What Would You Do If You Had To Start Over From Scratch?

I would set up an affiliate landing page and write articles to drive traffic to that landing page.

I'd pick something that I'm good at / know a lot about - or find someone who has skills in a certain area..

Find newbie questions about that topic.. and answer them in detail, in PDF format... explaining what they need to do, but not how to do it.

Use it as a lead magnet to build a qualified list.

The ebook would contain affiliate links and a special offer to a product that explains how to do X, Y and Z.

On the download page I would place a one time offer, incase they download the ebook but don't go through it.

Then I would segement my list; subscribers and buyers. Both lists get tons of free high quality content, to help build a relationship.

On the buyers list I would eventually promote high ticket items and a continuity program to repeat customers.

I would make sure that I took action and not get distracted by other offers.

Probably go with product creation and use affiliates to promote them.

I would have started a Blog sooner and not wasted so much money searching for the next best thing!

If I can start over once again from scratch I will probably stick with blogging and will forget about anything else. I love blogs and I believe that doing the thing that I love will produce better results.

Andrea

If i start over again from scratch i'd still do the blogging. I will focus on the niche i want.

Have an idea of a profitable product , services or business. Then have a website with aesthetic look and great great content. Start doing SEO and other advertising for your site. Since SEO will take time to show results , run PPC and CPC ad campaigns.

I would try to ignore all the "Shiny Things" offers and focus on tried and true strategies. Article marketing, blogs promoting affiliate goods and services and especially content creation are great places to focus on.

I believe that content creation is one of the best opportunities now and in the future. It DOES require work but if you can do some research and have talent putting this information into words, there is demand.

Start out on the freelance sites. Once you've established a reputation, you can branch out and develop clients who need more dedicated support.

The good news is that the Internet marketplace is always changing so you have the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of something big all the time. However stay focused on one or two proven strategies but keep your sights on interesting new ops as well.

I'd take all of my available time and focus on 2 things:

1) Immediate Income - Services/Offline Marketing
2) Long-Term Income - Affiliate Marketing (Create sites targetting Amazon or Clickbank)

I'd code stuff for people until i got around 1k and then i'd setup a business

What I did not know when I started was the importance of the domain name. So whatever the niche, I will make sure to have a domain with the correct attributes, such as good keyword, good branding concept, no hyphens, preferably .com, and depending on budget I may pay for a domain I want instead of registering another one I do not like as much.

I'd first and foremost buy a top level domain, install latest wordpress in the root directory, write 2-3 posts per week, SEO the entire blog/posts, set up all the proper settings to get top ranks, install all proper plugins to make the site look awesome, promote affiliate offers, not waste time with blogger blogs that get shutdown, focus more on content creation than expecting tons of sales, bookmark my posts in social networks, article marketing for backlinks and some traffic, submit to directories, increase backlinks to main site and posts, choose a niche that you can write 2-3 posts per week on forever, rinse and repeat on blog 2, 3, 4... etc.

Blogs, you can't beat'em..

I'd do what I still do every day - concentrate on driving traffic for a niche. Once I have traffic monetization is secondary. People spend entirely too much time thinking about how they are going to make money. Everyone makes money the same exact way.

They get traffic be it through print ads, television ads, SEO, direct mailings radio spots store placement in high traffic malls etc. IF there ever was a bad question it s the one asked here almost every day.

"What must I do to makes some money online?"

Its wrong because the focus is wrong. the right question is

"What niche can I operate in where I (in particular )can get ton loads of people to visit my page, website or business?

A company with a constant stream of potential customers Will make good money eventually. Even if they sell the wrong product at first or use the wrong setup as long as they do nothing by way of rep to destroy that stream they will be able to correct it and make money.

Thats why all the good IMers build their name and brand over everything else. thats where you start and thats where you should continue to live. Unfortunately many of them also forget what matters and start asking the question of making more money online and end up selling enough crap products the stream wises up and runs away - or the authorities knock on the door.

I'd dedicate myself to one niche on a topic I am interested in and passionate about and build an authority site, posting fresh, original content every day or a few times a week.

I would make money by writing articles and creating Squidoo lenses instead of spending money building my websites with various webmasters, before learning internet marketing.

I made many mistakes and I spent too much in the beginning because I completely ignored how the internet works, but I was too confident. I thought that everything would be easy for me because of the superiority of my products. I didn’t imagine that I would have to face a fierce competition and I wouldn’t even have the chance to reach my audience.

There are billions of users online, but they see only a few websites; the ones displayed in the first results pages… There are many ‘details’ that the gurus never mention in their lessons…

Now that I’ve learned the basics about internet marketing I understand how naïve I was in the beginning. You must Study internet marketing very well before spending your money without knowing what you are doing.

Build a list right away and start outsourcing right off the bat.

Doing SEO by yourself sucks!

Yeah.. start from scratch is really painful sometimes... But, no need to feel the pain, if we start with better guidelines and motivations.. So, the hard one become an easy one ;-)

I would start with an affiliate marketing and promote it in Web 2.0 networking.. Also I will need paid autoresponder, a stunning landing page, and a quality hosting...

For SEO, I will try to find a mentor to learn.. ;-)

Id read the book "internet marketing for dummies" although I spent more than 10k just to learn internet marketing I bought that book years later, and it basically reiterated what I had learned in all my classes, It summed up the basics of IM as a whole, Id get that book, Id also Sign-up to adsense and clickbank. Get a namecheap account and get familiar with Wordpress! Goodluck!

