Internet marketing: Finally, This is a Sure Thing!
It took me a long time to become a full-time Internet marketer and I’m going to give you a secret in this post that took me seven years of frustration and failure to figure out. This post is for those people who have been trying to make money online for months or even years and have not found success.
The secret that I’m going to share with you could change an important part of your mindset that might change everything for you.
It did for me once I accepted the secret as fact. If you believe the secret is true it should be like a light bulb going on in your head and suddenly you’ll be able to clearly see what you’ve been doing wrong all along.
Some of you will read what the secret is, but you won’t believe it or you won’t think it’s a big deal so you will just keep doing more of what you are already doing and keep wondering why this Internet marketing thing is so difficult. Don’t feel bad, I did the same thing.
The only reason I call it a secret is because it’s something that the gurus don’t what you to know. If everyone knew this secret and acted on it most big time marketers and gurus would be out of business. Yes, these are strong words, but I dare you to read the rest of this article and see if you don’t agree. You can debate me in the comments if you like.
Okay, so what is the big secret? Read the rest of this entry »
What the Heck is Chris Farrell Doing?
There is a new breed of marketing guru emerging. This is one who operates with honesty, integrity and a minimal use of hype. Leading the way are marketing trainers such as Chris Farrell, Tiffany Dow, Kim Roach and Lynn Terry to name a few.
Over the summer I signed up to the Chris Farrell Membership site. Chris teaches the basics of Internet marketing and a formula that has proven to be successful.
His business is growing at a tremendous rate. He’s built a six-figure a year membership site and a list of 17,000 prospects in about a year. What the heck is he doing? I attribute it to the way he treats his members and followers and providing a plan that actually works. I’m sure it’s word-of-mouth that is helping him build his business so quickly.
It’s so refreshing to see a successful marketer that doesn’t offer a get-rich-quick plan. He doesn’t sell with all types of hype and ridiculous claims and promises which I’m sure cost him sales, but guess what? His business is growing by leaps and bounds in spite of this.
Chris Farrell is just a down-to-earth guy who tells it like it is and shows you exactly what he does. The plan he teaches in his membership is very simple and focused so it makes it easy for his members to take action. I liked his program so much that I’ve decided to write a full review about it. You can find it here Chris Farrell Membership review.
What is CPA Marketing?
CPA is an acronym for Cost-Per-Acquisition. It’s an online advertising payment model where the advertiser pays for a specified action. The action is generally a form submission.
This method is used by merchants to acquire leads for their product or service. It may be as simple as the customer typing their zip/postal code or email address into an online form and submitting it by clicking a button.
Advertisers usually pay publishers between seventy five cents and two dollars each submission. Advertisers are willing to pay much higher amounts on forms with more fields to fill out. Of course, the more form fields there are to fill out the harder it is to get the customer to do it.
Pick a Niche, Any Niche!
Don’t spend all of your time looking for the perfect niche, market or product to sell. Don’t look for the best niche. Don’t even spend too much time looking for a good niche. You could easily end up waiting for months trying to figure out what a good niche is.
Those months could turn into years if you don’t give up first. This was another big mistake I made when I started to learn Internet marketing. I wanted to KNOW that I would make money in the niche or market before I spent my time working on it.
Skeptics Kill Internet Marketing Newbie’s Motivation
If you really want to make money online then don’t listen to skeptics and negative people about it “not working”. Reading forums that are full of people who are complaining that it doesn’t work or they can’t do it. Get away from that.
Let’s say you want to do affiliate marketing with PPC then you read several forum posts about one guy who lost a couple hundred dollars with PPC. Another guy says he tried it before, but he was never able to get it to work. The ones who are struggling are the ones who are making the posts.
Don’t Blow It In Forums – How Internet Marketing Newbies Get Good Answers
For Internet Marketing newbies asking questions in forums and getting your desired answers can be difficult. People will tell you go to the forums and just start asking questions, but because you don’t know specifically which questions to ask most beginners will ask very general, unfocused questions.
Questions like, Where do I start?” and What’s the fastest way to make money?” are common. It’s not easy to get good answers to general questions because they require very lengthy and well thought-out answers. This takes more time than most people are willing to share. Rememer, you’re the one that wants something so you should take the time to provide a well thought-out question.
