What are the 3 Stages in Internet Marketing?

Let me start:

When I was first introduced to IM, Google Adsense and PPC was HUGE! I bought the $17 e-book and another $97.00 course on how to "easily" master these arts.

Quickly, I realized this wasn't easy and there were layers and layers behind PPC. No one told me that split testing was very important for PPC. I just found keywords and started promoting my affiliate product- I did what they told me to do and I waited for the flood of orders to come in... needless to say, I was out $100's of dollars and made 1 sale. Not a good investment and it deflated my ideas of making money online.

PPC: Stage #2 and #3 Only

Adsense was the same way. I built all these "cash" blogs that were in very low competition niches. I added my adsense to the blogs and waited for the money to roll in over-night. I woke up with, I think it was .55 cents. The books and courses forgot to explain about traffic, ranking, and SEO. Duh, you need traffic in order for people to know your blogs exist, and in order for viewers to click through the Adsense advertisements.

Needless to say, I was in the negative and was not making any real money. Another epic fail in my life.

ADSENSE: Stage #1 and Stage #2. Blogging is easy - but you will need to learn how to drive quality traffic and get rankings in the top search engines.

This is my feedback

Hi:

Shireen here :-)

I got started on ebay (not much technical skills & is straight forward)

Next stage should be product creation & list building :-)

Yeah - auction sites is where I started as well.

1) Find a person with a need or a want and figure out how to solve that problem for them at a profit
2) Build systems that help you find lots more of those people and deliver said solution to bigger audience
3) Do it again, faster, larger, more

Hi As far as my experience starts from a sensation story of one of my friend. He told me that we can make money online. All we need to do is understand the market, the demand and supply (economics rule ).
Stage I: I started with affiliate marketing and i choose that product which is a shopping product. In other words a product which usually people buys. I thought i can sell it easily. Though percentage or commission was less but at least i can got some sales which motivates me.
Stage II: I came up with a blog and put ad sense, but it was all sucks.
Stage III: At this stage at least i have know how about all hot issues and services, so i started giving small services to the interested clients.
That is all :-)

1. Buy

2. Sell

3. Win!

What works for one newbie might leave another cold.

Some people love focusing on direct selling because that's their personality - that would have killed me when starting out.

The areas in which you are comfortable...that's from where the stages should begin.

Personally, for me, I think:

1.) Understanding Authority (social marketing, forum participation, etc.)

is the main key, followed by:

2.) Affiliate Marketing

3.) Product Creation

I myself started in SEO (been doing it since 1997, back when Infoseek did realtime indexing).

Hope that helps!

1. Review your surveys and questionnaires to ensure you’re not phrasing anything offensively.
2. Develop a chart or graph from the data collected to make it easier to visually analyze the results.
3. Record interviews or focus groups whenever possible for review and analysis

My 3 stages have been:

1) waste a lot of money

2) stop wasting money

3) Start making money

=D

1)Educate, research, take action
2)Improve, test, take consistent action
3)Scale up and outsource, time is money at this point, take massive action

1. Find a niche that will never go out of style (relationships, weight loss, etc)

2. Create/buy quality content to become trusted

3. Sell, sell, sell...

It doesn't matter what you start with, if you are brand new, start with one of something. The key words are START and ONE.

It can be one blog, one micro niche site, one ebay auction, one affiliate promotion, one PPC campaign. The goal is to take it from start to finish and make it profitable.

You will learn so much more by picking a business model, learning the ins and outs, and making it profitable.

Once you've made one thing profitable, make something else profitable.

I only know 2 stages to Internet marketing...

1) Connect to the Internet
2) Market



OK - I know that isn't what you were asking but I couldn't resist.

There have actually been some good replies. There are probably more people familiar with the stages for Internet marketing failure than there are for how to succeed. To succeed I think there are so many different individual paths it would be hard to generalize. People come to this cyber world with a vast amount of differences in resources, time, skill levels, personal drive and on and on.

Most people follow these 3 steps:

1. Optimism
2. Delusion
3. Despair

From a top 2% Earner to You!

1). Learn the skills necessary to do scalable advertising like PPC, SEO, and Article Marketing and position yourself behind a funded proposal.

2). Take massive action everyday using the skills you learned everyday by following an income producing activities guide.

3). Once you begin to see success, begin to upscale the marketing by outsourcing articles and increasing daily spending limits for PPC ads and creating more SEO lead magic sites to draw more and more traffic to your main site.

Here is the BIG HINT behind the three tips: MASTER KEYWORD RESEARCH!!!!

Haha that's my life!

1) Learn, try, fail, over and over again until you make your first sale
2) Create your first product, do some PPC, solo ads SEO etc
3) Find some JVs Then you need to do the launch, create your products, build your huge list and do your first launch.

For most, the 3 stages are...

1- unrealistic expectations of easy money.

2- Max out the credit card and flush big bucks down the toilet.

3- Quit and go back to work.

Sal