Are there things you are doing in your business that everyone else is doing… but just aren’t working out?
Every day I read on social media or watch a video of someone telling entrepreneurs what they “should” be doing to make a lot of money in their business.
I cringe every time I see these bold statements of fact.
Because they rarely are true for everyone.
So today, I’m sharing 3 of these online business fairy tales that need to be busted wide open!
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Content Summary
Fairy Tale 1: SINGLE-PAGE WEBSITES OR LANDING PAGES WILL GET YOU A SIX-FIGURE INCOME
Fairy Tale 2: YOU’LL GET TO THE TOP OF THE SEARCH ENGINES, GUARANTEED!
Fairy Tale 3: SAVE YOUR MONEY ON AN EXPENSIVE WEBSITE – ANYONE CAN BUILD A SITE NOWADAYS!
Fairy Tale 1: SINGLE-PAGE WEBSITES OR LANDING PAGES WILL GET YOU A SIX-FIGURE INCOME
The Busted Truth
- Maybe true…. perhaps if you spend several thousands of marketing dollars to continuously promote them. And if the ads aren’t done right or the landing page isn’t perfect, you won’t get conversions and you’ll be out of a lot of time, effort and money.
- This model is not sustainable. It’s feast or famine and only works when your marketing engine is revved high and you have a large following who will buy anything you come up with because you’re just that good.
- This tactic will not get you to the place of running a business. It’s simply a tactic the ‘gurus’ use to get you to believe that landing pages and single-page websites will grow your business.
Fairy Tale 2: YOU’LL GET TO THE TOP OF THE SEARCH ENGINES, GUARANTEED!
The Busted Truth
- Nope, never believe anyone who promises you this. It’s something no one should promise because no one knows what the Google algorithms are that make a site rise to the top (except, of course, for Google employees themselves).
- The people who are making those promises are desperate for your business and will tell you anything to get a sale. Would you do business with anyone who does not include their business domain name or phone number in their correspondence?
- They think you have ‘sucker’ written across your forehead and you’re easy prey for their false promises.
- If they were so good at SEO, then they would have droves of qualified traffic going to their website. They’d be so busy they would never need to cold call or cold email you with those fake promises, to begin with!
- SEO is complex and it’s hard finding people who actually know what they are doing.
- The best thing to do is to vet the people you’re considering hiring. Ask for referrals and speak with their happy clients to get a good sense of the integrity of that person or agency.
Fairy Tale 3: SAVE YOUR MONEY ON AN EXPENSIVE WEBSITE – ANYONE CAN BUILD A SITE NOWADAYS!
The Busted Truth
- Sorry but… knowing how to use a calculator doesn’t make you a mathematician. Meaning, just because someone (or you) knows how to install a WordPress theme, doesn’t make them a qualified website developer.
- There’s so much more to creating a website that will get you the sales and conversions you want and need than just installing a WordPress theme, changing out the colors and photos, and calling it a day.
- Namely, your website must address these critical components: brand design, user experience, layout elements, copywriting and brand messaging, and SEO. Each of these areas requires an expert who understands them to deliver you a website that gets you the results you want.
- And if you think setting up a 3rd party (cheap) website like WIX or Weebly will do the trick, not really. They are horrible with SEO, and more importantly, you don’t own your website with them! You will end up paying more in the long run than if you had built a proper website, to begin with.
The moral of this fairy tale story? Hire a full-service agency that has all of those experts working for you as a team, and you will get way further ahead than if you try to go the cheap route.