A Newbie profile2

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.