The Analogy of Marketing

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If you look at internet marketing a great metaphoricalhow to do it, that’s like selling the picks and
picture would be selling shovels. This will give you ashovels. However, it is also important to build the
good understanding of how internet marketing worksinfrastructures to be able to support that. For example,
and how best to approach it if you decide to enter intothere are software programs out there that people
that niche.need — for example, autoresponder software
In the Internet Marketing Dirt I did talk about sellingor Audio Generators, the audios. You’re
Shovels. Actually, I said you want to sell picks andbasically selling the picks and the shovels when
shovels... let me explain.you’re selling the audio programs that people
If you look at the history of the Gold Rush, think aboutneed. That’s like selling the shovels. Selling
who made the most money. Was it the prospectors,teleconferencing services is also like selling picks and
the people going out looking for gold? Actually, itshovels as well.
wasn’t them. Not many of them made money.If you’re in a non internet marketing related
They didn’t really find gold or find enough goldniche like tennis you can use the same analogy.
to really become rich. The ones that made it rich duringInstead of selling picks and shovels you can sell the
the Gold Rush were the ones that built the stores thatinformation on tennis, but you can also sell your market
sold the picks and the shovels and the pans andthe tennis rackets and tennis items they’ll need
everything else to the people that were out digging forto play a better game. Basically that’s kind of
the gold. So if you look at it that way you can get awhat we’re talking about.
better understanding of how you should monetize yourYou have to sell your market something that they will
internet business.continuously need and that’s where
Let’s look into internet marketing for a goodthere’s a lot of money made. So what you
example. There are a lot of people out there that wantwant to do is you want to look inside your
to do internet marketing which, you know, is like goldmarketplace.