The drop out rate of people that try Internet Marketing and then give up is in the 90% plus bracket. Not a great statistic but if you are thinking about it then as long as you are well informed and avoid these common mistakes you will be in the 5-10% bracket of people that do make it!

Mistake #1

Fast Cash.

The number one reason for people dropping out is because they expect too much, too soon. When they don’t get it they quit. Starting up online for the first time is learning a brand new industry and there is a lot to take in and learn. When I started I made a loss in my first year, I set my expectations before I started though, I was setting up my own business and had so much to learn. I was still happy after my first year loss because in that 12 month period I had learned what doesn’t work and was starting to see what could and did work. I knew year 2 was going to be different and it would be worth the wait!

Mistake #2

Trying Too Many Different Techniques.

Online marketing has many sub categories, for example Affiliate Marketing, MLM, Adsense etc. Each can take time to master and the more you attempt the less you will achieve. Everyone will tell you that Internet marketing is about multiple streams of income. Yes this is true but the only way to achieve this is to take on one and master it first. Only when you have done this should you take on the next one. This links partially with the next mistake…

Mistake #3

System Hopping

When you pay your money and join one of the many online business systems, after a short space of time of not making any money there will be the temptation to hop to the next system you see being marketed. Save your money as the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. A good, experienced Internet marketer will take any of these systems and make an absolute fortune with them. Equally an inexperienced newbie will make nothing with any of them initially. If you are in a system already and not making money and thinking about investing in another don’t. Your money will be much better invested in some training on generating traffic or something equally relevant to your personal development in this industry.

Mistake #4

No Help Or Support

Many online business systems promote the person you join through being your mentor but unfortunately a lot of the so called “mentors” are so busy making their own fortunes they have little interest in helping you. Please don’t be tempted to go with the mentor with the pictures of the flashest car or home unless you have tested them first. Try and make contact with them before you sign up if they don’t respond in an acceptable time take this as a warning. You want an approachable helpful mentor. With the drop out rate I mentioned at the top of this article the mentors can get very rich and still have time to help dedicated, committed people. Any online business system has many people promoting it so ask what the individual will offer over someone else. Also what incentives they will offer to join them over other individuals. My help came from my mentor but also the other people in my marketing support group. When friends and family don’t understand or support your online venture having friends and support online makes all the difference.

Starting up online is a fantastic way to make a living. Patience and determination are key to success but having the right attitude about your online venture is very important. It is a business and should be thought of in that way. It’s not about getting a few websites up and pestering your friends and family to join your downline. It’s a real business and you should have a vision for where it is going, you should have a business plan and if you really want it to take off then a marketing budget is a must!

Yes, all the top online mentors will help and show you the best free methods of marketing, how to use social networks and other similar methods to get leads for your business but do you think they rely on the free methods alone? No they don’t. They will have newspaper adverts in the press, Google Adwords Pay Per Click ads running, they will purchase leads, rent lists and many other paid resources that are available.

I fell for all of the usual mistakes when I started online. I went directly to the newspaper to place my ads, this was before I knew about the brokers that exist that can place ads in these newspapers on your behalf for cheaper than going direct to the newspaper. The brokers buy advertising space from the newspapers in bulk so can offer it you for cheaper. The broker I use in the UK even has a late deal mailing list so I get emails when they are trying to fill a space in one of the papers and you can get it even cheaper than normal.

The money is in the list right? Did you know you can rent a list of about 20,000 people for one email broadcast for about £400-£500.

Structured correctly with a profitable product for sale and you could double your money easily and remember when someone has purchased off you they are your customer and you can contact them again with more offers in the future. People buy again from people they’ve purchased from before and trust.

Pay Per Click! This has grown my business like no other means! However be warned!! The likes of Google make it very easy for you to set-up a campaign and get your advert online in a few minutes but unless you know what you are doing then all this will do is empty your bank account into Google’s and you’ll have nothing to show for it. It’s worth taking the time to master this. I wasted so much money in the early days by trial and error with Pay Per Click. I fronted up $500 for a PPC Mastery Course and that was one of the best $500 I’ve ever spent! The techniques when you know them are very simple but make so much difference. I’ve spent £30-£50 before this and only got 1-2 opt ins to my list. They weren’t very targeted either. These days I’m paying around the £2 mark for a lead and they are highly targeted that often convert.

It is your business, take it seriously and if there are things you don’t know or understand take the time to find someone that has the knowledge and will teach you. Even if it costs you it is an investment in your business that should be well worth the time and money.

If you are new to Internet Marketing then no doubt you have found yourself going off at a tangent or getting distracted. This is bound to happen, Internet Marketing is such a vast area and even within a specific area there are different niches and different ways of doing things.

Personal discipline will help and creating a plan will keep you focussed on what it is that you are aiming for.

