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Internet Marketing Mistakes Can Be Avoided

It's all too common to start off with internet marketing lacking any real plan. For those who do have some kind of business background, there is still a learning curve with internet marketing that often poses a real challenge. The fact is, doing business online is not quite like anything you might have done offline. While you make cold calls to prospects and try to close sales in person in offline marketing, here lead generation happens through little opt-in boxes and squeeze pages.

When it comes to internet marketing, your lifeblood is traffic; you can get free traffic or pay for it, but you can't survive without it. In other words, you may know that Google Adwords is used for advertising but not know how to use it. You can see some of the same fundamental ideas operating in internet marketing as in other, older types of marketing; however, once you get online you have to learn a whole new bag of tricks. This, sadly, sets the stage for most people who get into internet marketing to not really know what they are doing and fail at it. Many people get caught up in the impressive statistics of how many millions of people use the internet and think that this should mean making money online is a piece of cake. However, this is far from true, as you are still required to put in the hard work and effort needed to build a business.

One commonly seen mistake by most marketers is failing to build a list of subscribers. You could be running your online business for years but if you don't have a list, you aren't really building a long term business. The smartest thing you can do is start on your list. If you do, you'll make more money from more sales. You'll be able to make money on back-end offers, and you'll be able to make future sales to the same people.

One other common error made by internet marketing newbies is to get themselves subscribed to many different marketing newsletters and find themselves exposed to hundreds of ideas and systems all at once. This just gets them overwhelmed and confused. Slowly their inbox overflows with information on various online marketing sub-topics that explain strategies, methods, tactics, etc. Even if a lot of the information is great, having too much of it makes action impossible. 

The best thing to do in this case is to cut back on the number of lists you're on; stay on the few that you think are most helpful and unsubscribe from the others. It's important to shift your focus from collecting information to taking action on a few realistic plans. The more action you take, the more confident you'll get about this business. It's inevitable that you will stumble at certain times, but just keep at it and success will be yours. 

Internet marketing success hinges so much on getting into it and doing it over and over. Without this mindset you slowly enter into the state of 'analysis paralysis'. This is recognizable by no action and all thinking. The real solution is get ideas and put them into action right away. Forget failure. If you refuse to take any risks, then you won't move forward.

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How Blogging Helps Internet Marketers Make Money

When you hear the word 'blogging' mentioned, what comes to your mind? Many think of a random teenager blogging about school yard gossip. Perhaps your mind turns to women like Heather Armstrong who supports her family through blogging about her life and her children? Maybe your mind turns to a lonely person with no social life who would rather spend all day on the internet blogging about a fantasy life he has in cyberspace. Despite these images, blogging could be the tool that could create a successful internet marketing business for you. Did you know that blogs themselves can bring in revenue? Internet marketers have plenty of reasons to get into blogging. Below are just some reasons why blogging can be an advantage. 

Blogs can help you increase your online income. As your blog becomes more popular, you could find yourself being contacted by people seeking to sponsor your blog posts. You have the final say in how much you want to charge sponsors to place their ads at the header or footer of your blog posts. You also have the option of using those same spaces to place ads for your own products. Imagine selling two sponsored posts each week at $30 each. That could represent $240 a month extra income in your pocket. Imagine if you could offer sponsores the same ad space on your blog posts over 5 days a week. That could add up to an extra $150 per week, or $600 each month. The opportunities for sponsorship are enormous.

Blogging is easy. Don't be intimidated by the writing part; you probably write better than a large percentage of people who write for the internet. As your blog grows so will the ease of getting more content to add to your site; people will be very willing to write for you so they can either make a few dollars or as a way to promote their own blog. You might even be able to get other people to write for your blog full time, which will leave you free to simply supervise and reap the rewards that your site can bring you. So, now you know that it is very easy to get new content for your blog; whether you pay for it, get it for free, or from someone looking to promote their own site. 

Your blog can be a great portal to your various social media profiles. Social media is an entirely different subject so I won't go into the incredible leverage power of it. Remember, that you can position your blog to become the main site that people come to that follow you on Facebook or Twitter and they and find your social profile through your blog. Remember, your list is how you make your money so your plans should center around it. When you build a large list of followers on your social networking profiles you have people that are readily accessible and are already interested in what you are selling. And remember, many of these people will visit your blog and opt into your list.  

