If you were to restart Internet Marketing what would you do?

I think adsense is a great way to get your feet wet. Lauching your own product is awesome if you have any hobbies that you know a lot about, like fly fishing or big game hunting.

If you like me don't really have any of those areas of expertise I think starting off with launching your own product is a bit tough.

Starting a blog and growing an online presence is probably also a great idea.

It all comes down to a few basics

1. have a great offer
2. a proven market (people who are proven and willing to buy offers related to yours)
3. A way to reach that market (my favorite way is with paid advertising but there are free ways to.

In internet marketing terms all this means is

1. have a product or service of your own or an affiliate product
2. make sure there are tons of searches and existing products for whatever it is
3. make sure there are plenty of websites to advertise on

These principles are the reason I am so successful not only in online business but in any business I am a part of. As long as you use these principles you can't really go wrong

I would start a content creation company. Get paid to create content for business owners. Articles, Videos, Blogs and Press Releases. I am to knee deep in my own Offline Marketing Consulting now to change...but that is what I would do if I had to start over.

Hello flatbro94,

You should consider building a list, it's one of the most stable business models you can enter. I have totally ignored this model for the longest time and it's only recently that I fully understand the business wisdom behind it. I never knew a guru who doesn't have a list. That alone would tell you that it is an excellent and stable business model.

I would suggest you start out a blog documenting your progress and journey in Internet Marketing. This should get your feet wet. You can also acquire some friends along the way.

Go Get It,

Romi

i think u ll feel my advice something crazy, bcs marketing is in my Blood. I like to share and grasp new money making idea.

In my opinion, as a newbie you first visit the marketes, analyze them and then think here wht is for you!!

Then whatever you understand, get mastery in it.

Now come to the second turn, i.e Finance ,here u ve the two ways, one means you already 've enough money to invest and second one you dont 've money to invest.

If you dont 've money to invest, Launch a service at WF to make some investing money in wch you're good at.

Target you audiance and start your Web Business for become a millionaire

you know i also came along second finance way, i lauch my service first (Mentioned below in Sig.).

To launch a Product as a newbie is not a good decision, i think!!

All the very best for future.

Thanks

IM TYCOON:-)

I would start a daily deal website that target South East Asia countries... Daily deal site is really happening at SEA

Well, you said newbie so I guess as a newbie I would tend to have the same thought process and make the same decisions and mistakes. I definitely wouldn't want to restart IM as a newbie because of it's learning curve.

i will ignore everything on this forum and learn the following:
build a list
ppc marketing...............
there is no other in my opinion

If I were to start over...

*I'd do some intense research on my chosen niche.

*Then research some keywords I can try and dominate.

*Then set up a blog.

*Set up a decent funnel with affiliate products

*Write some high quality content relating to my niche and post it on the blog, then syndicate them to authority sites.

*Set up some PPC ads leading to my funnel

*Go on forums related to my niche. Start posting and building relations with other members.

*Get on social media platforms and connect with other people within my niche.

*Start doing videos relating to my niche. Syndicate them through social media.

*Once the list has grown a little and got some commissions off my affiliate funnel, I'd invest some money on outsourcing some SEO.

*Once the blog gets some decent traffic, I'd load the baby with some adsense.

*Finally, I'd come up with my own products and membership sites - at this point, I'd already have a sizable list to trial and test for feedback.

I would have stuck with pumping out small niche sites with quality content. Building a few sites a week since the beginning would have me swimming in adsense money these days. Nothing beats a completely passive income!

I would have started with list building instead of doing that last

If I had to start all over again:

I would stop thinking like I'm trying to become a guru or a successful internet marketer. The goal is to use internet marketing as a tool to make money to create freedom, options, and choices for what really matters to me.

I would always make sure I had a fire under my butt and knew where I was going.

From a place of extreme motivation you simply choose one of the first things you see that looks good and ride it to your destination. If along the way you find a better ride, then good, ride that if you do your opportunity cost and it's worth the risk. But remember it's all about the destination.

I would resist the urge for world domination and simply get out into my local community, ask what they want from the internet and try to deliver a package for them; then go next door, rince and repeat.

E-commerce

The best way for a newbie is indeed adsense. Its free and gives some decent results.
Read a few top bloggers and get some tips, utilise them and you will get some decent earnings.

Hi. I am doing all this with SEO in which I done link building is the main part. So I go with it.

I would...build relationships with existing
6-figure and 7-figure marketers, learn
from their mistakes and steps, in exchange
for doing something valuable for them.

Many people don't understand the
importance of leverage. Without leverage
like that, you simply can't have a good
game with lousy cards. You need to GET
that trump card... It's not going to come
into your lap from the person holding it.

That's how you grow. That's how I did it,
after struggling to make sense of things.

Winston Tian

I'd sell WSO's telling people how I get rich selling WSO's... Lol, no really, no matter what "method" I was using, be it affiliate, product creation, adsense, amazon, I would be focused on building a list.

If I were to restart internet marketing,
I would have not wasted my money buying so
many internet marketing products which i thought
I needed..I would have not run around in circles trying
different things..
I would also use getresponse since day one instead
of fooling around with hosted autoresponder and other
autoresponder services..
Oh yeah and i would have focused on building a list since day 1.

