Archive for the 'My Views on Internet Marketing' Category

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

There’s Gold in Them Hills Newbies

No that’s not a callous thing to say… It’s the simple truth!
One of the biggest reasons why Internet Marketers fail is because they are targeting the wrong audience. The money is in teaching newbies how to become better marketers, and not trying to convince existing marketers you know better, or your latest ebook can show [...]

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

A Simple Way of Making YouTube Videos

Placing videos on YouTube is a great way of getting traffic to your website or blog, but can be somewhat daunting when you have no idea where to start…
A fellow member of StandingStartProfits has written a cool “how to” which explains a simple way to create your own YouTube videos (for free - you don’t need [...]

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Transparent Internet Marketing

I got an email today from a fairly well known internet marketer offering 12 private label products. There’s nothing special in that, except the marketer gave a discount code which effectively reduced the price to zero.
“Cool” you might think…
I’m somewhat sceptical, so I was in no hurry to blindly follow the sales process to it’s [...]

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

What The Heck Is An Offer in Internet Marketing?

The other day a member of the Standing Start Profits forum asked what an internet marketing “offer” was, here is my answer:
The best way to describe an offer is to use an infomercial as an example.
They are good at showing you the benefits. Taking a vacumm cleaner for example, they will use statements like “This ultra lightweight [...]

Friday, November 16th, 2007

There Is No Magic To Internet Marketing

If you think there are any special tricks to being a successful Internet Marketer you’ve been mislead. There is no magic to it!

I just read an inspiring post on a popular Internet Marketing forum where the member described how he had made over $750 in one week using what can best be described as Internet Marketing basics.

The forum member runs a blog and decided to do the following: