I very quickly discovered that in order to learn any thing you need a teacher.  Since there are so many internet marketing coaches out there it is very difficult to decide who to trust your hard earned cash with. You may t hink it is as simple as googling ‘Internet Marketing Coach’ and choosing from the list. Remember there are so many people who have been through programs and courses and still not made any online income.  That could be because they have not taken the necessary action, but it could also be because they picked the wrong mentor!

What I recommend is list all the famous ‘gurus’ that you are interested in – go to http://www.gurudaq.com - from there you will be able to find a lot of the top guru websites.  Although do remember that the more famous the guru, the more expensive their coaching.

Your choice will of course depend on a number of factors :-

• What style of teaching you want.

• What type of internet marketing strategies you want to learn about.

• How much you can afford to pay.

Here’s what you need to do:-

• Go to their websites or blogs and get a feel for their style

• Sign up for their newsletter and get their free gift.  There should always be something for free!

• Read the emails they will send you regularly – there should be interesting, useful and understandable information in them.

• Maybe buy a product from them and test their customer service. Is the standard of their product high? Do you like their presentation style?  Did you learn from the product?

• Try to communicate directly with them if you can, and explain your requirements to see how they respond. Maybe you need to be able to interact 1 to 1 with your mentor – is this possible?

• Do they have a good reputation in their area of expertise?

I would estimate that most people try more than one teacher before they hit on the right one, and this can get very expensive.  You need to make sure that you respect their style and ethos.  Do they seem to have integrity or do you feel as if they just want your money. Do they have a refund policy if you are not happy?

If they have a forum join in and speak to the current students and get their views.

Do not be taken in because they have released a successful product – this is possible without actually knowing all areas of the business – if you have the money you can hire the people to produce a great product, write great copy, produce a squeeze page, send the traffic, and have a successful lucrative product.  You can then be hailed as the next guru of the back of one product launch, without actually knowing every aspect of the internet marketing business.  You need a mentor who knows their stuff and can prove their expertise, otherwise you will fail.

Yes there should be a history of successful products – not just one.

You must choose a person you feel comfortable with and can trust, and whose ideals you share.  The right choice can lead to quick success, a mistake can cost you time and money.  So please do your research before you make your decision.

The above advice is how I came to choose my mentor Alex Jeffreys – he is straight forward, easy to understand, down to earth, and just a really approachable person.  I would feel comfortable asking him anything,  knowing that he will respond quickly and honestly. He has built his business by helping others to succeed, and that is something that I aspire to.

Comment below please if you want any advice on how to choose your mentor – I will try to help and I am sure everyone else will too!

PS Do not forget to look  out for my FREE ebook coming soon on how I made my first $650 in six weeks, without knowing anything about Internet marketing at all!!

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How do people get started in making an online income?  How do you start your home based web business?

The $64,000 question indeed.

The way I began was by searching for the best person to teach me – and boy did I search!

I am a complete researchaholic. You will realise this as you follow me – I will have a lot of free stuff for you based on my researchaholicism – like lists,lists and more lists – not forgetting mindmaps – Oh I do love mindmaps – but hey that is a whole new category – cannot wait.

No matter what I am going to do or where I am going I have to research every last detail.

This, my friends, is a curse on my life – I just do not know when to stop researching – I have a slightly obsessive personality in this respect.

This ‘quality’ I have has cost me some money over the last few months. Now don’t get me wrong – you do have to find out a ton of stuff and yes, you do need to spend some money on coaching,  BUT you really do not need 12 different guides on how to conquer social bookmarking – or 9 versions of how to set up your facebook account.

But if you read ‘all about me’ – hey I don’t buy clothes any more – so I buy 12 different versions of how to conquer social bookmarking and 9 versions of how to set up your facebook acount!!

But pretty soon I had to start hiding away the credit card statements in shame – so something had to give.

I thought OK from now on I will really only buy stuff that is absolutely necessary for my work – plus of course the things you have to have like hosting, domain names, autoresponders and the like.

Having said all this it is really difficult to stop yourself buying every new product because, lets face it, some of them are really good.

The difficulty is discovering beforehand which are good.  So now, guess what,  I research, but I research in the right places.

So to cut out all this for you,  if you want to know if a product  is worth your hard earned dollars then go to The Warrior Forum and read about it there.  It is the very best place that I know to research a product.

If your niche is going to be internet marketing, then it will do you no harm at all to join this well respected forum and post here to get yourself known buy other marketers.

Now stay tuned, won’t you,  because I am going to share with you the exact way that I made my first $1 online – I have written a guide to this technique which is a super simple strategy – but only if you approach it in the correct way!

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