What If You Did It All Wrong But Still Made Money?

November 20, 2009 By Jackie Lee 49 Comments

Yesterday or the day before I got an email from PotPieGirl, I’m pretty sure most of you follow her so you probably got the email too. In it was a video Travis made about a mom who won his Fall affiliate contest. He talked about how she was doing SO many things wrong ~ and yet she’s doing 1 thing right. Doing that one thing right consistently, every day, rain or shine and she’s going to clear 100K this year.

It got me to thinking. Is there one thing I could do every single day that would move my business to 100k a year? Is there one thing YOU could do? Does this one thing apply to any business online or off? Yeah ~ this video really got me thinking. The one thing she was doing wsan’t hard, it wasn’t complex, it wasn’t any of the big things the gurus tell you you have to do to be successful. In fact, all she was doing was writing 1 article and submitting it to ezinearticles.com every week day.

If you haven’t seen the video here’s the link PotPieGirl sent me. It’s 30 minutes long so be forewarned, and I haven’t used the keyword list thing he talks about and I’m not currently a member at WA. Those are PPG’s links ~ just so we’re clear.

It seemed to me this mom was pointing her traffic from EZA to a blog that was already done on the topic ~ or maybe she was writing a new blog post every day ~ which is where I got stuck trying to figure out only doing 1 thing. I could really only narrow it down to 2 things, because everything I do requires 2 elements, content and promotion. I thought I’d run down through the possible internet marketing strategies and talk about what I thought those 2 things might be for each.

Keyword Sniping:

1. Write content on your site.

2. Create 5 backlinks to your site. (I don’t know if 5 is the magic number or not, but if you built 5 links I bet it would move you forward ~ you could adjust your strategy once you see how much difference it makes. It doesn’t matter if you are on the same site or a new site, just keep writing and linking every day and you would move forward.

Niche domination:

Build 1 lens and create 5 links. If you did that every week day do you think that would move you forward?

Micro niche sites:

Build 1 site (or add content to an existing site) and create 5 links

Niche blogging:

Write one blog post and create 5 links.

Pro Blogging:

Write one blog post, and create 5 links or make 5 connections.

Oh holy cow. Do you see what I see? It seems for just about every internet marketing strategy it all comes down to creating content and linking back to your content. It doesn’t seem to matter what you’re trying to accomplish, they seem to be the common denominator. In fact, that’s exactly what this woman was doing ~ she was creating content at EZA ~ but was also creating a link back to her site in the meantime. So she created 1 piece of content and 1 link every day ~ and it’s working.

I didn’t really realize this post was going to end up here ~ but it takes me to a good point. You can make this really complicated, you can get overwhelmed, you can get frustrated, you can try to build a list when you don’t even know how to create content, you can try to do all the things the gurus tell you you have to do to be successful

or you can get good at 1 or 2 simple things and do them consistently, and persistently.

The key to success in internet marketing is not knowing how to do all the fancy stuff ~ opt in pages, building lists Yes, those things can, at some point, help you make more money easier, but in the beginning they are NOT what is going to start making you money. I say this because you probably do not have the foundation yet, the building blocks to pull them all together and make them work.

Build your foundation ~ pick one strategy, build it build it build it, by doing the same 2 things every day ~ content creation and promotion and soon you will be making some money and you will have something to stand those bigger pieces on when you get ready (if you ever do) to put them in place.

Let me know what you think. Hopefully you’ve chosen a strategy to focus on the next 6 months or so, can you break your strategy down into content creation and promotion? If yes, let me know what you’re going to do ~ what are the two money making actions YOU’RE going to take. If you don’t think it does, let’s talk about that too, really.