I’m aiming to be a great internet marketer and your comments about building targeted email lists that convert…are very, very relevant.

Really appreciate the effort you put into this one,

Maybe you mentioned it already,

Did you list Public Speaking, you know, talking in public at internet marketing gigs?

I know this is MASSIVE in the US, public speaking is big there anyway,
I think not so big in Australia.

You have laid out a brilliant business model or strategy for the person who has the skills to incorporate all three mediums: blogger, author, and internet marketer. We always hear about “repurposing”. Well, this is repurposing in its basic form, I think.

Thank you, Yaro, for writing posts that get my creative juices flowing when I’m feeling like I’ve run out of gas (and ideas on how to differentiate myself from the rest).

Till then,

Jean

I view it like a spectrum, on one end you have media companies, on the other end you have “traditional” bloggers. Ill start on one end.

media companies: like techcrunch, mashable, caradvice, talking point memo the list goes on and on. Once were blogs run by one person, but have grown in traffic and revenue and now opperate as a media company, employing multiple paid bloggers, lawyers, ad managers, events around the world, making millions a year.

problogger: someone who can make a full time income from blogging primarily through ad networks, direct advertising, etc. Like Perez hilton, or Dooce.com, or darren at DPS. Meaning they only focus on delivering content primarily, there product is their content. THESE types of people are the very few. That was my original point.

Think about it, like you always say, if you want to make big money you have to have something to offer, something to sell. This is ONE of many reasons why people fail at trying to become probloggers b/c they think there going to make a killing with adnetworks alone. People to do that you have to have hundereds of thousands if not millions of uniqe visitors a month. For most, this will never happen. As such, most people have to make products and leverage their blog and when they do…

They just now beacame internet marketers: an entreprenur that leverages his blog into email lists and product offerings, affiliate marketing etc. on top of doing everything that a pro blogger does (ie good compelling content and seo). The person behind highonhealth.org fits this. An internet marketer is not just limited to the MMO industry, it can be any topic.

Traditional bloggers: People who use there blog as a journal and make no money off it, and have no intention to make money off it, or have NO IDEA how to make money off it.

To your point, Frank Kerr is an internet marketer writing on another internet marketers blog. “Internet Marketer” shouldent be a bad word, you can still care about your content and your readers, I just use it as a way to describe how someone makes a living full time in this game.

CEMIL: so sorry to hear you got taken for a ride. It takes a long time. I do SEM and make a full time living of the internet, I also have a blog that Im growing and want to make it into something like timsykes.com,

(its not utkemonster.com, thats just my personal site) im 26, and have been doing this since i was 20, i have a netork of niche sites that makes me more than enough to live off and I have a blog that im trying to grow into an authority site. Where I am today is the culmination of years of decisions and ACTION. Action is what separates the winners from the loses. Learn all that you can, but dont forget to start taking action. Don’t take all advice at face value, test it. Also, make sure its something that your passionate about, like I always tell my friends who want to do what i do b/c they think they will be happier/successfull, but hate to write and have no interest in the interent other than making money:

If you chase your passions the money will follow, if you chase the money, your like everyone else.

-david

PS: I just found your site today and this is the first post I read, but I surely am going to read others too

There are plenty of sites out there looking to do better in search engines. These companies hire SEO specialists. Most SEO guys are incapable of writing interesting content aimed at their client’s target market. SEO guys expect their clients to come up with the content, which they will then optimise.

Most of their clients are either incapable of creating interesting content, or too busy. Catch-22.

A good author can get paid very well for writing 250-300 word articles destined for web sites undergoing optimisation. It all works best when the content appears gradually over time, rather than all at once – which generates regular work.

A smart author might even seek out lots of SEO guys, and keep him/herself as occupied as s/he wants.