If you could start over, knowing everything you know now, how would you make $ w/Internet Marketing?

Hi,
There are many ways to earn money online if you have all information then its upto you that which way is more effective and easy for you.

Would take the below very seriously:

1. Email marketing
2. SEO
3. Don't rely on one source of income.

1. Build and focus on ONE quality, content-rich website.
2. Don't worry about SEO.
3. Don't waste time or money with Google AdSense or AdWords.
4. Don't waste effort being an affiliate for any seller or business.
5. Don't spend time on social networking fads.
6. Don't worry about what competitors are doing.
7. Don't follow unqualified advice.
8. Don't be distracted by the current "hot niche" or trends.
9. Don't waste time or money on PLR, low-quality or cheap articles.
10. Avoid tools or practices that require frequent maintenance or upgrades.

learn or understand keyword research before you do anything else...very easy to learn.

- Email list building

- Content / Assets - create lots of useful, big, bold, beautiful, awe inspiring, smart, unique, valuable, meaningful content and assets that people will pay for.

- Sell the content and assets to the list.

That is the secret to the whole thing, everything else is just details.

I would have started sooner!

@Dan

You have summarized it well.

I'd have to say focus on list building and develop a trusting relationship with your list so that they feel comfortable buying from you when you do decide to promote to them. I'd also recommend video marketing. Show your face and let your following hear your voice. It makes a HUGE difference.

I would stop spending hours reading "guru" and latest tips and success stories. And put those hours into building my own kingdom.

I wish I'd published at least one piece of online content every day since I'd started working in this industry...
Whatever else you do, put stuff out!

I am actually doing EXACTLY what I would do if I had to start over. I have three methods of making money:

Freelance Writing
Network Marketing
Blogging

If I had to start over, I'd write for others to make instant cash, while building up my Network Marketing team and blogging about subjects, while promoting Amazon Products.

Benjamin Ehinger

Find the niche that has a high demand and low supply. I spent too many years trying to compete with a product or service where the competition was extremely high. I now specialize in providing websites and marketing counseling for book author's. Dan C. Rinnert's advice pretty much covered the basics but narrowing my niche made life much easier.

I would offer my services and get paid without spending money online before knowing how everything works. I would also study many lessons at the Warrior Forum everyday instead of being only a tourist.

I would start writing sooner and bemore consistent. I think I got sidetracked a lot with lots of little ideas and dreams and that held me back with what worked for me.

I'd start off with list building in a way I know it now. Its quite funny how I was unexperienced when I was only starting out, its quite stupid of me not doing it by that time.
Actualy I got into list building before everyone started talking abut it and I tried it long ago, still I wish I knew it all by that time.
List building is one of the most profitable areas of online businesses not talking about the huge projects here, but stiill the roi is here.

Focus on one site alone. One niche. one marketing method. in the first few months.

AND NOT TO JUMP AT EVERY BIG WSO...

Hi John,

You probably noticed that people here suggest you lots of wonderful ways to make money online. And they all can work.

The truth is it's pretty hard. You need to learn, you need to be consistent and you need to pay attention to detail.

Just follow the industry leaders, hardcore guys with hardcore blogs. Don't get distracted, learn the SEO tools (they do work).

And if you have money - start building a blog network. Then you can promote yourself

I would start with building my list straight away and set a clear target of daily subscribers I want for my list.

I would also launch a new low ticket product every six weeks. This will get you the best leads - BUYERS - into your list, and it's the fastest way to build authority in your niche.

Finally I would work hard on building my back end funnel - where the real profit is... Including middle to high ticket products, webinars and coaching. It took me some time to understand the power of a deep funnel...

I would have done it the same way I started, with free traffic methods, to see what converts

But I would have then moved those campaigns to paid traffic a lot quicker!

I would simply

1. Choose a niche
2. Setup a blog and squeeze page
3. Create free report
4. Generate Free Traffic
5. Email list daily with value, affiliate promotions, and my own products while studying and experimenting with paid traffic
6. Once I'm comfortable with paid traffic I would invest more money into a campaign and make it profitable.
7. Continue to increase my traffic or move on to another niche and repeat the process
6. Live happily ever after

Same way I do it now. Drive paid traffic to affiliate offers, build some lists etc

If I were to have done anything different it would be to concentrate on one thing at a time.

Because it is so easy to get hold of information via the search engines and because it is so easy to pump your inbox full of yet more information, lack of focus and structure is according to my research and information the killer. Note the research I mention is good old fashioned openess from friends and acquaintaces I have met over the years and who have told me themselves. Overwhelmingly the issue has been focus, lack of it,information overload andrunning around doing several things at once.

Most people go through the 'info overload' syndrom at some point so if you feel you have this do not not be ashamed/worried just deal with it, be ruthless.

Additionally, keeping things relative is important. The number of times I have seen forum posts along the lines of, "I want to create a search engine like Google can anyone give some advice please", those sorts of posts defy logic for most of us, for obvious reasons. Don't kid yourself.

