That’s it…I am fed up. I am convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that laziness must be the first prerequisite for marketing online, because nobody, and I do mean NOBODY wants to take any initiative with anything. All day long I get questions like, “Does article marketing work?” or “Does social bookmarking work?” and on and on and on it goes. Nobody wants to get their hands dirty and do a little testing. Well folks, for you lazy no good for nothings out there, this article is for YOU. The rest of you can just read this for the entertainment value.

Let me start off by saying why NOBODY can tell you if a certain thing is going to work for you. Hopefully, this will get through that thick skull. Let’s take article marketing. Why can’t I say that it will work for you even though it accounts for a good part of my income? Because I have NO idea what your skill level is. I don’t know how well you can write. And let me tell you something, if you can’t write your way out of a paper bag, article marketing is NOT for you.

But even beyond your skill, I don’t know what niche you’re targeting, what keywords you’re targeting or for that matter if there is even any demand for the product you’re trying to sell. Point is, there are just too many variables involved with any form of marketing to give you a blanket response to your question. Okay, so that being the case, what do you do if you want to find out if something is going to work for you or not?

You roll up your sleeves, get your hands dirty and do a little testing. Take article marketing. Pick a niche, do some keyword research, find a product to sell, set up a landing page with a review of the product, write a few articles pointing to the review and see if you get any traffic and make any sales. Yeah, that’s it…that’s all there is to it. Then you will know if article marketing works for YOU.

And it’s the same with any other form of marketing online, whether it be pay per click, video marketing, social networking, blogging or whatever. Nobody is going to be able to give you an answer to your question because there are too many variables involved.

So stop being a lazy no good for nothing, get off your duff, roll up your sleeves and do a little testing.

Trust me…it WON’T kill you.

To YOUR Success

Steven Wagenheim

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