19 Powerful Tips for succeeding in internet marketing business
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In last 6 months, if you haven’t
1. Turn your computers off – Most of us (so called internet marketers) spend way too much time in front of our computers doing almost nothing. We are always “In process” or “in creation” mode which gets done nothing. So switch your computer off for now.
2. Make a list of all things you have done so far and failed – Take out your pen and paper and make a list of all things you have done online whether they were successful or failed. It doesn’t matter, you need a list of things out there to get a real time understanding of the situation.
3. Reboot Yourself – John Reese talked about this few years ago. You write down everything related to you, your goals, your debt, your health, wealth, spiritual and get it out from your head on to the paper. It’ll get all the junk out of your mind and make it feel relaxed.
4. Fix and schedule your “Internet marketing” time – Schedule your internet marketing time. I got this idea from my fitness routine. Everyday when clock starts 5:55 pm, I automatically change my clothes and at 6:00 I start working out. This is a habit. Make your internet marketing a habit.
5. Save Your money to put it in business – Save your money to put it in the business. Do not think about buying products for now. Just save it, get a few extra jobs to get cash flow in the business. If you don’t treat your online business like a business, chances of your succeeding goes way low.
6. Make Your goal – how much action you take completely depends on your goal. If you fix your goal, schedule your time and start taking massive action, you’ll succeed. It’s about either doing it or not doing it at all. There is no middle road, only road kills, remember.
7. Understand which markets you can jump into – You cannot jump into every market you think are profitable. Answer completely honestly, Can you really survive in the market you chose? Can you answer to the readers, client’s question related to the market?
8. Understand your clientele or readers – It comes down to knowing your market profile. Like they say in marketing, “get in bed with your client”. You have to intimately know your market. You have to know their fears, their hope, their failures, their successes.
9. Develop relationships with everyone – It always comes down to who you are connected. Developing relationship with people will go long way. You need that elusive PR 7-8 link or may be get your product promo all over the web? Relationships with your readers, your friends, your business partners is going to help you.
10. Work, focus and then work some more – Time and time again, I’ve found there’s no substitute for hard work and focus. If you focus 100 percent on the task for next 60 minutes, you’ll get better results rather than spending 4 hrs with 80% focus.
Heck I personally belong to the list, who is likely to spend 5 hrs with 100% focus. Is it easy? heck no… Does it product result? Hell yes.
11. Make Your own product – Regardless of the monetization methods out there on internet, the fastest and surest way to make money online is to have a product. I have said it on this blog time and time again about this. If you are worried about your writing skills. Break the project down in small chunks.
12. Write your own blog – Starting your own blog is going to get connected with people. This is a platform where you’ll build relationships. This is a platform where you’ll find joint ventures. So get started.
13. Take a Break 1 day per week. Following from John reese’s reboot yourself theory. One thing I learned was that you need to reboot yourself regularly. Think of it as a computer. If you keep your computer on for 24/7 for next few weeks, how’ll it effect its performance?
Chances are it’ll slow down, programs may not work properly, even with the latest technology. Taking a break 1 day per week will allow you to gather yourself, gather your thoughts and get focused for the upcoming week.
14. In crunch offer services. When you are in financial crunch, you should not hesitate to offer your services. It’ll get you cash in the hand very quickly. There was time when I designed websites for peanuts. Remember, you are not supposed to supplement income this way for long term.
15. Only 3 things you need to remember in online business. Online marketing is simple. You only need to work on 3 steps.
- Find a market
- Create a product
- Promote he heck out of your product and website.
16. When you are overwhelmed, yell out loud, pound the boxing bag, do something physical – Your body demands physical attention. If you do not let it out, stress will kill you slowly. I workout and do martial arts. Some people do surfing. Some go out and play for neighborhood teams. Do something physical. Let the stress out.
17. Traffic is quite important, but don’t spam 1000 sites for that. – This one is simple, stop spamming your website to 1000 website. I know a webmaster (who is great friend) who literally opened account of 50+ forums on his market. Though he is still respectable member of that society, but we still remember it.
People have long term selective memory when they want to remember.
18. Don’t try to be everything to everyone. – I’ve personally tried to do it and failed. Trust me, if you do things certain way, people will talk and you can’t please everybody. So stop trying to be everything to everyone.
19. Don’t run after every new, shiny and loud objects. There are tons of marketing launches happening at any current moment. Do not get distracted. Do not run after every new thing.
This is a list of things or suggestions I’d give to anyone who haven’t achieved the success or the success they wanted. It does come from last 6 years of experience.
The Absolute Simplest And Easiest Way To Get Started
There are many ways you can get started, you can set up your own website, create a viral e-book…and those are all pretty easy, but still not the absolute easiest!
I would say that the easiest way to get started is Blogging. Running a blog that you can install via fantastico is a new webmasters dream. One click installation, and then all you have to do is add content.
WordPress is a great choice for a new Blogger, but even if you can’t afford to get hosting or domain names yet, you can still get started Blogging.
Do a search for free Blogs, but chances are you will end up wanting to use Blogger.com – they are free and the Blogs are quite nice.
