I think you made 2 important points here:

1. How much time you use to advertise instead of nurturing your prospects and increasing your conversions. This becomes a cycle, we don’t have enough prospects so we need to do more marketing and because we are busiy doing marketing we don’t improve conversions and build a relationship with our real prospects.

2. We should use social media to build that relationship with our existing prospects instead to fish for them.

Mike Dillard said, don’t waste time in social media, and you do if you don’t do it the right way.

Thanks
Carina

I am new to the Internet Marketing world, and, like many, quite overwhelmed by all the “good ideas” I have read, downloaded, listened to and watched on videos. What I love about your idea is that one can calm down about all the traffic strategies and concentrate on one.

Networking is fun but not on a repetitious basis with strangers - where you are effectively forced to network even when you are bored stiff with it. The sparkle soon disappears.

Social media marketing is more relevant, efficient and results oriented!

One thing I would advise is to stop “following the process” and start DOING it…nothing teaches like doing it.

Forget about thinking you need to sign up one thing and start making money, it doesn’t work that way believe me.
The simple thing for me to say would be what can YOU deliver in quality that others will find helpful, shareable, useful, IE what are YOUR skills that can deliver value?

Find out if there is a viable market to make money over time with those skills, if not, start again, but take action whatever you do, that means stop following other stuff, jumping from one things to another etc.

You showed in your post the classic problem most have…thinking there is some magic bullet that will just deliver it for you…sorry to say it but there isn’t one.

Thinking in terms of “what value can I give out, which will in time reward me with money” rather than “how can I just make money” is something I have had to battle once and after you realise how much difference it can make.

Just approaching it in that sense can be the barrier to stop it happening.

If you are already starting to get info overload, getting more info isn’t going to help, put into action what you already overloaded yourself with, get it out by doing.

Hope it helps.

Rob

- Charles

I feel like there is a scarcity of good marketing today. Good marketing means which can convert the leads into sales. The only marketing that has moved me in the last couple of years is Search Engine Optimization.

THANK YOU for this post. You have answered some questions I have had all along about social media marketing. I think this one post will help me tremendously in the future!