If You HAD to Start Over - What would you do Different???

[cashmania]

Its amazing how much you learn when you search. I didn't realize something that small could have such and impact on the search engines. Thankyou for the great tip...

I will do that the next time I buy a domain as well...

[gina]

I would have never paid an entrepreneur coach thousands of dollars to do something that I could have found out for free on my own.

I would instead have looked for a niche by going to google keyword tool and checking how many searches it was getting and how much per click it s was getting. If a site has 5, 6 and 7 digit searches, I know that this niche of keywords would be ripe for adsense.

Then I'd hire a web designer to make my site for less than $300, have him attach it to a webhost with unlimited bandwidth.

[uday1583]

Hmmm what i would do different is the best way to understand what you did until now.... as far as i am concerned... what i would do different is think different, think that i can d it.. and also write down everything i did, i want to do and ensure that i don't repeat the same mistake that i did before.... i feel it is always good to do the mistakes as you learn from them, but it is sin to repeat the same mistake that you have already committed.. so i would change that.

[americanis]

I'm rather new to the game, but already I have some good start over advice. Number one, I'd do much more research, especially in all of the great forums on the internet. Number two, I'd be far more assertive in making moves, especially the whole starting process. It seems like once I gathered all the info I needed, it took me a while to test the waters and get my feet wet. Though caution is never a bad thing when it comes to money, nonetheless I feel like I wasted some valuable time.

[myfreelance]

If I could start over. I will only focus my attention into one blog only rather than maintaining four blogs. It is quite tiring maintaining more than one blog. It takes a lot of my time to promote each blog.

[fusionetics]

Great information everyone ,im really glad i found this forum it can be kind of lonely starting out in this

[fire3fly]

Oh gracious, what wouldn't I have done is the question. LOL

I made every affiliate marketing mistake there is to make. I thought that I could just create a website, and everybody would visit and buy, and I would be rich. Not!

I also tried to do things the easy way. I work full time, and I had no money to spend on marketing, and very little time. I tried marketing the Black Hat way. I tried traffic exchanges, and automated software, you name it, I did it.

I was booted by Adsense, and that was my first wake up call.

Totally lazy, and I have been personally smacked down by Google so many times that I think they have grown used to burying my websites.

Fortunately, I have learned my lessons, and have started to market my campaigns much more effectively and the right way.

I learned that doing things the right way the first time will yield much better results.

Carmen

[Shadowkahn1234]

Being new to all this, including affiliate marketing, I would have to change my mindset from years ago. I too would have found all the affiliate courses I could and made my mark a long time ago. Life changes are the most important, in my opinion. Self doubt, skeptcism, frustration are all business killers. Another very important change I would have made was to seek out forums like this and folks like all of you to help me with all the dark moments and set backs. I really appreciate all of you.
Have a great day!!

[JanEJG]

Shadow, I love this post. Great message for a Thanksgiving weekend!

[Shadowkahn1234]

Thanks Jan,
I really mean it when I say I appreciate all of you. It's very refreshing to find friendly people to carry on a conversation with. I hope we can all exchange information and everyone can succeed.
Have a great day!!!