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[kripkegirl]

have you put up any websites yet Eddie? Have any ideas for niches?

 

[eddiec]

nothing yet, still learning the rops etc with the lessons. And you? (pm me if so!)

 

[kripkegirl]

I have a Niche I want to market to and I'm hoping to get a site up and running asap, since Mark said it generally takes about 2-3 months for a site to start generating profit.

 

[eddiec]

cool, well keep me posted, i'd love to hear how it progresses. I dont really have any other benchmark to go by so I'd love to hear

 

[eddiec]

Well I've just written my first article and submitted to about six directories. As soon as it is approved I will post a link and see what you all think. Then I'll keep you posted on any sales. here's hoping!

 

[sean06]

Sounds good Eddie. The key with article marketing is to just keep it going. You might not see sales for a little while, eventually you'll build up a head of steam and the sales will come in.

Sean

 

[eddiec]

I look forward to it Sean!
Is anybody else trying the article route to sales?

 

[kripkegirl]

I'm definitely going to be going the website route myself. Figure that way, if nothing else, I'll gain some website building skills. :)

 

[rhythms]

I have been playing around on the internet for about 2 years. Many times I have thought I was on the verge of knowing what I was doing but again, only to realise how much I really don't know. So, I still consider myself a newbie.... maybe slightly advanced newbie.
Because of circumstances, I am now trying to make money online, fulltime. I sit here at my computer, by myself, often wishing I knew someone else in the same position, at about the same level, to compare, exchange thoughts, ideas and methods.
Lots of times, I think to myself, I am so dumb, why can't I do this? But then I work out how to do that particular task and I realise when you know how, it's easy. Just have heaps to learn.
I'm in my mid 50s and I really want to get myself a real internet business.
So, if you are in a similar position, love to have some contact with like-minded people. We may be able to help each other in some way.
Rob.... Sydney Australia

 

[rhythms]

Rob.... Sydney Australia.
rhythms@westnet.com.au

 

[rdgrnr]

Hi all,
I just found out about Mark's site yesterday from a referral at another forum (Warriorforum). I don't think I will be able to thank that guy enough. I went there looking for advice, and mostly what i got was more people trying to sell me their stuff.
Anyway, I too am a newbie trying to break into Affiliate marketing. After having spent the last month or so on information overload, and buying "crap" that promised this or promised that, it was so refreshing to find someone who is actually willing to help newbies get started in this business. Granted, there is the Premium upgrade and the Blueprint video series available for purchase, but the free learning content he offers has been so helpful. I've learned more in the last 24 hours than I have learned in the last 30 days because of Mark's generosity in teaching others the basics at no cost to us. I don't know if any of you have sent him a thank you message, but I did...

 

[jimbee]

:D hi zoe, clyde, jono & tze wee, nice to have a chat. it's especially comforting to know we, newbies are feeling or facing similar learning curve challenge.

i guess if we need help, we just got to ask. get on this fourm & post it.
the faithful ones :wink: are always eager to help.

Hi Geoff,
Your emoticons are not coming through. For some reason the BBcode is not producing the image.

Jim

 

[jimbee]

HI all,
I have been into internet/affiliate marketing for over two years but still consider myself a newbie. There is SOOO much to learn. Unfortunately, there are very few people willing to work with you when you need help for no money.
So, if you are like most newbies, and have no money to spend, you have to substitute money for time and figure it out on your own. I took me a long time just to figure out what people were talking about when they said,"upload this to your website." Website?...what website? How do you get one? Upload? What does that mean? You see how something SO simple can be SO complicated for the newbie who spends days trying to figure out what would take someone else a few minutes to do. It took me over six months to create a website and learn all that was involved in it. Now, I can do it in 30 minutes. I can upload and download and create ..ect in minutes which took me days before.

Now I find myself going through the same process with promotion. I don't know how to promote and try to do the things I see other people mention but have no success. I spend days on the computer trying and failing. Once again, I can't find anyone willing to work with me one on one unless I pay them thousands to learn about traffic generation. I need a daily traffic plan that has been proven to work. I find myself wasting time on things that don't seem to work and don't spend enough time on the things that are suppose to work. Since I haven't got a proven method to work so far, I can't know which methods are a time waster and which ones failed only because I didn't do them consistently. I have several site which I would really appreciate all of you commenting on. I have a main site which is very unorganized. Would like your feedback. My main site is *broken link removed*. My product site is *broken link removed*.
and I also have a blog at *broken link removed*.

