Getting Started in Internet Marketing 5 Tips

Hi from the sunny Costa Blanca on yet another beautiful day.

If you are anything like me being brought into the Cyber age kicking and screaming, then the word Internet is very scary, let alone marketing (again if like me you had never been involved in sales) and even worse put the two together and we have a complete minefield of ways to lose and spend money like a runaway train.

1. STOP Take a big breath and think about your life. Whatever interrview you have had, job, career, or relationship you have been marketing "YOU", have you ever flirted????? What are you marketing to the other person????? "You"

2. Think about a purchace you have made, if the sales staff were "in your face", or sitting chewing gum chatting to a mate, or none could not be found when you wanted information, no matter how good the product or what the price was, you would choose to go elsewhere. Because you felt that you were buying from them personally. You need to be your best advertisment, dress, attitide, listening skills, self confidence, product knowledge. Each of these is an investment in the "ME" Brand. This is the biggest step for most people and the biggest step to success.

3. Read, Read and Read more, you will see the the same names keep appearing, when you don't know anyone in this industry that will give you a lead. Loads of free information out there, Google names and read their achievements. Look at their styles, can you work with them? Do they inspire you? Do they talk in a way you can understand easily?

4. Don't sink under an in box full of autoresponses, no matter how personal they seem they are automatic. Once you have found a mentor you want to work with, unsubscibe the rest or you will have information overload. Look at the products, courses, packages offered and choose one that is right for you. If you are a mum with a young family and a job, with the best will in the world you cannot dedicate hundreds of hours to your personal and professional development. You will feel pressurised and set yourself up to fail. 15 mins a day of solid 100% concentration is better than 2 hours of conflicting thoughts of what have I got to do tomorrow, what shopping do I have to do. It is not a race, opportunities will not fade away new ones will always come up. When my daughter was young as a single parent my study time was in the bath when she was in bed, I could relax and absorb information.

5. Financial investment, money back guarantees are great but you need to find the money first.. there are some great packages for all fianncial situations, don't over stretch yourself, buy the next level up when you have grown your income to pay for it. Which ever course or mentor you choose, believe in them and follow their guidance to the letter, don't skip a chapter, or think you can do it better another way, their methods are proven and they know more than we do!!!!

There are some amazing Masters of their trades out there to choose from, but if you are starting on a budget my personal reccomendations would be, Mike Dillard's Building on a Budget $30 brilliant and you will have a functioning business, then Jim Rohn Year to Success this is a weekly practical workbook, sent through in units on a weekly basis, so it gets you into discplined work/study mode from day one. This is $9.99 for the fist couple of months then $17.99 monthly to the end, but these two will see a completely different you both personally and professionally......Don't take my word for it, check them both out and see if you goals can be reached with their help.