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Building Relationships in Internet Marketing

July 8, 2009 // Posted in Blog, social marketing  |  No Comments

It’s great to build relationships with people on the Internet.  In fact, it is necessary.  The business of Internet Marketing is one where you need to make a name for yourself in order to be successful.  People have to see you around for a while and recognize you before they start trusting you and believing in you.

You have to start somewhere.  So a good place to start is with a group that you join.  I recently took a course on making digital products from PLR products.  There were several of us taking the course, every person with a different starting date.  But we would get together for webinars on a weekly basis.  Also, we had a forum where we could talk to each other and help each other out.

After we learned how to make our products it was time to sell the product.  At this time, you usually try to get joint venture partners to help each other sell your products and build your lists.  We began communicating more at this point, and now have formed really nice alliances as internet marketers. I can truly say it is fun and that we have made friendships.  Now that the course is over some of us are working together on a couple of adventures.  We email each other and call each other up on a daily basis.

It is really necessary to get out there when you are in Internet Marketing.  You have to make yourself known so that people will start buying from you.  So building relationships is really crucial.

It’s also very good to go to the different forums and contribute.  Try to answer questions and help others out.  Or you can ask questions that you have, or ask for opinions.   There are a lot of people in the forums and if you start making your presence there, people will start noticing you.

Be polite when you enter a forum.  Remember, it is like entering a community.  Don’t just barge in and start giving opinions and being loud.  Look around first and see what the feeling of the forum is, and then join in the conversation slowly.  Don’t be in a rush to talk, and don’t talk just to talk.  You will annoy people.  And if you spam, you might get thrown out.

Twitter and Facebook are other places to build relationships online.  Here again, know the hidden etiquette of these sites.  It’s fun to post on Twitter about any event, but also try to offer content as much as possible.  One thing I do which I really like is have an RSS feed from my blog to Twitter and Facebook, so every time I post a blog, it posts on Twitter and Facebook, and I am offering content.  I get a lot of responses to these posts, and meet people this way.

So if Internet Marketing is going to be your business, make yourself a community of friends.  Help each other out and have fun.  If you find someone that is mutually beneficial you might go into partnership with them, and this way you help each other out.  The social networking sites, forums,  and courses are all ways of getting to know what may be potential business partners and colleagues for a long time.

Establishing A Relationship With Email Marketing

July 8, 2009 // Posted in Blog, email marketing (Tags: , ) |  No Comments

Email marketing is a tool that all internet marketers use to establish a relationship with their subscribers.  One of the first things that an internet marketer must have to set up his business is an autoresponder.  The autoresponder is a service which sends out emails to your subscribers at specified intervals.  You set up a sequence of follow up emails that are then sent to subscribers as they join your list.  You can also send broadcast emails which you can schedule at anytime, outside of the sequence of follow up emails.

You can use email marketing in many ways.  You use these emails to promote your products, to provide information or content, and to let your readers get to know you and trust you.

One of the most important things in Internet Marketing is winning the trust of your subscribers so that they will buy from you.  People will usually buy from the person they trust the most, given the same product is being sold by a few competitors.  You need to show that you are reliable and honest.  Also, your emails should be well written, without any typos or misspellings.  This looks very unprofessional and will hurt your business.

One of the ways to establish a relationship with your subscribers is by giving them good content.  Teach them what you know, share with them insights that you have, so that they can use it in their business.  Tell them about your credentials and what you have learned in this business.  Establish yourself as an authority by imparting whatever knowledge you have that they can benefit from.  You can send them copies of your blog posts or articles regarding the niche that they are in.  You can also send them information published by other people, provided you give credit to the author.

Be personable and share about your experiences in Internet Marketing, so that you become familiar to them over time.  People will buy from someone whom they have come to know over time over a stranger.  By emailing them consistently they will come to know your name and start trusting you.

Stay in touch with your list.   Don’t let time go by without emailing them.  You don’t have to email them every day although you can, but at least once every 3 or 4 days is good.  Some people email their list once or even twice a day.  If you’re going to do this make sure you provide great content, at least once a day.

So don’t just email your list to promote all the time.  If all you do is sell to them, they will probably opt out of your list.  People hate spamming!  And even though you may have their permission to email them, if all you do is pitch to them, that is considered spamming.

Email marketing does get very competitive and you have to have your arsenal of tools.  Give customers a solid reason why they should buy from you instead of your competitor.  So building a strong relationship is a very important factor.  Give your subscribers value so they will look forward to your emails.

