Why is marketing so hard?

I think you've actually answered your own question, at least to some extent, right at the end of your post - this is perhaps what's continually stacking the deck so firmly against you, anyway ...

Internet marketing isn't easy. The overall success-rates, whoever's figures you believe, are clearly not very high. It requires skills, experience, judgment, discipline, attention, concentration, education and the investment of either time or money (or both). "Easy ways which are free or very cheap" are statistically very unlikely to cut it. Sorry, but you did ask.

That may be another problem. Your chances might be much higher using one thing than using many, because your attention and concentration will be more focused, and because the learning curve and skill-set development are usually slightly easier and smoother, that way.

Thank you very much, but how should I get "an accountable mentor" ?


And for Alexa Smith, youre right! I have to focus on one thing and concentrate me more on this only one.

But I dont really know how to do it, I mean, I am already doing everything as well as possible, should I just publish like 5 articles instead of 2?

Thanks

Digital Marketing is hard and to sustain a profitbale marketing is even more harder because Marketing demands webmasters to have changes in their marketing strategies at all time,,,
the main reasons to have changes in marketing is because buyers demands changes all time, Rivals changes their strategies and new technologies becomes available

Its hard to help unless we know exactly what your site is and what market your going after.

If you know your market audience then SEO, press releases and all that jazz isn't always needed.

So unless we know the site your trying to grow a user base with its hard to help.

Marketing is a way of showcasing your brand...Brand awareness holds to those who buy later! doing this on the internet is no different.... Go there and have fun... develop a character for your fan (mentally) and play off that vibe to think out of the box and display who you are, what you do, or what makes you unique. (without advertising aka buy here or order NOW!) If what you want is quick results... then Spend money- Advertise..!

Some food for thought -

Do you have a product people actually want or are you slogging your guts out trying to sell something you don't believe in? This is by far and away the biggest hurdle most people fall at. Not only is it hard to sell something in these conditions, it's damn hard to pick yourself up when stuff goes wrong (and it will, no matter how good you are!).

Are you tracking your numbers on everything? Of course you're not, everyone talks about it and no on ever does it. If you're not keeping score, you're just practicing. Track everything and focus on making the RIGHT numbers go up. Publishing "5 articles a day instead of 2" is useless if the 2 articles aren't producing any traffic. 2.5 x nothing is still nothing.

Are you focused? I mean really focused? Course not, you're doing some of this and some of that. We've all been there, don't worry Pick a method, any method and focus on getting REALLY good at that one thing. Don't worry that guru X says that method is dead. Don't worry that guru Y says the only method that's working in 2016 is babel farts. Just pick something you're already doing a little bit of and do a lot of it, get really good.

Are you asking specific questions? The quality of replies will go up the more specific and detailed your question. Right now "I'm stuck, what do I do" will yield responses like this. I hope it helps but it's not going to move you forward and unstick you, unless you have a mindset change. But when you're focusing on one specific thing you can find someone that's already good at it and ask a few specific questions about the bits you don't get. The result will be orders of magnitude more useful to you.

Good luck!

My advice: Start from scratch again.

Marketing is tough. Marketing is actually a bitch if you don`t know how to attack it.

Before you even consider a method,you have to ask your self:

Do I have the patience and the required time to succeed in marketing?
If you really want to succeed,it takes work ethics. You have to make a gameplan. Set yourself daily goals and complete them no matter what. Put in the required hours. Like any other plan (in general life),consistensy is the key to success. You have to change your mentality. Work hard,deliever quality and the commisions will come eventially.

And to your question:

There is a lot of ways to generate traffic.

One of the easiest ways is to become an "expert" in a niche and join a niche related forum with a lot of traffic. But this method takes work.

In order to become an authority person in the forum you picked(and make your readers click your link like crazy in the signature box) you have to make a plan:
-Make at least ten helpful posts pr day.
-Once in a while:Start a new thread and post a "how to" guide or something
-If you have a youtubechannel with quality and helpful videos you can once in a while post them to answer a question.


You can also create videos.
Do your keywordresearch and do onpage-seo and off-page seo. I normally buy giggs from fiverr for the off-page seo. Also buy likes,views,comments and subscribers as this is a huge ranking factor.

Hope this was helpful

Thor Borwick

Marketing is very hard because there is a fierce competition online in all fields. You have to do many things to promote your links, and nothing seems to be enough.

All free methods are time consuming and depend on effort and patience.

You can find a list of free traffic generating methods if you will click on Search at the top right side of this forum and type in the keywords ‘website traffic’. Many Warriors have made this question here numerous times.

The problem is that you don't have time to promote your business using all these methods. You should choose the methods that you are able to understand and implement.

Dude, you need to focus on 1 or 2 strategies first and master them. Do not try to go all over the place trying to master all techniques. If you want to go on free marketing, go for it. If you want to go for paid traffic, go for it. If you want to market trough social media, go for it. Maybe you just really need to focus.

Probably the hardest part of marketing is overcoming all of the noise and distraction in the marketplace. People's time is extremely limited and you only get about 5 seconds to convey what you have to offer. If you don't hook them then, you won't be able to give your full pitch. I would go back and focus on your hook and refine that. The rest will trickle down and a better hook means more interested people get to hear your whole message.

What makes you think it should be easy?

To be honest the best ways are PPC - either Google or Facebook ads.
Otherwise your traffic will be slow to come.

I think you just answered your own question, you are "doing them all"...try one or two and FOCUS on those until you get the results that you are looking for.

You need to start building your list and working smarter not harder your also focusing on to many things at once just focus on one, Master it then outsource it then move on to the next... Once you get the grasp of internet marketing it is very lucrative and very fun...

If your not building a list you need to start today and dont put that off...

There are hundreds and thousands of marketers who have the same problem you are facing now. Pick a keyword from your own questions. It will be a good starting point. Mean it.

Make something that a lot of people want to read and share.

Well, you make it HARD on yourself when you assume that it is hard. Actually, it is easy. Anything you do online that lets you get your link out is a marketing opportunity. Maybe start with a change in mindset first?

There is a huge difference, between using them all and using them all correctly. try to stay with maybe, one or two techniques and get really good at them. All of those, strategies do work.

Pay Per Click with Google Ads, or even Facebook, is a way to bypass all of that and start getting some traffic to your website. This way, you don't rely on SEO or social media.

Choose one method of internet marketing then focus it. So you will get max results.

The marketing is hard because it changed day after day. For example, you submissions would help you today, but they may hurt you tomorrow. You strategy should be to learn from the challenges and change over time.

As you already have noticed. Marketing takes work. Making money online takes work.

You mentioned that you tried a lot of method. Why not stick to one until you get some results? If you persist and learn from your failures, you WILL succeed.

Cheers,

Gary

What exactly are you selling as your success heavily depends on what you are selling, the market size, competitiveness and how much effort it takes to convince the end user.

I also feels Internet has started to getting saturated, business verticals have become overcrowded with many players and everyone doing the same thing. Online marketing is certainly not going to get easier (in terms of ROI) as more and more people doing same thing which others are doing selling same things which others are selling.

Still, you can look to focus on personal branding, focus on building a community around you and your product, this will take time but will work out better in long run.

Hi, try to benefit from other people's work. You cannot master all marketing skill. only one or two will be enough. If you want to do everything on your own it is hard to succeed.

man focus focus

if u sit on all the boats u will never reach destination.
choose most 1-2 marketing skills & get master of it by research.

hope this helps