As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Goethe wrote that, and let’s face it...that makes a lot of sense.
The problem is, it’s pretty hard to trust yourself when you are trying to do something new (like internet marketing) and you don’t even know where to start. What makes it worse is that there are endless amounts of information written on the topic and everyday more is being added to the stack...
Pretty much all of it conflicts with each other in one way or another. So what is a person to do with a situation like that? Well personally I say start with this:
Step 1. Do your best. Acknowledge that it won’t be perfect or maybe even good but your best is good enough and recognize that your best will get better every day.
Step 2. Commit yourself to the craft. Making money online is a science and an artform. It takes practice to get good at it. Practice and experience. So make it a priority and dedicate a little bit of time to getting better at it every day.
Step 3. Understand that to make money online you need a steady stream of targeted traffic. By targeted I mean traffic that cares about what you are selling.
Step 4. Understand that the single most reliable and cheapest source for targeted traffic that converts highly into dollars is email.
Step 5. Commit to becoming great at effective list building and email marketing.
Step 6. Understand that there are many ways to be great online. Many ways to make money and many ways to do almost everything. However you only need to master one. Commit to your one path and let everything else fall away until you get your project to money.
Just stick with the basics. The core of most online businesses, and a foundation that you can use to build your business in any way you want.
So what are the foundations that I am talking about?
The first part of your foundation is a domain name and hosting so you can put your site out there for everyone to see. With so many domain names already taken, you may have to get creative and come up with several ideas, but you can do it.
Then get a basic shared hosting account. You can get them for less than $10 a month. I use namecheap for my domains and hosting, but just do a search and you will come up with several sites to choose from.
Then just get a site up. The quickest and easiest is to log in to your cpanel account that you got with your hosting account, and install WordPress. If you’re not sure how to do it, you can usually find tutorials on the hosting site, or do a search and you will find videos and sites that will walk you through how to do it.
The next part of your foundation is your email service provider. Again there are a few that have a good reputation, but some of them are a bit expensive. If you’re starting out, there’s no reason to pay for something that you don’t need.
Aweber Free is exactly what it sounds like. Instead of a free 30 trial like some other companies, you can get a free account for as long as you need it. You have a limit of 500 subscribers and 3000 emails a month. Once you get to that point, you should be making money.
The advantage is that you don’t have to pay while you build your list. You can learn how to use all of the features of an email service provider for free. Enough said. Just click on the banner below to get your free account.
The third part of your foundation is something to sell. A product or service.
If you don’t have anything to sell, you can become an affiliate. It’s usually free to sign up, and if you sell download products, you can easily get a 50 percent commission. I would start with Clickbank.com.
There is a lot of misinformation out there. And there are some awesome resources. Just keep learning and trying things. Never give up and you too can have your own profitable online business.
