IM Generalizations I Ignore - Do You?

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I'm not criticizing anyone, but I hear and see statements like these pretty often here and elsewhere. I personally think they are completely untrue, and treat them as so in my own approach to IM.

'No Follow links are useless'
'A quality article has to be 400 words plus'
'You can't outrank a site that has been around for years and has thousands of backlinks'
'You can't make money from a free hosted site like Blogger or Weebly'
'Building backlinks too quickly will hurt your site'
'You can't make money without a list'

There are many more too, but these spring to mind first. How about you?
#generalizations #ignore
  • Profile picture of the author Lou Diamond
    Hello,
    add this one to your list.
    There are no more good domains left in my field.
    I just started a new company and I found a domain that I think is priceless,so there
    you go naysayers.
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    • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
      Originally Posted by Lou Diamond View Post

      Hello,
      add this one to your list.
      There are no more good domains left in my field.
      I just started a new company and I found a domain that I think is priceless,so there
      you go naysayers.
      Absolutely A couple of nights ago I was playing around with Micro Niche Finder to find some keywords to write articles on and I found a fantastic domain name that I can use for a new site I'm working on. Catchy name, 2,000+ searches per month - I bought it immediately
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    Hey, Liam...
    I'm with you all the way. I subscribe to the Forest Gump approach to life and more specifically, business and always have. It goes kinda like this: I'm really too dumb to know certain things won't work, so I try anyway and find my fair share of success.

    I demonstrated this years ago in a big way after paying $5000 for a four-day real estate investing seminar (Robert Allen) offered on a late-night TV infomercial. All my family and friends gasped and told me that stuff was for fools.

    Then a couple of years later, after I had 60+ profitable deals under my belt using the very strategies I learned at the seminar, the same people that told me it couldn't be done were asking me for advice on how to do it. I guess I was just too stupid to know it wouldn't work...
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  • Profile picture of the author FriendlyRob
    I would alter one of your statements. You can't make consistent money without a list. If you are not putting prospects on your list, chances are you are putting prospects on someone else's list.

    You can make money without a list, I did it for years, but it wasn't consistent until I started building my own list.
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    • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
      Originally Posted by FriendlyRob View Post

      I would alter one of your statements. You can't make consistent money without a list. If you are not putting prospects on your list, chances are you are putting prospects on someone else's list.

      You can make money without a list, I did it for years, but it wasn't consistent until I started building my own list.
      I'm all for building a list(I build them myself) - but there are people out there that make consistent money without one, such as bum marketers. I totally understand what you're saying though
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    • Profile picture of the author CurtisN
      Originally Posted by FriendlyRob View Post

      I would alter one of your statements. You can't make consistent money without a list. If you are not putting prospects on your list, chances are you are putting prospects on someone else's list.

      You can make money without a list, I did it for years, but it wasn't consistent until I started building my own list.
      I would respectfully kind of disagree

      PPC, CPA, PPV, ABC (ok...this one's fake) people don't need lists to make consistent money. Obviously, if they were to build a list, they'd make MORE money, but you can't deny that they're already making consistent money (at least those who are established anyway).

      Also, if you're making large piles of cash per transaction, who cares if it's consistent or not? If you were a real estate agent who sold a mansion at random intervals over the course of the year, it wouldn't be consistent, but who cares, right?

      Site flippers can make consistent money without lists - it's just that they can save time and effort and, of course, make more money if they build one.

      Service providers can make consistent money without lists, but again, having a list of clients can help. For cheaper services like writing, link building, and design, some people make a pretty good living, whether it be from this forum alone, with freelancing sites, or some other source. For higher end services like copy, brokering, and launch management, you definitely don't need a list. I'm not sure what a good copywriter, JV broker, or product launch manager would do with a list anyway...why go through all the work of building a list and building a relationship with the subscribers when you'd already be making so much money with so little work anyway?

      But...for the average Internet marketer, yes, do start building a list as soon as you know what to do with one

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