Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Clunk! That was the sound of the alarm clock going off in the morning. That was also the sound of myself turning the alarm off. There usually was another sound after that. Something like this: Bleep! Bleepity Bleep Bleep! Of course they were not happy words. They were words of anguish knowing that I now had another day of drudgery to look forward to at work. Work in a place I no longer had an interest in. Oh there were some people there that I liked but the place and the job just didn’t do it for me. Who would want to be woken out of a sound sleep and possibly a wonderful dream to do this? This had to stop.
Luckily the kindly and generous owners of the place I trudged to every workday and sometimes on weekends was willing to help. They decided that making me get out of bed to go to their factory and make them money wasn’t fair. So they closed down the place and moved to China. Or Brazil. Or someplace where I couldn’t follow.
I was now free to move on. Free to decide what the rest of my life would look like. It isn’t that I didn’t have this freedom before but when a person gets in a cycle it can be difficult to stop. Even when they don’t like it. Now I saw my future. Unsure as I was I did like the idea of not having to go back to that place. I now had the option of not having to listen to that alarm clock in the morning either.
Computers. I bought one about 5 years ago and had surfed all over checking out sites that interested me and that included money making sites. The thought of the home business opportunity made me drool. But I didn’t know anything about marketing so I basically tried things that were passive in nature. There did not turn out to be alot of money in that. Either that or I just wasn’t finding the right programs.
One good thing about my old job was that I was able to save money. A good amount of it. So much that I have basically been living off of it for about 5 years. But now I was or am to the point where it is time to make some money. So it was time to become an online marketer.
I found a program where things looked passive in the beginning. The program has changed to a more active program for the members now though. This actually fits into the team I am on in this program. My sponsor happens to be a teacher by trade and has shown us methods for marketing the program which also includes 2 companies. What we are now doing is marketing these programs together and separately. So there is plenty of room for practice.
The first thing was to get on the forums and start posting. This wasn’t that hard since I had done it before. I have a major shy streak in me though so there was a little hesitation. Things went well though and I even wound up getting my first “lead” in the program from doing it. Just put those affiliate links in your signature, start chirping and you are promoting! Good.
Blogging was next. This I wasn’t sure of. I’d made a page once before for something but I couldn’t find that page again. Once again came my sponsor to the rescue. She told us about Squidoos. I didn’t make one until I saw others doing it. I didn’t think mine would be that great and to be fair it wasn’t in the beginning. After about a week of figuring the Squidoo page out I made one. OK. Cool. Now I had a blog.
Social Bookmarking sites. I would now start submitting the blog to different sites so more people could see them. The leads were slowly starting to come in. And I mean slowly. But now I had made other blogs on a different site. In fact back to the Squidoos, I wound up liking them so much I made a few that weren’t even money related. With more blogs though comes more exposure and more leads.
But the sign ups were where the money is and I still wasn’t getting them. I was doing this for money so that had to come for this to work. Finally I did get a sign up! And then a second. So the ice there has finally been broken. In fact, just within the last few days I received my “bonus” of $100.00 in the mail for one of the sign ups. My first commission in online marketing.
The next step which is basically where I am now is article writing. I have heard that article writing can be a powerful tool to get your name out on the internet. And that that again is important to help you succeed in online marketing. It is called an “online presence”. For those of you that are experienced marketers you are probably laughing at me now. Boy this dope really is new at this. Well I am. This in fact is my 3rd article. Yep only #3. So if it isn’t the greatest thing you’ve read, at least cut me a little slack. Hey, my first Squidoo wasn’t great either but now I have 1 with a 5 star rating and 2 in the top 200 of the SEO category. That is actually pretty good.
This is where I am now. I’ve added some affiliate sites that I have to some free surf sites (I did that on my own) and am wondering what will be next. The adventure really is just beginning and the questions are still there. Will what i do work? Results have been slow but steadily getting better. The leads have been coming in at a faster rate. Not earth shattering at all but a faster rate. I now have 2 sign ups so the ice there has been broken with hopefully many more to come.
This program is a very good one for me because it is geared to teaching online marketing and as I said before my sponsor is a teacher and is teaching us. I will definitely catalog my progress probably in future articles. After all, I can only write about Squidoos and how I enjoy them so many times. But this is now 3 articles in about a week and a half. And I just wrote this one in one sitting. Too fast? Maybe, but I’m new at it and just like with everything else not only in internet marketing but in life I’ll only get better with practice.
I just hope the rest of my marketing results get better too.
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