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Well, PPC for one brings immediate results without you having to spend time with social gathering. Of course you shouldn't pick just one or the other, but PPC will bring in results from day one, whereas even the most successful social campaign will take few days to rake in anything.

It's really the combination of all the methods that one needs to really succeed in internet marketing.

I started IM 7~8 years ago with a sub to PPC coach. I would say PPC is great and all, but the problem is that I am developing a unique, self-branded (as in I am in the spotlight the whole time) system of lessons/material/video/other content.

In markets where you have are forced to compete, the price of getting a real visitor is an obscure, unknown value. I can imagine if my sales were just sent through to a landing page the way I used to do...but the value of a customer to me is a long-term follower that could be worth $5-50 a month for me. Trying to fish for $.25-1 per click in high competition isn't worth it, and the obscure longtails are waaaaay less likely to give me anything solid to run with. I guess my perspective is a bit skewed, but I also have never had a straight $10,000 investment to work with - if I did, I'd probably give PPC a real shot. Until then, I have an adventurer's personality and can't reliably deal with ppc because I end up gambling on keywords and then woooah where'd that $250 go (` - `)??
 
In markets where you have are forced to compete, the price of getting a real visitor is an obscure, unknown value. I can imagine if my sales were just sent through to a landing page the way I used to do...but the value of a customer to me is a long-term follower that could be worth $5-50 a month for me. Trying to fish for $.25-1 per click in high competition isn't worth it, and the obscure longtails are waaaaay less likely to give me anything solid to run with. I guess my perspective is a bit skewed, but I also have never had a straight $10,000 investment to work with - if I did, I'd probably give PPC a real shot. Until then, I have an adventurer's personality and can't reliably deal with ppc because I end up gambling on keywords and then woooah where'd that $250 go (` - `)??

While I do agree that it's easier to retain an old customer than to get a new one, I fail to see what this has to do with the matter at hand. How you get the customer and how you retain them are two completely different beasts, and while PPC might seem like an expensive venture, it's probably going to pay itself back quite fast.

Sure running AB testing at $1 a pop is expensive, but if you get, say $100 from the first sale and have the usual conversion rate of 30-40%, then you can see how fast you make your initial test run investment of $1000 back. Like I've always said, you need money to make money, and PPC is the living proof of this.

You can also skip the testing initially, and just go with your research and add more variables later down the road. Not as effective per se, but it's going to help you pay for it all somewhat faster.
 
I have already tested this extensively in my market. It is like 90% authority, you cannot just buy ads without a unique & personalized brand. The people pulling the clicks are all the ones with the self-brand because it's all personalized. I have exhausted a few thousand dollars over the years on the market, I know this demo like the back of my hand...ppc does not retain customers until you have that personalized brand because of the degree of personalized competition in a personalized lesson & video environment. It's not about PPC math, I was doing PPC successfully 5~7 years ago, this is a different beast and is my baby <3
 
ppc does not retain customers until you have that personalized brand because of the degree of personalized competition in a personalized lesson & video environment.

I really have hard time trying to understand what is the point that you're making here. Of course running a PPC campaign for an empty site would be in vain; that's why nobody does it. But once you have your site built and ready to go live, it doesn't matter what way you acquire the visitors, as retaining them is done on your site, with your product.

These are two completely different things.
 
What? One costs money versus the other that doesn't, one is search results where the other is naturally seeded...I don't understand what you don't understand Grace lol

Edit: Also, when you are using PPC, you need to be optimizing around clickbait rather than the time to get a personal vibe going, which SM excels at... :)
 
What? One costs money versus the other that doesn't, one is search results where the other is naturally seeded...I don't understand what you don't understand Grace lol

Edit: Also, when you are using PPC, you need to be optimizing around clickbait rather than the time to get a personal vibe going, which SM excels at... :)

I have really hard time believing that you have any idea what you're talking about if you are seriously trying to tell me that for PPC you need clickbaiting. That's like the exact opposite of what you need to do! With PPC you need to gather the interested people, not generate fake interest!

No wonder you think that PPC and retaining existing customers are somehow incompatible things when you don't even understand what they are...
 
Someone's got an attitude. :)

The reason that it is so easy to dismiss you is that you have made assertions without questioning my market or who I am competing with. You assume that you know the answer without attempting to ask questions and see whether or not I am right, you simply assume that I am wrong and you are right off the bat. Aka "know it all" syndrome.

I started PPC 7~8 years ago, this is my life's passion and I know the market better than you. I'm not going to argue about it to some stranger that assumes they understand a market that I have invested literally thousands of hours of my life into. It's YOU who has 0 idea what they're talking about, but you'd understand that if you started asking me questions instead of telling me I'm wrong with 0 idea what market I'm in, how the competitors work and how I convert customers. I am not in simple sales, I am a professional and my name & future is invested into what I'm doing. No, I do not have room to mess it up. My way is the only logical way left, but you can come invest 8 years of your life into it if you'd like to keep telling me stuff I learned from PPC coach almost a decade ago.
 
I think that out of all the free traffic strategies out there, video is my favorite. I really enjoy creating videos. And once posted on YouTube, if you follow the right SEO steps, you can really get traffic on demand.
 
Join Facebook group in your niche and start promoting your website / blog post on the same, it can get you huge traffic. Also pinning and repinning in Pinterest can get good amount of social traffic at good speed.
 
Here's another way to get links from a reliable source to your site. Create accounts with Wordpress and Blogger. Create a blog there. Then post there with a link back to your site. Wordpress and Blogger are considered as good sites. So links from there to your site is considered to be good links.
 
Yes, I am doing it. Yesterday, while searching for blogging platforms to write an article about Wordpress, I came upon a number of other sites where I could set up a blog for free. There's one where I already have an account but hadn't really used. It's Tumblr. This is a popular blog site. I think I am going to do some work to make better use of my Tumblr account.
 
Sure, we can make a free account on Tumblr, but to make that domain worth money you have to invest a lot of time and work there right?
 
My main concern is my own site. What I plan to do with my Tumblr account is just to make short posts which link back to my own site. That's one way to get the search bots interested in my site. I am also considering using Quora but I have to find out how to link from my Quora posts to my site first.
 
OK, so there are a lot of things involved I see. I would love to learn more about that world because I think that with technical knowledge like you have we can setup a business for example.
 

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