Unfortunately, like a lot of things in life, it is way too easy to get overwhelmed with all of the stuff you need to learn to be successful marketing online. If you are not careful you shall 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 beginners.

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

Take your time to learn your chosen marketing product or system as it shall be a great grounding for your future marketing ventures. Stick with it and don't go from one system to the next because you are not much of a millionaire in 7 days or whatever the system promised within the sales letter. Short of a big lottery agent 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 numerous 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 so that you know what you did when something works in which case you may very well do it again. Your notes can even help work out in which you went wrong and the way you may fix it. Not only this your notes are original content so can make up 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 buy it. If somebody buys a product they will not like it if it 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.