Internet Marketing Tycoon

**thenicheman** · 03-24-2011, 07:34 PM

What's the top 3 skills successful Internet Marketers have that makes them special? Any thoughts?

**Benmoore47** · 03-24-2011, 09:14 PM

Blogging
Forum Posting
Social Networking

These are the top 3 Marketing skills in my own opinion.

**chrishirst** · 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Benmoore47

Blogging
Forum Posting
Social Networking

These are the top 3 Marketing skills in my own opinion.

None of those are "skills", they are just things that every wannabee marketer thinks they need to do. (usually not very well)

The skills a real marketer needs are:

The ability to reach people and communicate with them.
Blogging, forums and "social media" are a way to communicate BUT you have to know how to communicate properly.

Be able to analyse a marketplace and match products and potential customers

Be able to analyse good traffic sources and utilise them

**Benmoore47** · 03-26-2011, 02:21 AM

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The ability to reach people and communicate with them.
Blogging, forums and "social media" are a way to communicate BUT you have to know how to communicate properly.

Be able to analyse a marketplace and match products and potential customers

Be able to analyse good traffic sources and use them

Thanks for the corrections Chris. I appreciate it.

**rovelldarren** · 08:50 AM

I agree you should know whats source of valuable traffic and then put activities to attract to your product, market on related sites, social networking is most pouplar these days

**Benmoore47** · 03-28-2011, 05:18 AM

If you know how to get the people's interest then you will be a good marketer.

**chrishirst** · 03-28-2011, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Benmoore47

If you know how to get the people's interest then you will be a good marketer.

Bit of a sweeping statement there.

David Beckham can get people's interest, doesn't mean he can market light bulbs though.

**Richman25** · 03-28-2011, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

None of those are "skills", they are just things that every wannabee marketer thinks they need to do. (usually not very well)

The skills a real marketer needs are:

The ability to reach people and communicate with them.
Blogging, forums and "social media" are a way to communicate BUT you have to know how to communicate properly.

Be able to analyse a marketplace and match products and potential customers

Be able to analyse good traffic sources and use them

As for me, I would think the following are important skills needed for any marketers:

(1) Ability to leverage on other people resources / skills (i.e. outsource)
(2) Ability to sell and brand ourselves
(3) Ability to provide high level of customer satisfaction

Richman25

**chrishirst** · 03-28-2011, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Richman25

As for me, I would think the following are important skills needed for any marketers:

(1) Ability to leverage on other people resources / skills (i.e. outsource)
(2) Ability to sell and brand ourselves
(3) Ability to provide high level of customer satisfaction

Richman25

In your scenario, wouldn't 2 and 3 really be dependant on how the "other people" in point1 performed????

**Richman25** · 03-28-2011, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Richman25

As for me, I would think the following are important skills needed for any marketers:

(1) Ability to leverage on other people resources / skills (i.e. outsource)
(2) Ability to sell and brand ourselves
(3) Ability to provide high level of customer satisfaction

Richman25

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

In your scenario, wouldn't 2 and 3 really be dependant on how the "other people" in point1 performed????

Yes, you are right! (if you know how to outsource to the correct people /team to manage).

Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves one simple question "Are we going to create another "job" for ourselves or to run a business?"

Richman25

**cindyfowler** · 03-29-2011, 06:05 AM

It doesn't matter what online business you have, you could be an affiliate, a blogger or write for money.

**Benmoore47** · 03-30-2011, 01:45 AM

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David Beckham can get people's interest, doesn't mean he can market light bulbs though.

Lol. I mean interest that is related to your niche.

**chrishirst** · 03-31-2011, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Benmoore47

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

David Beckham can get people's interest, doesn't mean he can market light bulbs though.

Lol. I mean interest that is related to your niche.

Right! so you mean all of the following

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

The ability to reach people and communicate with them.

Be able to analyse a marketplace and match products and potential customers

Be able to analyse good traffic sources and utilise them

**Hammad.pk** · 04-01-2011, 10:53 AM

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**iqphantom** · 04-04-2011, 07:10 AM

Patience - stick with a strategy at least a month. A site is indexed in 4- 14 days and you cannot make crawlers move faster than Google allows them

Quality - stay away from spamming and the strategies involving spreading a huge number of links in a small amount of time. 3 links posted the right way get you more unique visitors and quantified sales than 3000 links of which 50% get spam allerts.

Research - it would be amazing if all of us could be original. In the absence of brilliance the information ( the right one) can prove to be a mighty accurate tool.

**adango** · 04-08-2011, 08:42 AM

when you talk of internet marketing you should have knowledge of (1)internet technology, (2) excellent communication skills, and (3) have a wide base of general knowledge.

**Giselle** · 04-08-2011, 11:42 AM

A good business sense, not everybody is business orientated, there are a lot of factors to running a business online or offline. The next thing would be to offer a service or product which people would be interested in.

**marknel** · 04-08-2011, 11:56 AM

I think skill comes with experience,if you have passion, perseverance and vigour to keep learning and experimenting,you will find your own blueprint to follow, and make your own success.