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Internet Marketing: Not All Peaches and Cream
I used to have fantasies of a career in Internet marketing. You know the ones…lounging around the house with a laptop…making sales while I sleep…no bosses…no time clocks…you know the fantasies.
Is it all sweet peaches and cream? Not exactly. Here are just a few issues which Internet marketers find themselves having to deal with
1. How do you tell your family and friends you are quitting a perfectly great job so you can stay home and “work on the Internet”?
2. How do you explain to people you really do have a job and you really do need to work the biggest part of 40 hours each week and you really don’t have any more time to devote to “committee” work than anyone else.
3. Non-Internet marketers simply do not understand the importance of an ISP with 99.99% uptime! It’s been a stormy season here this year. Sometimes the DSL help desk simply does not understand why I NEED my connection back up!
4. Internet marketing puts a different perspective on the word “backup”. An Internet marketer’s computer files are the company assets! Most of us neglect doing proper backups. An Internet marketer MUST learn this discipline! I have files scattered from C: to F:…I finally subscribed to a great off-site backup system and now sleep much better!
5. All successful Internet marketers have one thing in common. We are all very driven and can remain on task and focused for hours on end. This ability is a very powerful asset! But it must be managed! Friends, family, your yard, the dogs…all these WILL suffer unless the marketer takes active steps. All of us, by nature as Internet marketers, must constantly keep ourselves in check and keep priorities in perspective.
Ok, enough of the serious stuff for now! My wife and I are going for a walk!
Steve Weber
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Online Dreams Cannot Be Forced
Do not beat yourself up if you have a full time job and are having trouble getting things going. That is one tough road.
Somehow, someway you have to find time to free up space for your creative side. In Internet marketing, as in most ventures, no amount of work can make up for lack of creative time.
When you feel like all you are doing is beating your head against a rock wall, it is time to step back and take a breath. Feeling “under the gun” and in dire straights to perform simply perpetuates the problem.
Instead of spending every possible minute at the keyboard, take your mind outside for a quiet walk and enjoy nature.
Relax, breath and just be.
Success cannot be forced. It will come only as you grow from the inside. You have heard the saying, “Money cannot buy happiness”. The same is true in that hard work alone cannot produce success.
In truth, when you really hit your groove, it won’t seem like hard work at all.
Cookie Cutter AdSense Sites Scams!
A few days ago I had a customer write to me and ask what I thought about a company he found in his city who was selling ready-made AdSense sites for $250. They guaranteed that the sites would earn $100 to $150 a month.
Giant red flags waved before my eyes.
Why would anyone sell a website which would earn $100 a month for just $250? This company was either run by scammers or people with no business savvy.
The sites would make at least $1200 over the next year. Yet, the company would sell them for $250. Something was very wrong.
I asked the customer if he could send me some samples of sites they had made. He did and here was my response to them:
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Hello,
Ok, here’s the deal. Those guys have ripped off article content for all the blog posts that I checked. You can simply input one of those domains into copyscape and see for yourself.
I say “ripped off” because they did not even follow the guidelines of the article directories by listing the authors’ names. By rights, those article directories and authors can demand that be done or the content removed.
I found several articles from ezine articles which were copied word for word. I know ezine articles very well. They will not publish an article unless it is original. Therefore, I am positive all the article were copied from the directories.
However, even forgetting all the above, no matter where they got the content, it is all duplicate content! Those would never be ranked well.
And further….the SEO for those articles is all but non-existent.
Do they promise you original content for yours? And optimized well?
And by the way, those are just WordPress templates. It is just copy and paste; $250 each is way too high.
Heck, I’ll have those made for you all day long for under $100 and even host them for you for free with my reseller account. Of course I won’t guarantee you $100 a month because doing it like that won’t make $100 a month…not with the duplicate content because they will never rank well.
I am glad I could give you a heads up on this.
Steve
Internet Marketers’ Failure Rate
An affiliate contacted me wondering what my customers’ success rate was. I told him I did not have those percentages (although I am going to implement a customer follow up system soon). However, I told him that no matter how great the material is, the “failure rate” is quite high.
Here’s why:
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.
The overall failure rate for beginning Internet marketers is around 99%.
If they get in with a good mentor, that number goes down significantly…but would still be considered high.
The number one factor for failure is motivation and lack of follow through. I can tell and show a person exactly what has to be done. I can give example after example of exactly how I make money with Adsense and how I get niche pages ranking on the first page of Google. There are no secrets or tricks to it. Anyone can be making $1000 a month in a year’s time if they practiced relentless focused action that whole time and learned the art of keyword research well. …plus all the other little pieces of course.
Look at it like this: If you give me a person who is very self driven and willing to work hard, he will be making $1000 a month in a year. I know that without a doubt. So there I guess you could say my success rate is 100% if you send me the right people. On the other hand…I can’t help a person make a dime who is not driven and willing to work hard.
