They are unique. They are like authors of the same subject. They are different people, but they all teach the same stuff. As you know, there are tutorials for identifying niches, for search engine optimization, for article writing, and for list building, to name a few. You have to wonder if you will ever get your arms around the subject. There are too many subjects demanding your immediate attention. You have many directions to choose from.

Most of the information you need as “newbie affiliates” is sitting on the Internet free for the taking. You pick a subject and begin exploring it and learning about it. You quickly realize that you are off on a tangent learning something else. Soon, you are on brain overload.

There are three solutions: you can quit; you can continue rowing your own boat; or you can choose to follow a mentor.

• You can quit.
  There is nothing wrong with quitting. That will just make room for the person that really wants to make money as an affiliate marketer.
• You can continue to fend for yourself.
  There is nothing wrong with that either. In fact, many would applaud your efforts. Those that started ten or more years ago and that are truly successful today most likely made it on their own without a mentor. It’s called the school of hard knocks. I ask you, why reinvent the wheel.
• You can seek out a mentor.
  The fact that there are many teachers and coaches available for hire makes it better for the newbie affiliate. They call it competition. No doubt, you will see and read many squeeze pages, landing pages, and sales pages. And, you will see a lot of hype.If you take your time, maybe a week or two, you will find a mentor. Most often, you can sense sincerity and integrity and cut through the sales pitch. Even the most sincere of mentors have to do some selling! Once you choose, stick with them. Give it a chance. Most businesses take a year or more to turn a profit.

Learning Internet marketing is hard work but very rewarding work.  Take advantage of the quality money making training software that is available.  You will cut your learning curve in half.

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Like many others that are just getting their feet wet. I have “opted in” to many an offer of free material that promises to help me make millions of dollars.  These offers come in all sorts of flavors they range from affiliate marketing guides, to affiliate marketing for beginners, to beginners marketing guides, and even newbies guide to affiliate marketing.

As newbies our learning curves are very steep. There is a lot of information to be digested and much of it is scattered throughout the Internet. It’s no wonder that so many fail at Internet marketing. You are distracted by all those offers of assistance. You are distracted by all the methods that you can apply to make you successful at Internet marketing. Internet marketing success is like a shotgun blast, there many ways (pellets) to hit the target.  For a no frills, no bull assessment of products visit: http://NewbieAffiliatesDirectory.com

Here is why we newbies are likely not to succeed at this business. As a newbie, after four months, I just now realized how much time I spend reading all those emails that I get. Do you? They offer me new ways and methods to make money online. Many of them come with free e-books and reports. Some offers ask for your e-mail to allow you access to the free give away; some don’t. Regardless, you download the files; you open up the freebie; and you start reading or viewing the information. The next thing you know, it’s lunch time where did the morning go?

What have you done to increase your revenue? What product or service have you exposed to the Internet and to potential customers today? How many websites or blogs have you created today?

That’s the bottom line – Customers. 95% of us newbies fail because we are to busy learning the hundreds of ways of making money, instead of choosing one and sticking with it until we are making money.

It’s time to delete those emails. If you can’t delete them, file them away, unread; and read them on the weekend or when you’re rich.

Another thing we do: visit forums. Forums are a wonderful place to ask questions and learn from more knowledgeable people and to socialize. Before you know it, an hour is gone, maybe two hours. You have read through all the threads on a topic that interests you and the day is gone.

What have you done to increase your bottom line? You say, “I’ve got to learn. I’ve got to read and ask questions. How am I going to make money, if I don’t know what to do next?”

We do have to spend time learning. The question is how much time. When do you put into action what you have learned? It does not matter that your knowledge may not be complete. Will it ever be? Most, if not all, of those gurus that are making those big bucks started at the bottom like you and me. They were once newbies. Let us not forget!

For a no frills, no bull assessment of products visit: http://NewbieAffiliatesDirectory.com

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You can level your learning curve by seeking a mentor or you can go it alone. Many choose to go it alone because they’re broke and they have heard the call of making fast money online. In ten days, in thirty days, you will be a millionaire. Some might, most won’t. Are you one of the many who won’t be successful at Internet marketing? Find out how not to be one the unfortunate many and what you should do first. Read this.

This is not about buying into some program or finding a mentor. If you’re broke, you don’t have the money to buy into a program and most mentors aren’t consulting for free. So forget that.

This is about you. This is about what you want. You must be forewarned; you might not like this. To succeed in Internet marketing you’ve got to work at it. Period. This might not go well with gurus who promote get rich quick schemes, but it’s the truth. There are many ways to succeed at Internet marketing, but all of them require work.  They require effort. There’s no one secret formula. There are many ways. There are as many ways to succeed as there are gurus.

