For next week, rather than tossing that junk in trash, hang on to it for evaluation purposes after reading this article.

After tossing out what you have considered to be junk mail, do you still have stuff that you’ve opened but goes immediately to trash without reading it? Ok, for this same next week set that stuff in another pile.

I didn't!

It didn't take long for me to realize, "This would be No overnight rocket to Internet stardom."

I also had reservations about being able to learn all this new stuff!

At times I would become almost overwhelmed with terminologies that were as foreign to me as a proposition in nuclear physics.

After all, I'd been a construction worker for past 25yrs. What ever gave me idea that I could trade in my Hard Hat for a shot at Internet Marketing?

The answer to that question: "Because I knew I could and because, above all else, I wanted to."

Like most of us I spent countless hours on Web. Searching for effective ways to get my site noticed. Trying everything that seemed to make sense to me.

I went route of free classified sites, ffa link sites, banner exchanges, link exchanges, and spent a few bucks trying automated software to submit to those sites. There wasn't exactly a flood of traffic to my site. Although I really had no way of knowing what kind of traffic I was getting since I didn't do any ad tracking back then.

I did an awful lot of reading and discovered that I could get Free subscriptions to online publications that were just jammed with useful information.

Ezine/Newsletter editors and publishers that freely shared their knowledge and expertise with those that would read their publications.

I subscribed to many. There were some that were extremely good and some not so good. After a time It occured to me, there seemed to be a concensus among them about effectively promoting your site.

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