Monday, July 19, 2010

Friday, June 18, 2010

Useful Resources In Internet Marketing

1. Blogs
You can use www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com for free blog hosting platform. You can use their free content management system for your blogging needs. The script is free and you can download and activate new plug-ins.
2. Autoresponders
To explain it further, you should build an Opt-in list with Autoresponders. An Autoesponder is a program used to send out a series of pre-written e-mail messages to your subscribers. You write out your series of emails in advance and store them into the auto-responder system and set to send them out in intervals based on your chosen frequency of e-mail messages.
In other words, your subscriber will receive the first email in the series and the second, third, and subsequent e-mails in the series automatically by the autoresponder system based on a schedule set by you without any manual work on your part. You can use the autoresponder with broadcast to the following:
1. Thank your subscribers for joining your mailing list
2. Send your e-zine issues to your subscribers
3. Send endorsement letter to your subscribers
4. And many many powerful use from this very sophisticated yet easy to use program
Once you have set it up, it will work for you 24/7! Since you have written your e-zine issues in advance, you can either load them into the autoresponder to be sent out to your subscribers regularly or manually send on a frequency determined by you with just a click of a button.
You can use www.GetResponse.com in building your opt-in mailing list of prospects, subscribers and customers. You can open an account with them for as low as $17.95/month.
How To Accept Payments Online:
When you want to make money online or sell in the internet, you need to be able to accept credit card and e-check payments online. Here are some of the popular online merchants that I recommend:
a. www.2CheckOut.com
Set-up fee is 49.00. Transaction fee for every sale you make is 5.5% + $0.45
b. www.PayPal.com
Signing-up is free. Transaction fee is 1.9% to 2.9% + $0.30
c. www.ClickBank.com
Merchant account fee is &49.95. Transaction fee for every sale you make is 7.5% + $1.00.

Useful Links In Internet Marketing

Here are some useful links in Making Money Online:

1. www.WordPress.com


2. www. Blogger.com

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Pay Attention to Your "About Me Page" If You Are Serious in Making Money Online

In making money online it is very important that you introduce who you are. It is crucial to build your identity if you are serious to make money online. Why? Because people will not follow or listen to someone that they do not know.

Remember to keep your “About Me” page interesting and professional. Start the web page with a humble introduction about yourself, what you do and include your best photo. Remember that the goal of your “About Me” page is to leave a strong, good impression on your online visitor. You can also take this chance to briefly mention your business and link to other sites that you own.

Like in a non-internet business, In making money online, there are many people out there who are just pranks or have a bad intention for other business online so as a rule of thumb, do not leave your phone number on your website so that you may avoid unwanted calls. To make yourself reachable, you can put a link to your support helpdesk or to your email so that people may still get in touch with you but be sure to write your email address in an image or jpeg format so that you may prevent your mail to get unwanted spam bots.


Talk About Your Business and How You Can Help Other People

If you intend to be a trainer, coach, or a practicing professional of any kind, you can gain an edge over your competitors almost instantly by having your own website that promotes your service for you. Polish your website from testimonials from happy customer and tell the people how you have helped improved other people's live because of your product or service.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Internet Marketing: How To Get Started:



Internet Marketing: Internet Money, Easy Money, Quick Money, Fast Money or whatever term you want to call it, is really within your reach and I assure you that if you do the proper strategies you will be making money soon. There is no better time than taking action right now. Either you have a business plan on making money online now or you don't know how to start yet, the important rule in making money online is that you have that desire and passion. With those two qualities you will be able to push yourself to learn more about making money in the internet.

Here are your guide to get started in making money online:

1. Know Your Target Market
Take note of this and it will save you from a lot of misery in making money online. You should know what kind of market you will target. Have a "market research" or to put it simply, know what market you would like to reach. In the Internet term it is called the "niche". Niche are the targeted, pin-pointed group or market place that you aim to give your service with. It can be from people who love dogs to people who like to travel. The important thing in making money online is that you provide a clear, helpful and substantial information or service to your niche market.

You can provide product service to your niche market by selling them items that they need. You can go to www.CJ.com or www.Clickbank.com to find items that you can sell to your niche market to propel your business in making money online.

2. Have Your Own Domain Name
Yup you read it right! If you're really interested and committed in making money online, you should think it as a real business as I have said in my previous blog and that includes having your own domain name for your sites. As a start of course, you can use the free service that Google or Yahoo gives but in the long run it is important for you to have your own domain name so you can have your own identity.

I recommend that you go to www.Godaddy.com wherein you can buy domain names for a cheap price.

Here are some tips in choosing your domain name:
 a. Keep it simple, short and easy to remember
 b. It must be relevant to your business. For example, your business or website is about dogs, your domain name must be something related to dogs like www.trainyourdogs.com or something like that as long as it is related to your business.
c. Avoid using to many hyphens. URLs without hyphens look more professional. This does not mean that using hyphens in a domain are not okay. However, you will do well not to use more than two hyphens. Not only it is harder to relate hyphenated domain names to other people verbally but they are less Search Engine Friendly.
d.It’s very important to get a Dot Com.

Even if you are unsure of what to do just yet, I strongly suggest that you get a Domain Name in your name now. In other words, you should secure your very own “dot com” like this www.YourName.com. This should be the first step to branding yourself and imagine how you can start impressing your friends with our own “dot com”. Do not underestimate the brand building power a domain can give you.