I have only asked once before for feedback on my sites but got no answers.
Thanks

 

[rdgrnr]

Jimbee,
I went to the 3 sites you posted, and of them, I found that your product site seemed to flow well with the video and products offered. The blog was pleasant to read, and it wasn't overly packed with useless info. Maybe you could delete the double post(blue on black font) on Ben Stein's article.
As far as your main site, are you promoting this site? I went there as if I were a customer looking for the product that got me there in the first place. You are right, it is unorganized and just seems "stuffed". I would first find a new banner. The colors didn't get my attention other than hard to read. You might want to consider sub-domain sites that are niche related. e.g. Newbie/Free stuff on one sub-domain with some related aff links, next one could be article related, another one for reviews, etc. I'm far from being an expert on this, just looking from a customer's point of view.
I'm not trying to be overly critical, just helpful..my 2 cents

 

[solardave]

Hi Geoff,
Dave here. I started about the same time you did. My background is in Solar. Married and together we have 2 daughters,2 sons 6 grand babies. Too many dogs to list and one cat. My goal is to make lots of money so we can travel. I'd like to visit my good friends in Australia LOL. I don't have any yet but I'm working on it.

 

[jonjoh34]

can somebody point me in the right direction. where do i start hhelpppppp
pplease

 

[CraigMattice]

can somebody point me in the right direction. where do i start hhelpppppp
pplease

OK! I'm finding it hard to believe you just posted this comment. I will be direct here because your simple post speaks volumes.

Why are you here? What do you wish to accomplish? What is your current knowledge of Internet and Affiliate Marketing?

If your answers to 1 and 2 are "I don't know." Then you have a lot of work to do to answer them honestly. I have no idea the answer to number 3.

My suggestion is to start with this website on the "Home" page and progress to the "Lessons" and start at the very beginning. Once you have accomplished this, then come back and answer your original question.

Think about your question again and go here: http://www.affilorama.com/forum/new-to-affilorama/

If you so choose not to accomplish what has been recommended, then I suggest IM/AM is not an area for you.

The ball is in your court.

 

[38north]

Hey all--

I'll add my 2 cents. Married, two grown daughers. My goal is to grow an affiliate biz to eventually replace my current income. Have some online experience but no real success This step by step approach, with lots of help and encouragement, appeals to me. Anyone here form California?

 

[jpastorizo]

Yes Bill. Im from SoCal here in San Bernardino County. You?

 

[bajamike]

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to say Hi, and introduce myself. I am a complete a newbie, so of course I have tons of questions. So far I have just written emails to the support staff-who are great. I will be checking out the Forums to find relevant information, too. I guess as I get more into this I'll have a ton more questions, and I appreciate everyone out there who is writing in with advice based on their previous experiences-I reckon everyone had to be a newbie at some time or other.

Bajamike

 

[38north]

Yes Bill. Im from SoCal here in San Bernardino County. You?

Bay Area--Marin County.

 

[jp8jones]

Hi my name is john and i would like to say that i just got the system last week and i was wondering what this all intales i was working on another site building system and every time i took a step forward they would have me sign up for something else is this going to be the same way Can you comment.

 

[John50]

Hello to all other newbie affiliate marketeers. Just joined this week and so far I have only completed week 1 so a long way to go. I have dabled with other Google Cash Detective but I decided to get out as Chris Carpenter did not have the trainng material ready which is preety important. From what I have seen of Affilorama everything is in place so I can study and put into practice what I learn. I am sure I will fall at many hurdles so I will be relying on some of you to pick me up, shout at me and tell me to get back in the saddle.

