I am often asked by people who have a traditional marketing background how they can get into the new marketing.
My best advise is to: "Just Do It!"
As Nike says in their marketing, you must jump in and immerse yourself in the new tools and technologies, it is free and so easy a 10 year old can do it.
Get set up with your own WordPress blog right away so you can practice the different internet marketing skill sets. It only takes about 15 minutes! Pick a subject that you are passionate about and start developing blog posts. Learn how to link, set up Google Analytics and track how many people visit your blog and where they come from. Set up and track your own revenue generating programs such as affiliate banners and Google AdSense Ads - Yes you can make money from a simple blog!
Get involved with one or more of the popular social media sites. Pick one that people you know are always talking about among Facebook, LinkedIn, You Tube and Twitter. I love Twitter, if you'd like some basic tips on how to start a Twitter account and learn about this exciting new communications world read my Ten Tips Twitter Beginners Guide.
Good Luck Just Doing It - Please let me know how it turns out.
Saturday, October 03, 2009
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Great observation. . I have seen many sites suggesting the tips and tricks to increase the money over the websites, but none of it was finding the reason why we don’t make it. And from all the above reasons, the persistence is the factor that makes most of the people indulging in internet marketing to fail in their marketing strategy. They usually tend to expect the immediate outcome of their effort, and internet marketing is one of those marketing resource that require you to be patient on the beginning and then extremely active at the end. Generally people used to build their websites as their marketing agenda to promote their product, but generally fail to do so because of inconsistent knowledge and devotion to its design, development and marketing. It’s of no use to have a site which doesn’t comply with the standards of search spiders. I got my medical website reconstructed from a web designer and marketing company named medicalwebexperts.com. They need to almost reconstruct every page to make it compliant with search engine algorithms. After a few months of time, the impact was definitely distinctive in my income. I have got a steady increase in the patients, which was a direct result of reconstructing and marketing my old obsolete site.
Nice post man.
The best way to learn is try and try and try again.
If you fail, try again and never give up.
Internet marketing is fast outpacing traditional advertising in its popularity and the reasons are obvious. Internet marketing offers you the most cost effective solution when it comes to comparing between what you have paid to reach to the targeted audience and what response you have got in return. Since internet allows the consumers make an informed purchase decision and that is also from the convenience of their homes, internet marketing in most of the cases adopts a personal approach to reach out to the audience quickly and in the process, it brings out quick result too.
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