Unfortunately, like a whole lot of things in life, it really is far too easy to get overwhelmed with all the stuff you need to learn to be successful marketing online. If you’re 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 your e-mail subscriptions if they distract you through your work or perhaps worse tempt you into trying another thing.

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 do not go from one system to the next because you are not only a millionaire in 7 days or whatever the system promised in the sales letter. Short of a big official 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 before you go on to the next step. OK you website looks ugly or your new eBook has a lot of blank pages but remember you are not going to be a success overnight, so don’t expect to be.

Write down what you do in order that you determine what you did when something works in which case you will be able to do it again. Your notes may also help work out the place you went wrong and just how you can fix it. Not just that your notes are original content so can make up 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’re going to not like it if it really is just has a 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 if you have something unique to giveaway as well.