Unfortunately, like a lot of things in life, it is far too easy to get overwhelmed with all the stuff you may need to learn to be successful marketing online. In the event that you are not careful you will 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 novices.

Locate a marketing product or system that interests you and stick with it. Do not worry most systems will produce some results. Cancel all of your email subscriptions whenever they distract you from your work or maybe worse tempt you into trying another thing.

Take your period to learn your chosen marketing product or system as it's going to be the best grounding for your future marketing ventures. Stick with it and do not go from one system to the next because you are not just a millionaire in 7 days or whatever the system promised in the sales letter. Short of a big 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 decide to go on to the next phase. OK you website looks ugly or your new eBook has plenty of blank pages but remember you are not going to be a success overnight, so don't anticipate to be.

Write down what you need to do in order that you determine what you did when something works in which case you can certainly do it again. Your notes can even help work out where you went wrong and just how recommended you read may fix it. Aside from that your notes are original content so can form 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. If a person buys a product they are going to not like it if it 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 also.