The best part about using Blogs is that they actually “ping” services to tell them that you have added new content. Many of those places then syndicate your content and that brings you back links and plenty of public awareness.
Blogging isn’t for everyone. I know I had my struggle with it in the past, It took some time but I understood what blogging is all about ..
But a Blog is a great way to both accomplish something and DO something all at once. Give it a shot – remember you can start a Blog up for free. You will want to add revenue streams into your blog by customizing. What to base your web sites on?
Many experts on the subject of Niche Sites will tell you that you have to pick high paying keywords only. There are so many searches on so many topics every day that you really can get traffic and interest in just about any “sub” category you want.
What I am saying is – don’t make your sites about fishing – make them about Walleye fishing instead. A great free way to pick your topics a little easier is: http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com Just enter in a major keyword and it will spit out some other suggestions and help you find your competition.
Your first site should be about something you enjoy. Writing for the Keywords isn’t any fun, so pick a topic you know something about and just do it.
How exactly do you pick a topic?
There are many places to pick a topic for your site.
1. Your Hobbies - Most people hobbies are often based on trends, peers and their socio-geo-economic reasons. Chances are they are often based on markets where people are rabid buyers (i.e. Golfers, surfers, stamp collectors are darn good examples).
2. Your Magazines – Check out few of your local magazines. Notice the topic that interests you. These magazines are often in market where people are buying. If you are interested in topic, then your knowledge is going to be good about this topic.
Notice I’ haven’t talked about stuff like keyword tools to help you or sites like google zeitgeist. Why? Because I want to focus on markets where people are buying. If people are buying then there’ll always be people who are selling and you can always find ways to get more information about them (sellers/buyers) and find an angle to sell more products.
3. Amazon.com – Third option is amazon.com, I like amazon because there are tons of options to chose from and do research on the market. But I use this only after I’ve chosen the market, not to chose a market.
Same goes for Ebay.com. You should use both of these sites to do research on the market. You’ll find what products are selling (and auctioning), what kind of thought process buyer is in etc… Lots of info to be gathered in research from these 2 websites.
After you’ve chosen the topic, You need to build a website. It can be done either by Dreamweaver, or Microsoft Frontpage, NVU (free website editor) or Xsite Pro. These tools will help you fix a website in matter of minutes.
Now all that left is content generation and traffic building. Which I’ll be discussing in other posts.
How I build Profitable affiliate sites in 30 days or less?
If your goal is to build affiliate sites that starts making money to you in next 30 day or less, then you should print out this article and read it few times. Before I go and start explaining, let me give you my affiliate marketing philosophy.
Website + Conversion+Traffic= $$.
Simple enough… Right?
Yes. You have to worry about 3 things to get income fast in your online business.
1. Your Affiliate website
2. How much conversion you can depend on?
3. Your traffic getting skills?
Let’s start with basics of basics.
1. Always find markets where people are buying – One of my pet peeve about internet marketing guru’s is that they claim about “Write something you love”. This advice in itself is not bad at all but the thing about this is that you spend all your time in a site that you have no idea if it’ll become a hit or a flop.
That’s why I always suggest to go after markets where people already are buying. They can always buy an extra product or two.
The headache in this case is competition. My theory on competition is simple, you spend time and effort to out compete them. Simple as that.
2. NO WordPress – Why, oh why, I am suggesting no wordpress, when even I have a blog on wordpress? It’s simple, it kills conversion. WordPress is overall a good tool for SEO purposes but it kills conversion. Most of the themes for wordpress aren’t created for keeping conversion in mind.
That’s why I recommend you to start with an affiliate site not an affiliate blog. Right? I personally recommend Xsite pro as a tool to build your sites fast and efficiently. They not only help you with SEO but also with design and lot of other stuff.
3. Building traffic - There’s only one secret to build traffic and that’s call link building. If you are building backlinks to your site, then build lots of them and it’ll get you listed in serps and get traffic. But that’s a long term strategy (that doesn’t mean you should work on it).
Read more on my article about How to get website traffic.
The thing about traffic is all about momentum. You should spend as much time as possible. I am used to this formula
Content Creation + 3 X Traffic Generation = Profit
The above equation is pretty much my idea of building momentum. You do not spend as much time on creating content as you spend on getting traffic.
You can create your content once a week and then promote the heck out of it for next 7 days…
4. List building – You should at least put some kind of mechanism to build your list. Even if you get 4-5 subscriber a day, you’ll have 150 subscriber in 30 days. That’s good enough to start making money.
Think of How to build relationship with your list?
Improve Conversion with your list.
As you can see, it all comes down to converting your traffic to leads to profit. If you are not focused on converting this traffic into profit, you’ll not make money.
Technically you can make decent income with 150-200 visitors per day. Heck I did when I started out with 80-100 visitors per day.
So in the end you need.
1. A website that converts
2. A list mechanism that converts
3. Regular traffic.
And that’s how’ll profit.
If you want to start and profit in your market then you should check out “Niche Marketing from stephen pierce“.
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