calling the experts: I need help getting started, you help me I help you!!

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I'm really hoping one of you experienced marketers here can help me get started and also give me the chance to help you in return however I can.

I'll try and keep this as simple as I can.

My goal at the start is to earn roughly $1,200/month and build from there

Some Skills I Do Have:

- building/designing sites (since 1998)
- using wordpress and blogging
- excellent creative writing skills
...just to name a few things

I'm begging someone to help here. If one of you would even take me under your wing in private a bit to get started I would gladly offer design or writing services in return, or we could work something out. You must know I'm very driven and always eager to learn. I'm quite humbled and realize that no matter how experienced anyone is in their field nobody can ever really know it all, it's important to always keep learning and improving and to have an open mind.

Believe it or not I've spent over 35,000 hours working online for more than a decade but don't really have a clue when it comes to selling products online. I don't even have a product to sell at the moment. Most of the work I've done over the years has involved freelance website design and sub-contracted work mainly on sites that don't even use ecommerce.

I'm in a bit of a rut now, financially things are a bit tough which I'd really prefer not to get into great detail about because it's both embarrassing and counter productive, but I know with hard work and dedication and with a good mentor great things can be achieved, and I'm really thinking long term here while at the same time not getting too far ahead of myself of course.

When I joined this forum I figured it would be a simple transition from web design to selling an actual product online. I figured with my many years of online experience I would fit right in. My goodness was I wrong.

On a lighter note, I have plenty of skills, I'm quite savvy in many areas but I'm still new to this whole marketing thing. I've been reading several threads and have learned many things such as not to overwhelm myself and to stay focused on one thing that works and build on that. Once it goes well I can expand from there. I can understand that because I know many years ago when I first started designing sites for clients, in the beginning I would take on more jobs than I could manage. Ultimately I got very little done as a result until I learned to balance my workload. I now feel that from a lot of experience I have the ability to do this.

One of my questions is can I purchase resell rights to an ebook and get a custom full page ad to display on a really good domain name I have in mind? Are there services that provide such a thing and roughly how much does it cost? For you highly skilled marketers please don't get the wrong impression, I know there is no such thing as getting rich overnight, and from my own experience I know how much work is involved in setting a goal, planning, and putting that plan into action. It's very involved and I understand that. I just figured this might be a good way for me to learn some of the basics.

I'd prefer an ebook that I can sell where payments are sent through Paypal. I plan on writing my own ebook at some point, but want to practice selling them a bit first. If this is a totally backwards approach please tell me, be blunt, I can take it believe me and I want those of you with a lot of experience to be brutally honest with me because it's the only way I'll learn. I'm open to whatever suggestions of course, starting with selling an ebook is just a thought.

On that note, now that I've spilled my guts which is not always an easy thing to do, I really pray this is the beginning of good things to come. If you can help please either reply here or feel free to PM me.
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