After a hesitant start, my Internet Marketing mindset was taking off at last. The questions I had in mind were, what the heck is internet marketing?, what does an Internet Marketing business need to do to get started? Do I need to have plenty of cash in advance in order to get compete in this round-the-world trading?
First time when I heard about Internet Marketing is when a friend of mine offered me a ticket to an Internet Marketing seminar here in Sydney, Australia. At the beginning, I thought it was some kind of scams and some MLM (Multi Level Marketing) money making opportunities where you’d have to purchase a package to get started. (Don’t miss understand me, I do not think that MLM is a scam, it can generates a good income but I just think that it isn’t a right type of business for me.)
I decided to join the seminar anyway as the ticket price is reasonable and I know that I have nothing to lose other than wasting my whole weekend into it. When the speakers talked about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Google Ad-words, I was so confused and kept asking questions to the guy besides me as I was really confused but I stayed there, wrote all the notes and kept listening although I was totally lost : ).
Long story short, by the end of the seminar I began to understand that Internet Marketing is all about making money while you sleep, transforming your hobbies, skills, and knowledge into cash by creating digital downloadable products and selling them to others who can benefit from it in the form of electronic books (e-books), how to videos, software, audios, graphics, etc.
At the beginning, I still had no clue on what I’d have to offer to the world, I joined all the seminar speakers’ mailing list / newsletter, read every single message they delivered, purchased the courses, e-books, and tools that suited me well, and studied the strategies they used to run their online businesses.
The research and home study courses gave me the idea overload syndrome. I had too many ideas and information from different sources stored in my head. I couldn’t focus as I was thinking to do everything at once wishing a perfect time would come but it never.
After 2 months living in the shades of gray in Internet Marketing world, I began to understand the concepts of Internet Marketing and I made myself believed that in order to reap the rewards, I had to take a leap of faith and took action.
My first dollar was commissions from affiliate marketing by referring / recommending friends to join web hosting using my affiliate link and it created a momentum to skyrocket my confident in online businesses. From there I repeated the processes by promoting different products all over the web by blogging on weight loss, health, sports niche etc. with my affiliate link intact. On top of commissions from affiliate marketing, I also used google adsense to earn a few dollars simply by putting adsense ads in my blogs.
The other website that I launched was HotAndIncredibleDeal.com that provides in-demand ready to sell products that could transform a newbie becomes an overnight author. The products give the freedom to the license owner to modify the contents and put their name as author.
Those were just a brief story of how I started my online career, If I can do it.. then you can definitely do it too… There’s a famous quote among the internet marketers “You Don’t Have to Get It Perfect, You Just Need to Get It Going”, this statement is true because by taking one step at a time you will gain momentum once you have seen the result, even for only $1. The real secret to Internet Marketing success is to take action NOW!
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