What I am seeing has become a negative norm of advertising that needs to be attended to by all serious marketers.

It used to be typos that caught our eyes, now it is domain names going down, bad sites with broken links, people who drop programs as fast as they sign up for them and never clear up tracks of where they have been.

Less Professional Marketers or more …?

Ya gotta luv the garbage sites that promote the latest greatest piece of software you already have for free on your computer, or as part of the tools you are paying for in monthly subscriptions in good working programs you already belong to -IF you work them.

Professional marketers avoid these traps while the newbie or Internet business wannabe jumps in both eyes closed while they run up credit card debt.

From the looks of what I am seeing advertised, there are less professional marketers doing the right kind of promotions or more newbie wannabe are flooding the traffic exchanges with hopeless offers your grandmother would know enough to avoid.

When you see all the “NOT FOUND” pages, lovely sites with overly large headers with nothing above the fold to tell you what is even being offered, bad redirects that can mean frame breakers and name your poison sites that build companies at best, and never the
marketer, it is obvious we’ve got troubles Houston.

This rocket to the moon will take those poor wannabes around the block and dump them in the credit card pool of deadbeats and won’t earn them so much as a nickel to pay for the ride.

Less is MORE – The Lesson you better heed now

Dump the never win programs. STOP buying till you learn what you already have in upgraded programs. If you are not upgraded, then you need to be. FREE is a door opener but upgraded creates the satisfactory bottom line.

Sign into your back offices and learn to navigate the menus and see what you already have in marketing tools you will never use if you don’t search them out and learn to use them.

TRACK EVERY PAGE you promote. Find out what is working for you and what is not in Traffic Exchanges.

Give them fair time to prove themselves first. Surf and earn enough credits – 1000 every three days or so – to prove the sign up rates you are getting or not getting – then dump the ones that do not bring in results. Your trackers and your web stats will show you the results. It takes time – a minimum three weeks for the experienced using the right tools for measurement, to three months to prove a good or bad advertising strategy.

What you do promote and how you do it – splash pages, lead capture pages, good copy that grabs, direct marketing mail campaigns, and follow up and follow through with your leads, all become accountable actions you need to be taking EVERY DAY - not just
when the mood strikes you.

Attend the conferences you don’t have time for. Learn what experienced marketers who give these conferences have to teach and test their theories. Make that time and be an interactive participant. What you learn may save you untold hours of overwhelming work.

STOP wasting your time on useless actions that only frustrate you. YOU are the one who has the control over what you are doing.

Improve on your goals; set one now and then and stick to it until you have some measurable results!

AND most important, be a super sponsor. Share your knowledge with your subscribers. Use in-house mailers, your auto-responder for great teaching mails, and any other form of communications that will reach them with the help they need – even if they do not ask
you for it. You KNOW they need your help so give it generously.

************************************
Author Box: Fran Klasinski is a professional Internet Marketer, publisher, and marketing Trainer. Read more of her articles here:
http://www.blogestates.com/blog/How2-4Newbies You can contact her at: support [at] Kwalitytraffic4Newbies [dot] com.
**************************************

There are those who make things happen there are those who watch things happen and all to many, particularly in the world of Internet Marketing, Wonder What Happened.

As for the third group it is generally the case because the face of the internet changes so quickly it becomes very difficult to keep up with and even more so If you are new. Not only does one need to learn the Hows Whats when where who and whys of the net they also must learn to get ahead of the changes and stay their.

This is hard enough even for the experienced marketer let alone for the Newbie. So what can be done? How can one get ahead and establish themselves as a successful Internet Marketer?

The very first thing required to become recognized is summed up in one word and that is…Branding.

Branding or labeling Primarily yourself. By a constant stream of advertising your face and name everywhere and as often as you can. Why? So your potential customers see you realize your authority and learn to trust you.

A good example can be seen in door to door sales, which more often has a very poor success rate. However, contact a good friend who has learned to trust you, as over a period of time you have gotten to know each other and they realise you are an authority on the product your selling.

Generally the sale is made for that reason. That Is Branding. You are branded by your friend as a Trusted authority because they know you over time. That is a must do If we are to be successful on the Internet. We Must Brand Ourselves

Are you Twittering? Do you know what it is? Well, run over to Twitter.com and sign up. I’ll wait.

