Moving Forward To Success! Internet Marketing Journey….

I am back in the UK now. Had a nice vacation to Atlanta in the US where my sister lives. A great place by the way, if you ever get the chance you should all go. Great weather and some nice locations…..

Anyway in my last post “Where Is My Internet Marketing Success” I spoke at length about how I failed and down right sucked at internet marketing. I was really getting quite pi$$ed off. Why have so many people made so much money yet here I was really struggling and trying to find my way.

I was just too bogged down in all the wrong things. The one thing I did have was uncertainty. I wasn’t sure what I was doing was the right thing so this lead to me flip flopping from one idea to another then wondering why nothing was happening. The only thing I was doing consistently was buying more internet marketing products!  Arrgh!

You see I have found out that this is what most internet marketers want. They want us to be uncertain. They want us flip flopping around. They want us buying more of their products!! Get this clear in your minds.

I am not saying that all the products are no good or don’t work or are down right crap. I am saying that this is what the marketers want and we make it very easy for them by being in this constant  uncertainty loop.

Fail To Plan……
You know the rest right? Plan To Fail!! I genuinely think this is where most people are falling over. They have nothing. They have no idea, no strategy, no plan! All their efforts crumble even before they have started.

If you want to make money you have to treat this as a business not just an opportunity. Learn some simple business planning techniques and put them into action. Do this first before you start with the actual methods of doing things.

So I have started my business plan. At the moment it’s written scribbled  down on about 4 sheets of paper. I will then put this into Google docs. Why Google? It’s very easy to use and highly portable. I can modify and add to my notes from any computer not just this laptop. I can easily share with other people…..

I have also done one other major major step forward in my business and that is get an accountability partner!

Product Creation Obstacles and Losing Focus-Internet Marketing

I’ve stepped back a little from the internet marketing world of late. There are a number of reasons for this. I will go into them all in a minute. But as of right now I plan to turn this around and plan my first product launch.

This is quite a personal post and will share information many people keep under wraps.

One of the products I have recently been working on was a WordPress plugin. I had a great idea for a plugin so I hired a developer and he got working on it.

Working with him started really well and we made great progress.

There were a number of functional additions and design changes along the way and it was looking pretty good and he handled all my changes really well. We would Skype most weeks to discuses the details. We had a number of iterations of the plugin under our belts and it was looking good.

Then things changed… my belief in the plugin as a product started to slip. I started to doubt the product. And on top of that the developer was doing a bit of a disappearing act. And was getting harder and harder to get hold of.

I also started to find small bugs in the software. Some times it wouldn’t function properly or would corrupt a whole blog post. This wasn’t good.

I had a few people test the plugin and most got it working fine and praised it. A much needed boost of confidence I needed. Some did see the errors and issues I had found. Which only cemented my doubts further.

Also around this time my work load in my day job increased rapidly. I used to have time at work to think about and action some of my internet marketing ventures. Now my time was in big demand I was working longer hours and in the middle of managing a complex IT project at work.work!

I would get home knackered  (that’s really tired to the American folk :-) and drained and working on my failing plugin was getting further and further from my mind.

So my dreams of being a software CEO seemed to be slipping away even further.

Once these types of blocks and obstacles happen is is so hard to get back on the horse, focus my mind, and get cracking again.

Also during this time I attended the Marketing Summit in Manchester UK. My first live internet marketing event. These are great for seeing what others are doing, meeting like minded people and getting killer ideas.

The first speaker up was Brad Gosse. He is a great speaker and was full of amazing stories and information. But what really stuck with me was one of the businesses he has. He mentioned it’s good to have some kind of evergreen that’s always in demand business. And to steer away from the information that is timely. meaning it will be obsolete in a year if not a month! Like that latest SEO technique you’ve been trying.

Anyway at that point I had a light bulb moment and my head was filled with “I could do that!”

How To Create Your First Internet Marketing Product.

Struggling With Your First Front End Product?

One way to succeed online is to have your own product. This is sometimes termed a front end product.

This front end product can be used in many ways. As a freebie for a solo ad campaign or a full blown paid product that is sold on your website or through a forum such as the Warrior forum.

A lot of people struggle with this first product. And so did I.

“I don’t know anything?” “I haven’t made much money online what can I do?” ” Why would anyone listen to me?”

I struggled with all these thoughts. I could have created another ebook or video course loosely based on some of the techniques I know.

But really I wanted to create something that would give me instant credibility and really impact the market with something new.

So what did I do?

Creating My First WordPress Plugin

I decided to do a bit of research into software. I found I could easily get a WordPress plugin developed!

Now before you shout about how expensive getting a plugin developed is and that you don’t have any ideas for plugins; I have some news for you. But before that why create a plugin?

Creating a piece of software is a pretty big deal. I think so anyway :-) It gives the creator of the plugin three major advantages: instant credibility, instant authority , and instant recognition in any niche.FIrst internet marketing product

And that is massive boost for someone looking to gain authority and a name for themselves online.

A piece of software is a real thing it is much more tangible than an ebook or video course. It appears to offer more.

The perceived value of software is much higher than that of another video course or ebook. And as such software creators generally could charge more money for their products.

Also if you look over on JVZoo or Warrior Plus the majority of the top selling products are software plugins. Interesting.

So we also know that Plugins are big sellers.

 How To Get Ideas For Plugins?

“I haven’t got any ideas for plugins?”  Wrong! You need to do some research. What is selling right now in terms of plugins? What are you having issues with on your blog? What daily repetitive manual tasks do you do on your blog that you think could be automated?

Look what is selling on JVZoo and warrior forum? Think you could make it better? You have an idea!

Take 2 plugins and make it into one plugin with some additioanl features. You have an idea!

There is literally thousands of ideas for plugins out there and with the popularity of WordPress this is only going to increase and increase! Get in on the action now!

Where Is My Internet Marketing Success?! Have I Failed!?

It Was Supposed To Be Easy!
I’ve been trying to make money online for about 2 years now. Has it been all Ferraris, cocktails and laptops on the beach? Well in a word, NO. In fact I’m starting to feel duped and pretty stupid.

This post is going to be frank and to the point about my unsuccessful attempts to make money online so far. Hopefully you can relate to my situation.

Easy Online Money and Riches? Hell No!
Making money online is a tough beast to tame. There is just so much information out there. Which system should I pick? What product is the best? What should I focus on? Facebook or Adsense or the latest SEO craze? Should I create a product or do affiliate marketing!! Arrgh it drives me nuts!!

I have bought so many internet marketing products I should be a multi-millionaire by now. Well that’s what they sold to me anyway.

What I have just recently realised is that I have information overload! This info overload has stifled my success and ground my internet money making into the ground.

I have been flip flopping. Trying one system then another then another. Hoping to find the “one” system that will work and bring me the success and the money that I have been promised for so long.

I have found there is no missing link, magic pill or push button system to making money online.

This all got too much and I wanted to find out the answers to why I was not succeeding online.  I know of others that have made thousands online in a matter of days and I wanted their strategies and systems. How come they are making the money and I am not!

I will share with you in my next post more about what I found. It will shock and surprise you.

But I want to hear about you. Are you in a similar place? How much success have you got so far? Where do you feel you are stuck?

A start to making money is working with a like minded group!! So if you feel in a similar place please comment below and share this article with as many people as you can. Together we can work this out and make a killing!