About Internet Marketing
It’s time to say it outright: making money on the Internet is not easy. As a matter of fact, it’s quite a challenge! I learned to apply my first “money making” technique in 2006 with the help from a friend who has been a full blown Internet marketer since 1998, which was known as “arbitrage”.
Arbitrage on the Internet is the art of putting buyer and seller together online and gain a commission for this intermediary work when a transaction takes place. Although I had been a professional intermediary in the “real world” (why does this make me think of a guy named Neo?), - I had been quite successful as a Life Insurance seller, making good money, - this was another game altogether.
Indeed, had it not been for my friend holding my hand all the way to clickbank profit, I would have failed miserably. I had to learn many new skills simultaneously:
-> how to acquire a domain name, choosing a good domain name
-> how to set up hosting
-> how to create a site
-> how to publish a site on Internet
-> how to set up an AdWords account
-> how to write ads
-> how to find good keywords
-> how to set up tracking
-> how to cloak my links
-> how to tweak my publicity campaigns; what NOT to touch during campaigns
…let me skip the rest for fear of becoming quite boring, suffice it to say the list goes on, and on, and on….
Personally, I found it a LOT harder to do than learning how to drive a car, where by analogy, one also has to learn how to coordinate many actions simultaneously.
Again, its not as easy as it looks: keeping the car on your side of the road; while looking in three mirrors, shifting gears, reading roadsigns, anticipate what the car in front of you is going to do AND put a brave smile on your face while the examinator is looking fiercely at the clock, although you haven’t let the needle of the speedometer go NEAR the legal speed limit…
I’m not ashamed to admit to the fact that I took a “piggy back” ride on my friends know-how pool and soon he made me understand that this couldn’t last forever, that this “arrangement” wasn’t balanced if I couldn’t find a way to become a contributing force to his own activity somehow.
He was right of course, I needed to learn how to mount and break in the Internet stallion by myself. And a very wild stallion it is.
So I set out to do just that. In the beginning, I would let the horse just run free, I limited my activity to observing. Every now and then, I’d buy a lump of shugar from some guy I met by pure browsing luck, so as to try and lure the horse, but looking more closely, the stuff must have had a funny smell or something, because the stallion wouldn’t even look at it.
After trying many different brands of shugar, I finally caught on. These sellers had a source where they could buy the stuff real cheap and they peddled their wares for the sake of profit.
Some were outright scammers. Their tactics are quite simple: buy my book or software and it will make you rich beyond your wildest dreams, surf the Internet tidal wave to absolute wealth with us, you’ll thank us; the message is invariably along these lines and it never varies a lot from this theme.
The unavoidable fact is: it goes with the territory. A scammer will defend his actions by stating that if you don’t know what you are doing you should not be buying Internet Marketing products in the first place, but that he will not prevent you to spend your money if you feel inclined to do so after his brilliant sales pitch. Learn from it or fail is the message.
