Technical information
If you want to work at Internet marketing, you have to bite the bullet about learning technical skills. There are many, too. Fortunately, there is a lot of automated stuff out there that can be used to make money while you are learning the other stuff.
One of the most important technical skills you need all the way from the beginner level, one I have never seen discussed, is fabricating and operating aliases. You need to learn to make up people and act as if you are them. The only person who does not need to do this is one who strives to become an authority and only work within that field. If you want to sell a large quantity of stuff, though, and you are not Wall Mart, you will need to use other names so you don?t blow your authority work. It would never do for an expert in diets and weight loss to sell candy.
I will not go into many specific details, but keep to broad outlines as I have done up to now.
If you have difficulty with imagination, there is a small resource called Fake Name Generator (look it up). It will give you name, address, phone number, credit card number, etc., all fake but in the correct format. (Obviously the credit card doesn?t work.) That?s a start. Get a real phone number for free online from K7 if you feel you need it (look it up). Otherwise, get a Google account (or similar), an email account, and whatnot. Then start signing up for a My Space account and other Web 2.0 sites. The more stuff you get, the more credible your new alias becomes.
You should also keep some kind of records, maybe a spreadsheet folder for each alias. Otherwise, keeping track will be hard after he/she grows up and you have other aliases taking off.
I do not suggest taking this concept so far as to procure a real SSN for your alias or things like that. You do not need the authorities after you. All you want to do is make money and provide value in return, not break any laws by falsifying government documents.
But playing around with this, for example, getting your photo from public domain photo banks, making an avatar, etc., can be a hoot. A money advantage that?s a hoot is using your community of aliases to plug each other?s products and start drawing attention to the products. This sales force can get hilarious.
Now for your other skills. Here is what you should learn at least in rudimentary terms. I suggest learning something superficial about these topics (outline or overview kind of stuff) before going into more depth. This is not all-inclusive, but it will be a good foundation.
Beginner
How to register for email account, use a browser and all elementary things like that.
Money accounts (Paypal and Clickbank to start with)
Affiliate accounts
Free site accounts: Google, Blogger, Squidoo, Weebly, etc.
Free Web 2.0 accounts: My Space, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, etc.
Craigslist and other classifieds
Yahoo! Answers and similar
Forum marketing
Basic Niche site and review site concepts
Keyword research
Basic HTML (formatting text and href with anchor texts)
Backlink strategies
Basic Web graphics
Adsense
Adwords and PPC
Article writing and submitting
Sales copywriting
Press release marketing
Making PDF files
Pinging
RSS
Intermediate
More HTML
FTP and CPanel
Scripts
Link Cloaking
Wordpress, both as blog and niche site, including plugins
Web site creation (and site creation program)
Sales site creation, including squeeze page and popups, popunders, etc.
Autoresponders, list building, opt-in forms, follow-up messages and broadcasts
SEO in general
Sitemaps
Audio (and Audacity, including Podcasting concepts)
Video (screencasting, recording, editing, codecs and uploading)
Developing digital products
Site nets and interlinking strategies
More Web 2.0
eBay
Advanced
Blog and site farms
Proxies and IP filtering
Mass posting and link programs
Content scraping and manipulation programs
Advanced HTML, PHP, Perl, etc.
Other Black Hat Techniques
At this point, the person will have a really good idea of what more he needs, what he does well and what he does poorly. The good thing about the Internet is that it is growing so fast that no one needs to learn it all. You can specialize in, say, Squidoo or Wordpress as your main marketing platform, use no audio or video or Black Hat techniques, and still make a bundle on White Hat stuff alone.
Internet marketing is hard to get right, even if you want to bulls**t your way to the top. You need hard work any way you look at it, so don?t bulls**t yourself. bulls**t others if you want to bulls**t. You can choose what you want to do, but you are going to have to learn skills to be able to perform. No exceptions.
