This is a review of John Thornhill and Dave Nicholson’s program called Free Monthly Websites.

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When I first started to look into Internet Marketing a few years ago, one of the first people that I came across was John Thornhill.  Over the years that I have been a subscriber of John’s, he has always been an honest and reliable Internet Marketer.  What you see is what you get with John and that is someone who is willing to help and share with others his knowledge of how to make it in the internet marketing world.  One of the first sites I signed up with John was his Free Monthly Website.  Each month I received an incredible website all set up to go on your website.  Well, back then I didn’t have a website or anything and didn’t use the sites that I was given.  The Free Monthly Websites site has been ‘down’ for a while now because John and Dave has been updating to Version 2.0.

What is the most important thing to learn in all of Internet marketing? – ‘Joint Ventures’.  I believe Joint Ventures are the absolute fastest way to make a lot of money FAST.

Everywhere you look you see marketing gurus promoting each other’s products to their readers and getting a share of the profits. Often times a marketer with a good sized list can make a five or even six figure payday just by promoting someone else’s offer.

Have you ever dreamed of having a well-known guru promote one of your products? Can you imagine yourself rubbing shoulders with the Internet marketing elite, and earning the kind of paydays that most entrepreneurs only dream about? Joint ventures are the key to making that dream come true.

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THERE’S JUST ONE PROBLEM

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Learning how to create successful joint ventures has always been hit and miss. You had to learn by trial and error and it often took way too long to build up the kind of reputation that would have reputable marketers seeking you out to do business together.

A very quick post today. I have spoken before about how you need to focus on what direction you want to take in your business.  There is still one major concern that I have one area that I need to focus on urgently and it is one area that has caused me a lot of confusion and panic.  Finding a niche.  Do I go for something that has already saturated the internet but I know that people need/want this service or I do I focus on something that I have a passion for?  The internet is a place of endless information for everyone, some people need to know about dog training, other people about how to cure warts etc. etc.  I am starting to write down a list of all the things that I have a passion for plus things I don’t have a passion for but would like to know more about.  After I have completed my list I am going to do keyword searches to find out what are the most popular, not by how many websites there are with this keyword but by how many people are looking for this keyword.  If “people searches” outnumber websites it is only logical that that is something that I should look into.  Now I am not a keyword or niche expert, in fact I don’t know much about them at all but I do want to set up a website in the future that will help me, help other people. 

I mentioned previously about finding the right direction to take in your business and focusing on that direction, I also mentioned about finding a mentor.  How many emails (or phone calls) do you get from people offering to mentor you so that you can become the next millionaire? I know that I have received a lot over the years.  Can you believe them or trust them? This is very personal choice; you have to go with your ‘gut feeling’.  I would get phone calls from big guru’s assistants telling me that the big guru himself would like to help me start up my business.  I had all these questions going through my head. How did they get my phone number?  I’m in Australia, how are they going to help me?  What are they going to do to help me?  When, how and why are they going to help me? The most important question for me was, how much?  Being a one income family, we don’t really have the money to spend on training.  Yes I know, you have to spend money to make money as I was told in the phone calls and I became so confused about whether to borrow money to start my business, keep struggling to work it out myself or give it all way completely.   I had to turn down their offers of help because I didn’t have the confidence in myself to be able to achieve all the things they wanted me to do. 

A quick update today on ‘Information Overload’, how do you know what email, membership subscriptions to cull?  That has been my big problem, I wanted to stay on everyone’s lists, be a member of membership sites that offered me all types of product and information. Then I realised that the answer was simple! I had to stop and think what were the benefits, for me for being a member of these sites or mailing lists, would they help me? Most of them were not helping me, but I wanted them to, because I didn’t know what I was doing and what direction to take.  Finding the right direction you want to take can be difficult for some people, it was for me, but when you find the direction, it feels like a cloud had been lifted from your head.

“Information Overload”:  The big killer for most Internet Marketer ‘wannabes’.  It can be terminal – if you let it.  You have to know when to stop signing up for everything that is free but how do you stop?  New ebooks, software etc. are being release all the time to make Internet Marketing easier.  I have been so caught up with reading emails, checking out what is new, what will make my life easy that I have forgotten to stop and work out what path I should be taking.  Disillusioned!!!!! That is how I felt. It is said that 98% of internet marketers fail.  I want to be in the 2% that succeed.  How am I going to make that happen?