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This is exactly what you need in order to make money on demand in this industry!

by Gclunis
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This is just my opinion but I have been thinking everything over and I have honestly come to the conclusion that in order to really be successful in this industry, in order to basically be able to print money whenever you want you really only need two things:


You need to have a high level of expertise in SEO

Let me explain that statement. I am not claiming that SEO is the only profitable way of getting traffic. Nor am I claiming that it is the best. However in my opinion, if you master seo you basically master free traffic.

Once you are able to consistently get yourself in the top 3 positions on google with any site you build and for any keyword you choose there is really no telling what you could do.

Plus the fact that it costs you nothing means that it is all free highly targeted traffic...what could be better?

Sure things like PPC, video marketing, viral marketing, and any other form of traffic generation are very useful and they do work. But with SEO you will never need ANYTHING besides your own knowledge in order to be successful.

So if you were ever to lose absolutly everything, including money, friends, name. And needed to make money online to survive. Guess what free method is always going to be there...


You need to be able to create good copy

Copy sells! it doesn't matter how much traffic you are able to get, if you can't deliver some quality copy you won't sell anything.

I really believe that if you can master copywriting you could sell dog poop to someone..

I may be wrong in stating this (and please let me know if I am) but if you can write copy not only will you be able to sell anything you want, you'll also always be able to find work writing copy for others.


You need to be able to communicate

Communication is the key to everything. If you cannot communicate well then chances are that even if you are successful it won't last very long.


The 3 above ideas are my opinion of the most important things in IM. If you can drive quality traffic whenever you want, write copy good enough to sell dog poo to someone, and communicate well before and after sales, you will always be able to build an online business in any niche. You could literally enter a very populated niche and be able to dominate it with ease.


The three things I mentioned above are what i have decided to devote a huge chunk of my time to learning. If I ever want to start a long term business and maintain it then I really believe they are the things I will definitely need.

Any thoughts on any of those statements? Agree? Disagree? Think something else is more important? Please don't be afraid to share your opinion with the rest of us in this thread :]
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Bainbridge
    I think the last one is the only real key, well at least once you get to a higher level it is. You can outsource the rest but you still need your own communication skills to manage people and networking skills to make new partnerships etc.

    Outsourcing is one of my "keys" - outsource anything which isn't your core skill as others can do it better and quicker than you, and then that leaves you to focus on what youre good at - whatever that is.
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    And what is a high level? SEO as measured by links and ranking is being replaced. One must keep up with the industry.

    None of this ultimately matters.

    What you need is to understand that marketing and selling are not the same. Focus your efforts on Understanding Marketing and customer behaviors. THEN... figure out how to sell to the market you find.

    Talk, articles, same old same old.

    You must target your market, create a plan, and put it into action.

    And the only person who can figure out how to do that for you, is you.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ View Post


      What you need is to understand that marketing and selling are not the same.


      You must target your market, create a plan, and put it into action.
      WikiAnswers - Marketing is a process explain with examples

      No, not the same (although closely intertwined), but was that part of the initial point?

      If you know SEO you will be able to identify a market much faster - if you are looking to go into marketing that is.

      If I just want to go into selling, my knowledge of copy and SEO will be all that is needed to sell something effectively on somewhere like ebay.

      SEO is what can get some auctions seen and ranking in the search engines. Copy in the auction will sell the item.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
    Originally Posted by Gclunis View Post

    in order to basically be able to print money whenever you want you really only need two things:


    You need to have a high level of expertise in SEO



    You need to be able to create good copy




    You need to be able to communicate


    The 3 above ideas are my opinion of the most important things in IM.
    Any thoughts on any of those statements? Agree? Disagree? Think something else is more important? Please don't be afraid to share your opinion with the rest of us in this thread :]
    2 or 3?

    I think your communicate and copy are kind of the same thing. If I can do good copy, then obviously I am able to communicate - so I think your initial "2" things worked well enough.

    I'm going to agree in that this is a
    print money whenever you want
    and not a "create a sustainable long term business" thing you are talking about as that would require a bit more.

    Yes, if you have a firm command of SEO and you need some quick cash you will know what bombs to drop and where to get a quick flurry of traffic and how to do it.

    If your copy is good, you will be able to sell that traffic on buying fleas for their dogs.

