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Internet Marketing – An Addiction
I admit to being addicted to what I do. looking back, this has been going on for over 10 years. My blogs and websites are my babies. I tweak, blog, write and learn how to squeeze some money out of them. AdSense, affiliate marketing – whatever. The big thrill is seeing the money coming in. Some sites I own surprise me with good earnings, others that I thought would do well sit there gathering cyberdust.
I have tried dozens of schemes. Most have failed me, others worked for a while and then became either overused or just plain didn’t work any more. I have bought into the gurus, purchased manuals, books and systems. Looking back I have probably spent a couple of thousand in guru stuff. But that’s a minor investment compared to what I have learned to do, and more importantly – what NOT to do. I spent many hours writing my own domain/sites management software. Just the way I want it. Works like a charm, saves me tons of time now. All in all my little business is profitable. In all businesses you have to spend some money and take some losses to get to what works for you.
The sites are my drug. The income is my euphoria. Once in a blue moon I take some time off, but I get withdrawal pains. Even if the sites run themselves I can’t help it. Technically I could stay away for months without hurting any income. But I can’t.
What does that mean? Simply – I have found my niche. My work. I have been doing this for over 10 years and the need to “work” the internet hasn’t worn off a bit. I would have thought it would be boring by now, but it is stronger than ever. What motivates me? The income for sure, but to be honest – I was hoping for a lot more after years of working it.
No, what motivates me is the fight. The challenge. The need to win. To figure out what works. I’ll take the losers, as long as I get some winners. And I have that. It’s like gambling I guess just that I have full control over the outcome. I just have to outsmart the system….
My internet marketing income pays rent and more. Hour for hour I probably work more than most people. So it is disappointing to see the income not being what it should be. What am I missing? One thing I do notice that things work today, not tomorrow. For example, a few years ago simple content sites worked like a charm with AdSense. Not so any more. Sites need to be fairly unique for Google to even index them. I still have some content only, static sites and because of their age they still produce.
Setting up new sites with just old content – no good any more. Now a days you need sites with fresh, up-to-date and unique content. Like blogs you write to yourself. Sure, you read about auto-blogging. I set up 6 sites a year ago, I feed them with plr articles and rss feeds – and the results are dismal. The top one makes about $ 10 a month. Ok, so if I had 100 of them I’d make $ 1,000 a month. I get that.
I think there’s a middle road to take. Sure, buy into the auto-blogging thing. But I realize now that pretty well the only thing that really works is good old writing your own stuff. And I find it refreshing to create content that is 100% mine. I realize of course that now my content gets distributed to plenty of people, but that’s ok. I was the first to use it.
Bottom line, to make money you still need to spend time and some money. Nothing is free. But – if you are addicted to it – it’s not work.
Ingvar is getting close to “the golden age”. He writes about entrepreneurship
after retirement.
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In 2011 I will be 60. Unbeliavable. I am “semi retired”. Whatever that means, no regular paycheck I guess. No 8-5. No commuting. No boss, except my clients, mind you. I love what I do. I can’t see myself NOT working. I don’t even call it work, it’s so much part of my life. However, I, like most people my age am thinking of when I can’t work, or I really get tired of it all.
Internet Marketing Training Programs
The key to an internet marketer’s success is to choose the right affiliate programs. These programs must employ excellent marketing techniques in promoting and selling the marketers’ products and or services.
Marketing products and services on the internet is much easier and more rewarding compared to traditional offline marketing methods. With the millions of people around the world getting online everyday, a marketer could sell his or her products and services and generate a lot of money.
But before we dream about being financially independent, we must find good internet marketing programs that will teach these marketing skills.
It is helpful when you have already focused your search on a specific area of interest. In this way you would be able to direct your efforts towards internet training programs that match your needs,wants and resources. Trying to promote products or services you have no interest in, is a recipe for failure.
Here are a few things to look for in your search for internet marketing training programs
1. Look for programs that are of high quality – Try to check their sales records, performances, benefits, products, and services.
2. They must have products and or services that fit in with your targeted audiences.
3. The programs should have a generous commission structure.
4. They also should have a solid track record of paying marketers on time.
5. The programs should train you on the different types of internet marketing.
6. They must have a good support staff.
Here are just a few of the many programs on the internet
1. Wealthy Affiliate University
2. Commission Junction
3. Clickbank
4. Linkshare
5. Instandollarz
Since internet programs are easy to join, you might be tempted to join a lot of them to maximize the money you will be getting. However, joining multiple programs and trying to promote all of them at the same time will prevent you from concentrating on each one of them.
