Starting from Zero

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Over the last two years my passion for tech has increased massively, and so has my knowledge of it. I love it!

When I first set up my WordPress blog, I felt smart as hell. I mean, c’mon really, how many people out there still need help setting up their email? Setting up a WordPress might seem easy for us techies/marketers/lifestyle designers/….okay I’m kidding I’m not all that.

God… I feel like I’m bragging and you’re not going to keep reading this post.

Believe me, I’m just writing from the heart. I’ve been reading this awesome book about drawing and another one about writing and they’ve inspired me in many different ways. I think anyone who reads them would enjoy them. Check them out: ‘Bird by Bird’ and “How To Draw Better.”

One thing I wish I was better at is with webdesign and programming. I know that if you want to learn anything you need to put the effort and really enjoy it. I can tell the people that enjoy what they do. A good example are those ninja’s at Hostgator (aff. link) or maybe those guys at Rackspace hosting; I haven’t hosted any site with them, I just hear they’re awesome. Anytime I mess with the code on my site, I just hit the chat with my people at Hostgator and I’m good. But I want to change that.

Or maybe not all that, I just want to be good at something else. Not just selling. We all know how you and I both hate salespeople, nothing against salespeople that love what they sell though. You others, sorry; yea you know who you are, find a product you like and believe in.

So why the new crave for learning?

I’ve always like learning new stuff and doing new things. I’ve probably had too many jobs in my life; I don’t regret any of them. As much as I hated selling vacuums I don’t regret it. They’ve all taught me something. The reason for the new crave, I say, it’s just me. I love it. I like challenges, and it’s only human. Why do you think there are so many How-to posts out there?

People want to know everything. I just had a thought as we speak and I went and looked it up. Like what’s a Weblog client? I had no idea such thing existed. There you go, now I know a little bit more about WP than I did before.

So this whole new crave I’ve realized is not just for me but FOR YOU! I want to learn these things more so I can teach it to others better. I get a lot of questions in my email inbox about blogging, affiliate marketing and all that good ol’ online business stuff.

Most of the times I just send them to my peers and let them explain how to do-what it is they want to do.

What’s your learning crave, what do you want to learn? and Why? Share it in the comments. What do your readers want to know if you’re a blogger?

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Everyone Doesn’t Want to be an Internet Marketer?

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NOOOOO!!

So I had to write this. I’m a little frustrated and I might just call out some people I don’t even know, but who cares? This is my blog and I’d rather be straight up with all of you anyway.

A few days ago Corbett Barr inspired me to write about this because of his post:

When Did Social Media Forget About Everyone Else?

Go read it, it might inspire you too. After reading it, it made me think of all the wanna-be-internet-marketers out there and bloggers. I am not frustrated with them, but with the people that are teaching them all this B.S and they’re going out there and doing it.

Now you might think, why do you even care about people like this kid?

I mean… congratulations for going out there and trying to make a buck online, but you would think they’d have the common sense to think, “Wait, is this ethical what I am doing? Shit, I don’t even know what I’m doing; why am I teaching and promising all this fake shit?”

Who’s with me on this?

I mean seriously, do you think people trust these poor guys that sound like they’re reading some script? A shitty Internet marketer told them “do this and you’ll make money online.”

The worst part of all is that you can see that they’re not getting leads. If you look at their traffic, “if you know how to do that,” you’ll find that they’re not getting crap. And I’m no guru, but I know that you need traffic to build a business online.

Oh, and as if you didn’t notice how well put these websites are. Yea it’s sad. Hey my site is not that great I know, but at least when you come here you don’t think, “Just another WordPress blog.”

note: If either of you guys that I’m talking about in this post find this post, understand I am not hating on you but on whoever taught you what you’re doing.

Okay so you’ve noticed that I kind of went on a rant there. So you’re probably thinking, so if this is the wrong way to do Internet marketing, what’s the right way?

Well, I’ve learned that there’re “two rules” to this:

  • Don’t promote “make money online, opportunity, get-rich-quick” products
  • Don’t forget the first rule

Corbett makes a great point on that post where he says “not everyone wants to be a social media consultant.” In my case what I’m trying to say here is not everyone is trying to be an Internet marketer.

I really wish I could help these guys so they could focus all their efforts on something more productive. I know that both of them will eventually fail and say how affiliate marketing or IM whichever one they tried, was horrible and it was a scam.

For those of us that actually do make money through providing value to readers and focus only on promoting products that are worth it, know that’s how the story goes for people like them.

Who can I Trust Online

Believe it or not now there’re plenty of people you can trust, but the ratio of scam vs. legit advice is still high. Some of the people that have helped me on my success and who I truly respect are these guys:

passive-income

Pat Flynn from smartpassiveincome.com

viral-marketing

Glen Allsopp from viperchill.com

lifestyle-design

 

Corbett Barr from corbettbarr.com and thinktraffic.net

Although these guys talk about making money online, and blogging, but REAL shit that works, their goal is not to convince you to do the same thing they’re doing, but to use the tactics and strategies they’re using with your business. (which hopefully is not about making money online).

Conclusion of all my blabberness

I know that’s not even a word

If you’re imitating the tactics from those I’m criticizing , you’re doing the wrong thing. Maybe it’s not your fault, maybe you don’t mean to be a scammy Internet marketer, but you need to stop if you really want to start producing results online and really adding value to the web.

I’m 100% sure if you’re able to go and do something that really combines with your core values, you’ll be more successful. (I can’t guarantee that building a site around cat juggling will work either )

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