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Internet Marketing: Purchase That Name!

Yesterday we looked at the domain name selection process, which is fairly easy and painless. Now that you have found a domain name that is available, you can easily purchase it. This process can usually be done in a short amount of time. Here are some things to think about that will come up during your domain name purchasing process:

* Privacy - once you register a domain name, by law, the information goes into a “whois” directory. For a fee of about $10 a year, you can make that private. If you don’t make it private, anybody can have access to your name, address, and phone number. That will be a decision that only YOU can make.

* Avoid the add-ons - Securing a domain name is a pretty cheap prospect, and it can be for as little as $4.95 a year. At this early stage, it is recommended that you just purchase your domain for one year. I have purchased multiple names that sounded good at the time, but now I no longer need them. Companies are good at selling you the extras because that is where they make more of their profits (think: “Do you want fries with that?”)

* The extra domain names - The easy part is now that you just have to fill out a few fields that will take you about five minutes or so. Some of the sites that sell domain names will offer you variations of your site name with .org or .net endings. You will be better off by just getting the .com domain because most websites are of the .com variety.

Tomorrow: Getting a Hosting Site

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: domain name selection, internet marketing

Internet Marketing Success - What Product Are You Going To Offer?

What I love about Internet Marketing is that you don’t need to get a large inventory and storage space for selling things on the Internet. The beauty is that you can often find a company that will joint venture with you and, if you bring them the customers, they will drop ship the items to you. The reason that a joint venture may be the thing for you is that it is a win-win situation. The vendor wins because more of their product has now sold. You win because you are getting a commission for bringing the customer to them. If the item has real perceived value for the customer, they will win as well.

In the old days of brick-and-mortar sales, you had to have a lot of capital up front: There was storage to pay for, advertising, overhead, shipping, etc. that often meant that you could go years before you saw a profit. The Internet is full of opportunities for you.

Perhaps you want to sell physical products. Great! Nearly every manufacturer has affiliate possibilities within their structure. Simply go to the home page of the manufacturer of the product that you want to sell, and search for the affiliate link. Usually that link is found at the bottom of their home page. Check them out because they will often allow you to joint-venture with them because, when you bring them a customer, that is less money that they have to spend on advertising to attract that same customer.

If you sell a non-physical item like music downloads, movie downloads, or even book down loads, there is a greater opportunity for profit because there is not a physical product that has to be created and stored. All you need is a server that houses the product. If you write the ebook, you can store it on your site. Good sources for e-products are places like Clickbank or PayDotCom. As a matter of fact, I have an ebook call Never Surrender!! that I sell on my own, or people can earn a 75% commission through PayDotCom. That is a high commission for something that you don’t even have to put too much effort into.

Whatever you offer, make sure that you are setting up the value for the niche that you are marketing to. Do this, and you success will be there!

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: internet marketing, making money on the internet

Internet Marketing - Are You Taking Inventory?

By now, you should be seeing what it is going to take to succeed in the world of Internet Marketing. It isn’t enough to have a website. It isn’t enough to paste a product on the site. If you do that and watch your bank account, you will be sorely disappointed. A lot of places that promise you the world with little or no effort don’t tell you the whole story. 

There is work involved.

It takes concentrated, tireless effort to generate traffic. Sites like Google or America Online are established and don’t have to worry so much about promotion to get traffic. They did in the beginning. But once established, getting new people in the door was not as important as getting the old people to stay. You have to provide value to the customer/visitor to earn their trust and earn their business.

Take an Inventory.

You should keep a list of things that work. After a while you will notice by tracking your visitors (usually through webmaster tools or the cpanel) that there are certain days of the week that you attract more visitors. My site usually attracts about 19-20% more on Saturdays than it does on Fridays. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I notice that the content that I post on Fridays and Saturdays matters to visitors. You start to notice that the use of long keyword phrases tend to increase your visitor rate as well. Keep in mind that what may work for you may spell disaster for others. Keep trying until you find the perfect mix for you.

When I first began, I didn’t have any affiliate sites linked on my homepage. But after experimenting a bit, I am discovering those that work well. You can experiment with your sites as well. Just keep an open mind and the goal in focus.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: goals, internet marketing

When Are You Going To Be Serious About What It Takes To Succeed In Your Internet Business?

Hopefully the answer to that question is NOW! Or ALWAYS! Sometimes Internet entrepreneurs start out and continue to be casual about the whole prospect. They read the stories that them them how easy it is to make boatloads of cash with a minimal of effort. So, that is what they do: Put forth minimal effort. Little do they realize (until too late sometimes) that making a living of the Internet, which can be done, takes honest time and effort. It is the old adage of what effort you put into something will greatly affect the outcome. 