Keep in mind there is no quick path towards success on the internet. It takes a lot of hard work and persistence. But if you stick to it, the rewards are great. So take your time in finding great internet marketing training programs
If you want to learn ways of making money online, you can learn more about internet marketing training programs at The Wealthy Affiliate University and it’s affiliate marketing school. Click here: http://WealthyAffiliateTrainingProgram
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The Power of Leverage & Affiliates in Internet Marketing in Boosting Your Bottom Line Profits!
Not everyone has the same interests and passions. Likewise not everyone will make a good affiliate. If you are promoting your product finding people who make good affiliates is crucial to success in internet marketing.
Knowing how to select and manage your affiliates is often the difference between a successful and mediocre campaign.
Here are some useful tips to get the best from your affiliates.
1. People often place a great emphasis on quantity. While it is nice to have a large number of affiliates, having quality rather than quantity is far more important and relevant. Three or four dedicated and experienced affiliates are more likely to make you more sales than 100 casual and inexperienced affiliates.
Knowing the difference between the two will be the key to having a successful product.
2. One of the best ways to select your affiliates is to screen them. If you already have a list you can send out emails looking for affiliates to promote your product. You can then screen interested applicants. Here are some questions you may like to ask.
What experience of affiliate marketing do you have? How do you intend to promote the product? What strategies do they intend to use? What personal interest do they have in the product? If these criteria are met to your satisfaction, you will know that you have high quality affiliates.
3. Once you have established that you have dedicated and enthusiastic affiliates on your books you need to give them the best chance of being successful. Train them. Give them all the steps and strategies needed to succeed.
Give them copies of emails that they can send out to potential prospects. Give them a guide on using adwords strategies. Another valuable thing you could provide is tutorials.
Camtasia is a brilliant tool for video capturing your desktop activity. Create your own videos on your Affiliate Marketing campaigns and give them to your affiliates to implement. There are even free versions of Camtasia available online. A hands-on approach to managing your affiliates delivers best results.
4. Offering bonus prizes to your top affiliates creates healthy competition. Offering prizes can be a great motivation for affiliates to do well. Earning a reward is also synonymous with being appreciated for your efforts. Choose a prize that is relevant to the theme of the product that you are promoting. Try and think of prizes that are not too common. Having a prize that your affiliates will truly appreciate is a great incentive for them to do well.
5. Create a leader-board. Similar to giving rewards, creating a leader-board fosters healthy competition. Nobody wishes to come in last. Having a top ten or top 20 leader-board is a great incentive for motivating affiliates. Everybody likes to be a winner and you can tap into that winning mentality.
These are just some of the ways to pick and manage your affiliates. It is very important that once you have selected good affiliates that you keep them motivated and show them how to promote your product. Everyone needs to be encouraged. Implement some of these strategies and you will be well on your way to being a successful internet marketer.
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Internet Marketing is Easy
First I want to applaud you for taking the first step in learning how to avoid costly mistakes as an Affiliate Marketer. You may want to start right away but you need to get some knowledge before starting your Affiliate Marketing career.
You need to know some marketing myths and a few different ways to enhance your opportunities to become a very successful marketer, so let’s get started with it.
Every day thousands of people go online to make money but most of them are unsuccessful because they either truly believe one of the Internet Marketing Myths or all of them. I would explain some of them for your satisfaction, below is the one of them.
 Internet Marketing is EASY
 Without any doubt this is the principal myth of all, and let me tell you Internet marketing is hard, takes time, effort, not to mention money and anyone who suggests otherwise is demanding to sell you a bouquet of baloney. Of course that it’s reasonably easier to conventional stores in that there’s no inventory to carry, no shipping of goods no sales staff and virtually no operating cost, but some work is still implicated.
 Can you make a good living online? Absolutely, you will need to put effort and you should have a BIG desire for success otherwise you wouldn’t make it online. I intend to show you how you can make the most of any Affiliate Marketing program.
First you need to start with making the decision of how you are going to brand your name, are you going to use a fictitious or your real name (I recommend your real as you can see mine is the real deal) whatever route you choose is up to you but need to have your own brand to market at your prospects and perhaps convert them to customers.
