subject: Fast Track To Internet Marketing Success [print this page] Believe it or not, achieving success with internet marketing isn't that hard. With the proper marketing principles and some well-researched business techniques, you can easily launch an online business, blog, or affiliate project in no time. The problem is that there are hundreds of charlatans selling your products you don't need and phony guides to "making millions" on the internet. This article will talk about how to back track from all that, destroy the distractions, and move on using the short and straight way to success.
The first step is to avoid all the distractions selling you on wasting your money or taking steps that are unnecessary and time consuming. If there's a supposed "internet marketing instruction" blog or internet forum that's wasting your time and getting you to waste time and money, just stop visiting that site! Unsubscribe from sabotaging email lists where you're spammed with sales pitches every day. Get out of Facebook groups that aren't productive. Start unfollowing so-called "internet gurus" who don't have much to share in reality. Then you can focus on actual business and marketing and get down to work.
Take a trip to your local bookstore, and have a web-enabled mobile phone handy. Look up some of the classic business books, things like "Good to Great", or newer biographies and autobiographies like "Steve Jobs" or "Delivering Happiness". Start dissecting actually successful businesses to see what they looked like. Where did they come from? What did their founders focus on? Rather than trying to build an online business just to make a quick buck, try to make something really cool and awesome. People will be able to tell, and it will pay off.
Then, only once you've found something great to do, try to make a little money. Find appropriate, non-invasive ways to monetize your resources. Maybe you can occasionally email your list with a promotion. Maybe there's some room on your blog sidebar for advertisements. Read books on marketing and salesmanship that can help you learn the principles to be successful here.
Finally, there may come a time when digital products on internet marketing become useful to you. There are certain constantly-evolving topics that do warrant buying tutorials and training courses from "internet marketing gurus", but do your research carefully. Don't buy anything promising lots of money.