You have to work your way into the heart and mind of your subscribers.  Like everything else in Internet Marketing, this takes time and patience.  With email marketing you build up a rapport with your subscribers over a period of time.

Click Here for a great free course on email marketing.

What Are Private Label Rights?

July 6, 2009 // Posted in Blog, private label rights (Tags: , , ) |  No Comments

Private Label Rights basically give you the right to do whatever you like with a product, as if you had created it.  You get to keep 100% of the profits when you sell it.

There are different degrees of PLR rights.  Always check the license to make sure exactly what you can do with the PLR rights product that you purchase.  PLR rights usually give you right of authorship; that is you can put your name on the product.  You can also change the product – edit it, customize it and make it different from the original product.

Sometimes you may be able to pass on those same rights to your customer, so that your customer can also have PLR rights. Sometimes you can only pass more limited rights, such as Master Resale Rights or Resale Rights, which do not allow them to change the product.  With Master Resale Rights they can sell the product and also their customers can sell the product; with Resale Rights, they can only sell the product without passing any rights to their buyer.

The correct way to use a product with private label rights is to change it and make it a new product, different from the one that you purchased.

It is a very easy way to have your own product, as the major work has been done for you.

Here is a great membership site that gives you 7 private label rights products every month, plus your own website.  This is a great opportunity to have 7 fresh products every month which you can sell for 100% profit.

Go to  www.MembershipPLR.com

List Building Is Your Number 1 Priority

July 4, 2009 // Posted in Blog, list building (Tags: , ) |  No Comments

List building is the first and most important step in internet marketing.  Everybody says “the money is in the list”.  What this means is that you have to have an audience to sell to.  That audience is your list.

List building happens when people subscribe to your list by responding to one of your ads or give aways, or products.  You have to use an opt-in form to capture the name and email address of the person.  This is very important.  Even if you are selling someone else’s products, you should always use a squeeze page with an opt-in form, so that you not only sell the product, but you capture the information of the buyer who then becomes your subscriber on your own list.

This list becomes your most treasured possession in internet marketing.  These are the people you are going to promote to over and over again.  You can promote your own products if you have them, you can promote someone else’s products as an affiliate, and you should also send them content and great information that will help them in their online business.  This way they will be happy to stay on your list and will probably continue buying from you.

To start list building, there are a few simple things that work.  You can sell your own product, if you have one.  If you don’t, you can buy a product that comes with private label rights or resale rights, and you can sell it and keep 100% of the profits.  This is a very easy way to have your own product that you can start list building with.

If you can join giveaway events and contribute a product to give away, that will help you get sign ups.  Sometimes you get products that have giveaway rights, and you can make a squeeze page and a download page to give them away at these events.

You can also go to Clickbank or PayDot.com and start promoting products as an affiliate.  You sign up to their affiliate programs, and you get your affiliate link to promote any of their products.  Or you can sign up to affiliate programs directly through the website of any vendors who pay affiliate commissions for the sale of their products.

A great way to get sign ups is by giving away something.  At the beginning when people don’t know you yet, you need to get their attention, and if you give out some good content for free, you will probably get people to sign up and they will return to buy from you, provided it is really good content.

You have to start with tiny steps, and be patient.  It might take a little time to start seeing results, but the more content, links and products you have out there, the sooner you will start making money.  As you know, the Internet is very viral.  This means that content spreads on the Internet like a virus.  You put your links out there and they will be distributed by others in many directions all over the Internet.  The more content you build up and distribute, the more viral results you will have.

A lot of people wonder why they are not making any money online.  Many of these people do not have a list.  Well, that is really the first step.  It is very good to have your own product, but if you have no one to sell it to, you will not make any money.  So list building should be your number 1 priority.  Once you amass a list of hundreds or thousands, you are in.  Then all you have to do is keep your list happy, make them great offers, and enjoy the ride.

A great way to start listbuilding is is with Jimmy D. Brown’s Resale Rights License For The List P.R.O.F.I.T. System Course.  Jimmy D. Brown is one of the most accredited and respectable internet marketing consultants around.  Yes, you can start building your list selling Jimmy D. Brown’s number one selling product.  Right now he has made this available for a limited time.  You can have your own infoproduct packaged and ready to sell in minutes. Do I have your attention yet?

