subject: Making Your First Online Dollar [print this page] Every Internet marketer dreams of making a million dollars, but most get ahead of themselves in doing do and lose sight of the fact that making a single dollar is a pre-requisite to making a million. For this reason, your goal for your online business, if you haven't made one already, is to make your first dollar profit online.
There are plenty of ways that you can go about making your first money online; in fact, so many ways that it can be difficult to choose one. That's why there is a common condition that afflicts newbies called information overload. The cure to information overload is the delete button on your keyboard. More specifically, you'll need to head over to wherever you store your information products and related files and start deleting everything that you know you'll never read or use. Most information products are either vague, rehashed from old material, or are on different wavelengths, and will therefore not be of use to you.
The best places to learn about making money online are Internet marketing forums. As a member of a forum, you are able to leverage the expertise and knowledge of people who are at various stages in their online businesses. You are also able to hear of trends, insights and news that you wouldn't otherwise hear outside the forum.
Yes, Internet marketing forums are a great medium, and particularly so if you're a newbie. You can read all about other people's experiences, and can learn from and avoid their mistakes. Perhaps best of all, what you read will be neutral and unbiased, not like what your normally read on other websites and blogs and in information products, which can often be biased or simply sales talk.
After you've cut out all the useless information, you'll find that one of the biggest secrets to making money online is to find a demand and to create a supply for it. If you're trying to make money online, you have a demand for knowledge of how to do it, and those who try to teach you are creating a supply. Look around Internet marketing forums to see what people want and need. Participating in active forums is a great way to discover hot trends that you can capitalize on and find demand for products or services that you can satisfy.
In fact, a good place to start making money online, one which guarantees that you will start making money straight away, is to offer services, such as content creation and link building, to those who are already making money online. Not only will you have money coming in, but you will also be able to learn from direct experience exactly how others are building an online income.
So, having decided to cut down on your reading and increase your level of action, how do you know which money making approach you should go for? Well, it actually doesn't really matter! So long as you choose a method that is working for other people, and you personally stick with it over time, then you will be fine.
by: Mark Walters
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