Internet Marketing For Newbies

August 17, 2009 · Filed Under Making Money

Internet Marketing For Newbies

As companies continue to layoff or shutdown altogether there has been a rapid rise of Internet Marketing Newbies looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I welcome them and wish them great success and I wanted to give them a little advice from my four years as an internet marketer.

When I first decide to do some marketing on the internet I was working full-time in my off-line business that I had for 15 years. So, I didn’t have a lot to lose if the internet marketing thing didn’t work out. I made a ton of mistakes the first year or so. I bought into every program launched by a well known guru. I went from one strategy and program to the next, to the next, and on and on until I had worked through 17 programs. I had basically decided that there just wasn’t that much of an opportunity to make enough money to live on from internet marketing. So I decided to…

focus on one thing and see if I could make it work.

In talking with other internet marketers on forums and at conferences I discovered my experience was anything but unique. In fact, a majority of them had gone through the same cycle. I did learn quite a bit from the different programs I had bought. I can’t say they are completely worthless or are total scams. I beleive your expectations have to be realistic. I read somewhere that about 5% of internet marketers are successful. I don’t remember where I read it, but at the time I thought “that depends on how you define success”. Success can be only determined by the individual based on that person’s goals.

Internet Marketing for Newbies Guide

You need a hungry market and you need to give them what they want! This is rule #1. Don’t pay attention to everything the gurus say. Take the good advice and leave the rest along the roadside.
Don’t rely exclusively on keyword and traffic research programs. They are valuable to a degree, but you need to go to forums and discussion groups to see what people are talking about and asking for. Use Amazon’s Bestsellers resource, eBay Pop and eBay Pulse, Google Zeitgeist, Trend Central and other internet marketing trend reports.
Find and stick with one method until you reach your goal. Be sure you have set a time limit to reach the goal. Don’t play hopscotch with different marketing methods. Once you accomplish one then you can move onto another.
Always put the customer first. They will take care of you if you take care of them.
Be prepared to work 8 to 10 hours, at least, everyday. You must treat your endeavor as a business. Just because you are doing it at home doesn’t change the dynamics of business.
Learn from failure. Don’t keep doing what doesn’t work. Move on to something else.
Have the courage to make your own plans, stick to them and see how they work, develop your own theories and try things out for yourself. Remember that the lessons you get from failure are huge and important, so don’t be afraid of it.
Use your common sense. It doesn’t matter how great your new book is, The Amish Guide To Computer Repair, probably isn’t going to make you a living.

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3 Comments on Internet Marketing For Newbies

Joe Revod on Tue, 18th Aug 2009 5:14 am

Hi Hal,

Thanks for sharing this.
really nice article, and I\’m really appreciate it.

Just several questions based on your article above:
1) \"You need a hungry market and you need to give them what they want\"
=> how can i detect the \"hungry market\" is? can you give me a special tips?

2) \"Find and stick with one method until you reach your goal\" & \"Always put the customer first\"
=> I\’m absolutely agree with you, because as a newbie in online marketing business, many of newbies try to learn from many gurus but at the end they will got nothing except losing their own money