I believe that working on sound business fundamentals will always out produce the latest online fad. Fundamentals of business are timeless. They have worked in the past, they work today and will work into the future.
So what do I mean by business fundamentals? In the online context I mean looking to produce good content for your site. I mean producing great value added products. I mean using sound marketing practices and finally giving great service. I’m talking about never engaging in trickery, spam (of any kind), or production of junk sites.
These current fads have only one real purpose. That is to take money out of your pocket. All the products for blogging, tagging, pinging, cloaking, comment spamming, junk blog creation, junk site creation, and anything else used to build fast and avoid work without adding any value to the universe will ultimately fail. Why? Because they add nothing to the net and even less to your long term financial success.
Think about this for a moment. Lets say you had a solid, cast-iron way to generate a consistent six figure income online.
Then lets say it you only needed to work on this for ten minutes a day. Would...