The Total Drag of Internet Marketing

 

Ok. I’ll admit. Sometimes internet marketing is not a blast.

There are mornings that you wake up with twenty non-fun things that just need to be finished yesterday.

And it doesn’t matter that you don’t feel good, or that your computer is slow, or even that you don’t feel creative enough today to write any content. Your public is counting on you to do your job.

At times like this, it helps to remember the following:

“Rome wasn’t built in a day”

Whether you are designing your own website, trying to rise in the search engines, or perfecting your e-commerce page, you need to remember…it takes time to get this all working together.

“The journey of  a hundred miles begins with one step”

Most internet marketers jump from task to task, afraid they’ll forget what needs to be done. You need to focus on one step at a time

The monotony of the mundane.

Let’s get real. Some internet marketing tasks can seem repetitive and boring. If you own a blog, you have to check for updates that need to be installed.

If you process orders online, those are tasks that can seem mind-numbing in their lack of pizazz. Remember to tell yourself why you are doing these tasks, keeping the end result in mind. Play some jazzy music while you work. Be creative in how you can spice up your work time. Finally, always remember:

It doesn’t have to be fun, it just has to get done.

Yes, there will be times that no matter how fun you try to make something, in the end, it’s just flat boring. At times like these, you will need to look at your overall marketing plan, and remind yourself of why each task is so important.

Conclusion:

It takes discipline, diligence and determination to do what needs to be done. However, none of that will help you without a plan.

“Discipline without direction is drudgery”

If today you find yourself feeling like a string being pushed up hill, then let me breathe some fresh life into you with my internet marketing strategies. It’s all right here, but you need to get on board fast. Enrollment ends soon.

Internet Marketing for New People (don’t have a lot of internet marketing experience_)

My story
Hi. I’m Sue. I’m a mother of three, an artist, and an internet marketer. I have the joy and privilege of teaching my children at home, so I am big on self-education. I think to be a success as an educator, you need to teach the student how to teach themselves; asking the right questions; doing their own research.

This is exactly the philosophy I followed when learning how to market on the internet…..self-education.

Many of you are the same way. You scour the internet for hours looking for free (albeit, disconnected) information. Maybe you sign up for numerous free “news”letters, hoping to glean info in between the sales pitch. Maybe you listen to other marketer’s stories and try to emulate their sales style. I understand your frugality. With so much free info on the web, why would you ever pay for any? I mean, it’s free. The only problem is, you wind up with files full of marketing puzzle pieces from hundreds of different puzzles; it just doesn’t work. Some seem to “snap together” but in the end, the picture doesn’t look like anything but a big mess.

If you are super intelligent, you will insist that you can crack this marketing code. Alone. Maybe you are analytical. Or good at sifting through the minutiae to find the bottom line of a system. Well, how is that working for you? If you are like most people (including myself) you may find that pick and choose marketing training can leave you with a lot of loose ends, and disjointed pieces that don’t fit together.
I understand your frustration

I’ve tried it all; the affiliate marketing programs, the “Rich Jerk” guide to wealth, Perry Marshall’s Adwords guide. All of those were pretty good. But there were still gaps.

One thing that most programs never teach you is how to go from point A to point Z., You buy one “all inclusive” marketing course and find out there are a whole bunch of steps to take that they never told you would be needed–like, how to drive real traffic to your website without spending a fortune in time and money; or how Adwords is a ruthless monster that will lop your financial head off if you aren’t seasoned at it. Most of these things cost serious time and money. Something people never level with you about is the necessity of funding your success. To really build any business there are expenses. But most beginning entrepreneurs don’t have a lot of money. So. How does someone like that ever get past the “I can’t afford it” hurdle? I cover all of this and more in my internet marketing program, “How to Sell (almost) Anything Online”.

In it, you’ll learn you how to profit immediately, while you learn this “internet thing”. You will discover a real, tangible system that brings results right now so you can pay the bills while you build your platform for success.

We’ll cover the basics like finding the right platform to sell your product on. Then, together, we navigate the trail of finding the best and easiest payment methods that aren’t a hassle.

