Still Looking for Those Get Rich Quick Internet Marketing Secrets

It seems no matter how many times you tell some people there are no internet marketing secrets as to how to make money online easily, they still don’t get it. Throw up a well presented sales page, outlining your latest “get rich quick schemes“, and they’re sold.

Not only are they sold on all your internet marketing secrets that you’re promising to deliver, they’re also sold on the idea of spending yet more money on paying someone to do all the work for them.

Internet marketing requires you to put in some work. If you don’t like that idea, tough! The secret isn’t just in outsourcing all the work either. If you don’t know what the hell you’re doing, how do you plan on giving instructions to anyone else and then keeping a check on what they do to make sure you’re not being ripped off (again)?

There will always be a brighter, bigger, better, shinier, quicker, get rich quick scam around the corner. Trust me, I’ve fallen for more of them than you’ve had hot dinners. Without fail, every one of them cost me more wasted time and energy, not to mention money, than any of the ‘work’ I’ve put in to growing my business the hard way.

Having finally come to realise that the only genuine internet marketing secrets are those which are right in front of your nose, life has become a lot more productive and a damn site less frustrating.

1. You will need to work for longer than a week. Probably longer than a month or two. In fact, you best be prepared to work at it for at least a year. And by that I mean the real work of building a solid business, not just throwing cash at every money making opportunity you come across online.
2. Learn some skills. Yep, real skills that you can use in your business. It might be writing, it might be making videos, it might be PPC, it might be creating websites, or optimizing them for the search engines. It could be any one of a thousand different skills. But you’re going to need them and without them you’re dead in the water.
3. Test and tweak and test again! Oh, how I wish I’d listened to this advice years ago. Testing is sooooo boring. And who really cares if your visitors click on the first link or the second link. Does it really matter if they come to your site from this bookmark or that bookmark, as long as they get there? Trust me, when one of your sites is generating Adsense clicks and signups to your list on a daily basis, while the others are lucky to get a click a month… you’re gonna want to know why!
4. Learn the art of back scratching. Commonly referred to as ‘social networking’, if you want to class this as one of those internet marketing secrets, it comes down to nothing more than, “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours”. Now you know why all the gurus are all buddy buddy with each other. They all tell everyone on their lists how great the others are. And we all believe them!
5. Spend your money wisely. There is no doubt about it that getting your hands on the right tools can save you a helluva lot of time and money. But what’s the point of investing in anything that you’re not going to use? If you aren’ t planning on making videos, don’t waste your cash on the best screen capture software. If article marketing isn’t your cup of tea, then don’t waste your time buying a really great article spinner and / or article submitter. Unless you’re already a millionaire, that money is best kept for essentials such as hosting, autoresponders, etc.

Quit looking for the short cuts. There aren’t any. And think of it this way, if you’d invested as much effort into building an internet business the right way as you’ve so far spent looking for a short cut, you’d no doubt be already a damn site more successful by now!

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