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Kurb’s Top 10 Internet Marketing Strategies for 2009

1: Website Development
2: Google Adwords / PPC
3: Blog Promotion
4: Online Video Marketing
5: SEO
6: Email Management / Marketing
7: Article Marketing
8: Social Media Marketing
9: Viral Marketing
10: Community Building

1. Start now. The temptation for anyone who’s making money on the internet is to read, read, and feature whatever more. You may believe that you hit to wrap your mind around every possible technique before you intend started and if you study that path, you’ll still be reading 2 years from now. You hit to intend started and intend started now. Most of the grouping that I talk to feel like they can’t appendage another unfortunate in their life and that makes them freeze up.

I hit had TONS of sites fail and candidly that’s digit of the biggest reasons I do as well as I do. You might conceive you’re different - you hope that you crapper hit a succeeder every single time. I’m getting a lot better at that because I’ve had lots of losers. At this point I’m pretty dang good at knowing what will work and what won’t.

Honestly I intend a little tired of grouping who try to piggyback off of what I hit learned through my failures. I try to impart every of the noesis that I crapper and digit of the most fulfilling things in my life is getting emails from every of the grouping who hit found successes through what I hit given them. That said, there is no substitution for disagreeable things for yourself, even if that means imperfectness a few nowadays and no matter how whatever nowadays I tell you what works and what doesn’t, you won’t hit a firm belief until you hit done it yourself.

The funny thing to me is that there rattling isn’t any venture for unfortunate here. The total startup cost for a niche website is under $20. If $20 makes you freeze up I would candidly take a hornlike look at what you’re spending money on. I sometimes hit grouping email me saying that the cost of hosting is a huge venture for them. Are you freaking kidding me? $8 per month is a huge risk?

I guess what grouping are telling me is that they can’t afford to hit cable television or a cell phone because obviously those should be lower on the priority list than investing $8 in your future. What you’re rattling telling me is that you’re afraid of failing. You hit to intend over yourself. Sorry for the extreme bluntness but that’s the honest truth.

If you asked me, the grouping that are rattling imperfectness are the ones who are still researching. You’re afraid to put effort and money into ‘yourself’ but are perfectly fine wasting loads of time ‘researching’. To me that is the epitome of failure. Moving forward is the exclusive way to intend things shaking.

2. Focus on building search traffic, primarily from Google. There are thousands of reciprocation sources that you’re feat to feature about. I’ve seen course after course promising 10,000,000,000,000 visitors in less than 6 seconds using Digg, StumbleUpon, and another sites like these. I crapper tell you that with these reciprocation sources you will need a lot more reciprocation to attain money, and that’s candidly no exaggeration. Making money online is a lot easier if you hit a steady stream of reciprocation that you don’t hit to work for anymore, and that’s how it is with Google traffic.

There’s no substitute for grabbing a visitor that actually has a need. People go to Google because they want to find something specific. They want to learn something, or they want to acquire something. There you are to provide them with advice on what they’re looking for.

On the another hand, StumbleUpon and Digg users are disagreeable to pass the time. They’re disagreeable to feed their aggregation addictions. If you conceive their reciprocation has a lot of value, I undergo for a fact that you’ve never tried to sell anything to them. These grouping also don’t provide much value to the grouping that are advertising on your site because they don’t acquire much and will move on just as quickly as they found you. Twenty seconds after they hit your site they’ll be quaternary sites away reading most the newest tech gadget.

My honest opinion (based on thousands of hours of trial and error) is that you will hit to intend over 100 nowadays the social reciprocation to attain the same money you crapper attain from search visitors.

The first thing you hit to convince yourself of is that reciprocation is not created equally. You might pay months chasing a big Digg exclusive to find that it doesn’t do that much for you in terms of monetary return once it finally comes. On the another hand, relatively small amounts of search reciprocation crapper lead to a lot. We intend belike 1/10th the reciprocation of John Chow and attain just as much as he does. Why? Because almost every of our reciprocation is from Google and we monetize that reciprocation rattling well.

3. Focus on small niches. It’s most 100 nowadays easier to bring in profits when you aren’t competing with the big dogs that hit large budgets and SEO teams.

This month I found whatever crazy niches by looking around Sitepoint and candidly they are by far the easiest niches I’ve ever come across. I’m not feat to tell you exactly what they are but I will tell you that they are attendant to the food industry. Trust me, it’s a lot easier to do well with stuff that isn’t attendant to marketing.

Mark and I talk every the time most how well we could do in a less competitive industry, in fact we’re working on entering whatever another markets. It’s beyond me why a person with no experience would want to start a site that competes with every of the marketing giants that are discover there.

Honestly I’m having a ton of fun lately taking a look at funny little niches that I would never conceive would be money makers. Watching the sites that go up for sale on Sitepoint is belike the highlight of my day because I intend to see very unique and interesting methods and niches for making money on the internet.

