Accelerate Your Business’ Internet Marketing Success with P.T.A.
There are very few authors, speakers, or businesses that can be successful without using the Internet as part of their marketing plan. Despite this, while many people use the Internet for their own personal needs, they are confused how they can actually use it to benefit the sales of their own products or services.
If you are like most people, you have been overwhelmed with Internet marketing strategies, and have no idea where to start.
The process for Internet marketing success is almost exactly the same for every business, author or speaker, and hasn’t changed in almost 15 years! The problem is that most educational resources on Internet marketing tell you a piece of the process without identifying where on the timeline it falls or how it fits into the rest of the process.
Avoid getting caught up on an individual strategy or tactic until you have identified your P.T.A., the basic steps you need to find success on the Internet:
P: Plug-In
Discover and “plug-in” to where you currently fit into the Internet marketing process. Are you a complete beginner? Or maybe you have some experience, but haven’t pulled it all together yet? Identify where you are, then plug-in to the tools and resources available to you to meet your particular needs.
T: Team-Up
Probably the most critical to a small business owner, speaker or author, is t o find a team that can help make the Internet Marketing process happen. Unless your profession is actually Internet marketer, you are better suited working at what you do best, not sitting at the computer trying to get a degree in Internet marketing. And most people’s strategy of hiring a random website designer from Craigslist or oversees just because they don’t cost much rarely works.
Your aim is to find outsourced help that takes time to learn about your situation and needs, as well as demonstrates a high level of knowledge of all areas of Internet marketing. Since your business is always changing, you will benefit from forming a dedicated team now that will grow with you over the years and has the technical expertise to plan your business strategies for now and into the future.
A: Accelerate
Just having a website without a full knowledge of the Internet marketing process will result in never being able to fully realize the last step by accelerating your strategies to success. Learning a few strategies or techniques will only cause to confuse you until you have plugged into where you are in the overall process, and found resources and team members able to lead you to success. Once you have done that, your business success from the Internet will start to fly.
Marty Dickinson is an entrepreneur and the founder of HereNextYear, Inc., a full service Internet marketing company in business for 15 years. He specializes in Internet marketing solutions for the small business owner, speakers and authors. Visit to see what HereNextYear has to offer and to learn more about their innovative new website packages fully integrated for ease with social networking and other Internet marketing strategies.
