Unfortunately, like a lot of things in life, it really is far too easy to get overwhelmed with all of the stuff you’ll need to learn to be successful marketing online. In the event you are not careful you shall find yourself jumping from the-latest “you beaut” product to the next and eventually find yourself burnt out with information overload and nothing other than a full hard drive of digital products to show for your efforts.

Here are my five online marketing tips for a beginner.

Locate a marketing product or system that interests you and stick with it. Don’t worry most systems will produce some results. Cancel all of your email subscriptions should they distract you through your work or maybe worse tempt you into trying something else.

Take your time for you to learn your chosen marketing product or system as it will be an excellent grounding for your future marketing ventures. Stick with it and don’t go from one system to the next because you are not a millionaire in 7 days or whatever the system promised in the sales letter. Short of a big lottery win this rarely happens especially to beginners.

Do not just read the manual or watch the videos but take action. Stop reading the manual or stop the video and do those steps you read about or watched prior to deciding to go on to the next step. OK you website looks ugly or your new eBook has many blank pages but remember you are not going to be a success overnight, so do not anticipate to be.

Write down what you do so that you determine what you did when something works then you may very well do it again. Your notes will also help work out in which you went wrong and how you can fix it. Furthermore your notes are original content so can form the beginnings of a future ebook, articles or video. OK back to reality that dream can wait.

Create value in everything do by adding your ideas and original content. Step back and ask yourself will you read it or buy it. When someone buys a product they will not like it if it really is just has a whole new title and shiny new digital cover and they have read it a dozen times before. This may to be acceptable for giveaway products but it creates more value should you have something unique to giveaway as well.