Feb
03

10 Questions I Ask Beginning Marketers

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I suppose the only thing worse for a would-be Internet marketer than not even having a web site is having a web site that gets little or NO traffic.

Nothing is more frustrating than expecting results from a website but getting none. .
..been there done that before myself!

Of course the first question I ask someone in this situation is how much traffic their site gets. Half of those I ask don’t have a clue. The other half have some rough numbers from their hosting account or from Google Analytics.

Those without even a clue are mostly short-timers looking for quick bucks…they’ll be gone soon. Those who go the extra mile to study their traffic at least have some promise…some of them will make it.

When those in the latter group ask me for help with their traffic, here are how the questions and answers often go:

Did you research your keywords well? …Well, kinda sort of I guess.
Why do you only have 3 pages of content? ...I hate to write.
Why do you not inter-link your pages? ...Huh? What does “inter link” mean?
Why is your title tag only your URL? ...What’s a title tag?
Why do you have 15 affiliate links on your first page? ...I gotta make money!
How many article submissions have you done? ...Huh?
How many YouTube videos have you submitted? ...Well, heck….I’m not very techy really.
Have you done any bookmarking? ...Huh?
What about twitter or Facebook? ...Are you building targeted followers? How do I do that?
How much time a day do you work on your Internet business? ...Uh well, once in a while I…..

And that is how it goes….I’m not kidding. I have had more than a few conversations that went just as described above.

Here’s what I’m getting at.

I have a site for sale that’s in a perfect little sub-niche of a larger area in which people spend a LOT of money. I already did the research in Google and Market Samurai to prove it’s viable. I already built the site and have a good start on original and keyword optimized content. It’s structure is already Google friendly too.

This site offers a huge head start to someone wishing to get the ball rolling!

But you can’t just buy it and sit back and wait for the dollars to flow in. It doesn’t work like that!

The site has a good start with the basics, but the buyer (maybe YOU)  has to do the normal, REQUIRED, grunt work to get the traffic flowing.

If you are ready, willing and able to take it on, check out my dog training niche site sale here:

http://weberinternetmarketing.com/stevesclassroom/site-for-sale/

If you are interested, you have until midnight this Saturday (February 5, 2011) to place your bid.

Oh, be sure to notice the great bonuses I added! One of them is a strategy phone call with me where I outline the strategy I would use to market the site in order to drive traffic.

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Comments

  1. Anya says:

    hey steve-
    LOVED the auctioned website. RU going to be doing that more in the future? Also– I had a question: how much time do you spend with any one website when you first get it up and running…not including coding/building time, but when it comes to advertising, how many hours a week do you spend promoting it? Just wondering.~anya the great.

    p.s. keep up the GREAT work.

  2. Steve says:

    Yes, we’ll be having those mini sites for sale on a regular basis. How much time totally depends on the size of the niche. It may only require 5 or 10 article submissions just to get the ball going. On the other hand, if the area is larger, it will take months of regular work (I don’t mean full time for months, but at least 4 or 5 hours a week at least.)

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