With so many different advantages to blogging for growing your business, it's often difficult to know which of them you like best. It's far more logical to build a blog than not to. What's stopping you? Get to work building your blog and you could notice a boost in sales by tonight.

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Handy Article Marketing Hints to Make Money Online

Article marketing campaigns can be tricky. There's a lot of work involved even though it looks really easy. Writing them is harder than many realize. Submission is usually more complicated than the average internet marketer counts on. But not to worry, there are many resources you can use that will help you. Article marketing really doesn't need to be so hard, or confusing. So please read on to discover some proven ways to make your article marketing a lot easier and more profitable. 

Using your own articles on your money sites should never be ignored. One of the best ways to prove to the casual site viewer that you understand your topic (and that your product is worth buying) is to have a section of your website dedicated to articles that you have written on your chosen subject. If you take the time to make your articles high quality and well-researched, then you'll find they'll perform better for you in terms of conversion than your articles on other websites such as directories, etc. 

Be careful that you submit only several articles a day. Yes, the temptation exists to submit them all on the same day to get traffic rolling in. This practice will only serve to work against your goals. Submitting all your articles at once will cause them to fall down the list due to all the other authors submitting theirs. Most directories and databases have rules about how many submissions you can do each day.  

If you submit only a few each day, then you'll establish yourself as a credible source of information. It shows that you continue working on your subject, which will help people trust you. Someone who has a lengthy history of writing on a subject has more authority than someone who has written dozens of articles in just a couple of days. 

Try to find less popular sites to submit your articles. Believe it or not, but you will get tons more targeted traffic from a highly-respected site/blog than you will from article directories. You can receive traffic from local offline publications, as well. There really are a lot of places to submit your articles. Relax and get creative - you never know what you'll find.  

Article marketing is a creative process. You create your articles, opportunities for exposure, traffic, and then sales. But it's true, marketing with articles is harder than it looks. It is also one of the most valuable promotion methods available to internet marketers today. You'll find it to be a rewarding and dynamic process. You'll only continue to improve as you continue to write, and your proof will be in your profits. 

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How to Easily Create A Brilliant Website

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For most online business models it's a must to have a website in order to do business and profit. After all, without a website, how will you sell your products or services to online buyers? And of course you'll need some mechanism to collect customer data such as email addresses and other info. But it's not just a matter of having a website in order to produce an online income. What you'll need is a converting website - one that converts browsers and visitors into buyers. Most people have some idea of the type of site they want. How can you tell if the picture in your mind will closely match a site that makes money? What follows are some proven design tips you can use or integrate into your website, and they'll help add something to your bottom line. 

It will be worth your while to browse the sites of some of your competitors. If there is anything about these sites that you like, think about them or write them down. What, if anything, do you not like about them? Consider if you feel any inclination to buy anything from this site. If so, can you give a reason? What's wrong with the site, if you don't want to buy anything? Think about your answers and apply them to the websites that you are currently building. Use your own preferences to guide you when you build your site. If you think like one of your customers, you can better decide what kind of website you'd be most likely to buy something from. This is one of the easiest ways to make sure your first website passes muster.  

Limit the number of fonts that you use. It's common for newbies at website building to use many different kinds of fonts. The more fonts you use, the harder it will be for people to read your website. It's fine to use a couple of different fonts, but if you go beyond this, your site will look amateurish. Your fonts should be easy to read at a single glance. Complicated or fancy fonts may look artistic, but they will not serve you well. Remember, you want your site to be easy to read. Don't sacrifice readability for artistic variety. 

It's important to maintain a balance between sales copy text and informational text. Keep the sales copy to a minimum because if you don't, you'll start driving your visitors away. If you violate that rule, your visitors will just leave and never return - that simple. You should test it out, but you can try using about 25% for sales copy and 75% for information content. Very aggressive selling pretty much never works, and you also want the reader to feel trust in you. Naturally, you want the visitor to feel trust, keep reading your site, and then make a buy. Selling without enough pre-selling does not work, ever.  

It's not as hard as many people think to build a successful website. If you put some work into your website, you can make it outstanding. You can use your own judgment to make many decisions about your site. If something doesn't look good to you on someone else's site, don't do it on yours! It is as simple as that. Remember, the better your website, the easier it will be for you to make money online.

