Itay Paz | On Internet Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Life

The opportunity of your lifetime is laid across the ocean

The past 2 years has clearly outlined the fact that focusing on one market only, has its downside. Most of the internet marketers who focused only on the US market felt reductions in conversions and sales. But some of the affiliates were able to fill their income reduction by expanding their business overseas. Sure, US is huge and maybe still making the most to any internet marketer but I am telling you now, straight forward in your face, if you are not involve with any international you have to stop everything and get a game plan. You are missing, the biggest market in the world, the world itself with its amazing economy and money to spend the offers and products you promote.

Here are a few reasons why most internet marketers & affiliates do NOT cover the international market:

1) Language Barrier – this is a huge thing for people and I would say is more mentally than actually a real barrier to overcome. Think about the first time you ever landed in Paris, France and most people don’t speak English. How will one cope with creating ads, keywords, optimize campaigns and landing pages without knowing the language? Well, the world has changed and today you can hire online, people to work for you that know any language and for very low cost.

2) Offers – not too many offers are accepting international traffic. This statement is true but in the past 12 months I believe more and more offers are being designed for the international market and today in any area (even diet) you can find products shipped worldwide and offer accepting users from almost everywhere. Search for these offers, they are there.

3) Comfort Zone – this is also a mental barrier. You already making money of something and it’s easier to be lazy (yeh, it is) and not leave your comfort zone and build yourself a new adventure. Well you can do that but you can also expand your mind, cross your own barriers and explore new opportunities.

4) Didn’t really think about it – so now when you know it, no excuses…

so…what is your excuse?!

Content is the King, Long Live the King!

Have you heard this before? Did you think it is a simple bunch of crappy statement? Well, you couldn’t be wrong more. Content is the King!

When I started, long time ago, learning the basics of SEO, one of the key elements was have good and valuable content. Nothing has changed in the past decade.  Content is still extremely important.

Let me tell you about a project I’ve done 2 weeks ago. A simple website with a wordpress template. I’ve added 3 pages with good content written related to 3 pay per lead programs. I’ve set 10 incoming links and simple keyword tag on the page. After 2 weeks, the site was picked by google and one page has already generated 25 highly targeted clicks and 4 conversions. At $25 commission per lead I was able to score pure $100 from a simple good content page. How difficult is it to make this kind of website. Proving my point, that content (and simple SEO) still the king, I am now expanding this site to 100 different products. Now lets do the math. If each one of them generates only 1 sale a month at $15 commission, I will be making a minimum of $1,500 per month just from this site. And if I put more efforts, this site could generate thousands of dollars per month. So what are you waiting for?

Content is the Kind, Long live the king!

My blog is finally live

My blog is finally live – it was down for a few days for some technical reason (I am not a technical person) and have lots to update, will try to post a few things in the next few days.

Since I wasn’t able to wish you all Happy New Year (as I was sick for 2 weeks before) then Happy New Year All!