You’ve just discovered Internet marketing and all the riches that it can bring, great stuff! But let’s take a step back a minute and look at some of the mistakes made by Internet marketing newbies which goes some way to explaining why so few people actually make money online.
Information Overload
This is probably the biggest problem all Internet marketers have when it comes to making money online. To make you feel better the vast majority of people suffer from information overload in the Internet marketing arena – there is just so much information that is being rammed down our throats each day by people trying to sell you stuff.
The best advice that can be offered here is to unsubscribe from mailling lists and don’t get caught up in the hype. Stick to one thing that interests you and focus all your time and attention on that. If you like the idea of affiliate marketing then build affiliate websites, if you like the idea of making money from Facebook Ads then spend all your time doing that. If you want to create AdSense sites, build just AdSense sites until you are making money from it.
Too many of us get distracted when we hear about other people earning thousands of dollars per day. They either got lucky or concentrated everything they had learning how to make money from that. Stop reading sales letters, stop reading emails sent from other marketers, just focus on one area you want to make money in and ignore all the noise around you.
Giving Up Too Soon
Here’s another truth for you: Making money online isn’t hard but it requires commitment and dedication. Even if you have purchased and are following the best system in the world from the latest guru who’s cutting 5 figure checks each month, it’s going to take some time to see results. If you put up a squeeze page because you want to start building a list (which is a very good thing to do) and find that no one wants to enter their information, don’t give up! You’ve learned something, either the offer wasn’t tempting enough or the copy wasn’t enticing enough. Try something different and keep going until it works.
The same goes for affiliate marketing. I know there are people out there making all this cash by putting up simple affiliate sites recommending a product and they’ve proven that it works. If you have tried it and the site didn’t bring in any sales then you need to keep going until you have found something that works for you.
Too Much Reading, Not Enough Action
Action, or lack of, is probably the biggest mistake made by Internet marketing newbies. They read all the latest strategies and techniques, they ‘live’ on the various marketing forums (you know what I mean!) but they don’t actually do any proper work which makes money. Every time you do something you need to ask yourself a question: how will this help me make money?
Writing an email to your list is a fairly obvious way to make money, submitting articles to article directories can make money in the long term by helping your search engine rankings. On the other hand, filing all the PLR and resell products in to catagorized folders on your hard drive or setting up filters and labels on Gmail so you can see all a ‘gurus’ emails in one place doesn’t help you make money – it’s a time wasting task.
