Internet Marketing Recipe for success. What are the main ingredients?

Posted by Walt Hanson | June 3, 2008 .

First of all, this is going to be the very first post I write for the Easy-Im blog, and I hope you are going to find it informative, entertaining, valuable, helpful, and effective. (As I am aiming this blog to become just that) Please, while you read my posts here (especially the first few ones) keep in mind that I am not a native English speaker. I am even thinking that maybe I should warn you that while I do my best to learn to write properly, my grammar may come across to you as being grammar of a drunken martian sometimes. I do apologize for that. But, practice makes perfect with many things in life, so I am assuming it may as well work for my writing skills. I promise to you that I will do my best to improve as fast as possible there where needed. Having said that and after welcoming you once more to the easy-Im blog, let me get started with writing what I wanted to share in this first post…

I would like to discuss and put to your attention the main and most important ingredients that are written in the Internet Marketing Success cooking book. With other words, what are the key ingredients you should learn, posses and If not add to your online business plan in order to become successful with internet marketing?

Can it really be done this making money online business I hear you ask?

If you do some research on the Internet on who is who in the internet marketing scene and even more importantly, who earns what as an Internet Marketer in that scene it won’t be hard to come up with some answers whether or not it is possible and who is doing it.

Once you did that bit of research, you see that there are indeed many individuals who have become very successful with internet marketing. Some of them have become real multi millionaires, some have become Internet millionaires, there are some who are close to becoming an Internet millionaire, and there are some who will be earning anything in-between $10.000 to $100.000 steadily per month. Of course, there are many who earn less than that but this is what I define as being a successful internet marketer. If you don’t believe there are people earning this kind of cash, let me share this with you:

Which Internet marketing hotshot earns what:

Alex Goad – Made $312,000.00 in eight days or so. (Click to see)

Mike Filsaime - Made $752.895 in seven days (Click to see)

Jeremy Schoemaker - Made$132,994.97 with Adsense in one month. (Click to see)

John Chow - Made $32,529.40 with his blog in one month. (Click to see)

Alok Jain - Made $6,549.52 in march 2008 (Click to see)

Zach Johnson Made $5.393,77 Profit in May 2008! (Click to see)

These are indeed very interesting facts. Because, I strongly believe: If these people can do it, so can anybody, including you and me. As long as we are aware of which ingredients are essential to add…

Question to you: Is this a weird or strange assumption or do you think I could be right? Because, if I’d be right, the future looks bright for all of us here!

For instance, if we look at Craig Beckta, just a regular guy like you and me, who has recently come out with the news that he has cracked a secret affiliate code. The one that all of the so called guru´s are using too. He now is going to share this information with all of us pretty soon by the way. In the Secret Affiliate Code, one of the things Craig is going to expose is the inner workings of a $6,484 landing page. The Secret Affiliate Code is supposed to be an affiliate marketing system that allows you to make money right out of the box, so, maybe this will clear some things up for us too. Anyways, let´s get back to the subject…

Let’s have a look at what I personally believe that some of the key ingredients are anyone of us should posses in order to become even slightly successful:

A business plan:

You are going to need a plan set out that will lead you to your successes. As with any business it is good practice to have a good plan you can stick with. A good plan is mostly the best foundation of a business whether it would be a brick and mortar business or an online one.

Focus:

Once your plan is written and agreed with by yourself, you will need to focus on your work, whatever it is going to be you need to do to make your plan to be a successful one.