    We are not discussing if the product is any good. We are discussing printing money which those 2 will be the most important.


    To those of you who don't think you need to know SEO - I am talking about it being as simple as a bookmark to as complex as a bunch of linking strategies aimed at conquering a highly competitive word. If you don't have some better than basic knowledge of how the plumbing works, your only way to attract attention to an offer is through sheer dumb luck or strictly word of mouth.

    Again, we are talking about "print money when you want".
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  • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
    Originally Posted by Marc Rodill View Post

    Like submp3s said...

    You don't need to know SEO,

    If you have the ability to communicate.

    JV's and Adswaps are a great source of traffic.
    So, I have no list, no site, no product. Will you JV or adswap with me? Perhaps you can just send out an email for me to your list with a product that has my affiliate link in it?

    Thanks! That would be swell.

    What? You need me to do something for you? What would you like in return? You want me to send you some traffic too?

    Hmm, how do I do that? And how do I convince them to go to you?
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    • Profile picture of the author krull
      I've got a business model that's a little different so SEO is something that I've kind of ignored. I mean I know the basics. Just find good keywords using google trends, put up a page and make sure you've got keyword rich text in the body, etc. There has to be more to it than that though eh?

      The niche I'm involved in seriously has all of the keywords killed that would really 'set me free'. I'm no match for what has already been done and what's in the top google results. It would take years to get my pages up in rank. That's a good reason why I've ignored SEO up until now.

      I wouldn't mind learning a few things about it though. Don't know where to start with that.
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      • Profile picture of the author Gclunis
        Originally Posted by submp3s View Post

        I think the last one is the only real key, well at least once you get to a higher level it is. You can outsource the rest but you still need your own communication skills to manage people and networking skills to make new partnerships etc.

        Outsourcing is one of my "keys" - outsource anything which isn't your core skill as others can do it better and quicker than you, and then that leaves you to focus on what youre good at - whatever that is.
        Yes it's true you can outsource seo and sales pages. But why spend money on something if you can easily do it yourself? Why spend over $1000 on some copy if you can write the same quality yourself in no time at all..and why outsource setting up seo if its gonna take the same amount of time it would take for you to do it.

        What i was saying is that if you get really good at each of those three things you could literally launch any campaign you want and have no problem making good money from it.

        Originally Posted by Marc Rodill View Post

        Like submp3s said...

        You don't need to know SEO,

        If you have the ability to communicate.

        JV's and Adswaps are a great source of traffic.
        sure jv's and adswaps are great, but you are always going to have to keep jving and adswapping. Proper SEO creates a semi passive traffic flow, especially if you get to the top. Sure you can drop off and sure you have to keep it constant..but i would rather do that than constantly finding new people to ad swap with.


        Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ View Post

        And what is a high level? SEO as measured by links and ranking is being replaced. One must keep up with the industry.

        None of this ultimately matters.

        What you need is to understand that marketing and selling are not the same. Focus your efforts on Understanding Marketing and customer behaviors. THEN... figure out how to sell to the market you find.

        Talk, articles, same old same old.

        You must target your market, create a plan, and put it into action.

        And the only person who can figure out how to do that for you, is you.
        I'm not entirely sure how that relates to the topic of this post. Sure marketing is different from selling, you are the only person that can figure that stuff out. But what I was saying was that if you spent alot of time learning those three skills you could make money whenever you wanted by simply launching a new campaign.

        Hell you could easily launch 5 different blogs in different niches, get them to the top and slap on adsense for some passive income every month. When you can use those three things your computer pretty much becomes an atm
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  • Profile picture of the author George Wright
    The Debate Goes on.

    I vote for marketing and selling is the same. And I don't care what Drucker says. I'm smiling.

    However, I think "Marketers" who protest that marketing isn't selling are just ashamed that they are "selling," i.e. that they are really just plain 'ol simple making the world go round SALESMEN/WOMEN. Period. Which by the way is nothing to be ashamed of. NOTHING happens until a sale is made.

    Web definitions for marketing

    selling: the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money
    wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - Definition in context

    Of course the debate won't be settled here. It's been going on ever since the "Marketers" started looking down on the other marketers (salesmen)

    Salesmen/women, hold your heads up high. "They" need us.

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