I agree with the idea of sign up for this, buy this, and so on. You can usually tell the people who are actually selling something of value – they do two things, usually tell you what they are selling you (rather than a fancy named product) and give you a sample of it, or some other useful free information, that is valuable by itself (much as you are doing here!)
I actually sign up to a lot of the stuff, as it often gives me ideas for what to look into. I used to sit through a lot of it, now there is a time limit – if I am sat there for more than a minute and are none the wiser, I close and unsubscribe. They lost me.
I think that the biggest thing with internet marketing is to make a start – for example buy a hosting plan, and a domain name, and make a start. You might get it wrong, but will learn alot along the way.
My biggest challenge is to find the time – I need to outsource to get the volume of work done, but without the traffic, there’s no income. Catch – 22. How do I get the articles, and get the backlinks, and still have time to sleep?! Good articles are one thing, but people knowing that they are there is another. I guess it just takes time, and we’re a bunch of people these days who want everything to work immediately!

I will most certainly have questions once I’ve worked through some of the sites I’m putting together, and will definitely come back and ask questions of you.

Thanks, steven

Thanks,
Dee

Any help will be very much appreciated
Thanks so much
Vickie

I would think finding a hot market full of buyers would be step one.

I’d like to know how to do that really well. If it fit in well with my passions…so be it but that isn’t 100% necessary.

Just because someone is super passionate about yak shaving it doesn’t mean they should build a business around it.

If market research shows that 9,000,000 people are searching Google for “yak shaving” each month and there are zero competing sites….go for it right?

I was just about to email you with a question of my own, which I hoped you would turn into a blog post, knowing that you usually answer one person’s question in front of everybody to help as many people as possible at once. Then, I found this thread, so…

Picking a business model… this has me going round and round. Affiliate marketing, blogging, product creation, on and on.

Is there a business model which doesn’t require social marketing, article marketing, satellite sites, web 2.0, podcasting, video, etc?

I don’t want to be known. I don’t want to be famous. I don’t want to spend hours on Twitter. I don’t want to spend all day working on something I get technically frustrated doing poorly. I don’t want to have to write continuously about something I have no knowledge or passion about.

When it comes to blogging, I’m in a course that teaches each little step about how to do niche blogging, with the idea of building 40 or 50 of them which bring in a few hundred dollars a month each. The idea being to learn how to do one, then replicate, then do periodic ‘maintenance’ on each one, which I assume means to write another post. This, to me, seems like drudgery and an organizational nightmare. I’m barely into this course and it’s not costing me much, but truly the only reason I’m staying in it is to get the education to build the first one and see what happens with it, but already, I cannot for the life of me see down the road how I can do 40 or 50 of them.

On the other hand, the person I’m watching lately that speaks mostly to my soul about blogging as a business is Yaro Starek. His business model is more doable for my life, I believe. He doesn’t post every day, he posts about something he’s involved in and loves, he builds a list and creates products to sell to them and runs a membership program (which I wouldn’t care to do) and also affiliates for other people’s products. “Conversion blogging”, I think he calls it. I’m wondering if that can be done in a niche other than the ‘newbie wants to make money’ niche. The only thing I could possibly see writing about continuously is my life, my family, my principals, my opinions. Can I take a personal blog and do ‘conversion blogging’?

What about product creation? Between PLR materials and outsourcing, I can see producing products to sell in a JV kind of way. If a person (me) were to pursue this line could they avoid all the social marketing and strictly contain their efforts to building relationships with other people with lists of their own?

Anybody reading this can tell, I’m sure, that part of my problem is ‘taking action’, but I don’t want to learn every single detail of how to do every single thing. I want to pick a model I can keep up with and decide what my strengths are and what I hate to do and get someone else to do that… someone who enjoys doing that for money. (Which reminds me, just what can one expect from a VA, and are they all different insofar as what they provide?) I want to run a business, not a drudge factory. I want to make a decent living on my own terms and look forward to each day knowing that whatever content I put up is something I believe in and care about and maybe, just maybe, will lift someone else up and make their day and contribute to their lives.

Well, maybe all this would have been better suited to an email after all. I apologize to all of you for ranting, but heck, maybe that’s what I do best after all. Hey, can I make money online doing that? Now, maybe there’s a blog right there… “GripesRus”.com

And to all a good night,
Quinn