If you are not comfortable using your own name then I recommend registering a domain name using your pen name instead. If your name is already taken by any chance, you can either negotiate to buy that domain name from the current owner if possible, if not then choose a pen name.

Web Hosting:
Next, you need a hosting space to store your files. In a nutshell, the host of your website is the server. Your website sits on the hard disk of a big computer called a server, which is connected to the Internet 24/7. The server can also host other websites simultaneously. I recommend that you go to www.HostGator.com for your website hosting.

Your Website:
In simple terms, a website is a collection of web pages, images, videos, or other files that is hosted on one or more servers and accessible via internet. A website can also act as your virtual business store, brand building premise or even a platform to advertise and market your products and services.
Examples of websites that you can build include direct response websites, online stores, blogs, forums, services, social networking platforms, games, communication, and more.

Branding Yourself With Blogging:
Personal domain names don’t have to be restricted to becoming just a journal about your personal life. In fact, there is no better way to start building credibility to your name than setting up a blog to educate your potential customers about you and how you can help them solve their problems with your products and services.

If you are going to get your own personal domain name, I highly recommend that the website model be a blog. To put it simply, a blog is a website with static or real-time entries of posts. Usually the posts are journal commentary, highlights of events etc.


Thursday, June 10, 2010

Learn the Common Myths and Wrong Notion About Internet Marketing

















In this blog, we will talk about the misconceptions many people have in their various online businesses and their strategy on making money online never worked. This blog will show you the mistakes that you should avoid and the correct strategy because one of the biggest mistake you can commit when venturing on making money online is to start it all wrong.


Learn the common myths and Wrong Notion About Internet Marketing:


1.“Internet Marketing is a piece of cake!”

One of the biggest wrong notions that many people have on Internet Marketing is that it is easy to earn and you will be able to see results instantly. Making Money Online certainly is not hard but it is by no way easy too! Many people have the wrong idea that all it takes is a few clicks here and there and you are all set.


For beginners, you need to treat Internet Marketing as a real business and not like leisure or a hobby. If you treat it like a hobby, it will also treat you a hobby and you will get a “hobby” income only but if you treat it like a real business, it will also treat you as a real entrepreneur and for sure that it will be rewarding.


Even if you’re doing it part-time while you are still studying or have a day job (or night job if you work on night shift) that doesn’t mean that you cannot treat it like a real business. You still can but you just need to give ample time, give your passion and energy and sometimes even shell-out some little cash into it to see some real results and have some real rewards.


2. “Internet Marketing is nothing but SCAM and it’s a lie to make good money online!”

When your goal is to make really good money online, you have to believe that there is really money out there. Have a mindset of believing that the internet is really a GOLD MINE where in if you pursue, work hard and work smart you can actually find that pot of gold that will reward all your efforts.


Internet Marketing or Making Money Online is an extremely competitive niche market but it will never reach the point of saturation. Think of it this way, one man told his story about his first arrival in the United States of America. He saw that the car companies produce cars in a great magnitude and he thought that in the future the car manufacturing market will be saturated but as we all know it today, it never happened. Same thing with making money online, many people are doing it and when I say many it is really plenty but the market will never be saturated and that’s a proven fact.

Like in car manufacturing, there are effective and ineffective methods to make money online, if on the first tries on venturing to online business you don’t succeed, do not think that earning online is nothing but scam. You just have to know the right and effective methods to earn which I will teach in my upcoming blogs. But pay attention to this next sentences, THERE ARE REALLY SCAMS out there (which some I will expose here) so you better be careful in choosing your strategy in making money online or else you will be spending money and it will go straight to the drain.


3. “There are too many expert people doing this thing already, I can’t compete with those talented people!”

Yes, there are plenty of Internet Marketing experts out there but the good news is you don’t have to compete with them because the opportunity in making money online is like a vast ocean and if you want your feet to get wet in this wonderful industry, you will be just like a small boat in a wide open sea. Every day, there are millions and millions of people searching and browsing the internet to find an answer to something or a product that is best for them or an information that they need and maybe you are the perfect person to give exactly what he or she needs.


4. “I need to have a big capital to start making money online!”

This is one of the biggest wrong notions that many people have in making money online. The best thing about making money online is that you don’t need money to make money online but as I mentioned in item number 1, there are also methods that you can pay to drive traffic to your site and to boost performance of your site and I will explain more of this in the succeeding blog but for the mean time it is important for you to know that there are FREE WAYS to earn BIG MONEY online.


5“. I am not a ‘techy’ person and I don’t even know how to make a website. How can I ever do Internet Marketing?”

Many of the Internet Marketing experts did not even know what HTML is before they make it big time in this industry. They are also not well verse of other technical stuffs in the internet. But the good news is, all of those technical stuffs can be search and learn in the internet. I will be also giving basic teaching about those technical things that you need to know but for now remember that though they may be part of how to make money online, there are also ways on how to have a professional looking website without having to know how to make one. That’s the power of the internet! Just search it sand you’ll have it. It will save you time from learning those technical stuffs to really getting yourself busy on how to make money online. Fascinating, isn’t it? Yep, that’s what I think so also!


I hope you learn many things in this short blog. I will be posting more FAQs so that many people will learn more about this wonderful opportunity that many people fail to realize.

To conclude this blog post, I just want to end with one important thing. Internet Marketing is also giving your best to your customers whether you sell a product or just information it is still a question of the quality of service you give to people and how you have made their lives easier because of what they can get from you through your service to them.