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What one thing do you wish you were told when you started?

by Benjam1n
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What one thing that you know now, do you wish you had known when you first started out internet marketing??

Looking forward to reading your thoughts!!
#thing #told
  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Perry
    That most of your sales will come from people that have already bought from you. Treating your customers like gold will keep them coming back for more!

    Kevin
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    Owner and Operator of 6StarMedia.com - A website design and marketing firm
    Marketing Consultant for AuctionAutoBidder.com - An eBay Auction Sniper service
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  • Profile picture of the author Benjam1n
    Nice point. I bet a lot of people get that wrong with their business model. Focusing too much on attracting new customers when you could be building relationships with past customers and selling to them again and again.
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    "You become what you think about most of the time" - Think BIG!!

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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Perry
    That's the golden egg my friend!

    Kevin
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    Owner and Operator of 6StarMedia.com - A website design and marketing firm
    Marketing Consultant for AuctionAutoBidder.com - An eBay Auction Sniper service
    Check out one of my clients for Database Services - Pebble IT
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  • Profile picture of the author mikenin
    I wish I had been told how extremely important keyword, and market research are. Testing things is very key. It can be a waste of time to put a ton of work into one market/keyword if there are no customers. Take the time to find the right keyword, and also give your campaign time to establish itself. These things do not happen overnight.

    Now that I think about it, I'm sure I probably read, or was told these things, but I wish I had actually listened! Oh well, it might have been a longer road than I was hoping, but I made it in the end. Bottom line? Don't Give Up!
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    Hey!!

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    • Profile picture of the author homebizoutlook
      Without a doubt - learn SEO. That is the only way you can control your own destiny. Learn SEO and you can build any business you want because you can build traffic to any website.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bill_Z
    Don't use crappy content written by non-native English writers on sites you are selling products on. I wanted to outsource content writing when I started out, and couldn't afford good quality. Was a waste of time and money, as I ended up redoing all of that content again. Always use good content for every site!
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrick Kelly
    Don't move onto the next bright shining star, until you have mastered and or exhausted the existing one!

    cheers, Patrick
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    • Profile picture of the author Lena
      That building your list is the most important thing in IM and any niche you trying to make money!!!!!!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Amanda Craven
    That creating your own product is the absolutely best way to not only earn consistently online but also to learn all the associated skills - copywriting, social media marketing, seo et al...

    Oh and that it is also a superb list-building technique!
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  • Profile picture of the author xaban
    To start with Minimum Viable Product - instead of spending all the time & money on something complete that could be simply ignored by the market.
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    SuperMonitoring for your website
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