What is your best IM strategy so far?

13 years ago

I personally feel there is really only a few ways to get traffic, the rest comes down to how creative you can get

example:

SEO
Articles
Blogging/commenting
Videos
Forums
PPC,CPM,PPV
Ad/list Swaps
Media Buys
Classified ads (I never really consider this but people do)
social media
list building (this is probably the best)
Social Bookmarking
joint ventures
and probably some more I'm blanking on right now.

ok, maybe there is quite a few. But really none of these are secrets and honestly there are no secrets to getting traffic to your site. Just pick one of these and spend a whole day doing it, and whatever one you have the most success with go with .

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myob 13 years ago

I think most of the really successful marketers will agree that building a list is by far the most effective strategy.
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celente

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Thomas Michal

I personally feel there is really only a few ways to get traffic, the rest comes down to how creative you can get

example:

list building (this is probably the best)
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I like how you highlighted this one. Listbuilding...

and yes!....you are correct. If I did not have lists to market to online, I would make $5.43 per week online. It true, I calculated it out, carried the 1, and rounded down!

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Chad Heffelfinger

13 years ago

The best advice I can give is to become a product creator so you have your own product to sell. It gives you so many advantages that affiliates don't have.

You can build your reputation, have affiliates doing the work for you, run a WSO, build a buyers list, etc. You get all this when you take the leap and create your own product. It just gives you a lot more leverage than you get with other methods.

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Neil M

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Chad Heffelfinger

The best advice I can give is to become a product creator so you have your own product to sell. It gives you so many advantages that affiliates don't have.

You can build your reputation, have affiliates doing the work for you, run a WSO, build a buyers list, etc. You get all this when you take the leap and create your own product. It just gives you a lot more leverage than you get with other methods.

I agree man. Having your own product is by far the best way to go. Otherwise your doing more work just to build other peoples reputations and line their pockets.

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HaiFu

13 years ago

There are many. I'll give one.

Roam major forums, which ever niche you want. Learn what people are buying or want to buy. E.g on Warrior forum many people buy SEO services.

Develop a product or service on that. Sell that to the same forum audience.

This is one of the quickest ways to make money online.

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samuelrichards

13 years ago

Blogging, forums and writing articles works the best for me.

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catchingeye

13 years ago

I personally feel there is really only a few ways to get traffic, the rest comes down to how creative you can get

example:

SEO
Articles
Blogging/commenting
Videos
Forums
PPC,CPM,PPV
Ad/list Swaps
Media Buys
Classified ads (I never really consider this but people do)
social media
list building (this is probably the best)
Social Bookmarking
joint ventures
and probably some more I'm blanking on right now.

Thanks for the list but if you could tell which one was the best which worked for you then it would serve the purpose of this thread.

I think most of the really successful marketers will agree that building a list is by far the most effective strategy.

List building is one of the methods that work great but consume a lot of time. But you can really build profitable lists in no time if you know how to do it. Thanks for sharing.

The best advice I can give is to become a product creator so you have your own product to sell. It gives you so many advantages that affiliates don't have.

Not everyone can create a useful product or service but thanks for sharing, it seems like this was the one thing that worked best for you

Roam major forums, which ever niche you want. Learn what people are buying or want to buy. E.g on Warrior forum many people buy SEO services.

Develop a product or service on that. Sell that to the same forum audience.

If that worked for you, I am pretty sure it would work for many others. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you all for your reply, keep them coming. This well definitely help many out here to choose which way to go.

All the best

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ryanbiddulph

13 years ago

Blogging and article writing work for me.

The more I create the less I compete. I also do quite a bit of networking with other bloggers.

Whatever strategy you use put your heart and soul into it. IM becomes easier when you have a passion for what you do.

RB

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catchingeye

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ryanbiddulph

Blogging and article writing work for me.

The more I create the less I compete. I also do quite a bit of networking with other bloggers.

Whatever strategy you use put your heart and soul into it. IM becomes easier when you have a passion for what you do.

RB

Well said, I too love to complete a thing which I take. Never give up, success will follow.

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uwantmedia

13 years ago

Creating products in small niches in CB sets you up for the long term. You get a list, a following, and most importantly $$ without competing with every man and his dog.

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catchingeye

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kunj K And Kish V

Creating products in small niches in CB sets you up for the long term. You get a list, a following, and most importantly $$ without competing with every man and his dog.

Well thought out long term strategy that works for you, thanks for sharing.

Please everyone, share your best IM strategy that worked & it will be the best GIFT you can give to many warriors out here.

