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.

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.

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Making Money on line by Internet Marketing is a brilliant way to set-up your own business.

How many businesses can you start from home with just a computer and an internet connection?

Resale Rights Products are big business at the moment which just adds to the attraction of this industry. So you do not even need your own products to sell and because the majority of the resale rights products are electronic that also means no stock holding!

Lets think about a typical business, if you wanted to set up what would you need?

An idea
A manufacturer to turn your idea in to the saleable product
A warehouse
Stock
Distribution network
the list goes on…

And all this needs a substantial pot of money to fund it all. So why is an on-line business so great?

Well, this is something you can start in your spare time, for very little money in comparison to a standard business model. Dealing in electronic products instantly means you can automate! Remember your website is running 24 hours a day 7 days a week, all year round so you can make money while you sleep!

It is very easy indeed to set-up your PayPal button or other merchant account buttons so that when the customer clicks the Buy Now button on your site they are automatically re-directed to the download page for that product. That means no taking orders, no shipping goods just checking your merchant account and withdrawing your money!

Once your sales pages are set-up you will need to market your products, as automatically as possible, you may use the paid options and set-up a Google AdWords Campaign or you may want to get in to one of the biggest free methods of on-line marketing at the moment and use the social networking sites. Twitter is massive right now for using as an advertising tool, build a following with people interested in your niche and whenever you tweet a link to your site you have the potential of getting a great deal of traffic and all it has cost you is your time to tweet.

Obviously by now you have realised that we like to automate as much as possible so we are not going to sit there all day on twitter sending out tweets. Remember I said this could done around your day job when you start out so I do not think your boss will be too happy if you spend all day on twitter! There are sites now that let you link your twitter account with them to automate the sending out of tweets, so you can spend an hour in the evening writing all your tweets for the next day and all you need to do is check your merchant account when you get in from work to see how much you have made.

No Overheads! If you find that Internet Marketing is not for you then at least you gave it a try, you do not have any staff to sack, office to pay for or stock that you can not get rid of. You are the only person working for you, you are the only person you have to pay, you get the benefit of all the profits!

Leverage! Because you have automated as much as humanly possible in this business you have the time to replicate what you have done in other niches, you might have set-up your business selling resale rights products to do with Golf, you have a Twitter account with lots of followers interested in golf that you market to. Do not stop there! Set-up some more sales website to do with weight loss or hypnosis, create another Twitter account for these other niches and replicate what you know works.

You may start internet marketing to make some extra cash outside your day job but I bet it will not be long before you realise you can replace your income by working from home and look at all the free time you have!