What part of internet marketing do you struggle with any Why ?

My experience of video marketing has been so far to make a really interesting video upload it to you tube and get one of the clever guys on fiverr dot com to get lots of views...

If you then direct the video to your squeeze page or blog using the annotations feature you should see lots of happy visitors coming your way...

if you look at claudebonte dot com then click on the help page you can see how many visitor comments i've received over a short period of time.... i hope this helps

That is what the majority of marketers get distracted with, information overload, where you have too much information.

But you are doing the best strategy to stay focused on one or more things, and not jumping from one to another.


What do I struggle with? keeping up counting my vast profits.

Thanks for your comment Gill,
It seems for most people this is more about training their mind to stay focused and complete one task rather than learning new strategies because there will always be new strategies to learn.... There's a fine line between standing still and moving ahead...

hi there,

Thanks for the post..

As for me I really want traffic... And that is what I am struggling right now...

Distraction is my number one problem. The promise of the next big thing, as someone said. The allure that the next big strategy will be the one. Too much dreaming, not enough doing!

Well said Rachel, I guess we've all been there before, there are no short cuts.
In the race between the tortoise and the hare the slow steady tortoise always wins... I guess we can all learn from that

for Transd....Thanks for your comments.
All I can say is build the relationship and make the money.
In whatever field, affiliate marketing, list building etc you have to build the relationship first. You might be able to make some lucky sales with advertising but that will cost you money whilst you're testing and it's hard to duplicate. Focus on no more than 3 forums or you'll be spreading yourself too thin. Once you've build enough trust on one forum you can always do the same on others. Start with one then move on. Good luck..

my part time job right now partly based on commission and closing deals can be tough. there are many many many ways close a deal and you must be able to adapt to the customer's needs mo matter what.

there are pretty much three main closing scenarios that happen all the time.

the first is that a prospect is looking for something to buy and once they find it they want it. all you have to do is ask for the sale. that's it.
for example, they see a car, it's the make, model, color, almost the right price. i can get this car for you today for $x,xxx. Cash or Credit? that's all there is, just ask for the dang sale. the worst they can say is no.

the second is a prospect who wants what you have but they don't want to pay for the extra service or an extended 2 year warranty. or that extra piece of software. what you do is outline the BENEFITS they get from what you are pitching. convey to them the immense value they are getting.
for example: the customer wants the laptop you're selling and you get comission on selling extended warranties. the custome says they are ready to checkout, you inform them you offer an extened warranty that protects their investment. they say they don't need the warranty you have because they are covered by the manufacture warranty.
you tell them that their warranty doesn't protect against power surges, or spill coverage, or intentional inflicted damage on the machine. your warranty does and will even replace the entire machine with a BRAND NEW MACHINE if neccessary. paying an extra $60 bucks sounds a lot better than respending $500 in the next 6 months when their machine breaks down for who know's why. Then again ask for the sale. Cash or Credit.

the third is a scenario that just sucks. the customer likes everything about what you're selling. everything is right on the money. you ask for the sale and he/she says, "No, not right now, maybe I'll come back tomorow." so you start telling them about the benefits and you play all the cards and pull out every trick you have. "Hmm I'm still not sure." you again start to adress their objections and overcome them. you ask for the sale again. "You know, I really can't make the decision without my wife." ok let's get her on the phone, no can do. With that third objection you walk away and grab the next prospect and start to close a deal. it sucks but if you can't overcome their objections by the third or fourth time just stop wasting your time and move on to the next person.

of course all these examples were in person, face to face engagements but the techniques apply to cold calling, emails, seminars, pretty much every aspect of selling no matter the field whether its online or offline.

the key is to be able to adapt and overcome the client's objections or doubts.

my part time job right now partly based on commission and closing deals can be tough. there are many many many ways close a deal and you must be able to adapt to the customer's needs mo matter what.

there are pretty much three main closing scenarios that happen all the time.

the first is that a prospect is looking for something to buy and once they find it they want it. all you have to do is ask for the sale. that's it.
for example, they see a car, it's the make, model, color, almost the right price. i can get this car for you today for $x,xxx. Cash or Credit? that's all there is, just ask for the dang sale. the worst they can say is no.

the second is a prospect who wants what you have but they don't want to pay for the extra service or an extended 2 year warranty. or that extra piece of software. what you do is outline the BENEFITS they get from what you are pitching. convey to them the immense value they are getting.
for example: the customer wants the laptop you're selling and you get commission on selling extended warranties. the customer says they are ready to checkout, you inform them you offer an extended warranty that protects their investment. they say they don't need the warranty you have because they are covered by the manufacture warranty.
you tell them that their warranty doesn't protect against power surges, or spill coverage, or intentional inflicted damage on the machine. your warranty does and will even replace the entire machine with a BRAND NEW MACHINE if necessary. paying an extra $60 bucks sounds a lot better than respending $500 in the next 6 months when their machine breaks down for who knows why. Then again ask for the sale. Cash or Credit.

the third is a scenario that just sucks. the customer likes everything about what you're selling. everything is right on the money. you ask for the sale and he/she says, "No, not right now, maybe I'll come back tomorrow." so you start telling them about the benefits and you play all the cards and pull out every trick you have. "Hmm I'm still not sure." you again start to address their objections and overcome them. you ask for the sale again. "You know, I really can't make the decision without my wife." ok let's get her on the phone, no can do. With that third objection you walk away and grab the next prospect and start to close a deal. it sucks but if you can't overcome their objections by the third or fourth time just stop wasting your time and move on to the next person.

of course all these examples were in person, face to face engagements but the techniques apply to cold calling, emails, seminars, pretty much every aspect of selling no matter the field whether its online or offline.

the key is to be able to adapt and overcome the client's objections or doubts.

Based on my experience, while working with clients, I have found that most online business owners have a cash flow problem. So, when I read a thread like this I just don’t know where it’s coming from. If you can fix your cash flow problems then you can move to the next level.

So, here is little taste:

When you create a product, and most of you can do this with a little effort. Test, test, test.

You don’t know what to test? Test the price. See how many you can sell for 19.00. Then try 19.95 etc. (Test all kind of prices like a mad scientist's)

Some marketers feel that can sell more units if the number (7) is in the price somewhere. The trick is to do your own testing and analyze the results. We keep telling you that it’s an easy business.

How could you know what works if you don’t test it?

This is a great post. One good way to stay focused is to have a clear income goal and reverse engineer it to the point of figuring out the amount of traffic you should be driving to that site and tweak until you get the desired conversions. Also finding out what you like doing best helps a lot and you can outsource the tasks you don't like doing like blogging or article marketing.

Exactly, and this is why I recommend that everyone starting out in IM has a ratio of learning to implementing of 1:1, i.e. you spend at least 1 hour implementing for every 1 hour of learning you do. Too many newbies get stuck in 'learning and acquisition' mode, but amassing huge amounts of knowledge is absolutely useless if you don't apply it!

Hi, I find web page design really frustrating, well not so much the design which is not too hard if you find a good template. It's when you want to make small changes and mess up the layout.

I know I should use someone else but when you're just testing and tweaking small things it can be difficult to keep explaining and asking an outsourcer to make small changes. Peter

Thanks for the compliment Beatrice, Seychelles is a beautiful group of
islands and yes you're right it should be enough to get anyone distracted
from internet marketing.

I guess I really have to work extra hard then to stay focused...

In answer to your comment I would say start being active on 2 or 3 forums
answering posts, giving advice that kind of thing.

This will build the trust with good people and get you high quality traffic quite fast.... Keep well :-)

Some of you are having the day off others have to work untill 18:00