True devotion:

You need to devote yourself to your business as if it were a marriage. If you are going to make it in marriage, there is no doubt that you will have to be 100% devoted to it. Same goes with your online business. You will need to live it, breath it, love it and feel it 100% for as long as it takes to become successful. No room for distraction for other things which brings us also to the focus ingredient. I am sure your partner in marriage does not like it either if you keep staring at other nice looking people all the time. This counts for your business as well. It is easy to get distracted by the amounts of information and offers available out there. Business (like partners in marriage), tend not to like too much distraction. The simple solution to this is to just don’t get, or don’t allow yourself to get distracted but instead devote yourself to focusing on succeeding with your plan…

A lot of determination:

Where a successful and ambitious marathon athlete will need a lot of determination to make it to the finish alive and preferable as the winner, you will need a lot of determination to make it to the finish of your plan as well. (I would like to mention that there will be no finish of your business unless you decide to retire and hopefully retire as a rich winner too!J)

A will to learn:

There is always something to learn with which you can improve your business with. Laziness made nobody rich and successful. As with other things in life: Knowledge is power. And it is so in Internet Marketing as well. The more you have learned and know, the more you can do. If you are not willing to learn, you will not get very far very fast.

Willing to work:

You should be very willing to work for your business. Ewen Chia for instance used to work from the afternoon till late in the morning seven days in the week AND maintain a busy nine to five job AND a family as well. I used to work 20 hours per day if needed to be. (And still do if it is required) And I know of many marketers that do so too. While many say they only work a few hours per day, well good for them. But, if you ask them personally, you will see that before they got to the stage that they can afford to just work a few hours per day and cash in what they do, they performed years and years of hard work, learned everything they needed to learn, had a lot of determination, were totally devoted to what they were doing and had a plan to start with.

Time:

You are going to need sufficient time to make your business grow. There is no such thing as click a mouse, sit back and you will be rich tomorrow. As a matter of fact, you should stay far away from people who promise you overnight wealth. This just does not happen. While there are people, like I have shown you, who are making or are capable of making more than $100,000.00 in one day, they did not do this the first week they were online. Once again, they had a plan, focused on it, worked hard, learned everything they needed, had total devotion to their projects in the time prior to that and they were fully determined that they would make it.

Internet Marketing Tricks and Tools:

And, finally, the last ingredient I can come up with quickly (As I am sure there are more) I believe the successful top marketers have developed their own sophisticated tricks and tools with which they can become successful time after time. Some of them are experts in generating hordes of traffic, some of them earn hundreds of thousands with Adsense, some of them are experts in promoting as an affiliate whether or not they use Pay per click advertising like Google Adwords, some are excellent product creators and some of them have millions of people on their subscriber email list where one email promotion could lead to thousands and thousands to even millions of dollars of profit. How they do it? Of course with their own specialized and to the detail developed high tech tricks and tools.

Ok, so, now we have summed up some of the most obvious main ingredients to become successful online. One question arises immediately in my mind… Why are the people I mentioned above so much more successful and others not or in much lesser proportions?

While most of the internet marketers are working as an affiliate marketer to make money online the people above do that as well, but they must have something else which they make a lot of money with.

Is it because they have area 51 marketing secrets we do not know of or because they actually create the products we promote? Is it because they have the contacts to succeed? Are they just cleverer than us? Would it be that they know more than we do?

I think they do know more than us and I am determined to find out and share it with you. My determination will go as far as personally asking them and other successful business people what they think the main ingredients are of a successful internet marketing recipe and will share that with you in a near future post.

Do you agree they must know more? And what ingredients do you think we miss or I left out here? I for one am very interested to find out what you think! Please do let me and the world know by commenting your thoughts about this.

As soon as I have a few answers from these hotshot internet marketers, I will post them to the easy-im blog. And, I think the first person who I am going to ask will be nobody less than Mister Alex Goad. I cannot yet guarantee that he will answer my questions any time soon, but I will do my very best to pick his brain first and then the others.

Sounds interesting? It does, doesn’t it?

If you want to know about it as it comes available, I invite you to subscribe to my Rss feed if you would like to be updated about the follow up post with answers from the big internet marketers. Because, I guarantee you, I will find out and let you know.

In the meantime, don’t hesitate to tell me what your thought are of my first post, and if you have an opinion you would like to share with us as far as the ingredients to successful marketing goes.

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