Starting an Internet Business – Advice for Newcomers

So you’re new to the world of Internet Marketing and you’ve read that people are making hundreds of thousands of dollars of income every year and you want to be part of it. Why not, the opportunities are there to do exactly that.However, it is not as easy as some of the literature you have read. There are many ways to succeed and even more ways to fail. The failure can be disheartening, frustrating and sometimes very costly in time and money.But I’m not interested in the systems that fail and am not going to mention them. What I am going to tell you is how you should start and what tools you should use to start building your business steadily so that it lasts.The “Get Rich Quick” schemes only get other people rich, it is unlikely you will benefit. You will need to build your business systematically following a tried and trusted method to ensure you have and solid structure in place to grow and develop. All this can be done very quickly once you have learned the methods you need and unlike a physical business the lead-in time to become profitable can be incredibly short and you can be incredibly successful with it.To build a business you first of all need an idea. With the internet it can be an idea that someone else has already had but that is not a problem. If you have a particular interest in something, and this can be almost anything, you can start a business around that. Simple but true.Let us say for example, that you have a real passion for keeping Tropical Fish and have built up a huge knowledge as a consequence. This is a real niche market with many followers and one you are qualified to work so you choose this as your first market to promote and become an expert in and build your business in the first instance around this passion and knowledge.

You then need to find out how you can start to make money, which is after all the purpose, and then you discover how to promote it. If the passion you have cannot make money, for example there is nothing to sell there is no point in doing it for business purposes. With tropical fish (and for many, many other niches) there is however a lot of opportunity to monetize your business. You can sell guides, books, fish tanks and accessories, food and even the fish themselves. There are a number of on-line stores offering affiliate arrangements for all of these products.Now you’ve decided on your market you need to build your structure. It is safe to say that those that promise you riches beyond your dreams that involve no work tend to fall into the category of ones to ignore and despite what they promise should be avoided at least in the first instance. Whatever promises that are made of instant riches with no work, you cannot succeed in any business without putting in effort. Once put in however, some businesses can continue to earn a form of residual income for a long time, but will always require a little work, but this is the type of business you should be seeking. In other wordsFORGET Plans that say you do not need a website. FORGET schemes that say you need no technical knowledge. You will need some. FORGET Pay Per Click GuidesThey will all cost you money are frequently only re-hashed from previous guides that have shown a tendency to fail in the past. Many of these people behind such guides are only after your money and really don’t care whether you succeed or not.A terrible cliche I know, but if you see something that seems too good to be true, it probably is. In the world of internet marketing there is a dumpster-load full of empty promises and worthless information. So be cautious.If you are a total beginner it is so difficult to know where to start and is very, very tempting to follow the promise of 5 figure sums in your first month of trading. My advice is, don’t follow these. There are dozens and dozens of them out there and most of them offer something that may have worked once but is unlikely to work now, or is just a re-hash of what somebody else once did. Resist the temptation. The best place to start is at the beginning.Learn what you need to know before you rush headlong into any programme.If you have a particular talent or interest in something – Use it. You will come over far better if you are passionate and really believe in what you are promoting.Be systematic, do not rush into loads of different avenues at once and consider your marketOK that’s easy, but how do you learn what you need to know? Unfortunately there is not a magic pill waiting for you, you have to look hard to find out what you need to know to get started. You will read so many things and be offered so many ways as a path to success you will become totally confused. Focus on one workable plan and concentrate on this before looking at others. This is from someone who initially ignored this advice and consequently became frustrated and unable to work out which way to go. Eventually I filed everything away and went back to basics.Making money on=line is a real emotional ride. There will be times when you feel defeated and deflated with all your work a complete and utter waste of time. All hope disappears. Conversely you will feel the exact opposite some day, elated and like a world beater. Hold that feeling, defeatism leads to defeat.When I started I lacked the knowledge and skill to make any sort of success. I started blind and ended up lost and out of pocket. I was sensible in what I spent but still wasted a lot of money I didn’t really have. Just ask Mastercard.

I did find one marketing plan I bought I kept and used that as a template. I followed the advice and guess what, it didn’t make me million but it did give me a steady yet satisfactory start and taught me the tricks and tips I previously lacked.This is a planned development of your internet business. Each step is laid out and you learn through a series of excellent video presentations. Firstly it prepares you to prepare and works within your own time and financial schedule Then it goes on to help you select your market. This in itself can be confusing or even daunting but is a key to your success and this system makes it much clearer and guides you through what you need to understand. Concentrating mostly on the physical product market it shows what is good and what is not so good.Once your market is chosen the programme then goes on to help you with setting up your Domain Name and setting up your Hosting. Then setting up your site and the good things you can do to make it seen by your target market. It goes through this process in some detail and makes everything very simple for you to follow.It follows on with ways to research your product, how to write your reviews and how to promote these reviews.For a beginner this planned approach to the weird and wonderful ways of Internet Marketing gives you a definite head start and enables you to have a structured plan to be successful. I’m not going to say it will work for you, but it’s sure worked for me, after all you are reading this.