Money Secrets

Just wanted to put this up real quick after having a conversation with a good friend who has spent years trying to make money online, all without success. And the reason is that she has never managed to move on from her ‘newbie’ mindset when it comes to marketing and making money online.

I appreciate we all start out as newbies. Some may be more advanced than others because they have the computer skills, the technical skills, the people skills, but basically everyone starts at the bottom.

Unfortunately some folks never seem to move up the ladder. They continue to get sucked into the hype that it’s the programme that is going to make them money. Listen up, your programme is probably the least important reason for your success or failure.

Getting the right programme is far less important than getting the right training.

And I know there is all sorts of hype out there about what is the right training and knowing who to trust plays a key part. But the answer is that you trust people who have already been there, done that, got the T-shirt. You don’t trust the sales pages with their fancy graphics and logic busting sales copy.

Many a reputation has been ruined before it’s even been made simply by folks signing up for scams and BS, and then trying to pass it on by recommending it to their friends, downline, team members, whoever. Once gone, your reputation is hard to get back. And in marketing, your reputation is priceless.

If you are a total newbie to marketing, go check out Randy (the Hermit, what a name, lol) and take his Beginners Marketing Course. You don’t need to take the upgrade unless you’re absolutely certain that you’re going to make full benefit from it! But the training is simple enough for anyone to follow.

Once you’re done watching and applying, then you’ll be ready to move on. If you don’t watch, listen, learn and apply, you won’t. But maybe you like being a newbie and getting scammed?

Many of you by now will have heard of Hubpages. Fast becoming one of the superstars of the social networking arena. Personally, I find this much easier to use than Myspace or Squidoo.

The ranking on Google is so quick you barely have time to have a cuppa after completing your ‘hub‘ before it’s been indexed!

Anyway, I’ve started putting up a few ‘Newbie‘ guides on there because it’s so quick and easy to do. You may want to check them out.

While you’re there, get yourself signed up and create some hubs of your own. Totally free, very user friendly, and lots of social networking traffic to your own site. For those of you who are interested, it’s also great for SEO.

Check out my ‘hub’ on The Newbies Guide to Keywords. Simple, plain, no technical jargon.

Hubs are best kept this way - plain and simple. Remember, this is a Social Networking site. While some of the members may be interested in the technical, in depth aspects of Internet Marketing, the majority of them are not.

Never forget the target market you are working with. Create your hubs properly, provide useful, useable, information, and they will easily be found, not only on Hubpages but also on the search engines.

Social Networking is becoming the number one method used by many of the Internet’s top marketing experts.

Why?

Because it works so well. It opens up a whole new target group to your opportunity. Which is why you want to keep your hubs interesting. If they’re full of techno-babble, the ‘newbies‘ will turn off. Not because they’re dumb. But because they don’t understand what the heck you’re talking about.

However, by keeping it simple and making it easy for the newest of ‘newbies’ to understand you’ll gain a much higher audience which isn’t just restricted to more experienced marketers. As the inexperienced become more experienced, use your profile to direct them to your own website, business opportunity, product… But only when they’re ready.

Do not try to rush a ‘newbie’ into anything. At best, you’ll end up with someone who is so inexperienced that they can’t implement any of your training. But more likely, you’ll just end up with nobody joining you because your hubs are too ‘boring‘. And trust me, if you’re in marketing, boring is NOT a word you want associated with You.inc

Get out there and get Hubbing people.

To Your Success
Susan Coils