I received a call from an old friend earlier last week.
His name is Damon, a young guy whom I met in one of the first few internet marketing workshops I’ve attended.
So we’ve known each other for about 4 years now.
He saw one of the ads in the papers about an upcoming seminar that I was conducting and he said he wanted to do some catching up and find out how I was doing with my online business.
We met up for dinner soon after… And I realised that he hasn’t changed much.
Damon was still struggling in his dead-end job and he hasn’t got any website that makes him money.
Then he asked me a question that I get almost every single day. “Jaz, how do you make money from the internet”?
I found it quite hilarious at that moment.
I was like, “Man, how do you think I made money online? We attended the same course”!
Damon went, “I know and I have attended numerous others. But I can’t seem to get started or should I say, I don’t know where to start.”
At that point, I realised that Damon had what you called an “info-junkie” syndrome – A common syndrome that almost all newbies have, especially when they are starting out on their internet marketing venture alone.
And it is very easy to tell whether if you have the “info-junkie” syndrome.
If you’re somebody who hops along seminars after seminars and learn as much as you possibly can, but still never seem to get started… Then yes, you do have “info-junkie” syndrome.
The truth is, there are a lot of different home-business models where one can adopt to make money.
But most people end up overloading themselves with information from a little “here and there” that they get different pieces of the puzzle that don’t fit.
Questions like, “How do I make Money Online?” are derived from confusion and this confusion comes from one thing – People who work online for months, even years, and still don’t succeed can usually attribute their failure to not picking a model and sticking with it!
Well, it’s certainly not as easy as saying, “Okay, I’ll just stick with the affiliate marketing model”. Because, there are in fact hundreds of ways to do affiliate marketing!
Today, you may come across 5 blogs about affiliate marketing that you really like.
So you read everything on their blog and absorbed the information like a sponge.
Now, that should stop you from going confuse right?
Unfortunately for many, the answer is “No.” Because the 5 affiliate marketers may have 5 totally different affiliate marketing models to make money.
It’s definitely a challenge for the average home business owner to make money when they receive ‘mix-signals’ from the different business models out there.
So how should I really get started?
First off, you will need to get a mentor whom you can trust and of course, have made a lot of money from affiliate marketing.
No point learning from different gurus at the beginning when you are only going to get bits and pieces of info on multiple business models and techniques!
There are a lot of people who have made money from the internet today, but everyone of them does things slightly differently.
Next, stick to the specific plan that your mentor has laid out for you. Do not attempt to try to input any ‘new’ strategies into your plan. (Trust me on this, most of the time this can do much worst rather than good for your business.)
You will want to stick to a plan that has been tested and proven to make money, rather than re-inventing the wheel.
