When you realize the potential for growing your business using online marketing, the next step is to learn what to do and how to do it. This is where most people get stuck.
The good news is there is a plethora of free information on the internet about online marketing strategies. The bad news is there is a plethora of free online marketing information on the internet, which, for most people, can quickly lead to information overload.
It starts innocently enough with searching on a specific strategy such as pay-per-click, or article directories, or online video, or ... But one thing can quickly lead to another thing, and pretty soon you're r
eading about 20 different online lead generation strategies.
In the course of your wanderings, you stumble on countless blogs with hundreds of tips and strategies. And it seems like everyone has a report or email series that will cure all your problems, and they're all free, so what the heck, you sign up for all of them.
Before long, you spend your days reading email and blogs, and wandering aimlessly around the internet, trying to figure out how it all ties together, or searching in vain for the magic blue pill you need to boost your business, the silver bullet. Pretty soon weeks go by, then months, and you still haven't implemented anything. Your inbox is overflowing. You have hundreds of useful bookmarks.
You have tons of information swirling in your brain but you haven't added one nickle to the bottom line of your business. You have thousands of emails, and hundreds of notes and downloaded files. You have so much information you don't know where to find specific information when you need it.
I confess, not too long ago this was me. The engineer in me wanted to know everything before I got started, and wanted to get everything perfect the first time. As I encounter other people learning internet marketing for their business, I find a large percentage are also stuck in information overload land. I'm happy to report that I have been "cured" of internet marketing overloaditis.
Just follow these 3 simple guidelines and watch your income grow, not just your headache.
1. Just say no. Spend enough time figuring out which mentors you relate to and want to learn from and then just say no to everyone and everything else. Get off email lists and be selective about which blogs you read.
2. Get organized. Setup a file folder for each different strategy such as social networking, online video, PPC, article directories, etc. Create the same directory structure in your email system. Setup a physical binder with identical tabs. When you get valuable information, file it in the appropriate folder for easy retrieval in the future. Print out the important information and put it in your binder. Now when you need information on a specific topic you know where to find it.
3. Just do it. You don't have to be perfect. Read carefully because this is the most important step. Pick one online marketing method, and put it into practice. Focus on this method and make it your highest priority. Once you have it mastered you can then add a second method. Prioritize tasks related to generating income at the top of your task list, and only spend time wandering around on the internet AFTER you have completed your income producing actions for the day and only if you have enough willpower to stop after a specific amount of time.
You will learn so much more by taking action it's amazing. The heardest part can be the first step. Just do whatever you have to do to take that first step and watch how much easier the next step is.
Bum Marketing, or The Bum Marketing Method in simple terms is a way to sell a product online with no out of pocket expense. The term Bum Marketing was coined by Travis Sago and is a philosophy on Internet Marketing that uses free methods to drive traffic to an affiliate site in order to make a sale and get a commission.
In no way does this method have to do with being lazy or un-motivated; it's simply a way of doing business that a lot of folks must use when they first start out because they have limited funds to invest in a new business.
The idea behind the actual words, bum marketing, is that you could take any bum off the street and take them to a library with an Internet connection and actually set up a free web page, drive traffic to it using free methods and sell a product that someone else has developed and get an affiliate commission.
In no way does this term signify that bums are lazy or worthless. It simply means that they have chosen a life for themselves that has a limited income stream and any endeavor would require little to no money to accomplish... Which is exactly where a lot of us need to start!
So, does this type of business plan really work? Absolutely! Thousands of folks all across the planet are using free sources to drive traffic to a free site they have put together and are earning thousands of dollars in affiliate commission.
There are a lot of great resources online to learn how to do this effectively but it is not as easy as a lot of these guys make it out to be, hence my earlier mention that Bum Marketing does not imply one is lazy or un-motivated. The reverse is actually true.
If you had money you could do PPC or buy traffic or outsource a lot of the work that must be done to drive traffic to your websites. With this method, you must write articles, develop the web pages those articles will link to and constantly tweak your system by doing keyword research and experimenting with the type of content you provide.
You must also be adept at knowing where to submit your articles, how to build back links, putting together an effective Squidoo lens and a myriad of other daily task that you are on your own to make sure gets done.
If your funds are limited, then Bum Marketing is the only way to go to get your business up and running. This method works for those that commit to it and do it properly and it can work for you as well... you just have to do it!
If your trying to build an internet business you really need to take advantage of the search engines. Using these 3 insider secrets, you'll be able to get A LOT of free traffic in no time flat:
Secret #1 - Go After *Phrase* Keywords First:
Don't try and get traffic from the top keyword in your market. That is too competitive...You want to go after keywords that get less traffic and are less competitive. On one of my sites, I got over 22,000 visitors from Google for free using 4,800 different keywords.