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Why Your Internet Marketing Business Needs a Blog

A blog has much more potential than expressing yourself artistically. Most marketers don't even consider incorporating blogging into their strategy because of their preconceived notions that blogging is only good for the starving artist type or for someone chronicling their life and making it available for the public to see. You know that guy, Perez Hilton? Well, through blogging he landed his own cable show with the E Network. The good news is that internet marketers can, some already do, use blogging to explode their sales. Below, I have listed some of the ways that blogging can increase sales and add to your business's bottom line. Blogging provides you with an opportunity to build your opt-in list. An op-in list is the life blood of your online business and probably the closest thing to running a hands free business. Basically, you put up a site with a means and a reason for them to give you their email address and then take it from there. As you grow in popularity, people may pay you to write about their products or services in your blog posts. This isn't the same thing as a sponsored post, where you're only allocating two lines at either the top or the bottom of a blog post. This could mean an advertiser will pay you to write a post on a certain topic, and include a link to a product they want to promote. Blog posts like these have been known to sell for good amounts of money. It's common for some bloggers to command prices of more than $100 per post. Be careful though: there are rules about this---you need to be very clear that the post was paid for or you could get in trouble with the legal authorities. Still though, it’s a great way to earn extra money. Your blog can become the main hub for your social media efforts. Social media is well known as a vehicle to reach thousands of people that are interested in your market. By creating a blogging and social media network that all works together in harmony, you will be able to increase sales, visitor, and opt-ins at an incredible rate. Remember, your list is how you make your money so your plans should center around it. People that become your friends and followers are there because they are interested in what you have to offer so it is no problem selling to these huge groups of followers. Your blog can help you build those profiles! Internet marketers can benefit in so many ways from blogging. Blogging can offer you the chance to develop several streams of extra cash flow you can use to fund various other products. Your blog can give you feedback on your current products and give you ideas about what your customers want to buy next. You might even be able to make money by having people subscribe to your site. The options are limitless.

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Email Marketing - Do You Make These Mistakes?

Email marketing can be a very effective way to let people know about your online business and sell more products. There is evidence from internet marketers that sales can actually increase after sending an email out to a mailing list instead of trying to make people buy from a website. The reason for this is because the people on your mailing list are already receptive to what you're promoting. It is easier to make money online this way.

However, email marketing isn't always the perfect solution for everyone. You will still need to work at getting the right message across. Think about it: how many times have you automatically deleted a message from a marketer because it just didn’t “work” for you? Here are some tactics to reduce the incidence of that happening to you.

Prior to attempting to sell anything to your list of prospects, you need to learn more about them. Since you probably did some digging on the market before deciding to venture into it and locating products to sell, you might already have a little knowledge about the people in this niche.

You need to first take some time to research the people who are actually on your list. Every once in a while, send out questionnaires to help you learn more about the people you will be selling to. To increase the response rate to your questionnaires you can offer discount coupons or various products for free. You will find it easier to convince the people on your list to buy from you if you have more information about them! You will probably hear that you need to disguise some words in your subject line by using numbers or misspellings to keep the spam catchers from trashing your messages. As long as you are following the rules and are not promoting any questionable products then you have nothing to worry about. Spammers are known to use misspellings in their subject lines to trick the spam filter; do you want to be seen as a spammer? Save the e-mails with the spammy subject lines for your friends; you are running a business.

Be honest about the products and services you sell. Hype has become the norm for internet users. Your list expects you to make fantastic claims about what you are selling. There aren’t any guarantees or wondrous claims you can make that they cannot see through. This makes it compulsory for you to be open and honest about the items you are asking them to buy. You will find people will know if you are only interested in the money and they will quickly opt out. If you want to increase the likelihood of people purchasing from you, you need to be up front with them and they will grow to trust you as your reputation improves. E-mail marketing offers internet marketers one of the best ways to make money online. The beauty of e-mail marketing is that you are able to repeatedly sell to the same people who willingly subscribe to your list because they like your information. Getting targeted sign ups is as simple as keeping your opt-in form focused on the niche topic.

This is why e-mail marketing is held in such high regard. No matter what you are trying to accomplish; in the beginning it will always be more difficult in the beginning. Once you master the few simple elements of e-mail marketing then you will be able to create the “internet ATM machines” that everybody dreams about. Growing a profitable list is easier than it seems and once mastered you will know how to make easy money.

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