Bum marketing?

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I've noticed in this forum that ...

(i) people using the expression "Bum Marketing" are doing so with two distinctly different meanings;

(ii) their incidence is about 50/50;

(iii) both groups think that "they're right" and that others using the phrase differently from them are "wrong".

It's worth knowing this, because it helps to interpret what would otherwise be many instances of people talking at cross-purposes.

Half the people discussing this are referring to "direct-linking only" (i.e. not having a site at all, not even a one-page blog, in-between the article and the intended promotion/hoplink/whatever), and the other half are referring to directing the traffic to their own little site (with/without trying to build a list there).

The "original" version of Bum Marketing, from Travis (who invented the term and often posts here, and may well see this thread and reply himself, by the way ), I think, referred to "no website" and "using direct-linking". I think we can all agree that, to put it mildly, that was certainly a lot easier 5 years ago than it is now. (Not because of any prohibitions on direct-linking: those are easily circumvented by redirecting the link through a redirected domain-name, of course).

It depends what you're selling/promoting, though: clearly one's far more likely to be successful with it for CPA offers than for selling Clickbank products, say.

Having your own website (even if it's a one-page blog) is so easy, these days, that it's difficult to see much "advantage" in not building an asset-based business, rather than simply doing a constant "rinse-and-repeat" and depending on other people's sites for your traffic. So in that sense, the question's now become a little "academic", perhaps. It doesn't matter whether the original version of "bum marketing" without a website does still work, because nobody much would want to do it that way anyway: you don't need to put yourself under that sort of disadvantage any more when you can have your own little site in an hour without spending a penny on it.

Bum Marketing is very dangerous because if successful it may end up being very painful...at least that is what I have heard!

LOL

Sorry could't resist from the U.K here and bum means...nevermind...*ahem*

Yes, Bum marketing actually is not that brilliant anymore depending on what you THINK it means.

I THINK it means a process of using high page rank sites like Squidoo, US Free Ads and Ezine articles to get your keyword packed content to rank highly. It DID used to work really well...

However due to the recent changes with Google i.e Panda update and also the changes at Ezine articles as well and other sites following suites you are FAR better off learning how to do article marketing the CORRECT way to BUILD your business rather than trying to "piggyback" off other people's.

Hope this helps?

Chris Jones

The thing is I bet some niches require a lot more than just doing screencasts for video marketing.

If your site is say, on car maintenance, of course you could still do screencasts. For instance, you could just go to the Powerpoint and then show screenshots and images and whatnot.

However, I don't know whether people would necessarily think that that's better than articles. If you go to a car maintenance site, I would think that the audience would expect to see a couple of DIYs when they're watching some videos.

I don't know, I don't yet have an experience in car maintenance sites, but wouldn't video marketing work better in some niches (or at least requiring MUCH less effort) than the others?

Anyone chip in?