Branding your name, company or your undercover name is paramount to your online success; you need to develop trust between you and people. Building the customer – vendor relationship is very important to your long term career and to finally be your own boss, yes, if you do it properly you can quit a job that you despise, or maybe you are just looking for a way to increase your income.Â
Regardless of the motive that got you in to the Internet Marketing you need to brand your self in the Internet, how you may ask, there are many ways of doing this, Forums, social sites, there are many out there, Google pay per click but that cost money, build your own blog and start blogging away, is one of the best methods to drive traffic to your site thus starting the branding process.
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90% of Affiliate and Internet Marketers Fail – Will You Be One of Them?
I’ve been a successful Internet Marketer for “Bricks and “Mortar” businesses for over ten years. Making profit using the Internet is what I am good at. But what about doing it for my own “businesses”? Specifically, Affiliate Marketing?
It’s tough. REALLY tough. It’s the very definition of a dog-eat-dog world. The big, self-styled “Gurus” (who no-one has ever heard of!) present you with the latest, greatest product, that will make you gazillions of dollars a second and…all for just $ 97! What a bargain!
So you go round and round, looking for the latest product or system, all hyped beyond reason. You buy it. You fail. You get a refund. You move on to the next big thing and the cycle of misery continues.
So, you’re wasting your time, money and effort for no cash. This is the reason that 90% fail.
Think of that number again – 90% fail. Yet, in the UK at least, 95% of home businesses succeed! What is the discrepancy between successful “bricks and mortar” home businesses and online businesses?
I think the answer is three-fold.
1) People don’t think for themselves. They are blindsided by the latest $ 97 wonder product from ClickBank and think that will make them rich. When they see time, money and effort needs to be invested they panic and move onto the next big thing. You need to put in the hours to get a return – you have a job, right? – so stick to it! Even a modest product will probably arm you with the basic knowledge to succeed. You now need to implement what you have learned, rather than doing nothing and moving onto the next product. Break out of this cycle and you are half the way there.
Home businesses are generally centered on a niche that the business owner understands. Thing about what you are good at, what interests you. It will make choosing a business niche much easier and give you much more hope of succeeding. If it’s something you know about, you’ll probably find the work interesting too.
2) Understand these basics. You need a product, or a product to promote. You need a means of promoting it – be it a blog, website or other advertising method (which could even be Twitter, YouTube or Facebook). You don’t need to spend a fortune on a flashy site, or even have to have much technical knowledge. But if you never even end up promoting anything, is it any wonder you aren’t getting anywhere?
Home business owners generally have a product or service that made them start a business in the first place! Sit down, make a list of what you are knowledgeable about and start researching products in that genre that you can promote. Or even think about a product you can create.
3) Plan your Trade and Trade Your Plan. This is the old stock traders mantra, and it is also the underlying basis of all successful businesses. If you don’t have a plan, how will you know what to do next? How can your business be a success if you don’t know what you want to achieve? Right down a plan and try and follow it through. You’ll get a sense of relief and who knows, you might have made some money at the end of it!
Home business owners will probably want a business account from their bank. The bank manager will want to see at least a basic business plan before they will offer an account. Sit down and plan what you need to do: build a basic website, populate it with your content, start promoting it. Fill in the gaps as to what you are missing. Write down the time involved and the costs. Update this frequently.
Also, don’t be afraid to set your goals further down the line. Where do you want this business to be in three months time? Write this down then work your plan to meet this target by this date.
The most important thing of all, having taken the above points on board and changed your behavioural patterns is to get traffic. If your business is going to make money, you need a constant supply of new visitors to your site.
I believe this is something that most people fail at. This is partly due to the fact that the latest “wunderprodukt” promised them a million dollars an hour and never mentioned that traffic is king and partly because these guides never mention precisely that you need traffic in the first place!
Think about it. If I open a cafe in the middle of a village, will I make more money than a cafe that’s in the middle of a business centre with 10,000 employees? Most likely not.
You need to try links, online advertising, developing partnerships with other websites, viral marketing techniques, dispersing your message on other people’s networks, creating multiple websites for different niches, affiliate programme, getting listed in directories, launching an email marketing campaign, building a following on Twitter and being as proactive as possible to get your message out there.
90% of people will give up after a short period of time (if they ever tried at all). Stuck in the same patterns of behaviour, and with no traffic, they are bound to fail.
Will you be one of them?
Simon Roberts is a successful Internet Marketer, Director and Entrepreneur. You can get free membership to his marketing clubs to help you learn the basics, get traffic and make money online.
Learn How to Save Money, Earn Money & Go Green With Internet Affiliate Marketing in a Bad Economy
Are we in a recession or depression? Well, that depends on you who talk to. Most people tend to agree that the economy is pretty shaky and that people are scared. The bail out is a mess. People are losing their jobs, their homes, their dignity. Blah blah, blah.
