White Hat Guys

It has to be one of the most under appreciated free educations available today. The internet can teach you how to be a fantastic direct marketer for almost no money. You can learn these skill in much less time. Despite all of the interest in internet marketing, virtually everybody misses this point.

The focus is on getting rich quick or finding the latest or greatest tool that beats Google’s ranking system. Don’t waste your money. You are able to learn how to make tons of money whenever you want. To paraphrase an old Chinese proverb, the Internet is ready to teach you how to fish instead of giving you a fish.

So how do you take advantage of this education?

One way is to find a program teaches direct marketing using the internet. You want a back to basics course that shows you the fundamentals of direct marketing.

A second way is to try to discover effective direct marketing yourself.

Here’s how you can start:

1. Read everything you can find on copywriting, listbuilding, and affiliate marketing on the internet. Understand the Marketing Funnel Profits System.
2. Pick some niches that interests you.
3. Check out the affiliate programs and decide which niche has the most potential.
4. Sign up with no more than five affiliate programs.
5. Set up your website, autoresponder, and squeeze pages.
6. Drive traffic to your site by writing articles, participating in forums, and being active on Web 2.0 sites
7. Test everything on your site using A/B split tests
8. Improve constantly

Remember that the second education is FREE but not quick or or easy. You need to help yourself by getting into a program that shows you the way so you don’t have to learn from your mistakes.