What Is The Most Important Skill For Internet Marketing?

Thanks for the insight. What would you say is the most important aspect of SEO? You always hear horror stories and great ones. One of my partners started a site then dumped it and came back and found it was rankings, only wished he would have kept contributing to the site.

Great advise.. I have feeling that I never will make to make money through IM.
Published 4 websites..lerned alot but SEO is hard for me..
Started to promote affiliate products PPC to test.. no result yet...
TRhank you guys for great advise though..enjoying read through...

Care to expand on that?

Probably works better with correct spelling. LOL!

Lots of good answers so far. But to be honest 99% of the things everyone said can be outsourced, delegated or bartered. The one essential Internet Marketing skill you must have even if you're rich as Carlos Slim, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs is (drumroll please) ... "How To Make Smarter Decisions"!

It's something most people take for granted or totally ignore as far as being a skill. It's so important even if you have 'boat loads' of skills and millions of dollars to play with, just make a few dumb decisions and you can lose a big chunk ...or all of it. Or if you have little or no money, make enough smart decisions and you can have lots of it.
Most of us fall somewhere in between the two extremes. Every success starts and ends with successful decisions. No Exceptions!

The good news, it's a skill that can be developed. You don't have to just depend on experience or getting kicked in your b*lls to make better decisions, unless that turns you on. Note: Some people like the drama.

But for those who like to "learn" ...without being "burned"! Check this vid out.

That´s real! Thanks

Great answer the parts together make up the whole

The best thing you can do is "Stay Focused".
Don't jump from one thing to the next thinking the next is better.
Stay with one project at a time.

You do not need education, strong work ethic, a good offering or anything else. You just need to believe in yourself above all else. That is the pathway to success and riches.

Cheers. - Frank

P.S. I am writing this from my home which is a dumpster behind Long John Silver's. :-(

Absolutely! I wrote something similar on my blog sometime ago. Here- http://www.internetsuccessschool.com/start/

Over the years this question has been asked dozens of times, if not more. And I never understand why people think "selling" is more important than traffic.


You can have the best sales letter in the world, but if no one sees it, it doesn't matter.


I've sold advertising and domains without even putting them up for sale, simply because someone found me and wanted these things. I didn't even have contact info, they had to get it from my domain registar.


There's plenty of people on Youtube that create entertaining or informational videos that don't sell anything. They simply have popular videos that get lots of traffic and let Youtube (or some other partnership) do the selling.

Certainly helps thank you!

What does that say about us folks that make a darn good living and don't use videos? Self-created or otherwise. Just curious is all. :-)

Cheers. - Frank

Copywriting.

First, watch this video:


Without question, the #1 thing that led to me going from minimum wage, homeless, total bomb to making high six figures a year was sitting down every day in hand copying sales letters/print offers.

If you spend 15 minutes a day just looking at sales copy, thinking about why it works, how it works, and drawing your own conclusions...

... Without studying ANYTHING ELSE...

... And you did this every single day for the rest of your life (a simple but difficult thing to do)...

... You will be astounded at what your subconscious will do for you in propelling you forward toward success.

Just looking at what other people are selling, how they are selling it, what positioning they are using, how they are framing offers etc. all that stuff will seep into your brain and then when you go to figure out "how to sell stuff" and "how to make money" you'll be able to recognize legitimate strategies because your brain will be full of things that actually worked in the real world.

Besides, there isn't an aspect of making money online that doesn't require copywriting.

Even if you plan on doing media buys for CPA stuff... You still need copy.

Even if you want to sell Internet marketing services to brick-and-mortar businesses... He still need copy.

Even if you want to sell information marketing products to Internet newbies... You still need copy.

You can get away from it.

And knowing how to make money from words that you write means that you'll never go hungry again.

I would say that the most important thing in Internet Marketing is to know everything you can about what you need to do and take masssssiiivvvvee action!

Effective solutions provider = successful (Internet) marketer. You got it right there. You have to be fully committed

As well as the skills of writing / presenting sizzling copy, there are of course the necessary personal attributes of self confidence and determination.

Maintaining sustained and focused action especially when you're starting out takes real belief in yourself, especially when it's likely that your family, friends and colleagues probably won't be on your wavelength at first and may even be critical of you.

Hold fast and don't give up, even if you fail at first (always make sure you understand why you failed - it's the fastest way to success).

As my favorite saying goes, "If you want something you've never had, go do something you've never done".

You can't go wrong with copywriting, as has been posted a few times. You could use this online and offline.

Yes, I am more than agreed to above statement. If you don't take action and not getting started, you will not see yourself anywhere accept in the newbie lock-sphere. Being in this challenging niche (i.e. IM) has taught me that money does not come easily except you first need to create some values, be it your posts or products, to your customers. Those who cares win!

After 6 months, not sure why this thread needed to be resurrected ????

In terms of a hard skill, I think niche research. Within this I would encompass determining market trends, buyer persona, product research, and finding long tail keywords.

I also think that perseverance is extremely important. You're going to have failures and difficult times. What sets you apart is your ability to deal with them!

In general, this is a good characteristic to have but there are exceptions. Especially if you are NOT cut out for this business then this mantra could be downright harmful


- Robert Andrew

Focus +++ keep testing