The Importance of Lists in Internet Marketing

There’s a very well-known saying around the internet marketing world, “The Money is in the List” and to a large extent that is very true. One of the best internet marketing strategies you can do to make money online is build your list.

Capturing the names and email addresses of as many of your site visitors as possible and keeping yourself fresh in their minds by sending out emails to them every so often is a great way to make sales and gain loyal customers. List building is often underestimated by internet marketers but it is a potent, low-cost strategy to make money online by generating new and repeat customers.

With mailing lists, you will in effect have a list of potential customers you’ll be able to send special offers, promotions and free information. As long as you provide quality information and good offers to keep your list subscribers interest up, you will be able to generate a steady stream of income from your list when you do send them an affiliate offer or something else that makes you money.

However, one thing that you must be careful of and make sure you never do is send spam, or unsolicited emails.  Spamming is a crime by all netiquettes, and you will need to make sure that you build your mailing list from opt-in subscribers who have specifically asked to be added to your list by entering their name and email address into your autoresponder form.

There are a variety of ways to build your list but the most common is to insert an opt-in form on your website and give away a free newsletter, free ebook or other free gift as an incentive for people to subscribe to your list.

You will want to keep people on your mailing list and build trust with them by sending out high quality information, useful resources, special offers, free gifts, etc… This will keep them satisfied and make them want to buy from you when you do send out a mailing to make money for yourself. Most of the really successful internet marketers have a large and responsive mailing list.

Learn Internet Marketing

Are you trying to learn internet marketing? Don’t worry it’s not all that difficult to do if you are willing to put in the time and effort. There is more than enough information on the internet that will teach you everything you need to know about internet marketing. You can get most of it for free but some of it you will have to pay for.

The biggest hurdle to learning internet marketing is making sure you don’t try to learn it all at once and end up suffering from information overload. I’ve seen a lot of people quit because they thought internet marketing was too hard for them but really it was just because they were trying to learn everything all at once and that just doesn’t work.

Two of the best places to learn internet marketing for free is from blogs and forums. There are numerous internet marketing blogs and forums with a lot of very knowledgeable people who are more than happy to help teach you internet marketing for free.

The Warrior Forum is definitely the best forum for learning internet marketing so I suggest you start there. And there are plenty of blogs you can read to learn internet marketing as well, such as the one you are reading right now!

One of the most important things I can tell you right now when you are just getting started as an internet marketer is to take things one step at a time and learn as you go. All the internet marketing knowledge in the world won’t get you anywhere unless you take action on what you learn. Once you have mastered one or two strategies then move on to the next, and so on.

You don’t have to know everything before you get started and you certainly aren’t ever going to learn everything there is to know about internet marketing, especially in a short amount of time.

Internet marketing really isn’t very difficult. All it takes is the right mindset, a little bit of learning, and a lot of action. Almost anyone can learn internet marketing and become successful at it if they really put their mind to it and don’t give up when the going gets tough.

You Won’t Find Internet Marketing Success Overnight

Most people who decide to become internet marketer’s end up failing. Actually it’s estimated that as many as 95% of those starting out in internet marketing do not succeed. You definitely wouldn’t think that if you believed all the internet marketing products out there that promise to make you rich quickly. But the fact is that they are full of hype and rarely live up to their promises.

There’s no such thing as a get rich fast internet marketing method. Part of succeeding is believing you can and not falling for all the hype. Soon after starting an internet marketing business, you need to realize that you have to be in it for the long haul. It takes time, hard work and patience to build a successful online business. You won’t be able to do it in a few months!

Always remember that there are a lot of internet marketers out there competing against your business so you need to be better than they are. You must work harder than them, come up with better products and ideas than them, be smarter and faster than them, and do many other things to set yourself apart from your competition.

Internet marketing is still a relatively new field with lots of mystery surrounding it and this causes many people to be enthusiastic and skeptical at the same time. Countless sales pages displaying pictures of large houses, expensive cars, hot women or men, and massive commission checks go a long way in convincing newbies that they can get rich too! The reality is that it will never happen for most people and those internet marketers who do get rich take a long time to get there.

In today’s “instant gratification” society, most people are not ready to commit the next few years of their lives to build a successful internet marketing business, one that they can make a full time living from and retire off the income. For those who get into internet marketing with visions of lounging around all day while rolling in thousands of dollars, the reality soon sets in. They realize there is a long hard road ahead.

