5 Success Habits of Top Online Marketers

I didn’t always understand or even believe many of the marketing methods being taught online.

In fact it wasn’t until I had my own personal experiences, failures and successes that these 5 success habits of the top online marketers became the habits I regard as some of the most valuable for my own business.

This is by no means an exhaustive list so feel free to add your own…

Habit #1.  Find Profitable Niches

You might be thinking, what’s a profitable niche?  Should it be competitive or should it be some micro-niche that has less competition?

Highly competitive niches are actually the most profitable, but that can also mean it’s a more difficult niche to break into and be successful at.

Finding a niche in the market can be a confusing challenge but the goal is not to fear the competition, competition means there’s lots of money to be made.

What you do need to do however, is figure out how you can get your share of the a larger cash pie in a niche that you know, love and enjoy.  That brings us to Habit #2.

Habit #2.  Have a Plan & Take Action

Start with a good plan, not an idea.   There’s a difference.

Don’t get me wrong, you need to start with an idea, but in order to go from an idea to something profitable you need a plan.

For example,  weight loss is a popular and very competitive niche but how can you profit from that niche?

Here are a few things to look at:

• Who is your target audience?  Young, old, men, women, etc
• What type of weight loss niche do you want to be in?  Food, exercise, body building, etc.
• What online business model will you choose?
• How will you monetize your business?
• How much money would you like to make?  Is this intended to replace your day job or is it a financial supplement?

Your plan has to include setting goals.  Start with yearly goals and work down to weekly and daily goals. Each day has to have a set amount of tasks that you will work on in order to fulfill your overall plan.

Next, you must take action.  Don’t be one of those people that knows what to do but doesn’t do it.

It doesn’t help to load up your hard drive with courses, ebooks, ideas and possibilities and then never take action.  If your goal is to write an ebook, do it. If your passion is to write about how to be a better golfer, do it.

Nothing can happen if you don’t get started and do it.

Habit # 3.  Work Your Plan Until it Becomes Profitable

Never abandon what you are doing for something that looks better.

If you’ve created a plan for your business, work that plan until you are successful.  One of the mistakes I made early on in my business was I jumped from one business idea to the next in hopes of finding something just a little bit better, something that would make me money faster or something that was easier. Big mistake.

Several years ago when my first internet business idea didn’t begin earning a thousand dollars a week like I thought it would, I dropped it and started something different.

A thousand dollars a week isn’t unrealistic but making that within just a few weeks of starting out is.   If I had stuck with it, put a firm marketing process in place and worked my plan until it became profitable I would probably still have that business today making much more than $1000 a week with it.

Any top online marketer will tell you not to get distracted.  Don’t follow the next best thing to come along.  Stay with your plan until it becomes profitable.  Jumping over to something else simply puts you farther behind.

Once your online business ideas or model begins earning you a steady income, you can move on to the next thing that strikes your fancy, but not until your current venture become profitable.

Here are a few profitable internet businesses that work:

• Promoting Affiliate products and services online
• Write sell and promote your own profitable ebooks
• Create membership websites
• You can Create an ecommerce website and sell tangible items that you create yourself or buy wholesale.

There are many ways to profit online but you’ll never know what they are if you continually move on to the next proclaimed best thing.

Build on what you already have and make it profitable first.

Habit #4.   Build a Targeted Email List

There’s no successful top online marketer or business owner I know of that doesn’t build an email list.  They all have their own list of targeted prospects.

It’s the first thing I think of when I build a new website or focus on a new niche market because These are the people that are the most interested in what you have to say or offer. If anyone can be compelled to buy, these are those people.

Building a targeted email list is the single best way to build your cash flow for the long haul and it’s one of the easiest and most cost effective things you can do.  In fact once it’s set up, it runs on autopilot bringing in targeted prospects on a daily basis.

I don’t suggest using lead capture or lead generation services.  Instead, create your own opt in email list,  it’s what I personally have had success with because my leads are permission based as well as being highly targeted.   I would  much rather have 100 highly targeted leads than 1000 lukewarm leads, wouldn’t you?

Habit #5.  Become a Pro at Getting Free Visitors

Top online markers know you can’t create a website and expect that visitors will simply appear, because they won’t.

Getting visitors to your site first starts with a couple of basics that includes search engine copywriting and effectively using Google Ranking factors that positively influence your web pages, things like properly using your title and description tags, header tags, anchor text, site speed and so on.

Next, follow these effective strategies for getting free targeted visitors:

• Guest posting on related, authority blogs.  If you have a blog or even a website, getting traffic with guest posting is huge right now and very effective for generating traffic to your site.   Every blogger needs good quality posts and if you can write a guest post that a blog owner can use, both of you  benefit.

• Get set up on Twitter and Facebook and connect with your community.  Social marketing is an awesome way to connect with individuals that are interested in you, but as we all know, the social scene can be time consuming and if used wrong, it can be a time waster.   That’s why I’ve stuck with only Twitter and Facebook.  Connect with your target market by building relationships first.  Here are 114+ ideas on how to use Twitter that aren’t time wasters.

• Write articles and submit them to prime article marketing directories. With the latest Google Farmer update, article marketing directories have taken a slight hit, but that doesn’t mean writing articles is a lost method.  A quality, well written article will always be welcomed by other website owners and for popular newsletters published around the web.

Now it’s your turn.   What success habits have brought you profits and success?

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