4 Don’ts For New Internet Marketers

February 3, 2009 · Filed Under Making Money · 5 Comments

Having been an internet marketer for about four years I know the frustration new entrepreneurs can have.

I’m going to tell you about the four things not to do that will save you time and money. You may have fallen trap to some of them already. And, that’s okay if you learned a lesson. It’s better to find out about them before you wander blindly into the traps. You can save yourself $100s, perhaps $1000s of dollars.

by iamelliotjames

#1. Don’t buy a website. You might be thinking it could get you over the pain of learning the technical issues of creating your own site. I’m talking specifically about the “Get Everything You Need To Start Making Money from Your Own Website” offers. Failure rate = 99%. Everybody that buys into it gets the same set of websites and there are duplicates running all over the internet. You’ll need to spend a lot of time customizing it so it stands apart from the herd. If it can be customized. If these sites are such cash sucking machines why isn’t the seller/designer using them?

There are website creation software packages that are very easy to use and you’ll end up with a site that is you and not 10,000 others. XSitePro II is by far the best and easiest to use for standard websites. It also has a lot of built-in features such as SEO, starting templates with graphics. You can get a look at all the features on the XSP II website. If you want a copy of the complete XSP II story in PDF format, leave a comment on this post with your email and I’ll send it to you.

#2. Don’t Over Monetize. If your site looks like the automobile section of the Sunday newspaper you’ll lose you visitors attention and that means you have lost your visitor. That, and Google might look at your site as pay-to-play or a link farm and ban it from the search engine results.

#3. Don’t Ignore The Content. Set the site up for one niche and one niche only. If you sell ebooks and plumbing fixtures get seperate site for each. The exception would be an ebook on plumbing fixtures and how to install or repair them. That ebook could be on both sites. However, no plumbing fixtures on the ebook site and no ebooks about love on the plumbing site.

#4. Set Some Goals. This is not about personal development for changing your life. You can find that on this blog. It’s not really my thing, but what the hell, it might be yours. I’m talking about setting goals based on your motivation to have a marketing website. Do you want to make $50 a month, or $5000? Get a goal and get a plan to reach the goal. Here are some questions to help you get going.

Do I know what I want to sell and is it popular?
Do I have a lot to sell or do I have to create my own income stream?
How engaged in the process am I?
Do I want to spend 1 hour a week or 1 hour a day or more on this project?
How much money do I want to spend?
Do I want to spend $0 a week on this or $100 a week?
Can I or do I want to take this project further?
Do I have a natural expansion opportunity or can I create the expansion myself?

(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

Loading ...

Related Posts

Making Money Online - Article Creation Article Creation – Do-It-Yourself or Outsource? If you have time to write the articles yourself, along with the skill to put some sentences together that intrigue the reader, then you should take the self-writing course to success. Outsourcing only tacks on an additional amount to your expenses, and in the......
Making Money Online - Part 3 Blogging for Big Bucks Nearly every mom on the web has staked her claim to a blog where she can write and bloviate about whatever topic comes to mind. She can blog about her baby taking her first steps, or how she wants to leave her company job for more......
Money Making Body Parts [/caption] The online marketing world is literally obsessed with “eyeballs". For example, if you want to sell ad space on your blog, you’ll have to show potential advertisers how many unique users are coming to the site each week–how many eyeballs are looking at your stuff. If you're not keeping......
The Truth About Making Money Online - Part 2 Making Money Online - Part 2 In the first article dated September 2, 2009 on The Truth About Making Money At Home I covered the simple truths about working from home and the potential to make a living. Beginning with this article we will explore seven time proven ways to......
The Greatest Sales Copy Ever! No Exceptions, the Greatest Sales Copy Ever! For the worst product ever! As a part-time copywriter and a full-time internet marketer, my job is to write online sales copy that sells my products and my client's. I’m always on the lookout for new ways to write more effective sales copy. ......

Related Websites

Starting a Professional Woodworking Hobby Woodworking is a truly fascinating hobby and you can take it a step further by turning your passion for woodworking into a professional woodworking career. Who does not enjoy the look and the feel of natural wood products? It can be a daunting process to initially get started with a......
Go On With Making Money Online. In my previous article I made an attempt to enumerate ways of making money on the net. I think that it’s high time to continue. Perhaps I should start with affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a very popular way of making money on the Internet. In fact the essence of......
Money Making Using Affiliate Marketing One terribly good internet money making business model is to be an online affiliate marketer. With this, you sell products for firms on the net and find procured your efforts. Affiliate works in this approach; a portion of the sale you create is given to you as compensation. We have......
The Ultimate Recipe To Make Money Online As you know a well written article can do wonders for your exposure and traffic. The article should contain good useful information. It should be of interest to the reader. A boring article could possibly brand your site as boring also. Although, someone might find it useful if they're having......
4 Ideas to Create Multiple Income Streams Online In the past, creating multiple streams of income required a lot of footwork and there were few passive stream opportunities available. However, thanks to the Internet, it has never been easier to create multiple streams of income online and many are passive! Let’s go into a few ideas that you......