There are a lot of materials out on the internet to teach you how to make a living online.  Just try doing a Google search on internet marketing and see how many results come up.  When I searched the term today, 132 million results were returned.  Yes, that’s 132 million!  You can read and try them all, but if that’s all you do, you will not learn anything about internet marketing. The only true way to learn anything, including internet marketing is to…

DO IT.  Experience counts for everything.  Let’s say you need some dental work done.  You need some fillings put in.  You have a choice, you can see the brand new Dentist down the street, who just graduated from Dental school or you can go the Dentist in the office next door, who has been a Dentist for 10 years and has done thousands of fillings.  Which one would you choose to put your fillings in?

I certainly would choose the Dentist with the most experience.  Why?  Because through his experience and the thousand times he has done fillings, he has perfected the way he does it.  He has learned through experience all the practical ways to solve the problems that each persons mouth presents.  The new Dentist, even though he has learned in school how to put in a filling just won’t know how to handle all the problems that arise until he has experience with them.  He will learn and get better by doing.

Internet marketing is the same way.  You can read all the books you want to on writing sales pages.  You will not know how to write a sales page until you actually sit down and start writing one.  You can learn all you can about how to write and market articles, you won’t really learn how to write and market articles until you start doing it.

You may have read about or even watched videos on how to set up a website, but you won’t really know how to set up a website until you do it yourself.  There is no substitute for experience.  There is no better teacher than doing the activity you want to learn about.

Don’t misunderstand what I am saying here.  In no way am I saying that learning about internet marketing by taking courses, reading ebooks, or being mentored is not beneficial.  It is very beneficial and necessary if you really want to be successful.  What I am saying is that after you take that course, after you read that ebook, or during your mentoring, you have to physically actually do the activity you are learning about. 

This is a great stumbling block for many aspiring internet marketers.  They read every ebook, take every course, watch every video and still never really learn because they are afraid to actually start doing.  Most procrastinate by taking another course or reading another book, thinking each one will give him just that little bit of extra knowledge he needs before he can actually start. 

You have to do to learn.  You also have to fail in order to learn.  You will learn more from failure than from success.  You can’t be afraid of failing. 

If you really want to be an internet marketer, then you need to really learn it.  The only way you will really learn it is to do it.  Start writing that ebook. Start writing those articles. Begin to set up that website.  If you really want to learn internet marketing; “JUST DO IT”.

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