The first thing you should do is stop watching the news. This negativity can begin to wear on you. Don’t let it. Your economy is what you make it. Only you can determine your future. This is a time where people need to take action starting with their budget and look for ways to save money. For those out there with only one source of income, especially if it is a job then you need to figure another way to make money. Get a Plan B.
No matter how bad it is or how little money you have, the fact remains that you will still need to shop. Maybe it will only be the necessitates, but you will have to buy them somewhere. Right?
Internet shopping is on the rise for that reason, among many others. Retailers are offering big discounts and Free shipping many times. Not only will you save money on parking and gas, you will reduce your carbon footprint and save your valuable time.
There are a few tricks to getting maximum savings.
1. Comparison shop – Many times you can Google an item and compare prices, but I also recommend Pricegrabber.com and Nextag.com to find the lowest price.
2. Sign up for email from your favorite stores – They will send you coupon codes, discounts and specials.
3. Coupon codes – Always search Google for Ex: “Macy’s coupon codes”. There are a ton of coupon sites and you can usually get a discount or free shipping. Currentcodes.com is a really good place to find them. When you check out then you will see a box to enter that code and receive the discount.
4. Shipping charges – Freeshipping.org is a great place to look for Free shipping. many time the shipping is still cheaper than if you drive to the store with the cost of fuel and your time.
5. Sales Tax Savings – Be sure to look for stores that are out of your state so that yo can save the sales tax. Drugstore.com is a great example for me because I buy all of my toiletries, prescriptions, household items and save an additional 6%. Plus they have a program where they also give you 5% drugstore dollars on most items to spend on future orders. It really adds up big time & has saved me time and money because I no longer walk out of a store with impulse items.
6. Join an Internet Affiliate Program – This is the BIG BONUS! – You can earn from 1-30% cash back in addition to the savings mentioned above. There are over 800 stores with everything you could ever need. Pet supplies, office supplies, Airfare, Hotels, household cleaning products, healthy snacks, vitamins, prescription drugs, clothes, shoes, organic and eco-friendly products.
7. Become a Ecommerce Broker – It only makes sense that you would share these incredible discounts and savings with other people, wouldn’t you? Consumers are desperate to save money and in my opinion everyone needs a plan B during these tough economic times. You would agree, wouldn’t you?
A family of four should save on average approximately $ 200 per month or more based on these shopping strategies all combined. An Ecommerce Broker has unlimited income potential. Forrester Research, Inc. forecast that eCommerce will be $ 329 billion in 2010, which is up from $ 172 billion in 2005. The increase translates to a solid 14 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years.
An Ecommerce Broker has an opportunity to position themselves in two industries that are experiencing tremendous growth. Internet Affiliate Marketing (eCommerce) & the environmental movement. Where do you see yourself in the next 5-10 years? What is your plan B and do you have a financial plan in place to get you there?
Stacy Kinney is an Internet Network Marketing and Social Media coach. She teaches the most effective methods for lead generation on the internet today. Stacy is implementing this proven marketing system with all of her new Ecommerce Brokers that wish to have quick national expansion.
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Three Affiliate Marketing Tips For Higher IncomeThree Critical Online Marketing Hints for Your Internet Campaign
Successful Internet marketers know what they’re doing, which leads them to dominating various niche markets and making a lot of money. You can also be like them. Below you will find some ideas that will help you with your internet marketing efforts.
You will be handling a lot of content for both your campaigns and your website, as an internet marketer. The content can be either written such as articles, or sound and video, depending on what is considered beneficial by your prospects. However, it is very important that your written content is excellent because this is what gets you a higher rank in the SERPs. The articles and content you craft for your website should be unique and offer your visitors a lot of value. When it comes to ranking websites, search engines have become much smarter. They provide better rankings to sites that offer compelling content and are deemed by users to be interesting. Your content shouldn’t be something that you just ripped off from somewhere.
You need to make your content informative, real and compelling because you need to focus on providing as much value as possible to your readers. This approach will automatically lead to a greater profitability because you will be making more sales. Alongside the regular traffic that will come from search engines, you will have repeat visitors who are checking in to see if you have any new content up. The only way to set yourself apart from your competition is to offer fresh content that is informative and has a purpose. One reason many internet marketers fail so quickly is that they don’t pay content the attention it deserves because they are being lazy.
