Since starting out online I have found that I am constantly juggling my valuable time between the full time job, family and my online interests. I am finding it is a constant battle to find the right balance.

Whoever thinks that making a living online is easy they need to think again, anyone that is making a good income online has put in the hard work behind the scenes before becoming successful in this business.

On my journey I have found out that there are lots of different aspects that have to be learnt to help you move forward in Internet Marketing.

I have listed just a few of them below:

• Copywriting (writing Sales copy)
• Creating Graphics (Photoshop)
• Creating and uploading websites
• Affiliate Marketing
• Social media marketing
• Blogging
• Driving Traffic to your website
• SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)

Just having a basic understanding of how things work can help you move on in leaps and bounds in this industry. The trouble is that there are so many different areas and subjects to learn about that we can’t become masters of them all, even if you could how would you make time to implement all of them.

This is where outsourcing can be a great advantage and there are plenty of different websites out there with qualified individuals to help you.   Here are just a few that I have come across over the years, www.elance.com   www.odesk.com , or www.fiver.com . Alternatively you can visit various forums such as the Warrior Forum or Digital Point Forum where there are plenty of people who also offer their expertise.

I too use outsourcing and you can see just one example of this right here on my Blog. Take a look at the header graphic at the top, the one with my name and a picture of a good looking guy on it. I outsourced this to Steve at gfx-1.   I can highly recommend him please feel free to check out his website.

I own a copy of Photoshop and could have created the graphic myself however it can be quite time consuming so I decided to outsource it to Steve because he has a lot more experience.  With his experience he was able to create these graphics in a fraction of time it would have taken me.  With giving this to Steve to do for me I am then able to free up some of my valuable time to move forward in other areas of my business.

Successful people leverage other people’s time and money. If you are short on time or could think of a better way to use your time to move forward then you should seriously consider outsourcing some of your workload to help you advance in the right direction.

Regards

Robert Chenery

I have recently read an article about PayPal and how they can shut down your account in the blink of an eye if they want to.

This got me thinking about the different types of businesses that people run online and how secure they actually are.

A few years ago I did some research on what was selling on eBay I decided I would import some goods and sell them over here in the UK.

I checked out the completed listings on eBay and found that Foetal Doppler’s were selling quite well so I found my supplier and imported some.

I was a few days into selling the Doppler’s which were selling quite well when all of a sudden eBay took down my listings with no explanation. Read the rest of this entry

If you have been studying Internet Marketing for any length of time you will come to realise that at some point in your career you will have to get some sales copy written for your products.

There are 2 ways to do this you can either pay an experienced copywriter to write it for you which can be expensive especially if you are just starting out, or you can take steps to learn how to do it yourself.

There are quite a few books already written about the process one I can recommend is Randolf Smiths Sales Letter ABC and another respected copywriter that springs to mind is Ted Nicholas, who also has a couple of books out called “How To Turn Words Into Money” & “Magic Words That Bring You Riches”.

The one thing that all copywriters will have somewhere amongst their tool kit is a SWIPE FILE.

So what actually is a SWIPE FILE? Read the rest of this entry