Robyn

If you  can get by all the hype and misleading information regarding making money on the internet, it does actually work.  The problem is that if you do not know anything at all about it, you may end up going around in circles trying to make something out of it.

There are SO MANY PROGRAMS online urging you to join them, spend some money and subscribe…  I refuse to say they are all scams. I think there are a lot of people out there making money from ‘people who subscribe’. And there are a lot of people who “subscribe” who actually end up making money!

I subscribed to different programs and didn’t make any money, but it wasn’t the “programs” fault, in most cases (or all cases) it was my fault.  One of the main problems with someone wanting to start out with internet marketing is that they have no idea where to begin. Thus a prerequisite for any program is that it is geared towards beginners and that it does not progress at too fast a rate. It is also important that a good program does not overwhelm a beginner or introduce too many new concepts too early in the program.

I signed up with a few ‘free’ programs but they went too fast for me. Then I signed up with “Wealthy Academy” for a month or so. It was okay but very impersonal and I felt it was attacking on too many fronts at once. I couldn’t really get a handle on anything. Some people really took off on it, and my hat goes off to them. I was not one of those people.

I was also reading a lot of free money making blogs and I came across one guy who was teaching the most incredible stuff for free. He was also teaching you how to make money online without investing any money at all. He has since gone under the radar, but at the time he was publishing regularly he really opened my eyes to how simple this whole thing could be.

For those interested in a structured course he recommended some friends of his.  You know me, all for structure!  I checked it out. It is the Keyword Academy. First month $1. If you like it you stick around, if not cancel your subscription. When I joined it was $33 a month, and I am still paying that now.  (Recently, after about one year and the addition of many new internet marketing aids, the fees went up to $69 or so but anyone who signed up at the ‘old’ price stuck with that.) It is worth every cent.

I could extol all that I like about these guys here, but I already have  on my hub about how I was about to increase adsense revenue with the Keyword Academy training. There are training videos, an excellent and very active forum where you can get a lot of help, support and answers to your questions, and quite a few programs that aid you in your marketing. I do not think I would be where I am at now without the additional support I received, but even without it, it is possible to still ‘make it’.

One other reason that I have stuck with this particular program is because I was fairly isolated in what I was doing, especially in my neck of the woods!  Not a lot of people understand much about it and people tend to look askance at me for doing it. It is important to have some support when undertaking any new endeavor as there are definitely ups and downs and times you want to throw in the towel. There are also times when it seems everything is going wrong, and you don’t know what to do. That’s where being able to get some support from those who have been doing this a long time helps. They assure you that ‘it has happened before, it will happen again, just keep working away at it’, which is probably the most sound advice I received in this regard.

I am going to put up some links to some of the things I have written previously about making money online for anyone interested in browsing. If you are not interested, don’t read!  It’s really as simple as that.