Beginner Marketers

By December of 2008, the economy and the commercial real estate industry were deteriorating at a rapid pace and I knew that  I needed to prepare for a possible job loss. As a single parent with two children, I needed to explore my options and internet and affiliate marketing seemed the most promising.

Although at the time I had heard of blogs, however, I didn’t know you could make money with one and I certainly didn’t understand how to be an affiliate marketer.  I knew people were making money online, but I didn’t know anything about how this was possible.  The more I read online, the more questions I had.  It took a great deal of time and frustration to sift through all the hype and scams, but finally I did find some really good programs that worked for me.

One Week Marketing and Word Press Goldmine along with Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank have given me the tools and understanding I needed to begin an online affiliate marketing business.  These are very low cost systems that, if you commit to following their steps, will produce results that steadily increase over time.

Learn your internet marketing skills.  Learn keyword and market research.  Learn Wordpress.  Learn Squidoo.  Learn to write articles and sales copy.  Learn SEO techniques.  Learn social media optimization.  Learn all you can – I have mentioned some really good free resources in my previous posts “5 Free Education Resources That Every New Marketer Needs To Know” to help you grow your skills.  And guess what?  After a short time you will have gained real money making knowledge that most people will never know or understand.

Internet marketing and SEO techniques are also what local businesses are beginning to see the real value of, especially blogs and SEO.  More and more job listings are looking for people with internet marketing, SEO and social media skills.  Does this spark something in you?  Internet Marketing can be a valuable new skill.  Learn how to create wordpress blogs and you could have yourself a nice additional side business in your local area – installing wordpress blogs for local businesses.  Who knows, it could be your main business over time.  Every  local business should have a blog for several reasons including:

• posting regularly adds valuable, searchable information to a site
• they can quickly become an authority site in their local market
• a blog can open up a dialogue with their customers/readers and get valuable feedback
• Wordpress is really a “content management system” and they can easily manage and update their own content
• Wordpress blogs make great looking websites that are easy to customize and update

In summary, I am saying that it is very profitable to learn all you can about internet marketing and creating wordpress blogs.  These are valuable skills that have the ability to create many new job opportunities for yourself.