It’s been over a year since I started out in internet marketing. I made some money – not bucket-fulls but enough to make me feel like I’m on my way. I’ve also learned a thing or two. Here’s the rundown of my biggest lessons learned.
Be true to yourself
In internet marketing, the common advice is to keep everything separate. Separate email accounts for separate niches. Well, I’m tired of that. In fact, it doesn’t make that much sense. As a writer, I personally believe you can convince anyone you are qualified to be an expert on something. Having a different pen name doesn’t change the fact that I am who I am.
Why separate out my writer self, my blogger self, and my affiliate marketing self? To me, they’re all the same. So what you’ll find is that this is a blog about my business. And if I feel like writing more one week and postponing my marketing tasks, so be it.
I am completely thrilled that I no longer feel so divided. It was actually quite liberating.
Don’t let fear rule your life
If you’re thinking of starting a blog about you don’t be afraid. Just get started and reserve that domain name (I use GoDaddy.com.) It took me a while to finally take that first action. In retrospect the hardest thing to do for me was to actually get started. Avoid that. Start NOW! 
Get educated – don’t wait!
It wasn’t fear that held me back, not at first – it was lack of knowledge on how to set up websites. I had to be stubborn one day and force myself to sit and figure it out. Now I have the confidence that I can build a site from scratch whenever I want.
I’ve learned that inaction does not do anything to make you successful. Put one foot in front of the other. I spent the first several months feeling like I didn’t know what I was doing. At the risk of sounding obvious, there is no way I could have figured it out unless I actually started doing something.
And that, perhaps, was the biggest lesson of all. Just do something!
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Thank you for your honesty.