Is everyone on here only Marketing "Marketing"?

I recommend the Squidu forum. I’ve learned a lot there. Tips, tricks, everything.

Well, I know that many of the members here market in various other niches besides internet marketing, but the majority of the marketing content here caters primarily to individual entrepreneurs and not bigger companies.

However, there is a newer forum section here called 'Offline Marketing Discussions' which may be more up your alley, as that focuses more on providing marketing services to small and also medium sized businesses.

Paul

This is funny. When I saw the title of this thread I knew I'd see a thread full of signature links "marketing marketing"-- and I did. The Internet marketing business has always reminded me of people who've needed psychological help, gone to a shrink, then decided they want to go into psychology, too.

I think it takes a bit more imagination than some people can muster to apply IM techniques in unknown territories, so they stick to what the teacher's doing. That's too bad, because the money in IM is minuscule compared to that of many of the more mainstream niches.

Andy Henry gave the best answer so far, IMO, so it's almost pointless for
me to add my 2 cents.

However, I will say this. I sell IM and non IM products. I'll sell just about
anything if it has value and there is enough of a demand for it.

More importantly, I know how to sell just about anything.

A lot of people ask, "If you can make so much money selling stuff, why not
just do that and not sell how to make money products? Doesn't that
create more competition for you?"

This is the biggest misconception and misunderstanding by many people
in relation to making a living online.

For example, if I sell a book on how to write a sales letter, how does that
create competition for me? There are a gazillion products out there
to write sales letters for. Just because I sell a book on how to do it
doesn't mean that the person is going to write a sales letter for a product
that I am also selling.

Same for any "how to" info product. There are so many markets and niches
that using a "system" or "method" for promoting something doesn't
necessarily have to have any impact on what I'm selling.

If that were the case, then all the people who came before me would now
be out of business because I've learned all that they know and can now
sell the same things as them and thus, hurt their income.

The idea of this is ludicrous and how anybody can actually believe such
nonsense is beyond me. But they do and they'll continue to as long as
their minds are locked in what is called "scarcity" mentality.

In other words, if too many people know how to do something, that
something becomes worthless doing.

It becomes worthless doing when people abuse the method and then
sites, like Google, Twitter, EZA, etc., have to ban the use of the method
or give strict penalties for using it.

Article marketing, as long as it's been around, is still effective.

Why?

Because good, relative content will ALWAYS be in demand.

What will become ineffective are ways to do that article marketing that
violate sites' TOS or other policies.

Some methods will be effective for a time until somebody at the site(s)
catches on and puts the hammer down on it.

But legitimate methods of marketing will rarely become ineffective
simply because somebody teaches it to somebody else.

Absolutely absurd notion.

If it were true, everything that I am doing right now that I have taught
to others would be totally ineffective for me.

Not even close to being true...mostly because most people are too lazy
to implement the strategies properly.

But that's another can of worms that I really don't want to open up here.

But as Andy said, because the new people coming here are specifically
looking for methods that will help their business, it brings out folks (like me)
who have something to share. And no, I have no shame in admitting that.

If you want an altruistic society where we all help each other for
absolutely no monetary gain, then go work for a charity and hope that
somebody comes along and offers to pay your mortgage and food bills.

Until that day comes, there is nothing wrong with legitimately earning a
living selling "how to" information as long as that information is relevant
and helpful.

That's the part that way too many product creators (IMO) leave out and
end up creating crap just for the sake of selling it.

Another can of worms I don't want to get into.

Bottom Line: If you have a problem with people being here because they
sell "how to make money" products, then don't come here. Go someplace
else where everybody just gives of themselves freely 100% of the time.

Because if you look around...this very forum is filled with ads that are
making the owner and its members money.

The last time I checked, there was nothing wrong with that.

At least not where I come from.