The Perils of the "How to" IM Newbie Junkie

When you are first starting out and you need to get as much information as possible about how to make money online, your wallet starts emptying faster than the speed of boxes of pop tarts at Brangelinas's breakfast table.

Imagine internet marketing is like the Amazon - it's a huge river and it's full of piranhas voraciously feeding from your pound of flesh. There's bait upon bait the piranhas have ingeniously got ready for us - this bait is basically made up of all the same components as all the others but us newbies have to devour all of them! Us little fish frantically search around continuously for this food whilst the piranhas are busy providing the bait and biting off chunks of our wallets as we frantically belly-flop by. What the heck am I getting at? Cause this silly fish metaphor is getting out of hand.

Well once you've found the information you need - use it before you get seduced into buying the next "best thing" in the genre! That's the key. Start doing instead if relentlessly trying to find out how how how all the time! When you've made an investment in what you believe to be a very good product - use the information in your business!

Don't get on that "what else is there?" greyhound bus to skid row.

Easier said than done I know. But the only way you really learn is to do. Even when you make mistakes you are learning. Don't be fooled by the spiel "I made x amount of mistakes but let me show you the correct way so you don't have to!" Do you know how many "correct ways" there are out there on any given IM subject? Go to any IM forum and watch the big honchos argue away at the nuts and bolts. The thing is if you are determined enough yourself to succeed, focus and do the do, all you need is to follow one mentor/guru/system and you will get there.

Now how do you find that great product/mentor/guru? Well, once you have found something you might be interested in buying or subscribing to it's a good idea to check out the IM forums. You can find some good product reviews as other buyers have gone out and already bought and left comments about the pros and cons also at places like The Warrior Forum you will get special offer invites and you can contact the creators involved and ask them questions. Try and hook up with someone higher up than you on the IM greasy pole and get their advice on what product/system/mentor helped them. If you like the sound of what a fellow IM is recommending and you trust that person then follow through buy it but then stay with the program!

Don't get bored after a week and look for some other pathway. IM is labour intensive to start - you have to put some work in if you really want to start earning, it does not come from buying one new "blueprint"after another - Don't end up mere meat for the piranhas - when you can be a shark!