If you are a typical internet marketing newbie you started out something like this…
You heard that there are people called “internet marketers” earning fortunes online. You thought that sounded like a great way to earn a living so you decided that you were going to become one of these mysterious internet marketers so you could make money online too. So, you bought a few ebooks on how to do this, found some MMO blogs to read, and started trying to learn every internet marketing strategy you could find.
Then, you built a blog and started implementing some of your newly learned internet marketing knowledge to drive some traffic to it.
Soon after you made your first commission or whatever and earned a little money… That’s if you are one of the lucky ones. But you quickly found out that you aren’t making money nearly as quickly and easily as you thought you would, so you contemplated quitting. Fortunately, you haven’t given up yet because you are reading this right now but most aspiring internet marketers quit as soon as they realize they actually have to work to make money online and aren’t going to get rich in a month or two.
Most beginning internet marketers never really even get started before they decide to quit. Only about 20% percent ever make even a little money and of those remaining only about another 20% of them ever make any real money. And, it’s the very rare internet marketer who becomes truly wealthy from his online business.
Are you getting discouraged yet?
Don’t be! Just be sure that you’re starting your internet marketing business with your eyes wide open, with your work ethic intact, and free of false hopes.
You see, the whole “you can make millions online by next month” crowd are a bunch of idiots. News flash… You are NOT going to get rich this year from internet marketing! However, if you approach it right, and put in a lot of time and hard work, you can eventually get rich from it. You can make money online and have the lifestyle you want to live but you can’t expect to do it right away.
After a lot of learning, implementing, long hours, blood, sweat, and tears… You can become financially independent as an internet marketer.
Thomas Edison said that most people stop just short of success.
In the case of internet marketing, he was wrong! Most people never even get off the proverbial couch. Most folks never enter the ring. Most people never take action. You can’t make money if you don’t do something to earn it.
So, step one of building a successful internet marketing business is… Take Action!
Step two… Do something each day to grow your business. Even if whatever you’re doing isn’t working after you’ve given it real shot, then change to something else.
Success is the result of hard work, whether it’s online success or offline. The internet marketers you hear about who are making millions are the ones who woke up two hours early to work on their websites before going to their ten hour a day job, then came home and worked on their online businesses until bed time. They did this over and over again until they made enough money to quit their day jobs. Then, they did it all day every day until they were rich!
It’s all about hard Work! Got it?
If you can commit yourself to truly making your internet marketing business succeed, the sky’s the limit for you. No one can stop you. Your competitors can’t stop you. The government can’t stop you. Your boss can’t stop you. Your spouse can’t stop you. NOTHING can stop you if you really want to become a successful internet marketer!
All you have to do is decide right here and now that you will build a successful online business and you will be rich someday. After that the only force in the world that can stop you is YOU.
So get started on your internet marketing business right now and let nothing get in the way of your success and financial freedom!
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In the beginning of what we now call “internet marketing” there were a small group of people who were making money online. They were self taught and many of them later became known as “internet marketing gurus” – some of whom continue to have that title today.
Each of them developed their own internet marketing style, and depending on the industry and the market you were targeting your website to, you followed one of them if you wanted to make money online. The result was a very predictable outcome and what worked for one website or niche could not be duplicated on another. However, in more recent times there has been a steady development of internet marketing systems that can be used across many different niches and with almost any type of website. They basically take all the good things from all the internet marketing gurus of today and package them into a few different systems.
Today the term “internet marketing” has a very broad definition and can be learned by just about anyone in order to make money online. Until a few years ago, you could not simply learn internet marketing you had to develop your strategy on your own. That used to take a lot of time so it would take a year or two to get an online business off the ground because the marketing strategies had to be developed from scratch and fine tuned to fit the internet business you were building.
Nowadays, if you are starting a new online business, all you really need to do is identify the goal you have for your business, set the wheels in motion, and learn internet marketing from the experts so you can work toward your money making goal. That little investment will enable you to shave years off the time it takes your internet business to turn a profit, and that is a wonderful return on your investment.
