Is Internet Marketing all about copy and repeat, copy and repeat?

You are in a IM forum and wonder why you find so many 'I can make you rich sigs'????????? And to answer your question, why would anyone want to reinvent the wheel. If something works and it has been proved, copy and repeat process is most efficient and productive.

Copying and modeling others can be a much faster way to success. The thing to remember is that you need to copy those who are actually successful. If you copy what most people do...then you get the results most people get...

Successful people are not like most people...

Here's your choice:

1. Create you own unique marketing strategy over a period of months, test it, refine it then apply it on a particular niche and hope it works as well as the well proven IM strategies you read about every day on this forum and others like it. Or:

2. Use a well proven strategy and start making MONEY straight away.

You can reinvent the wheel and, if you do that successfully, kudos to you. I've never felt the need myself.

Steve.

Consider this... Build a foundational business, using a proven business model. Don't deviate too much from what already works, get that up and running to a point where it's profitable. We all know the models, then try something new with that...

Like today I just set up a PLR product with "Viral Twitter" boxes and stuff.. Never did it before, but it was still based on "opt-in" => "Sales page"...

The funnel didn't change, but the "tools" did. It's always cool to come up with new interesting ways to promote and build your sites, but for the most part it's "conceptually simple, and the hard part is showing up every day".

- Chris

it is to a certain extent finding something that works and scaling up ! however as the internet keeps changing you have be willing to keep up, learn new things and make relevant changes !

So i guess No, its not just about rinse and repeating ! though its good until saturations occurs !

Just about every business there is online and off is in the same business.

1.Find potential customers.
2.Convert to buying customer.
3.Keep customer.
4.Sell more to current customer.
5.See number 1.

The stuff you use to exchange for money (hamburgers, ebooks, writing, loaning money, washing cars,...) can be whatever you want but if you are not doing the list above then you're out of business regardless of the stuff you exchange.

So, if you call that rinse and repeat. Yes.

Matt

All things evolve and IM is no different.

Doing split tests and experimenting with new ideas lay the foundations of tomorrow's strategies.. IM is constantly changing, but in very small steps so we hardly notice it.

After you start making good money then you can invent something new and revolutionary.

Until then, conduct a proven model.

BTW, most successful marketers develop their very own traffic system from among the many proven traffic tactics.

TL

I can't thing of anything in life that's not copy and repeat?

Every job I know off are all copy and repeat.

Builders do the same thing for every house. It's just a different house (market) each time.

Same for plumbers, electricians and so on and so on. All these guys make money from copy and repeat.

I used to have a job as a wool scourer (washing wool). It was all copy and repeat. Set the machinery, use detergent, water temperature, drying, blah blah. All might have been slightly modified for different types of wool (markets) but still the same copy and repeat stuff.

Everything in life is the same. Your clothes get dirty you put them in a washing machine and hang them out to dry then iron them. Different clothes (markets) might have slight different washing times and drying times but still copy and repeat.

You copy and repeat everything in life. You would go mad trying to reinvent the wheel for everything you do in life that you already copy and repeat. Same for online marketing - you don't have to reinvent the wheel - just tweak the settings to get the most efficient results.

be unique and stick out like dogs balls... that'll get you noticed
i wonder how many people will copy and repeat that lol

Yes, it's all copy and repeat, but with a little modification/improvement
along the way; some stick, some don't. But I think that's how life really
is, in the long run. Copy and repeat with modification/improvement!

I think internet marketing is not all about copy and paste. There are lot of critical point but major things are all about copy and paste.

Don't reinvent the wheel.

There are a lot of people out there trying to sell "how to make money with AdWords" stuff. They're all pretty much the same, and there's a reason:

For any given activity, there is a best known way to do it.

It's that simple. Let's say you know how to write an ad that gets 20% click thru. Then you go out and make up some other way to write an ad; a completely original ad, an innovative and unique ad. You test this ad, and it gets 10% click thru.

Why the HELL would you teach someone how to make that ad, when you could teach them how to make one that gets DOUBLE the click thru?

Now, that said: if you find a different way to make an ad that ALSO gets 20% click thru, you should run out immediately and start selling it. And if it's getting MORE than 20% - well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist.

But if you can't outperform what people already know, that's what you should be selling. You simply sell the best product you can. Don't sell a crap product just because it's different. Sure, it's different, but it's also crap.

I put my money on Gorilla Writer. If you are trying to follow someone... follow the ones who has gone through the difficulties.

Being original and being successful is the most rewarding of all but the effort you give is 10 times harder that trying to copy someone.

See where the money is. Look into it ... and copy the system. If its working for others, it will work for you

Mario

I would like to add a little something here because too many times I hear "do what you love", "have a passion", "be creative"...

I believe in that too but I do that with other aspects of my life.

I'm an entrepreneur because of the lifestyle I want to live. I have been playing music for many years and that is my creative outlet. I am very passionate about a lot of things in my life.

When it comes to business and making money, why on earth do you want to make it harder on yourself and give yourself less odds at being successful when you don't have too?

I'm not talking about your Unique Selling Proposition or USP, that's part of business. Different topic.

If someone is making a killing at xyz and they tell you the steps to xyz and now you can make a killing too what is so important about not being like them?

My business is not my life. It supports my life. If you tell me that I can make more money doing something your way then I'm going to try it. If I start making more money than I was my way then I'm now going to do it your way.

Leave your egos and self esteem out of it. It's business.

Quit this obsession with being different and start thinking about being successful.
When you get successful then you can experiment with being different.

End of rant.

Matt