Decide what you want to achieve on that day and stick to it, write a “To Do” list and put the amount of time you plan to spend on that task and don’t go over it.

In the early days and now I get a lot of leads for my business from Twitter. Twitter is great there are tools available to help to you manage your followers and even schedule your tweets for when you are not about. As I learnt though you can quite easily spend a lot of time on Twitter, Facebook is the same, you think “I’ll just check my social network sites” and 3 hours later you are wondering where the time went and what you actually achieved in those 3 hours. Remember spending so much time on these sites might get you some leads but unless you come away from them and follow up on these leads you are not going to make any sales!

It is inevitable that you will come across information and tools of interest as you start out and many will open up a whole new avenue you didn’t know about before. You may be researching Private Label Resale Rights products and come across Affiliate Marketing. This is good as it is all a great learning curve but bouncing around from pillar to post in your research is going to eat hours, confuse you and stop you completing any actions on that all important To Do list. It is very easy to spend a whole day reading on the internet but there is a good chance you’ll be confused.

Have that to do list next to you. If you read about something you want to look into further write it down on another list. Refer back to this later but for now carry out the actions you have set yourself. In a lot of cases it will be an email or Facebook message that sends you off on a tangent from your plan. A great way to tackle this is to write your to do list first thing in the morning. Reverse the order of what you plan to do. Step one in many cases will be check email. Later you might be planning to record a video message for your blog. Do the video first. Before you open your emails, check your Facebook or Twitter do those one or two tasks that will mean you have accomplished something. It takes time for that video to be uploaded to the internet anyway, an ideal opportunity to check your emails then.

If you spend the afternoon going off at tangents or get carried away with Twitter and Facebook then at least you have some tasks complete that day.

You can allocate hours in the day to going back to the list you have started of things to look into further, in this time concentrate on that topic only. If you come across something else jot it down on the list and carry on with what it is you are researching today.

If you are marketing online already you will have no doubt found yourself in this position at some point.

If you haven’t started yet and you are reading this as part of your research into internet marketing I have some further advice for you. One of my favourite quotes is “You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going…” this is so true! Internet marketing is a vast area that spans many niches, if you are going to spend any sort of money to invest in a business you would be crazy not to do your due diligence first but on the flip side if you plan to read up on internet marketing in it’s entirety before actually starting then I imagine you will be still reading as they cart you to the old folks home. When you’ve found an area of internet marketing that takes your interest give it a go, it could be affiliate marketing or resale rights products, whatever, get cracking and learn on the way. In a short space of time you could be writing your own product on “How to Get Started as an Internet Marketer – Volume 1″

Whichever it is I wish you luck.

No matter what you sell online you can be sure that you will need traffic! With the search engines changing the rules all the time and Pay Per Click being costly unless you know what you are doing people want FREE methods of getting traffic to their websites and capture pages. Here are my top 7 ways of getting some quality traffic for FREE.

1. Social Networks.

They are free to join and easy to find people in the niche you are promoting in, I prefer twitter for this as there are many websites to help automate the experience. There are websites for automatically following people that tweet about the keywords you would be looking for, my personal preference is TweetSpinner.com You don’t have to be sat at Twitter all day long posting out your links as there are also websites that allow you schedule tweets, spending half an hour in the morning is all it needs to set up some schedule tweets throughout the day, check out Socialoomph.com If you’re followers are targeted based on keywords then the more followers you have the more potential people will see your tweets. Just don’t spam, people want helpful information and quotes etc as well as a link to your site every now and again.

2. Forums.

Forums are a great untapped resource for traffic. Check the rules on the site prior to posting but usually you are allowed a bio box with a link or two. These get automatically placed at the bottom of each and every post you write. Don’t put your links blatantly in the posts (this is usually against the forum rules anyway and will get you kicked off the forum) Just post helpful information and respond to other peoples questions. If you help someone they are likely to check out your links and bio box. You will get the instant response from the person you helped plus remember forum content stays around for years so there is a lot of people that could see your posts. There is usually a forum in every imaginable niche so whatever you promote have a look.

3. Blogging.

Blogging is great as the search engines love blog posts so they rank highly. You may have noticed when ever you search for anything online there is usually someones blog post that appears high up in the rankings. If you use blog software such as WordPress these usually “ping” the search engines when you create a new blog post. Pinging is letting the search engines know you have updated your blog. If you don’t use WordPress or are unsure if your blog “pings” the search engines then try a website called pingomatic.com it will ping several search engines for you.

4. Video Marketing.

YouTube is very big now and many people are using this to promote their business. When you upload a video you can assign it key words, you can place these videos on your sites too. Viral is best though! How many times have you received a funny video on you tube and forwarded it on to 20 people, no doubt 20 of their friends forwarded it on to 20 of their friends too so you can see how quickly it can spread. If the video has a link to your site on it then that could create you a lot of traffic.