There are several systems you can use to learn internet marketing and I suggest that you find one that has been proven to work with the type of online business or website you are trying to get started. You can make money online, there’s no doubt about that, but you must learn internet marketing strategies before you will get traffic to your website or earn any money.
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Most internet marketers assume that driving traffic to a website is all that it takes to make money online. At least they think that at first until they realize they aren’t making much money, if any at all, and soon figure out that there is a LOT more to internet marketing than just getting traffic to a website.
Getting traffic is very important, but that’s only one part of the internet marketing equation. It’s like you’re playing football, and your team just got a first down. That’s a good start, but there’s still a long way to go before you get a touchdown, or in your case to get money in your bank account.
After people come to your site, they have to stay there long enough to actually take some sort of action that leads to you making money, either directly or indirectly. You want them to click on your ads, buy something, or give you their email address. Visitors who read some information on your site then leave without taking any action aren’t going to make you any money.
You shouldn’t depend on people bookmarking your site on their browser either because hardly anyone does that anymore. Plenty of people participate in social bookmarking, but that’s not really to remember a site they liked, it’s more to share the site with others.
Basically what I am saying is you really want your visitor to either give you their email address or buy something through your affiliate link. If they don’t do that then you have probably lost them forever because even if they leave with the feeling that your site has content they really liked and that they intent to come back, they most likely never will. There’s just too many sites and information being thrown at them for them to remember yours.
So, here are a couple tips that will help you to either make more sales or get more of your visitors email addresses…
Tip 1: Use an opt-in email form with a free gift to entice them
Decide what kind of information your market really wants. If you’re in weight loss, then your market probably wants cutting edge information about losing weight. If you promote online business information, then it should be about how to make money online. You can find all of this information for free online. You don’t have to be an expert to do this. All you need to do is to write a five to seven page report that outlines a few tips that your market wants to know. Then you put an opt-in email form on your website for them to put in their email address in order to get your report for free.
Tip 2: Banners Don’t Work
Of course, as an internet marketer, you want to make money from your website. And one action you want your visitor to take is to buy something, either your product or an affiliate product. I’m sure you have seen a lot of websites with banner advertisements on them so you might be considering putting them on yours. However, banners don’t work very well at all. Text links work a lot better. Whether you’re sending your buyer to an affiliate offer or to your own offer, text links have been proven, time and time again, to be much more effective than banners.
If you follow just these two internet marketing tips, you can exponentially increase how much money you make from your website! What’s even better is you’ll be collecting email addresses from people that you can sell to over and over again!
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Article marketing is definitely one of the best internet marketing strategies for getting free traffic to your website that is targeted and looking for what you have to offer. It’s also a great way to increase your backlinks for SEO purposes. However, not everyone is successful with article marketing. In this post, I will explain what separates successful article marketing strategies from ones that don’t work so well.
Here are four article marketing success tips you can use to help your efforts pay off:
1) Treat your articles like a real marketing tool. You don’t want it to sound like an infomercial or a blatant advertisement, but you do need to understand that your article is doing more than just giving out free information. Your goal is to get the readers to click on your resource box link leading back to your website, and to get bloggers and website owners to republish the article on their sites.
2) Write a subject line that arouses curiosity and actually makes people want to read your article. For the most part, people will find your articles after doing a search on Google or another engines search. In other words, they won’t be able to see the whole article so they have to decide it they want to read it based on its headline and a short description. You want your headline to be interesting enough for people to click on it and start reading.
3) Your articles should be at least 400 words long. You will want to publish it on several article directories and a lot of them won’t publish articles that are shorter than 400 words. This makes sense anyway because you want people to feel like they learned something by reading your articles. You can’t get enough information in an article that’s less than 400 words. Make sure your articles are very informative and useful to the readers. Crappy articles will not help you at all and you’ll only be wasting your time writing them.
4) Make your bio box feel like part of the article. At the end of an ezine style article, there’s an author’s bio box. Although you can try to put links back to your website in the body of the article, not all directories allow that and it decreases the chances of other website owners republishing it on their sites. The place to put your link is in the bio box.
