Why the 'auto' marketer point of view is poison for beginners
They spend many hours/dollars setting up software to spin and post and link and feed stuff into, but it ends up being worthless, the little traffic that they do get doesn't convert at all. All of their blog backlinks are essentially spam, most of them are not accepted, and the ones that are usually have 200 other spam comments and are basically worthless.
Solution:
Spend that time researching and creating high quality content. You don't need to start with 500 articles, think about getting 20 very focused ones that do a good job selling. Build links manually, create great anchor text for them - do blog commenting, but actually write something relevant.
Automation does have its place in internet marketing (auto email responders/opt-in systems/content delivery being a few), but when it comes to actually building your empire, it has to be done by you, not some piece of software that works while you sleep. Most forms of automation are something to look at after you start getting a ton of traffic, but not before.
That's my opinion at least!
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