My OperaHow to make a Blog and create your own Marketing Strategy
Friday, July 10, 2009 5:41:38 AM
A few years ago I carried out my own research on how to make a blog and I naively thought quickly get the blog built and wait for the money to come pouring in. Then I could relax, work an hour or 2 a day, become a millionaire and travel around the world after just 2 months of hard work.
Well, that’s what all the Internet Marketing ads promised would happen.
Guess what?
Years later, I am not a millionaire, I work a few more hours than 2 hours a day and I am definitely not travelling around the world.
It was a long, long way from reality.
I quickly found out that Internet Marketing is not necessarily a quick way to make money, is extremely complicated and much more difficult than simply building a blog. But you have to start by building a blog!
If you want to see how easy it is to build your own profitable blog in 45 minutes, check out my free guide:
how to make blog
But before you build your blog, ask yourself these questions:
1. “What’s the strategy for your Internet Marketing business?”
2. “What are your customers looking for?”
3. “How are you going to market your products and services?”
Do you have an Internet Marketing Plan for your business?
Answering the 3 questions above would be a great start to creating your Internet Marketing plan.
The basic steps are:
Strategic planning
Customer analysis
Internet marketing
Strategic Planning.
What is your overall strategy for your business? Are you going to create product after product after product in the same business areas or are you going to diversify into a number of different areas?
What is going to make your business stand out from the rest?
What are the overall aims of the business? Income? Sales? Products? Customers?
All these questions determine what your business will look like in the future. Knowing that will help you establish the steps you have to take today, tomorrow, this week, next week and next month to move the business forward.
Bear in mind, you never reach your strategy. Why? Because you should always be looking ahead and changing your business strategy.
Customer Analysis
How much do you know about your customers? In order to effectively market to someone, you have got to know what he or she is looking for. What are their pains, their ‘problems’? The better you understand the type of person you are marketing to, the better. And please don’t say, ‘everyone needs my product’.
Internet Marketing
This is a huge subject, but basically how are you going to advertise your business on the Internet?
Newsletters?
Article Marketing?
Search Engines?
Blog Carnivals?
To be effective, most probably all of them.
Getting to grips with these 3 steps, will help you on your way to creating your web marketing strategy and help you be much more successful.
If you want to see how easy it is to build your own profitable blog in 45 minutes, check out my free guide:
how to make blog
Start your online business by finding out how to make a blog
Well, that’s what all the Internet Marketing ads promised would happen.
Guess what?
Years later, I am not a millionaire, I work a few more hours than 2 hours a day and I am definitely not travelling around the world.
It was a long, long way from reality.
I quickly found out that Internet Marketing is not necessarily a quick way to make money, is extremely complicated and much more difficult than simply building a blog. But you have to start by building a blog!
If you want to see how easy it is to build your own profitable blog in 45 minutes, check out my free guide:
how to make blog
But before you build your blog, ask yourself these questions:
1. “What’s the strategy for your Internet Marketing business?”
2. “What are your customers looking for?”
3. “How are you going to market your products and services?”
Do you have an Internet Marketing Plan for your business?
Answering the 3 questions above would be a great start to creating your Internet Marketing plan.
The basic steps are:
Strategic planning
Customer analysis
Internet marketing
Strategic Planning.
What is your overall strategy for your business? Are you going to create product after product after product in the same business areas or are you going to diversify into a number of different areas?
What is going to make your business stand out from the rest?
What are the overall aims of the business? Income? Sales? Products? Customers?
All these questions determine what your business will look like in the future. Knowing that will help you establish the steps you have to take today, tomorrow, this week, next week and next month to move the business forward.
Bear in mind, you never reach your strategy. Why? Because you should always be looking ahead and changing your business strategy.
Customer Analysis
How much do you know about your customers? In order to effectively market to someone, you have got to know what he or she is looking for. What are their pains, their ‘problems’? The better you understand the type of person you are marketing to, the better. And please don’t say, ‘everyone needs my product’.
Internet Marketing
This is a huge subject, but basically how are you going to advertise your business on the Internet?
Newsletters?
Article Marketing?
Search Engines?
Blog Carnivals?
To be effective, most probably all of them.
Getting to grips with these 3 steps, will help you on your way to creating your web marketing strategy and help you be much more successful.
If you want to see how easy it is to build your own profitable blog in 45 minutes, check out my free guide:
how to make blog
Start your online business by finding out how to make a blog
