Internet Marketing, The Viscous Cycle and A Way Out
© Copyright 2005 Stu McLaren
One question that I hear more then any other in the internet
marketing world is ¡°What is the quickest way I can start
generating a profit¡±?
My biggest piece of advice... FOCUS!!
There are a TON of different ways to make money online
but whatever you decide to pursue you've got to focus all
your energy on it.
There's an Internet Marketing (IM) trap and it goes like
this...
1) You start signing up for everyone's email list to "learn for
free"
2) You start seeing what everyone is doing and you think to
yourself... "I should do that"
3) You finally get the courage to start pursuing something
but you actually start pursuing everything. You go in all
different directions and only make a half assed effort one
way or the other.
4) Because you didn't experience "ultimate success" the
first go around, you start buying products and information
on IM.
5) Well unfortunately that takes you in 50 different
directions because although the advice from most of the
big named gurus is good, they all have a different
approach.
6) Then you spend some more money following another
strategy that you heard about or you buy some
resell/private label/public domain materials hoping that
just through the nature of putting it up on the web, sales will
start coming in.
7) Because sales aren't pouring in, you decide to buy
some traffic from Google Adwords.
8) After your Google Adwords account gets run up and
you've blown a whack of cash AND still don't have that
many sales you start to get a bitter taste in your mouth
about IM.
9) Then it hits you... I'm all over the place and don't have a
plan at all.
How do I know this?
This was my exact story.
I'll never forget the moment when a well known internet
marketer shared with me an ENORMOUS tip that this year
has helped put thousands of dollars in my bank account.
I was eagerly showing him my big elaborate mind map of
another "million dollar idea" when he did something that
confused me at first, but then made total sense.
He closed my mind mapping software on my computer
and said focus.
So...
1) Figure out "how" you want to make money online. Do
you want to create and sell your own products? Do you
want to make money with Adsense? Do you want to do
affiliate marketing? Do you want to buy and sell on eBay?
2) Think through the process of what you want to do.
What's the first thing that needs to happen? The second?
The third?
Create a flow chart to help you understand clearly the
"steps" in the process. Then focus on each step and either
master them yourself or find reliable outsourcing partners
who can take care of certain "steps" for you.
3) Start taking consistent action!!
This is where most people drop the ball. They jump in too
quick, loose some money and get out. It takes consistent
action of doing the same things over and over. Build
momentum over time.
My last tip would be to focus on who you like learning from.
In the beginning, when you narrow down who you learn
from the process becomes clear a lot more quickly. I
zeroed in on two people first and then slowly (very slowly)
branched off once I had a grip on where I was heading and
had implemented what I had learned.
Hopefully that helps because if I had followed this earlier,
my life would have been a heck of a lot easier!
Here¡¯s to your ¡°early days¡± being more lucrative than mine
were!
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