Tuesday, April 11, 2006

The Reality of Internet Marketing

As I said before, I bought the plan and followed the directions a best I knew how. A lot of the pieces of the plan did not come together as was described or represented in the "book". This was approximately one year ago and I have learned a lot the hard way.

The technical part of the plan was the easy part. Getting traffic and search engine recognition is the most difficult part. Even following the best plans is still no guarantee that if your build it they will come. This is by far the point of the plans that is most misrepresented.

I have come upon a lot of free resources and information that has helped me as much as anything to get traffic.

I will not complain to much about the information that I purchased because it got me into someting that I enjoy and probably would not have tried if I knew how much was involved at making a success of internet marketing.

I am still working to be successful as I want to be and am still learning a lot day by day. I've met a lot of good people online that does not mind helping where they can. There is also a lot of good free information out here that can help you. Even though I have not seen many of them, they still feel like friends.

Even though I do not know a whole lot I hope that in some way I can help someone else on their road to success.

Always remember, no matter how successful you become, do not forget where you came from and that other people helped you.

C. Oxford

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Worst Etiquette of Marketing And Life

Since my last post was what I consider one of the "Don'ts" or "Bad Etiquettes" of Internet Marketng. This ranks even lower on my scale than a marketer that you buy something from and can't get in touch with.

I've seen this several times but never before as blatant as what I saw in one of the Affiliate Forums for a very large and very popular affiliate program.

A lady wrote in the forum asking a very simple but sincere question about how and where she could place links. The first respondant tried to be helpful and give some helpful information.

The second person?? to respond only used the space to show his stupidity by telling the lady that she didn't know enough about the business and shouldn't even try to be in it. He stated that she didn't know anything about html and would never suceed.

Oh how nice it must have been to be born with all of this knowledge. I'm very greatful that I haven't run into any of his kind during my learning process.

Enough said.

C. Oxford