Who do I get into internet marketing?

[Jake]

The internet is an ever changing environment, your likely to have to constantly your tool and technique skills, The average person has something like 8 careers in their lifetime, IM would probably not be a decades long phase.

You should hang out on the forum known to be popular with rookie freelance affiliate marketers who employ much the same tools as the big boys, the warriorforum.com

Aside from the technical knowledge needed to do paid ads, media buys and "free" search engines seo, copywriting skills may be one of the most important marketer skills, some employ specialists to perform the sales copy writing chores. Hard to guess the salary from my vantage point.

Aside from college courses, you could buy a few tutorials, then learn on the job doing short term projects through freelance marketplaces like odesk.com, elance.com, vworker.com, guru.com where you would be competing with a world side marketplace, lower level tasks tend to be bid down to low low rates. With some accomplishments on your resume you might open a small service site or go to work for a larger agency.

An example of the instability. Just this week the talk is about private blog networks that some marketers relied on for much of their search engine ranking boost, which have been getting removed from the Google index the last few weeks for selling backlinks, (indirectly).