Owning a website is critical to your Internet marketing success and can’t be overlooked. But what’s the use if your website isn’t accessible to anyone when they drop in? A good hosting service is just as important as having a good site. When you go for a web host, you should make sure that they have a high uptime guarantee.
If other sites using that particular hosting service are constantly going down then you should reconsider. In order to positively grow your online business, your site has to be online 24/7 – without any exceptions. Therefore, you shouldn’t simply opt for a hosting service that is cheap if it doesn’t provide any guarantees in this sense. The best way to find a good host is to research other people’s experiences by reading online reviews.
Lastly, seek out advice from Internet marketers who are already succeeding with their own businesses. Take time to read some of the informative articles available from successful Internet marketers and see if you can learn from them. If you can, invest in good Internet marketing courses that will help you along the way. However, regardless of what you learn, it only brings you results after you’ve put it all into action. If you give it some time and don’t rush your internet marketing endeavor you may find that you become successful sooner than you hoped.
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Profit Lance Vs Wealthy Affiliate – Two Internet Marketing Giants Compared and Reviewed
You’ve no doubt seen the ads about getting started in internet marketing, or about how to make money from home. Some “Rich Jerk” is selling his system over here. A click on this link in Google leads to an “Internet Speedway” over there. Add to those systems an uncountable number of E-books. Sometimes there almost seems to be as many internet marketing programs as there are internet marketers! Someone who is just getting started can easily feel overwhelmed.
Two of the bigger names that keep showing up are Profit Lance and Wealthy Affiliate. Both websites advertise themselves as a course for beginning internet marketers. One has a sizable one-time purchase fee, whereas the other uses a smaller monthly membership fee. One gives you pre-made websites, while the other provides free web hosting and the simple-yet-dynamic SiteRubix website builder to create your own websites. Which one is the better choice for a beginning internet marketer? Should you even consider buying into either one at all? Should you consider buying into both?
Profit Lance advertises itself as “the best online marketing course.” Currently, it can be bought for a one-time fee of $ 77; there is no monthly membership or rebilling. The course includes E-books, articles, and videos, as well as “projects” you can do for homework. For example, a significant part of the course tells you how to generate traffic to a website using article marketing, Google ads, blogs, and social bookmarking networks. Now, Profit Lance provides you with several websites already set up! You can then practice the techniques learned in the course to generate traffic to a ready-made website, without having to build the website first. If you make sales through these pre-made websites, you get to keep the commission. In addition to the lessons on generating traffic, Profit Lance will also teach you how to get started using Google’s advertising system, including both Google Adsense and Google Adwords. Also presented are strategies and tools for researching profitable niche markets, help on writing effective sales copy, search engine optimization techniques, and even some guides to starting your own viral marketing campaigns. In all, Profit Lance provides an excellent set of resources to help you get started. Once you have gained some experience and success in internet marketing, however, you may find yourself growing beyond what Profit Lance offers.
While Profit Lance advertises itself as a course, Wealthy Affiliate advertises itself as “Wealthy Affiliate University.” Wealthy Affiliate is bigger and has more of a community feel to it. The amount of resources offered is staggering, and it can be somewhat overwhelming for the complete novice. Wealthy Affiliate also requires a monthly membership, currently priced at $ 29.95. Not only does Wealthy Affiliate provide you with free websites ready-to-go, they offer a terrific array of tools to help you get started. The SiteRubix website builder interface is easy and intuitive, and the monthly membership comes with free hosting. All you need to do is buy yourself a domain name from the likes of 1to1.com or GoDaddy, and then you can build yourself your own website customized to your own specifications. Wealthy Affiliate also has a mind-bogglingly useful forum, where you can talk with other marketers and share tips, secrets, and tricks. For the beginners, Wealthy Affiliate offers an 8-week action plan to help get all marketing newbies up to speed and into the game. While the sheer scope of tools and information offered by Wealthy Affiliate can be intimidating for the beginner, a marketer will find much more room to grow to an advanced level within the Wealthy Affiliate program than in the Profit Lance program; the interaction provided by Wealthy Affiliate’s forum alone will be worth the monthly membership fee to many budding marketers.
Both Profit Lance and Wealthy Affiliate are worthwhile products. If you are willing to spend the initial one-time $ 77 set-up fee, I would recommend first buying the Profit Lance system. Once you have mastered the basic concepts of internet marketing, you should then invest in the Wealthy Affiliate program. Either way, you will be given all the tools and knowledge you need to succeed. All that matters t
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