3 Biggest Problems for Internet Marketing

According to our recent survey, the biggest problems of people trying to market their business online are:

1. Converting leads to sales
2. Managing an online marketing system
3. Prioritizing time, energy and money for best results

We asked the question, "What is your greatest challenge with Internet Marketing?" through SurveyMonkey.com to thousands of small business owners and entrepreneurs through our email lists, Facebook, and blogs.

We also asked them their number of years working online:

1. 44% worked online under a year
2. 34.3% had been working online 1-3 years
3. 27.1% had been working online over 3 years

We also asked, "If resources were not an issue and you could learn only one thing about Internet Marketing and making money on the Internet, what would it be?"

This was an open-ended question and we received a wide variety of responses, however, the majority expressed wanting to learn to deal with the same three issues: lead conversion, an organized system for marketing, and managing time, energy and money for best results.

Here are a few selected answers of interest:

"Please just give it to us straight and try to remember when you first started and how overwhelming it was and so hard to believe it was true or not without actual proof."

"Just what is the best bang for the buck (time and $ investment)? From my observations, IMs (internet marketers) appear to be scrambling for the next big thing, and are trying to convince everyone else that they know what the next big thing is. "

"I struggle with keeping focus on high-payoff goals, looking past the hype and finding an affordable mentor who I trust to teach me the fundamentals."

"How to "chunk" things down so there are simple manageable steps. "

"Turning blog and newsletter subscribers into paying customers."

"Integration of all the good stuff (less the crap!) with the whole process."

"I, like others, I'm sure, need a step by step process as to what comes first, what's next, how to track, how to fix errors, how to work it all on a shoestring budget."

We’ll be teaching The 5 Internet Marketing Traps that Can Derail Your Business on Tuesday, June 24 2008 at 5 p.m. ET with Kathleen Gage, the Street Smarts Marketer. It’s not too late to register. If you cannot attend the live event, or if you already missed it, register anyway and get the audio recording. www.actandattract.com/5traps.

It’s a preview call for our Law of Action 2.0 teleseminar on How to Attract Clients and Build a Money-Making Business on the ‘Net in July. More information on the 4 week program is at www.actandattract.com.

What about you? what's the one thing you need to learn the most to get great results from using the Internet to grow your business?

Just hit the comment link below and share.

Comments

[Mayank - Mini Site Profits]

Third one definitely. I know what all to do, but prioritizing all the 101 things is really difficult.

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[Saurabh Malakar]

I think the major problem for Internet Marketing is the lack of proper guidelines and managing the online marketing system properly. If somebody gives more time and understands the Online Marketing System properly then this problem can be overcome.

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