I’ve never pretended to be an expert. In fact, the reason I’m doing this blog is to have a record of my own internet marketing journey. If anyone wants to follow me, great – if not – that’s OK too.
Oh What a Process!
Once anyone makes the decision to begin to learn Internet Marketing (which is the phrase generically used by anyone who attempts to make money online) you’ll most likely go through a process that looks like this:
Phase 1 – A Strong Desire to Change
Something about your life has steered you to look at IM as a way to change your life. Perhaps you hate your job, or have lost it. Perhaps you want to work from home. Perhaps you are tired of making someone else rich. Somehow you got to this point and you are now looking for your piece of the pie.
Phase 2 – Learning Curve
It doesn’t matter where you start in IM, you will no doubt find that there is a tremendous learning curve. Perhaps you just want to learn how to blog, and the mere process of getting your first Wordpress site up, takes a year, or you get bogged down in creating content and praying for traffic – which doesn’t come in.
So, you try to learn strategies for building links or improving SEO and that turns out to be far more complex and challenging then you ever thought. Before you know it, you are overwhelmed with techniques, ideas, strategies, programs, passwords to remember, rules to follow (and break) and so much stuff you might find yourself….
Phase 3 – Overwhelmed and or Stuck
This phase happens to all of us, probably, and no doubt many of us who reach this phase, give up, quit, or settle for doing IM as a hobby instead of as the vehicle to get us out of debt, out of the job we hate and into a brighter financially independent future. But some of us find the power and resources to keep plodding through the challenges and failures so we can actually make something happen and when we do we…
Phase 4 – Build on Little Successes and Scale Up our Efforts
This is the one thing I can say I’m proudest of at this point in my IM career. I’m totally at this phase right now. My successes have been minor so far, but they exist! And I’ve learned how to do so many things I didn’t know how to do before. I know that if I just keep working hard at accomplishing specific tasks that ultimately result in a financial return, and keep tweaking and improving my systems and strategies that I will get where I want to be – provided I don’t quit, because I’m not rich yet.
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