subject: How This Australian Woman ‘Got' Internet Marketing [print this page] How This Australian Woman Got' Internet Marketing
The term internet marketing' sounds really complicated and technical. I know that's what I thought when I first heard it just over two years ago. I could use a computer in fact was quite proficient word processing, spreadsheets and had even done a night school course in desktop publishing.
But I didn't know the first thing about HTML (still don't know much), am not nor will I ever be a graphic artist. Yet I am an internet marketer, and I can build a website in around 20 minutes and getting faster each time. I have around 65 sites now, and own many more domain names.
What happened here?
In one of those sliding door' moments, I crossed paths with a man, who was learning, in his spare time, about internet marketing. Because he had seen that I could write well, he asked me to write some articles for him (many about internet marketing). He also suggested I build a website (I thought he was crazy!).
But I did start to write for him, and I did build a website.
And I did adopt him as my mentor.
His successful internet marketing strategies have sky-rocketed him onto the world stage he has spoken at industry events all around the world. And he has taken on more students, establishing a paid coaching forum.
I now have a successful online business, providing quality content, for internet marketers. I have published my own ebook and will launch a training program in 2010. I was very lucky that our paths crossed.
Opportunities Abound
Opportunities present themselves every day, but most people don't recognize them. It would have been so easy for me to walk away from that meeting and think "I might do that one day", or "I can't do that". But I was at a crossroads in my life, and because this student was ready, the teacher appeared. I was ready to learn.
Age is no barrier to learning about internet marketing. I have attended workshops held by my mentor, and seen an 11 year old build a website, a 17 year old have a whole new world open up to him, and an 86 year old veteran see how he can share his service experiences online.
Once you get it', it is easy to see how you can monetize websites, and create several different profit models. But getting a good mentor is the key, and like so many people are discovering, we have home-grown Australian internet marketing expert here to guide us.
