What key points to your success can you share with us Rookie/Striving IM'ers?!

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For those of you who have climbed the IM ladder successfully, and by successfully I mean those of you who have found freedom to do this as a full time job. What advice would you give us who are working their way up? Here's a few questions, It'd be great if you could share!

  1. What would you avoid spending money on?
  2. What would you spend money on?
  3. When did you realize you were on to something?
  4. How much traffic did it take until you were making profits?
  5. How long until you became profitable?
  6. and any other key points that really sparked your success!
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    I think you've asked some really good and perceptive questions here, but they're not all that easy to answer! I can try four out of six of them ...

    Originally Posted by coffeeguy View Post

    What would you avoid spending money on?
    WSO's, traffic and anything to do with SEO at all (the last one for the kind of reasons explained here).

    Originally Posted by coffeeguy View Post

    What would you spend money on?
    A domain-name or two, some hosting (there is some reliable free hosting available, for people who can't afford it, but it's essential to stay away from places like Blogger and wordpress.com where one doesn't own or control one's "own" site), and an autoresponder subscription (avoiding free ones).

    Originally Posted by coffeeguy View Post

    How long until you became profitable?
    My answer's here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8281845

    Originally Posted by coffeeguy View Post

    and any other key points that really sparked your success!
    The big, big thing, for me (and I suspect for a high-ish proportion of those who become successful, though maybe not so much for those who don't?) was developing enough judgement to be able to distinguish between information and misinformation, between people who know what they're talking about and people who are mindlessly repeating the teachings of the Urban Myth School of Internet Marketing, between fact and opinion, and learning enough to decide sensibly by whom I wanted to be guided. This is tricky. The time at which one most needs that judgement and perspicacity is - more or less by definition - the time when one's least likely to have it! :p
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  • Profile picture of the author Victor Edson
    My best advice is to find a game plan and stick to it, until it's profitable.

    Once it's profitable, focus on outsourcing the work needed to maintain that project and then start looking for other projects that you can see through to completion. With so many different methods that work, it's easy to get the 'Shiny Object Syndrome' and spend all day reading and thinking it's 'moving you forward'.

    Marketing online is only as difficult as you allow it to be.
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  • Profile picture of the author zeroaffiliate
    What would you avoid spending money on?
    I will avoid spending money when the campaign burst my testing budget without conversion. By the way, I doing CPA.

    What would you spend money on?
    I will spend money to test my campaign.

    How much traffic did it take until you were making profits?
    It not about the traffic, it about the ROI.

    and any other key points that really sparked your success!
    Keep trying and never give up!
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    Originally Posted by coffeeguy View Post

    What would you avoid spending money on?
    Opportunities. Don't become just another opportunity seeker.

    Originally Posted by coffeeguy View Post

    What would you spend money on?
    Your goal. You should have one main goal in mind and everything you do and any money you spend should only be on things that are going to move you closer to that end goal. Ignore everything else.

    Originally Posted by coffeeguy View Post

    When did you realize you were on to something?
    When I made my first sale

    Originally Posted by coffeeguy View Post

    How much traffic did it take until you were making profits?
    Not much at all. It's not the amount of traffic that's important. It's the quality of that traffic and how desperate they are for your product/service (solution).

    Originally Posted by coffeeguy View Post

    How long until you became profitable?
    Hmm, it only took about 6 years.

    Originally Posted by coffeeguy View Post

    Any other key points that really sparked your success!
    Focus. Hard work. Determination.
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    • Profile picture of the author coffeeguy
      Great information! Right now im happy where im at with my site but now thats all it is. A site. The IM part... i feel like a one armed man trying to put on a wrist watch. (No offense to one armed people) I guess figuring out square one is my main road block. But now after reading your responses my "square one" is mapping a strategy. Thanks again.
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