ESSENTIAL BLOGS TO HELP YOU SUCCEED IN ONLINE MARKETING

If there is one thing that practically any online marketer can attest to, it’s the importance of having a few reliable, “go-to” resources in your arsenal when you begin your journey in online marketing.
If you try to do without a few reliable sources or a dependable (and knowledgeable) mentor, you can find yourself on the wrong track, chasing pipe dreams and jumping from strategy to strategy, never sticking with the things that actually WORK in the long run.
If you feel the same way (or find yourself overloaded with all of this new info in the online marketing space), prepare your bookmarks, because you just found the only post you need to get started with online marketing.

The Essential List

Below is a hand-picked list of all of the essential reads in the blogosphere that will help you in every aspect of you online marketing efforts.
There may be a few more worthy additions to this list, but 50+ is more than enough to get you started.
In fact, I’d advise that you do not bookmark or subscribe to all of these at once: pick one from each section, read a few of their best posts, and decide if the content there is really helpful to you specifically.
If it’s not, try another.
If it is helpful, subscribe, and when you’ve really taken in some key information, try another blog from this list.
The point of this post is to give you a place to start, not to give you an excuse to browse aimlessly and get distracted!
Enough rambling, on to the list!

HOW MANY WEBSITES DO YOU NEED CREATE TO MAKE A GOOD INCOME?

Internet marketing, the best way to get good search engine results, create traffic, and get those conversions you needed to run a profitable business was to have multiple websites up and running. The process was what some early Internet marketers called shotgun marketing. The theory was that by throwing dozens of sites out there you stood a better chance of people stumbling across them.
While that approach did definitely work, it was incredibly difficult to run multiple websites as a one-man (or woman) operation. The amount of work that went into each site meant that you either had to work yourself to the bone and have several “okay” website or you had to spread yourself too thin and have a pile of sub-par websites.
The focus has been shifted away from quantity towards quality. So instead of casting multiple nets, successful Internet marketers are now just casting one big net (a net that catches a lot of fish).
Google has become the predominant search engine, eclipsing AltaVista, WebCrawler, Excite and all the rest, it’s algorithms have become more and more sophisticated, and the Internet public from which marketers draw their prospects has become more and more savvy (and wary). That means that those sub-par websites are no longer acceptable and anyone trying to make money using anything but a top-quality website is bound to be disappointed.

So how many websites do you really need to be profitable?

ARE YOU USING AN AUTORESPONDER AND EMAIL MARKETING SOFTWARE

We get a lot of autoresponder and email marketing software since the WP eStore plugin has some autoresponder integration options. In this article I have covered the answers to the following basic questions around autoresponders and email marketing software:

• What is an autoresponder?
• Should I be using an autoresponder service?
• How to get the most out of an autoresponder and email marketing software?
• Which autoresponder service should I use?

What is an Autoresponder?