{"id":297,"date":"2011-09-18T23:17:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T06:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-09-30T22:39:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T05:39:45","slug":"frustrated-yes-giving-up-not-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/frustrated-yes-giving-up-not-a-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated? Yes. Giving Up? Not a Chance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m frustrated, and I&#8217;m guessing from many of the blog comments I&#8217;ve been reading lately that I&#8217;m not alone.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve started learning about Internet Marketing and how to generate income online, there&#8217;s been a massive whirlwind of emotions going on inside my head. There&#8217;s so many decisions to make. Should I use affiliate marketing? Should I create my own products? Should I provide a service to other people? What order should I do it in? And the all important, what&#8217;s going to generate income the fastest?<\/p>\n<p>Then I find out that the answer is yes. Yes to all of it. Really. So now what?<\/p>\n<p>Well, then I began learning about the types of marketing out there that people use to earn income. \u00a0Affiliate programs. Which ones offer valuable products with good customer service that I can stand behind and promote to people who trust ME? \u00a0And when I find them, how do I go about marketing them?<\/p>\n<p>And creating my own products? What do I know enough about that will let me assist others? What topics interest me enough to learn about so that I can teach others?<\/p>\n<p>And finally, what service(s) can I offer that can assist other people? Do I know enough about what I&#8217;m offering to build a business on it? What can I offer that will set me apart from other people who offer similar services?<\/p>\n<p>So during the past months, I&#8217;ve spent time learning about each of the marketing options. I&#8217;ve spent hours thinking about who I am, what my strengths are, and what my weaknesses are. I&#8217;ve done keyword research for weeks at a time in a multitude of niches that interest me. And now I get to figure out what to do with all.<\/p>\n<p>What comes first? What tools should I use? What can I automate? What should I outsource&#8230;and how?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve continued to educate myself about keyword research, traffic generation, backlinking, WordPress themes, web hosting, header creation (and I&#8217;ve learned that graphic creation is one of those items on my weakness list, so I&#8217;ll have to locate some good graphics people).<\/p>\n<p>And 8 months later after all the reading, studying, evaluating, questioning, researching and such, it comes down to &#8220;Now what?&#8221; \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get back to you on that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m frustrated, and I&#8217;m guessing from many of the blog comments I&#8217;ve been reading lately that I&#8217;m not alone. Since I&#8217;ve started learning about Internet Marketing and how to generate income online, there&#8217;s been a massive whirlwind of emotions going on inside my head. There&#8217;s so many decisions to make. Should I use affiliate marketing? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}