The Next Step In Three Steps...
By admin on Jan 28, 2010 | In Getting Past The Newbie Stage Of Internet Marketing | Send feedback »
If you have started earning your first few dollars as an internet marketer, are you enjoying the way that you are doing so?
If so, common sense would suggest that you should continue what you are doing, but get better at it.
On the other hand, if you are really not enjoying what you are doing, then a change of direction is probably called for, because enjoying what you do every day is an almost essential element of doing it well!. This is especially true, of course, when the only person that drives you on every day is you.
Follow up:
Once that decision is made, here is how you proceed:
1. Follow a successful model.
Most successful marketers are following a business model or system. Find the model or system that best suits your style, ambitions and abilities and model what you do on that system.
However, the idea is not to copy exactly what others are doing, because what works for them may not work in quite the same way for you. You should also be aware that many systems or new marketing ideas work best before the market becomes 'saturated' with people who are all doing exactly the same thing.
For example, a couple of years ago there was a vey successful product that taught people who bought the product a system for setting up blogger.com blogs for maximum profitability from AdSense advertising. The product creator had done very well with his system, made a good deal of money and held nothing back when he sold the system manual.
The problem was, however, that the reason that he had been so successful was that he was the only person doing what he was, and for that reason, people in droves were clicking on his AdSense adverts. By the time the hundredth and then the thousandth person started to do exactly the same, however, the idea was no longer or original, and therefore not nearly so effective. Consequently, many of the people who brought the system made little or no money at all when they used it.
So, the secret is, find a system that seems to be working and then see whether There is anything that you can do that will improve that system. Such improvements can only be measured by tracking and testing, which is something that we will look at again a little later.
As an example, bum marketing is a money making system that has been
around for quite some time now, but is still extremely effective. In fact, the precursor of bum marketing, article marketing, has been actively used by hundreds of successful marketers for many, many years, and has always been one of the most effective and popular methods of driving visitors to a monetized website.
Moreover, bum marketing costs very little money, and will drive traffic to your web site on a longer-term basis, rather than being something that is here today, gone tomorrow. For these reasons, bum marketing as originally conceived became an extremely popular marketing method very quickly.
However, to at least a certain extent, using bum marketing 'straight out of the box' is what a newbie would very probably do, whereas someone who was moving beyond that stage would be looking for their own system 'tweaks' that would make it even more effective and profitable.
This is why there are so many people who have posted threads on the
Warrior Forum site about the little tricks that they have discovered which have made the bum marketing system even more effective for them.
2. Discover your own unique selling point
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