foolish, foolish me, once I proceeded to work my way through the training manual my original feelings of euphoria quickly disappeared and a feeling of gloom and doom rapidly set in.
My original thoughts that this should be simple, just join the dots became HANG ON, what is all this unexplained stuff like SEO, active back links/links, resource box, about the author, articles and submitting, blogs, auto responder, advertising and so it goes on. I mean what Are these things?
That is when doubts crept. Do I have the mental capacity and stamina to conquer this?
Talk about too much to absorb immediately and an overload.
I blindly joined all sorts of sorts of things on the basis that it will all sort itself out later and somehow it will tie together.
Then I realised I had better start using the helpdesk and learning, from there I realised that forums, a previously unheard of thing, was the way to go.
Questions, doubts, questions, doubts, question with half answer, more questions, the circle of educating myself was decreasing instead of increasing,.
So 30 days wander past with me up all hours of the night desperately trying to fathom what and how all this went together.
I even printed out most of the training guide and a lot of other information which appeared. Now I have pages and pages lying around, a lot of it repetitious and now that I am a lot further down the track I think I will recycle most of it. Quite frankly, it has served its purpose and I am sick of it cluttering up my office.
Anyhow, finally it all started to sink in. It was quite amazing, once I learnt the absolute basics then the learning progress seemed to accelerate quite quickly.
I now understand the aims and the methods of how to get there, also some of the do and do nots. I know I will never completely learn all about the internet in my lifetime as it is always evolving and changing, BUT that is one of the joys, it is a never ending pursuit of knowledge [refer my previous articles and you will understand that I am always looking for new challenges].
One thing no-one warned me about and which I fell an easy victim to: All the e-mails telling me I must get this and buy that if I wanted to succeed.
I even fell prey to buying various must have tools, which although had a money back guarantee, involved postage and handling. When I realised that it was basically all the same thing I of course sent them back leaving me rather worse off for expensive non refundable postage.
I even [and so far I have kept this quiet] purchased a rather expensive program along the lines of, and before I discovered this program. It was total gibberish to me and I ended up being out of pocket for postage to the tune of some USD $150.
As you can see it is a real problem for the absolute beginner, the person who really does not know anything, even down to the basic language, never mind http.
However, now that I have passed through this and have my business up and running, I am in a situation where I can help, assist and educate other newcomers so that they can effortlessly [and I mean effortlessly] have a successful Money Making Business.
I can eliminate the mistakes I made and teach exactly what one needs to know. Probably what one does NOT need to know is a better way to describe it. Save yourself a lot of grief, do not be a chump and insist you do it your way!
One hurdle of which there is no answer, is the problem of time differences between Australia and USA.
As soon as I find a true expert closer to home, the easier it will be for me to add to my education and hone up my existing knowledge regarding the internet.
Copyright (c) 2008 John Yeomans
Free Money Making Business
There are people on the net who'd have you believe that to be successful on the internet requires nothing more than the belief that you can "just do it". Unfortunately they usually have something to sell you.
Folks, believe me, there are good affiliate programs, internet training and opportunities on the internet but there are also a lot of scams, snake oil and rehashed, outdated and ineffective ones as well.
Like anything worthwhile in life success requires 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Making money on the internet seriously is a walk in the park compared to working in the real world and the money you will make is phenomenal compared to working for someone else.
Success doesn't require a lot of time. In fact many successful internet marketers make huge amounts of money online and only work 3-4 hours a day from anywhere in the world - and you can too. But, you will first need to learn the ropes. It's not difficult. A mentor who has been there and done that will shorten your learning curve and have you making money within 30 days NOT 30 months.
"What comes first the chicken or the egg"? Don't know - don't care! Is it better to be able to market anything online or to market things you are passionate about? Don't know - don't care!
When it comes to making money online - when you have Passion for the idea, company, product or service, of any Internet business from which you expect to make money the more passion you have for it the more likely you will be to WANT to spend your time doing it and the longer you will devote to it.
Passion simply put means you have done your due diligence and you like what you're getting into. It is then that you translate that Passion into the education, excitement and the drive that usually accompany Passion.
Many online entrepreneurs are so good at what they do that they ignore passion because they can sell anything - and that's OK. But I'm concerned about those of you who are not so knowledgeable at working an online business successfully. Choose products, services and companies that get you excited.
What are your hobbies? What are your previous skills and talents? What do others tell you that you are a natural at? These are the things you will promote the best and have the most fun researching.
Now, I'm not trying to make anyone believe that Passion is the only thing necessary. Because to be successful you must also have a good website, good marketing, widespread advertising, company support, effective keywords... but sidestep Passion and you reduce your chances for success dramatically.
It therefore follows that, if you have no Passion for the company and the products and services provided by that company, again, you won't attempt to do the work you are being taught.
Internet marketing work is typically not all that difficult or time consuming but it does take motivation caused by Passion to get you off and running with a sustained effort so that you won't stumble.
You have a great resource in the Internet search engines to search about the Internet Marketing industry for business opportunities, USE IT!
Your research should uncover a company that you like and have confidence in. It should be solid, founded on great principles, and easy to understand with great products and services that are sell-able for which you can have Passion. If you don't find it move on. You can find the right opportunity containing the attributes identified above.
Note: By the way it's your goal to get to the point where you can sell about anything online. That end skill and goal is a worthy one indeed. I'm just saying the best place to start is to start with things you are most passionate about.
First learn how to market on the internet. Learn from experienced internet marketers that you know are successful. Do what they are doing. Choose the right company products and services to be passionate about.
Avoid people that want to sell you big promises if they can't prove it! Demand proof. If you're already involved in online marketing for more than 90 days and are not making money then you are either doing something wrong or the system is faulty. If it's fun fire the product or service and find another one.
You will never have to work another day when you do what you love. And, believe me the money will be rolling in within days not months.
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