To me the word “newbie” is a state of mind that holds many people back

A Newbie is someone who spends their money chasing the dream of creating an online money tree, but even after planting hundreds of acorns no oaks are in sight.

You see the world of internet marketing has set up so that people get caught in what I call the “Newbie Trap”. Far too many people believe the dream that overnight welath can be created from an adwords campaign and the latest much have $47 ebook.

Once you make that first purchase it’s a downward spiral of spending more money and trying to learn everything that you think you need to know. After I purchased my first ebook I was called up and told that if I paid a few thousand and joined a mentoring programme I would be earning tens of thousands within months.

Like a true newbie I was out with the credit card and started trying the coaching calls. Sadly the guy who was training me was totally rubbish, and it was only when I started to do background research I found much more valuable content for free in marketing forums like NetMarketingForum & TheWarrior Forum.

Fast forward a couple of years and now that I’m a bit more savy I want to share 3 tips with you that will help you to get started actually making money.

1. Stop calling yourself a newbie, and avoid products that are advertised as being suitable for newbies. The people selling these products realise that you have a shiny new credit card and rely on you being green behind the ears and pay copywriters to play on this.
2. Identify the Mavens that you want to be like. Download the free reports, participate in forums, comment on blogs, and become a student of marketing.
3. Start building your list. This is easier than sounds, as you don’t need to re-invent the wheel! Rebrand / get giveaway rights for a report you downloaded in step 2, and add your own aweber code and thank-you pages.

Now I hope you understand this, and if you need help with #3 then please get in touch

Andrew

Here’s something that I’ve noticed from doing some support work for launch formula marketing

Far too many people are using technology as a barrier and an excuse as to why they haven’t actually put this powerful marketing script into action. To get my point across I want you to answer this question:

Is it better to have a website that failed, or fail because you have no website?

I’m a believer that the best way to learn is by making mistakes, so I would rather have a failed website to analyse what went wrong rather than being left to wonder what would have happened if…

Just to make you feel better here’s an email I got today from Keith Wellman about his Dad’s new site

Yesterday Mr. Jeff Wellman launched
Lay Off Your Boss 2…

He did not do as well as expected,
however, this kind of thing happens
all the time in this market that
we are in…

so he has changed up the gameplan a bit…

He is taking off the $77 price and
willing to let you try it out for
one month to see what it is all
about…

So as you can see even the superstars don’t always get it right.

If you’re in the glass half empty camp and full of procrastination then I want you to make an effort to actually get your own website online, and learn from your mistakes.

Finally, this is my third attempt at a blog, and although it’s still not perfect, it’s already doing so much better than the previous 2 which looking back were no more than glorified “splogs”

Andrew

p.s. When you leave a comment be sure to include a link to your site, I like to see what sites my readers have.

It’s now the middle of February, so how many of you have forgotten about your goal’s that you set out for 2008?

==> Andrew Stark’s 2008 Goals

As you’ve probably guessed from the title of this post I’ve achieved one of my goals. Starting on the 1st April my new title at work will be “Senior Chemist”. Much to Amanda’s annoyance I don’t know how much extra money this promotion brings, but it should keep us in nappies and formula milk for the new arrival.

I hope that you’re goals are starting to become a reality.

Andrew

Simon Hodgkinson and Jeremy Gislason fall into the catagory of “super affiliates” who can make thousands of dollars from a single email promotion.

The reason behind this success is that many people see them as authority figures.

More importantly the reason why people regard them as authority figures is based on the thousands of people they have in their membership sites. So I wanted to let you know about this great new site that Jeremy and Simon have been
secretly putting together over the past couple of months.

Why?

To teach you everything they know about building online businesses and marketing with membeship sites.

There is already lots of great software around to build membership sites, but they have discovered many of you need more training n the mindset, ins and outs, behind the scenes etc.

Lots of free content available and tons more content in the upgraded Silver member area.

Check it out here, it’s totally free to sign up:
http://www.membershipmillionaire.com/rep/AndrewStark.html