I would choose a niche which I enjoy and create a site to promote products of it as well as writing for it.
I wouldn't start without a company, probably I would have go with Clickbank.

start with this forum,, try to be WSO seller

Product creation and list building for me

sometimes iny my silly dreamzzz I am the sole owner and founder of facebook probably would have try for it.

I would start with adsense and focus all of my efforts on that. I would cancel all email subscriptions and spend at least 2 hours per day on Keyword research, site development, article writing, article marketing and backlinking, in that order. I would not visit any section here in the forum except this one and I would not focus on anything else for 90 days. If at that point I hadn't replaced at least half my income from a job, I would ask somebody to look at what I'm doing and tell me where I'm going wrong. If I couldn't get it figured out, I would move on to something else, but you have to work hard and give your site time to move up.

My main aim would be to build a list as quicly as possible. Why, your list is a product / Asset on itself.

When you have a list, I mean a responsive list the sky is the limit. You can promote your own products and other people products as an affiliate without the need to spend more money driving traffic to your site...

This is a great thought to always revisit. We discussed this issue many times before on the old forum (and I'm sure new one as well).

Old forum is here: The Warrior Forum - Main Discussion Forum

We had a contest back in 2008 to win a copy of Traffic Secrets in return for responding how you'd "start over" had you had to in Internet Marketing. Although its from 2008, its still, very, relevant today.

http://www.warriorforum.com/contest.pdf

Download this PDF. I highly recommend it.

My personal recommendation is on page 9 of the PDF. I still stand by it (and subsequently won a copy of Traffic Secrets from that post).

If I would start again I would start with webnars it's the best way to build a relationship with a list build content and build products! My second best would be live events. Good luck!

i would restart from fiverr , selling pre-own skills and making a few $$ will give you a start up confidence .

thanks for asking this question. i enjoy reading this thread. good stuff here.

It absolutely would NOT be product creation.

Until you can prove your ability to find a
market and sell to it you have no business
creating product.

Next -

People tend to think from this "small" place -

Fiverr? Adsense? I don't want to offend
so I'll simply say this -

Different models offer different levels of
income potential. The greater the income
potential, the greater the skillset needed.

Do you want to develop $5 skills?

You need skills, period. And not the kind
1000 other people out there are willing
to offer for $5.

Decide where you WANT to be - don't
react to what the pitchsters are trying to
sell you on.

If you have some REAL experience with
selling and marketing then translate that -

If you don't, then one way is to get first
hand real-world experience by working for
someone producing real results.

Affiliate manager is a great place to start
because you'll see who REALLY makes
money and how - and you'll build relationships
in the process.

The problem with the "if you had to
start over" question is remembering what
you didn't know, that you now take for
granted.

Webinars are a GREAT way to make money,
but would that be a GREAT place to start?

Hell no - not unless I already had VERY
GOOD sales skills, and when I started I
didn't. Selling with webinars takes a
considerable amount of skill and connections.

So there you have it -

X

Although I agree "X" I do think marketing $5 skills for a newbie to be valuable. Not in the "hey lets drop our full time income for this $5 skill" type mentality, but more for the mindset that the first sale and "break-through" feeling it gives. I find internet marketing or marketing in general as to do 99% with mindset; more of a struggle with ones self, and pushing ones self to achieve more.

I would start at a younger age.

Granted I'm in my mid 20's, but just imagine if I knew what I knew now back at age 18 or 19.

1) Pick a market that you are passionate about.
2) Read a ton about it until you are knowledgeable.
3) Create a good free resource
4) Create a squeeze page to give the free resource away in exchange for visitors' name and email
5) Drive traffic to your squeeze page through paid media.
6) Email your list with relevant valuable tips and with offers.

I would NOT go into SEO. People get excited because SEO is always touted as "free" but that's NOT true. To be competitive in SEO nowadays you can bet your behind you're going to invest money into blog networks, link building , etc. Plus you're going to be spending your TIME.

I would spend that time and money on paid traffic. It's more easily scalable, measurable and you get immediate responses.

Plus in my opinion, SEO is kind of like gaming the system. You're basically trying to trick Google in a way. And I don't know about you but trying to trick a billion dollar company as a way to make my income is not something that'd let me sleep well at night.

If i had to start again, i would try to do something to keep a permanent connection with every visitor i get through different channels. Some time ago, toolbars were a great way to gain that exposure, today it's not a good alternative.

I would have invested in a genuine, proven coach to provide me with the short cuts and a road map on what steps to take..would have saved a lot of time vs. trying to figure it out on my own

Focus on one project at a time. I think this is the most important thing.

Hello,

Follow your passion

Jeff Casmer

Through what sources you want to make money is mostly irrelevant, but how much effort you are willing to put into it.

If I could restart I'd only change to the following:

Work smarter and harder then I did when I first started.

Any business venture takes work so I would definetely recommend list building.

You can get paid over and again once you have taken time to build your list and it is a sure fire way to becoming a trustworthy person within a chosen niche.

Once you know what you are doing, you can literally set up a campaign in just a few days and start driving traffic to it straight away.

All the best my friend

I would start by building high quality products and give them away for free in order to build a huge following and a large list of potential customers. Then you can start converting on that traffic by selling more high quality products and/or services like coaching.

If I had funds I would just invest into HYIP. High Yield Investment Programs.

If I didn't have fudns, I would start with article writing service.

If I was starting again, I would have started with product creation.

But in saying that, if it wasn't for my early experiences - I wouldn't have unique products to make!

~S