Don’t let me discourage you from becoming an internet marketer. I want you to succeed and build a very successful online business. I just don’t want you to think it will be easy. Success in this industry is very much within the grasp of those who are willing to commit themselves to learning and taking consistent action towards building a real internet marketing business.

The hard work is definitely worth it in the end. Working for yourself as a full-time internet marketer is one of the best lifestyles you can have. So are you prepared to give what it takes to be one of the internet marketing success stories?

Free Internet Marketing Tips – Do They REALLY Exist?

Free internet marketing tips are not very hard to find because everyone from the top internet marketing gurus all the way down to wannabe internet marketer newbies are just itching to show the world everything they know about internet marketing even though most of the time they don’t know squat.

Have you ever sat back and asked yourself why it is that all these internet marketers are trying to teach you how to make money online, or at least pretending to try?

If you don’t already know the answer to that question I will tell you right now. It’s because they are making money (or at least trying to make money) from people like you who read their blogs, websites, forum posts, articles, etc… They push their products or affiliate products, they sell advertising, they serve up Adsense or other contextual advertising, and a bunch of other ways they use to make money from you.

There are very few internet marketers who give out free internet marketing information without being motivated by money in one way or another. In fact, I doubt there are any! That’s just the nature of the beast. When you think about it there’s no reason for anyone to waste their time giving out free internet marketing tips to help you make money online if they aren’t ever going to get anything in return. Even teachers get paid a salary. They don’t just teach because it makes them feel good.

So before you go buying products and clicking links recommended by your favorite internet marketers just remember that they probably aren’t recommending it just for the sake of helping you make money, there’s a good chance they are getting something out of it.

I’m not saying this is a bad thing. If they are going to take the time to give out free internet marketing information and make money online tips then they should be rewarded for their efforts. I am only trying to make sure you aren’t spending all your money on things just because your favorite internet marketer keeps recommending something new every week.

You can get all the internet marketing information and resources you need to make money online for free or very cheap. You don’t need to spend thousands of dollars on all the new products that come out all the time.

Using Affiliate Marketers to Boost Your Internet Marketing Business

When you picture an “internet marketer” do you see a fat, lazy couch potato who sits around all day and does nothing? If you do then you are dead wrong! This stereotype couldn’t be further from the truth. Internet marketing is cutting edge and highly competitive! Many internet marketers work longer hours and harder than they would if they had an offline day job.

In order to be a successful internet marketer, you will have to possess a multi-track mind and be willing to put in work. Trust me nobody is going to flock to your website to spend money just for the heck of it! In fact, you will have to put in a lot of effort – building relationships, link building, blogging, creating products, social networking, emailing, writing sales letters, running advertising campaigns, building websites, researching niches, promotions, etc… The list goes on and on. But one good thing is that you can tap into the powerful world of affiliate marketing to boost your internet marketing income.

In brief, affiliate marketing is a method of using other people to promote and sell your products. Or you can sell other people’s products as an affiliate marketer. But for the purpose of this post we are going to assume you are the product creator and you are having other affiliate marketers sell your products for you.

This of course means that your product or service must be high quality and attractive enough for potential affiliates to be willing to take the time and make the effort to promote your products. Through their efforts you will be able to reach a much larger market than you could ever do on your own. A whole army of affiliates will most certainly sell more of your product than just little old you doing all the marketing and advertising.

You will also need to pay your affiliates well so it’s worth their time to promote your product and make more money for them and you. You should set your commissions at no less than 50% and probably not any higher than 75% to maximize earnings for you and your affiliates.

Although you have to pay affiliates commissions for each sale, you don’t have to pay them upfront for the marketing itself which is a huge boost for your business. Therefore, if you have affiliates marketing your product you will be getting a lot more exposure without any extra expenses on your part. Any sales they make are sales that wouldn’t have been made without the affiliate anyway so you are not losing money by paying them a commission on the sale. You are actually making more money this way!

If there is any downside to working with affiliates that you should be aware of it is that you will have to watch out for the credibility of the affiliates themselves. Affiliates with a poor reputation or unethical marketing methods can end up doing some serious damage to your business. Try to keep an eye on your affiliates as much as possible and ban any affiliate that you catch doing something that can hurt your business or your reputation.

Being an internet marketer can be very hard work but using affiliates to help you make money can help lighten the load and it’s a win-win situation for both of you, so use affiliate marketers to your full advantage!