I hear people say all of the time that marketing on Myspace and Facebook suck. They tell me that it isn't worth the time and effort. They also tell me that they don't want to do any black hat techniques.
I say, that's fine. You don't have to do any black hat techniques and you don't have to put your time and effort into tasks that aren't bearing any fruits.
The problem that these people are having is that they are clouded by the quick dollar signs. They want to make everything, right now. Well, no one makes it all right now. It takes time to build.
You have to set yourself up for success before you achieve the ultimate pinnacle of success. Why do athletes train day and night? They don't train to win today, they train so they can win tomorrow and the day after and the day after that.
The reason that these sites are so powerful is because you can use them to set yourself up for future success. Use them to network!
I can't tell you how many people that I have networked with, using these sites. You can set up joint ventures, you can gather affiliates, you can set up groups and e-mail them information etc.
The reason why these sites are so effective for this is because how personal they are. Think about this. If you meet someone on a forum, you can get to know them, but it's harder.
For one, they probably don't fill out their private information, on a forum. They probably don't have a picture of themselves, they probably aren't even using their real name.
When it comes to Facebook, people have a lot of their personal information. They usually have a picture, if not many pictures of themselves. They might have their location, address, phone number etc.
In turn, you can have all of your own pictures and contact information. They will open up to you way quicker than they would to someone that is just another member of a forum.
Relationships are everything when it comes to Internet Marketing. You can be successful without them, but if you want to be really successful and take your business to the next level, they are absolutely vital. You better go out and start networking and making strong relationships that you can build upon for years and years.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Internet Marketing - Rome wasn't Built in a Day
I recently wrote an article about how I would build an online business in a day. Well, it definitely wasn't a complete online business, but it was a start. It was about creating a short private label rights report and selling it on the Warrior Special Offer forum.
It's definitely something to build on and I haven't met anyone who has made good money the very first day that they got into making money online. I know a TON of marketers.
I see people say, well I'm going to have this massive blog empire of 100 blogs in various niche markets. I'm going to do it in a month. Well that's 25 blogs a week.
You have to research the market for the blog. Determine if it is a profitable market. You have to go through the process of creating the blog. You have to go through the process of getting or creating unique content and you have to find a way to keep up to date and monetize the blog. You also have to keep adding content.
Let's say you take the weekends off and work five days a week. That's still online five blogs a day. The problem is that most people who try to make money online don't work an 8 hour day. They quit their job so they didn't have to have a boss to keep them on track and so they didn't have to work so hard.
All of the distractions and temptations, before they know it they are only putting in a couple of hours a day. People are lazy by nature and people procrastinate by nature. It's always easier to say that I will do it tomorrow. Well, after awhile a person runs out of tomorrows.
Say you stick to your plan and you kick out 25 blogs in a week, what if they aren't very profitable. I know people who have set up blogs and they make them two cents a day through adsense. That's disheartening.
Is it possible. Anything is possible, but there is a big difference between being possible and being practical and I think that is a big key when it comes to starting and maintaining an online business.
This article was not written to be negative. You can achieve all of your dreams online, but just know that setting up and running an online business can be a lot of work and you definitely don't always see the fruits of your labor right away. It certainly doesn't mean that you never will see them.
It's definitely something to build on and I haven't met anyone who has made good money the very first day that they got into making money online. I know a TON of marketers.
I see people say, well I'm going to have this massive blog empire of 100 blogs in various niche markets. I'm going to do it in a month. Well that's 25 blogs a week.
You have to research the market for the blog. Determine if it is a profitable market. You have to go through the process of creating the blog. You have to go through the process of getting or creating unique content and you have to find a way to keep up to date and monetize the blog. You also have to keep adding content.
Let's say you take the weekends off and work five days a week. That's still online five blogs a day. The problem is that most people who try to make money online don't work an 8 hour day. They quit their job so they didn't have to have a boss to keep them on track and so they didn't have to work so hard.
All of the distractions and temptations, before they know it they are only putting in a couple of hours a day. People are lazy by nature and people procrastinate by nature. It's always easier to say that I will do it tomorrow. Well, after awhile a person runs out of tomorrows.
Say you stick to your plan and you kick out 25 blogs in a week, what if they aren't very profitable. I know people who have set up blogs and they make them two cents a day through adsense. That's disheartening.
Is it possible. Anything is possible, but there is a big difference between being possible and being practical and I think that is a big key when it comes to starting and maintaining an online business.