I am starting over from scratch (by choice; I'm just not happy with my business, and want to be happy with it, so I'm rebuilding it), so let me explain - in a very general sense - what I am doing.

- Frequent small products in bronze/silver/gold/platinum versions, promoted through an ongoing stream of free content.

- Reliable feed of products on a tight schedule. This is the hard part. I typically build large products that come out every few months. I want to change that, and develop a huge library of small products: one problem, one solution.

- Membership programs at the same four levels, so you can subscribe to the product releases. Once I get step two working effectively, I'm going to move up to this.

- Occasional releases of large, monolithic products like I'm already known for doing every few months... except bigger and more comprehensive and higher quality. I'm targeting two of these annually, and would like to get one out around the same time the memberships are up and running.


- At least one annual appearance as a speaker at a live event. This is something I'd like to do before the end of the year, and if all else fails I may simply have to do my own event.

- Coaching and consulting services, once everything else is working reliably and I'm happy with that aspect of things.

If you are paying attention to this industry at all, you'll be able to recognise this as Brendon Burchard's "Millionaire Messenger Money Map." You'll also see a lot of Frank Kern and Jason Moffatt reflected in the way I'm doing it... along with a hefty dose of Tim Castleman... tempered with a lot of direct guidance (i.e. "these people actually talk to me") from Dennis Becker, George Sepich, and Bond Halbert.

I did a lot of stuff wrong in my first two years of IM, and I'm looking very much to other people who have been there and made a success of themselves over time. So what looks like name-dropping up there is really me saying "look, there are people out there who are where you want to be, and all you have to do is go find out how they got there." For all the anti-guru rhetoric people spew on here, gurus are called that for a reason. It's just as bad to ignore what they are as it is to believe they're something they aren't.

If I had to start all over again I'd offer a service to other marketers - ghostwriting, graphics, bookmarking, backlink building etc and use the proceeds of that to fund my affiliate marketing - including outsourcing!

The eventual end goal would be to have my own product and to be as independent from other people as possible so I wouldn't have to work to anyone elses TOS

I guess you could say I'm starting over from scratch right now. I'm a former eBay Powerseller (about 5 years ago) and I had an eBook store.

Right now what I'm doing is learning as much as I can about link building, SEO, social media and such. And it's paying off. After my blog gets going really good I'll know exactly how to make any site rank and convert.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning and growing at the same time.

Wanna hear how my blog is only three months old and already getting search traffic?

I'm loading it with videos. Video tutorials, video series, social media videos. I try very hard not to do a post with at least one video.

I would go fulltime into CPA.

First would be mindsetting. Prepare for mental hardwork, and at the same time think BIG!

Then think of an audience for you, the basic startegy may be becoming an affiliate first.You can build your own list from here.

and then do your homework...research...the best keywords
when you've found that find the best program where you can sell something related to the keyword.

You have to draw people, so make or get yourself a good content...and use the most effective ways to get traffic

Yeah its basic...but then that's where one usually starts...

Good luck!

I would do the same thing I did in the beginning but just get less distracted and focus more.

Not so much what WOULD I Do... but what I Would NOT Do.

1. I Would not be scared to mess up.
2. I Would not try to make everything perfect and just TAKE ACTION.
3. I Would Not stick to my markets norms and go with my gut
4. I Would not get people involved to help me unless they are 100% Outsourced
5. I Would not fear Spending Money To Make Money
6. I Would not buy a bunch of crap, just the necessities.
7. I Would not be a tight ass, and Outsource the jobs I suck at or don't like
8. I Would Not Wait 6 months to start list building, I would do this my first hour
9. I Would Not Wait 12 months to have a product out, it would be out in 1 month
10. I Would Not Let People Who "THINK" they are IM'rs tell me what I need to be doing
11. I Would Not Go to My Next "Big Idea" Until The Current "Big Idea" Was Implemented
12. I Would Not Promote Anything that I didn't believe in
13. I Would Not Interact With Negative People
14. I Would Not Interact With Bull****ters-Alot of IMer's talk/know IM but don't implement: Avoid em'
15. I Would Not Make Limitations Ever- This Stuff Is Easy, And Can Be Repeated! Believe THAT!


Whew, I have 100's more I am sure haha... but this is the start to my list, I'm sure I'll have more later!

I agree with the posts on here about list building. Does anyone here know of a reliable free software/site to build a list just until I make enough to pay the monthly fees of aweber etc?

I am new to IM and i want to say thanks for all the advice i have read this really helps

I would have started about 10 niche blogs and add unique authority posts to each n a consistent basis and set each up with an autoresponder with 10 autoresponder series to go with them.

I would have made sure the the on-site SEO was flawless and then promoted them with a little article marketing.

Ultimately I would dump the losers, keep the winners, replace the losers with new niche blogs...rinse repeat...indefinitely.

That setup pretty much has it all.

I would start the way I started which was trying different things to see what worked for me and what didn't.

We all have different skills and knowledge and this is why what works for one person is not necessarily going to work for another.

What I would do differently though, is what I did once I found what worked for me.

Instead of continuing to spend most of my time testing new things, I would spend less time testing and more time building on what I found to be working.

In addition, I would have started contributing to the community earlier (I only started doing this very recently) and I would also put list building at the top of my list of things to do.

Outsource SEO better for my affiliate sites, more outsourcing seo for my main blog,etc.

I would pick a topic/niche that you're really passionate about and enjoy, and do some short videos talking about it. Then offer them for free with your 'tips' and have a squeeze page to build up a list with AWeber of people interested in your passion. Then play around with doing some live webinars... cause webinars are always fun