Wish you all good luck & success.

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bjking

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kunj K And Kish V

Creating products in small niches in CB sets you up for the long term. You get a list, a following, and most importantly $$ without competing with every man and his dog.

This a very good strategy. Especially, if you have a good products, sales page and links to super affiliates within those niches

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catchingeye 13 years ago

Thanks to all for those awesome replies... that was really helpful for me & for anyone that is starting out. To be honest, I worked hard many times & failed most of times but that didn't stop me from working hard again. If you love success, it will come for sure.

Thanks once again for replies, keep'em coming
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Beatrice

13 years ago

I am a newbie and my "only" internet marketing strategy is article marketing. I am totally focussed on this method.

I have been doing it for a couple of months and my aim is to "totally" master it before moving on to a new method.

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NateRivers

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Beatrice

I am a newbie and my "only" internet marketing strategy is article marketing. I am totally focussed on this method.

I have been doing it for a couple of months and my aim is to "totally" master it before moving on to a new method.

Good for you- mastering one thing at a time will pay you for a long time to come, and the next thing you be master will be much easier.

My contribution to this thread would be just that-- master ONE thing at a time.

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sirkaliber

13 years ago

Does article posting even work anymore?

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celente 13 years ago

Originally Posted by sirkaliber

Does article posting even work anymore?

nope...no way .... what ever you do, do not post your articles

articles are crap and I can say they do not work any more

I had to say that, because I am just weeding out some of the competition.
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supersm

13 years ago

I had my success by creating a huge number of niche microsites. I then reinvested that money into an application I just released to help others manage the same sort of strategy.

It took me a couple of years to perfect this method but even now I don't spend much time managing my sites and they're bringing in some passive income this holiday season.

Before this though I tried virtually all of the methods listed in this thread. I guess the best advice is to try a few of them and stick with the one you enjoy the most. Since it'll likely take a while to get really good at it you might as well do what is enjoyable to you.

Good luck!

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fuzzynono

13 years ago

I create niche sites and sell products on them as an affiliate. Then I use whatever SEO tactics in my arsenal that I can to get my sites to the top of the search engines. Working pretty well so far, and I've only been doing this for about 7 months.

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Franck Silvestre

13 years ago

It's not about the best, but what works for you.

For example, PPC is excellent to get traffic, but it's not my thing.

For me, PPC is not the best because I'm so weak at it that it doesn't make me a cent. If I was to use it, I'd outsource to someone who knows what he is doing.

Franck

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catchingeye 13 years ago

Thanks for all your reply. The best IM strategy for me is already out there:

Stick to one which works best for you else you will get lost in this IM world.

Good luck to all & if you have something to share then go ahead.

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karenhudson

13 years ago

Here is the list of best internet marketing strategies so far

Internet Marketing Strategy : Implementing the best internet marketing strategies

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Giani

13 years ago

Affiliate Marketing. I am using an Amazing Link Building Strategy which works wonders for me.

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Paul Gram

13 years ago

You will probably find my best strategy very boring but in a nutshell it's:

hard work
giving a damn
trying to make a difference
not just trying to make a quick buck
caring

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pethanks

13 years ago

I just strengthen my SEO campaign and my social media campaign. That is it.

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Giftys

13 years ago

Originally Posted by catchingeye

What is your best Internet Marketing strategy so FAR that worked really well? Sharing this would definitely help many out here.

Building my own network of sites. I think focusing on just one or two niches helped too. Diversity is good but if you spread yourself too thin, everything gets harder to manage.

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Michael Lee

13 years ago

1) Joint ventures
2) List (and relationship) building and email marketing
3) Content and article marketing
4) SEO
5) Forum marketing
6) Video marketing
7) Link building

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paul wolfe

13 years ago

My advice - perhaps only relevant if you are looking to build an authority site - is to focus on high quality content. Combine that with being prepared to do what your competitors AREN'T prepared to do - and you will do well in your chosen market.

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traianturcu

13 years ago

1. Find a keyword with at least 1000 exact searches, making sure that it's something people search when they want to make a purchase.
2. Purchase the domain keyword.com
3. Set up Wordpress with some basic plugins and a great theme
4. Hire a freelancer to write the content for the website.
5. Create forum, blog and article backlinks.
6. When the site reaches #3 of first page of Google find an affiliate program and direct people to the product.
7. Make a few tens of dollars a month.
8. Repeat from step 1.

