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?
Posted in Internet Marketing
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.
Posted in Internet Marketing, Make Money Online
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!
Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing
When it comes to internet marketing, you will always have competitors and some of them will be bigger and better than you are. But that doesn’t mean you can’t succeed as an internet marketer. You can always do things a little bit different than your competition or use a unique twist in your marketing efforts. However, to get your business out to the maximum number of people and effectively compete with the opposition, you need your website to be ranked highly on the search engines. Being on the first page of the SERP’s for competitive keywords in your niche will guarantee a steady stream traffic to your online business.
Getting ranked highly on the Google should be a major concern for you as an internet marketer. Statistics show that as much as 80 percent of internet users use Google to search for information or products. Nobody knows for sure the exact criteria that Google uses to determine its rankings but there are some well-known methods you can certainly use to achieve higher Google rankings.
One important ranking factor is your website content. Quality content that is updated frequently is very important for achieving (and keeping) high rankings. Of course, when I say content I mean articles, information, blog posts, and other text on your site, not the graphics. Although flashy graphics might impress your visitors, they won’t help you in gaining high search engine rankings. Search engines use robots or “spiders” to crawl your website and evaluate the content. These spider programs generally won’t be able to decipher the information in your flashy graphics so you don’t get any credit for that content.
Another important factor for ranking high in the search engines is keywords. You need to optimize your site for the keywords you want to rank for. Just having a website with the prices and the names of products will not get you very far with the search engines. If your site is about internet marketing and you want to rank highly for searches related to internet marketing then you need to make sure you have those keywords sprinkled throughout your content and pages.
Finally, you need inbound links in order to rank highly on the search engines. These are commonly called backlinks or inlinks but they are the same thing. Inbound links are simply links pointing to your site from other sites. There are plenty of ways to get backlinks and the more you have the better it is for your site. But remember that high quality inlinks from sites related to yours carry much more weight in the search engines.
Also, one thing that you should avoid in order to help your search engine rankings are spelling and grammar mistakes. This will put off potential customers as a result of appearing unprofessional and it has also been found that more than multiple spelling mistakes can cause search engines to lower your rankings.
It’s no secret that high search engine rankings are very important for internet marketing success and I’m sure you now realize that keeping your website high on the search engines will be an ongoing part of your online business.
Posted in Internet Marketing, SEO
Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the top driving forces for website traffic and one of the best internet marketing techniques for making money online. SEO ebooks can be a powerhouse internet marketing strategy for many reasons that will be explained here.
Google and other search engines do list ebooks in their search results these days as can be seen by doing a search on just about any topic. Results for many searches nowadays end up showing text and links from ebooks. With the strong lure of free downloadable ebooks, this is great for searchers because they download the document, save it to their computer and continue reading it as needed. Imagine the potential of this for internet marketers who publish ebooks!
Let me give you some examples of what an eBook on the subject of SEO itself might be able to accomplish by applying the power of SEO to it…
SEO ebooks are highly sought after by webmasters so they can figure out how to get their sites ranked highly in the search engines so they can get more traffic and make more money. But they are also very important to SEO professionals, web designers, content writers and technical writers because they can use these techniques to enhance their knowledge and the marketable scope of their work. It’s very important to know the techniques before creating a web site, or content for a web site.
Therefore an ebook on SEO ranking high in the search engines, will instantly reach millions of webmasters, writers and designers, many of whom would definitely download it if it’s given out for free! There are a lot of SEO and internet marketing based products which could be instantly marketed through the free ebook that would make money for the author (you) through affiliate links. Not to mention the fact that it boosts the sale of any product which you intend to market yourself.
Imagine if you reach the top 10 on Google for various searches involving SEO or Internet marketing. Your ebook would be downloaded thousands of times and you would become an instant expert and authority on SEO! Not to mention the money your ebook would be passively generating for you from the affiliate programs.
Your ebook can also be given away for free by anyone who wants their customers to know about the benefits of SEO and internet marketing, thus leading to more profits for you without you doing anything at all.
The opportunities for making money from SEO and a well written free ebook are virtually endless!
Posted in Internet Marketing, Make Money Online, SEO