Keep a positive mental attitude and put the effort into your venture, and you will get some positive results. Be sour and negative, and your chances of achieving success are greatly diminished. It’s up to you. When I first started with a website and a blog, I put my heart into it and saw quite a bit of traffic to my sites. I was regularly updating my sites and pinging on a daily basis. I also visited many related sites and left comments (with my website as a contact point) and saw a bit of traffic there. But after a few months, I hadn’t seen a vast increase in traffic because I was only posting twice a week and not visiting other sites and leaving my name and mark there.

I began to seriously look at some of the social networking sites to increase the traffic, and that has helped tremendously. I reconnected with some of my friends and former students to which I have been a silent mystery for years. I got a profile on Facebook and Twitter and spent some effort making my website known there.

Traffic has increased dramatically. I also realize that the attention span of many is shortening as time goes on, so more of an effort is being put on short, information-filled messages. You just have to be open to try new things and stick with the things that are working and find changes to make to get other things working as well. 

Just keep at it and working at it until you find what works for you. It may happen overnight because you might stumble across what is working for you immediately, but it make take longer. Just be patient.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: internet marketing, making money on the internet, success

Internet Marketing Success: It Is No Accident

When you read the squeeze pages and ads for some of the Internet Marketing programs that are out there, you are lead to believe that the success that some of the wealthiest Internet marketers out there is something that was so simple and effortless and that they just happened upon success by chance. You never hear about the short nights in which people are either staying up late, getting up super-early, or both.

There is a lot of effort involved in having success in making a living from the Internet.

Now, you may stumble across a way that works wonders for you and that you will have a moderate degree of success. You may also have to ift through 100 programs until you find the one that works for you. You may be on the brink of finding the program that works for you: perhaps you have a pretty decent website, but when it comes time for the customer to opt-in or sign up, you have nothing fancy. There are even some pretty good free program out there like here that may provide the one little extra push that you need. It is free, so it is worth checking out.

Internet Marketing success takes a lot of thought and effot, but it can be done. You need to research your audience. You don’t want to have a great dog product that you are trying to pitch to cat lovers. You need to pitch that to the dog lovers. Your success will depend largely on how much effort you put into your business. But, don’t confuse quantity with quality. If something doesn’t work for you, make note and move on to something else until you find the thing that works for you.

Then build on that success. You CAN do it!

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: financial independence, internet marketing, making money on the internet

Internet Marketing: I’m So Excited!!

It is amazing that Internet Marketing has the ability for you to earn decent money. Thirty years ago I can recall the dawn of the personal computer. There were dreams that were written about that went into detail on how music would largely be done on computers. A lot of it is done that way nowadays, but there is something about the ability to actually play an instrument. There was talk about telecommuting to work and never having to leave your home (that is closer to a reality for many people than was ever envisioned). But to actually make money on your own as an Internet Marketer was unthought of in those days, but now it is a booming industry in which you just need a computer and some guidance.

Is it easy? No. Despite what the pitchmen and pitch women will tell you, it will not happen overnight: there is some work involved in it. Unlike what they would have you believe, you don’t just turn on your computer and the money starts flowing to your bank account.

If only it were that easy.

Just as a star athlete doesn’t get to their highest level of excellence without hard work at the gym, you will never succeed without your own hard work. How much? Ask yourself some questions: How much money do you want to make? What is the time-frame for earning this money? How much time are you willing to devote to this endeavor? Are you going to spend any money in the process? How much? Are you willing to do research to find out the information that you need to succeed? Are you going to have anybody mentor you? Is any of this written down?

Of course, this just scratches the surface of the soul-searching that is required to have Internet Marketing success. I honestly believe that if you have the desire and willingness to work, you will be successful beyond your current dreams. Success begets success.

Have a GREAT day!

Just as a star athlete doesn’t get to their finest without working out at the gym, you will never succeed unless you put in some time and effort. How much? you may ask. It depends. How successful do you want your Internet business to be? What are your goals? Who is yo

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What Does It Take To Get You To BELIEVE In The Power of a Positive Mental Attitude?

There is great power in a positive mental attitude. Sometimes, when things are not going exactly as you have planned, it is difficult to realize that a positive mental attitude can help you, especially when you are working at succeeding as an Internet Marketing entrepreneur. We all have read the advertisements about how somebody instantly was earning  $1,000 a day and there was little or no work involved. Sorry, but that doesn’t happen by accident. If you went behind the scenes and followed the successful Internet marketers, then you would see countless hours of research, programming, and failures before the great success came. Success will come to you…

…but not without having expended a great deal of energy.

