27 Internet Marketing Rules for Success. Rule #13: Join Forums and Contribute.

While paid forms of advertising can be highly effective and targeted, one of the best ways to promote your business is through the passive approach of posting on forums and blogs. The goal here is to make yourself useful; and to make an overt attempt NOT to sell anything directly. As you build rapport and [...]

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27 Internet Marketing Rules for Success. Rule #12: Find Ways to Generate Leads

As a rule of thumb, spend at least 50% of your time each week trying to generate new leads when your business is new and unprofitable. Once your business expands to become profitable and to maintain a steady customer base, aim to spend at least 15% of your time looking for new sources of leads. [...]

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27 Internet Marketing Rules for Success. Rule #11: Create a Blog

One of the best ways to generate traffic for your website is to create a blog, update it regularly, and optimize it for search engines. You have many options when it comes to creating a blog, but two in particular are very popular among Internet marketers: 1. http://www.blogger.com/ 2. http://www.wordpress.com/ or http://www.wordpress.org After you have your blog [...]

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27 Internet Marketing Rules for Success. Rule #10: Make it Easy for Others to Help You

No matter what you’re doing with your business, it’s always a good idea to remind yourself that you should make it easier for others to help you. After all, the easier it is to help you, the more people will do it. Take for instance affiliate programs. A casual browsing of Clickbank will make it obvious [...]

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27 Internet Marketing Rules for Success. Rule #9: Seek Out Talented JV Partners

Earlier, we spoke about outsourcing work that you don’t feel competent to complete yourself. Another way in which you can do this is to form a joint venture partnership with someone who has different skills or resources. For instance, let’s say you own a site that provides resources for dog owners. You might have an [...]

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27 Internet Marketing Rules for Success. Rule #8. Look for Opportunities for Expansion

If you’re like many new business owners, your enterprise relies almost entirely on a few concentrated sources of traffic and buyers. Outside of this fixed pool of buyers, it isn’t clear to you how you might expand your business, scale it up, and bring in more profits as a result. For the time being, you [...]

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27 Internet Marketing Rules for Success. Rule #7: Remain Open Minded

One common failure among Internet marketers is that they often don’t remain open-minded to different approaches. Once they experience a little bit of success with one approach, they milk it for all it is worth, but neglect other avenues of traffic generation and monetization. And what’s the end result? Instead of continually expanding into a [...]

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27 Internet Marketing Rules for Success. Rule #6: Watch Your Competition

Creating a successful, thriving, profitable Internet business is a dynamic process. It can’t be reduced to assembling parts, connecting the dots, or some other process where you take out a template, follow it carefully, and then experience the exact results you were told you’d see. It’s more complicated than that. It’s a dynamic process that [...]

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27 Internet Marketing Rules for Success. Rule #5: Outsource Stuff You’re Not Good At Doing

This rule is important for people who feel that they should play the role of jack-of-all-trades. As an Internet marketer, this is not your role. There may be many things you are good at, but there’s at least two things you are best at: managing and marketing your business. So stick to managing and marketing [...]

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Quit your damn whinning!

I belong to Dennis Becker’s  earn1Kaday forum/membership site.  He’s a very astute fellow/student of human nature as all marketers should be. Anyway, he posted a video within the site that … well … touched me deeply. Why did it touch me deeply? Because, like most of our fellow earthers (human beings), I whine about stuff [...]

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