beginners - what has been your first step in IM?

[nickitta]

Hello!

Wooah! It has already been a bit more than 5 weeks since I started this thread. A lot has happened since. I have now 30 subscribers to my list and have made a few clickbank sales. I also feel a lot more confident about IM and concentrating on generating traffic.

[nickitta]

Well said!

My advice to Nickitta is to stay focus and only keep working for not more then 2 programs when you first start, you will easily get distracted and losing focus if you have more then 2 programs running at the same time!

That is exactly what I am doing. 2x programs running is more than enough work! Also I think that with some much information around, it is very important to stick to 1 plan!

[nickitta]

Sorry, I did not mean to try and hijack you tread. Congrats on making some money.

Thanks Much appreciated.

[nickitta]

TRAFFIC - oh my this is one BIG mountain for me to get up!!

How are you doing?

Traffic is the lifeline of Internet Marketing. Setting-up the website is the easy part. I am sticking to traffic methods that I enjoy and have dropped the ones that were too cumbersome like "profile backlinks".

[stephenxanders]

The first step will always be "KNOWING WHAT BUSINESS YOU WANTED and which NICHE you are targeting". It's quite easy to create a squeeze page however what's important is the niche you are entering. No matter how attractive your squeeze page is, but if you are in a very crowded market plus have no other marketers to back you up for email marketing campaigns, then it will be hard for you to succeed...

Aside from creating a squeeze page, I suggest you open connections with marketers in the niche you are into :-)

[nickitta]

[QUOTE=stephenxanders;56198]The first step will always be "KNOWING WHAT BUSINESS YOU WANTED and which NICHE you are targeting". It's quite easy to create a squeeze page however what's important is the niche you are entering. /QUOTE]


That's where "Research" comes into it. My plan has always been to identify first a market and then sell a product to this market.

[starry46]

Hello!

I am Nickitta and a newbie to IM. Information overload is a big hurdle to any newbie.

I think taking the first step is always daunting. My first step has been to create a squeeze page, and I am now working on generating traffic to it.

I would love to hear about your stories.

Rightly said - Information overload is a big hurdle for a newbie.

As regards generating traffic to your squeeze page, your best bet would be to promote on manual traffic exchanges. There are some great TEs out there, such as hit2hit, traffic-splash, ilovehits and a host of others. Visit traffichoopla and you will find some of the best TEs listed there.

All the best !

[nickitta]

Rightly said - Information overload is a big hurdle for a newbie.

As regards generating traffic to your squeeze page, your best bet would be to promote on manual traffic exchanges. There are some great TEs out there, such as hit2hit, traffic-splash, ilovehits and a host of others. Visit traffichoopla and you will find some of the best TEs listed there.

All the best !

At this stage I am not familiar with traffic exchange. The 2 methods I am currently using are blog commenting and article marketing.

Can you tell me a bit more about traffic exchange. How does it work?