Internet marketing: A reflection after one year in the business

As autumn and cold crawl their way into Canada and the sun sets before 4 p.m., this darkness and quietness bring along a time of reflection for all of us. The assessment I want to share with you is about internet marketing. Although my list of things to do seams never-ending, I am very happy to realize all I have accomplished in less than a year ( over 40 active web sites, a hypnosis for childbirth program that already got international recognition, over 100 published articles on the net, etc)

I have been in internet marketing for a little less than a year and I have attended ten internet marketing seminars in 2006. I am the kind of person who likes to get to the bottom of things. I want to share my findings with people who are starting, thinking of starting or even stalling in the internet marketing business.

The ten biggest pieces of wisdom I want to share with you about internet marketing I have learned are:

1) The price of Internet Marketing products is highly exaggerated. Many marketers are comfortable taking hundreds of dollars for useless e-books or software. They are able to overcharge such big money for two main reasons: their customers believe their well-written sales letter promising them to become a millionaire by working only two hours per day. The second reason is that since other people have raised the bar before them, they feel comfortable with overcharging for their products.
I encourage everyone who is about to purchase any internet marketing product to take a deep breath, back up and do an internet search. Most probably, the product or its equivalent is already available for a fraction of the price on the internet.

My opinion is that no e-book is worth that much unless it provides me with the code of the safe at the bank for this internet marketer.

2) In the internet marketing business there are dreamers and there are doers. I have repeatedly met some people at internet marketing seminars who have not taken action and just keep buying the next product promising them a fast an effortless income. My experience is that it takes work (but then again I don’t see it as work as I enjoy it very much) at least in the beginning to secure a decent income in the internet marketing business.

3) Many internet marketers made their fortunes by selling products to people who want to make a fortune in the internet marketing business. Willie Crawford draws the parallel that the people who got the richest during the gold rush were the ones selling shovels and sticks to the gold diggers.

Anyone interested in internet marketing has to ask themselves if they have just been enriching the people selling them promises to make millions in the internet business.

4) There are basically three categories of internet marketers out there: the ones who just want your money, the ones who give you a good deal for your money and the ones that genuinely care about helping you making good money by sharing their efficient tactics.

I will, of course, not name any names here and I think that deep deep down people know what kind of marketers they are. I can tell you that upon trying to do a mental list of the genuine, caring ones, I had enough of my ten fingers to do the complete list.

5) The real successful internet marketers are often not on stage at seminars. I have met some very successful and knowledgeable people by talking to the person sitting next to me at seminars. I highly recommend you get to know the attendees at any given seminar; you will be surprised to sometimes find out that they know more than the speaker upfront and wiling to share everything with you…for free.

6) A masterminding group is a great resource to learn and share tricks and tips about internet marketing. The rule is to be part of a group that is about (or even better, a little above) your level of knowledge and accomplishments in internet marketing.


7) Action is power. Whatever piece of gold nugget you learn is useless if you do not take action on it. Many people are eternal course takers but have yet to get their first web site up. Even the best intended internet marketer will not make a penny if he doesn’t get his product out there. I have heard numerous times the advice to put out your product and fix the fine details later. It has been a little challenging for a perfectionist like me but, honestly, it works great. Often, customer comments allow me to go back and improve my product in ways that I would have never thought of.

8) Internet marketing is a number’s game. If you put all your eggs in one basket, you might rise very fast very high and then tumble down as fast. Diversity is the foundation for a solid business.

9) There will always be new things to learn. One cannot stay in their basement and hope that the world will not change. The internet marketing world is one that changes at the speed of light and one has to keep informed of the new trends and developments.

10) The Internet is here to stay. Internet has been growing at an astonishing rate and those who got in the game will be ahead of the pack in this exciting and powerful window to the world. The possibilities are infinite.

Nathie,
www.joinmeatthetop.com
www.drnathaliefiset.com

Internet Marketing- more on article

Hi blocked name,
Posting your articles in directory is FREE...

On the other hand, for posting a press release like on PR web (but then you need a text that looks like a newspaper article) can be free for the lower service but costs a little more for exposure.

In answer to your other email, you are better off by not putting any URL links in the body of your article and your article might be rejected if they feel it is more of a pulbicity than an article. The publicity and links can all be put in your resource box at the bottom.

Last but not least, you need to know that posting just one article will not get you a page rank of 5 or 6. You need to post as many as you can. I have over 20 and am starting to see the results. Be patient! You are building wealth for your kids and that is the only way to build a real Internet business in my opinion.

Big hug,
Nathalie

www.joinmeatthetop.com

Internet Marketing-article writing

Hi!
A friend was asking me a couple of questions on article writing and submitting to article directories. Here are my answers:

Hi Anonymous Friend,
My answers are in red below. Unless you have a Mac??
First thing, if you can have a special email account just for your article submission that would be good because you receive a lot of notifications.

Great article!
Most article directories do not allow links in the body of the article. The link to your site should be displayed in your ressource box only.
One thing I found is that you article could benefit from a smoother beginning. It starts with "by now". I don,t know if you were going for the NLP technique to subliminally tell people to "buy now" but it is kind of abrupt. An intro I would see is something like. Personal Mp3 players and ipods have grown in popularity recently and blah blah the battery and blah blah.

I do not see the point in title and author rotation. If the content does not change, the article will be rejected as duplicate content. Since I write my own articles or have them written for 5$ I do not even bother with the rotator softwares because I like to provide quality and recycled content is not my cup of tea.
As for using your real name or not it depends what you want to do: If you want to brand yourself as the expert, you should use your name. If you are only posting articles to get links, a pen name or even fake name will do.
Most articles directories allow 2 to 3 links in your ressource box. Putting more than three can have you rejected.
You can search at ezine articles the link I gave you to my articles and you will see my ressource box.

The best is to use plain text in articles as many directories do not accept HTML. In the ressource box, that,s where you would put your URL links.

One thing I have learned too is to link some articles to your home page and then when you have more, do some deep linking to the other pages on your site. This increases the overall value of your site.

I hope this helps!
Nathalie

www.drnathaliefiset.com

China field trip-I had a good start

Hi everyone!
I meant well by wanting to give you a day by day blog of my trip but it was too interesting and I got behind!!

In short, China is nothing like I had seen before. The 20 little chinese words I had learned were very useful.
The chinese people are very nice but China is overpopulated.


The internet marketing seminar was good and Brad Fallon was very interesting. So far, he is one of the rare internet marketing speakers who doesn't hold back on information and that was very refreshing.



Brad asked us:"What is the difference between a Pizza and an internet marketer?"

The answer is: "A pizza will feed a family of four".

Good night!
Nathie
P.S. You can visit me at my space now:
http://www.myspace.com/drnathalie