What Did You Accomplish In Your First Year In Internet Marketing?
I can barely remember back to August 2003. That would be my one year anniversary with Internet marketing.
The majority of my focus was built on developing a mailing list and sending out affiliate offers to it.
In those days we could buy opt in lead and import them into an autoresponder. I would buy 10,000 at a time and over the course of a month gradually import those leads into my autoresponder.
In 11 months I had built an email list of over 125,000 subscribers. It was at this time the autoresponder I was using decided to close down.
I was faced with a decision of where to transfer these subscribers. I did some pretty exhaustive research and settled on an autoresponder company after talking with the owner personally.
I spent all night transferring my subscribers into the new autoresponder. My family and I left at 4:30 the next morning to catch a plane to Mexico for a one week vacation in the Mexico Riveria.
When I came back a week later the autoresponder I had just started to use was closed down due to spamming. Not just for me, but for people with lists of over 1 million subscribers as well. Not only that but my domain name TeamSchuman.com was also shut down.
This was pretty devastating because I felt like I had just wasted one year of my Internet marketing life. In reality it turned out to be a good thing.
I made the decision to stop buying an opt in leads. I decided to focus more on search engine optimization and ranking my webpages for long term traffic.
I put an opt in form above the fold on every webpage that I had. I started a blog and began to put more effort into that.
I found in getting opt in subscribers one at a time is a better way to build your list. It might take a little longer, but the subscribers tend to stay with you longer because they made the decision to join the list personally.
I would encourage you to step back and see where you are at after your first year online. You probably have a long list of successes and maybe even a few failures.
That's okay because that's what happens to any new business. It's not how many failures you have, but rather how you make adjustments to compensate for those.
Internet marketing continues to get better and better. It also becomes more challenging in some ways.
Not everyone who chooses to make money online is going to achieve that, but everybody has the same opportunity to make things happen in their first year and beyond.
The majority of my focus was built on developing a mailing list and sending out affiliate offers to it.
In those days we could buy opt in lead and import them into an autoresponder. I would buy 10,000 at a time and over the course of a month gradually import those leads into my autoresponder.
In 11 months I had built an email list of over 125,000 subscribers. It was at this time the autoresponder I was using decided to close down.
I was faced with a decision of where to transfer these subscribers. I did some pretty exhaustive research and settled on an autoresponder company after talking with the owner personally.
I spent all night transferring my subscribers into the new autoresponder. My family and I left at 4:30 the next morning to catch a plane to Mexico for a one week vacation in the Mexico Riveria.
When I came back a week later the autoresponder I had just started to use was closed down due to spamming. Not just for me, but for people with lists of over 1 million subscribers as well. Not only that but my domain name TeamSchuman.com was also shut down.
This was pretty devastating because I felt like I had just wasted one year of my Internet marketing life. In reality it turned out to be a good thing.
I made the decision to stop buying an opt in leads. I decided to focus more on search engine optimization and ranking my webpages for long term traffic.
I put an opt in form above the fold on every webpage that I had. I started a blog and began to put more effort into that.
I found in getting opt in subscribers one at a time is a better way to build your list. It might take a little longer, but the subscribers tend to stay with you longer because they made the decision to join the list personally.
I would encourage you to step back and see where you are at after your first year online. You probably have a long list of successes and maybe even a few failures.
That's okay because that's what happens to any new business. It's not how many failures you have, but rather how you make adjustments to compensate for those.
Internet marketing continues to get better and better. It also becomes more challenging in some ways.
Not everyone who chooses to make money online is going to achieve that, but everybody has the same opportunity to make things happen in their first year and beyond.