Adam Toren here, and it’s time for the results of our entrepreneur poll! We have been asking “If you could give someone ONE amazing internet marketing tip, what would it be?”
You can check out some of the answers on our live competition feed below, many of you have been tweeting your entries over the course of the last few weeks and we have had some really excellent ones.
So, thanks so much to everyone who gave us their tips, it was great reading through them. We have put together our choice of the tops answers.
Whatever the internet marketing method is, just do it and repeat doing it…. it will get the result you want.
Start with one thing (optimizing your own site)…perfect it. Then move to the next thing whether it’s writing articles or making videos…perfect it. Then move on to the next thing… As an internet marketer you can get very overwhelmed with everything there is to do. Outsource as much as you can afford.
Stop jumping around like a kid in a candy store. Pick something, perfect it, put it on autopilot, find something else to repeat the process on.
I say use all of the resources that you can. Optimize your site, use All-in-One SEO if you use WordPress, combine using Su.Pr and Twitter, along with Digg, Stumbleupon, Alexia, and others. Throw everything AND the kitchen sink at it. Give it 2-3 months, and see which method is getting you the best traffic. Tone it down with the others and focus on the one.
Use eBay. eBay handles more searches per day than Google (yes its true!). The majority of people searching on eBay are buyers looking for a product.
So sell your product there or better still, sell a feeder product on eBay and feed the buyer into your sales funnel.
Strike a balance. If you’re looking for low turnover but strong customers, referral market. Create strategic relationships and refer clients to others.If you are looking for high turn-over, don’t spend all day trying to find out the favorite color of everyone of your connections. Let them know what you offer… then move on.
Use article marketing to build trust, credibility, traffic, and links.
Great tip about eBay there! For those who haven’t been following this poll yet, we mentioned that our Top Tip is Social Bookmarking! Bookmark your blog posts, you web pages, you news announcements and more using this list of our top 100 faves! and don’t forget to add this to your bookmarks too! Bookmarking is great for creating awareness of your website and for back links. If you would like to keep your tips coming in, this poll will stay open for another week, so keep them coming, enter at http://contests.youngentrepreneur.com/
I will catch up with you next week for a new poll!