5. Article Marketing.

OK I admit I’m writing this article not only to help you out but also because I know if you do find it useful there is a good chance you’ll click my links at the end and find out more about me and what I do. Again articles are liked by the search engines so write an article about what you promote and that’s another way to get traffic. Again articles are around for a long time so can be seen by many.

6. Responses (Blog and Article)

If you read a blog post or article you like and it relates to what you market in leave a comment on it. Most blog and article responses will ask for your website. It’s just another place for your link to be seen and the more links available to be seen means more traffic.

7. Free Classifieds

Yes these do exist, funded by the paid adverts on the websites these are a great way to get targeted traffic, there are many so search in Google but my recommendation would be Phinditt.com Choose the area you wish the advert to be seen, select a category and section for your advert then come up with a great headline that will inspire people to check out your ad. I would recommend putting a picture in the advert, people are more tempted to open an advert with a picture in it.

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Internet Marketing (selling anything on-line) has changed since the introduction of sites like Twitter and Facebook. These social media sites make it better than ever to find people interested in what you are promoting. Linking up with these people can be rewarding in more ways than one. Not only do you come across potential customers for your product or service, but linking up with others in your field means you get to hear from them the very latest and greatest products and services that could help you in your business.

There is a saying “You don’t get anything for nothing”. Whilst this might be true in some cases Network marketing and my personal approach works very well and it is all based around giving something for nothing.

If you market on-line already or you are looking to get started this advice will help both. It’s my personal approach and might not be to everyones taste but it has provided me with very good results.

My big secret to selling anything on-line is… Don’t Sell!

Sounds bizarre? Well hear me out. I simply try to help people. I give as much free advice as I can think of, I hold nothing back. If I find a really good tip, trick or secret to help boost website traffic or close sales I don’t keep it to myself. I don’t think this could give me the edge over others that are promoting in my niche. I do the opposite. I tell everyone about it and I help them out in any way I can.

On the social network site I will chat to everyone I come in to contact with. I check their profile and see what they are about and what they do. If I think they might not be interested in what I have to offer I help them too! I can’t stress enough give give give!

So you might be wondering how I ever sell anything? I’ve already told you I give away my tips & secrets to my competitors, I spend time networking and talking to people that I know will not be interested in my products and services. So why?

The answer in one word is referrals! When I talk to Mr A or Mrs B on Facebook, I’m not only interested in them I’m interested in the 200 people they might know! I want them to tell their friends and contacts that Steve Males helped them and he didn’t shove a sales pitch in their face. So many people today spam your DM box on Twitter or put blatant affiliate links on your wall in Facebook.

When you help individuals directly without telling them what you are promoting, they will want to know anyway. They will check out your links and take serious consideration to what you offer them. If they are in no way a potential customer for what you offer, they will still get a compelling feeling to want to return the favor of some sort if you have helped them out. So if they don’t want to buy themselves they will suggest you to someone they know that might want to buy. You might think this concept still sounds strange but it becomes very clear as soon as this happens to you. There is a good chance it hasn’t but trust me this hadn’t occurred to me until somebody took this approach with me.

The products they did sell didn’t interest me, but I spent a lot more time on their website checking out more about them and what they do than I do on anyone that spams me a link to my message box or wall.

So when you talk to people and network, find out as much as you can about the person you’re talking to. Don’t be tempted to push your information on them, if they want to know they will ask or look at your links. The more you find out about them the more you can tailor your help. Your help is not just in the form of knowledge you have that you can pass on but in people you can introduce them to. You might come across 2 people that you know will not be interested in your products but they might be perfect for each other. Recommend they get in contact with each other, this referral will put you in the front of their minds and what goes around definitely comes around. You’re sales will come from where you don’t expect.

Give it a try and I’m sure you will pleased with the results.

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The phenomenon that is social networking is taking off massively at the moment. With mobile phones accessing the internet now too there are not many people that feel they are too far away from their latest tweet or Facebook update. The mobile networks know how big this is too so the latest pay as you go schemes even include free data access to the most popular social networking websites.

But can the latest craze make you money?

Gone are the days where you can put a sales page on the internet, start a Google AdWords campaign and get people to buy your product or service. When the internet was relatively new you may have got away with it but people have wised up to this and they don’t buy anything from anyone anymore! People buy brands they know or from people they know, like and trust.

Think about your TV for example, you probably watch it most days, if it broke it would be inconvenient to say the least so it’s a product you would take care to research when purchasing a replacement. You are going to most probably head down to your local Currys or Comet, maybe have a look at Amazon or other on-line shops you know and trust. If you were to walk past Bob’s Bits electrical shop on a backstreet you are going to be less likely to pop in for such an important purchase.

The internet is very much the same. If you have a product or service to sell you need to now get to know your customer and more importantly get them to know you and in turn like and trust you before they will buy from you.

