Poll: What is Your Biggest Internet Marketing Challenge?
In order to more effectively help you build a better Internet marketing business in 2008, please take the following “What is Your Biggest Internet Marketing Challenge?” poll.
Please expand your answers by adding a comment below. For example, if you checked “no website, no blog, no nothing yet”, please explain your difficulty with getting a web site online.
I will do my best to align the topics of upcoming posts and articles in accordance with the majority of responses received.
Let’s make 2008 your best and most prosperous year yet!
Cheers,
Ros
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My response is really more about general confusion and overload. I can absorb a lot of information and knowing all the things I need to “get right” creates confusion as to which aspects of my business I need to attack first.
To organize the madness, I outlined a series of steps that I will follow. I will only acquire new information on an as needed basis. At this point, it is more important for me to “do” than to learn.
I clicked email marketing – but I suppose my main problem is time. And I just never seem to get time to keep on top of writing email newsletters.
I have to confess that I still don’t delegate or outsource anywhere near enough. And I’ve been meaning to get a Virtual Assistant for ages, but aside from using the odd freelancer off Elance, I’ve done nothing.
I’m still in the getting started mode; just enough other stuff to keep me off focus of getting started.
But I finally actually bought your handbook, so I’ve got reference material to concentrate on; not just all of the tips, etc that I’ve been picking up for seems like 4 years now.
Thanks for all you do, Ros! And Happy New Year!
Hello Rosalind,
Thank you for the great poll. My greatest difficulty is figuring out where the proper keywords are that will lead to some kind of financial success. Although I have studied this area for some time, this remains the single biggest block, in terms of getting going.
Any help that you could provide would be much appreciated.
All the best in 2008!
Hi,
You haven’t listed what my biggest ‘problem’ is — FOCUS!
I have a real hard time focusing on anything with all the ’stuff’ I receive free/have purchased, etc. It’s hard enough being an April Fool Baby to focus, but man…
I am beginning to remove myself from all the email lists I am on (not yours) – it’s a start!
I’m at the point of creating my website/blog and cannot get myself to enter commentary or other writen material on the site. I read and re-read your handbook about entering material. I woud like to write my own, but I get locked up about entering something, anything.
I have difficulty focusing on one thing – I tend to jump around too much (maybe I have ADD???).
I bought your handbook but have not had time to read it yet.
My biggest challenge is getting excited about a new idea, putting the initial bare-bones site up, and then forgetting about it because I got distracted by yet *another* idea. Not enough time in the day to realistically attend to all the websites I really want to start and/or maintain/nurture. I’ve always wondered if this could actually be just a manifestation of “Adult Attention Deficit Disorder” in disquise?? :-O
My biggest challenge is picking an income-producing method and STICKING WITH IT. I get one website up and then read about this OTHER great income-producing method that I should be using so I start working with that instead.
I need to pick one method and stick with it. The website above (in my link) is my latest attempt to stay focused on one niche. We’ll see how it goes.
Also, getting traffic is getting more challenging with so many other people being savvy about article marketing, social bookmarking, etc. Sometimes, it seems that if it weren’t for all of us promoting our own pages, those sites wouldn’t have any business! Thanks.
I have a radiation plant in India. I want to sell radiated agricultural products on the net.
My biggest challenges(stumbling blocks):
1) Getting my own website published with a squeeze page (for building my list) & hosted.
2) Sorting out the most cost efficient & effective methods (ad sites, PPC, traffic exchanges, safelists, etc.) to promote my website as well as an affiliate program & a couple MLM’s.
I’ve learned a lot, not the least of which is how to separate the good stuff (like Rosalind’s site) from the useless & scam sites.
I think the challenge for many of us is focus. As someone once said “getting information from the Internet is like drinking water from a fire hydrant” There is so much information and once you think you have the right stuff something else comes along and whisks you off in another direction.
I’ve ditched all other marketing to concentrate on social Media/networking sites before they get inundated and the rules change.
My biggest challenge is coping with all the ideas I have and maintaining focus. I’ve got past the technical problems stage and I am now looking for a way to integrate all that I am doing – another ebook, a membership site?
I’ll ditto what Bruce said at the top. I have opted out of 98% of the time wasting so called newsletters that keep telling me what I should be doing. And most want between $20.00 to $5000.00 for the info.
I don’t mind paying for what I need but I’ve learned that I don’t need nearly as much as *they* think I do.
Rosalind, your book is the best value on the web.
Thanks,
Jim
Will have my affiliate site online within the next few days so thats exciting. Have created it with XSitePro which has been good as I have limited design skills. All the late nights and long hours are starting to take a toll but am enjoying the challenge.
Our eldest son is web designer but he but hes too busy to help me much, plus he has better paying clients that his parents!
I guess my biggest challenge is to find legitimate programs and products to promote that will give me a worthwhile return..
Focus is my down fall. I have the information to go ahead and sell and help people.
We all have one fault that is not mentioned here, that is “FEAR”.
To expand we have fear that we will succeed and fear that we will fail.
Fear people will say yes or no, then want do we do.
I do have product now I nned to prmote it.
Every morning just getting past the emails and there is so much reading. How do people organise this and get their work done.
I am looking for the idea for a web site. However having said that after about 4 yrsof thinking about different ideas I may have hit on somehting. I just now have to begin. So where do I begin.
