Doing It the Old Fashioned Way
I started my Internet Marketing journey, August 2008. I figured I had to do my due diligence for a while. I did a lot of reading and finally joined a membership site with someone I trusted. The site was a good decision because it gave me tons of ideas and valuable free stuff. Not that free junk you usually get when you sign up on a squeeze page.
I just realized what a momentous moment I have already reached. Three months ago I had no idea what a squeeze page was. Now I know a lot of things! And not nearly enough!
Anyway, about a month into my due diligence and information overload, I signed up for a coaching program. It is a great coaching program. Easy to follow. There was just one problem. Me. I was too new. It is not that the program didn’t give step by step instructions, it was that I had no idea what I was really trying to achieve online.
The basis of this program is that you will write and market an ebook. And surely they give you all the tools to do just that. Except I couldn’t figure out my niche. This was no fault of the program. I was merely in too deep, too fast for my particular sensibilities.
On the flip side though, without my coaching course. I doubt very much I would own my own domain and have a WordPress blog up and running. The funny thing is, once I got the blog, I didn’t know what to do with it. What I did not want to do is be an Internet Marketing Marketer. And I still don’t. I have massively eclectic interests and I could generate ideas all day long without ever having to sell a “how to make money on the net” book.
So I won’t. And just yesterday I think I finally decided on my first ebook topic. Notice I did not say my first niche. In fact my topic is rather broad but it is flowing so easily and quickly it is clearly the book I am meant to write at this time. So niches be darned. I am going with my heart.
Meanwhile I am developing as an Internet Marketer, the old fashioned way. I am learning everyday. I finally started blogging on a topic near and dear to my heart on a free blogging program. Ultimately I want all my blogs to be on WordPress with my own domain. But I am struggling with setting up domains and blogs and html and all that jazz. Sure I could hire a freelancer. But where would that put me?
I can see a light at the end of the tunnel. It is a mere flicker now. I realize I am not likely going to be an overnight success and I don’t care about that. I have made 2009 the year I make money online. How much money I have no idea. But the important thing is I will be learning. Worst case scenario, I have a whole new skill set which is never a bad thing.