Do you have a problem with Web Developers? If you're like most beginning and intermediate Internet Marketers, you do.
And a big one.
I've actually been a web developer. I owned a web development and hosting company for almost six years, but have been building web pages since the mid 90's, so I know what I'm talking about here.
Most web developers have no idea how to build a website that sells.
When you're trying to hire a web developer, what you'll mostly find are
My business really took off in 2005.
*Everything* changed for me.
And as I think for a moment about what started that big change for me, it comes down to just one thing.
Relationships.
It's an interesting paradox.
The Internet is supposed to be this big global, impersonal, disconnected network of computers and equipment. But what the successful people seldom ever mention (and the unsuccessful ones just don't know) is that the heart of the Internet isn't the electronics at all.
It's the people.
And it's the relationships you create with those people, the trust you create, the help you offer, and the team you build around you that really drives business on the web.
So what happened in 2005 that changed everything for me?
I’ve been studying Internet Marketing for a long while, and it seems to me that there are two ways to study the topic.
One is to be a wise consumer of educational materials to teach you all the things you don’t yet know. And if you’re a good student, you’ll soon discover the second way.
And that’s just to observe everything that goes on around you, because there are marketing lessons and opportunities everywhere.
I went on a cruise down the coast of Mexico earlier this year. It was a wonderful trip. I was hardly thinking about business or marketing when I