With my Internet Marketing Crunch website, people seem to be asking where to start, I see it on Digital Point all the time. I posted this elsewhere, however thought it would have good use here. Where to start in Internet Marketing? I believe that both affiliate marketing, your own website, building out of lists, doing services for others, CPA, Article Writing and the list goes on and on that none are better or worst. What really matters is massive action, learning to fail, consistency and most important focus. Massive Action First if you sit on this forum and read all the wonderful posts, you will get no where. You need to go out and try different things, you need to test out markets and methods that people discuss. Now that you have done it and if you are getting no results, you need to go out and do it more. This is the make of break point for most people Learn what you did well and what did not work and then fix it and improve it. If something is not work, then stop doing it. If something is working, then through more resources and time working on it. Learning To Fail Now 9 out of 10 things I do, do not work. Do I stop doing it? heck no, this is waaayyyyyyyyyy better then the 9 to 5 alternative or limited to a couple weeks instead of couple month vacations a year. I keep going. If you are not failing, you are not trying hard enough. I am guessing that 1 in 3,000 people who try making money online succeed in making more then they spend. The reason is like I said before that when things do not work, they stop. When they fail, they stop trying. This is your true point to success KEEP ON GOING. Now when you do fail, learn. Learn fast, and move forward. Consistency If someone tells you that you can build a webpage and leave it, you will make income for life (this is different then making a system). They are likely good friends with the tooth fairy. You need to be working on a website consistently to drive traffic, keep up with the market. Why? If it is that easy to make money in that market, others will come in and your margin will dwindle, to keep ahead you have to work at it on and on. The other way to do it (and I do this), outsource. Hire a outsource person. The most important outsource person I think anyone can hire which is overlook is someone to constantly be working on marketing your company, weather it is articles, bookmarking, blog writing, whatever. You need to be having someone always marketing. This is what I did to avoid the recession. Focus This is the most important point of all. Focus on 1 thing to start and do it really really well. Weather it be Affiliate Marketing or your own website. focus on it, do it well and then move onto something else. If you want to know how not to make money online. Spread all your eggs all over the place from day 1. WOAH, that was a mouthful, I just sat and wrote and wrote and thats what I came out Wishing the best of luck to all who are joining the Internet Marketing field, be fortunate that you know of this forum when you start. I did not know of it til 5 years into running a online business. Checkout my Internet Marketing Crunch website, for 10 free ways to get traffic. Cheers, Mukul
Marketing is the most critical part in business....checkout my report, atleast 40 website to drive traffic in there. Work on it everyday. Cheers, Mukul
Yes, I mention that in 1 or my 10 ways to get traffic. It is important (basically the section says the on-site stuff, then off site is the other ways to build links. Perfect thats the reason its done Cheers, Mukul
I would add that in the massive action plan we have to create an Action Plan. It used to happens to me that I did not know exactly what to do, now I know exactly what I am going to do tomorrow and I do not loose too much time wandering around. Great tips, thanks
I'm happy to see there're people getting themselves involved into video marketing. I mean that's a really good potential. BTW, can you redesign your site in a better catalogue but not all-things-on-one-page? It will make people mad.
Very nice tips. I truly agree that consistency is most important factor. Many people get irritated once their excitement level comes down in few days.
focus and discipline main key to success in any line of work especialy in marketing and more important in internet marketing
Nice one done here. Thanks for sharing. Sometimes internet marketers need to be reminded on what they do. From there, the spirit will goes up and well maintained.
True, if I had to add a 5th point, it would be making a plan. Reason I did not was that I think there is soo much in IM that you need to do some dabbling to find your area of interest. Once you find it, then make a plan Take action, then there is results, not only pontential Can you please explain what you mean, I am always up for making things better (you can message me or PM me) There is a defining moment in Internet marketing where people make a choice to give up (and get NO RESULTS) or keep going even through everything is not working and the ones who do the latter are the ones to make it and do very well. When you reach that moment, keep going!!!! HyperionD, razor, qantar & azurah22 glad you both enjoyed it Cheers, Mukul
Focus has been my biggest problem. You really do need to stick with something and see if you can make it work. I've got the shiny new toy syndrome that always gets me sidetracked.
I believe that taking action is very important. But so is failing. I think there are a lot of people who simply create a blog and hope that traffic will come automatically. But it doesn't. You have to work hard in order to get traffic to your blog.
I got the travel symdrome; the wife says she wants her own bed and not travel (the one who a few years ago wanted to travel a lot). I am really working on getting the balance and focus symdrome Sooo true, I believe that 10% is onsite and 90% is off site like being involved in GREAT communities like this one. Cheers, Mukul