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11-08-10, 01:50 PM
Internet Marketing / Business ENTREPRENEURS UNITE !! :D
This should become the busiest thread in this forum - why? - because whatever business venture you are involved in or want to become involved in, large or small, selling your business on the internet will need to be an important component of your success.
The subject is BROADER than BroadBand ..... soon to become WideBand.
Online Business, Internet Marketing, MMO - it comes under many names and in many forms but I suppose at the end of the day it is about creating some revenue from online activity. (hold that thought for a moment ..... "activity")
I am just starting out - a mature aged late bloomer ;) - but my enthusiasm is unbreakable, the internet offers all of us so many opportunities to put our business in front of gazillions of potential customers (well, at least eleventeen anyway).
So, set up a site either yourself or have someone do it for you and then sit back and watch the dollars flow in, right?
WRONG -sorry about that chief - having been a rainbow chaser for a number of years I am yet to find a pot of gold at the end of one ...... HOWEVER .......
There are many "howevers" ..... many DO's and DON'T's ..... many success stories and many heartbreaks, many different ways to go about utilizing the internet as a selling tool, many different opinions ....... and many, many Experts who have all the answers.
BUT WAIT, THERE IS MORE !! ...... if you subscribe to my free e-book (well, almost free except for the fees I will charge to your credit card number that you had to give me before getting to this part .... smile ..... oh its ok, you get some free steak knives as well) .... my e-book is titled "it is really very easy indeed to make gazillions of mega bucks on the net by not doing very much work at all if you buy my book" ... it is worth every cent because I am the worlds expert in making people rich on the internet.
OK .... enough of the levity (well it will be difficult for me not to include a little humor from time to time but feel rest assured I will not quit my day job).
I for one am HUNGRY FOR KNOWLEDGE -I want to learn from those who have experiences in the various aspects of doing business on the internet, what they do / did, how, why, when, where, who etc. The best place in the world to get the best cross section of knowledge is not in buying my book above (oh yeah terrific mate, huge faux pas, well done, you have just lost a gazillion sales .... quick, hit the delete button) but more so in forums like this.
Now, retrieving that thought I asked you to hold .... "activity" ..... some think that after launching a site it is just a matter of sitting back and letting the money find its way unobstructed into your bank account whilst you are sipping pina coladas in the Bahamas.
Some before me and some that will follow will tell you that it is BLOODY HARD WORK (right Brendan?). I, like some others are putting in 14-16 hour days and have been for a couple of months now and am still a long way from getting to first base in respect to seeing any return .... and ...... having subscribed to a gazillion industry newsletters(electronics, cameras, computers, bla bla bla ) and adding a few more each week so I can keep abreast of what is happenning out there, I find it takes me 3-4 hours a day to read it all before I start work!!!
OK .. cutting to the chase here ..... the old but very true saying "work smarter not harder" is something we should all adhere to .... BUT ..... to make an impact and maintain an in your face presence on the internet means very HARD work, very hard and long hours ..... SO, the working smarter bit ..... the sharing of ideas, experiences, expertise etc etc with like minded people who want to succeed is vital to being successful on the internet. Books etc are ok but they are static, the internet is very fluid as are the products, technologies, methods of transmitting ideas, crawlers and ....... and yes our best friend, the CONSUMER ..... our customers and/or our prospective customers are also very fluid, continually altering their tastes, desires, budgets, priorities, likes, dislikes etc and often influenced by factors beyond their control.
I have had over 25 years experience in selling and marketing and only started to venture into the internet business world about 6 months - I have in that time learned so much but the fact is I know so little about the internet in general other than it is a demanding mistress who needs continual attention ...... so much can change within the space of a few days.
ANYWAY ...... moving along. I am hoping to get people to add their comments in here about doing business on the internet from every conceivable angle - I know there are some specific topic sections in here about websites and design etc as there are on a number of other forums but often case the other aspects are brushed over.
