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You are reasonably happy in your 9 to 5 job. So what if it is sometimes more like 6 to 10, it is no big deal. There is enough money to cover the bills, give the wife and kids some nice treats, life is OK.

A little extra would be nice, though, wouldn’t it.?

Then it starts. The siren song leading you to a place of promises, dreams, sidewalks paved with gold, unlimited wealth. You are ready to listen. How about $50,000 a week for 4 hours work a day? Good for starters. Or even better, earn $40.000 overnight, while you sleep.

You will find literally hundreds of Gurus ready to brainwash you into signing up for their particular set of dreams. That is what they are really selling, dreams…….and hope.

Your eyes glow, your heart beats faster, you can’t sleep at night. At last… the answer!!

Welcome, my friend, to the world of internet marketing.

The siren song has led you into a big blue ocean of hopes and dreams, where there are lots of much bigger and cleverer fish, and a good many sharks. Can a little tiddler survive?

One of the first things you notice is that you are no longer an ordinary member of the human race. You are now a member of a sub-species…a newbie. There, you thought you were just a beginner! No, No, the internet has its own language…..

Bombarded on all sides ….. to eBay or not to eBay, affiliates, eBooks…it just goes on.

There are two possible endings to this story. I think we all know what the first could be, so let’s ignore that and concentrate on the positive…… The Happy Ending.

You write that eBook that becomes a cult bestseller around the world, is translated into 60 languages and solves the world economic crisis at a stroke. Or you find that one amazing product that solves every crisis the world has ever known. Climate change is reversed, Icelandic volcanoes stop erupting, and Jeremy Clarkson becomes a polite pussycat. They create a new Nobel Prize especially for you.

Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Ron Woodham come to you for advice. Barrack Obama sends Airforce One to fly you to the White House for an urgent consultation. You are a sensation on MySpace, Youtube, Facebook. In fact, there are so many hits on your Youtube videos that their servers crash and they have to upgrade them before reloading the videos.

Congratulations, you are no longer a newbie. You are now officially a Guru.

But that, dear reader, is another story for another day!

When you begin your Internet marketing career, the very first thing you hear over and over again, is “FIND A PROFITABLE NICHE”. I have put this is capital letters, because, to an Internet marketer, this is the Holy Grail, Paradise Found, and winning the lottery all rolled into one!

Finding a profitable niche is one of the most discussed subjects in Internet marketing and can be a scary prospect for the newbie. Everybody talks about it, everybody has opinions on it, and the poor newbie will have many “rabbit caught in headlights” moments just thinking about it.

But the hard fact is, if you have a product in mind, and you don’t find a niche market for it, then how much success are you going to have? Not a lot. The days of just putting a product up on the internet and making sales without effort are long gone. Now extra effort is essential.

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If you are serious about building an online identity, make sure you don’t neglect the marvellous resource that is online Forum Marketing.

This should be one of the first options you consider when setting up your online business, and you can begin participating in forums even before you have your website set up.

Participating in forums in your niche, will not only help build your online presence, but you will be able to develop your own knowledge base by reading posts by other more experienced marketers.

Forums can be a great source of learning, to ask questions and receive answers from those who know, but you must tread cautiously to begin with, and carefully abide by the terms and conditions of each forum.

Your aim must be to become a regular participant in your chosen forums, and then when other forum members read and like your contributions, they will be encouraged to click on your signature link and visit your website or blog. This is a great way to build relationships with others in you niche.

With this in mind, there are steps to take before you actually get to the “marketing” aspect of Forum Marketing.

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As a newbie Internet marketer you will have already been told that the most successful way to get started online is to develop and promote your own particular product.

You can promote the product, sell it and more importantly, see 100% of the profits flowing into your own back account.

Which is all very well, if you have a product all ready to go, or are prepared to delay the start of your Internet marketing career until you have developed and created a suitable product.

But what if you want to jump in straightway and hopefully earn some money with the least possible outlay?

Well there is another way, Affiliate Marketing.

You may well have already considered Affiliate Marketing as an option, but have never taken the time to research it thoroughly. This is a real shame as you can get started with minimal outlay and the learning curve is reasonably user-friendly.

Now, let’s start with a basic explanation of Affiliate Marketing and why you should make it a part of your online endeavours. There are huge opportunities online for this kind of marketing, and it would be a pity not to enjoy a slice of that particular pie!

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We all know by now that success at Internet marketing has a great deal to do with attitude and mindset.
The following article by Internet psychologist Graham Jones certainly makes this point very clearly and gives plenty of food for thought!

 Every day you can read stories about people who have made a fortune online. Being an Internet entrepreneur is clearly attractive. You can work at home, you can choose your own hours and, so it seems, you can take truckloads of cash to the bank.

Yet in spite of the successes we hear about, most people who try their hand at being an Internet entrepreneur fail. They buy all the ebooks and audio CDs that contain the instructions from the “gurus”. They attend teleseminars, Internet marketing conferences and even sign up for one-to-one coaching programs. Yet, in spite of the thousands they spend on their own education, they still don’t make the millions their mentors achieve.

So why is that? Why is it that only a tiny proportion of would-be Internet entrepreneurs actually make the grade? It’s been estimated that only 2% of people who try their hand at Internet marketing succeed. The rest keep trying, without any real success.

The factor that marks out the top entrepreneurs from the rest is one of attitude; that’s all. What the millionaire online entrepreneurs do is treat the entire activity as a proper business. They have meticulous plans, they engage in detailed market research and they monitor every aspect of their online work so they can improve on their results each day. In other words, the top Internet marketers don’t just “play at it”; they take it very seriously.

Yes, some of them don’t work full time. But when they do work, they work hard. They don’t just tinker at things, trying an email campaign here, an advert there and the occasional request to add a link to their web site. Instead, they have specific targets they wish to achieve and then they write detailed plans about how they will go about achieving that.

Furthermore, the successful Internet entrepreneurs are focused on what they do. They don’t try and sell one ebook today, an audio on a different subject tomorrow and a report on something else next week. While they may have several different products, they will focus their efforts, one at a time.

If you are trying to make money online and don’t have the same success as your Internet marketing heroes you could try the following:

1. Focus on what you really want to achieve
2. Choose just one product or service
3. Set targets for your sales on an annual, monthly and weekly basis
4. Work out the ways you will reach those targets
5. Do one thing at a time in your list of activities designed to achieve your targets
6. Monitor your results and adapt your work accordingly
7. Learn from what you achieve and use that knowledge in future projects

Working on just one product at a time may seem time consuming, but it will pay dividends in the long run.

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