Internet Marketing Newbie - Step By Step Guide
November 26, 2008 | By Kenneth Koh |
“I am an internet marketing newbie. All I am asking you to do for me is to introduce me to the internet marketing from scratch, that is leading me step by step to the internet marketing system. Presently, I have no website, no list and no business yet.” - Akinbiyi Yinka Akinrinola
Many internet marketing newbies have been asking me similar questions and I usually do not bother reply.
Why?
Because the question is too general. Also, I got a feeling that anyone asking such a question is usually not serious in internet marketing.
But today, for the first time (and also the last time), I’m going to answer this question and post it up on our blog, so that I can direct whoever asking such a question back to our blog.
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For all the internet marketing newbies out there, there are only 4 steps to making money from internet marketing from scratch.
Step 1 - Make a decision
Step 1 is to make a firm decision that you are going to make it in internet marketing, no but, no however, no unless, no excuse!
If step 1 is not accomplished, there is no need to proceed to the other steps. Quit now and go back to your comfort zone. Internet marketing is not for you. Nothing is, until you make a decision.
Let me tell you something I’ve never told anyone.
I started to explore internet marketing back in 1999, made my first $100 some time in 2004, made my first $1000 in 2006 and made my first $10k in the same year.
What happened in 2006? Did I stumbled upon a secret formula? Not at all.
What happened was that my offline business failed in 2005. I was $50k in debt and I desperately NEED to find an alternative to make money, so as to pay back my loan and keep my company alive.
For the years before 2006, I had been exploring internet marketing, but I was doubtful whether internet marketing was for me. Moreover, I had many other opportunities available and frankly, internet marketing was just one of the many options.
By 2006, I’d tried 3 different offline business, failed at each one of them, and owed $50k to the bank. I ran out of all my offline options and I had little cash on hand.
I was in a situation where I either make it in internet marketing or quit my entrepreneur dream and look for a job.
Not to give up my last option, I turned to internet marketing, with no other backup plan!
Here’s a little secret about the universe:
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opportunities will be open to you. Ideas will come to you. Your saviour will appear.
So, before everything else, make your decision first.
Step 2 - Stop looking for shortcuts
Forget about shortcuts or quick cash. There is no shortcut. What does exist is leverage.
To make money fast, you need to leverage. You leverage on advertising to bring you more traffic in a shorter time. You leverage on freelancers to save your time and provide skills that will otherwise take you time to learn.
Other than leverage, there is no shortcut. You have to take the down-to-earth ‘boring’ steps of building websites, promoting them and doing all the maintenance work.
I’m not saying internet marketing is tough. It is tough initially because you’re still learning. Just like the first time you ride a bicycle. It was tough isn’t it? But once you get used to it, it’s as easy as ABC.
Step 3 - Decide on a business model
There are too many ways to make money online. You can make money from Adsense, PPC ads, Affiliate Marketing, Ebay, MLM etc.
So your 3rd crucial step is to decide on the business model that you want to adopt.
If you want to make money fast, one way is to become an instant guru!
I’ve seen many newbies who position themselves as a guru and start teaching people how to make money online. It works! Many of them who ‘dare’ to pretend to be a guru eventually becomes a real guru.
As a guru, you need to have your own website, your own product and your own affiliate program. That’s why I invested money to create the free M.Y.O.B List Builder Script for our members. Make this script work for you and you’ll become an instant guru overnight.
Read these two articles if you haven’t done so. They will shed some light for you.
What Are The Steps In Creating An Online Business
How To Drive Traffic To Your Website
Step 4 - Keep learning and keep working
Remember, there is no shortcut. You got to work hard and you got to learn fast while you work.
In offline businesses, you can hardly learn because very few people are willing to teach you.
The good thing about online business or internet marketing is that many people are willing to teach you, for free or for a very small fee. As long as you have your own business set up and are willing to learn the ropes, you will eventually grow and become another guru.
Lastly, after today, don’t ever call yourself an internet marketing newbie again. The faster you believe you are the guru, the faster you can succeed online.
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“Well, I clicked on the link and then I said to myself, 'Now what?' It's just so much reading and then it's not really easy to understand just what to do next. . . You should make a webpage with all the sites that people should sign up for on it AND the instructions on how to get started. That way, all they would have to do is go to your website and go down the list clicking everything. You should put all the other information they would need on the page too. Then no one would be confused at all – they just go to your page and follow the instructions from one place.”