Don’t treat the bio box as an afterthought or something that’s not important. It’s really the most important part of the article and the reason you wrote it in the first place. Your bio box needs to fulfill the same function that a call to action does on a sales letter. This is really important so let’s spend some more time on it.
This is what you usually see on articles, but don’t want…
“Johnny Johnson is a lifelong dog lover who has spent countless hours learning everything there is to know about dogs.”
Okay, that was meant to be extra cheesy. But really if you look at it from your reader’s point of view, they are interested in themselves, not you. Unless you’re the inventor of something very sell-known or someone with a lot of authority in your given niche, who you are and what you’ve done isn’t all that important.
What’s important is that if you did a good job with your article, your reader should be thinking, “Hmm… That was some great information… I wonder what else this guy has to say about this topic.”
That’s the kind of response that will get them to click your bio link. That’s what we call “pre-selling” and that’s what article marketing is all about; pre-selling your reader so that they click through to your money page.
A better idea for the bio box would be to make it essentially just the last sentence in the article, with a text link embedded in it. Something like this would be better…
Check out Training Dogs for Fun and Profit to learn more about what you can do as a dog trainer. (Where the underlined part is a text link to your site)
If certain article directories you are submitting to don’t allow text links (some don’t), then just include the whole address so that your reader can cut and paste it into their browser window.
You want the text link to be keyword anchored if possible. This will help a lot for SEO purposes and give you a boost in search engine rankings.
There’s really not much more to know about successful article marketing than what is explained above. These four tips will make this internet marketing technique work amazingly well for you. Apply these simple tips and the traffic will start rolling in!
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Forum marketing is one of the most popular internet marketing methods. This is especially true for the make money online niche. Highly successful online businesses have been built solely from participating in forums. However, there is an art to forum marketing. One wrong move could ruin your reputation and crush your online business or get you banned from your favorite forum. This post is going to give you some of the do’s and don’ts of forum marketing. Ignore these at your own risk as they could save your internet marketing career!
Let’s start with the things you shouldn’t do because these are the things that most people can’t seem to avoid doing for some reason. The first thing you should NEVER do is spam a forum. Most forums do not allow affiliate links in posts or blatant advertising of any kind. That means no posts where you’re either giving a link to one of your money making programs or directing other members to your signature. Spamming is one sure way of getting your posts deleted or getting banned from the forum altogether.
Another thing you want to avoid is arguing with other members, especially the moderators, admin, and the senior members who have been there a long time. It’s okay to get into debates on topics. There is nothing wrong with that at all. However, getting nasty and abusive is crossing the line and if you go too far, this can also get you banned quickly. In other words, learn to play nicely with others just as you do when you are with them in the real world.
Another big don’t is bragging about your income and accomplishments and then telling other members what they MUST do in order to be successful. When you start speaking in absolutes, you can run into problems with other members. For one thing, you’re giving information that is based solely on your own experience and may not apply to everybody else. It’s okay to give your opinion, but don’t preach it as gospel.
As for the things you should do when utilizing forum marketing, the main you really need to remember is to follow the forum rules and regulations. That means read them before you post and follow them when you do post. Many members don’t do this and it’s a HUGE mistake. You can’t possibly know how to conduct yourself at a particular forum if you don’t know what the rules are. If you’re not sure of something just ask. There is nothing wrong with asking a question. You only run into problems when you assume something is true when it isn’t.
Another thing you should always do is actually participate in the forum discussions. Answer questions when you can. Ask questions when you need to. Be a part of the community. Don’t be there just to get your signature link in front of people. That will not work! Forum marketing only works if you become a well-known and respected member of the forum. Eventually the other members will trust your opinion because you have proven yourself to give real and legitimate information.
If you follow these simple tips, you’ll find that your forum marketing experience will be a pleasant and profitable one. Not only that, you will ultimately end up making a lot of friends and some of them may end up playing a big part in future successes that you have, such as potential joint venture partners.
Don’t abuse the forums because they might just be the boost you need to bring your internet marketing business to the next level and can be a gold mine for you!
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