Secret #2 - Get A Top 10 Site To Give You A SMALL Link:
If you can get a top site to put your link on their site, this alone can pull you to the front page of the keyword your trying to rank for. Email or call all the top sites that are ranked for the keyword you want and get them to stick your link on their site. This lets Google know that you are important if a top site is linking to you!
Secret #3 - Write An Article On Your Website For The Keyword You Want:
Write a small article for the keyword your trying to rank for. It won't take long and the search engines will index that page and you'll start getting traffic in no time...
By doing secret #3 I have obtained as many as 12 of the top 20 rankings for one keyword. That's right - you can get A TON of rankings for the same keyword if you do the above techniques.
To be successful in affiliate marketing, it is essential to have traffic. The more traffic, the better. There's no such thing as having too much traffic. You may have a winning product and a great webpage, but if no one goes to your website, then it's all fruitless. So it's important to be able to direct people to your website. Do this in as many possible ways that you can.
Let's discuss a few ways to direct traffic to your website.
1. Market articles
Write articles. These articles can either talk directly about the product or the subject matter can be something indirectly related to the product, for example a problem the product may be a solution to. Write articles for your website, of course, but write others for the purpose of submitting to article directories. There are many article directories, e-zines, and online encyclopedias that allow you to submit articles for free. You have the option of writing the articles yourself or hiring freelance writers to pen some articles for you. Just make sure that the articles are unique and original or they may be rejected by the article directories.
See to it that the articles are informative and helpful, so that you can begin to establish yourself as an authority on your particular niche. Let your knowledge and expertise shine through. If people get the sense that you know what you're talking about, they'll be more inclined to go to your site. Remember to include a resource box at the end of your article that has a link to your site and a bit of information about yourself.
2. Join forums and do some social networking
Find out which forums your target market goes to and join these. By your insightful and helpful contributions, you can build up a reputation as a guy in the know in your particular niche. If you are allowed to, put a link to your website on your posts. Join some social networks too. These are great places to start making a name for yourself and your website.
3. Exchange links with others in the same niche as you.
This is a good idea for several reasons. First, by exchanging links with someone in the same niche as you, you create awareness of your chosen niche. You and those you exchange links with complement each other. It's like you're forming a specialized community of marketers that your clients become comfortable dealing with. By helping increase traffic for your allies, your traffic gets significantly increased as well.
Plus you increase your chances of getting a higher ranking in search engines. Search engines are partial to websites that have inbound and outbound links. And everybody knows that a high ranking in the search engines equates to more traffic.
So try out these three ways. In a subsequent article, we'll talk about other methods you can use to direct people to your website.
Internet Marketing is not for everyone. Many people must have the stability of the 9 to 5 job that pays the steady salary.
Marketing is hailed as an adventurous risk. By persuading others to believe as you believe in your product or service is and sometimes can be very daunting.
The good marketers that persist in their profession look at the adventure as a challenge and are willing to undertake and succeed. Being focused and skillful will increase the chances of be successful.
Are you willing to become a successful internet marketer? Are you willing work smart and hard?
What is the goal of the online marketer?
What does the online marketer do? Using the tools and techniques on the internet to market their products and services is what Internet marketing is about. Their goal is to be at the top of the masses of other marketers competing for attention on the internet. The success lies in being on top.
Can you drive traffic?
To be the best of the best you must be able to direct much traffic and interest to your product or service. However, driving and directing traffic is not alone in being a good internet marketer. One must be able to keep customers, create trust and build relationships. Promoting and believing in your product or service is most important. You cannot market if you do not believe.
Have a plan of action.
Always have a plan of action and look for new ways to tweak that plan. Good marketing involves a great deal of homework. Duplication, learning and scrutiny are the keys to being a good marketer. Set up strategies and adapt them to your product or service. Test these strategies; emulate them to see how they fit in your needs.
The expert marketer is observant and quick to learn the strategies that work and strategies that do not. If the strategy works or does not work, they know when to use it and when not to. They learn from their mistakes and from those that have made mistakes. They try to be one-step ahead of the others.
Know your market.
An expert marketer knows what is in demand; she/he knows what how to interest the public in his/her service or product. He has a sense of what will or will not attract the market. The successful marketer can be a magnet for potential clients or customers. They know the words to use, what buttons to push to pull these clients in.
Having trust and giving trust so that relationships are built is very important in building the customer list. When a customer can trust the marketer and knows that the marketer is concerned about the client and cares about them they will be a repeat customer. It is all about building relationships. Let the relationship grow. This is where patience comes to play. You, yourself, would not like someone to be pushy or demanding. Let this relationship and trust grow and you will have customers following you.
Did you know?
