Internet Marketing - Internet Marketing Getting Your Business Started - Week 1

I am quickly learning that there is a lot to learn about starting an Internet marketing business. The Internet marketing books that I have taken out from the library have been an invaluable resource for me and I suggest you read them as well.

Yanik Silver's book is a quick read and provides get insight into how to get started, where to find some buiness ideas or "steal some" as he puts it, using ebay for your business and other suggestions.

Robert Skrob and Bob Regnerus's book The Official Get Rich Guide to Information Marketing on the Internet has a lot of the same concepts as Yanik's book; however, I felt it provided greater detail and insights on how to go about starting your Internet marketing business.

Joe Viatale & Jullian Coleman Wheeler's book Your Internet Cash Machine did not provide any additional information and I feel was not written as well as the first two.

The key points in developing an Internet marketing strategies that I have picked up over the first week are:

1. Great ideas are all around us if we take the time to listen
2. Research yourself - identify what you are good at, what excites you, what interests or hobbies do you have and what do people ask your help with
3. Research your family and friends - what solutions do they need, what challenges do they face, what problems or concerns
4. Research the Internet - there a tons of site that offer this kind of information, some good sites are Internet Business Mastery and Start Up Nation
5. Listen to Podcasts - there are many podcast that discuss Internet marketing and provide tools that will help you get started
6. Read books - as I mentioned in my first blog, the library has a lot of books that will help
7. Identify the information niche that you will be utilizing to start your business
8. Work on your business at least an hour a day

All that stuff is a great way to begin but the most important step of all is to just go and start. Do not put it off and wait until you have the best idea, best website, best content - just start!!!!