Something has become very apparent to me through my journey of Internet Marketing and making money online with your own business, don't believe everything you see or hear!!, there are alot of sharks out there on the net just waiting for feeding time and unfortunately your, no we are the bait, being burly for the Internet sharks may be fine for awhile but after awhile it gets tiresome.
Of these sharks i include any PPC or Pay Per Click Advertising, whoever thought up that one must be wallowing around laughing in his bank vault, Scrooge McDuck comes to mind quite easily.
Why? It's a fact that out of all the PPC advertising you will do only around 2% will join or be converted.
What this means is that you either have to:
- bankroll alot of PPC's for traffic volume
- Be quite selective in your keywords to only gain the traffic or clicks you want but forfeit on volume
- Be the first with an amazing product that the percentages will automatically be increased.
Now some people will say this is bull, but guess what, their the sharks, of course they will sell you a adwords secret program to gain more traffic and make more sales.
Lets face it the Internet business world is changing, even as little as 10 years ago it was easy to make money online, that's because there wasn't millions or billions more now online all trying to do the same thing.
Hands up all of those who constantly get bombarded with solutions that will make you Thousands of Dollars in a short amount of days, we all do and you know what, you shouldn't be ashamed if you have bought into any of these products thinking that your life was well on it's way to Financial Freedom, sitting in the location of your choice sipping what ever drink takes your fancy at the time with your business portal ( laptop ) handily sitting on your lap will you check the money rolling in.
We all have to pay for good education and you can chalk up any failures to being educated in what doesn't work.
Sadly what happens though is the motivation to succeed is slowly sucked from you, but trust me if you have bought into these programs feel free in the thoughts that you were just probably one of the unlucky 2% that signed up and your upline is doing just as hard as you.
Now it's not all doom and gloom.
If you really want to make a go at financial freedom you have to change the way you think.
Most of us want to start an online business for a multiple of reasons but the most common are:
- A second income
- Freedom to be your own boss and work when and how you want to
- T o be wealthy, which ties into one and two.
Now i'm not going to sell you anything so get that out of your head right now!!
The reason why i say this is because this is the staging time when most products which have just softened you up with all the hype tell you they can give you what you want for whatever small Dollar figure. ( Remember the Sharks ) Put an image of a White Pointer on your desktop and look at it if you are tempted.
Stay away from, and this is just my view:
- Matrix Systems - Good Pyramid Scheme's if ever there was one, these will only work if you have just started it yourself so of course your going to get money and have "Bankrolled" it to get started, or if you have been in this game for awhile with a large loyal following or Downline as they are generally called and even then remember only a small percentage will join.
- Any Program or System that makes you pay monthly and this covers alot.
- Any Program or System that you are NOT Passionate about and that's a big one.
Most people want to do this type of Business because they hate their old one, you know how you feel about that job, "Are You Passionate", probably not and the same level of Motivation will exist if you don't like a Product online to Promote, Don't even waste your time giving it a crack, it wont work.
Ok so We have to be Passionate about a Product or Industry, You should also try to be an Expert in that Product or Industry field.
If there is one thing I Have Learnt it was from
Mike Dillard , (Again i'm not selling anything but have a look if you like), and that was "YOU have to become a Leader in what You Do".
"Would you follow a monkey into battle with your life??" or "Would you follow A Great Leader"
The Monkey will be eating the banana while it all falls apart around them, The Great Leader will lead you to Victory and Inpart skills that you can learn from to be a Great Leader Yourself.
Let me put it another way.
How many of us have had Bad customer service, you went looking for a product, asked a few questions only to be stared at blankly by the Sales Person.
Now remember a Time you went looking for a Product, asked the Sales Person a few questions and he gave you confidently all the answers you wanted.
Who Did You Buy From or Would Buy From?
You have to become a Leader in what you sell!!
So be Passionate about what you Sell and be a leader for your Product.
Now when i say Product this can be anything you like, it may be a hobby, you may like travel, you may like pets, whatever you are Passionate about.
Because what you are going to do is sell the Idea that you are he one that everyone should follow for advice, the products you sell because of this is just a reward for helping someone.
In Affiliate Marketing there are literally millions of things to sell as i have talked about before in my previous posts, so how do we promote these without costing us everything we have.
"Create A Blog about it" , simple.
Blogs are Free, you don't have to have a Domain Name if you don't want to, you can tap into Facebook using a Unique application called "Network Blogs", you can Twitter links, you can upload Video's, Pictures, Tons of things on your Blog and more importantly for you through Affiliate Networks like
Commission Junction,
ClickBank , or heaps of others, you just have to put one or two products somewhere in the blog or at the end of it to promote it.
Note of Caution Not all blogs are Free and some are better than others so look around and choose the one your comfortable with.
Now you have to Update your Blog on a Regular Basis, thats why people read them to see what else is new.
Another way to Promote Free is to use "You Tube" again it can be loaded into all sorts of Free Social Networking Sites, be creative as with Video's and Websites it has to Capture a Person within a Few Seconds otherwise they will be clicking off to another one, we all do it so we know it's true.
Lets Go Over what we have been talking about:
- Be Passionate
- Be a Leader
- Use Blogs, You Tube other Social Networking Sites
- Don't give up, if it isn't working just rethink what you are creating and ask friends to give you Honest Feedback with what they think of what your Blogs,Etc look like.
- Avoid the Sharks!!
Now this will all take time to start building Momentum, it's not going to happen overnight unless it's an amazing blog, but it wont cost you alot of money either.
Next we will talk about the Advantages of having your Own website, which can be Free To.
Aussie Pete..