Have an interest in one particular area and just learn everything you can about it. Become an expert. How you portray that expertise is irrelevant, it could be via offering webinars, writing a blog, selling a product etc, but become an expert so that you have something to offe. If you remain humble about your expertise and are willing to help people as well, people will come to you and buy your services.

I hope this helps.

In order to increase your "output," you must decrease your "input." I'm on a ton of lists, but I'm careful not to get roped into the sales process. Each email received is a time sponge. It absorbs your time and prevents you from producing. Speaking of time,... you either "spend" your time,... or you "invest" your time. Stew on that carefully.

Robert Kiyosaki says "Be the bank, --not the banker". Affiliates are often the "banker." They work their tail off for a commission while the bank rolls in the dough. So, be the bank. Invest your time creating your own product --unless (and ONLY unless) you have have a scalable, automated, and virtually hands-free method to promote affiliate products on a mass scale.

Those who focus solely on affiliate marketing are always on the hunt for the next "hit." Once the "high" is over, they're onto the next big thing. They cannot possibly believe in every product they promote, and therefore become poor advocates. Notice I said "advocates", not affiliates. That's because, with your own product (high quality product), your customers become advocates. And advocates, my friend,... will outsell affiliates all day long.

Think of the last product you fell in love with. It didn't matter if you made $. You told everyone because it rocked. That's what advocates do. They can't contain their satisfaction. Now, when you can turn that advocate into an affiliate, .... now, you're headed in the right direction.

Email marketing, mobile advertising, and SEO.

I would have started my daily emails to my list years ago, that is if I could go back in time.

If I knew years ago , what I knew now I would say put the greatest effort into list building. List building was valuable fifteen years ago and its significance has never faded. Over the years I have heard that advise more than anything else , and now I know it is for a good reason. The basics of list building are easy to learn and have become easier to accomplish with the ability to target FaceBook users. I recommend thinking of list building as a foundation for all of your business intentions,

I would have gotten started with a 'top tier' direct selling business that marketed 'Big Ticket' items that start at $1,000 right up to $21,000 Per Sale!

It's much easier to make a lot of money (in less time and no extra work) with bigger priced items.

Hi,
The first thing I'd do is get a coach. It's so much easier to know what the next step/s that you should take to move forward. I wasted a lot of time and money doing Internet Marketing on my own.
Good luck in your choices.
Geri

I skimmed through a lot of the replies here but there is one common thread in many of them and it is the ONLY one that counts...

Create an audience of people that are interested in what you want to teach them. Or, you could tap into an existing audience.

Ok - call it "build a list" if you want. Call it build a fanpage. Call it build a remarketing cookie pool. Whatever. It is creating a large audience of people that are interested in what you teach.

All the rest is BS.

Without a targeted audience that you can reach, you can't sell anything. Even if you have the best bestest betterest product ever created, it won't matter because no one, or a very small few, will ever see it.

If I started over right now, had no money, and had to use a computer at the local public library, I would begin putting up squeeze pages on free platforms and sending traffic to them with free methods. Without money, it would take a little longer, but I could build huge fan bases or audiences within a few months.

Then I could sell either my own products or teaching courses, or I could act as an affiliate and sell other peoples stuff.

The recipe for success in any business has always been the same.

Get prospects. Sell to them.

In what time frame?

I could make a thousand in a month or ten K's in a year.

I'd launch a payment processor. Like Clickbank ;-)

Sagar

1. Email marketing
2. Youtube marketing

1. I'd realize that if I needed cash fast, I'd sell a service. If I needed more cash in the long run, I'd create and sell a product.
2. Run a business first, and then a blog.
3. Be personable.
4. Don't care about what Google thinks of your site. Care about what readers think of your site.

I have to agree with so many others. I'd focus on:

1. Generating valuable content
2. Using that content to build a list
3. Continue to provide value to that list everyday
4. All the while promoting products and services where I make revenue in return.

List building is the most solid foundation for internet marketing. Now, that can be done with methods like SEO, PPC, Facebook, forums, etc

I probably wouldn't have spent so much time on Content Mills on Bidding Sites (I assumed it was the only method of making money through writing). I only recently found out the real potential of internet marketing and Freelancing.

I also would've actually bought a site instead of wasting time on WordPress looking for clients.

Wow! Nice question. If I started with a right mentor maybe i didn't waste my time, money and effort. Many of us who are dreaming of earning online, started with a wrong system, wrong site, wrong program, wrong place to advertise and the most of all is the wrong attitude. In my case i started with the right attitude (not a quitter, determined to learn, putting more effort and time, etc) but no idea on how to do the online marketing. I didn't know the autoresponder, i didn't know the capture pages, i didn't know how to advertise online, in short no body guided me on what to do and how to do it correctly. But, even i didn't earn for so long, i know that if others can do it, i can do it too. Now, i know what to do and applying my knowledge from my mentors. My tips to newbies, take time to create your autoresponder. don't market if you don't have it then choose the right program or network that you will market then increase your lists using the correct capture pages. Everything will follow.

Be a producer, not a consumer

i like sale things,so i'll make online store in my own website to sell products.so people can buy what they need online.

Stay the heck away from 2nd tier ppc! I think that's a good one.