Internet Marketing For Newbies

What is the number one killer of IM’ers? What makes them pack up their keyboard and quite? It’s probably not what you think!

If I only had that software tool for those killer keyword phrases or that article spinning software or (just put anything you want in here). There are enough FREE tool and FREE information out there that you can make it in Internet Marketing. Sure, the software, ebooks, subscription sites will give you more knowledge, skills, and yes, money BUT they are also part of the problem.

I know I’m going to be stepping on a few toes here, because everyone wants you on their mailing list (including me) but it needs to be said especially if your a newbie. The number one problem is FOCUS, or should I say LACK of focus. Everything is new to you and your mind is trying to absorb it all. You’re probably not sure in what direction you want to start in,  Affiliate Marketing, BANS, VRE and the list goes on.

OK, you make the decision to do affiliate marketing and you dig for more research on how to go about it. You find this great sales page that states if you buy xyz ebook you’ll have everything you need to make it in affiliate marketing. You buy this ebook and you leave them with your name and email address so they can send you the download link (you’re on their list now). As you  read the ebook you will find links to special tools that will help you build your business. After you click on some of the links and buy some new tools (you’re on their list now), you’ll discover that this special tool not only does xyz but it will do abc for VRE sites that says if you want to make it BIG in IM you really need to start building some VRE sites. I’m not picking on VRE sites, I have some myself, it anything that takes your FOCUS away from your target niche.

Bottom line, you will be bombarded with emails, reports, and other things that takes your eye off the ball, you’ll lose FOCUS and then out of frustration, because you have spent all this Un-Focused time in IM and have very little or nothing at all money wise to show for it, quit.

So what do I do? The very first thing you should do is set up a Google gmail account or some other email account that pops up on your home page when you open your browser. Now every time you fill out an opt-in page or whatever, you use this gmail account. You will want to read some of this email because you are going to find some great deals and information and so on, BUT you are going to read this email at a time that you set aside for it, preferably after you get all the work done on IM’ing that you planned for that day. By having it on your home page you will be able to scan the subjects just incase you are waiting on a particular email.

Next I would subscribe to Wealthy Affiliate (you can read more about this on my Product Recommendation Page). Here you will get a SOLID IM education and a host of tools that are free for members. This is a VERY ACTIVE site. After several weeks you’ll have a general knowledge of Internet Marketing, and you should pick one niche, JUST one. Pick the direction you want to start your IM business in.

Now spend a few months learning and building your IM empire. AFTER you have a solid knowledge of and income coming in from the line you choose, it’s time to pick another line and add it to your IM empire. You’ll want several income streams coming in just incase something would happen to one income stream you’ll still have money coming in from other areas. I personally have three lines coming in, BANS (Build A Niche Store), Affiliate Marketing (PPC & Article Marketing) and VRE (Virtual Real Estate).

On upcoming posts will talk more on how to stay FOCUSED, the top two, - daily goals - organization.

Till next time…

Just a quick entry on some of the updates since my last update.

Added:

• Contact Us Page
• Subscribe To Our Newsletter page
• My Product Recommendations page
• How-To Category

The Subscribe to Newsletter page although working, needs more work on the
autoresponder end to make it work/look better. Have a few house keeping things yet
to do and then I can concentrate on adding content.

I came upon this video on Wealthy Affiliate site (they have quite a large selection of How-To Videos).

You can find more information on Wealthy Affiliate on “My Product Recommendations” page.

Update

I added several new blog categories which will show up when I post a post in that area: BANS - VRE (Virtual Real Estate) - Affiliate Marketing - AdSense (which also ties in with VRE).

There will be more to come but for now I picked these because these are the areas that I work in.

I added two more plugin:

cforms - cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more.

Cross-linker - A plug-in which allows you to set-up words which are automatically hyperlinked to desired URLs By Jan Hvizdak.
 
I added cross-linker as a replacement for aLinks. aLinks had a problem parsing my user name because I have some cap letters in it. My hosting company could not change the user name without closing down my site and opening a new one. Way too much work, so I found another plugin that does almost the same thing. The bulk of my sites are with another hosting company, Host Gator, and aLink has no issues there.

Now I’m going to take a look at cforms and see what’s involved in setting up a contact page.

Later…

Status report >>

I spent some time today installing the following plugins to wordpress:

Akismet 2.1.6 Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. By Matt Mullenweg.
 
 aLinks 2.0.1 A WordPress plugin that automatically links keywords in your blog post. By Sean Hickey.
    This plugin did not install for me, I’m getting an error message and I waiting for a response from Sean. I did install this plugin flawlessly on another site of mine.
   
All in One SEO Pack 1.4.6.11 Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. By Michael Torbert.
 
cforms 8.5.2 cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more. Please see the VERSION HISTORY for what’s new and current bugfixes. By Oliver Seidel.
 
Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.0.1 This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page By Arne Brachhold.
 
and of course…
Hello Dolly 1.5 This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page. By Matt Mullenweg.

Today I’m planning on adding some categories for the blog posts and trouble shoot the aLink plugin.

Later…