Learning Internet Marketing is a difficult and confusing business and takes years, but why is this? We are not learning Quantum Mechanics or Brain Surgery so why does it take so long? Here are a few reasons from my experience and maybe they can help you shorten that learning curve and get onto your “Earning Curve” a lot sooner than I did.
I walked straight into a trap when I first started learning Internet Marketing.
There’s no point using names but I signed up to an expensive and badly delivered course that promised all kinds of results and support and simply did not deliver. It took a few months and a few hundred dollars before I jumped out of the course…
No time to lick wounds though I still had to learn to earn so…
I joined another course!
This one was less toxic. It actually had lots of good content and is still widely promoted today, albeit by people who have never done the course. It has a very good Affiliate program so it gets a lot of “air time”. It is called SBI and I would never advise anyone to join it.
UGH!
After that I went on by myself and had the good fortune to find some good people online and formed a Mastermind group. We talked once a week online and helped each other along.
Of course I am a compulsive learner so you may be expecting me to join another course about now…
Well you’re right, I found out that Patric Chan was putting on a Home Study course and joined it along with one of my buddies Kathy Baker, from the Mastermind group.
This course was different! This course was very good. It was jam packed with quality content…
But here’s the thing! I had done 2 crap courses – to be exact, one scam, one lousy and one superb course and I was as confused as hell!
CONFUSION is crippling; it is the single biggest barrier you have to overcome as you learn Internet Marketing.
Gradually though the fog I realised that there were several different ways of making money in Internet Marketing and that 1 of them is enough at any one time!
How to make Money Online in Internet Marketing
Any 1 of these ways is fine and each of them is a business model you can learn about
- Article and Bum Marketing
- Adsense on your blog or website
- Affiliate sales
- Email Marketing
- Product Sales
- Membership sites
That’s enough for now!
You can make a full time living using any one of these business models. You just have to concentrate on one of them and learn all you can and put a lot of effort into it for alt least 3 months before you see results.
There is no “Easy” or “EZ”!!!
Looking back at the list of business models – you may notice they are in a particular order. I reckon that the best way to start is with so called “Bum Marketing” and that as you gain experience you can move through the list.
For now it’s worth saying that you have to find a model that suits you and stick with until you make some money. That is the best way to deal with confusion because when you get results you will know what works and what does not and start to run your Internet Marketing as a business.
I’ll expand on this over the next few posts.
Until then I’d love to hear your experiences and what you learned
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October 24th, 2009 at 7:34 pmHi, thanks for a great post. I really enjoyed reading it. So many people start marketing online as they think it is easy peasy, it is for some but the majority fail as they dont take time to learn the basics and understand what you need to do and why. Aly
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:38 pmIt probably is easy peasy when you’ve learned the basics and done some hard work!! Like anything else there’s a learning curve and the funny thing is that for so many people normal common sense and manners are suspended on the Internet.
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:53 pmHi, thanks for a great post. I really enjoyed reading it. So many people start marketing online as they think it is easy peasy, it is for some but the majority fail as they dont take time to learn the basics and understand what you need to do and why. Aly
October 6th, 2010 at 9:33 pm+1