Over the past few months I had asked her [and others] to sign up for opportunities that I thought were super easy to benefit from, so I carefully thought about what she was sharing with me. Apparently my assumption that everyone reading emails was able to navigate the net and do the things that I do easily was faulty. . . And since far too many of my 'contacts' were failing to follow through – for their own benefit, I decided to do something about it!
After completing some mandatory admin things on a few websites over the past several days, I sat down and created a basic 'Clicking-4-Dollars: Step-by-Step Guide' and posted to my YEisHere.com! website. The caveat however, is that one would have to sign up for the mailing list and get the link from the Thank You page OR get a personal invitation from me [via email of course] with the link in it.
Now that the basics of getting started in the internet earnings world have been outlined in my mind, I look forward to putting a nice little 'How-to-REALLY-Make-Easy-Money' eBook together with everything ANYONE would need to do to get started: email address, payment accounts, etc. for the readers to either of my blogs -- YEisHere.com! or Money “DA” Easy Way!. FREE of course – for a limited time that is!
So mosey on over and sign up for the mailing list OR email me to get on the announcement list. You know the 'How-to' will be full of whimsical, insightful and simple to follow methods – the perfect gift for those that seem hesitant to learn 'computers' or get 'online!'
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YE is an author; WebPreneur; electronics, computer & gadget geek; Certified Holistic Health Consultant; grandmother and devoted traveler that currently resides in Georgia. She can be contacted for interviews, consultations and general comments at either of her websites or by email at: yehasmoney4u@s-bgen.com
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Face it, change is inevitable. Faster, better, cheaper and other such reasons to accommodate an ever whirling consumer and technological landscape serve to keep us all on alert that no matter how comfortable we are with what we know, we're always 'pushed' to learn something 'new!'
Recently we've all been made aware that the nation's television broadcasts will go 'digital' by February, 2009. In fact the city of Wilmington, North Carolina became the first to go digital in the nation -- nearly 6 months ahead of the congressionaly mandated implementation date. According to a CNN article, "'Digital-only' TV in Wilmington, N. Carolina" the impact upon the households (5%) with analog only television sets has been minimal and doesn't afford a good forecast as to how the rest of the nation's television markets will fare with the mandated conversion.
Digital TV is just following the trend of other arenas such as the job market and enterprise as we know it. Just under 40 years ago the industrial age afforded basic education citizens with jobs in the auto, rail, communications and construction industries. While construction is still alive and well here in the 'States' the other labor intensive industries have dwindled considerably ? and most require at least an AA degree to even have an application considered.
At one time the internet was the exclusive domain for government agencies and universities and colleges. Those days are long gone as the world wide web is now synonymous with 'connection' in our ever digital communication age. Cell phones have long been equipped with email capacity and there are millions of families that maintain photo albums online for those members that live anywhere in the world to view and share. Now the internet has become THE place for the major brick-and-mortar mega stores to do business along with digital millionaire ventures such as eBay and Amazon.
While most of our youth are being introduced to computer usage as early as first grade it appears that the connection between eCommerce and job preparation has yet to be made in the public school systems across the land. Further, most job seekers still look to finding employment in businesses that they can travel to, clock into and accomplish their job descriptive tasks on the premises. It is still 'trendy' for people to seek 'telecommute' jobs or even to purposefully turn to the internet for self-employment. However, just like the mandated change from analog to digital TV, earning a living online will soon become the norm. It's just a matter of time before the majority of the workforce will be 'telecommuting' and/or working for self via a computer.
Now is the time for all prudent minded people to investigate income generating vehicles via the internet: sales, consulting, virtual assistance and an endless variety of opportunities abound and/or are just waiting to be created!
There's nothing better than being prepared for foreseeable change AND laying the groundwork to be on the forefront in order to benefit from inevitable change. Seeing that there is a 'wall' isn't nearly as empowering as being able to read the 'writing' ON the wall!
Ride the waves of the future and investigate sound eCommerce mechanisms, then sit back and watch your digital TV while others scramble for a converter box.
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YE is an author; WebPreneur; electronics, computer & gadget geek; Certified Holistic Health Consultant; grandmother and devoted traveler that currently resides in Georgia. She can be contacted for interviews, consultations and general comments at either of her websites or by email at: yehasmoney4u@s-bgen.com
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YE is an author; WebPreneur; electronics, computer & gadget geek; Certified Holistic Health Consultant; grandmother and devoted traveler that currently resides in Georgia. She can be contacted for interviews, consultations and general comments at either of her websites or by email at: yehasmoney4u@s-bgen.com
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