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Barry Unruh

13 years ago

Originally Posted by catchingeye

What is your best Internet Marketing strategy so FAR that worked really well? Sharing this would definitely help many out here.

Doing thorough market/niche research.
Setting up a blog and driving traffic with article distribution.
Testing the market with Affiliate Products.
Setting up an autoresponder series and squeeze page.
Test the autoresponder series with Affiliate Products.
Tweak the campaign while testing results.
Expand into additional traffic methods - usually only video distribution.
Consider whether I want to create a product.
(Rare that I do create a product, likely a mistake. Rare = 1 product out of about 20 niches tested)
Keep Building SEO traffic and a content cluster.

Start over with next idea.

Last step...but perhaps most important. Realize many tests are going to fail. Don't worry about it, just move on and try the next thing. This can be a failure in my research, my belief about buying habits of the market, ability to rank highly, or a myriad of other things. Doesn't matter. If it fails you just have to move on. (May not mean leaving the niche, but changing your "beliefs" about the niche and how you market to it.)

Final Note..I promise. A test is not writing 10 articles and saying "it doesn't work". A test is driving enough traffic through your system to see real results, positive or negative. This might mean 10 articles or 50 articles.

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MarkAnderson

13 years ago

My first, last and only "selling own products"

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vok

13 years ago

The best IM strategy I can give is brand yourself within a profitable niche, dosn't matter what really. Tim Skykes has made $3 million blogging about penny stocks, I bet you didn't know that?

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PennyManTim 13 years ago

I'm in the penny stock marketing biz now too... the guy that has gotten me involved is a little genius and I am amazed how easy it all is...

All I can say is wow!
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JonAlfredsson

13 years ago

Competition research, social media and finding the right niche. Since your competition has been in the market, you must know how to match them and what they offer the market. Social media for viral promotions and of course, niche that is really profitable but within my interest.

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bradlean 13 years ago

There are many of them.

One that I like most is...

Rss and twitter.
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Sarah Harvey

13 years ago

Well this applies to online marketing in a different way... but the best thing I have done for myself is create my own brand.

From a creative viewpoint of course.

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Joshua Rigley

Banned 13 years ago

Sorry if this has been said already, but this is what works for me:

Stick to one thing and focus on it.

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fated82

13 years ago

My best strategy comes from narrowing down your business into 4 departments.

- Product creation
- Copywriting
- List building and nurturing
- Finding affiliates

All you need to do is focus your daily activities onto these four areas, you will make money online....period!!

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trafficforfree

13 years ago

Web 2.0 sites such as Squidoo and Hubpages interlinked with article marketing has worked out great for me.

Another technique not mentioned is use all available marketing tools online (they all work in their own way) to drive massive traffic to Amazon associates. If you send them, Amazon is very optimize to convert the sales for you.

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dblacker 13 years ago

Here's a common one that works for me:

Buy aged domains with backlinks and pagerank and create ebay or amazon product sites. Don't worry about ranking your homepage - the focus of this strategy is longtail and brand name keywords. As the google keyword tool does not usually display these types of keywords you will need a research tool that does. This tool will mine a lot of brand name keywords but does not give you search volumes (i use it together with market samurai)

Best keyword research tool - Best Wonderwheel Scraper

Find a good competition analysis tool (i.e. market samurai) that will help you refine your list to 50-100 decent keywords with at least 100 global exact match searches per month and low competition and create posts or pages for those. Tag your posts with at 6-10 related keywords.

Do a little backlinking, or get some kind of decent automated backlink system so that each of your sites continues to get links. Direct half your links to the home page and half to specific inner pages on the site. Rinse and repeat.

You can easily justify spending $100 on a pr 4 domain with 1000 backlinks, when you consider that you might have to spend anywhere from $200-500 (or a heck of a lot of time) over the course of a couple years to get you there.
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WebPen

13 years ago

Focused effort in a proven system and hard work = $$$$

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Daniel Deegan

13 years ago

The one strategy thats worked best for me in almost every aspect of IM is to analyze and model what other successful people are already doing. Figuring out why they are doing what they are doing and then breaking down what they are doing into some kind of structure that I can use to.

I've used this approach to help me write pre-sell content, create ppc ads, help create a product outline, etc.

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catchingeye

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Daniel Deegan

The one strategy thats worked best for me in almost every aspect of IM is to analyze and model what other successful people are already doing. Figuring out why they are doing what they are doing and then breaking down what they are doing into some kind of structure that I can use to.

The point here is that its not possible for everyone to analyze successful people & follow them OR is it?