Getting past the beginners stage in internet marketing can be difficult for many individuals. With all that is involved with starting and running a profitable and successful online business there can be many hurdles and unseen obstacles that if not overcome may not only stop the new internet marketer from moving on to the next levels of online marketing but also prove disastrous to the new internet marketers online business success. This article will discuss what could prove to be a problem area for many new to internet marketing, the importance of the proper mindset and planning to be able to move past the internet marketing newbies stage.

One of the most important things that a new internet marketer will need to do before they can make progress as a top level marketer is to be able to view their online business with the proper mindset or attitude. Many newbies start out right from the onset of starting their internet businesses with the wrong reason for wanting to use the internet as a tool to make a living online. The main one being a shaky idea to make a lot of money, please don’t misunderstand, while making a lot of money online is a good thing, it can be a poor reason for wanting to start a online business, and lead many to failure because of outrageous expectations.

Another thing they will manage to do is to not take their internet business seriously enough. They fail to realize that internet marketing is a real business and should be treated as such. The failure to grasp the importance of this mindset concept will not only hinder your goal to be more than a newbie internet marketer, it can also beat your internet business endeavor to the ground before you even get it started. To move past the newbie stage the new marketer must understand that he or she can’t take their online business for granted, that it is not just another hobby or pastime, but a way they have chosen to attain important goals in their lives. If you treat your online business in a small way it will pay you back that same way in return, and you can expect little to no success. Understand and follow the mindset that your online business is important and you will be able to move past the newbie stage as many individuals will not because they fail to see the importance of this simple idea.

To grow past the newbie stage you must develop the following mindset:

-  Develop a professional and business like attitude.
-  Develop a strong determination to succeed. Remember it is your customers needs that you must put first and provide to them the best products and service that you can offer.
-  Realize that failure is a teacher and not something to be frightened of, that it happens to the best internet marketers. It is how you handle failure that will bring you success.
- To keep your focus on success it is vital that you put together a plan of what and where you expect your internet business to be 4 -6 months in the future. Don’t worry about the small details of every step you will take to get there just having this general plan written down for you to examine is enough for now to serve the purpose of keeping you centered on the  important reasons why you started your online business in the first place.

It is very important for the new internet marketer to have some kind of plan if he or she is seeking long term online business success. They should also be sure that the plan they have is not outrageous but attainable for them. Having some sort of plan gives the new internet marketer direction, it points them in away to make progress and helps keep them focused on the important tasks at hand. Having no focus, for the newbie is the reason that the majority never get past that stage.

For instance, because a internet marketing beginner that has no focus can spend many wasted  hours, days, weeks even months trying to promote different product after product with no success because they have not taken the time to follow through on any plan of how to promote the first product or service before hopping to another. Proper planning will ensure that the new marketer will at least avoid the tremendous waste of valuable time in this manner.

While it may be difficult for the Internet marketing newbie to make detailed plans of where they will be and how they will get there five to 10 years from now they can easily develop a short term plan of the things they are doing today and how they may improve on them for the near future.

So we see that mindset and planning are essential if one expects to move past the newbie stage of internet marketing. These concepts are not hard to do but are necessary to move on and progress. I encourage all who wish to go past the first stages of making a living online to grasp and put into practice these lessons learned to go beyond the newbie.