Quote: (03-14-2012 06:31 AM)Kitsune Wrote:
I agree, but my major bug bear with Internet Marketers is that they don't do most of the stuff you listed.
If you get IM'ers to download a template business plan, most of them don't have a clue about any of it. They don't do market research, they don't think about what service they're providing, and they don't think about anything other than how they're going to make money. (They don't even think about that too well.) Because the barriers to entry are so much lower (No overheads, no real ongoing costs) people half arse it all across the board.
That's why the vast bulk of guys who start fail horribly. There are two key skills to making money online if you're not marketing your own product. And those are being able to enough build traffic to your site to climb to the top of Google searches for the relevant keywords (SEO); and the ability to write excellent content (basically selling your product convincingly if it is IM). Very few guys can do one let alone both (some like myself team up with someone else who "completes" the package to so speak).