This article was not written to be negative. You can achieve all of your dreams online, but just know that setting up and running an online business can be a lot of work and you definitely don't always see the fruits of your labor right away. It certainly doesn't mean that you never will see them.
Internet Marketing - Staying One Step Ahead
I think that a lot of online business owners are paranoid. Some of them with good reason. The online venue seems to change all of the time. You never know what the search engines are going to do, along with eBay, clickbank etc. etc. etc.
One thing that you can do is to diversify your business. I don't place all of my hopes on being top ranked on Google. I don't rely on eBay and their higher listing fees and changing policies to be the primary bread winner. I don't rely on clickbank or paydotcom to be everything to me and my online business.
No one knows what could happen tomorrow with any of these sites. If you're diversified enough, you can be flexible and make the adjustments. You aren't crippled if there are major changes to one of these sites.
We make mistakes with our online businesses and we all wish we could hit the rewind button on certain activities of our online business after something has gone wrong. We can't.
The people that are successful are the people who look back to learn and look forward to succeed. The people that are unsuccessful are the people who look back and brood and don't look forward to their future success.
Always be monitoring your market and always be looking for the changes that the successful people in your market are making. Successful people adapt to changes, they don't let them finish them or their online business.
We all experience changes in life. Any number of things can change at any given time. Well, an online business is the same way. It can change at any time. Change can be a very good thing.
I think that people fall into a trap where they expect the status quo and never push for positive change. There is always a better way. I'm never content with where I'm at with my online business. I always feel like I can do better and that there are great things in my future. I've had many great things happen to me, in a result of my online business, but I'm never content and I always stay hungry!
One thing that you can do is to diversify your business. I don't place all of my hopes on being top ranked on Google. I don't rely on eBay and their higher listing fees and changing policies to be the primary bread winner. I don't rely on clickbank or paydotcom to be everything to me and my online business.
No one knows what could happen tomorrow with any of these sites. If you're diversified enough, you can be flexible and make the adjustments. You aren't crippled if there are major changes to one of these sites.
We make mistakes with our online businesses and we all wish we could hit the rewind button on certain activities of our online business after something has gone wrong. We can't.
The people that are successful are the people who look back to learn and look forward to succeed. The people that are unsuccessful are the people who look back and brood and don't look forward to their future success.
Always be monitoring your market and always be looking for the changes that the successful people in your market are making. Successful people adapt to changes, they don't let them finish them or their online business.
We all experience changes in life. Any number of things can change at any given time. Well, an online business is the same way. It can change at any time. Change can be a very good thing.
I think that people fall into a trap where they expect the status quo and never push for positive change. There is always a better way. I'm never content with where I'm at with my online business. I always feel like I can do better and that there are great things in my future. I've had many great things happen to me, in a result of my online business, but I'm never content and I always stay hungry!
Internet Marketing Motivation Problems - Team Up With Another Marketer
Teaming up with another marketer or marketers on projects can be a beautiful thing. It's a great motivating factor for getting a person going and also to help keep you on track.
Some people don't stay on track because they don't have the added motivation of having to lived up to their end of the bargain. They're off on their own and out there working at their own pace.
The problem that people have with that is their pace begins to get slower and slower. A person is really motivated when they first start out, but after they see that it may take them days, weeks or even months before they start seeing some returns, they get discouraged and don't stick it out.
Some of them may be only a few days away from that big break through, but they gave up. If you're working with other marketers. The projects get done a whole lot quicker and the returns come a whole lot quicker.
Internet Marketing is about finishing projects. If you're never going to finish projects, you're never going to make money online. It is that plain and simple.
Think about how much faster you can finish projects if you have two or three people working on them, especially if you assign tasks to each individual's strengths. Some people's strengths can be another person's weaknesses.
You know that you want to work that much harder and make sure that you deliver on your end. You have to satisfy your partners and that is a lot of added motivation.
Making money online is all about motivation. If I can find another way to motivate myself. I'm sure as heck going to do it.
The best place to find a business partner is the Warrior Forum:
www.warriorforum.com
I approach people one of two ways. I will either go to the WSO forum and see who is launching WSO's about the subject that the project is centered around. If I don't know them, I will look and see what their customers are saying about them and try to learn as much about them as I possibly can.
If I like what I see, I will start to message them and things take off from there. The other way that I find partners is I will flat out make a post on the Warrior Forum and ask people who they have worked with in the area that I'm looking for and go from there.
Some people don't stay on track because they don't have the added motivation of having to lived up to their end of the bargain. They're off on their own and out there working at their own pace.
