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Written on June, 3^rd 2007 

It’s about 7:30 on a beautiful Sunday Morning in the Arkansas Mountains as I write the second post of my Blogging Without The Internet series.  Today I started thinking about what it was like back in 1998 when I really started to get into Internet Marketing as a newbie.  In a lot of ways it was easier back then, there was less competition in the Search Engines and if you really knew what you were doing you could dominate competitors fairly easily.

However, as a new person you do not know what you are doing and there was very little information of any real value available to get started with.  There was a ton of the same churn em and burn em, fast money BS that clog our spam filters today but almost no really good information. (oh yea and we did not have spam filters in 98)

Today just by reading blogs like Search Engine Watch, Gray Wolf’s Blog, Andy Beard's Blog and may I humbly suggest ComTech News you can learn more in a few weeks about what really works, then a new person in 98 could even dream of.  (oh and there were very few blogs of any kind in 98)

Still that is only a small part of why you have it so good today.  The real magic of today is the simple number of ways there are to make money even if you are almost clueless.  Think about programs like Google adSense, Yahoo Publisher, Pay Per Post, Amazon.com, Click Bank, Commission Junction and the countless others that were not even thought of yet.

When I started out I worked like crazy, I wasted money, I bought junk and I still did not give up.  After about 120 days of hard work and hundreds and hundreds of hours of effort I got my first check, the amount – $67.00.

Contrast that with starting out and making your first check today!  A new person could buy a domain name or two, set up a few blogs or sites and do some adSense and some postings for PayPerPost and in their first 6 months easily earn some decent money.  Not necessarily enough to quit the day job but honestly with a couple hours of work a day you can change your tax bracket with the internet today with in half a year. 

As some of you know I and my partners recently built a company to teach internet marketing called Marketing ICE  that provides seo tutorials and internet marketing training.  I decided now was the time for such a product because I can honestly tell a person who has tried and failed you can succeed today and look them in the eye when I do it.

Today if you are a new Internet Marketer you have it made!  Whether you are looking to build a second income, a small company, a large corporation or just expanding your marketing reach as an employee in a marketing department there are more options then ever.  From revenue sources, to educational programs to sources of traffic today’s internet makes 1998 look like the dark ages indeed in SEM terms the 90's were truly, the dawn of civilization.

So how long have you been online?  What do you remember about your early days of Internet Marketing?  Let me know and tell me what you think about how far we have come.

~ Jack

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