As an Internet Marketer
in the rapidly changing cyberspace landscape, you’ll want to continually evolve. Free information is everywhere! Ensure your continued progress by reading news in your niche and in online marketing as a whole. You need to be ready to be a sponge looking to sop up knowledge wherever you can so that you don’t become a dinosaur and miss the boat on new and great opportunities.
Places to Get Free Information
Blogs are free and often provide a wealth of information. Subscribe to blogs in your niche and get tips delivered to your email inbox. Look for gurus in the affiliate marketing world to follow. Many will offer a plethora of free information such as e-books.
Free e-books and reports are plentiful in the online marketing world. They’re often designed to get your e-mail address so that they can sell you something later of course, but that’s ok. You should read everything you can get your hands on pertaining to SEO, your own niche and to online marketing.
Google Alerts
Google Alerts are a great free tool that enable you to tell Google to email you whenever anything gets indexed that has your desired keywords in it. This is a great way to keep on top of something specific and have alerts delivered to your e-mail as they happen or in specified time periods.
Knowledge is equal to power in term of being a guru in your industry. Keeping up on industry news and trends will be vital for your continued and increased online success.
About Sean Rasmussen
True, the Internet is like a big magic box with endless information. My challenge at the moment is not to be overwhelmed and to find a proper filter for everything. I do sometimes get lost surfing from one great article to the next … I like Google Alerts, its a great way to keep up to date with Internet Marketing Knowledge.
Renee, you raise a good point when it comes to filtering information. One of the issues with the information age is that there is so much of it.
Particularly when subscribing to people to get free internet marketing ebooks, it is easy to then get bombarded with ‘urgent’ announcements indicating that there is a limited number of some wonderful product left and I must act now to secure my copy. In most cases these emails don’t add any value and therefore quickly have me deleting them. I also tend to unsubscribe from that mailing list as well, unless I have a particular reason to stay on it.
Hi Tom,
I really dislike those kinds of emails, especially from people I don’t really know. It makes me hit the unsubscribe button really quickly. I sign up for a lot of free stuff from established internet marketers.
But, if the e-book doesn’t help me; I unsubscribe really quickly. There’s no point wasting my time or theirs.
Hi Sean,
I subscribe to a lot of blogs in my niche and I tend to focus on the ones that are the most successful. I get a lot of free e-books and I’ve managed to pick up a lot of information. Just about every time I add someone new on Twitter, I get a DM with a link for a free e-book.
Google Alerts is something I haven’t tried yet so I’ll have to check that out. But, I really think when you’re new to Internet Marketing, there is no way you should be paying for any information until you have a better idea of who you can trust.
Agree Renee
I twill be so easy to get information overload.
I am subscribing to this blog so I can easily find the information when I want it otherwise it will just fall into the big hole
I agree Gee, this is a fantastic blog for me at my stage in Internet Marketing as the information is very clear and easy to read and understand!
I may be a bit biased, but I’d say my most important source of free information currently is Sean Rasmussen. Surprise, surprise.
I’ve used Google Alerts frequently in the past when trying to keep abreast of events in areas that held my interest. I subscribe to RRS feed of blogs and also use Google Reader to keep up-to-date in certain fields.
There are multitude of free ways to get Internet Marketing knowledge. Try a few out and see which best fits your operational style.
Currently I use both methods Subscribe to blogs and Google Alerts to keep myself up to date. I find that the google alerts is more of an at hand approach because the alerts are sent to my email where I frequent. The blog subscribes in my google reader need to be fitted into my new time management strategy, which is an ever-growing list of things to do. Never a dull moment
This blog and the others you write are a fantastic source of information already. When i first started Internet Marketing last year I got caught into sumitting my email for a free ebook and then with that came a barrage of emails. Even through receiving 300 + emails a day (I went all out with subscribing to offers), it was a great process to sort through information and actually find people who it was worth subscribing to their blog.
Hi Don,
I think you’re right. Perhaps the fourth way to receive Internet Marketing Information is from Sean Rasmussen.
Hi Sean, I recently discovered Google Alerts through the seanseo blogs and I agree it is one easy way to keep informed on keywords from my blog being indexed.
Great info thanks.