The Saga Begins - Chapter 1 - Article 1
There is very long list of people who want to earn an additional income. The list gets smaller when it comes to actually doing the research necessary to begin. The list dwindles further to a handful that are committed to earning more money. There could be millions of people reading this paragraph right now. All that will be left, at the end of the day, are the few, the proud, the Marketers who are serious enough to grab the baton and run with it.
The normal working person will cringe at the mere mention of words like "Internet Marketing" and "Affiliates Programs". If people know that I am a Internet Marketer they cross the street to avoid me. It's out of absolute terror, of yet another, of my dreaded sales pitches or another friendly exchange of my colorful shining new business card.
The fear runs deep as many have tried their hand at this lofty business called Internet Marketing. Yet, there are many thousands of people around the world making money from the Internet. Internet Marketing has got a bad reputation because of all the "scams" out there. I've been taken many times myself, but I persevere because I want to be one of the thousands of success stories. I know that Internet Marketing is my chance to obtain my goals of financial freedom and independence.
This is why I sit here putting pen to paper (Well, it sounds better than typing). It's said that if you put something in writing it becomes more important to one's self and adds to it an urgency to follow through. I will be successful, though I've failed before, because I'm learning more each day. At one time I was blindly and wildly driving down the Internet Marketing highway to success. Just wishing I could see the road sign that promised that I was nearing the learning curve. After navigating through the treacherous learning curve I would soon be able to accelerate past the eight ball of life that has blocked my path, to success. Now, I am finally emerging at a point that I'm beginning to grasp and understand some of the techniques and strategies I've been studying for so long. I think? Then, up ahead, another road sign signaling more bends in the road, Oh no!
I've just learned about bummarketing, blogs, clickbank and the value of AdSense. I finally found an affiliate website that allows me to choose what I want to promote. I've also found that if I look hard enough I can do a lot of this for free (and free is very good). Just don't tell it to the guy that wants my $149 $95 $49. I'm sure that someone, somewhere during my 10 year journey through Internet Marketing probably told me these things. However, I was hell bent on finding something better (that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow). That being the reason I never stuck to anything. I would see something new and drop everything I was currently working with or not working with. Now this new something needed other things (lets call them attachments) to gain all the momentum possible and have it running like a well oiled machine. Oh my yes, spitting out dollars faster than I could get them into my bank. If they said I needed it I bought it, I downloaded it, I read it, I studied it, I did not sleep and I did not eat.
My posterior spent (more than, equal to, but not less than) the hours I put in at my 9-5 job. My computer chair and monitor became my second job. And then it happened. The next new something catches my attention. Once again I jumped in with both feet, made sure I had all the right attachments and I was in the runners' stance waiting for the pop of the pistol. It never came or I missed it because I was floundering in a sea of non action and totally overwhelmed. I had all the right tools, all the bells, all the whistles and there I sat...
...To be continued, maybe