The first challenge you have is to decipher what I have said - then the biggest challenge having achieved that is to figure out why :D
cheers,
Mike
This should become the busiest thread in this forum - why? - because whatever business venture you are involved in or want to become involved in, large or small, selling your business on the internet will need to be an important component of your success.
The subject is BROADER than BroadBand ..... soon to become WideBand.
Online Business, Internet Marketing, MMO - it comes under many names and in many forms but I suppose at the end of the day it is about creating some revenue from online activity. (hold that thought for a moment ..... "activity")
I am just starting out - a mature aged late bloomer ;) - but my enthusiasm is unbreakable, the internet offers all of us so many opportunities to put our business in front of gazillions of potential customers (well, at least eleventeen anyway).
So, set up a site either yourself or have someone do it for you and then sit back and watch the dollars flow in, right?
WRONG -sorry about that chief - having been a rainbow chaser for a number of years I am yet to find a pot of gold at the end of one ...... HOWEVER .......
There are many "howevers" ..... many DO's and DON'T's ..... many success stories and many heartbreaks, many different ways to go about utilizing the internet as a selling tool, many different opinions ....... and many, many Experts who have all the answers.
BUT WAIT, THERE IS MORE !! ...... if you subscribe to my free e-book (well, almost free except for the fees I will charge to your credit card number that you had to give me before getting to this part .... smile ..... oh its ok, you get some free steak knives as well) .... my e-book is titled "it is really very easy indeed to make gazillions of mega bucks on the net by not doing very much work at all if you buy my book" ... it is worth every cent because I am the worlds expert in making people rich on the internet.
OK .... enough of the levity (well it will be difficult for me not to include a little humor from time to time but feel rest assured I will not quit my day job).
I for one am HUNGRY FOR KNOWLEDGE -I want to learn from those who have experiences in the various aspects of doing business on the internet, what they do / did, how, why, when, where, who etc. The best place in the world to get the best cross section of knowledge is not in buying my book above (oh yeah terrific mate, huge faux pas, well done, you have just lost a gazillion sales .... quick, hit the delete button) but more so in forums like this.
Now, retrieving that thought I asked you to hold .... "activity" ..... some think that after launching a site it is just a matter of sitting back and letting the money find its way unobstructed into your bank account whilst you are sipping pina coladas in the Bahamas.
Some before me and some that will follow will tell you that it is BLOODY HARD WORK (right Brendan?). I, like some others are putting in 14-16 hour days and have been for a couple of months now and am still a long way from getting to first base in respect to seeing any return .... and ...... having subscribed to a gazillion industry newsletters(electronics, cameras, computers, bla bla bla ) and adding a few more each week so I can keep abreast of what is happenning out there, I find it takes me 3-4 hours a day to read it all before I start work!!!
OK .. cutting to the chase here ..... the old but very true saying "work smarter not harder" is something we should all adhere to .... BUT ..... to make an impact and maintain an in your face presence on the internet means very HARD work, very hard and long hours ..... SO, the working smarter bit ..... the sharing of ideas, experiences, expertise etc etc with like minded people who want to succeed is vital to being successful on the internet. Books etc are ok but they are static, the internet is very fluid as are the products, technologies, methods of transmitting ideas, crawlers and ....... and yes our best friend, the CONSUMER ..... our customers and/or our prospective customers are also very fluid, continually altering their tastes, desires, budgets, priorities, likes, dislikes etc and often influenced by factors beyond their control.
I have had over 25 years experience in selling and marketing and only started to venture into the internet business world about 6 months - I have in that time learned so much but the fact is I know so little about the internet in general other than it is a demanding mistress who needs continual attention ...... so much can change within the space of a few days.
ANYWAY ...... moving along. I am hoping to get people to add their comments in here about doing business on the internet from every conceivable angle - I know there are some specific topic sections in here about websites and design etc as there are on a number of other forums but often case the other aspects are brushed over.
The first challenge you have is to decipher what I have said - then the biggest challenge having achieved that is to figure out why :D
cheers,
Mike