The only problem is that it takes work…a LOT Of focused action (work)…sometimes for many months before they see any return whatsoever. Most people just do not have the internal drive to do that.
So it is not a matter of how great the material is…yes, that part is very important…but what matters most is if the material is the hands of one of the special people who are self motivated enough to succeed with it. And honestly, those people are few.
I never know who they are. I always try to treat each customer who I end up talking or writing to as if they are; I always hope they are. But most never even have the “stick with it” attitude long enough to get much of a website even.
I used to feel bad about this. But I now realize I am dealing with humans. I can lead them and show them the way, but 90% of what dictates their success is inside of them and not controlled by me.
Google Custom Search Engine for AdSense Profits
If you have not tried Google’s Custom Search Engine for your AdSense sites, you might consider it. Google CSE offers a way to create a custom search engine which also serves your AdSense ads.
For example, you could create a niche site about “eye problems”. You would create and optimize the site just like always in order to drive traffic to it. On the home page you create a Google search box using Google CSE. For the search you can populate the possible results with ONLY the domains you choose. This way you can create a powerful search engine which produces very targeted results. In this way the searchers might continue doing searches and will be more likely to click your ads.
Also, for this site, you could add a heading above the search box such as this:
“Search for an Eye Doctor in Your City”. You might also add an example search like this: “eye doctors in Los Angeles”
This search will result in VERY targeted AdSense ads. Many of them will contain the terms “Los Angeles eye doctor”
These ads will have very good CTR’s! Talk about TARGETED!
You can get a free CSE account at http://www.google.com/cse
There are 1000s of possible niches which would work well for a CSE. Any niches where searcher may search by city, state, model number, etc. are great candidates
Should You Buy a Guru’s Product?
There are many Internet marketers who are far more successful (so far) than I am right now. They offer many great products.
My main focus is on beginners; those who have yet to make a steady payday online. They often ask me about so and so’s new product. They want to know what I think.
Here is what I tell them:
Those are really great products some of the gurus have. However, equate Internet success with flying yourself overseas.
A 747 would be a great tool to achieve that dream. However, a 747 is useless in the hands of a beginner who has not even finished ground school!
See my point?
Many of the Guru’s products are really great, but most beginners are no where near the level where they can really take advantage of the product’s full potential.
Internet Marketing Expectations
Can you think of a career which offers significant potential which is easy to learn? Hmmm, let’s see. An auto mechanic? Nope, long learning curve. Ditto for airline pilot.
How about computer programming…uhh, nope, not a quick learn either. How about a doctor or a lawyer…absolutely not.
The potential one has with Internet marketing is greater than all the above occupations mentioned. Why should learning Internet marketing be any easier?
Those wanting a career in most areas are willing to become educated and work hard to achieve their dream. For some reason, many who attempt Internet marketing think it has hidden shortcuts.
This is where the scammers step in.
Not all offers are scams of course. Many offers require a greater foundation of skills and knowledge than most beginners have. Whether it is a scam or just too advanced, the end result is the same: wasted money.
The biggest reason people fail with Internet marketing is they underestimate how much time and work are required for success. Those who go into it with the hope of seeing at least some success sometime within the coming year are much more likely to succeed than those expecting an income by next month.
This stuff takes time!
Is Fear Holding You Back?
At one time or another all of us have wished for different lives. I know I spent many years in jobs I simply was not happy with. Why do we continue doing things when we don’t really like them?
The answer is fear.
Fear of what might happen, fear of what won’t happen, fear of not making any money, fear of not making enough money, fear about getting insurance, fear about losing a retirement plan, …the list goes on.
Imagine if we lived with our hearts instead of allowing fear to guide us.
I know fear well; it is a dead end road. Fear kept me stressed and tired for years in the high speed rat race. Many of us think we are for some reason supposed to “not like” our jobs (I did for a while). We often think it is normal. Maybe it is. Maybe most people fall into the trap and remain stuck in a life they are miserable in for decades if not most of their lives.
How sad.
Life is short. It is too easy to allow the years and decades to slip by while simply saying, “Maybe next year.”
There are no guarantees (that is what has you worried), but once you free yourself of a daily grind you hate, your creative side will emerge in full force and assure your success. I was amazing to me how much I had to offer myself once I got rid of all the stress involved in the daily grind of going to work.
You simply must believe and trust in yourself 100%. If you trusting you 100% is a problem, start right there. Correct that way of thinking! Each of us has 10 times the potential on our own than when stuck working in a Dilbert cube. What exactly is fueling that belief about yourself? You must find out.
If you are worth someone else paying you to help them make money, why are you not worth just as much (and more) applying that work for yourself?
Focus on your dreams, take action, and then go live those dreams!