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7 Great Web Site Promotion Strategies
You might have an attractive web site with great products, but your site will sit untouched in cyberspace without one key factor. Website traffic. Traffic to your website is what you turn into sales, so check out the following promotional...
Search Engine Benefits to Article Marketing
You've probably heard by now that article marketing can help you build links back to your site.
But there's a lot more to it than that. Articles aren't only good for leveraging yourself stronger positions in Google, Yahoo, MSN and the other big...
The sad truth to face and the huge advantage to cash in on when using articles to increase traffic and profits
I started out with a single article on one site. Everything happened slower because of this. Still I was amazed that I was able to get hits so quickly. The site I started with had a counter and my eyes almost popped out the next day when I realized...
What are Promotional Articles and How Can They Work for You?
One of the most effective ways for attracting attention to your business on the Internet is to write articles. The most popular ones are how-to articles, which also establish your expertise. People are always looking for articles for their websites,...
Your Pink Spoon Promo Checklist
Copyright 2005 Alicia Forest
One of the most effective ways of getting people to discover and
try your products or services is by offering a Pink Spoon - a
taste of what it is that you offer. Pink Spoons come in many
forms: an ezine, an...
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Online Success- Just $100,000 will get you started!
I can't believe the amount of people who say that they are 'entrepreneurs' with their own 'online business', but who treat it just like a 'hobby' or a 'game' to fit inbetween their other leisure activities.
Before the advent of the Internet, a business required a massive investment to get started. People would think in terms of at least 3-5 years before they recovered what they had paid out, and were making a profit.
Nowadays you can start an online 'business' for next to nothing, but for some reason people expect to make a profit from it immediately, and are then disappointed when it doesn't happen.
If only people could put in the same level of commitment, as they would if they had spent tens of thousands of dollars setting up an offline business, then far more people would be successful.
If only people could stop thinking of their online business as if it were a lottery ticket. There are no instant winnings, and instant gratification.
And don't forget the fact that most people with a lottery ticket are losers!
Success is not easy. It takes time, but the rewards you eventually receive are worth far more than any lottery win!
No one successful ever said it was easy. And if people do say it is easy then they are lying!
As you probably know, most people start off trying to make money online, by signing up with an affiliate program.
An affiliate program allows anyone at all to start up a business for virtually nothing.
But just because it is so easy, and free, to sign up for an affiliate program, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that there is no work involved either, or to believe that you will never experience problems like you do with any other business.
Most people also think that because they have a great looking affiliate website, then that is all they need.
Yet 95% of people fail with their affiliate sites. Why do you think that is?
I would say that the fact that it cost them nothing to get started accounts for a lot of it!
At the first hurdle they come across, most people give up. It cost them nothing, so it is easy to walk away, because they will have lost nothing.
On the other hand, someone who had invested $100,000 in their business
will fight tooth and nail to make their business work!
They will find solutions to problems, they will approach things a different way, do whatever is necessary, until it does work, rather than give up, because they have invested too much to lose it all.
So if you want to know the correct approach to making a success of your affiliate business, it is to imagine that it cost you $100,000 to get started!
Imagine if you had to use your life savings, mortgage your home, or borrow from the bank to start up, then you would have a completely different attitude to begin with.
If you can imagine that every month you are paying back as much as you can possibly afford to the bank for your business, and then you really use this money as your advertising and promotion budget, then you will see your business grow dramatically!
Use some of your budget to get your own website. This is essential, to have you own unique site, and you can have links to all of your different programs.
And follow advice!
If you had really invested $100,000 in your online business, then you would be more inclined to take advice from people who had already become successful.
And the advise you will get from all the experts is that virtually all your efforts should go into promoting your own newsletter, not in promoting your affiliate site directly. Everyone agrees that '..the money is in the list..'
Encourage people to subscribe to it, by offering freebies, and incentives if they do subscribe.
In every newsletter, you keep telling people about your programs, and eventually they will buy something from you!
Think long term investment. Not short term. You could send a few thousand people to your one affiliate website, and you might, if you are lucky, make a bit of money. But having that same amount of people on your subscriber list will eventually make you rich!
About the Author
Paul White is a former teacher who now helps people around the world to become wealthy online. Visit the popular Profit Mountain website at:- http://www.profitmountain.com To get your own unique website to promote your affiliate programs visit:- http://www.profitwebsites.com Or join their top paying affiliate program!
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