5 Things That Intimidate a New Comer to the Online Marketing Maze

Most of the scariest things spinning around in your head are those put there by you.

You imagine that it won't work. You imagine that people will laugh at your attempts to make a better life for yourself. See a pattern?

You 'imagine'. Stop imagining and start doing it and finding out for real. Be strong and resilient and get on with it. You are not alone. The way that you are feeling is typical of someone new to this. Keep reading and you'll see,

1. Failure and the patronising that follows, 'there there'~ 'never mind' as if you'd just scraped your knee.

Hey, snap out of it! At least you tried to make a difference! You don't have to give up after something doesn't work, What does first time anyway?

Get over it and analyse why this didn't work, make some changes and try again. If you give up, then yes, you have failed.

Giving up is the failure NOT that your idea or its implementation didn't work.

2. Don't know where to start?

Very good question. There are so many offers/programs/courses offered apparently, to beginners. Most of them are very good but you may not be ready for them yet.

There is a tendency for the 'make money' products to appear as an 'easier' option, as compared to say, product creation. This isn't necessarily true. If you know loads of accurate information on a subject, it wouldn't be that difficult for you to write it down as an eBook or record it as an MP3 download or make a screen capture video.

The problems begin with the techniques around the selling/production/delivery etc. This is when a beginners course is useful but you need a total overview too. The 'how to stick all the bits together' sort of thing :-)

3. Lack of money.

Yeah, this is a big one but not impossible to overcome. Although investment is a very helpful thing, if you haven't got it, you have to make do with what you can access.

There are plenty of free sites that you can use such as Blogger; Squidoo pages; Hub pages to name a few. Search for free web pages on your favourite search engine and have a go.

Your biggest investment will be your time whether you have money or not. Starting from scratch will take a bit more time but Rome wasn't built in a day.

Hold onto your dream. Believe that you will succeed. Be positive.

With a mind set like that, you can accomplish anything you put your mind to.

4. What if no one is interested in my product

If you do your research before you spend your time creating your products and pages for your chosen market, people will be interested, if they know that you are there.

You must drive people to your sites before you can sell them anything. 'Build it and they will come' only happens in the movies. People don't want to spend hours trawling through pages of results from search engines.

They want an answer NOW and hit that download button to solve their problem so you have to be there to provide it and make that sale.

That leads onto a whole other learning module about traffic and Search Engine Optimisation and there are loads of traffic and SEO manuals out there covering this ever changing subject.

5. You think, you could miss the boat on the next best thing since sliced bread

and never succeed so my emails must be read immediately because they'll hold the secret to my success.

Its unlikely that not opening your emails for a day or so will be the end of your chances on making it online. Great products turn up every so often and they stay around for a good while. If you have no list, there really is no hurry to reply to these affiliate offers.

I'm not saying NOT to bother, I'm just saying that you will get fair warning of a big product launch and you will get enough time to decide to get involved or not. It's not usually a one chance offer how ever I dare say there are exceptions.

Don't beat your self up over the emails, its not worth it. You can't do it all as a one man show, so accept it.

You do need a strength of character to repel all the nay-sayers who inevitably start muttering. The 'why don't you get a proper job?' brigade.

If you have decided to do this then see it through and shut them up with your success. Then of course, your success is attributed to luck, not the hours slogging at the keyboard until you hit on that 'golden ticket!'

Face it some folks can't cope with one of their own making good. Accept it and move on. Congratulations for keeping at it! This isn't school. No one grades your work. If anything its harsher than that.

You get visitors or not. You make sales or you don't. No sliding scale of A to U or 1 to 7 or whatever it is now. Mind you, at least you don't have to wait weeks for the final results! And you can try again with a modified version. I don't remember that happening when I was at school.

The only thing holding you back is you!