After that, I’ll explain which are the best marketing systems for producing success. You’ll learn about templates and customization in webdesign, and when it’s okay to be simple when time is limited and you need results now.

From beginning to advanced and the processes in between, I cover what you need to know to get good results.

I know it can be tough in the beginning, with all of the information overload So I take it all and reduce it into bite-sized chunks you can actually process; one concept at a time.

It’s still beefy. Just more complete and thorough, what a person actually needs to know; getting started with webhosting; domain names, and what you don’t even need, when you first begin. I actually show you how to start making money immediately, so you can buy the webhosting, 800 numbers, etc. Which to avoid. Which to avoid right now, while you work on vital things. How to not be sucked into the squeaky toys and gadgets that these companies tell you that you must have. And how to build traffic that converts into sales. Without any advertising. Really.

What this course will and won’t teach you.

How to use the computer

Let’s face it, if you just bought a computer yesterday, then you have a slight learning curve ahead of you…but not a steep one. Almost every public library offers free beginning computer courses. Bite the bullet and take one, or, pal around my free site for practice.

How to find a product.

Before you order this program, you need to have a definite product to sell. You need to know absolutely what item you are selling. If you sell a service, then you need to have a definite, specific service or suite of services to market.

How to replace your regular income overnight

While I can teach you how to make enough money to help cover your advertising expenses and online business expenses, I can’t guarantee you that you are going to replace your current income from your day job immediately. All of this is going to take time to implement. However, you will learn how to make money as you grow, so that you don’t spend money that you can’t afford, while building your online business.(takes time).

Who this program is NOT for

If you are trying to make money and lots of it immediately, than this program is not for you. It’s for people who want to build a business (which is how you make money). Your focus needs to be on building a profitable business.

If your goal is just to make lots of money, you’ll risk be tempted to be unethical and to rip people off. Instead of focusing on “money, money money”, your goal needs to be to build a profitable online business. That’s called being diligent and it’s the only way to create real, lasting wealth.

The internet is full of spammy people; they have glaring, garish ads that promise to make you a millionaire overnight. And all you have to do is to sell their product that tells others how to make a million dollars overnight, by selling their product (you get the picture).

Internet scams like these have very short shelf-lives because people get tired of them (aren’t you?); and, they’re not ethical, because they aren’t selling a product or an opportunity–just a gimmick. Also, these fly-by-nighters aren’t usually making any real wealth; what they do make is short-lived when Google shuts them down or the government prosecutes them for being unethical.

The truth is, there aren’t any shortcuts, but there are specific, time-effective ways to build a successful online business.

All businesses have certain guide posts that must be followed in order to be successful; If you follow these guideposts, you will succeed.

If you are starting out with absolutely no funds, this program will teach you how to become successful.

It is written with the beginner in mind, and takes you to a truly profitable online business– And fills in the gaps for all of the rest of you who have some marketing knowledge but still haven’t made any money online… yet.

I’m the woman who comes along, takes you by the hand, and threads together all that disconnected info you’ve been collecting over the years.

I show you what’s important right now, what to do in what order, in which way,

to get you back on track.

You’ll learn what it really takes TODAY to succeed online

If you find your days are spent piddling around from one opportunity to another, dumping each one for a better one, if you feel like chicken little running around screaming, then it’s time for a genuine stick-to-it-plan.

The For Real Deal

Why you are working too hard (how to quit playing the social media field).

Working 20+ hours per week to tweak, adjust, and post to your social media account, is a total drag.

One thing I find with ALL social media marketers is that they are just working TOO DARN HARD to make this internet marketing thing work.

Here’s what I mean: you get up at 6 am and make a post to your blog. Then you reblog it to every single social media account you own….and you own a lot. Well, at least  a twitter, Facebook and LinkedIN account if you’re like most marketers. Or at least, I mean most marketers have at least three profiles online somewhere.

Now that in and of itself would not be bad, tedious or time consuming IF you had those posts automatically added to those accounts.

Assuming you know how to do that.

