Business Round Table

Questions for the experrt 10-28 to 11-3 (Coach Teo)

by Cheryl Baumgartner Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
Cheryl Baumgartner Professional Premium   Medical...
Ladies and gentleman the floor is open for questions.  If you have any questions for Coach Teo, post them here.  This way all of the questions and answers will be in one place for future reference.  Any question at all is welcome, someone else may be thinking the same thing as you are, no matter how silly it seems to you!
Oct 28th 2007 09:23

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Cheryl Baumgartner Professional Premium   Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
Coach, what is the biggest mistake made in online marketing?
Oct 28th 2007 09:25   
Teodor M. Professional   Blockchain Real Estate
It is very hard to find the exact answer to this question. The main reason of why one fails today, most likely, is not the current reason of why you fail on the Internet with your business... The only person who really knows who is responsible for your financial issues is you. This is just the beginning !
I'll come with more later...
Oct 28th 2007 15:03   
Teodor M. Professional   Blockchain Real Estate
To find the answer, read also my blog article and post comments there if you wish.

Why Most People Fail In Internet Marketing?
http://www.apsense.com/article/101227.html

Oct 28th 2007 15:06   
Teodor M. Professional   Blockchain Real Estate
I don't know which is the biggest but there are few main reasons people fail:

1 - Not knowing your business very well. Not having a plan and jumping from one business opportunity to the next, not focusing on something you know about. Creating a marketing or making money website instead of creating a website about what you are an expert on.

2 - Believing you can earn a lot of money in very little time and with very little effort, and believing the hype that fill up your mailbox.

3 - Not investing the time and money required to do it right, not doing your research, not having a business plan, and not having your own and true mentor. Also, spending too much time on technical aspects and doing all things by yourself.

4 – Ignoring traffic aspect. Having a website (or 20 websites!) doesn’t mean that you will be successful entrepreneur next months or next year!

Oct 28th 2007 16:01   
Cheryl Baumgartner Professional Premium   Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
Thanks Coach I figured that one would interest a few people.
Oct 28th 2007 16:46   
Mark Hultgren Senior   Wordpress Specialist
Hi Coach,
What do you think of Safelists, FFA sites and Traffic Exchanges? I won't ask about surf sites for traffic. To me they are a waste of my time.
Oct 28th 2007 17:23   
Teodor M. Professional   Blockchain Real Estate
I'll tell you from my experience of FFA and traffic exchanges that htey are BIG WASTE of time, + FFAs are BIG SOURCE of spam!
About safelists, I never trusted them so I never used them...
Oct 28th 2007 17:32   
Teodor M. Professional   Blockchain Real Estate
About traffic we can discuss a lot, but few are great and most are free:
- Social networking (as Apsense, Lazzeo, BizPreneur, Squidoo, etc.), blogs, blog and article directories, forums, wikis, bookmarking sites...
- PPC, not free but not high investment, and is a MUST for a serious web entrepreneur.
Oct 28th 2007 17:39   
Mark Hultgren Senior   Wordpress Specialist
I wholeheartedly agree with you on all counts. Just wanted to see someone else say it too!

PPC CAN get costly though if your keywords are searched for alot. I had one campaign that ran over $300 in two weeks because of my poor choice of keywords. True, I DID make some sales off it, but the return was not what it COULD have been if I had of been a little more choosy on my keywords. I could have gotten probably close to the sam4e amount of traffic for a 5 cent per click keywords as I did from the 30 cent per click one.
Live and Learn!
Oct 28th 2007 17:45   
Teodor M. Professional   Blockchain Real Estate
Yes Mark, Keywords are vital in PPC. I do have a folder in my computer called "KEYWORD FACTORY"!
Also, having a good keyword selection tool is also vital. Overture is free but not enough. One of the tools I use, and now it's FREE, is the http://www.keywordstation.com/ GO and grab it now because you'll need it in the future.
Oct 28th 2007 17:57   
Mark Hultgren Senior   Wordpress Specialist
Thanks Coach,
I already have a few keyword tools that I use. Some are inside software that I have built or recoded to work correctly and a couple that are stand alone. I will check out your tool too though, you can NEVER have enough Tools!
Oct 28th 2007 18:10   
Cheryl Baumgartner Professional Premium   Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
How often should we blog?
Oct 29th 2007 18:35   
Cheryl Baumgartner Professional Premium   Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
If anyone has questions for Coach Teo, now is the time to post them. I'll be announcing our new Expert on Saturday. Then new expert will be taking over and making his or her posts on Sunday! Once the announcement is made think about what you want to ask them! If you've been active this past week you are in the running. Everyone will get their chance. If not this week then in the near future!
Nov 1st 2007 10:20   
Teodor M. Professional   Blockchain Real Estate
How often should we blog? On daily basis if you have to sustain a business with your blog. Never less than 3 days per week.
Nov 1st 2007 10:32   
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