Advantages Of Having A Mentor When Starting Your Internet Marketing Business

With the explosion of online shopping - for both goods and services - online marketing is a growing business as well. However, if you're looking to start your own online marketing service, you'll want to consider seeking a mentor, rather than jumping in and trying to learn everything you need to know on your own.

Being a successful online marketer is a complex undertaking, and only growing moreso with every passing week. Finding a mentor - someone who already has the knowledge and can pass it on to you - provides an incalculable savings, both in time and money. 

There's an old saying that you get what you pay for. And while there are absolutely free internet marketing training resources available, they're questionable at best. The sort of mentor you should search for is someone who has a successful internet marketing business, since they already possess the knowledge you need.

A mentor can:

- help you discover your niche. Trying to set yourself up as the go-to source for every internet marketing strategy is problematic, at best. You'll want to focus your efforts, and a mentor can help you identify your strengths and narrow your goals, thereby shortening your startup time, and lessening your learning curve. 

- help you stay motivated. Getting started with any new business is tough, particularly if you're including blogging as part of your strategy. Building a following takes time, and having a mentor can help keep you on-task and keep you working, as well as steering your efforts, can help you start becoming successful much more rapidly.

- help you with Search Engine Optimization. Learning how to optimize search engine features can be a very time-consuming and frustrating experience. Having somone who already knows how in your corner to direct your efforts will immeasurably speed this process.

- help save you money. There are countless options available on the internet to train you in how to be an online marketer. Remember that you get what you pay for? Free is appealing, but will cost you vast amounts of time. On the flip side, many of the pay-for training sites and programs seem to good to be true. And when it seems to good to be true, it usually is. Having a mentor will help you navigate the rocks and shoals of your learning process. And yes, you'll be paying your mentor, but part of what you're paying them for is efficiency and direction, neither of which can adequately be emphasized.

- help direct you to resources for your business. A good mentor will not only help direct your training, but they'll also have resources - from software to ebooks - that will actually work, and save you time and money in the long run, and many of what they can direct you to will be free or very low-cost.

The factors and variables involved in creating and running a successful online marketing business can seem incalculable. But a good mentor will not only streamline the process for you, but they'll save you endless headache, frustration, and - most importantly - wasted time.

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Mitch Carson has been a pitchman on Home Shopping Network, CBS Radio host, and is the CEO of Impact Products Marketing in Los Angeles, CA.

Reach him at [email protected] or https://www.mitchcarson.com