Now that you have your business started, running and even making money, I`ll bet you thought you made it past all of those super common Internet marketing mistakes everyone makes, right? Wrong. There is a reason they are common mistakes. Once you have your basics down, such as your domain name, hosting, website, auto responder and newsletters, now you can look into 3 popular tools to help you expand and increase your business. Blogging Your Business You might have heard what a blog is, If you have good. If not, it is a shortened version of a Web Log. These originally started by users who wanted to keep short, quick posts about what they are doing. This was the beginning of social media. Blogs are easy to setup and anyone can do it with no programming skill. Blogs have become quite popular for business because of the same reason they were started. They allow you to interact with customers by posting content, articles, or other information where customers not only have access, but can make comments about your posts. Blogs are very search engine friendly, helping your site get found, which means more traffic to your site, and potentially more dollars in your pocket. Exchanging Links Through Your Own Link Directory If you have have a website, one this you would have likely done is submit your website to search engines and link directories. But what many business do not realize is that they too can own and operate their own link directory. Why you ask? Because other people will submit sites to your directory too. As link directories become larger and and receive more traffic you can actually charge to have sites listed. This also applies to advertising banners, link banners, and any other monetization methods you with to implement. And don`t forget to promote your own site on your own directory. Create An Internet Marketing Strategy Something you must do in order to succeed with your Internet business is to have a strategy in place. Like any great general, you need to know your battlefield. Learn about all the different methods that you are planning to use to market your business. Several options are banner ads, Ezine classifieds, Article Marketing, Traffic Exchanges, and Pay Per Click advertising. Make sure you know the pros and cons of each method you are using and how they will affect your business and your bottom line. You will need to have multiple methods for promoting your products and services. A pretty common Internet marketing mistake among new business owners is not utilizing all of these different tools and methods, or doing them wrong. Take your time to learn what your doing with each and you will be able to effective draw more traffic to your website and products. The more tools you have that help you run your business smoothly, the greater your chance of success.
If you love to write, then use this passion to make an income blogging. Many people are now earning an income just from their blogs and that is best ways to start your own online business. Blogging basically cost you no money to start, but only requires impressive articles and loyal readers to succeed.
Step1:Audience
What are you going to blog about, and for what audience? Write about something that most people will understand and can relate to. Some people chose to blog about their personal lives, others about their jobs or hobbies, fashions, celebrities.
Whatever you chose to blog about make sure it is something that you are really passionate about. You do not want to get bored, as you will be writing articles on a daily or weekly basis.
Write your article around 400- 500 words, as longer post tend to make someone distracted.
Step2:Theme and design
Now you known what you want to blog about, therefore you need a website to host your blog. You could use Wordpress, Blogger, or other free site that hosts your blog for you. Most of these website allow you to set up your own blog under your own domain name, this is highly recommended. A domain name can cost $10 per year (www.godaddy.com, www.1and1.com)
Design your website to represent what you are trying to offer.
Step3:Making Money
To make money with your blog, join Google adsense or clickbank, or other affiliate marketing companies. I strongly recommend Google Adsense, especially if you blog is with Blogger. It is very simple as it is automatically added to your blog.
You can join program for free and display contextual ads that your visitors will be interested in to maximize your click through rate.
Pay Per Post and Review Me are two websites that give you the opportunity to get paid for each blog post you make on a specific subject
When your blog is established you can offer ad space and charge a fee for both classified and display ads
Step4:Traffic
The only way you are going to make money with your blog is unless you have huge traffic. Submit your articles to as many of the social bookmarking sites as possible, join social networking sites and build a profile which contains a link to your blog, blog directories (bloglog is one).
Other forms include, joining forums, attached you blog address to the bottom of your emails
Step5
Blogging can be profitable it take patience and good articles. So start you blog today and start earning
