Solving the Puzzle – Piece by Piece
Well, it’s over a week since I’ve been able to sit down quietly and take stock of what I’ve learnt this week. The “Puzzle” being a metaphor for this venture into internet marketing. And the pieces?
Blog hopping
I’ve been “oil-rig hopping” – the problem with this is that there are such interesting blogs out there that one can take hours reading them, writing comments and following all the interesting links! So I got really side-tracked there.
Fitting this piece in the puzzle: limit the time you spend daily in your blog hopping. I would suggest you either choose several with high page rank and keep an eye on those or visit different ones every day and try not to repeat yourself. What do you think? How do you organise your blog hopping?
Checking out Other Marketers’ Sales
Then I also set out to see what other marketers put in their sales letters. This meant that I signed up to loads of autoresponders – and my inbox got flooded with sales offers. I confirmed my subscriptions and followed through the subsequent pages. Offers upon offers, sales upon sales! Then the one time offers and the up-sells and the down-sells. In the end I found I was receiving the same offers from multiple sources. Guess what!!! I even ended up on Alex’s autoresponder list and received some repeated offers. So I unsubscribed to many – just to keep the traffic in my inbox down a bit.
Fitting this piece in the puzzle: Sign up for a few but keep track what you signed up for so you can follow the sequence of the e-mails – for use as examples of how to run your own campaign. DO NOT buy the offers, down-sells, special offers. You’ll be bankrupt before you get going! How have you gone through this learning loop? I’d love to hear your strategies.
Oh – and take a leaf out of the expert’s book: see what is being sold, especially new launches. Then head on over to see if they offer affiliates and sign up. Then mail out to your list and jump on the bandwagon of the launch!
Forums
This piece of the puzzle is similar to blog hopping but magnified because each forum has loads of threads that are so interesting and very relevant to my situation. Loads of forums to visit – reviews, advice and questions and answers. Again, you can get so involved and engrossed in these that the day flashes by and you don’t get your moment in the beautiful sunshine we’ve had this week.
Fitting this piece in the puzzle: well, I think I have to resolve this the same way as blog hopping. Maybe allocate a certain amount of time to each of these and STICK to it. I know you could outsource this but I feel that you would be misrepresenting yourself if you did. What do you think? Have you found a way to get all this done and still have time to “smell the roses”?
Joint Ventures
What is a “joint venture”? I read:
“If you market ANY products or services on the internet, then you are missing out on big bucks if you never get into into alliance with other marketers who share the same interests as you do. A Joint Venture (or just JV) can produce dramatic windfalls of quick cash when marketers pool their resources together for mutual benefit.”
So I joined one – My First JV It became apparent that I needed some free products to give away. These I found and you can get hold of them, and loads of other free stuff – software, reports, ebooks- by going to the joint venture as a member . Just click
What took the time was – finding the products, learning how to put them into the joint venture gift list and then testing my links to see that everything worked. The JV went live today and I am watching with eager anticipation to see where we go from here!
Fitting this piece in the puzzle: Well, I’ll let you know – this jv runs until June 11th so I’ll update you then!
Anyone else in this JV? How are you doing? Have you been to the JV and gotten yourself some free products? What was your favourite? Let’s pool experiences!
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