So what's been happening?

Well I really didn't mean for it to be so long between posts, and I will try to improve on that. However as for what has been happening so far it's been mainly research.

Even though I have knowledge about the web as a developer I know nothing about marketing. So I have been reading about various different aspects and looking through various different packages, while being very wary of spending money on products. So far the main thing that I think a lot of these products have to offer is that although the information they provide is all available they have packaged it together so that as a new starter you do not need to look for it yourself. This does make them very good for beginners and also as a resource so that you do not need to keep looking up the information yourself.

However, please note that if you do not have the finances to invest then this information is available if you are prepared to invest the time instead of the money. This also means that it is not a good idea for a beginner to try and buy a lot of these products as they will quickly find that the majority of the information is being duplicated, yet sometimes that extra nugget of information can be very valuable; so yes it is very confusing!

Personally in this respect I think it is very important to check how long a particular package or e-book has been available, because you really need to get hold of these products fairly soon after they have been released. This means that the technology being referred to will still be relevant as things can quickly become outdated, and those extra nuggets of information will still be valuable, whilst the core information about the way things work overall will still be covered to learn from. Often bonus packages that are given away free as incentives are out of date and do not really add much in the way of value. They would have been worth the money when they were initially released but things have moved on and so they are now being offered as extras and are not being sold as products in their own right. Yet if you can get a lot of these, that are less then 2-3 years old especially, then you can quickly get a library of reference material from which you can determine what the core ideas are and so recognise what the 'new' extras are in the up-to-date products.

Interestingly, I have noticed that although many of these packages offer to show you and guide you step by step, most really do not do this, everything is given in far more general terms, however this may also be because I have not been investing in the packages at the $1000+ end of the market or been using any mentoring services. It may well be that in this case you get what you pay for, but as I cannot currently pay for this financially I will have to continue to pay through the investment of my own time.

With this in mind I do know that I need to work on my list building and also for that list to be aimed at a niche for best results, so I am learning things. So this will be the next stage in my adventure, trying to determine how to build a list in the most cost effective way. Also I will be looking at the products I wish to sell so that I can determine the niches to aim at. That being said I have invested in a couple of packages that I am also going to try to follow through to see what results I can achieve, these packages are Profit Praxis and Underground Cash Secrets.

So I go away again to read more and experiment, wish me luck!