Relax Everyone! Nothing Has Died!

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I have noticed recently some rather panicked threads suggesting that various strategies within Internet Marketing have "croaked" so to speak.

"Article marketing is dead!" "CPA re-bills are no longer effective", "Offline marketing is saturated!". These are all cries we have seen over the last few months.

Nothing has died! Things have changed, and evolved, but nothing is dead!

Article Marketing- Sure maybe we need to write a few more articles than we used to in order to generate the same traffic , but for those same old good results, who cares about a little extra work!

I hear people complain article directories are flooded with poor articles and affiliates. Great! Guess what, if you write good quality content yourself you may get some of the traffic disappointed by some of the trash out there. If you write something good enough, you may even get your articles picked up and published elsewhere, meaning more links and traffic!


CPA Re-Bills- No, some of these are not effective anymore and that is because some of them were a little "scammy" to say the least and have been adapted. Promote a decent offer with clear terms, and make your customers clear on the offer, and sales should not be affected!


Offline Marketing- Yes there are more people doing it now than before, but how many different spins on what people are currently offering are out there? If you think outside the box instead of following the pack, there are still hundreds of opportunities in Offline Marketing.


Like Adsense, these elements of marketing are changing and evolving all the time. People still make great money with Adsense, but they do things differently to the way they did when it started. Because something doesn't appear to work as it did a year or two ago does not mean it is dead. It may mean it has evolved and you haven't.

Who knew about social marketing 10 years ago?

My point is, saying article marketing is dead is like saying the cave man is dead. The cave man didn't die- he grew into modern man. In order to succeed, I believe we shouldn't look at where the game is right now, but look to where the game is heading.

Hope this makes a little sense to someone, and makes a few more newbies keep the faith!


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  • I agree...things will always ebb and flow. Find something in marketing that you love to do, and do it!
  • Be ahead of the curve... not running to catch it.
  • I've been making money online for over a decade. And the only consistent thing that I've found in online marketing, is that nothing is consistent.

    I've made $10k in one day on google, only to be slapped the next. I've made $10k on ebay in one day, only to have them change the rules the next. I've made money on icq, myspace, craigslist, facebook, adwords, newsgroups, and the list goes on and is ever-changing. You just can't stand still. If you want to find people to buy your stuff, you have to go where the people are going. And it's never the same place for very long.
  • I was going to make a similar post the other day because it's something that needed to be said (written). I remember about 4-5 years ago when "e-mail marketing is dead" was announced. And nothing could be further from the truth. I remember when I read "e-books are dead!", yet our company sells them in high volumes.

    Article marketing is far from dead, it's simply evolving. Some people turn their articles into nice press release pieces and short reports. Some people take their article RSS feeds and use them to get tons of backlinks. Some people use "parasite" websites to build backlinks and more exposure to their articles. There are 101 ways to skin a cat y'know...

    How many times do we hear that the IM niche (marketing to other marketers), the weight loss niche, the personal development niche, or the dating niche are all hyper competitive or saturated? Yet, there are new millionaires created in those niches every single week (some would argue every day). They work harder and smarter than everyone else, which is why they succeed.

    I no longer have to work 8 or 12 hour days, but I still do because I choose do. I'm insanely driven because I don't just have concrete goals, I have goals that motivate me on an emotional level. This business also fulfills my creative side. I simply cannot stop creating / writing/ recording new products. I find that process very enjoyable.

    So don't believe they hype. The only thing that is dead around are the people that see the cup half empty and use that to get you to buy their stuff.

    RoD
  • When I started I was making decent money on adsense. Then the money dried up.

    Last month I stuck YieldBuild on my site. Wow, quadrupled adsense revenue!

    Never stop innovating. Never sit back.
  • If I recall correctly, the "*** is Dead" type of threads were banned in the old forum. (Ah, the good old days.... ;-) )

    Suzanne
  • it is not necessarily the methods that suck, rather the way they are being carried out. If you do anything in a slapdash way then you never get consistent results. Start one blog and keep at that one blog until you make a hundred bucks a day, then rinse and repeat.

    However what works for one niche and one blog may not work for another so test test and then test some more.
    Catherine

    Catherine
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    • [In my best Andy Rooney impression:]

      Didja ever notice that the people who start all these "death of" rumors are usually selling what they want to replace it with?

      [End impression]

      As I remember, the 'death of email' thing started when someone came out with a desktop widget that would let you push content straight to the desktop.

      Just like in politics, if you want to find the source of these 'death of' rumors, just follow the money...
  • Another point to consider: some people just cannot handle competition. They find a niche, method, or model for making money and think "hey, this is cool, I can make $1500 a month from this with no problems." And then, when other folks learn of the method and start participating, the competition begins. Instead of being innovative and original, they throw up their hands and say "it's dead! What do I do now????"

    Same kind of folks that never seem to make it because their dad, mom, brother, co-worker, mailman, dog catcher, and barber all beat them to the punch.
  • I love it when people say a certain method is dead. It just gives me an idea on what to work harder on !
  • Exactly! I agree with mattbrown's statement...more people think that its dead.. then why have some of my articles reached top search engine rankings? ....

    So many people trying to push people onto the next big thing... instead of helping people get feet wet in what exists now.
  • FYI to laurenceh - I don't know why you bother changing the font, but I thought it might interest to know that I skip reading your posts because the font you're using is smaller than the rest. It's too difficult to read for these eyes. Setting aside the smaller font issue, study after study has shown that a sans-serif font like Arial, Verdana, and Tahoma are easier to read on a monitor. With the smaller font size and the added serifs, the words just smudge together for me.

    Judging from the thanks and comments, it looks like you had something to say worth reading, but I'd bet I'm not the only one skipping your posts because they can't read them. I'm just the only one that has said anything. But, they're your posts, you can do as you like. I just wanted to make sure you knew that you're eliminating some of us with less than perfect vision from enjoying your thoughts.
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    • I second that; I only read the first paragraph. I usually tend to skip posts with a small (or hard to read) font, too.

      Suzanne
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  • THANK YOU!!!

    I have been tempted many times to start a thread titled...

    "The Death of Death"

    That being said...

    There is one thing I don't want to see and that's "the death of type that's large enough to read".



    All the best,
    Michael

    p.s. I typically don't respond to "Death of..." threads, because I figure, "less competition in whatever has 'died'".

    p.p.s. Dennis, if there was a way to thank a post twice, you would have got a double thanks from me.

    p.p.p.s.
  • Any better?
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    • Much better, thank you.

      And I agree with your post. In regards to article marketing and all the junk articles, I wrote in a thread yesterday that the more crappy articles there are, the easier it is for good articles to stand out.
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    Relax Everyone! Nothing Has Died!

    I have noticed recently some rather panicked threads suggesting that various strategies within Internet Marketing have "croaked" so to speak. "Article marketing is dead!" "CPA re-bills are no longer effective", "Offline marketing is saturated!". These are all cries we have seen over the last few months.