This is now why internet marketers and network marketers are turning to Facebook and Twitter. So let us look at some of the reasons why.

First and foremost, it doesn’t cost anything; they can both be used as free marketing tools.

If I refer back to that buzz phrase “the money is in the list” I’m sure you have heard this before, people spend a lot of time and effort and sometimes money to build a list of people interested in their niche to market to. These lists will stay very close to people’s chests but with social networking these lists are on show for everyone to see!

There is an important approach for marketing in this way however. Once you build up your friend list or list of followers you need to respect them. You maybe connected but they still don’t know you yet so sending endless adverts to your websites or products will result in them un-following you, nobody likes to be spammed!

Think of it as a relationship you need to build, you wouldn’t jump in to bed with someone you have just met, you want to be wined and dined first, you want to know that this can progress to a place that makes you happy. I may be the first to compare on-line marketing to sex but keep that in mind and you’ll be on the right tracks.

In this day and age everyone is looking for “something for nothing”, we are a world full of freebie loving people so take this knowledge and use it wisely. While networking with you followers and friends always try and help them, inspire them with food for thought quotes or send them to your videos and blogs that give them help and advice, in essence solve their problems. They also want to know you more personally, let them see pictures of you and videos of what you get up to when you are not tweeting.

Only then can you hope to potentially get a sale. If an individual gets to know you, and you have helped them then yes they will look seriously at what you have to offer. Then you can turn one of the biggest growing pass times of the masses in to your personal cash machine.

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In this economic climate people from all walks of life are turning to the internet to supplement or replace their income. Many don’t have a clue where to start so begin trawling the pages of Google.

I was no different and if you have got that far, you too are probably overwhelmed by the amount of information available and the many different ways people claim to be making money online.

Now internet marketing isn’t something they teach at school or college, it is relatively new of course as the internet hasn’t been around all that long. The way to learn this trade is also online.

Now for the big secret… There isn’t one! There is no big secret to making money online. There are no get quick rich schemes and if you see them be very wary! People making money online have taken the time and put in the effort to learn this business, trial and error in many cases and the techniques will differ from person to person.

What should you sell online? If you are new to internet marketing I would put this a few points down your “to do list”. I spent months before starting out researching and looking for a good product to sell online. Even tried to think of something to invent! The best piece of advice I can you give you now is forget the products and learn the techniques.

I did everything the wrong way round. I wasted money on products then produced a website to sell them from, before learning the hard way that a website is useless unless you can get people to see it.

The underlying principals and techniques for marketing online are the same whatever you promote so this is where you should focus your attention to get this training.

Trust me, you will be offered so many products to promote and sell when you start mixing in the circles with other internet marketers don’t waste your time up front trying to find one before you’ve learnt how you will market them.

People will offer you this help for free. Yes that’s right for free! The reason they will do this is because as soon as you enquire you are a potential customer. You may have noticed everyone wants your name and email before they give you this help; this is so they can market to you. It’s OK though so don’t be afraid to get on a few peoples “lists”, even now I sign up to others to see what they are up to and make sure I’m current in my techniques to market.

The nature of internet marketing; sometimes called network marketing; is why these people will help you. They know you are not stupid and won’t fall for some hard sell so they will all offer you help and value for free in return for your name and email in the hope at some point you will buy a product or service from them. This brings me back to the point about products, even if you are not interested in what they have to offer immediately, at some point they will have another product or service they will want to tell you about.

So get out there, keep positive and motivated in the face of information overload and look for the people that will reply to your emails, answer your calls and will help you. You want to find someone that will take the time to help you, ebooks are great for some things but the 1-2-1 help from an individual that is already successful in that field in invaluable.

Regardless of what niche it is that you are interested in working in online, from dog training to health and beauty, the marketing techniques will have first been tried and testing in the making money online niche. So even if you don’t want to work in this niche it’s a good place to start your training. You may even find a nice little income stream.

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A New Year and a new start for many, it’s a time that people reflect on their lives and many decide they want more from their life than they are getting. With me the catalyst wasn’t New Year but a new life, my son was born and I decided I wanted more for him and my new little family.

Whatever it is that has brought you here today you have done well to take that first step to making a better life.

Never stop dreaming about what you want from life, this is an important step toward your success.

I’ve been working online for some time now and so I’m fully aware that unless you have your own products to promote then you are in competition with others promoting the same product or service. YourNetBiz is no different, so when choosing to join this great business oportunity you should be looking for something that will set you apart from the crowd. I’m part of the leading marketing group WashyDirect, this gives YOU great support but also gives you that additional edge as you promote YourNetBiz as you can offer the free memberhip to this support group too.

Have a look at this video preivew of the WashyDirect back office, if you are considering starting up online I can’t stress the importance of support.

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