But let’s say you do. Let’s say you post one post every single day and then you have them automatically updated. Not hard, right?

Okay, I’m with you. But what about this…what about having one platform you heavily promote your product on, and only focusing on the likes, comments and “thanks for sharing my post” messages that you normally tend to on 3 – 6 platforms?

In my business, I use one platform, exclusively to promote my product, and I don’t even need that. Yes, you heard me right. Before you peer down at me with your jaded, disallusioned marketing spectacles,

let me assure you I am not in anyway talking about something spammy, dishonest or any type of scheme. I don’t do affiliate marketing (though I’m open, if I could find something righteous to promote, in an ethical way). And I don’t do pyramid schemes (you should know all this, if you’ve been following my posts).

And for those of you who are skimming down this post to find out what the latest
“get rich quick” idea is, I don’t do those either.

But what I’ve been doing is to promote a killer product/opportunity that really IS an opportunity…that really DOES bring recurring income, and that actually provides a product that most people use or can gift others with.

I realize I’m being sort of mysterious here, but I”ve learned from experience, if I divulge too much, too soon, it’s easy to lose people, who click away and say “Oh, one of THOSE deals” without reading the rest of the post.

And that makes me sad AND kind of mad, because I know that what I promote works, has the best commissions I’ve ever seen, and most definitely is legit.

For those who are interested in learning more, just leave your name, number, and the best time to call you. I don’t twist arms or pressure anyone.

The Best Game Plan for your Business

Does your game plan keep disappearing from day to day, and getting replaced with the latest trick? Here are some common lies that are being promoted on the internet. Do you believe this internal dialogue?

“The best marketing plan for my business is one that gets me lots of followers on Facebook”

(next)

“The best marketing plan for my business is one that brings me traffic.”

Okay. That’s a good start. Let’s go on.

“The Best Marketing plan for my business is one that actually makes me sales, already!!

…you’re getting warm…

“The Best Marketing plan for my business is one the makes me Money, for crying out loud!

Partially true…read on…

The Best Marketing plan for my business is the one that actually makes me a profit…

…you’re almost there…

“Sue, what are you talking about? You don’t think it’s important that I make a profit”?

Let me explain–

If you get lots of people who:

• like your product,
• follow you on Facebook, Twitter Instagram…everything
• and who visit your website

and who even buy from you
but
what you spend in:

• advertising
• webhosting
• software
• “opportunities”
  and other expenses—-if those expenses are deducted, and they actually DO bring you a profit, then you still have some math to do…because…

it really isn’t profit if your time isn’t paid for.

So. Let’s say that you make 25,000 a year in PURE PROFIT.
Let me ask you something….is the time you invested in making that money worth more than minimum wage? Because, if it is, then you didn’t even make that.

See, a lot of marketers are very good at bookkeeping, but they live in this carrot-on-the stick fantasy world.

They may not measure their success (like so many marketers do) in terms of social media activity, traffic or even sales, because they have been around the block, so to speak, and they have learned that it isn’t what you make, it’s what you keep (after buying leads, paying for ads, etceters.)

But one thing that almost every marketer struggles with is putting value on their time.

A lot of marketers are retired, on disablility, or just self-employed. So they don’t figure in the value of their time, because they just think, I’m not doing anything else with my time right now.

But time always has value, no matter how much of it you think that you have.
We would never hear of someone underselling their product because they have too much money on their hands. Yet marketers consistently undersell their product because they don’t factor in the value of their time, when they go to price their product.

You need to see the value of your time the way that a physical shop owner would price his “overhead”. You may not have the mortgage, lights and gas to pay on a separate building, you may not have inventory to account for, but you can be sure, if you are an internet marketer, you spend plenty time on your business each week.

And what a lot of marketers fail to do is to track the time they actually spend on their business, not taking into account basic things like creating a post, checking their stats, ect. All of these tasks are YOUR TIME that you are INVESTING in your business. You need to account for that when you figure out your profit margin.

How do you manage to track your time so you don’t waste it? Would love to hear your comments