A liitle bit about me which I have copied from my profile:
I have worked in the financial services markets mainly in the south east of England for 20 + years until recently when I was made redundant along with a lot of other people in the industry. This is the third time in my career that this has happened and I am therfore determined to create a business and create an income that I can control. Over the last few months I have done like all newbies and read numerous books,ebooks,purchased the golden nugget that every one wants to sell to me. Working as an affiliate marketeer is definately the way so long as I can master the research and the traffic volumes the products are there for the taking so I will give it maximum committment.

Anyone in the UK want to budy up then drop me an email and we can help each other.

John

 

[peleliuvet]

Hello everyone..

New to the Affilitate Marketing world.. Live in Sacramento, CA..35..married / 2 boys / 3 and 10 mos, work for Webex/Cisco.

Just came off of a 6 yr network marketing journey.. great expierience..lots of personal growth..not very financially profitable.

Researched different opps out there, eventually stumbled onto Affilorama.. compared to some others, felt the sincerity of Mark thru his videos.. decided to take the dive.

Loving things so far.. just got started on AFFILO 2.0.. wife does web design already so hoping we can collaborate on this.

My desire to pursue this comes from the 'seed' of financial independence that was planted in my heart over 6 years ago.

LOOKING FORWARD TO "STEP BY STEP / WEEK BY WEEK" moving towards VICTORY.

Mike P

 

[brtanner]

Hello Fellow Newbies!

My name is Bruce: Tanner, wanna be freeman-on-the-land. I'm looking for a way to make ends meet while pursuing my main (and largely unmarketable) interest, worldwide awakening. I also dipped my toe in the affiliate marketing ocean with Google Cash Detective many moons ago. I have done a smattering of web design and banged my head against the wall with Java and Php, blogging, etc.

I've spent a fair amount of money on programs and courses, but have had problems with maintaining motivation and "seeing the reality" of getting profitable sites up. AffiloBlueprint looks like the best thought out plan I've seen, and I really appreciate Mark's simplicity and clarity. I've decided that my first site is going to be on Weight Control, *broken link removed* (way under construction).

Though I have spent hours wading through the world of keywords, I'm still struggling to reach "Aha moments" with it, Fun playing with Traffic Travis, though.

Best wishes to all, and if I can ever be of any help, please let me know.

 

[Demian]

Hi, everybody

I am Demian, a German-Peruvian living in Ecuador, and yes, I am a complete newbie.

But nevertheless I am very decided to build a additional income using the Internet. What I am unsure about is the way I will accomplish that. Promoting my own product? Working as an Affiliate? In German? In English?

I am a bit confused by to many open questions and to much information overload. Right now I think the best way is to work as an Affiliate while I take the time to build my own product. I am still unsure whether my English will be good enough to work in the English speaking markets (with some help here and then).
I hope so, because there are better programs here then in Germany.

Is there somebody like me (with less then perfect English capabilities) who has succeeded with such a business? Any hints?

Thank you and lots of success,
Demian

 

[paulinefojas]

Hi Everyone,

It's nice to be here. I believe that even if we are new to affiliate marketing, we can make it happen. All we have to do is try our best to listen and read on what Mark Ling teaches us. Personally, I believe Mark is a great mentor because he doesn't only give us fish but rather teach us how to fish so we can fend for ourselves.

I admire how the lessons are set up here. It is really fun and easy to understand. In the future, I hope to contribute something worthwhile to this wonderful community.

I know that Affilorama is here for a purpose and it is one of the blessings that I always thank God for.

More power everyone!

 

[xlntmentor]

Hi Geoff, Hi everyone, my name is Bea, and I am a newbie :) , I have been reading these post for some time now, but have been a little hesitant to say anything, but since reading these post in the newbie section, I feel right at home... I am a widow with 3 children , part time nurse, and carer for my mom, and would love to get something going, to be financially free would be a dream come true.. but
have no idea where to start, I am pretty advanced with building sites etc, would love to have someone give me a few tips on starting and what do I sell, My passion is art, and airbrushing, and sell a few of my paintings, Any advice or help would be appriciated...
Thanking you in Advance
Bea

 

[zoomer56]

Hi. My name is Roy and I am new to this like some of the others here. I have a question about ClickBank.
I would like to post ads on some free sites like Craig list. How do you make Hop Link work on these sites?
Thanks.