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How To Choose Your Internet Marketing Niche

July 2, 2009 // Posted in Blog, internet marketing niche (Tags: , , , ) |  No Comments

Are you wondering what internet marketing niche would be most profitable and rewarding for you?  There may be a few options that you may be considering and would enjoy.  There are certain niches that are more profitable than others.  Here are some ways to determine what would be a good niche for you.

Your internet marketing niche is your area of expertise as an internet marketer.  It is good to specialize in one area so that you will eventually have a following of people in that niche.  When you specialize in a certain niche you will be dedicating your marketing efforts towards this niche.  You will write articles, create websites, and place ads related to your chosen subject. If you are involved with 20 different niches, chances are you will not create a following in any of them.

There are many ways to find what the profitable niches are.  You can find keywords and track them in google to see what the number of searches for these keywords are in the different niches.  If a keyword like “dog training” brings back very high traffic results, you can assume that the “dog” niche is probably a niche that gets a lot of traffic and is therefore a profitable niche.

Also, if you visit a magazine stand, hot niches usually have magazines relating to these subjects.  If there are magazines dedicated to a niche, you know this is a profitable niche.  This means that people buy this magazine because there is a wide interest in this niche.

The Internet Marketing publisher niche is very big.  This is the internet marketing niche in itself, where people write about and sell products relating to internet marketing information.  Many people want to learn and get educated in this niche, and create educational and other products that help their customers in this field.

This is the niche that I have chosen, so this article is an example of content in the internet marketing niche.  I buy and sell products that relate exclusively to internet marketing and how to make money online.  I chose this niche because I like it and love learning about internet marketing. It is very rewarding because there is so much to learn and so much room to grow.

If you are interested in the internet marketing publisher niche, you need to be a warrior.  Your mindset will make you or break you.  If you are determined to make this your business, you have to understand that it is not for the lazy.  There is work to be done and lessons to learn.  But it can be a lot of fun if you like it.

I enjoy creating products, making squeeze pages, putting products online, selling products to my subscribers.  I love my list and like to make them great offers to help them also succeed.  So, it is really important to enjoy what you are doing, because you need to be committed to it.

Affiliate marketing is a very good place to start if you like the internet marketing niche and don’t have a product to sell.  Even if you do have a product, you can still sell other products as an affiliate marketer.  It is easy because all you have to do is market any product with your affiliate link, and you automatically have access to make commissions without having to own or create the product.  You can promote any number of products as an affiliate, thus creating multiple streams of income.  These commissions are usually 50% or higher.

Follow someone who can teach you the ropes and get the basics of affiliate marketing.  Learn how to sell a product, and the different ways of marketing it. These are the fundamentals that you need to learn.  Once you’ve learned this you will be able to choose different strategies that you like.

So whether it is the internet marketing publishing niche or any other niche that you choose, make sure you enjoy what you are doing.  Choose the niche that you feel you want to dedicate the most time to, once you have done your research about it.  The Internet is a gold mine for many niches.  Don’t let anything get in the way of your dreams.  Have a wonderful time creating your future!

I love the way Jimmy D. Brown teaches.  He doesn’t leave out anything.  He guides you every step of the way to making money.  He is very solid and a great teacher.  So start making money the best way online as an affiliate marketer.  His Affiliatenaire course will give you a great basis for internet marketing which you can apply to any niche.  Go to http://www.internettrafficdomain.com/Affiliatenaire.html

The Basics For Building Your Internet Marketing Business

July 1, 2009 // Posted in Blog, internet marketing business (Tags: , , ) |  No Comments

I entered the Internet Marketing world because I worked in the corporate world for many years, and did not want to do that anymore.  More than anything I wanted to stay home.  I have two dogs that I adore, and I just love being home with them.  My life is very peaceful and quiet, and that makes me happy.

So when I found Internet Marketing I immediately knew it was for me.  I loved everything about it.  I started learning about all the different ways to promote yourself on the Internet.  I learned about attraction marketing.  This is a new way of marketing today where you brand yourself as a leader and in that way you attract people to follow you and to buy from you.  It really works much better than the old way of chasing people to sell to them, and I was very much attracted to this idea.

So that was one of the first basic concepts I learned.  I also saw how anyone who is committed can become a leader and set themselves up to make money on the Internet.  I learned that if you can offer value, you can be a leader.  Even from the beginning, as you start learning and acquiring experience one day at a time, there is always someone that you can help.  And this is how you start making a presence and becoming established as an Internet Marketer.

