Make Money - Your own business "Do not listen to the snake oil"

How gullible do they think people are?

The only way to attain instant riches is to win the lottery - anything else requires hard work and dedication. Constantly firing out huge six figure earning figures as your marketing plan does smack of perhaps inflating the truth. Do these marketers really believe that I will buy the idea of hundreds of thousands of my currency in just 2 weeks?

I have bought these packages, fully knowing that what is being peddled will in no way be as represented. So why did I buy into the instant money scheme -I am not buying into the instant money promise, I am looking for information. "Internet marketing is not easy" and I will defend that statement with my dieing breath. It is possible to make money but it requires a huge amount of research, trial and error and yes investment.

The annoying thing I find with these schemes which claim to give you the blue print, is how much is actually left out. I have an engineering back ground and if I was to use the blue prints of the quality which is flaunted as fool proof and a complete guide by the marketing people on the internet, then please do not enter or walk on a bridge built on them as disaster is the only thing to come from them.

I can already hear the shouts of slander, liable, you are disgruntled, and you do not know how to do it. Yes I do not know how to do it, but I am learning and I like the challenge of learning and seeing it to a positive conclusion. I have a website, I have some products on it that I hope to sell, and these are products that I have bought or had recommended to me. They as yet are not paying for the investment associated with the site, but with time and patience they will, I hope, reach that point. It is all down to reaching a market who wishes to buy these products.

How do you reach your market?

Use the internet. A simple statement I know. So how do you turn this simple statement into traffic? When I figure that one out, I will write another article and tell all. Yes all, I will not leave out the secret little key, the special little thing that triggers a flood of traffic to my site. Be aware that there are many people making money from internet marketing, and they will not tell you fully how they do it for fear of reducing the flow of traffic they get, and then by default their profits. Remember that special offer they proffer, is just for the beginning of the blue print, then there is the extra bit needed for building on it, then you have to buy this other piece of the puzzle, see a pattern here - before you know it to get the FOOL PROOF BLUE PRINT you have spend many hundreds of dollars and even then there is always a bit left out.

I recently read an article from some one whose writings I enjoy reading, and thought I would invest in the product being advertised. Unfortunately it turned out to be just the same as the rest. I was sceptical and treaded lightly, but I thought if for no other reason perhaps this will give me information on how to get a boost in the world of internet marketing. What made me wary was the claim of fast cash - make money in two hours - big incomes for little or no return. The second I hear these statements I KNOW it's a losing project.

The way to get traffic is to design your site to be search engine friendly. I found a great product which does this, and by comparing the recommendations from this with what I have read in books by people who I greatly respect after trying and seeing their advice work I have started cleaning my site up and making it rank well. I have not released my site fully onto the internet, but already using keywords from the pages I have - they appear on the first or second pages of Google ™. Now that is impressive.

Unfortunately we are constrained by the search engine sites way of doing things, so the other ingredients they require to give a good ranking are links into your site. How do you get these? Well lets see, you can spend hours searching for another site which will agree to link to you or you can write articles, like this lol, this article will not link to my site or a landing page as it is not that type of article. This article is hopefully a warning to those ready to lay out big sums of money on offers of "business in a box", "large returns fast" and any other hook line the marketers dream up.

You can try PPC (pay per click), I did this and it was beginning to work. The trick with PPC is that you have to get the keywords right, then you have to run the ad for a while and collect data on the times you convert so that the dead times (times when no sales come from clicks), can be filtered out. Unfortunately for some reason I got banned from Google ™. I did not have a website at the time and my ads sent buyers to the landing pages of the vendor (an idea I got from a marketer, which I paid for). I was honest in the ads I put up, but even after many requests for a straight answer as to why I was being banned, Google would not be specific. I was lucky enough I guess on this venture into internet marketing that I ended up losing less than 200 dollars. Had it continued it would have become profitable.

Another thing which helps to rank your site is age. This I find a little strange, given the main reason people search is relevant content, but it is a search engine requirement, so register your domain and get it hosted fast, even if its not ready. Can't hurt and it ticks that box. Be careful how many times your keywords are used in the content, search engines will rank you down as spam or consider the content not to be overly relevant. Same goes for the description and content meta tags.

I am not moaning, just giving the other side of the story.

Interesting point - I bought a package, paid nearly 300 dollars for it, followed all the instructions to the letter, I even copied, yes copied some of the PPC ads which came as part of the package and got banned on Google ™. When I went to find the vendor - they had been suspended from the place I purchased the package from - I do not know why - but it makes me wonder. I have bought websites from internet marketing vendors which are guaranteed to bring me income within 48 hours - the most recent was about a month ago and I am still waiting for the first sale, and I cannot find the site I paid for anywhere on the net?

This all sounds like I am moaning and being down hearted, far from it, my intention here is to say "it is worth a try, just do not waste time and money on the FAST return promises, the big incomes, the work only 2 or 4 hours a day and live in a big house, it is not there, well not in the packages that is"

The reason I do believe it is possible to eventually make an income from internet marketing is the companies who provide us, the affiliates, the products; these companies tend to deal with sales and returns in a very professional manner and they provide a ready source of new products. I have a fantastic experience of some of these and can from first hand experience say they do a Stirling job.

To anyone trying this for the first time like me, Good Luck. Feel free to comment, or leave tips on little things that you have found which work. If I have upset anyone I apologise and I do not intend getting into any forum stye debates over this, it is my opinion and my opinion alone.