Overcoming difficulties in marketing your own website

There are many roadblocks when it comes to marketing your own website. If you are a small business, it can take you off of your core work. If you are new to internet marketing, you might spend a lot of the time trying to learn the techniques — sadly from books and blogs with out-dated methods. Or, you might also find it too technical or too social for your personality. Either way budgets and our bottom line sometimes leaves us with no choice. Marketing software seem to helps some.

Marketing tools, software, new social websites and aggregation sites , feed management and even browser and phone apps are attempting can make it a little easier. Some of these just add to the total sites and tools we have to review each day/hour to get the job done. No doubt some tools are just too important to skip and I think that is one reason why we continue to research each new tool, site or app. You never know if it will be another great winner to add to the time killing mix hoping for new data or bit of an edge over the competition.

So, for those of you who’ve overcome some DIY internet marketing difficulties, what works to keep you in control of it all? And how are your results based on the amount of work you are putting into marketing your own website? Furthermore, if you are running into areas which are challenging, let’s discuss those too. No single way is right or wrong but we can all improve and learn from one another while keeping our time in mind and not just our expense report.