What's the Biggest Marketing Mistake You Ever Made?

My Greatest Mistake in the World was...

Purchasing Don Larpe's Greatest Vitamin in the World back in '05 and bombarding my family & friends with it...Some of them still won't talk to me...

1) paying $6k for a mentor that made me absolutely nothing
2) waiting over 2 years to launch something that by the time i did release it there wasnt the interest any more

When I was newbie in Internet Marketing, I paid $100 for solo ads but didn't get any benefit from that service.

Mine was trying too many things at one time and thinking that
I could build an online business without an email list.

Another would be trying to do everything myself when I've never
heard of the concept of outsourcing before.

Ah mine was letting a ranked domain name of mine (which was earning me steady $) laps in registration! Now I have auto-renew domain registration turned on all the time heh

My BIG mistake is to TRUST on. (doh)

NOT building a list.

I spent 6 months working on my site and hiring a VA to help me along the way. Then I realized that my conversion rate was 0.05%. 99.5 out of 100 people left my site and I would never do business with them again.

I literally had thousands of visitors landing on my website every month, but I only made 2 measly sales a month.

Although most visitors did not make any purchases, those who landed on my site were laser targeted because the keywords that I was targeting were all “buyers” keywords.

All of them had a problem and they were interested in the solution that I was offering. They left simply because they were not at the final stage of their buying process.

Sadly, all the courses that I studied did not cover anything on the importance of list building. Although I learnt a very good lesson, I have also wasted a lot of time, effort and money due to my lack of knowledge.

That was when I realized the importance of capturing the leads with an opt-in page. it is better to have an opt-in than a sale in the long run, because with an opt-in you can sell to your subscribers over and over again.

I sincerely hope that newbies don't make the same mistake I made.

Think big, think long term, build a list!

To your success,
David Loi

My biggest mistake was spending over$1000 for a mentor that made a promise that I would MMO. I agree that if you're "promised" that you'll MMO - don't fall for it.

Some of those so called mentors can be very charismatic and will sweep the newcomers away. Then the newcomers actually turn into robots with the "follow him" syndrome...lol

A valuable and costly lesson learnt indeed.

Hmmmmm, I keep buying domains, visualizing them already built up in action. I let them sit there and collect dust, while I am active on my already established websites.

I will get them up in time. I am just moving faster in my head.

Getting over perfectionism and then going the opposite way and creating content that didn't resonate with the market!

Matt

Not building a list and not getting a really good Mentor. After 2 years of little success I have now done both...and at last I can see some light at the end of the tunnel. So start building your list and find yourself a good mentor...NOW

many people are gunna say these two but they are DAMN BIGGIES!!

1) Not getting off my ass and actully doing stuff. Checking emails, dirty sites, and facebook is not going to make you money.

2) This is my BIGGEST ONE..... NOT building a list sooner. I regret that. The list, and how you deal with your list is one of the biggest secrets to success. I still wish I built a list sooner.

Not building a list and not investing in paid traffic.

Not building a list and not focusing on one business model/method.



Zul

I've done a few things that have really held me back along the way...

1. Focusing on wayyy too many things at one time.
2. Buying high-ticket items without thoroughly researching the product creator beforehand.
3. Reading... well, reading too much. And not applying what I was reading.

- Trevor

Conclusion from "What's the Biggest Marketing Mistake You Ever Made?" and similar type of threads I've ever came across..

1) Take Action

2) List building



-Brandon

Herbalife, AliveMax, Global Resorts Network, IPC Instant Cash, Big Ticket to Wealth, The Rich Jerk, GDI, pick one LOL

Not building my list right away. oh yeah... and buying to many damn domains.

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Having too many things running at the same time which made tracking and tweaking a bit of a hell. . . Would never go down the road of getting too many upsells without in one time withoug having to know if the basic program would even get the $$$.

Not taking enough action and constantly reading. Although now, I am making a great income online!

Not fully capitalising when I tested MSNs new ad platform for them. I was number 1 for every single keyword I bid on and I paid 1 penny per click.

I made $90k that month but it could have been a lot more.

I would agree with a number of post here about the mistake of not making a list. Well I did
not gave too much emphasis on making a list when I was starting. Should have known better and make further research on the do's and don'ts of list building. Good thing forums here in WF gave me good insights on this.

Spreading my efforts across too many projects at one time, so not having a clear and focused direction. I would also say that it's well worth it to get a good mentor with proven successes, this helps in so many ways!

I think mine was building my business around only one area of IM . This was a very big big mistake. If you are reading . Please diversify your money making methods

Once I had a review page promoting 3 different "how to get pregnant quickly" products, but I forgot to finish the text for the number 3 product. The text I had there was..and I quote "Put some b0ll0cks here about product number 3" lol. Here's the funny thing, I actually made some sales with that review page!!

Another classic was where I was getting people to sign up for a weight loss freebie report, and then when they signed up, it redirected to the wrong page...which was for my learn heavy metal guitar product ha ha ha

Forgot to learn from other people's mistakes

Taking on too many projects at a time.

Well since the question was marketing mistakes, my biggest mistake was getting the date wrong on an event launch across some marketing material and had guests turn up 1 week later all dressed up. I still kept my job....just..lol

aiming at TOO BROAD of a market.

Took me 6 months of 14 hours a day to finally give up. I learned a lot though, and a very hard lesson. But it made me much smarter.