This is a self motivating industry. No one is going to tell you that you can’t take a break or that it’s time to call it a day. You will call the shots. But then that’s the beauty of being your own boss. That’s the beauty of being an Internet marketer, you call the shots.

So here is where you start: you start by doing something, anything! You say, ‘Well that’s not any advice, that’s not a concrete step, that’s not giving me any direction. I want specifics. I want to know what to do first and then second, then third …”

There are many ways to get started. You will find good, bad, useful, and useless information for free on the Internet. But your success will not depend on that information alone. You can learn, and you can learn, and you can go on learning; you won’t ever succeed at Internet marketing. You’ll get discouraged and quit.  You will succeed at learning, not Internet marketing.  Yes, you’ve got to educate yourself. Once you’ve learned something implement it. Do it!  Take a deep breath. Stop. Do it! You must act!

Do something, even if it turns out to be wrong; it can always be undone and you will have learned what not to do! Will it take you a week, a month, three months to make money? Most successful small business owners take a year plus to turn a profit. You might do better. 

If you have found that you are struggling to get your arms around Internet marketing and you have a few coins to spare consider a training program.  I did and it has helped me get started.  Visit this site. It will work for you.

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A Newbie

This website is aimed at helping us Newbies get started.  It’s a combination of a website, blog, forum format.  You can comment, ask a question, and get a response.  It will be interactive. There will also be informative articles added regularly that will help us stumble less along the way to making money online.  I will promote product but nothing that I haven’t found helpful.  After all, I am an Internet marketer!  As I come across FREE STUFF that I find helpful, I will pass it along.

Like many of you reading this, I’m a very new affiliate marketer working online from home.  I must tell you that I’ve been at this for four months and haven’t made a penny yet!  After twenty plus years in the rat race of corporate America, I retired.  Like you, I had dreamed of owning my own business.  I bought a retail store with my corporate retirement money and for seven years I toiled 24/7 to keep that store running smoothly.  Eventually, I retired from that endeavor.

You know, as I do, that the Internet is the fastest growing marketing tool on the planet.  Consumers spent $26 billion dollars online last year according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.  New millionaires are making their fortunes on the Internet and most are making their money at home.  You see it all around you.  I was intrigued.  It fired my imagination.  I decided that Internet Marketing was for me, and I suspect you have too.  I jumped in.

I know your confusion and anxiety at getting started.   I have experienced it.  Have you?  When I did my due diligence research… HTML code, domain names, hosting, domain forwarding, and many, many more terms and concepts that I knew nothing about, I nearly went brain dead with the overload of information.  I felt like a sponge in the middle of an ocean.  I could have gone to a college or university to learn about those things.  But I’ve been there, done that.  Besides, I’m retired!  I went looking for someone or something that would help me get started.

Getting Started

An acquaintance of mine had just sold his at-home web based business for nearly $1,000,000.  He said that he had been looking for another opportunity on the Internet.  I asked him if he could help me get started.  He told me that he had just joined an Internet training club.  He said, “After I joined and logged in, I found a huge amount of step-by-step online video tutorials and resources that give you everything you need to become a Successful Internet Marketer, making good money in a relatively short time.”  More importantly, even though he was an experienced Internet marketer, he was making money from what he was learning.

I reasoned that if he, a seasoned marketer, found this training useful and profitable, I would too.  An added plus was the fact that they offered a 60-day money back guarantee.  Therefore, no risk to me!  I joined the club.  After all, you go to school to learn a profession or trade.  Why is online marketing any different? 

 First Week

As I said, I didn’t know anything about web pages, domain names, hosting, HTML code, or any of the other countless terms used by Internet marketers. Yet, in less than one week using Google sites I created my first website without learning HTML and without having to pay for special software or hosting.  You can too!  I am now marketing products online.   I am now, officially, an Internet marketer working at home!  If I can do it, you can.

Learning a new business by trial and error is the hard way.  Knowledge eliminates the fear of the unknown.  There are many training and coaching clubs online to help you get started.  Find one that will provide you with the mentoring, knowledge, and online support that you are comfortable with.  I did.  Find one that will walk you through step-by-step.  Remember to test drive whatever you choose before you commit.  I found one, Maverick Money Makers.  Without it, I would still be floundering, surfing the Internet not knowing exactly how and where to start, stumbling along the way.  Try It!  If you’re interested here is the link that sold me.

 PS: Click on the image caption to read some of my published Ezine articles.

Ezine Articles

PPS: Visit the Articles page to read: Affiliate Success Checklist  by (c) Charlie Page, owner and editor of the Directory of Ezines.

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