The most important thing I've learned in IM...

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... is to outsource!

For years I tried to do everything myself, working round the clock 7 days a week writing articles, backlinking, blog posting, profiling, bookmarking and all the other countless techniques we have at our disposal. Progress was slow and it seemed like I was just spinning my wheels most of the time.

Worse even... I constantly felt like I was sliding backwards. WSOs were stacking up in my folder. I'd get excited reading about the latest RSS techniques but I was still only halfway through October's backlink list (and it was March for crying out loud!). Something had to give...

Recently I've discovered some great services, mostly available from other IMers right here in the WF. This has allowed me to cut my promotion efforts by 95% and concentrate on what I'm good at: content creation and design.

Never again will I spend hours on end registering and filling out site profiles. One of our esteemed warriors is now offering a great WSO for this very same purpose. Of course it's automated... doing this manually is absolutely soul-killing. Nobody should have to do it.

Naturally I was nervous the first month or so after I let go of the reins. But I needn't have been. Even though I'm no longer doing my own promotion, my main site just went up a notch in page rank and my SERPs and traffic are better than ever.

You know what? Now I don't care about the latest SEO tricks. I've got professionals with automation at their disposal handling all that.

Of course this doesn't come for free... but prices are more than reasonable and the time it frees up is priceless. It's an investment... the more I pay in, the more profit I get out.

Newbies, I realize you're in a tough spot. Unless you've got good funding you have to make some money before you can invest. Also, it's good to be hands on for as long as you can stand it because it teaches you so much. You have to get the big picture.

But as soon as you start making some money reinvest it in professional services. As your income goes up so should your support network. You can't do it alone. If ever there was a "guru" secret, this is it!
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  • "Of course this doesn't come for free... but prices are more than reasonable and the time it frees up is priceless." <-- awesome. I could easily think that.

    Will have to check into this when I start making some money off of this Actually... I think I would have used it if I just had some money to invest; not necessarily money made in IM.

  • WOW... David did you actually take time out of your long nights to right this? LOL... I totally agree and understand what you are talking about. In the beginning I started doing this part time because of my "9-5" job, but when I was laid off, I hardly slept, between family, kids, IM and trying to make it; I slept three hours if that . Now I have learned that although I have an online business and my computer is my working tool, I AM NOT ONE :rolleyes:, SO I OUTSOURCE!!!!
  • I have a great team of experienced SEOs and developers, and have provided services since 2007. I'm not showing off here, but if it is a professional service you need, then I'm the right person that you want to talk to.

    Here's my URL: Professional SEO Company
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    • I have been doing Internet Marketing for about 4 months. Though I have lots of previous experience in programming not much in other areas.

      I am taking the view of earning $100 per day by my own efforts before any sort of outsourcing.

      Its best to have an overview of how all the different aspects work so no one can take any sort of advantage. In a sales orientated world there are many decent people but there are also lots of dubious schemes too.
  • Definitely agree with you 100% on this. We have just starting outsourcing our back linking and it has freed up a massive amount of time for us.

    It was work we didn't really like too much either so it's absolutely fantastic that someone else is doing it all for us.

    We now have time to concentrate on the more important stuff.
  • My IM efforts really took off after I leveraged the efforts of outsourcing time-intensive tasks. That one move freed me to actually run my business instead of being mired in the details. My income skyrocketed after that.

    TomG.
  • Kind of tough to outsource tasks if you don't even know what they are. You definitely need to know what's what before you can expect anyone else to do it for you effectively.
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    • Just to echo what xpert says... You can only outsource once you have gone through the motions a few times. It's easy to say outsource but if you don't know how to effectively build links or understand what a good article takes then you are burning money. You need to understand what to do because if it is done wrong, you need to be all over your outsourcies back and make sure it gets done correctly.
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  • Once you have a good system in place that you know earn you money, then you can start to work out what you can pay out to still make a profit... Often times what you pay to outsource is much less than your time is eventually worth, which of course it a good thing.

    When just starting out however there's nothing like hard work to get you where you want to go.
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    • Ross Perot once said "Here's what you do first: learn the business from the ground up....listen to me....from the ground up". I bet if he had finished the thought he would have said "then outsource everything you can" !

      If you are too young to know of him, Ross Perot was a billionaire.
  • Automation is the key. Especially with all the API's and technologies out there -- why be stuck doing something over and over when a computer can do it 100 times faster, AND they don't complain!
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    The most important thing I've learned in IM...

    ... is to outsource! For years I tried to do everything myself, working round the clock 7 days a week writing articles, backlinking, blog posting, profiling, bookmarking and all the other countless techniques we have at our disposal. Progress was slow and it seemed like I was just spinning my wheels most of the time.