Go!

Okay… then go to http://twitter.com/sunnys123 and follow me! Yup.. click on that “follow” button under my adorable picture!

Now.. you’ll get to see EVERYthing I say! I know you’re thrilled.

Check out the other people that I’m following, and who they’re following, and so on. You can click “follow” on any one of them!

A useful tool you’ll need to keep up with this, is called Twhirl. It sits on your desktop, and when somebody “tweets” (that means they say something) it will be shot through the internet at lightening speed (every 5 minutes or so) straight to your desktop! Woohoo!

From Twhirl, you can post comments, too. You can send them to everyone, or speak directly to someone… while everyone sees it, or you can send private messages. withOUT logging onto Twitter!

You can get this at http://www.twhirl.org/

What do you do with this? Network, silly! Jon Olson, Mike Paetzold, Robert Puddy, Soren… they’re all using it to let people know what’s goin on in their part of the world. They let us know about blog updates, conferences, stuff like that. It’s an AWEsome way to keep up with your downline, or subscribers!

So come follow me! oh, and Ray, too.. lol

Sunny!

Today I was thinking about all the things that are important about Internet Marketing, and for me, I think the MOST important is FOCUS.

Now I’m entirely too ADD to focus on anything for any period of time, which makes Internet Marketing pretty tough for me. I look back at past campaigns, you know, the ones that “didn’t work”.. and think to myself… “Hm. I only had 500 hits on that page, in 7 days. You think THAT had something to do with it?”

It wasn’t until I read an ebook called: 30 Days to Internet Marketing Success by Joe Kumar. Basically, it’s interviews with successful internet marketers, who answered the question, “What would you do if you had NO money, NO reputation, and had to start a business in 30 days?” The focus was phenomenal.

I took basics from that, to start to build my website, Gobs of ebooks.

When I surf every day, make updates to the site, email my list, my business definitely grows. When I start thinking, “Hey.. maybe I could do this…” and stray from my main focus, everything comes to a screeching halt.

I do, however, have several projects in the works. It’s tough finding the balance, and I read in that ebook to promote your current project 75%, and work on the NEW project 25% of your time. If I focus on THAT, I can have success on down the line.

Hope you all have something to focus on!

Thanks for listening!

Sunny =)

I don’t know if ya’ll know me yet… But I’m Sunny. I’m from wonderful wonderful Texas… and extremely proud of it. I’ve been trying my hand at Internet Marketing for about 6 months now… and I’ve not made very much money. But… I will. Not sure WHEN… but.. I will =)

I’m doing aLOT of networking… getting to know people online.. gaining their trust, etc. It’s not easy… cuz I usually put my foot in my mouth… and have on MANY occasions… but, I have stuck around and learned a few things. One of the things that posting in forums has done for me, is that when I google my name (oh, I know you’ve done it too) I show up on a post in a forum. A few months ago, I showed up in the number one spot, when I commented on the Soaring4Traffic Blog. Cool, huh? Hopefully I didn’t say anything stupid.

I’m starting to write a few articles and ebooks now… which is why I decided to post here. I just found an article… that talks ABOUT article writing… (wow… that’s confusing), and it was talkin about outlines, and introductions, and conclusions, and blahblahblah. I guess that’s okay. Well, I’m sure it is. But in a blog, or a forum, where people just need to get to know people, and learn stuff, do I need all that…. structure? I know I’da stopped dead in my tracks if that’s how I started this one.

Now.. I do believe that I need to brainstorm a bit. You know… write down all that junk in my head, and get it not so full. Then kinda organize the thoughts from there. But, otherwise, I just try to write like I talk. That’s why you’ll see “ya’ll” and “cuz” in my writing. As I mentioned before, I’m from Texas. Yes, I CAN spell… sometimes I just prefer not to.

Some of the cooler (in my opinion) articles on article writing are these:
Article Writing Mistakes – 7 To Avoid

by Christopher Knight (wasn’t that one of the actors on the Brady Bunch?)

Write Some Articles!
by David McKenzie

Okay… so what do ya’ll think?

Pleeeease don’t leave me hangin, as the only one who posts here! I’d love to get to know you! (even if you’re not from Texas…)

Sunny Suggs!