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One trait that hurts human beings more than anything else is impatience, the impulsiveness, the haste to get where we want in a flash and that too without moving a muscle?
How funny itâd be to see someone promising to get moving, only after he reaches the destination? Ironical, to say the least, and still majority of us keep doing it all the time, hoping for the destination to come our way without even starting to travel. Short-term thinking stems from this human characteristic of being impatient, because we are not ready to go the distance, we opt for the short-cuts, looking to get there quickly, but what do we get? A constant state of disgruntlement, just because we cannot put up with the âpace of natureââ¦
If you are one of those young ones getting into the field of Internet marketing, one virtue Iâd like you to take up is thinking long terms, no matter what you are doing. From content creation to link building, and from social media to email marketing, thinking long term will help you devise strategies that will work, and save you from wasting your time and resources on goals that wouldnât even matter after some time.
Following are some ways thinking long term will bolster your internet marketing endeavors.
You will be looking to form relationships:
Thinking long term means that you will invest time and resources on building relationships with the right guys in the cyber world, instead of wasting your time on sending spam posts to numberless websites for link exchange or getting paid links. Those tactics might bring you some garbage links resulting in a very short lived boost to your rankings, but in the longer run, it will do more harm to your website than good. On the other hand, a healthy relationship with a blogger or well-connected person can be of help in more than one ways.
Guest posting on the right blog:
Guest blogging is one of the very few ways of link building, which is still in grasp of common bloggers or website owners. If you are thinking short term, you will be missing some great opportunities on blogs which are fairly new, just because they donât have the page rank or number of back links to boast. When you are choosing a guest blog, it is imperative to look at the potential, and not on the current standing, because you never know which blog will go on to become a considerable force in blogosphere and a most-wanted platform for guest bloggers.
Milk an opportunity before it implodes:
Internet Marketing is all about detecting the opportunity and making the most of it before it gets overdone. Itâs better to take up a tactic and get on a platform when itâs fairly new, as compared to trying and taking some advantage when everybody and their grandmothers are trying to get their share of the pie.
Being proactive:
Thinking long term means that you will be proactive in your planning and implantation, instead of being reactive. If you look around, you will notice that a big majority of SEO and Internet Marketing professionals are busy doing the damage control (e.g. trying to revive the drop in rankings because of some Google update); however these drops wouldnât even have occurred only if they were proactive.
Hardly any trend or change in algorithm is sudden in nature, it happens that we keep reading about the upcoming changes or trends but continue to ignore just because our short-term tactics seem to be working, and then our websites are throttled by one of those updates. Thinking long term will help you take the right decision at the right time, because Onlline Marketing is not about damage control, itâs about seizing opportunities before they become commonplace.
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Author’s Bio:
Natasha Mesty is an Internet Marketing expert, writing mostly on topics related to link building, guest blogging, Link Tracking and how to use link reports to evaluate your Internet Marketing campaigns.
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