 

[edivine99]

Another newbie here....I'm glad I'm not the only one struggling. Like so many of you I am hoping this will be an opportunity to support my family. I stay at home with my two kids while my husband workd. I have no hobbies or particular interests so finding a niche has been really tough. I think I've decided but now I'm trying to figure out the whole keyword thing. My brain is getting tired!

 

[JoeDolan]

Hi Guys,

Sean here in Ireland. New also to affiliate marketing but have decided I am sick and tired of working 70 Hour weeks making someone else richer-:) So here I am willing to commit 100% and see how this goes. So far very impressed with site content and lessons so here's hoping can convert plan into success!:))

 

[hamsta]

Hi Everyone. Let me start by saying 2 things, 1) This is my first forum post ever! & 2) I'm a newbie to Affiliate Marketing & i'm overwelmed! Now i've got that out of the way, i'm Paul from the UK. I've dabbled in PPC to promote Clickbank products before, but i jumped in without doing much research & spent £700 to earn £100. I then moved onto Direct Marketing, anyone heard of Andrew Reynolds? I think he's more known in the UK than USA. I've got my 1st product ready (a rebranded cd set), the website is up & running, and i was ready to go, then I found this site & signed up for Launch Tree. Now I don't want to launch my product until I have some upsell/downsells in place for fear of 'leaving money on the table'. I've done a few lessons here, along with a few at Launch Tree, up until the point I found out you need 1-click ordering to really make it work & this is hard to find in the UK, anyone found anywhere that does it for UK based marketers?

I'm rambling on now I know.

My problem is I find myself spending days reading & watching & listening to instructions on what to do, & not actually getting down to it & getting it going. I think i'm thinking too far ahead & getting bogged down with it all. I really just need someone to say 'do this today', 'do this tommorow', but then I suppose we all need that.

I think i've found a nice little niche, but I can't find many products that are associated to it, just a couple of online courses & a few related sites I can promote stuff from.

My previous PPC campaigns just linked to the sales pages from clickbank, this was before the recent Google slap, and the importance of Quality Score. I take it it is best now to have a review / article site with the affiliate products scattered throughout. I know it's not a problem getting articles written, I was thinking of starting with 20 & gradually building it up.

I really want to make a go of both affiliate & direct marketing, as I can see the benefits of both. I'm lucky as I get alot of time off from work to do this, but as I said, I just find myself reading & watching videos all day long.

I'm gonna end it there, after all i was just going to say hello, just got carried away, hope it all made sense!

P.S. If there is anyone out there from the Brighton / Crawley area of the UK, i'd love to get together and maybe we can help each other make some money!

 

[kwinblack]

Hi, I just joined AB a month ago. Is there any original posters still looking at this forum? I’m a newbie too and would like to join this little support group.
I also have trouble taking the first steps not being sure of my niche, and aftraid to make a mistake.

 

[CJJohn]

Awesome idea, Geoff and I LOVE your mountain climbing analogy!

So, who am I? I'm pretty much a retired Grandma, so I have tons of time on my hands. I am spending most of it on the Internet, learning as much as I can to fund this retirement. My website is ArticleWritingNews.com, where I post about article writing and marketing. I invite guest bloggers to post as well. My blog, which is 10 months old, just reached PR2 a few days ago! Woo-Hoo!

My next learning curve is Affiliate Marketing, so that's why I'm here. Looks like a fantastic resource for newbie's!

Great to meet everyone!
~cj

 

[billgrover56]

Hello Fellow Newbies. I too am trying to fund my retirement with affiliate marketing. Building a website / landing page is my big hang up and what led me to AB. I've been playing with the idea of AM since last year but have spent $1000 on courses to make $20. Learn some basic HTML to help you set up your pages. Go to www.W3schools.com for tons of free tutorials. I really appreciate the wordpress videos here because I don't have the patience to figure it out.

 

[tracelement]

Hello one and all!

I just listened to the podcast Mark did with Michael Cheney which reduced overload / overwhelm factor considerably. Hearing these guys have a good chat about stuff removed a whole heap of crap that was floating around my head.

Also made me very happy that the approach I'm taking is working well for me, plus I've got lots and lots of ideas bubbling away.

