When it comes to making money online there is no shortage of people online who dispense advice.  My RSS reader pulls dozens of articles on a daily basis from my favorite “Make Money Online” bloggers and marketers.  Here’s a quick highlight of ten Internet marketers that have influenced me the most over the last few years.

(1) Darren Rowse – The original Pro Blogger, Darren’s Blog has an almost overwhelming amount of advice on Blogging.  Darren’s humble attitude shines through in all his Blog posts and I’ve definitely learned a lot from him.  Now that I’m trying to learn all about Twitter, his new Blog TwiTip is also an invaluable resource.

(2) Steve Pavlina – Steve’s focus is on Personal Development and not Internet marketing but his success online as a Blogger has definitely had a huge influence on me.  I’ve been reading Steve’s Blog for over three years now and his blog is a perfect case study of what happens when you commit yourself to providing tons of unique and valuable content to your readers.

(3) John Chow – John Chow’s Blog is as addicting as crack.  There’s always something new to read, and even though there are many other blogs that have much more “educational” content on making money online, I just can’t seem to stop checking in on what’s new on John Chow’s blog.  I’ve been to one of John’s Dot Com Pho lunch meet-ups, and I met the regulars and now I’m addicted to watching every week’s episode.

To learn how to make money online from John Chow, just watch what he does.  Even though he doesn’t necessarily always spell out how to make money online in all his articles, you can learn a lot by paying careful attention to his site.  His blog is a perfect case study of what works in today’s marketplace.

(4) Tyler Cruz – Tyler is a young, genius Internet marketer that I’m always learning from.  The reason I can’t stop reading his Blog is because he’s always doing stuff that I would never think to even try.  Being involved in traditional business for over 15 years has come in handy in helping me to make money online, but it also has some drawbacks.

One drawback is that my brain will sometimes unconsciously filter out ideas that my “business experience” tells me probably won’t work.  Tyler doesn’t see the world through the same filters so he’ll sometimes try things that I wouldn’t.

For example, if I needed a new pair of running shoes, I wouldn’t think to try getting an affiliate network to pay for them.  Tyler tried that and not only did he get a new pair of running shoes out of it, he also probably got some word-of-mouth traffic out of it from people that shared the story with others.  When he does stuff like that, it really reminds me that making money online can be a lot different from traditional business.

(5) Yaro Starak – Yaro is another guy that helped me out a lot when I was first getting started in blogging.  I took his Blog Mastermind course and learned a lot about running a successful blog online.  I had the privilege of meeting Yaro when he came to Vancouver last year and it was fun picking his brain on blogging and making money online.

Yaro is one of the sharpest guys out there when it comes to applying all the different ways of making money online, combining things like blogging, affiliate marketing and membership sites to build his online empire.

(6) Nitro Marketing – Kevin Wilke and Matt Gill, the two masterminds behind Nitro Marketing played a big role in teaching me the strategies involved in making money online by creating and marketing digital products.  Their Nitro Blueprint system is a great product and it’s completely loaded with useful information on building an online business.

(7) Dr. Joe Vitale – Dr. Vitale is one of my favorite authors and what I really love about him is that he has totally embraced the Internet and understands the leverage that it provides for a personal development author like himself.  A lot of personal development authors out there do an amazing job in the offline world, but haven’t really embraced the Internet as a way to connect with their audience.  Dr. Joe Vitale “gets” the importance of the Internet and it shows in his work.

His hypnotic marketing strategies and resources are top notch and they’ve definitely had an influence on me.  I was also a student of his Executive Mentoring program and enjoyed that thoroughly.

(8) Richard Bonner – Richard Bonner is a student of affiliate marketing like myself and we’re always talking and sharing ideas and strategies for affiliate marketing.  Since I’m a night owl and I love to work until the wee hours of the morning, we always end up chatting it up since he’s on UK time so it’s day time for him when it’s night time here.

Richard’s fun to talk to because we started learning affiliate marketing around the same time (he started a few months before me), so it’s kind of fun for us to engage in some healthy competition since we’re very similar in terms of skill level and experience when it comes to affiliate marketing.

(9) Randy’s Blog – I first learned about Randy Gage from my coach Bryant Jones, who recommended one of his books to me.  I read the book and loved it.  Randy also has a blog that I discovered just a few months back and I love reading his posts.  They aren’t specifically related to Internet marketing but they do focus on having the right mindset to be financially wealthy.

(10) Bryant Jones – I met Bryant through the Executive Mentoring program I took part in from Dr. Joe Vitale.  Bryant was my assigned mentor/coach in the program and we became friends.  Bryant was very helpful in the early stages of creating this Blog.  In fact when I first started working with Bryant, I was all over the place with dozens of ideas of things I could do online but nothing started.  His coaching helped me to focus my efforts on launching Inspired Money Maker.

Bryant has recently returned from 6 months of travel and launched a program called Exit My Job, aimed at helping people to get out of their jobs and to live what he calls the Mobile Entrepreneur Lifestyle.

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Well, there you have it.  I’m sure most of you will have heard of at least a few of these Internet marketing geniuses, but I figured I’d share who I always learn from in case some of you haven’t heard of all of them.