The internet has always been a major source of information and recreation but nowadays it has become a medium for online marketing. Marketing is no longer
confined inside the four walls of a store. A lot of people have become aware of the internet’s potential as a medium for marketing products and services. In the beginning, online marketing used websites to promote and sell products. That was before social networking sites came into the picture. A social networking site is a website where people from all over the world connect and interact with one another. At present there are over a hundred social networking sites.

Marketing Through Social Networking Sites

These websites are not just a venue for socializing with one another but also a venue for online marketing. Popular social networking sites such as facebook are made up of a huge network of individuals from all over the world. At present, there are millions of facebook users; this offers a huge market to promote and sell a certain product. More and more people have begun selling their products through facebook and most of these sellers are doing well in their online selling.

More Friends Means A Bigger Market

People engaged in online marketing should create a huge network of friends on facebook. The more friends a seller has, the bigger his/her potential market is. As a seller, it is to your advantage if you add more friends. The more friends you have, the more people you can sell your products to. Your network does not have to be made up of people you know personally; you can add people from the friends list of your friends. The key to online marketing through facebook is to add as many friends as you can.

Marketing through Pictures

Online marketing through facebook is very easy. All you have to do is post pictures with descriptions of your products. Once you post these pictures, the people on your friends list will see this new update on your profile. They can browse through the pictures of your products and hopefully they will find something that catches their eye. Another way you can sell through photos is to post pictures and tag some friends in each of the pictures. This will surelycatch their attention since they will be notified once you tag them in one of your pictures.

Constant Monitoring

The key to successful online marketing is to constantly monitor your accounts so that you can instantly reply to inquiries and process the orders of those who want to buy your products. It is important to be online as often as possible so that you can monitor the accounts you are using for your online marketing. Possible customers might lose interest in your products if their inquiries are unanswered.

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to your success

Steve.

Now I’m not saying don’t promote products and systems to earn commissions but when you are doing it make sure you are building your brand and your list as you go.

I see so many people endlessly pushing links to the systems and products they are promoting with little thought to themselves and how they are being perceived.

Here are 2 facts that if you don’t know, you should know!

1: People rarely buy something the first time they see it.

2: People don’t buy from people they don’t know.

So if you are reading this and haven’t ever made anything online then this could be why…

As an Internet marketer you need to become the brand, you want people to know who you are, trust you and then anything you recommend will be seriously considered.

Remember people rarely buy the first time they see something online so it’s imperative you capture their name and email details on this visit so you can follow up with them later.

Build relationships with your list, if every email you send to your list is just another product you are promoting they will soon lose interest. Why should people buy from you? In fact they may even be wondering how they ended up on your list in the first place.

Get social! Show them more of who “you” are, let them in to your life.

Invite them to link up with you on facebook, allow them to put a face to the name that keeps popping up in their inbox.

Then lastly, but arguably most important, give them value, lots and lots of value, you can’t possible over do it in this area, free and valuable information is what you need to give people. This will make you that name that people remember and will make them want to check you out over and over again.

Now that’s the theory, it’s time to take action!

I wish you every success!

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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.

People join up to systems online every hour of every day. All promise potential earnings of something or another. Many promise the chance to make life changing sums of money.

Everyone wants to know that all important question, when will I make money and how much?

As someone that markets some of these systems I get this question every day! It is however a very difficult question to answer! It depends on many things. How much you know already about Internet marketing? How much time you will commit to making this work on a daily basis or weekly basis? These are 2 very key components.

Simply put little effort will result in little earnings, maximum effort will result in maximum earnings.

Mindset is very important, you have to believe in yourself and keep positive and not give up.

If it takes 6 months before you make anything isn’t it worth 6 months of your time? In fact if it takes a year of hard work and effort before you make anything wouldn’t it be worth it? I’m talking about once you’ve learnt and applied all the methods you are taught you can be making obscene amounts of money. 5K or more a week is very achievable! Now do you see what “worth waiting for means”?

The problem can be that people can be lazy and want get rich quick schemes. These rarely exist if you want to stay on the right side of the law but if you are a motivated person from any background you have the potential to be a top earner online. There is a lot to learn. You are learning a new industry and this doesn’t always come quickly but when successful can be very rewarding!

My advice to you would be part of a team. Many people turning to the internet in search of riches generally don’t have help and support from the people around them. Friends and family may even think your crazy to want to get involved in one of the perceived online scams. Being part of a team gives you that help and support you might not be getting anywhere else, if you’re friends and family aren’t interested in your personal venture to try and find a better life then get talking to people online that are interested. Share ideas, get that support in the early days when you’re learning by trial and error and most importantly never give up! So many people that give up don’t realise how close they were to success.

As for if any of the systems being sold online are scams? No doubt there will be, be careful and do your due diligence but in the main when you learn the techniques to market successfully online you can take any of these systems and make a fortune with them. Learn and perfect one and then repeat over and over again creating residual incomes for life.

You are no different to top earners online. If you want this you can have it. Many of the worlds richest internet marketers are school drop outs, you don’t need any qualifications just the right mindset and some hard work! Take the bull by the horns today and see where you are this time next year it could be a very different place than today!

Steve Males, building a successful team of internet marketers in a top online business.

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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