I've got two blogs up and running within 3 weeks and really managed to start building a good solid twitter following. I've even had articles zoom around twitter which has been very pleasing.

I must say I really like to hear the words "this WILL not happen over night" because enjoying the journey is part of the greatness of this. If your doing it just for money, you will probably give up due to a lack of fulfillment. If your doing it because its fulfilling you, then your onto a great thing. I think that is how your niche's and approaches start showing themselves by looking at how you can be fulfilled by the experience.

I've actually got a cracker of an ideal however there is no way I could do it on my own. Mark or any of the boys, if you read this and you have any thoughts on legal structures around joint ventures I would love to know about it. I'll scout around see what I can find and in the meantime, keep checking you lot out and here's a bit of humor

internet marketing personal ad: seeking technically savvy internet marketer who's iching for a great challenge and veritable diamond mine; must have VERY LARGE LIST ... eehhhrrmm

ciao :)

 

[humanifund]

Go for it! I am...

 

[kurtwill]

Kurtw here

I'm a 56 year old guy trying desperately to learn affiliate marketing. I'm having trouble in video 4.1b in affilorama 2.0. Specifically in uploading my header to wordpress. Any body here having success or trouble with that, that might want to talk about it?

Kurtw

 

[shalisha42]

Hi there. My name is Shalisha. Although I am new to Affilorama, I've been an affiliate marketer for 1 year (I'm still new but I learned alot). I started much like you. I got fired from my job November 2008.

Prior to that, in June 2008 I decided to take the plunge into affiliate marketing. I didnt even know what a domain name was.

Fast forward - November 2008 I got fired. I made a determination to live off my savings and give affiliate marketing a year. Guess what? I work completely from home online now. My learning curve was steep, and I wasted alot of time looking for get rich answers. There are none. You must put the effort into it every single day.

But you need to know what actions to take. Affilorama is fantastic. But I've been around so I have something to compare it too. \

Anyway, if I can do it, so can you. A wonderful girl online showed me her method where every single day I was given an action to take to build my campaigns. God bless her, her name is PotPie Girl.

This method of creating campaigns costs no money to implement. I say this to you not to sell you her method, but because it took the angst and desperation out of my "need" to make a sale. Now I just follow the plan, and I make sales. You don't need your own website. If you have questions, I will be more than happy to walk you through it and help you as others have helped me. Here is the link.

Warm Regards

Shalisha
http://www.makemoneyathomefreemethods.info

 

[fthomas137]

Seasprite, many would argue, but if you have the tanasity to go it full time, I'd recommend it. I left my j.o.b. March 2008 and yes, I've eaten a lot of savings. But I've probably made about 4-5 years progress in 1 year.

Might have to sell my body to science before this is over, but I'm lovin it!

Frank

 

[fox1969]

A bunch of posts back 'markstewart' asked about website building software for the Mac:

I've used a few different one's and have found RapidWeaver to be an inexpensive and easy to use solution. You can get some pretty sweet plugins for it too which make it easier to set up more complex site features.

Also Coda has a good rep, although I haven't used it yet. Planning to try it out soon.

CSSEdit is great for manipulating your sites' CSS if you're interested in that side of things.

There are some great sites for chasing down Mac software including http://www.macupdate.com and http://osx.iusethis.com/.

 

[jfelix]

Hi Geoff, great idea I was acutually looking for a post like this. My name is John and I am pretty new at affiliate marketing. I have been playing with it for a few months but haven't made any money yet. I always seem to get sidetracked on all of these get rich quick scemes. So I am glad to be here and I am going to go at it hard this year. Right now I am just watching all the lessons on Affilorama so I don't have any ides to ad about things that work but give me a couple of weeks and maybe I can help out on that.

I have a, a four year old little girl and I am a custodian and bus driver at a school. Used to work in the office but with all the budget cuts to the schools here in California have been demoted recently. I would love to one day be able to stay home with my little girl and home school her so that is why I am going to make some money in affilite marketing.

Well thanks for starting this thread I will visit it often

 

[jpastorizo]

Hey John,

I am in Cali as well. Are you in South California?


Renato