If you work from home as an internet marketer, what was the biggest challenge facing you when you first started your online business?
I’d like to come back to that question in a moment. But first I’d like to share with you where I am up to in my internet business …
This blog has been somewhat neglected, partly because I’ve been building other websites in various niches, and partly because I wasn’t sure in what direction I wanted this blog to go.
It was always my intention that this blog would help people develop in some way, either mentally, spiritually, financially or perhaps a combination of all three.
Having learned how to build websites, drive traffic to them, capture visitors’ email addresses, convert visitors to buyers and make repeat sales to existing customers, I’ve decided to use this blog to teach others what I’ve learned about internet marketing and starting an online business working from home.
I intend to produce a comprehensive step-by-step internet marketing online business course. I will compile the course in my “spare time” while I continue to build other sites in other niches.
If you already know how to build a website, build a list and sell products online, my internet marketing course is likely to be too basic for you, at least initially. But if you’d like to see how it develops over time, feel free to subscribe to it using the box at the top right of this page.
And that brings me back to my original question …
It would be very helpful to me if you could let me know what was the greatest challenge to you when you first started your work from home internet marketing online business.
Perhaps it was finding the time … or finding a niche … or finding a product … or finding the will to live with all the information overload!
Whatever it was, I’d be very grateful to you if you could let me know by leaving a comment below (or emailing me if you’d prefer privacy).
I’ll then compile the results and share them with you in a post on this blog . You may find the results useful in your own internet marketing online business!
To your success and happiness
Martyn
Tags: internet marketing, internet marketing course, online business, work from home
Leave A Reply (118 comments So Far)
Pierre Trudel
609 days ago
Martyn Hi,
Thanks for going to my site. What did you think?
By the way, my biggest challenge when I started was to identify and stick with my niche.
It is so hard and you get so many opinions that you are consistently unsure of yourself. Once you start to master some skill something new arises.
My niche is fighting obesity from all angles, Body, Mind And Spirit.
Thanks for being there,
Pierre Trudel
Martyn Boaden
608 days ago
Hi Pierre. Good niche! Unfortunately it’s a growing problem.
Vance Sova
616 days ago
Hi Martyn,
For me everything was a challenge since I knew very little. Like Tom says what came next and is still present to some degree was information overload.
Vance
Martyn Boaden
616 days ago
Hi Vance. Thanks for your contribution. I’ll be compiling a summary of everyone’s comments and posting the results on this blog soon.
Tom Harvey
622 days ago
Martyn
Great post. I, like many, suffered through “information overload” – I was hungry to devour courses on everything and anything to braoden my knowledge. The upshot of this was that I was partly knowledgable in a number of things yet a specialist/master of none. More importantly I was all theory and no practice and the concepts I was learning were evolving and being superceded so I quickly learnt the need to focus more and actually take action. Learning from experience is really the best way and makes you more able to share and impart that knowledge with others. To our success
Tom
Martyn Boaden
620 days ago
Hi Tom. Thanks for your comments. I agree. The only way forward is to focus and take action.
eamon@affiliate internet marketing
622 days ago
Hi Martyn
Thanks for a great post.
Like many of the commentators information overload has been my big problem. I am now focusing on a few proven techniques to build my business. I have stopped chasing the next best thing to a large extent. Although I must say some of the new stuff is so tempting or should I say the salesletters.
All the best with your business
Good luck
Eamon
Martyn Boaden
620 days ago
Hi Eamon. Thanks for your input. Unfortunately there is always yet another “shiny new object” for us to buy! You are right to focus.
Anne
623 days ago
Hi Martyn
I have exactly the same freemium model – takes a while to build your list and then to get some money rolling in. Like many others information overload and actually getting started were my initial challenges.
Regards
Anne
Martyn Boaden
623 days ago
Hi Anne. Thanks for your comments. “Freemium”!? I’ve not heard that one before!
Michael Pedzotti
624 days ago
Keeping focused on the most productive activity was about the biggest challenge when I first started out. I have mostly worked through that but it can pop up from time to time, especially with things like this 100 comment challenge
Martyn Boaden
624 days ago
Hi Michael. Staying focussed is a challenge that I still struggle with sometimes – too many distractions!
Robyn
625 days ago
Hi Martyn,
What a great question!! When I first started on the internet my biggest challenge was me. Do I, Can I, Will I, that feeling of uncertainty. I gradually moved on to the challenge of information overload. This challenge is huge but everyone seems to suffer from it. Signing up to lists, receiving emails about how you can make money overnight, have huge list etc. etc. Then the challenge of do I or don’t I need a mentor and which one. Thankfully I chose John Thornhill’s Masterclass. Choosing a niche and writing an ebook can also be a challenge but when you have someone to help and guide you, it’s easy to take one challenge at a time and work through it a day at a time.
I hope you enjoy the challenge, I will be back to visit again soon.
Take care.
Robyn
Martyn Boaden
624 days ago
Thanks for your comments, Robyn. Information overload is a common challenge but you mention a very interesting one – uncertainty!