I personally don’t care at every most what topics I attain money from. Some grouping will actually do better if they build sites based around passion. Honestly, that isn’t the case for me. My passion is the chase and making money online for me is what keeps me driven. If that money comes from marketing aggregation or online recipes, it feels the same to me. If you crapper develop a passion for the chase, you will open yourself up to nearly endless possibility.

4. Stop reading blogs. Lately I’ve had a few grouping ask me what sites I actually feature and the honest truth right now is that I exclusive feature two sites: Grizzly’s How To Make Money Online For Beginners and Vic’s Make Money Online with the BloggerUnleashed. Almost every of you are learning too much technique without enough implementation. You might feel like you don’t understand enough yet to intend going. That’s because of every of the contradicting aggregation you allow yourself to consume. Every time I indite stuff like this grouping email me in a fright asking how I stay on top of everything if I don’t feature another people’s sites. I didn’t learn by reading another sites in the first place - you shouldn’t either. I hit tested literally every idea I’ve ever written most and that’s how I learned this business. Why the @#$% would I feature a clump of grouping every day that hit done less testing than I have?

The honest truth is that I don’t trust what most of bloggers say because my experience tells me otherwise. Most of what the big bloggers will tell you worked for them - because they hit a lot of talent with the written word and because they work continual hours. Most of you worship these guys without realizing that they hit to continue to work 20 distance days to maintain their incomes. My good friend Griz on the another hand will belike attain $35000+ next month, even if he’s on the moon or in a coma. He’ll work a lot because he enjoys it, but he won’t hit to. His work will intend him even more growth in his niche website business.

People that are successful making money on the internet aren’t reading freaking MMO blogs every day long. They are doing keyword research, starting new sites, and having fun doing it. If you conceive the ‘high’ you intend from reading good noesis is great, wait until you hit a $100 day with a site. Better yet, wait until you hit a $1000 day on a site.

I feature Vic and Griz because they are true practitioners of a making money online style that most grouping crapper execute and my style has a lot of similarities to them. I’ve learned from both of them and candidly I can’t say that most most another sites. I’m a full timer and candidly I average less than 10 minutes per day reading another blogs. If the thrill of chasing money isn’t enough to overpower your info addition, you might want to study walking away.

For me the fun is in actually getting what I’m chasing and to me, theory is mostly worthless. I could candidly answer over 90% of the questions I intend with ‘it doesn’t matter’. Most of the theory you guys are disagreeable to learn is worthless, in fact in every actuality it’s a chasm that costs you money because it costs you time. I was born with a practical mind and theory exclusive appeals to me when I crapper see a way to benefit. Maybe that’s digit of the reasons I don’t give a rats most what’s written on another sites - 90% of it doesn’t matter. If you crapper garner keywords, indite content, and link build with efficiency, you’re feat to attain truckloads of money in your lifetime.

To whatever of you, the theory matters much more than the implementation. Interestingly, these personality traits are ingrained into whatever grouping and those of you that are built this way hit whatever life-advantage over the rest of us. You are more likely to be highly educated, for one. However, you also hit whatever distinct weaknesses that you need to be aware of. In order to produce maximum entrepreneurial progress, you hit to suppress your theorist itch daylong enough to act. Since the action isn’t natural to you, you need to set specific goals and attain sure to complete them. There’s null at every criminal with this but I’m not feat to act like things that don’t matter do. What matters most in this business is the action and if that offends whatever people, so be it.

5. Learn to target keywords with place pages. If you crapper garner solid keywords and indite most them effectively with posts, you will be well on your way towards success online. Making money on the internet might seem hornlike at first, but the truth is that if you crapper target keywords well with posts and sites, it becomes very easy.

Most of you hit belike feature a lot most blogging so you place simply to post. You’re supposed to right?

Sorry ya’all but most of these bloggers are leading you astray and they’re doing it in a big way. There’s no need to place to just post. It doesn’t do a dang thing unless you’re targeting a new keyword, or supporting a keyword targeting page you already have.

Almost every day I intend emails from grouping wanting to undergo how often to place on their sites. I usually respond asking why they’re posting in the first place. They usually say that they’re supposed to. I usually say ‘according to who?’. Then they tell me. I then say ‘who’s that?’.

Guys do you rattling want to be a blogger in the traditional sense? Do you want to be tied to posting, posting, and then posting whatever more? This candidly makes no sense whatsoever to me. I place on The Keyword Academy because I undergo that I crapper attain a difference for people, and because I hit a system that makes me money. Trust me, every place I indite has a purpose - I do not place to post. Most of my sites set there for months at a time with no updates. They are already doing a good job providing solid noesis so why would they need to be updated? If I conceive of a way to attain the site better I’ll update the site, but I don’t update to just update.

Now is when the theorists come in to tell me that Google LOVES updates and if I don’t update I can’t intend ranked. Oh really? Have you tested that little theory of yours? Maybe you should explain to me why I hit multiple sites that are sitting at #1 in Google even though they haven’t been updated in like two years…

The honest truth is that Google likes the sites that they determine are of the highest quality. The sites that are linked to the most are the sites they will see as being the highest quality. The easiest way to establish that your site is a quality site is by getting good links. Some grouping send me continual questions most SEO and the honest truth is that links are 95% of the game. You theorists should undergo that ‘updating’ accounts for a small part of Google’s senior algorithm and most of the another things you obsess over are belike in the same boat. Sites that set in super competitive niches belike need to be updated periodically but sites in non-competitive niches crapper often go for years with no updates.