This is not to discourage you, but to educate you that you CAN be successful on the Internet, but you will have to do a bit of work. Just knowing that others have succeeded before you will help to fuel your fire. You will need to try many things, and you will want to try the things that work and discard those that do not. If a method fails for you, devote no more time and energy toward that but instead pour more into the things that work for you. 

 Success breeds success.

But you gotta believe. Have faith and KNOW that it will pay off in the long run.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: internet marketing, positive mental attitude

It’s Tuesday, Do You Know Where You Positive Mental Attitude Is?

When on the road to Internet Marketing success, it cannot be emphasized enough that a key to that success is a positive mental attitude. This attitude is not just for the first few days and it will all be easy and downhill from there, but it is a need that needs to have a constant flow of good input in order to be effective. New Year’s Day is a great example. Traditionally people are all excited on that day because it is a new year and an opportunity to start fresh. People often choose to start diets and exercise programs then (why do you think that gyms advertise so much during the Christmas through January time-frame?). There is excitement and somebody may go to the gym every day for a whole week.

Then other influences creep in and make it easier to quit than to press on. They skip going on the Monday after one week and tell themselves “It’s okay, it is only one day, I will make it up tomorrow.”

Tomorrow never comes.

You should do something every single day to feed your positive mental attitude so that, like a muscle, it becomes stronger over time. I am not suggesting that you are “on fire” 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, but a steady flame does so much more to evenly temper you mettle and you will be more successful in the long run.

That’s how I became successful with my ebook Never Surrender!!. Every day a little bit more was done on the book. Had it been attempted in one or two full days of work, it would not have turned out as well as it did. Instead, small bites were taken and the success was built upon.

You can do the same with your Internet Marketing.

There is  lot of information out there and it can be overwhelming, but when you tackle it a small piece at a time. You will find that you will be much more successful in the long run!

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: internet marketing, making money on the internet, positive mental attitude, success

Are YOU Having Internet Marketing Success?

Much has been written here to help you achieve a degree of Internet Marketing success. As it has been stated before, just having a website, no matter how great it may be, is not the only step to achieving your dream of financial independence. Just as if you had a great restaurant and nobody ate there, who would ever know that you served some of the most creative and delicious food on the planet? Who would recommend your restaurant to the their friends and neighbors? Who would eagerly look forward to the next special that you had there?

Nobody.

Sounds sad and lonely, doesn’t it? Sad, lonely, and true. If you don’t “ping” your daily writing/posts to your website, not even a search engine will find and catalog your website out there. Try pinggoat, for starters. At least get your name out there. You can also submit articles to ezinearticles.com and that can be a slow, but steady source of traffic. You might do a PPC (pay per click) campaign with Google Adwords or type “PPC Advertising” into the search bar of  Google and find other ways to generate traffic to your site. You might have to pay for traffic in the beginning, but, once the traffic starts to flow, so does the cash flow as well.

You might even try traditional advertising like the newpaper (non-traditional like Craigslist). What ever you do, just do something! Make note of what works and what doesn’t. What works for one person, may not work at all for another. You never know until it is used.

Here’s to YOUR Internet Marketing success, and have a GREAT day!

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Internet Marketing – What Drives You To Succeed?

Sometimes it is not enough to want to succeed in Internet Marketing. Many people just purchase a website and stick a product on that website and are disappointed when their PayPal account isn’t overflowing with cash. That fits the definition of a pipe dream. Just wishing for success takes more than a wish. There are people that dream of winning a million dollars in the Lottery, but never even bother to go to the store and purchase a ticket.

Write it down.

There is something compelling about writing your goals for Internet Marketing. What do you want to accomplish? How much money do you want to make? There is a difference between saying more money and saying $100,000. If you have twenty dollars in your pocket and somebody gives you a quarter, guess what? You have more money.  Goals need to be measurable. You will know when you have $100,000. It can be measured.

Goals need to be short-term, intermediate, and long-term. What do you want to accomplish in the next two month? The next year? Ten years from now? Once you know where you want to go, develop a plan to get there and break it up into steps that you can attain in measurable increments.

Review the goals often. The problem with New Year’s resolutions is that people will write a lofty goal and, once January 1 has passed, it is put away until the next year. When you look at your goals every day, you reaffirm in your mind that which you want to accomplish. Set aside some time every day to review and even revise your goals.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: goals, internet marketing, web traffic