That internet advertising revenues reached an estimated new record of $4.2 Billion for the third quarter of 2006 and that the internet advertising market has been growing more than 30% for the last 4 consecutive years.
"Google reported revenues of $3.66 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2007"
Google Adsense is revolutionizing the web, high school kids are making fortunes per month with Adsense paying their classes and helping their fathers paying the bills at home.
Lawyers and doctors gaved up their practices to make millions with Google.
Thanks to Google Adsense revenues the internet is growing faster each day, while Google is paying the bills webmasters create more quality websites with free content and utilities for everyone, websites that you look for when your cash Flow is fading. People create websites just for make money with Adsense and this reason is reflecting on the web contributing to the fast growth of thousands of websites and ideas that born every day. When you use Adwords to promote your products you are sponsoring and broughting to life a new star rising website that can be a must value to the web.
That's why Google Adsense/Adwords programs are so great, because everybody wins, advertisers pay per click and make sales using Adwords, clicks and impressions are made by the Adsense publishers that receive compensation, it's a rollercoster that never stops so therefore it is unbeatable.
It's called "revenue sharing" and it's the most powerfull internet marketing tool you will ever find!
Thousands of people every day discover Adsense and start making money at home with their websites, they share the secret with others and when others make money everyone makes money, that's why I had the trouble to write and distribute this little article, to spread the good news and off course make my own fortune.
If you have a website and are looking for a serious income this is the perfect opportunity for you to grab, Adsense is the best money making program circulating on the web, one of the most well paid if not the number 1 and best of all it is real!
Join Google Adsense free and retire from your job in months, use Google Adwords to rise up your business and become a millionaire in the next year.
Let me show you the headline 1.000.000 in 6 months:
Besides the Adsense earnings and the Adwords traffic that you can generate you can also make big money referring others to the Adwords and Adsense programs, when they use the programs you get paid, well paid.
This is how the programs work, by own Google words:
"When an advertiser who signed up for Google AdWords through your referral spends $5.00 (in addition to the $5.00 sign-up fee) within 90 days of sign-up, you will be credited with $5.00. When that same advertiser spends $100.00 within 90 days of sign-up, you will be credited with an additional $40.00. If, in any 180-day period, you refer 20 advertisers who each spend more than $100.00 within 90 days of their respective sign-ups, you will be awarded a $600.00 bonus."
"When a publisher who signed up for Google AdSense through your referral earns $5.00 within 180 days of sign-up, you will be credited with $5.00. When that same publisher earns $100.00 within 180 days of sign-up and is eligible for payout, you will be credited with an additional $250.00. If, in any 180 day period, you refer 25 publishers who each earn more than $100.00 and are all eligible for payout, you will be awarded a $2,000.00 bonus."
Do I need to say anything else to convince you to sign up? I Don't think so.
Just do the math and you will find out the potential of your earnings, if you already know the programs you know what im talking about and have a better perspective, if you don't I tell you this, you can look but I guarantee that does not exist nothing else like it.
And don't worry, take it easy, take your time, it doesn't matter if you don't understand any of this, the only matter is that you have a website and want to make money with it, in the process you will discover how everything works and how the succeed in your goals.
That's for this and many other reasons that Google is and will be the internets Number 1 for many years to come!
Follow the path, become rich and make your dreams come true forever!!
Making Money If You Do "Not" Have Your Own Website
What I have learned over the years is that you have to do a lot of small things correctly. One good way to make independent money online is to market your products and services on high traffic websites such as this one. You can accomplish this by having a link or banner (some advertisement of some sort) to your website from their website. For example: Just say if a high traffic website is getting between say maybe 100,000 - 200,000 visitors a month and you took 1,000 - 2,000 (this is on the low end) of their traffic a month, the numbers will quickly add up.
Another way you can make independent money online is to promote affiliate programs. If you have a website of your own that is already receiving a pretty good amount of traffic, you can promote it on your site. But if not, then I would suggest something like Pay Per Click or promoting it on high traffic websites that are on the same theme like the example above.
Making Money If You "Do" Have Your Own Website
You have to build your backlinks if you want to make money online for the long haul. You do not necessarily have to be at the very top of the search engines to make money online but it is crucial that you build a credible website. You have to build a "buzz". One of the best
ways to do this is through building backlinks.
Making independent money online is not like regular internet marketing. It takes a lot more hard work and dedication to marketing on your own terms. This includes using your own avenues to get the word out about your business. You have to be creative as well as think "outside the box". A better way to fully understand what making independent money online is this, ask yourself, "if my main source of traffic was taken away from me today, what do I have to fall back on for traffic and stability? This is why it is so important to have multiple streams of traffic going into your website. Since having a successful internet business is all about longevity, making independent money online is the only way.
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