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Archive for January, 2010

I don’t know about you but I have very positive and very negative days as I try to start out in Internet marketing.

Sometimes I say, “Yes I can do this.” Other times it’s, “Get real – get a real job!”
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If you are new to Internet marketing then you are almost certainly swimming (drowning?) in a sea of conflicting information, product pitches, advice that inevitably leads to offers you can’t refuse and free offers for old systems and methods that have long since passed sell by date. It’s a deluge and it’s called information overload.
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I have a lot of respect for some of the ‘good’ Internet marketers out there, especially the ones telling you that building a business takes effort and there’s no such thing (outside of blind luck) as a free lunch.

Then there are the ‘bad’ (meaning unskilled, not evil) marketers just starting out who make mistakes, I’m sure I’ll be one of them myself. These mistakes are made out of ignorance, not malice and I write that sort of stuff off as no (serious) harm, no foul.

But there are at least a few ‘ugly’ (very ugly) Internet marketers who have been in this game for a while now yet they still use tactics that harm the very people they claim they are so keen to help.
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For the first couple of weeks of my Internet Marketing career I decided that having a plan wasn’t super important and I could sort of make one up as I went.

Bad idea.
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In reference to the Cloaking Your WordPress Affiliate Links post I wrote a few days ago, I had a little accident that I should relate.

For whatever reason, maybe WordPress updated something or maybe I wrote over the file, .htaccess was reset to its initial state thereby breaking every affiliate link on my site.
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Internet Marketing is an absolute minefield. That’s the conclusion I’ve reached a week after getting involved. You can spend a fortune in this business but what are the real chances of actually making some cash? Slim, I think. Unless you have a system and you stick to it. And unless you keep it simple, at least in the beginning.

The trouble is, when you are first starting out you have about a million systems to choose from and you simply don’t have the experience to separate the realistic from the fanciful. Yeah sure, one person might have hit on a winning formula. But how much of the success was down to circumstances rather than the method? How can you tell when all you are getting from the marketer now selling this “magic” system is a whole bunch of sales pitch?

This is bound to lead to many a false start. Boy have I had a couple of those this week!
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Are you becoming disillusioned with Internet Marketing? If so, Chris Rempel over at thelazymarketer.com has a message for you, followed by a swift kick in the ar*e!

Brilliant marketing tactic or heartfelt rant? I can’t tell for sure but a lot of what he says resonates with me. Hell, I just bought a system called the “Magic Bullet”, more on that later.

Chris is right. There’s no guru anywhere that’s going to get on a plane, knock on your door and come into the house and do this for you. Eventually, everyone has to work if they want the rewards. So I’m taking my ass-whipping from Chris in the proper spirit and I’m getting down to solid work.
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In my last post I explained how I’d bet the farm and signed up for the two latest, “next best things”, in Internet Marketing, NicheBluePrint 2.0 and The Magic Bullet System. If you haven’t heard of these products over the last few weeks are you sure you’re really involved involved in Internet Marketing?

Both products have been pushed relentlessly by the super affiliates, both products do very different things and I’ll start out by giving my FIRST impressions of NicheBluePrint 2.0 from Tim Godfrey and Steve Clayton.

Remember, the product was just launched today so this is by no means a complete review because I only had a chance to nose around and follow 10-12 of the initial videos and PDFs – and you get a LOT of material! Also, these are MY opinions and always bear in mind I’m a first time Internet Marketer. But first impressions count so here goes.
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Today I’ve made possibly the craziest decision I’ll ever make in this business. A newbie mistake of epic proportions or a smart move along the fast track? Only time will tell.

I did say that I’d be building a business from scratch without investing a pile of cash, and I still intend to do that, but in a distinct strand of my business plan. But let’s just say I’ve started a mega split test.
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When setting up your WordPress blog should you require readers to register before they can post a comment?

Initially, like I did, you might think yes because it’s one way to limit the amount of spam you’ll get on your blog.

However, I’m in the world of Internet Marketing now so I need to look at this question in a particular way.
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