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

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

An Internet Marketing Taboo

I'm at my workplace dyeing some t-shirts for the childrens field day at school and had a few minutes to do something else. I checked some blogs that I vistit on a somewhat regular basic when I have time. While looking at some of the comments on one of these I came across two comments with the same wording but with different names represented. The commments had no connnection to the blog itself but to say that it was interesting. The one thing that it did have in very big letters was an advertisment for website templates and a link. It was very evident that the comment was put there for the one purpose of advertising.

Having been writing about getting into internet marketing I just wanted to throw these few comments in as a prime example of how "not" to get website traffic. I'm not sure that everyone feels as strongly about this blatant act of disrespect as I do but please do not stoop this low.

Just my thoughts on the subject,

C. Oxford

Internet Marketing The Reality

I did what I thought was a lot of homework by reading information written by different people. I asked a lot of questions from anyone that would return my emails. As I mentioned earlier, all of these plans were "sure fire" and you could not fail if you followed any of them as instructed.

I'm not that naive but I knew that some of the plans sounded more realistic than others. It's is amazing how the internet makes experts out of so many people. The plan that I chose to follow was not cheap but it did present more information from start to finish than most of the others. As most, this one was presented as the solution that made the author successful and gave him the ranking of "guru".

I followed the plan as closely as I could but not completely understanding every point. I purchased the recommended templates to make the job go more smoothly. As mentioned in one of the earlier posts, this was an area that was the most difficult for me to understand and the most difficult to get technical assistance from the template maker. The first time that I heard the word template, I had no idea how it worked and how it connected with all the parts.

Another area that a lot of the gurus and other marketers come up short in is the area of understanding people and newbies to the industry especially. They take for granted that by listening to them, you should know as much as they do. Some need a lesson in customer service and satisfaction. It seems that once they have sold their product, they could care less if you are successful or not.

Another thing to keep in mind, is that if you buy from someone who puts himself/herself on a pedistal and feels that their time is to important to communicated directly with you, run fast in the other direction. Believe me, your best interest is not a part of their thinking.

I'm running out of time tonight but if I can help anyone or answer any questions, please let me know. I'll continue later.

Thanks,

C. Oxford