Getting ranked in Google is actually REALLY easy. You hit to indite a place or create a site homepage most the topic/keyword you want to rank for, and intend anchored links from relevant sites/pages - done.

6. Start a clump of sites. You’re feat to hit sites that work better than you had hoped, but you’re also feat to hit sites that don’t work as well as you had hoped. People sometimes email me wondering what’s feat criminal with their site. I almost always ask how whatever sites they hit - they say that they hit one.

Guys you aren’t feat to learn anything by having digit freaking site. In the last quaternary years I hit built a few cardinal sites. I’m sure that whatever of you are thinking that you couldn’t possibly create that whatever sites but candidly that’s ridiculous. If you build digit niche site each week for the next quaternary years you’ll hit over 200 sites and daylong before you intend there you’ll be killing it.

Yesterday Mark and I were talking most grouping we’ve met and how alarming unfortunate is to whatever people. People totally freeze up at the thought of losing. If you want to hedge your risk, start a clump of sites. If you hit 20 sites that go after easy niches, I crapper every but indorse that whatever of them are feat to work. Each digit will cost you $10 for the domain and the total hosting cost will be $8 per month if you use Host Gator.

Guys I could tell you that it’s ok to use Blogger for making money online. Griz does this and does it well. I don’t do that myself because I see my sites as real estate investments and I can’t rattling sell them if I don’t own them. My best three sites together could be sold for most $500,000 right now and selling for that price within most two weeks is pretty realistic. I hit no problem with Blogger at every but the sale wouldn’t be an option if I had started those three sites on Blogger. To me it’s a little easier to run things with a business-like perspective if I own every of the properties and it’s that simple to me. With $8 per month hosting that you crapper run unlimited domains on, I find it hornlike to believe that anyone can’t find a way to attain that investment. I pay at least $20 per month on Mountain Dew and I would be shocked if a single digit of you couldn’t liberated up $8 per month.

7. Work with persistence. I’ve met a lot of grouping that are making money online and the ones that are making big money could never be forced to quit no matter what. They work until they win. The problem with most of the grouping that I’ve met is that they seem to believe for whatever reason that reading/researching is working. It most sure isn’t.

People attain it because they enjoy the chase and are willing to pay the price. I crapper admit that for me it wasn’t always as easy as it is now, but in every candidly I love disagreeable to find topics/niches/keywords that I crapper attain money with. I’ll pay every freaking day doing it, and I’ll like it.

For a daylong time I thought that what I wanted was to hit it big and stop working but I’ve realized that for me that isn’t at every the case. As it turns out, this work is rattling fulfilling and exciting for me and I don’t conceive I could walk away from it if I tried. Sure it will be nice to hit whatever big payoffs at whatever point but I crapper almost indorse that two days after I sold every site I had I would be plotting to set up whatever new ones.

At this point I undergo with a certainty that I crapper attain sites work. Sure, sometimes they don’t work discover how I planned but for every 10 sites I set up, at least a few will do quite well. I’ll persist until whatever start to take off better than others and I’ll then focus on the ones that are doing well. I repeat this again and again and hit lately started to shortcut the process somewhat by buying sites that are already producing. Please keep in mind that for me this is a recent development and that most of by business has been built up the hornlike way - from scratch. I owe almost every of my very healthy income to working with persistence, often WAY before the payoffs came.

When I started CourtneyTuttle.com I had a blind belief that I could attain it work. I candidly didn’t undergo how it would happen but I continuing to work believing that I could do it somehow. The story is pretty funny because I started discover with a solid noesis of SEO and for a while I got enticed by whatever of the another social sources that are discover there. I chased those for a while and found discover that even when that reciprocation comes, it’s very hornlike to attain money from. About a assemblage later I figured discover that I had to go right back to my roots, which is getting ranked in Google. As soon as I did that I started to attain legit money with the site. There are two motive to that story, first that Google reciprocation is king and second that if you hit supreme persistence, you will eventually win the day.

Making money with the internet isn’t the easiest thing ever to learn, but it isn’t rocket science either. Chances are, whatever of you undergo enough now to be able to do rattling well. My offline friends are a lot more willing to study my advice because they hit seen what I hit done and they haven’t been corrupted by thousands of blog posts. Since they act instead of wasting every of their time, most of them do a lot better than most grouping that feature my sites. Interesting, isn’t it?

I find it interesting that brand new grouping crapper feature our keyword crash course ebook and attain a lot of money with it while so-called experienced grouping don’t. Obviously this is 100% mental - the more you learn, the more you conceive you don’t know. This paralyzes you and unless you crapper recognize it you’ll become an indefinite lurker. Don’t continue down that path.

You undergo what to do. It’s time to stop reading and start acting.