The Truth About Internet Marketing

I am sure that if you are reading this you have seen all the impossible promises. You know, buy this program and you can quit your day job or make $1000′s of dollars every week working 2 hours a day. Anybody that is in internet marketing will tell you, if they are honest, that internet marketing is work and if your not willing to work at it you will not succeed.

You see, the problem is no one can put everything you need to know into one of these books you see advertised. And the sad truth is almost any system or method you find will work if you stick to it but very few actually stick with it.

Take me for example, I started my online ventures 3 years ago and have probably spent $2000 dollars on various programs. Not all wasted money as I learned a little bit from each of them. I also had more than 20 domains up and running. If your really thinking about trying your hand at internet marketing here are a few of the lessons I learned.

  1. WordPress is the easiest platform to get started with. Even so, after 3 years I am still learning how to modify it to fit my needs but the great part about it is you can get started without having to modify a thing and there are thousands of free themes to choose from. You can improve on my learning curve if you purchase a wordpress guide. One of the best I have seen is WordPress for Internet Marketers.
  2. Don’t try to do too much at first. As I said before, I had more than twenty sites going at one time. I work a full time day job and there was just no way I could keep up with that many. When I decided to focus on three related sites I began to understand what it takes to be successful. I am now getting more than 6000 visitors a month to my primary website and have 10 keywords showing up on the first page of google, one is number one for that keyword and two other keywords are number 2
  3. Start with something you like. You may not make any money at it but you will learn much of what you will need to know to be successful later on and believe me it is much easier creating content about something you already know.

I hope I haven’t confused you but as I said before, internet marketing is a lot of work with a lot to learn. If you are looking for a get rich quick scheme or a lazy mans ways to riches you are wasting your time and money.