Unfortunately, like a lot of things in life, it really is way too easy to get overwhelmed with all of the stuff you need to learn to become successful marketing online. In the event that you are not careful you shall find yourself jumping from the latest "you beaut" product to the next and ultimately 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.

Find a marketing product or system that interests you and stick with it. Don't worry most systems will produce some results. Cancel all your email subscriptions if they distract you through your work or perhaps worse tempt you into trying something else.

Take your time for you to learn your chosen marketing product or system as it will be a great grounding for your future marketing ventures. Stick with it and do not go from one system to the next because you are not really 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 step. OK you website looks ugly or your new eBook has many 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 to ensure that you know what you did when something works then you can easily do it again. Your notes will also help work out the place you went wrong and just how you may fix it. And also 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 would you read it or toto buy it. If somebody buys a product they will not like it if it really is just has a brand 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 should you have something unique to giveaway as well.