This post should be required reading for anyone thinking of starting a business online. People want financial freedom so bad, they’re willing to put logic aside and buy in to anyone selling the dream.

I was searching Google for internet marketing blogs and reached your site.
This post is one I will definitely recommend to my readers.

Thanks for telling it like it is!

Mitchell

P.S. We met at JV alert Atlanta.

Shocking to me because I have not managed to create a stampead of traffic to any web sites, although I get them in the top 10 with Google for their keywords. Still, these are not the highly competitive keywords.

I am changing things around and my focus is to get busy with the targeted traffic building aspect of web marketing and in the process I have come to see that a lot of web marketing is more like poison than anything else.

Lynn, you say “Step outside the Internet Marketing space and claim your own profitable space on the net” and I agree.

When I first heard the terms “Push Marketing” and “Pull Marketing” I realized there was a choice for small business owners. Push marketing is expensive and requires deep pockets and sustained advertising, while pull marketing is a trade off where you save your money and devote more time. Time spent doing what I’m doing right now.

But pull marketing is an investment in time because it takes time to build momentum. It takes time, patience and perseverance. So many want instant results, and so the spend money to promote their site.

I need to prove to myself that a web site can come from obscurity to a reasonable notoriety without advertising. I am tempted to get the ball rolling with advertising except I would lose the claim I want to make when I succeed.

The most interesting discovery for me, and the one I’ll leave you with, is that the web, like any network, wants to share. Therefore, business marketing would do better by sharing to attract their markets instead of advertising – which breaks up the flow of sharing.

First, thank you I appreciate your feedback and kind words. For affiliate marketing, check out my overview of the Super Affiliate Handbook. It’s the resource you’re looking for in regards to step-by-step help, and it’s the guide that turned ME into a super affiliate.

i’ve had a rough few weeks so i haven’t explored everything yet but you could do an awesome job, i think, writing a short e-book for people who have never done anything with niche, affiliate, keywords, or marketing, as a step 1 do this or that, in the same way you write your posts.

lol then again i wouldn’t be surprised if you already have, i probably just haven’t come across it. I would like to do some small affiliate marketing, just to make a few small sales here and there, lol so i’ll keep studying your blog i’m sure i will pick up a lot.

hope all is well and happy halloween!!

Richard

Nowadays, people think that internet marketing is just for a few things. False, internet marketing has a wide ranging area. You may not know it but maybe you are already in one!

Guess there really is a need for the wake up call.
I also liked the part wherein you said:
“So what if you couldn’t be a John Reese? Be a John Reese in your own niche!”

Nice post: Informative and highly motivating!

I was sucked up in the IM glamor for a while then realized I want to reach folks who are more in line with my vision. That’s not to say, I won’t play in other fields, but internet marketing to other marketers can be so time sucking and frankly just overwhelming.

I loved your definition of marketing on the internet. If any of us sell online we are internet marketers. I just explained this to Dh the other day as he thought I was studying yet another course to sell eproducts (and of course, thought it was more wasted time). Nope, I do very well selling books online, too, and yes, much of the popular IM techniques cross over to the hard good based business model online. For me, it has been an education I may not have had otherwise and has helped me become successful in trading time for dollars online – I knew nothing about sales before selling online. Marketing is marketing, I think… That said, eventually I will get to where my passive income is as much as my online book business income. When we talked numbers at your webinar I assumed you were talking passive income.

Lovely how the internet is so accommodating. Isn’t it? My favorite attribute with marketing online is the ability to be as creative as we want with so much flexibility as we grow our businesses. It doesn’t get much better than that now, does it? Well, I suppose jaunts to Australia do put that icing right there on that cake, too!

Gotta love the life.

JA

Great post and I think it touches on the main reason many struggle so much to get going with an online business which is, of course, the shear volume of opportunities and methods that can be chased after.

The day I discovered internet marketing, I said “I’ve got to find a way to make money online and then develop a product where I teach people to make money online”. I know, I’m just evil right?

I’ve spent WAY too much time trying to figure out “what” to do when it all boils down to what that John Reese guy said above… “Apply the fundamentals (creating content, driving traffic, building a list, monetizing the traffic) and then scale it”.

At first glance, internet marketing seems like an endless sea of unanswered questions. Yes, the answers ARE scattered all over the place but they’re out there right?

Find out what people are buying and sell it it to them….

Taking that and doing it online is all internet marketing is…to me anyway.

Great blog and great webinar today!

Mike