My Humble Beginnings as an Internet Marketer
My name is Doug and I am very new to the world of internet marketing. Even though I had never done anything but surf the internet my New Years resolution was to find a way to earn enough money through the internet to quit my day job. I am going to share my story here. Be it success or failure. I imagine it will be a little of both. And if you don’t mind I am going to try to make some money along the way.
I originally thought that making money on the internet would be a very easy task to accomplish. I soon found out that I had a lot to learn. So I spent money on this book and that book but without the underline base of knowledge I was overloaded with information I just couldn’t assimilate. After three weeks of gathering information and still not knowing how to get started I found something called a membership site.
I joined immediately and am now in my fifth week with Wealthy Affiliates. They have an eight week training program for newbies like me. A forum where you can post questions and receive advise from long term members and the owners are easily accessible through the forum and email.
Well I completed the first weeks lesson and decided to get started right away. I choose to run an adwords campaign for a product I won’t mention here. I choose a large group of keywords. Within 5 days I had spent $125.00 with zero sales. I shut that campaign down.
I went back to wealthy affiliates and finished the week 2 lesson. I then went back to my adword campaign and narrowed my keywords down to 5 very narrowly targeted keywords. I don’t get a lot of hits but it is converting into a sale at a 5% clip. Not bad but with the money I am able to risk this will take forever before I can quit my day job.
I have now completed four weeks of training and had my first $200 week last week. I am now working on this site which is a little different than most and probably looks amateurish because I am an amateur. I have learned to use wordpress to some extent. I am going to try and get adsense and affiliate income from here. Don’t be bashful! Click my links!
Seriously though, if you are interested in making a career out of internet marketing joining a membership group like Wealthy Affiliates is a very smart move. With their training course, tools and forum there is a wealth of knowledge. The members in the forum are great and genuinely care about your success. For $29.95 per month you can’t go wrong. Now all this is just my opinion as a member of Wealthy Affiliates to find out more click here.
