There is no doubt that starting an online marketing business is tough. It’s not tough from the amount or narture of work that you need to do though. Get it right and you can rapidly scale to quite heady levels of income.
However, what is tough is knowing the right information and how to apply that information to actually start making money online.
I have heard it said that running an online business rerquires the same disciplines as running a “normal” business, whatever a normal business is? I do think this is true.
There is an awful lot of smoke and mirrors in the online business world. So called online marketing Gurus peddle lots of “how to” information products allegedly showing you how to make “push button” millions online. Now, if you think someone is going to tell you how to make a few secret point and clicks and all of a sudden thousands of dollars are going to roll out of your laptop – think again.
Firstly, no-one is going to give you the goose that lays the golden egg for, say, $47. You will either get only part of the story or some jumped up, “loophole” techniques.
Indeed, if they are these shady techniques they are likely something that is very short term and will be found out by say, Google or Facebook and the very short term and will cease to work very quickly.
If you want to start an online business you simply must apply proper techniques, skills and disciplines to your efforts.
Indeed, there are many mistakes you can make when starting an online business. Derek Armson knows, he’s made them all!
I was looking at his website and found this amazing article which explains the pain and failure he went through in finding the right online marketing mentor to finally get his online business up, running and profitable.
In this extensive piece on his own personal online marketing journey story, he talks in detail about some fo the mistakes he made that cost him huge amounts of lost time and money. “Learn from my mistakes”, he says.
In the end he settled on Online Business Mastery from Paul O’Mahony and joined the Mastermind Group.
“It’s changed my business beyond all recogniotion”, he says. “Just having the right information and being shown how to apply it properly has transformed my online marketing business”.
I think the main problem is that there are so many techniques and tools you can use and implement when starting up online. It’s difficult to pick and chose the right ones to achieve your personal goals.
That;s why finding a mentor, who has done what you want to do and modelling them is the way to short circuit the learning. Yes it costs. It’s not cheap to take this mentor route. But, how much do you save in lost time and wasted effort?
And, it it gets you to where you want to go, what price is too high?
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