There is a lot to learn in the business of Internet Marketing, and it is impossible to learn everything overnight.  So it is also impossible to establish a business overnight, contrary to what some people think or may want to make you believe.  There is a lot of hype and false promises in many of the promotions that are offered.  Yes, there is a lot of money to be made online, but not usually overnight and certainly not because of one product.  It really is a business which demands a lot of commitment and effort.

On a daily basis, I make it a point to get some education.  I read newsletters and ebooks about Internet marketing.  I attend webinars and go to forums.  With every book I read and every webinar I attend I receive new insights, maybe just a little golden nugget that I had not previously been aware of.

Internet Marketing is a lot about acquiring bits of information from everywhere, and then putting it together and applying your knowledge.  Always have an open mind and see what information you can derive from any article or from any product.  With every step that you take you are learning.  With every struggle that you face, you are learning.  Yes, I believe more than anything, if you are struggling and managing to solve your issues and coming out on the other side on a daily basis, you are on your way.

But you do have to go through that learning process at the beginning.  There is no way to get around it.  And you will always be learning, because things change so rapidly in Internet Marketing, and many new products come out.

The main thing is to have a good mindset.  I have always known that I am going to succeed.  I don’t see things as obstacles but as challenges.  I know that I am as smart and as willing to make money as anyone else.  I work hard, and I see the results, one day at a time.

So if you have a passion for Internet marketing, whether it be in affiliate marketing, product creation, or content marketing, you need 3 things:  a good mindset, commitment, and perseverance.  If you can truly say you own these 3 qualities, you are in for a great ride.  And don’t forget to have fun along the way!

One of the things I recommend is to start with basics and build up.  Jimmy D. Brown is an excellent teacher and gives the basics of Affiliate Marketing in his Affiliatenaire course.  Click here to find out how absolute beginners can earn extra income on the Internet by test-driving the easiest way to get paid online!

Building Websites

June 25, 2009 // Posted in Blog, make money online (Tags: , ) |  No Comments

Since I am in Internet Marketing I have learned to do a lot of things to maintain a website and sell products.  There are many software tools which are very useful and necessary.

One of the first things I acquired was an autoresponder, which is a service which you set up to send automated email messages to your list.  I soon learned how to create different lists.  I created web forms, and transferred the HTML code to my website where people sign up.  Then I also redirect the list to the specified download page or confirmation page, where my customers receive their products or services acquired.  I use Aweber for my autoresponder, which is very highly recommended.

I also learned how to create and edit web pages with an HTML editor.  The HTML editor is the software that allows you to make changes on the templates to create websites.  You make changes by editing with the visual editor as well as changing the HTML code with the code editor.  Some knowledge of HTML is very helpful, so I also educated myself in HTML code.

I learned how to use an FTP program, to put my web pages on the Internet.  When you buy a domain, your host company gives you a username and password.  You use this to load your domains to your FTP program and then you are able to upload your websites under your different domain names.

All this was a whole education in itself.  Since it was necessary for me to create my own websites, I took a course which taught me step by step how to do all this.  I learned all the techie stuff.  Many times I got stuck.  I had to learn how to upload files and folders in the right manner and follow the paths in order to link my products up correctly.  This was the most difficult part for me.

It is really necessary to learn how to make your own websites if you are an Internet marketer.  However, if the techie stuff is too hard for you, there is a piece of software that builds your websites very easily, no hard work involved.  It even has a function to FTP your websites as well.  So this whole process is solved with this incredible software.  This is really a great answer if you don’t think you can deal with all the techie hard stuff.  Click here to check it out…

Learn to Create Your Own Product

June 22, 2009 // Posted in Blog, product creation (Tags: , , , , ) |  No Comments

When you are new in internet marketing you need to find someone who will guide you and help you along to find your way.  There is so much to learn in internet marketing and so many different roads to take that it is overwhelming to a beginner.  It can become very confusing to try to figure out what you are supposed to be doing next, and how to get there.  So find someone you think has good information and follow them and learn whatever they can teach you.

After a while, you might find that there are different interests that you want to pursue and you might find someone else you can learn from.  Try to learn the basics, so you have a foundation.

