If you are not making money online yet this is probably the reason why.

I struggled without making money for seven long years before I figured out that I was caught in these traps. Once I realized what the traps were and how to escape from them everything changed for me.

You can find out what the newbie traps are and how to escape from them by watching the short video on the right, next to this post.   Then listen to the audio book that I’m giving away as a free download.

If you’ve already listened to the Internet Marketing Newbie Traps audio book then please leave me a comment below. Tell me what you thought of it and which traps YOU may be caught in.

There is a new breed of marketing guru emerging. This is one who operates with honesty, integrity and a minimal use of hype. Leading the way are marketing trainers such as Chris Farrell, Tiffany Dow, Matthew Bredel and Lynn Terry to name a few.

Over the summer I signed up to the Chris Farrell Membership site. Chris teaches the basics of Internet marketing and a formula that has proven to be successful.

His business is growing at a tremendous rate. He’s built a six-figure a year membership site and a list of 17,000 prospects in about a year. What the heck is he doing? I attribute it to the way he treats his members and followers and providing a plan that actually works. I’m sure it’s word-of-mouth that is helping him build his business so quickly.

It’s so refreshing to see a successful marketer that doesn’t offer a get-rich-quick plan. He doesn’t sell with all types of hype and ridiculous claims and promises which I’m sure cost him sales, but guess what? His business is growing by leaps and bounds in spite of this.

Chris Farrell is just a down-to-earth guy who tells it like it is and shows you exactly what he does. The plan he teaches in his membership is very simple and focused so it makes it easy for his members to take action. I liked his program so much that I’ve decided to write a full review about it. You can find it here Chris Farrell Membership review.

CPA is an acronym for Cost-Per-Acquisition. It’s an online advertising payment model where the advertiser pays for a specified action. The action is generally a form submission.

This method is used by merchants to acquire leads for their product or service. It may be as simple as the customer typing their zip/postal code or email address into an online form and submitting it by clicking a button.

Advertisers usually pay publishers between seventy five cents and two dollars each submission. Advertisers are willing to pay much higher amounts on forms with more fields to fill out. Of course, the more form fields there are to fill out the harder it is to get the customer to do it.

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Don’t spend all of your time looking for the perfect niche, market or product to sell.  Don’t look for the best niche.  Don’t even spend too much time looking for a good niche.  You could easily end up waiting for months trying to figure out what a good niche is. 

Those months could turn into years if you don’t give up first.  This was another big mistake I made when I started to learn Internet marketing. I wanted to KNOW that I would make money in the niche or market before I spent my time working on it. 

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If you really want to make money online then don’t listen to skeptics and negative people about it “not working”.  Reading forums that are full of people who are complaining that it doesn’t work or they can’t do it.  Get away from that. 

Let’s say you want to do affiliate marketing with PPC then you read several forum posts about one guy who lost a couple hundred dollars with PPC.  Another guy says he tried it before, but he was never able to get it to work.  The ones who are struggling are the ones who are making the posts. 

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For Internet Marketing newbies asking questions in forums and getting your desired answers can be difficult. People will tell you go to the forums and just start asking questions, but because you don’t know specifically which questions to ask most beginners will ask very general, unfocused questions.

Questions like, Where do I start?” and What’s the fastest way to make money?” are common. It’s not easy to get good answers to general questions because they require very lengthy and well thought-out answers. This takes more time than most people are willing to share.   Rememer, you’re the one that wants something so you should take the time to provide a well thought-out question.

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