Here's something I've received via email that I thought you would be interested in… maybe you've similar questions or you doubt the effectivity of article marketing as taught in Dylan Loh's new product called "Secret Article Profits". The email was sent by… - let's call her "Liz"…
QUESTION:
Hello, Detlev …
Interesting tidbit about Rich Jerk …
As to Dylan Loh's book …
There have been so many books along these lines … so many that say "I made a million a million" more or less …
and then when you buy them, you find there's a "story behind the story" or that the author has something you don't have, such as years of experience in sales and marketing, or the book is one of those "informative but incomplete" things that are of no use to anybody …
I will agree that he has done a good job of copywriting …
But when you get finished reading the book, will you be able to go out and make money writing articles yourself?
I have attached a $7 report I bought recently that I feel is right up there with 5BucksADayJr as far as "do-ability" is concerned. I would be very interested in your spin on it. It's one of the few I feel comfortable in recommending to young mothers at home who are trying to raise their children and contribute to the family income at the same time. They don't have $47 to throw around; and, for that matter, neither do I.
What I find especially intriguing about the book I have attached is the author of it is 16 years old.
If a determined teenager can do it, then I guess young mothers can do it, too.
Please let me know what you think.
Also, in light of this book I have attached, I would really appreciate it if you would give me something more to go on in regard to Dylan's book.
Specifically, could a young mother take his book and start making money with it like she could with Mark McDonald's book?
Warmest regards …
Liz
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MY ANSWER:
Hello Liz,
Yes, Craigslist is a good place to start as a newbie internet marketer as you don't get stuck in the traffic hole… Because that's the reason why most people who try to make money online aren't succeeding. They are not driving enough traffic to their pages.
The author, Dylan Loh doesn't have a "story behind the story" as you've called it. I mean, he's something like 20 years old or so, barely out of school and English is not even his first language…
Being successful in this Internet marketing business means to be determined and to have the drive to do everything needed in order to succeed. Many people fail because they want to start a big business without knowing the basics, first.
Before you don't know how to register a domain, set up a website or upload some pages to your server, create a redirect and that kind of things, it would not be a good thing to "jump right into it"… You could become overwhelmed by all these technical things and probably get nothing done.
==> This leads to procrastination…
Moreover, submitting one article to one directory probably won't get the job done, either. You need to be churning out lots of articles to make this work. You need to get into a flow and you need consistency. Making a lot of money is all about being able to scale things up which are bringing you the desired results. So you'd need to write something like 3-5 articles a day in order to get it going.
The best way for those who can afford it, is to outsource everything. You let freelancers write and submit the articles and the only things you keep doing yourself is the keyword research (so the authors know about what to write) and the creation of the resource boxes (aka signature files for the articles) so you can get traffic to your site or to an affiliate site.
But I don't understand your question in the first place as on your site, you seem to be quite knowledgeable about article writing. So why do you doubt the effectivity? It's all dependent on getting active, of course.
Yes, mothers can learn this as well AFTER they have learned the basics of building an online business… you can't put the cart before the horse.
In particular, they need to know how to create a website where they can sell their own product.
Or, the better alternative, where they have a squeeze page to collect leads and follow up with an autoresponder. This one step, the autoresponder, will multiply the profits made from article marketing as multiple items can be promoted, not just the one you initially advertised in your resource box.
But again, all these steps require some basic knowledge about online marketing (==> e.g. autoresponders). Just like with Craigslist, money can be made pretty quickly but if you're not collecting leads, you're not building a business. You're building temporary streams of income which could stop any time (e.g. as soon as you're tired of posting your ads or as soon as you go on vacation).
If newbies (mothers or not) are willing to learn the basics, they can succeed with both. Even though, I think, article marketing has much more potential than something like Craigslist as you're also building a reputation and a following from these articles which will make it easier for you to sell things to these people. Because your readers will probably like and trust you in contrast to having just read an ad about some product…
Okay, that's it for now. I hope, my answer has been helpful to you.
Warm regards,
Detlev Reimer
What do YOU think of this…?
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Posted May 30, 2007 
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