Internet Marketing For Newbies

I know I said the next post would be on PPC but I received an email Saturday that quite frankly, got me so hot I wanted to climb through the screen and throttle the guy. I wanted to tell you about this experience so that you might avoid the same mistakes. I decided to wait a few says before posting so as the post would not be dripping with venom.

SO, what got me so upset?

I WAS on this gentleman email list and he sent me this email:

I’m always in the market for PLR content, especially if it has Master Rights, so when I received this well written and to the point email I clicked on his link.

The first issue I had with him is that after I clicked on his link and his sales page came up I was greeted with a PopOver. A popover is the same thing as a popup except you can’t block it. This popover used Background Shading so that the web page became darken and the popover was front and center. Although there is a healthy debate about popovers in the IM field, I have no problem with them. However, this popover gave the user NO choice. There was no way to close out if the user didn’t want to opt-in, you either filled out your name and email address or you left the site.

Note: If you use popovers ALWAYS give the end user a way to opt-out, most have a close icon in the upper right corner.

Wanting the PLR I filled out the popover using an email address I check once a month or so. This brought back the sales page. I look at the first 5 or so then I proceeded to follow his instruction and scrolled to the bottom, click on his download link then entered the code I was given.

The next thing that happen was I was taken to PayPal. My eyes jumped right to the total and it was $0.00 so I started to enter my PayPal password then STOPPED. Something wasn’t right, why would you go to a PayPal page for $0.00 and not right to the download page? I then started to read the entire page.

The second line of the invoice stated that I would be charged starting next month $147 a month for access to his site.

NO where and I mean NO where was anything said about a membership fee! Maybe in his sales letter, but he said to bypass the sales letter by scrolling down to the bottom.

Let’s be frank… If you put up a site that doesn’t look good or there is allot of typos in your content, that looks bad on  YOU. If you pull a stunt like this guy did to trick the consumer into something, THAT MAKES ALL INTERNET MARKETERS LOOK BAD!

Don’t use your talents as an Internet Marketer to swindle someone. It will come back to bite you in the butt and again, it makes us ALL look bad.

Ok, I’m getting off my soap box now. I promise to talk about PPC in the next post.

Till then…

I mention in the "How To Build A Niche Store " post that I was trying out a new plugin. Smart Ad. Well, it didn’t work. The hosting company that this domain is on has a lot of issues with WordPress plugins. I installed a different plugin called adsense deluxe and it seem to be working here although it doesn’t have a lot of the features smart ad has. (I’ll be posting SOON on Hosting Companies)

In our last post, "Convert Most WordPress Themes To Work With BANS ", I mentioned it was great timing, and it is. As we get ready to build our WP-BANS site, Mark from The Niche Store Builder blog site, is running a week long series on how to convert WP themes to work with our BANS sites. What this means to you is that instead of picking from a few WP-BANS themes, you’ll now will be able to pick any WordPress theme that you like and convert it over for your use. We’ll continue with our posts on How To Build A Niche Store Site after Mark’s series of posts on converting themes are completed.

OK, what I’d like you to do now is go over to Convert Most WordPress Themes To Work With BAN S, and follow along. Bookmark each of the posts/videos so that you can go back to them to refresh your memory as you convert themes. Also, I would urge you to sign up for Marks RRS feed as some most of the information he gives out can not be found anywhere else.

What is the number one killer of IM’ers? What makes them pack up their keyboard and quite? It’s probably not what you think!

If I only had that software tool for those killer keyword phrases or that article spinning software or (just put anything you want in here). There are enough FREE tool and FREE information out there that you can make it in Internet Marketing. Sure, the software, ebooks, subscription sites will give you more knowledge, skills, and yes, money BUT they are also part of the problem.

I know I’m going to be stepping on a few toes here, because everyone wants you on their mailing list (including me) but it needs to be said especially if your a newbie. The number one problem is FOCUS, or should I say LACK of focus. Everything is new to you and your mind is trying to absorb it all. You’re probably not sure in what direction you want to start in,  Affiliate Marketing, BANS, VRE and the list goes on.

OK, you make the decision to do affiliate marketing and you dig for more research on how to go about it. You find this great sales page that states if you buy xyz ebook you’ll have everything you need to make it in affiliate marketing. You buy this ebook and you leave them with your name and email address so they can send you the download link (you’re on their list now). As you  read the ebook you will find links to special tools that will help you build your business. After you click on some of the links and buy some new tools (you’re on their list now), you’ll discover that this special tool not only does xyz but it will do abc for VRE sites that says if you want to make it BIG in IM you really need to start building some VRE sites. I’m not picking on VRE sites, I have some myself, it anything that takes your FOCUS away from your target niche.

Bottom line, you will be bombarded with emails, reports, and other things that takes your eye off the ball, you’ll lose FOCUS and then out of frustration, because you have spent all this Un-Focused time in IM and have very little or nothing at all money wise to show for it, quit.

So what do I do? The very first thing you should do is set up a Google gmail account or some other email account that pops up on your home page when you open your browser. Now every time you fill out an opt-in page or whatever, you use this gmail account. You will want to read some of this email because you are going to find some great deals and information and so on, BUT you are going to read this email at a time that you set aside for it, preferably after you get all the work done on IM’ing that you planned for that day. By having it on your home page you will be able to scan the subjects just incase you are waiting on a particular email.

Next I would subscribe to Wealthy Affiliate (you can read more about this on my Product Recommendation Page). Here you will get a SOLID IM education and a host of tools that are free for members. This is a VERY ACTIVE site. After several weeks you’ll have a general knowledge of Internet Marketing, and you should pick one niche, JUST one. Pick the direction you want to start your IM business in.

Now spend a few months learning and building your IM empire. AFTER you have a solid knowledge of and income coming in from the line you choose, it’s time to pick another line and add it to your IM empire. You’ll want several income streams coming in just incase something would happen to one income stream you’ll still have money coming in from other areas. I personally have three lines coming in, BANS (Build A Niche Store), Affiliate Marketing (PPC & Article Marketing) and VRE (Virtual Real Estate).

On upcoming posts will talk more on how to stay FOCUSED, the top two, - daily goals - organization.

Till next time…