How to Get Into Internet Marketing Without Getting Taken for a Ride!

I don’t know where I heard this but I swear I saw an article or column in which the author stated that “a very high percentage of people who try to get into Internet Marketing end up paying for one or more of the “programs” titled something like “Incredible Money Machine!”.

Usually, the author went on, the folks don’t even really try to use it or find out that it definitely was not for them. Even more incredible is the fact that a lot of them don’t even ask for a refund or if they did, they were never actually refunded. Both of those scenarios played out for me. Just like that.

Oh yeah, I was a sucker. But it didn’t last long! With my degree of business experience it shouldn’t have happened at all. And now, of course it isn’t happening to me but it is still probably the most common experience on startup.

I think it’s because a lot of people looking into making money online are desperate. If they are desperate they probably got that way by making some other bad decisions along the way. Well, I have some advice for those folks toward the end of this article.

I wanted to make money. Who doesn’t? I went to my computer and typed in “Make money Online”. I had no idea! So many folks so eager to show you how. They are VERY good at selling you a plan to “Make money Online”. There are even folks who claim you can be rich immediately.

Now, I already told you that I am very experienced in business. Still, I read a few sales pages. I got excited. I joined something like “Incredible Wealth Membership”. After all, they said they’d lead me step by step. Man, that sounds just like what I need because I just don’t know anything! Help!! So I signed up.

First thing I had to do was get a Domain Name and a Hosting Package that they recommended. I had a LOT of trouble with just THIS step but I’m determined. They said this was easy. Already I’m on my way!

Next, they gave me my ‘free” website! It took me a long time to find the control panel and to find out that I didn’t know what to do with it! Then my “membership outfit” told me to put the things I want to sell on my nice new website. What things I want to sell? I had no product. Not to worry. They had some recommendations for what to sell. The first thing they wanted me to sell on my website was THEM! And a few other things they owned as well. They’d give me a commission. So, I put them on my website. And waited. Nothing happened. I called them.

They said “Get traffic to your website!” I said, “How?” They said,, “Advertise!” They said, PPC, Article Marketing, Niche finding, SEO, Build a list, Affiliates, etc. etc.

Get the picture? I was confused and I didn’t know anything. Talk about frustrating!

So, here is what I am going to tell you. Don’t do this. Do what I did AFTER I got through going down the wrong path. I joined an actual Online Internet Marketing School! Actually, I joined two! Both of them are darn good resources. Plus there is the added benefit that while you are studying how to succeed at Internet Marketing, there isn’t anyone trying to sell you their lastest E-Book. Then I hunkered down and started studying. And I’m still there.

The difference is, now I have a website and I am building a business online!

I’ll see you on the road to success,

Riley WestOfficial Internet Income Guide