There are certain things I have found to be very basic to internet marketing.  You need to know how to make your own product.  When you create a product you have to use many different tools and learn how to set up websites on the internet, use HTML editor, use FTP, autoresponders, etc.  And you learn how to connect everything together.  This knowledge is priceless to an internet marketer, and if you plan on sticking around, you must learn this.  Even if you are only going to do affiliate marketing, you need to know the ins and outs of product creation, because it gives you the basis and insight of internet marketing.

Soon after I started in internet marketing, I realized this.  So I took a course with Liz Tomey which taught me step by step how to make my own products.  I had never even heard of an HTML editor before, so it was like Chinese to me.  But with her help and her instructions, in two weeks I had created my first product.  It was such a great feeling!

I got stuck many times and struggled through it.  But this is the best way to learn.  You are going to get stuck and it might take you a while to figure things out, but this is the way you learn.  I learned so much creating my first product.  And now I learn every time I create a new product, and it takes me less time.  I get somewhat stuck sometimes, but it goes a lot faster, and I usually now know where to look for the solution.

I have been working hard the past couple of days getting together two products for a giveaway event.  Giveaway events provide an opportunity for newbies  and anyone else who is interested to provide their products for free and in turn get people to sign up to their lists.  This is a great way to build your list.  So I put together two products in two days.  Now, that’s a lot better than my first product which took me two weeks.  This giveaway event is called Free Offer Giveaway, which starts June 26, and you can visit it through this link.

So if you want to learn to make your own product I am going to suggest the course that I took from Liz Tomey – The Lost Reseller Scrolls.  It is the best course around, because she really gives it to you step by step on videos.  You watch her as she does everything on her computer, from start to finish.  I don’t think anybody else has videos this explicit, so it is totally worth it.

Create Your Own Product with Private Label Rights

June 21, 2009 // Posted in Blog, private label rights (Tags: , , , , ) |  No Comments

The easiest way to create your own product is by acquiring private label rights to a product that has already been created. Now all you have to do is to customize it and make changes to make it unique and make it your own.

For instance, you take an ebook with private label rights and you always get the source document. First of all you read it to make sure it is well written, and change the wording wherever appropriate and add and delete in the different sections. You can look up articles regarding this subject and get more ideas to insert into your ebook. You also change the formatting and make it look nice. You will need to make a new table of contents reflecting your changes.

Then you can insert your affiliate links in a resource section at the end of the book. This way you are promoting your affiliate products to make commissions. Also go to Clickbank or Paydotcom.com and find other products that are relevant to the subject of the ebook and recommend those products at the end, also with your affiliate links.

If you get a video product with private label rights you can also customize it. You will get the .avi file which you can edit. Go to Camtasia Studio and edit the video. You can also use less expensive software, such as Windows Movie Maker or Premiere. You can insert intro and exit screens. You can add music to it. This way it becomes your creation.

You can also get private label rights with software. In this case you can only usually change the graphics, unless you know how to customize the software itself and want to do that.

In any case, you should always order new graphics to make your products stand out. You don’t want to sell them with the same graphics that they had when you bought them, or else they would look just like the ones you bought from your seller.

Of course, you always have to have a salesletter to promote your product. Copywriting is an art in itself. You should try to find products that bring salesletters, so that this is done for you and you are not forced to write one. You can also make some changes to the salesletter, and of course personalize it with your name, contact info, etc.

So with a few tweaks you can turn a product with private label rights into own product and put your name on it. This way you have a product that you can sell for 100% of the profit.

A great source for private label rights ebooks is PlatinumPLR. This is a membership site that puts out a new internet marketing niche related ebook every month, together with a professionally written salespage, download page, and even bonuses.

Why Private Label Rights?

June 17, 2009 // Posted in Blog, private label rights (Tags: , , ) |  No Comments

Private Label Rights is really the answer to having your own product. With private label rights you can create your own product from the source file to a product that has already been created and you can call it your own. You can do many different things to the content – edit it, add to it, create new graphics, customize the salespage, or reformat the entire product.

You can then take the product and resell it, include it in other packages, bundle it, offer it on membership sites.

You can take the content and break it up to use it as your own to write articles, ebooks, reports, etc.

Always read the license to make certain of the exact rights that you have. For example, you may be able to transfer private label rights to your customers, or they may be non-transferable.

That is, unless otherwise stated in the license, you could sell that product along with the resell rights for a higher price. So that would allow your customer to sell it to someone else and make it more valuable.

With private label rights you get the most latitude of what you can do to your product with full editing control. For this reason, they are usually more expensive than other rights.

Check out this great private label rights offer.