Ideas For My 6000th Post
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If you were just starting out and had to do it all over again with internet marketing in some form or another, which direction would you go? For example, I know you mentioned you like having your marketing and consulting clients, would you stick with that and have a nice "middle ground," or would you do something completely different, possibly something you have never tried?
I did all this shit myself. MYSELF. MYSELF
No joke. I have 17+ years experience, so I started out in web design, then programming, then moved into marketing. There was nothing I couldnt do, although that doesnt mean I should have done it.
I did it all.
Delegation.. well whatever was going to make the biggest impact to bankroll is what got handled first. When I was starting to delegate though ( was too late in the game though to actually help me ) I was using VA's for most mundane tasks and then freelancers for more specialty shit like graphics.
I did handle all testing and optimization though myself and still do, today I delagate graphics, html, and programming I cant do to others. I know people that outsource a lot of their personal shit, but I am not at that point yet ( trust issues ).
Never lost it all, but its not as liquid as it use to be ( tied up in house, retirement, etc ). I mean, I can still get it, but its not like walking up to my bank and just cashing out $200k in $100's on the spot. If I want to go and get out $10k, sure no problem.. if I want to go and open up a new mcdonalds franchise, then that will take some planning.
Something I learned along the way:
If it flys, fucks, or floats... its better to just rent it.
Any advice for offer owners on what to look out for when dealing with networks, affiliates, and JV's?
I just created my first info product and my 2nd one is on the way soon and I'm planning to launch it on clickbank once I know my metrics and everything is dialed in. I know you may not have dealt specifically with clickbank, but any advice you can offer about owning the entire chain and running a real IM business and managing it all would be great.
I just created my first info product and my 2nd one is on the way soon and I'm planning to launch it on clickbank once I know my metrics and everything is dialed in. I know you may not have dealt specifically with clickbank, but any advice you can offer about owning the entire chain and running a real IM business and managing it all would be great.
Tricky question for me personally.
Id prob have 2-3 worthwhile clients that let me do marketing MY way. They are out there, but hard to find. Id also make them sign contracts and commitments for at least 6 months out and charge real agency fees ( im talking more then $120 an hour ).
After that, I would prob create my own products ( maybe an online retail store, a SaaS, a supplement, ad exchange who knows ). Not sure in what niche but I would have my own and then I would rely on PPC to get the traffic and sales until I had a huge enough email list built up and following on social networks.
Those would be the 2 areas Id look into and gravitate to. Thats me personally. Notice both examples let me determine my own income and have a solid base of income too ( which SEO is not )
I hate clients though and I am not sure if I personally want to start back into owning my own shit by myself again. Partners can be horrible though too.. so I am in limbo atm.
I am prob not the best at this type of question, but keep it all small until you know it works. Ask to only have your offer "private" with a select group of proven affiliates and make sure it works before handing it out to the public for anyone to sign up with.
Lower your odds of failure, so work with affiliates in more trusting countries ( meaning dont let just anyone from Kenya sign up ) and also know your numbers back and forth. Oh, you know that email affiliates convert at 10% for you? Good, anyone converting less then 5% needs to get cut.. do this daily. Have no mercy and dont get emotionally involved.
Also, give your good affiliates a reason to stay with you, offer them more payout or more bumps.
Maybe start your offer out to just PPC affiliates only, or just email affiliates only.
Its not the big fraudsters that is the issues ( those can be seen easily most times ), its the ones that slip in 3 fraud orders a day while sending in 15 good ones and do this day in and day out.
Since you're older and wiser than I am..
If you had an idea, not just one of your many million dollar ideas written down on a list, but ONE that you really thought could be a game changer or huge money maker, but you did not have the capital, resources, talent etc. to make it happen..
What would you do to make it happen?
If you had an idea, not just one of your many million dollar ideas written down on a list, but ONE that you really thought could be a game changer or huge money maker, but you did not have the capital, resources, talent etc. to make it happen..
What would you do to make it happen?
Id do what Donald Trump and other millionaires do ( ever watch shark tank? ), find someone that can and partner with them.
25% of a million dollar idea is better then 100% of nothing. Then use that 25% of the million dollar idea to fund your own other ideas.
I should have been more specific.
If you decided on Sunday night that you were going to make it your life's mission to make it happen, what would you do starting from Monday morning?
Grab the phone book and cold call, email possible mentors? Run naked through the street and get news coverage?
I would reach out to my established connections ( remember above I mentioned being well connected is important in business http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/170499-ideas-my-6000th-post.html#post1990818 ) and find out who i know, might know someone that can get me in touch with the people I know to do this.
If I didnt have that network, Id starting pounding linkedin, reddit, quora, and other sites and start networking and building up relationships to get to that point.
It really depends on what your "idea" is. People that are good with tech ideas hang out and respond to different things then people who are good with "retail bricks and mortar" ideas.
Bottom line, you need a good network. Your a fish in a barrel without one.
This is a great thread. You love being a one man band whereas I love task delegation. In the end you are pulling in money with what feels most comfortable for you and do have a good financial plan going.
No question, just congrats on the milestone.
Thank you for blessing my thread
I honestly dont do this now, but have in the past where it was easier to just list your address in the yellow pages and all the local directories ( was like a couple huge ones that aggregated to all the smaller ones ) and call it a day.. then it moved to just throwing links and citactions on other sites to your local site with the city name or listing your address at a PO BOX in the middle of town ( or the main zip code ) of your area and call it day.
Im not sure what people are doing now honestly, but I have a feeling its also is involving manipulating reviews and also meta data too. I use to do it a time ago, but fell out of it for other things.
I can tell you LayeredLinks works great for rep. management and I have a strong feeling it would work for Local too. You need to hit up Micha though and make sure. I am not suggesting this because I am a partner with Micha in another project, but because it works. If you want any proof I can out a site to you he worked on for me.
Of course it works for Local and reputation management, I designed it and I have strong backgrounds in both those markets.
Question: Do you regret telling me about African Mango long before it was public knowledge as the next big thing, allowing me to jump on it and grab a sick EMD that I ranked top 3 for months before I fucked it up using stupid ass BST services on instead of keeping your mouth shut and banking that cash yourself?
Also, dat mai tag, I was the only one awake when you went off that night, and you covered your tracks with message deletions.
Awesome thread, thanks for all you've shared with us (me specifically) along the way.