Whether you are brand spanking new to the world of Internet Marketing or you’ve been around for a while, these tips will help save you time, energy and money on your path to Internet Marketing Success.

1.) Watch Your Wallet

Especially in the beginning, this part is crucial.  If you are like most aspiring Internet Marketrs, you are starting out with more time than money – especially if you’re working on this while “in between jobs” aka “laid off”.  Don’t spend more mony than you can honestly afford to.  There are thousands of free resources on the web and hundreds of them are just as good, if not better, than anything you could pay for. Granted, finding your favorite, honest and trustworthy guru(s) will be majorly beneficial to your IM success.  If the “guru” is smart – he/she will freely shar much of their best ideas and suggestions for free.

That being said, be selective in just who you listen to.  Sign up for mailing lists, try it out – if you’re not getting true value from what is being sent to you then unsubscribe.  You may have a lot of time on your hands, but reading every newsletter/ezine, sales pitch and product push that arrives in your mailbox will hinder your progress.

There is one IM guru I follow who sends out e-mails promoting products quite reguarly.  He runs many different mailing lists and I’m probably on 3 or 4 of them.  While I find the constant sales pitches rather annoying, I have become almost impervious to them.  I stay subscribed to his list for 2 reasons: 1) When he does share information it is good quality, useful stuff and 2) I take a look at his sales pitches as examples of good sales copy – if he is sending out so many sales pitch e-mails, they must be working for him.  I, personally, would not choose to send out that many, but I can still learn from his.

2.) Get the Most Out of Membership Sites

If you are subscribed to a membership site – especially one with a forum – use it to your full advantage.  Stop being just a lurker and start adking questions.  You are probably not the only one wondering about X,Y or Z and others who usually keep silent will thank you for bringing up the topic.  You are paying to have access to the site and those running it – pick their brains, ask for guidance and get your money’s worth!

In my opinion, one of the best IM membership sites is My Silent Team.  It has been an invaluable resource for me and was especially helpful when I was first getting my feet wet in the Internet Marketing world.  And there’s also the Warrior Forum which I believe is the best free forum around.

3.) Clean Out Your Virtual Closets (aka Hard Drive)

You know you have several hundred dollars worth of e-books, guides, reports and how-to’s just sitting there collecting virtual dust on your hard drive – most unread.  Now is the time to go through them, sort out the baloney and only keep the true gems.  If it makes you nervous to delete some, just move the potential junk to a new folder.  Should it actually prove to be usefull in the future, you can still get to it.

You also may have several e-books/guides printed out.  When I finally sat down to go through my IM junk collction I had 4 copy paper sized boxes stuffed with printed out e-books, guides, reports and how-to’s !!  4 boxes!!  Over the course of several days I went through ALL of them.  All that remains is approximately 10 of them that I put in binders, labeled and put on an easily accessible shelf.  They are worthy of taking up space in my office.  All the others, well, I now crumple them up and use them as packing material for items I sell on eBay!  They were useful after all…lol.  Besides those 10 lucky winners, I do also have some sitting on my hard drive.  But the ones I actually printed out – those 10 – are the ones I use the most often.

These tips I have given you will seriously save you a lot of wasted time.  All together, I probably wasted years of time reading IM junk.  Follow my suggestions and you’ll move along the road to Ineternet Marketing Success much quicker than I did.

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