But no, seriously…

Identify what it is you are trying to accomplish, prioritize, and then stick with it.  Do you want to make money via affiliate marketing?  Do you want to create your own product? or do you know what you want to do?

Affiliate marketing basically is selling someone elses product for a commission.  You can go to ClickBank and find plenty of digital products you can promote.  Create a blog, site, or e-mail to you list about the products on the site, and start making money that way.  You could make a themed blog or site about dogs, then search Google for “dog affiliate programs” and look through what you find.  Go to some dog product sites, and search at the bottom of the sites to see if they have a “partners” or “affiliates” link.  E-mail the site owner.

You could alternately create your own products and sell them.  This requires a bit more effort and disipline to get started.  You have to create at least some sort of product, but you’d get to keep all of the revenue you generated from it, unless of course you setup your own affiliate program, which I’d highly recommend at some point.  That way, instead of just having one person and site promoting your product (you), you have an army of affiliates promoting it.  You can activly search out affiliates in much the same way.  Find site owners who compliment what you are offering, and ask them if they’d like to feature your product on their site, or if they’d e-mail thier lists about it, for a percentage.

There are many general internet marketing courses offering instruction on how to get up and going online.  Nitro Marketing, Kevin Wilke, Dan Swanson, Matt Gill, etc. offers the Nitro Blueprint, which walks you, step by step, in getting up and going online.

The Internet Marketing Center alternately offers a product that also walks you through the process of getting up and going with the online marketing process, the Insiders Secrets to Marketing Your Business Online.

If you are extremely ADHD and want to create a product/site in a matter of hours with minimal effort, check out Russell Brunson’s Micro Continuity.  This training is good, comes preloaded on a FREE MP3 player, and walks you through the entire process in a very short time.

You will want to figure out how to drive traffic and build a list once you have a site up and running.

You can literally have traffic banging at your door in a matter of minutes with PPC, you can check out some PPC (Pay Per Click) resources here.

You will need to be able to somehow accept money for your products, which you can do through PayPal, 1Shoppingcart.com ,  InfusionSoft, etc.  PayPal is the easiest, quickest, and cheapest, but it’s more of a hassle for  the buyer, and doesn’t integrate as much.  1shopping cart is a good place to start, and they have an offering that incorporates affiliates, e-mail autoresponder, and shopping cart.  Infusionsoft does this as well, but at a much higher price point, so unless you are either funded, or a bit further along, you’ll probably want to forgo that from the beginning, especially if you are starting out as a hobby or part time.

Once you are up and running online, you will want to start looking at some more advanced techniques and strategies.  Products such as Frank Kern’s Mass Control 2.0 and Jeff Walkers Product Launch Formula and other similar products.  You can re-release your initial products using advanced techniques that you would learn in the above courses.

There are a GAZILLION resources, products, and people willing to sell, provide, and equipt you with everything you could possible imagine to succeed online.   If you have any questions or guidance with any of them, feel free to drop me a line or respond to this post.

After I had finished experiencing Micro Continuity in action, during the checkout process, I was at the final thank you screen, where you are also given the opportunity to download the product right them and there.  I downloaded the MP3’s and the bonus content – some micro continuity templates and a few other things.

You were also given the option to purchase the Micro Continuity upsell items again on the thank you page.  I was about to order the Instant Traffic Systems .

Then, at this point in time, my boys came home from summer camp.  I got distracted and had to tend to them for the next few hours.  In the mean time, my laptop went into hibernation mode, and when I brought it back up, my browser was locked up.  I went to my history and when I tried to go to the thank you page, I was redirected to the Micro Continuity home page.

Ok, that makes sense so far, to get to the thank you page, you have to be referred from /oto3ds.php, their last upsell page.  This isn’t uncommon or out of the ordinary really.  I wanted the Instant Traffic Systems so much, and it was after business hours, so I just went throught the process again, and purchased it again, and then, when I got to the upsell page, I entered in my information and thought I had purchased it.

The first time, I also put in my wrong credit card number and hit escape just after hitting purchase, and attempted to enter in my correct credit card number.  MY MISTAKE (You’ll see why in a few, but I’m sure you can guess).  I then entered in my correct credit card number, and clicked purchase again, and it successfully went through, or so I thought.

When I got to the thank you page, it again said that I hadn’t chosen the option to purchase the Micro Continuity Instant Traffic System upgrade, and I had the option to purchase.  Hrm…

Then, I log into my bank account, and there are two charges for the system.  This resulted from my hitting the esc key after clicking submit the first time, and then entering in a different number and then clicking submit somehow.  I’d have figured it would have charged each seperate card, but it charged two different charges for a product I still don’t have access too.

As I also ordered the product the day before, and then did that, it’s my fault completely that I got charged twice, BUT, as they have charged my account, and I’m seeing two of them in there, I’m a bit bent that I don’t at least have access to the product….

I’m waiting until 9am central when their customer service opens up, and will call them to sort it out.  I just hate having to wait for something I want so much, and KNOW is going to be a killer product.

Get it while he still has some in stock:  Micro Continuity

and as well, you might want to seriously consider the Instant Traffic Systems upgrade, according to Nicole from DotComSecrets support, it comes with the Reverse Craigslist software – Reverse Craigs List – that is featured as a traffic example in some of the Micro Continuity videos.