What is the greatest obstacle to finding an internet marketing mentor?

Question

One of the things that the majority of folks most often misunderstand about finding an internet mentor to help them out is they tend to think they have to pay enormous sums of money for a consultant, a coaching program or some other such thing...do you find this to be the case?

Answer 1

In deed many people think that marketing is about spending big dollars, like big companies do. so they don't even try to market, much less find a mentor. If what you're looking is a mentor I don't think I can help you much but if you want tips and advices on marketing for small businesses checkout my site. If you need specific information drop me a line and I'll see what I can do.

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Answer 2

There are really two sides to this coin with a variety of hungry vultures hanging out on each.

FREE ADVICE

Ever hear the old adage that you get what you pay for?  To a certain extent it's true.  However, you will indeed find many sites that offer free advice.  The problem is, unless your a smart Internet Marketer your not going to know the good advice from the bad.  What's worse, since you are needing the advice it's likely that you have not gained all the wisdom you are looking for yet.  This ends up being a vicious circle with no real end.

That's why SEO & Beyond provides a free website analysis for anyone who asks (at least they do as of this writing).  They believe that doing so goes beyond advice into actively participating in the lives of those who are looking to use their service.

You can check out more about that at the following link.

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I was quite pleased with the review they gave my http://commit2fit.info website.

PAID ADVICE

If you are going to have someone train you to be a successful Internet Marketer, then find someone willing to give you some type of guarantee.  

"If our system doesn't work for you, then you don't pay a dime!"

It's a gutsy approach to be sure.  But it goes beyond the idea of pay us all your money and you will be a success approach.  With this method you don't know if you are being sucker punched or not and all you have to show for it in the end will be absolutely nothing.  

I do know that there are indeed many people out there willing to provide a ton of advice if you pay them.  I don't know if anyone has the guts to work by the above approach.  If I did I would probably sign up for their course in a second.  When paying for a mentor or what not the heavy burden for success should be on the shoulders of the one providing the assistance rather than the one paying the bill.

THE MORAL

Pay for a mentor if and only if the mentor believes in their services enough to give you an awesome guarantee otherwise stick with the free advice; or better yet free website reviews.

Answer 3

I suggest you to join with DP Forums. They have lot of internet marketer mentors there.

Esaul Daris

Answer 4

The biggest hurdle is weeding out the so called "gurus".  There is no shortage of "experts" online that claim to be able to make $50,000 a month.

I don't think you have to spend hundreds of dollars.  I think anyone worthwhile is going to give you great marketing information and ideas for free.  That way you can evaluate their teachings and decide if they or their program is right for you.

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Answer 5

A mentor is a great thing to have, but you need to be able to trust them. I've always been of the opinion, "Help others succeed, and you will succeed yourself." That's my drive when I created a search engine for internet marketing that allows any user to know exactly where to put forth marketing effort by statistically arranging websites that accept marketing efforts by popularity, traffic, quality, reach, and more.

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You shouldn't have to pay for a mentor. Do your own research online, such as using this Yahoo answers. Make the search engines your best friend, and start getting familiar with how the internet works. A background in Computer science is a major plus. A good understanding of how the internet functions can allow you to create wonders, from scratch.

Good luck!