Beginner Marketers

If you have been trying to learn the Internet marketing industry, by now you may be suffering from either two things – confusion or complete overwhelmed.  First off – you are not alone.  Secondly – there is a very good reason for your current state of mind.

Standard marketing principles remain the same, but it’s in the execution of those principles that can bring on the states of confusion.  By execution I mean – blogs, websites, lenses, articles, videos, webinars, teleseminars and meetup groups.  Then there is also the web 2.0 and now the social media craze that you need to master.  Web 2.0 is a term for the Internet of today.  No more is the web made up of static stale websites.  Web 2.0 means an interactive web and that anyone and everyone can now have their own presence on the internet.  This is known as “virtual real estate.”  By the way if you haven’t yet – you need to buy www.yourname.com.  If you are serious about internet and affiliate  marketing you especially need to have your own personal virtual real estate.  If your name is already taken by .com then use .net.  If that’s not available use hyphens or put a number somewhere, www.yourname1.com.  Even if you don’t know what to do with it, you soon will.

Social media is the latest hottest thing.  In fact it made the news that Ashton Kutcher had 1 million followers on Twitter – the first ever.  Even Oprah did her TV show on social media and posted her first tweet on TV.  Social media is – Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, and several up and coming ones.  Right now, Twitter is number one.

What I’m saying to you is that it is very normal to be confused and overwhelmed with internet and affiliate marketing.  There is a ginormous amount of information to learn and process.  I have stayed up until 3:00 a.m. many, many times trying to absorb this stuff.  Then came part two – information overload!!  I learned a little about a lot of different interrelated processes and found myself nearly right back where I started – staring at a blank screen wondering what to do next.  I had information overload and became struck with “analysis paralysis” and couldn’t function.

So, fellow beginner marketer keep following these posts and I’ll help clear a path for you to real success.  You need to learn all you can about internet and affiliate marketing.  Then you need to follow a clear workable marketing plan, keep yourself focused (more about that later), and once you get your system going – rinse and repeat.

If you believe you can…..you can!