subject: Internet Marketing Training: 3 Ways to Get a Valuable Mentor On Your Team [print this page] Internet Marketing Training: 3 Ways to Get a Valuable Mentor On Your Team
One of the best ways that you can get ahead when teaching yourself to build a solid online income is to find someone to emulate. Someone who has gone before you and is well-respected and successful at what you want to do can teach you more in a few months than you can often learn in years. But how do you find reliable internet marketing training? Is it really that easy?Well, it takes some real energy to find someone good, but it does pay off.1. Settle for Learning from a DistanceWhat I mean by learning from a distance is that rather than expect this person to personally coach and mentor you, just study their materials as much as possible. I always recommend to people just getting into the internet marketing world to just stick with one path to success anyways, and I know of no better way to do this than find one marketer and study everything they know.You won't get that personal interaction, but if you read enough of one person's materialin many cases it will come in the form of a lot of free reports or posts on forums like the Warrior Forumyou will really begin to soak up their ideas and way of thinking. So just by focusing your attention on one teacher's material, you get internet marketing training without the high costs.2. Make FriendsI've seen newbies come onto IM forums announcing that they want to find a mentor, and many even promising they will give up a percentage of all their profits for a certain period of time, but in almost all cases this person gets no response. It's not because no one wants to helpit's because in almost all cases, the student never does what they are told, if anything at all, and the whole idea of internet marketing training becomes a waste.But trust me, successful people do want to help. They love to pass the torch and they like seeing people succeed with their concepts.So a better approach is to network and make friends. Take the time to get to know people who are having success online, ask them questions here and there, and report back to them if an answer they give you brings you successor even if it doesn'tjust let them know you're acting out on the information.Take it slow and get to know people. I find online that plenty people just give me things or do huge favors with me online just because they have come to like me as a person, and I often do the same for them. If they like you and see your efforts, they may very well be glad to give you some of their time for free.3. Pay SomeoneAnd of course, you can always pay for a internet marketing training. There are plenty of mentoring programs out there. Some come in the form of membership programs with seminars, webinars, and coaching calls. Others are just one-on-one programs. And even asking someone you've never spoken to before if they'll coach you will be a lot more likely to get a yes if you're offering cash from the get-go.
