subject: 15 Pitfalls To Avoid When Building Your Marketing Empire [print this page] Avoid these business practices at all costsAvoid these business practices at all costs. At the very least, they will ruin your reputation. Many of them will destroy your chances of making honest money online:
1. Steer clear of paid directories. These directories are nothing but "link farms" and will hurt your PR more than they will help.
2. Don't send e-mail spam. Build a targeted e-mail list instead and use it to market to people who are actually interested in your product.
3. Don't be a pest. Constantly bombarding people with the same requests will only irritate them. You'll lose more customers than you'll gain by sending the same thing over and over again.
4. Don't be a braggard. Talking about how much you make or how hot your wife is doesn't endear you to people. It makes people despise you. Instead, tell people how you can help them.
5. Forum spam doesn't bring targeted traffic to your site. All it does is make people angry and will quickly get you banned from most forums. Forums are discussion groups of like-minded people and distractions aren't tolerated for long.
6. Blog spam is treated the same way. Auto-blog responses are obvious and will more often than not get deleted from active blogs.
7. Huge text is irritating and jarring, isn't it?
8. Contribute something worthwhile. Blog posts and forum comments are more effective when they are of substance.
9. Don't bump old forum posts back to the top, especially if you're only trying to build links.
10. Buyer beware. If you are purchasing links or mailing lists, make sure you know what you are getting. Many of these lists will be low-quality and won't convert well.
11. Avoid repeating yourself. Don't ask the same questions repeatedly or give the same responses over and over again in forums.
12. In the spirit of number 11, don't ask questions that have already been asked by someone else. Most long-time forum members get irritated by having to answer the same questions repeatedly.
13. Don't oversell and underwhelm. If you make a promise about your product, it had better live up to it. Good products can be made to look bad if they are oversold.
14. Spellcheck. Mizpelled wurds make u look stoopid.
15. Know what you're getting into. Don't assume that everyone out there is as honest as you are. There are a lot of people that make a living preying on the unsuspecting masses. Don't fall victim to one of these people. If an offer sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
15 Pitfalls To Avoid When Building Your Marketing Empire