The problem that people have with that is their pace begins to get slower and slower. A person is really motivated when they first start out, but after they see that it may take them days, weeks or even months before they start seeing some returns, they get discouraged and don't stick it out.
Some of them may be only a few days away from that big break through, but they gave up. If you're working with other marketers. The projects get done a whole lot quicker and the returns come a whole lot quicker.
Internet Marketing is about finishing projects. If you're never going to finish projects, you're never going to make money online. It is that plain and simple.
Think about how much faster you can finish projects if you have two or three people working on them, especially if you assign tasks to each individual's strengths. Some people's strengths can be another person's weaknesses.
You know that you want to work that much harder and make sure that you deliver on your end. You have to satisfy your partners and that is a lot of added motivation.
Making money online is all about motivation. If I can find another way to motivate myself. I'm sure as heck going to do it.
The best place to find a business partner is the Warrior Forum:
www.warriorforum.com
I approach people one of two ways. I will either go to the WSO forum and see who is launching WSO's about the subject that the project is centered around. If I don't know them, I will look and see what their customers are saying about them and try to learn as much about them as I possibly can.
If I like what I see, I will start to message them and things take off from there. The other way that I find partners is I will flat out make a post on the Warrior Forum and ask people who they have worked with in the area that I'm looking for and go from there.
Internet Marketing Success Focus on the Basics
Find a converting sales page, drive targeted traffic towards it and cash in. It's that simple. You can go on and learn all of these other strategies, but that is an Internet Marketer's basic formula.
E=MC²
A very simple looking equation. That Alfred Einstein guy was on to something, haha. Yes I know his first name is Albert. It sounds so simple, but so many potential and present Internet Marketers search for the magical formula that is going to transform them into instant Millionaires.
No one has come up with the magical Internet Marketing equation that will make them millions. The closest thing to that equation is what I stated earlier.
A great product, with converting sales page and targeted traffic are the key. The great product means that there aren't very many refund requests. The converting sales page means that you don't need to have as many visitors to get sales. The targeted traffic ensures that you have a great conversion rate.
The key is to find this situation and to exploit it. Most markets don't get this perfect equation very often. People simply can't find the markets that have these perfect equations or they can't create them, themselves.
Yes, these perfect equations can be produced by you. All you need is knowledge. There is nothing more important than knowledge. I will give you my favorite analogy when it comes to knowledge.
A brilliant business executive is driving his fancy car down the road. He is going to collide with a car at the next stop sign that car is going to run the stop sign. A window washer on a high floor can see the accident coming a mile away.
The window washer may not of even graduated high school, but he has found the knowledge of the situation. He can see it and the business executive can't. Does that make the window washer smarter?
No, but it makes him more informed. Information is everything and it is something that can be attained by anyone. Since you're reading this, you have an Internet connection, put it to use. There pretty much isn't anything that you can't find out online.
Your ability to attain knowledge can mean the difference between your success and your demise. It usually boils down to the time that you're willing to spend and your willingness to do so.
E=MC²
A very simple looking equation. That Alfred Einstein guy was on to something, haha. Yes I know his first name is Albert. It sounds so simple, but so many potential and present Internet Marketers search for the magical formula that is going to transform them into instant Millionaires.
No one has come up with the magical Internet Marketing equation that will make them millions. The closest thing to that equation is what I stated earlier.
A great product, with converting sales page and targeted traffic are the key. The great product means that there aren't very many refund requests. The converting sales page means that you don't need to have as many visitors to get sales. The targeted traffic ensures that you have a great conversion rate.
The key is to find this situation and to exploit it. Most markets don't get this perfect equation very often. People simply can't find the markets that have these perfect equations or they can't create them, themselves.
Yes, these perfect equations can be produced by you. All you need is knowledge. There is nothing more important than knowledge. I will give you my favorite analogy when it comes to knowledge.
A brilliant business executive is driving his fancy car down the road. He is going to collide with a car at the next stop sign that car is going to run the stop sign. A window washer on a high floor can see the accident coming a mile away.
The window washer may not of even graduated high school, but he has found the knowledge of the situation. He can see it and the business executive can't. Does that make the window washer smarter?
No, but it makes him more informed. Information is everything and it is something that can be attained by anyone. Since you're reading this, you have an Internet connection, put it to use. There pretty much isn't anything that you can't find out online.
Your ability to attain knowledge can mean the difference between your success and your demise. It usually boils down to the time that you're willing to spend and your willingness to do so.
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