Internet Marketing with Mike Gillis

When you hear that article marketing isn’t free you have to stop and think for a minute, lots of internet marketing experts and gurus say that article marketing in one of the best free methods of getting targeted traffic to your websites, blogs or whatever you are promoting. And now someone is telling you it’s not free!

What’s going on here?

If you write your own articles, then your “spending” your time instead of money plus you need to spend more time or money to submit your articles, bookmark your articles and a bunch of other stuff you can have done with your articles in order to get the maximum effect from your articles.

If your prefer to outsource your article marketing and the promotion of your articles then you are in turn paying someone money to spend their time writing articles for you.

So now you may be thinking, is their any method of getting traffic that’s completely free?

The answer is a big no !! And guess what… nothing you do from start to finish in your business will ever be completely free. Just think, even your learning new stuff, testing and trying out new things, it all requires your time and your time is always worth money. I don’t care what you do, who your are or whatever else, everybody is worth money!

Now think about it, what is your time worth? Is what you do in your business and for your business worth your time to do or would you rather find someone else to do it. If you outsource the steps in your business that you don’t like to, don’t know how to do or aren’t good at you’ll start to see that you have more time, save more money and be much happier.

Now you may be thinking of how did I get myself from free article marketing to outsourcing article marketing and other marketing strategies that you’ll face in the success of your online business. Well one way or another you will have to spend money for time, whether it’s your time or someone else’s.

So if your starting to think you would rather start outsourcing some of these tasks such as article marketing, your can get a free copy of The Outsource Compendium to learn more about outsourcing.

I hope this helps everyone get a better perpectitive on why free article marketing is a myth.

Mike

Coming back to my previous post on Outsourcing, I wanted to give you some videos showing you how to get setup and how to post a project to be outsourced. I found a couple good videos on YouTube that you can check out to get a better idea.

RentACoder.com Video

eLance.com Video

If you have never had anything outsourced before, watch these videos and then decide on something simple to get outsourced. It could be a logo or other simple graphic, an article or just something small and simple that should cost less then $20 to create.

Once you see how easy this can be done, you will start outsourcing more projects that can save you lots of valuable time, money and frustration.

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Here is a short video showing how to use Yahoo Answers for niche research, to increase traffic to your site and increase your authority.

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Do you know that by following a few simple tips you can get more tasks completed in less time. Some of these tips are very simple but they can create amazing results and you don’t have to worry about spending much money, maybe a few dollars.

The first tip you should start implementing in your business is getting a (yellow or white – 8×11) pad of paper to keep by your computer. This pad will be for your To-Do-List. At the top of the page, put the date for that day, then list the tasks that you want to get done. Every time you complete a task, cross it off.

At the end of the day, whatever tasks have not been completed, write them on the next page and then cross off those tasks. So at the end of the day everything is done (crossed off) Once you have added any unfinished tasks to the next page, spend a few minutes to list additional tasks that you want to get done.

Simply by using this strategy you will notice more things getting done and you will also feel better (less stress) since you know everything has been completed. You know that feeling when you didn’t get something done or forgot about something, it stays on your mind. Well this way if you remember something just put it on your list for tomorrow. You can also get a small notebook or journal for weekly and monthly tasks.

The next big tip is to organize your time better. As you probably already know and have experienced many times – getting Side-Tracked. Whether its from an instant message, looking at emails or just surfing around on the net. It doens’t take much to lose track of time and the next thing you know, you ended up working for 20 minutes and wasted over 2 hours.

There are 2 ways that I have found that can keep you on track. First, get a stop watch and set it for the desired amount of time you want to spend on that task. If you don’t have a stop watch and you’re short on money, try an Online Stopwatch (or countdown). Once your times up, Stop! (You can add it to tomorrow’s to-do-list) This isn’t just for when working, you want to set breadk times and some time for goofing around, surfing, playing games or whatever else.

The second way of staying on track, especially if you get side-tracked very easily. Get a program called “DoNotDisturb“. This program will allow you to block programs that may side track your during a specified time frame.

Some other ideas to keep in mind are:

- Separate your work life from your home life (get an office outside of your home or create an area in your home where you will not be disturbed.

