The gurus want to highly complicate things, make extended courses that you have to buy for big money and keep you hooked for years paying them a fortune. This list below is all you need to do IN GENERAL to have success in IM. There are other steps but if you follow this formula and do your due diligence, have good keyword research and work at this consistently, this is all you need to be successful: 1. Your offer needs to be to people that want to hear it and have a true interest in the problem you will solve for them. Do NOT force the market to want your product, instead find a problem in a niche people want to go away passionately and solve it with your product. 2. You need HIGH quality BUYING traffic (free traffic is almost worthless unless it it truly targeted) that drives interested people into a marketing funnel (mailing list) that educates them into desiring how effective the problem you will solve is OR already is a focused buying keyword and completes the sale. 3. Your offer must be interesting, powerful and compelling and prove to people that you can help them with your offer - this should include high quality testimonials, social proof and massive appeal to use the product as to its ease, remove buyer objections and anxiety. 4. Your offer must be for something people truly want to buy not what YOU want to sell them (ask them, hang out in forums to see what they want) do tests and offer freebies to tweak the product. 5. You have to qualify or pre sell your traffic in order to actually SELL something NOT just send traffic because people will only buy from people that they have a relationship with or perceive that others have had a successful relationship with. If you are focusing on anything else you are wasting your time in my humble opinion - if you find short cuts to the above then wonderful I posted this because this is what works for me and my clients. There are probably other ways to approach all of this. Your thoughts/
Thanks for posting this. Really helpful for people who are new to internet marketing and need some advice and motivation to get started. All of them points are true, and thats what it does take to be an IM'er.