Andy’s Internet Marketing Thingy..

Copyright (c) 2008 Colin Meunier

Internet marketing is an efficient and economical way to market your product. The reach of the Internet is too vast for any business to ignore. Simply put, Internet Marketing is a very good option as regards traditional marketing.

However, to take full advantage of Internet marketing, one has to know the ins and outs of Internet marketing. It may take you a lot of time to research and take risks in the Internet market business, in fact, some people may never succeed in Internet marketing ever.

Therefore, an Internet marketing coach and mentor is the best bet for anyone who is new to Internet marketing. A good Internet marketing coach will have a lot of experience and expertise in the Internet market, and your business can make good use of a mentor’s qualities.

Internet marketing coaches are a good way to ensure your Internet marketing success. A capable Internet marketing coach can give you a quick analysis of what is wrong and what is right with your sales plan just by looking at it. And if the coach has done Internet marketing themselves, they will be able to tell you what exactly is right with your marketing and more importantly, what is wrong.

Of course, you need to have a clear idea about what is the coach’s turnaround time when you have a problem in your Internet marketing. One way of doing this is by interacting some of the Internet coach’s current clients. You can also gauge the turnaround time by finding out the exact number of his clients, and whether it is possible for one person to cater to so many, even if they work 24/7.

Apart from this, you have to know how much time you have to spend with the coach, what would be your turnaround time, what kind of contact would you have with him, would it only email, via the telephone or meet them personally.

Therefore, one of the first things you should look into before deciding on a Internet marketing coach is his/her own standing in the Internet marketing business is your Internet marketing coach’s way of making money on the Internet. There are a lot many people on the Internet who wish to make money, and the ‘how’ is not exactly important for them. If you are not comfortable with their strategies now, they will become simply intolerable in some time.

You also have to look at the kind of system they promote. Some Internet marketing coaches use all kinds of media to promote their product, like email, eBook and even CDs and DVDs.

One other thing to look into is whether the Internet marketing coach is a full time coach, or are they pursuing this only as a part time business.

These and other aspects will ensure that you get a good enough Internet marketing coach. There are a number of internet marketing coaches who are available on the Internet itself. Do a research on them and if possible, contact them. Before you start searching for a internet marketing coach, be sure to set up an amount that you are ready to pay for their coaching.

With the multitude of internet marketing services and techniques that you hear about daily as you get bombarded with promotional material after promotional material in our emails you come to realize two things. The rationalization of these two main focal points are what lead many online marketers to their doom.

The first thing you come to terms with as you start to focus is how truly overwhelming all of this is! You can’t possibly learn all of these new internet marketing techniques fast enough, master them and implement them effectively all at one time so that you can begin to promote your products, services or affiliate programs.

This brings you to the second realization. You need help! So you decide to hire internet marketing services that are provided by outside experts and so called gurus that promise to help you bring in more traffic, help you build your email list and ultimately increase your monthly sales volume. Don’t worry we’ve all made this mistake, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Take One Day To Evaluate All Of Your Resources

I can’t stress how important this is. Internet marketing services FEED on your frustrations! They know that you are bombarded daily by emails that you get from other internet marketing veterans that want to sell you their own products and services. In fact they’re counting on the fact that you’ve actually bought and paid for several of these and that at this point you’re so way beyond frustrated that you’ll do anything, even PAY THEM MONEY to provide you their own internet marketing services that are using the same internet marketing techniques that you could be using yourself for free.

Cancel The Majority Of Your Subscriptions

This is hard for most of us to do. We’ve grown to depend on the advice of these so called internet marketing services, experts and gurus. There is a symbiotic co-dependant relationship formed that has gotten you in the rut you’re in. I’m sure that most of the people you get all these emails are nice, but their bottom line is NOT to be you’re friend. They want to make money online just like YOU want to make money online. The key thing to consider here is that you need to STOP giving them your money and STOP spending all that time reading the tons and tons of emails, so that you can focus on what works and take action.

Stop Paying Internet Marketing Service Providers

This is often the hardest link in your chain to break. What little success that you’ve achieved thus far is only there because of your internet marketing efforts. In that back of your mind you’re telling yourself that the internet marketing services that are provided by online providers are working, just not quite as well as you want them too. The truth is that their using the exact same internet marketing techniques that everyone else is and these techniques are NOT hard to learn! When you stop paying for all the internet marketing services and start focusing your time and money more directly on taking ACTION you’ll notice that you’re paying out less money and yet at the same time your monthly income and website page ranks are still increasing.

Now Is The Time To Take Action And Start Profiting

I realize that things are still very overwhelming, especially if you’re just getting started or if you’ve have a history of trial and error which has brought you in little or no success. Take a deep breath, relax, relate, release and let go of that past that has haunted you. Let go of the overwhelming frustration that comes from inexperience if that is the problem. Internet marketing services and all these so called new internet marketing techniques are NOT the answer. Here’s a clue to get you started;

Social Networking & Social Marketing Is Not New

From the early days of the internet there have been internet marketing services that provided advertising services on bulletin boards, which later lead people to going online using dial up connections and creating social networks of their own through their AOL or other ISP connections. This is how things were done in the early days. What has changed isn’t the concept of social networking & marketing or internet marketing services. The real change that people are talking so much about with the whole buzz of the Web 2.0 craze isn’t social networking & marketing at all, it’s the fact that it’s become so incredibly easy!

With WYSIWYG The Learning Curve Is No Longer Steep

Social Networking & Marketing is definitely getting more popular with the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interfaces that we see on MySpace, Squidoo, YouTube, FaceBook and the “groups” that you can join through Yahoo, MSN and the almighty Google. The new advancements make things easy to customize, add video and in many cases create your own “squeeze page” that you can publish and then use to promote your products, services and affiliate programs. This is now secret to the internet marketing services that many of you are already paying for. Using these same principals there are online blogs and forums that you can use as well and these are no secret either. The only thing that makes it harder for newbies and people who have failed in the past is that they either don’t know HOW, they don’t know WHERE or they don’t fully understand WHY certain things are done the way they are.

One last thing to give you something to think about before I go…..

Please bare in mind that this is solely based on my own biased opinion, which comes from years of experience as a web designer, web host and internet marketing promoter. My thoughts on all of this are simple if you would like to save an incredible amount of time, energy and money. Try by focusing on ONE THING at a time and learn everything you can. There are video, audio and pdf style tutorials readily available at reasonable prices. All you need to do is find ONE SOURCE that you can get as much material from as possible at a reasonable price and then begin your learning experience.

Go in to this with an open mind though. Often you may think that YOU KNOW something, when in truth you are familiar with what it is and the basics of how it works, but you’re not yet proficient enough to be called an “expert”…..yet. I add that last little bit because I believe that with the right tutoring you can and will be one!