Bum Marketing: Complete Waste of Time?

Many of you are still looking for the “right” Internet Marketing business model. You know what I’m talking about. The “plan” that’s going to put you “over the top” (whether that means breaking 6 figures, or just making enough to quit that “lousy” job of yours).

I “feel” ya! I’m there too…

Well, in your quest, you’ve probably encountered something shocking called: Bum Marketing. “Shocking”, because it promises to get you up to speed in record time… with little experience on the Internet… with barely any knowledge at all… and making decent money – fast.

Sound “too good to be true”? Well, in this NetFM exclusive, I’m going to answer that question for you.

So first, what exactly IS Bum Marketing?

BM is basically a special case, of the larger Internet pursuit known as Article Marketing. The basic premise of AM is:

-Write a continuous stream of articles for publication online

-Submit your articles to multiple Article Directories

-Internet surfers read your article, click a designated link included with your article, and either:

i) are taken to your website

ii) are taken directly to your affiliate product, using your affiliate link

So as you can see, Article Marketing is a vehicle for getting you Traffic. But there’s more. Because these people have chosen to read your article among many, you can expect them to be “targeted” to the subject of your article – in other words, your product niche.

But there’s even more… Because you can write your own links into your published article, you can specify the targeted “anchor text” used (usually, but not always – much more on that in a later article on NFM). Which means those articles you’re writing? They have the potential to boost your website’s ranking in the search engines, via these additional, targeted, inbound, one-way links. (The best kind)

Thus, the “promise” of Article Marketing is: MORE Traffic, that’s MORE targeted to the kind of person who will want to buy your product, plus a boost to your website’s ranking in the search engines. Not too shabby.

And BUM Marketing (as opposed to “classic” AM), promises to simplify this process, make it easier for you to get it started, and make it succeed faster!

I certainly bought it. Having a writing background, it seemed like the “right” Internet Marketing business model for me. (Note: Bum Marketing does NOT require that you be a writer. And that’s part of it’s appeal, too.) So I jumped in “hook, line and sinker”.

In upcoming articles, I’m going to describe my experiences (and my results, no holds barred), from putting in hundreds of hours on Bum Marketing. PLUS… I’m going to give you LOTS of tips on how you can get started – but without falling into all the “potholes” that nearly swallowed me, along the way.

Trial and error has shown that some marketers are giving you terrible advice, some article directories are borderline worthless and not all tools of the trade are created equal.

Those are just some of the things we’ll be covering.

Stay tuned.

Andy