- Create audio CDs from audio courses and listen to them while your driving to work or going out for a coffee. By using this tip, you will be able to use your time more efficiently and learn more faster.

- Filter your business files in one place to make it easier to locate files when you need them.
Ex: store all files in a folder called “Business” under your “My Documents” folder.

- Use the RoboForm Toolbar in your browser to keep track of all your login information, auto-fills and other additional features.

- Create a System for your business. This way you can teach other people to do these steps so you don’t have to. This is known as “Outsourcing” and will dramatically increase results while giving your more time to do what you want.

Here are some other good resources for getting more done and becoming more productive:

How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive

10 Ways to Get More Done…

7 Powerful Steps to Overcoming Resistance and Actually Getting Stuff Done

Forget Multitasking (If You Can) – Five Tips for Getting Stuff Done

If you follow these time management and organization tips, you will see better results in a lot less time and will not feel so frustrated or stress out.

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Do you realize that the top gurus or business savvy people use Outsourcing to create the majority of their success? Do you really think they do all the work? No!

So what is Outsourcing?

Outsourcing is basically getting someone else to do a job or task for you to save you time and money. Most of the time, if not all the time, these people will be able to do a much better job then you could.

Here’s an example:

If you needed a graphic for a product created, and you aren’t a graphic designer or know very little, by outsourcing this task you would receive a much better quality graphic (more professional) and it would cost you less because you would first have to learn how to do it. (Just figure out how many hours it would take you to learn how and then how long it would take to do it, multiple that by how much you figure your time is worth, then compare that to what you are going to pay to outsource it.

Now when you’re just starting out, you don’t want to outsource everything. You should learn how to do it yourself or at least know what it should look like when done properly. There’s no point paying someone to do a job for you if you don’t even know if they did a good job or even did it correctly.

Some times you can get away with this, but it will take some research to find a qualified person and it will cost a lot more money.

There are many different things you can have outsourced, you can even outsource your entire business. Here are some of the things you can have outsourced:

• Ghost Writing – articles, reports, ebooks, physical books, newsletters, copywriting
• Graphic Designer – headers, footers, ecovers, CDs, DVDs, entire websites
• Programmers – design software, installing of scripts, websites or blog setup
• Fulfillment – product duplication, packaging, delivery
• Some others include – customer service, payments and refunds, legal services, audio, video

Here are some of the services you can use:

• Guru.com
• eLance.com
• RentACoder.com
• ScriptLance.com
• HotScripts.com
• Design Outpost
• Fulfillment Central
• Copywriters Board

The great benefit from using several of these sites is you can list your project and other people will come and bid on it (how much they are will to pay and how it will take them) NEVER, take the first bid… wait a few days or a week or so, let several people bid on your project so you can compare them.

Don’t choose someone based on the price. This can get you into trouble (waste of money and time) Make sure you check out their portfolio, their rating, or anything else that can help you make your decision. Also remember that just because you post a project, doesn’t mean you have to choose someone.

Remember you are hiring someone to do the job for you, do you think just because you apply for a job you should get it… not likely!

The best way to get started, is to sign up for an account at each of these services. Browse around a bit so you know the layout, then decide on a project to test them out. Even if you on a tight budget, I still recommend you doing this. You don’t have to spend much money, maybe $5-$20 on an article or small graphic. (I have seen several people that will do professional graphics for under $10)

When you post your project, make sure to include specific details such as if you getting an ebook created, don’t just say you want a 50-page ebook. Tell them the font size, font type, margins, line spacing, etc. I have heard of some people that have posted a project without these details and ended up getting an ebook that was about 10 pages long due to huge font sizes, big margins and double spacing each line.

Think about your project, post as much detail about the finished product without going to deep as what content it should include. Once you have found a person to do your project then you will be able to go into full detail of what your ebook should include and exactly what you want.

I hope these tips on outsourcing have helped you and will give you a different outlook on hiring other people to do the work for you, so you can spend more time on things that are more important to you and your business.

I will also be doing some research to find some good videos showing you more about outsourcing. If I can’t find some good ones I will create some for you.

If you want to learn more about outsourcing, I just came across the “Outsourcing Secrets Revealed” course created by Jeff Mills. Right now, Jeff will give you The Outsource Compendium for free, so head on over and pick it before he decides to starting selling it.

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