Then there is the money. I have spent lots here and there for all sorts of things from books to advice.
ellem NZ
Ros,
My problem is too many projects, too little time.
I’m learning to think bigger and not sweat the small stuff.
Cheers,
Lowell
My problem is two fold.
I get this great idea then lose confidence in it ie; chefsgardennewsletter.com.
Second, I have several problems when it comes to executing.
- I don’t have a credit card to buy traffic or play with adwords.
- Have I picked a niche that is worth writing articles about? I am not great at market research but from what I can tell-NO.
- I would love to put together an affilate website (and I do know how to build a website) but how should an afiliate website look? Just a big ad for other peoples products.
I have read so much and should know what to do by now but I think I suffer from-
ANAYSIS PARALYSIS
Help!
Liana
Lets be honest here, for many of us (I’m including you all so I don’t feel so alone) it’s that we don’t have enought confidence or experience to put our thoughts and feelings for public consumption. I would much rather have a website/blog that appealed to my senses than the cookie cutter sites and boiler plate blogs that come standard with “packages.”
By the time I figure out how to modify “something” or change blog theme the inspiration of the article has vanished in direct proportion to mental effort needed to make the changes.
What is needed is the “windows” equivalent to DOS for CPanel, and thus an intuitive interface on the server. That at least takes away the mental anguish I feel when I’m trying to negotiate CPanel.
My 2 cents.
-Robert
As a chronic researcher and learner I’ve gathered and read enough all around info to understand the language & culture, the skills, tool, and knowledge needed, best resources. What I haven’t yet done is to organize this infomation in a simple across and down format.
Starting with purpose/mission at upper right and completion stats at lower left.
A real tool to fill out and use productively.
The stumbling blocks are
1. Not a quick start nor technical person.
2. The very little things that look and actually are simple.
There are quite a few sites, including YouTube, that teach these details. Yet, for me, this still results in scattered info. I would like all this edu to be in one place.
Tellman Knudson has some good teaching videos. Even in this format the information is too back and forth, and noisy.
One place. One website. Simple.
If I knew how to do this I would.
Hi Ros,
Just a general comment that none of the internet “Guru’s” seem to take time into account – I have a two hour commute each way to work, work from 8 till 5:30, my family have this strange notion that I should spend time with them when I get home.
If I was a “Student” “broke living with my mother” or somewhere inbetween with hours of time to sit in front of a PC I could earn a living on the internet but no one seems to take into account that most of us are working to pay the bills with additional responsibilities.
having had my moan its also my responsibility to GOMA – Get of my behind and set up a blog and earn money even if its only $10
Regards
nick
My challenge is to work less! Say a couple of hours per week while the biz is growing. I am working on this in 2008.
The Body guard.
Find your market and get good at it!
There are many good choices of successful online businesses. Everything from bait to shoelaces, or from stockings to kites. My point is find what you like to do and become good at it! Everyone has strengths they can use.
If you are looking for a niche market, be very general when you start your search. For example if your interest is in dogs, go to keywordtracker and type in “dogs”. Let the key word search do the rest. Under “dogs” there will be a long list of dog related items with a number beside each phrase, the number is the search popularity in the past 60 days people have been using to find specific items. Move down the list and pick several out. Now check the popularity of those search terms in google and see what the competition is like. You will eventually find less popular search items to use for your own web site and affiliate marketing. Get good at that one thing… and thats it! You have just entered a niche market segment.
The only other advice I can suggest is to purchase Rosalind’s affliate marketing book. I read through the first edition cover to cover, Twice! Excellent material, full of real information that really works. Now I’m reading through her current 2nd edition. Once more, it has all the tools to make a big difference with your online business. Yes its worth the money without exception! This is not a shameless plug for her book. There’s real information here, well worth the price.
Randy Leaf
I’ve been blogging for some time, but hadn’t really started thinking about it in the longer-term, as a business. I’d blogged for personal reasons–to highlight trips to Africa and around the world, to show pictures, and to rant about different subjects. Now that i’ve started writing on ’serious’ topics, i’m wondering how long it takes to generate traffic–but traffic that isn’t paid for, and that doesn’t require me making sure I link to other blogs or sites for the sole purpose of link building, etc. Does anyone have an opinion on actually just getting traffic based on the content of your blog, rather than the tricks outside of content to drive traffic?
Thanks,
Cully
My biggest concern is getting more traffic to my website faster. I opened my yahoo store on July 01, 2008. Hits 10,000
July 31==11,000 (1,000 for month)
Aug 31==13,010 (2,010 for month)
Sept 30==14,854 (1,844 for month)
Oct 29= 18,166 (3,312 for month)
I basically advertised with free search engines. All my orders come from Google. Nothing from Yahoo.
Have an affiliate program thru Clixgalore. I offer affiliates 10% commission, 5%–2 Tier and lifetime commissions.
I promote catalog sales for my sterling silver jewelry offline with a commission from 33 1/3%-50%.
How do I get more traffic/hits to my website? I want to explode out.
Thank your very much for your time and help.
Happy Halloween.
Regards,
Kenny G Rogers, NY
High ranking back links and lots of them – very time consuming, but its effective.
Getting my developer to believe in my vision – it’s an uphill battle. fleur