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As a new Internet marketer I’m going through my personal list of all the nagging worries that (used to) cast doubt in my mind as I start out.

The last two I probably dwelt on most.

“It’s too risky, I need a job and income I can rely on”,
“It’s too complicated, I’ll never learn all I need to know to be successful”.

It certainly would be a risk to sever your income by quitting your job to start a brand new, no traffic, no products, no customers online business. I wouldn’t advise anyone go that route.

Like myself, I’m guessing most people juggle a day job with building their business in the early months or even years.

So, even though the time pressures are greater, risk can be mitigated by hanging on to your job until you are earning enough online to quit regular employment.

All obvious enough. But that got me to thinking. There are some people who are contemplating Internet marketing because they don’t have a job, because they were down-sized or credit-crunched or had their job shipped overseas right out from under them.

Thinking about these people made me realise I’m in a lucky position. I have a regular income and I’m motivated to be my own boss. My risk is tiny compared to others. Time to put that objection away because it’s simply not valid in my case.

I just need to ensure I don’t blow a ton of cash on marketing products! I’m getting better at saying no each day.

Yes, Internet marketing is complicated. But a lot of that complexity comes from the initial information overload that I bet every new marketer is subjected to.

Will you go with your own product, be an affiliate, gamble with PPC, go into e-commerce or drop-shipping? CPA, PPV, SEO, SEM, email, telemarketing, seminars, domains, FTP, SSL, PHP, CPanel,.. Holy Mother of… Where do I start?

You need to learn. So you need someone to teach you. Simple.

A tutor you can relate to, somebody who caters to newcomers and a training regime that will lead you from A to Z, step by step, with pretty pictures and tons of examples all without breaking the bank. That’s what I needed, anyway.

For me that was Brian Johnson and his Commission Ritual. I’ll review this later but for now I’ll say, for me, it is the single most important product I’ve used to date.

Brian’s a success now, but I, “kinda, ultimately”, imagine he was a bit like me when he was starting out. Figuring things out, painful step by step. Until he had it cracked. That’s how all beginnings tend to begin – tentatively.

This is how you build real understanding. By doing. You follow the simple steps and forget about the multi-million dollar leaps. One system, executed from start to finish with all other distractions put away.

Yes, it’s complicated at first. But a journey is a series of steps. I actually know what I’m doing right now. I have learned, I am executing and, hopefully, soon I’ll be earning. Maybe not much but the very fact I can earn at all means that, yes, eventually I’ll make it in this complicated business just as many, many others have done before me.

Because I’ll keep learning and I won’t stop.

I’m not worried about the complexities because I know they can all be broken down into simple steps and I know that for anything I want to do online there’s a good, cheap program out there that will teach me how to do it.

My initial worries have been cast away. All of them. I have no excuses for not pushing ahead and creating my own Internet marketing business.

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