You just bought the next latest and greatest ebook that has been released on the market; what you need to understand is that 1,000′s of others have also bought this ebook so you are going to be competing with a lot of other people using the same techniques. This happened when PotPieGirl started selling One Week Marketing; everyone started putting up lenses promoting clickbank products and they all looked the same. I’m sure this is a big reason behind why Squidoo changed their policies regarding certain niches and products.

Take a step back and think about what OWM is really teaching you; she is teaching you how to get a page to the top of the SERPS and even dominate the SERPS for a certain keyword. If done correctly, you could in theory own the first page of Google if you play your cards right.

Here’s where you need to think outside of the box; what else have I learned along the way can I add to my toolbox of knowledge to really stand out and not look like everyone else? You don’t need to reinvent the wheel, just tweak something. Don’t worry if someone said you should do it or not, just feel free to experiment and mix things up a little. If it works, great, you have a little secret trick to get your page ranked or get that extra sale, if it doesn’t work make a note to delete this idea from your head because it’s not right for what you are trying to do at this point in time.

Getting creative and adding more knowledge for yourself is how you will get ahead in IM and avoid IMADD. Today take some time to really think of what you have learned and try to find one thing you can do differently from everyone else. Then implement it and see what happens.

Originally posted 2009-07-10 07:19:18. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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First of all, I’d like to state that the owners of Squidoo are just protecting their site and it’s value. They have seen the effects that bad writing has had on its site and realized that they can no long sit back and defend the junk lenses. This was kind of what I was getting at in my recent post about the difference between spam and poor or promotional writing, many times the two were getting confused and people were calling the junk spam and vice versa. What Squidoo no longer wants on their site are pure copies of sales pages for products or lenses that link to the same site 800 times within a lens as well as lenses on some certain subjects which I’m not going to go into detail about here. Visit the Squidoo policy update lens if you’d like to read more about what will or won’t be allowed.

When Potpiegirl wrote One Week Marketing, I’m pretty sure her intentions weren’t for people to go out and create a bunch of cookie cutter lenses with the same content that were overly promotional. She never did say if you don’t know something about a subject, just copy and paste it from somewhere else or go and get some PLR and reuse it directly on a lens. If you are building lenses with useful content written with your own voice, then you should be fine under the new rules. This is where their policies should help you; Squidoo killing off some of the junk lenses should make their site more valuable in Google’s eyes which will hopefully make it easier for your lens to be indexed. I don’t know about you, but I have been having a hell of a time getting a new lens indexed lately and my opinion is this policy update should help this problem. Of course, I could be totally wrong here too.

If you don’t think you can write your own useful content, then cut Squidoo out of the picture all together and find another free site you can use in its place, keeping all of the other steps the same. Build a blog on Blogger or sign up with Weebly. If you’re not comfortable writing good content, say away from Hub Pages, you will be eaten alive there. The best ideas are either build your own site on  your own webhosting service or learn to write. I know the idea behind OWM is making money online using free services, but the other idea behind it is to work towards owning your own sites; build your own site like you would build your lenses and then use the OWM techniques to drive traffic to your own site. Sorry if I sound a little harsh, but there is no quick way to making money online and you need learn to evolve or you will always be dreaming instead of doing.

Are you going to have to change the way you do things because of Squidoo’s new rules?

Originally posted 2009-06-19 07:08:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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One of the things that I love about OWM is the fact that you don’t have to do it in one week, I highly recommend working through the checklist for each niche you choose as fast as you can so you can start earning money, but if you work full time or have other commitments, you can definitely take your time working through the checklist for each niche you choose. I cannot recommend it enough for people that work because of the simplicity of the entire course.

I do not recommend One Week Marketing to those of you who may be looking to make money tomorrow without lifting a finger. I also cannot recommend OWM if you are already familiar with how to build a web property and get traffic to it. You may learn a thing or two, but I do not think it’s worth the money for the intermediate to advanced internet marketer. If you have found yourself in the boat where you have some knowledge, but are looking for the pie in the sky, take what you have learned and put it to work. Just start experimenting and you should have some success and STOP SPENDING MONEY ON MORE EBOOKS.

if you are still reading this, then I’m assuming you have determined that OWM may be right for you to start making money online. Follow the steps that are put in front of you in the course and you can make money. However, some things have changed since One Week Marketing first hit the market and I would recommend some small changes be made in your efforts while you are going through this step by step course.

Since I’m getting a little long winded already, I’m going to save my recommended changes for future posts over the next week or two. To make sure you don’t miss any of these suggested changes, I recommend subscribing to my blog, which you can do along the right hand side of the page. Not only will you be notified of new posts, but you will also receive a free ebook about building an optin list. You may not be quite ready for a list, but it will be a nice piece of information to have when you are ready.

Also, if you are on the fence about One Week Marketing, make sure you download this free Squidoo Guide and the first 18 pages of OWM to get a flavor of what you will be learning.

Until later,

Originally posted 2010-08-27 07:07:18. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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