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If you want to work at Internet marketing, you have to bite the bullet about learning technical skills. There are many, too. Fortunately, there is a lot of automated stuff out there that can be used to make money while you are learning the other stuff.
One of the most important technical skills you need all the way from the beginner level, one I have never seen discussed, is fabricating and operating aliases. You need to learn to make up people and act as if you are them. The only person who does not need to do this is one who strives to become an authority and only work within that field. If you want to sell a large quantity of stuff, though, and you are not Wall Mart, you will need to use other names so you don?t blow your authority work. It would never do for an expert in diets and weight loss to sell candy.
I will not go into many specific details, but keep to broad outlines as I have done up to now.
If you have difficulty with imagination, there is a small resource called Fake Name Generator (look it up). It will give you name, address, phone number, credit card number, etc., all fake but in the correct format. (Obviously the credit card doesn?t work.) That?s a start. Get a real phone number for free online from K7 if you feel you need it (look it up). Otherwise, get a Google account (or similar), an email account, and whatnot. Then start signing up for a My Space account and other Web 2.0 sites. The more stuff you get, the more credible your new alias becomes.
You should also keep some kind of records, maybe a spreadsheet folder for each alias. Otherwise, keeping track will be hard after he/she grows up and you have other aliases taking off.
I do not suggest taking this concept so far as to procure a real SSN for your alias or things like that. You do not need the authorities after you. All you want to do is make money and provide value in return, not break any laws by falsifying government documents.
But playing around with this, for example, getting your photo from public domain photo banks, making an avatar, etc., can be a hoot. A money advantage that?s a hoot is using your community of aliases to plug each other?s products and start drawing attention to the products. This sales force can get hilarious.
Now for your other skills. Here is what you should learn at least in rudimentary terms. I suggest learning something superficial about these topics (outline or overview kind of stuff) before going into more depth. This is not all-inclusive, but it will be a good foundation.
Beginner
How to register for email account, use a browser and all elementary things like that.
Money accounts (Paypal and Clickbank to start with)
Affiliate accounts
Free site accounts: Google, Blogger, Squidoo, Weebly, etc.
Free Web 2.0 accounts: My Space, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, etc.
Craigslist and other classifieds
Yahoo! Answers and similar
Forum marketing
Basic Niche site and review site concepts
Keyword research
Basic HTML (formatting text and href with anchor texts)
Backlink strategies
Basic Web graphics
Adsense
Adwords and PPC
Article writing and submitting
Sales copywriting
Press release marketing
Making PDF files
Pinging
RSS
Intermediate
More HTML
FTP and CPanel
Scripts
Link Cloaking
Wordpress, both as blog and niche site, including plugins
Web site creation (and site creation program)
Sales site creation, including squeeze page and popups, popunders, etc.
Autoresponders, list building, opt-in forms, follow-up messages and broadcasts
SEO in general
Sitemaps
Audio (and Audacity, including Podcasting concepts)
Video (screencasting, recording, editing, codecs and uploading)
Developing digital products
Site nets and interlinking strategies
More Web 2.0
eBay
Advanced
Blog and site farms
Proxies and IP filtering
Mass posting and link programs
Content scraping and manipulation programs
Advanced HTML, PHP, Perl, etc.
Other Black Hat Techniques
At this point, the person will have a really good idea of what more he needs, what he does well and what he does poorly. The good thing about the Internet is that it is growing so fast that no one needs to learn it all. You can specialize in, say, Squidoo or Wordpress as your main marketing platform, use no audio or video or Black Hat techniques, and still make a bundle on White Hat stuff alone.
Internet marketing is hard to get right, even if you want to bulls**t your way to the top. You need hard work any way you look at it, so don?t bulls**t yourself. bulls**t others if you want to bulls**t. You can choose what you want to do, but you are going to have to learn skills to be able to perform. No exceptions.
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One of my favorit articles in Mentor Group ~ Sending money anonymously archieve Financial Anonymity