The Most Important Ingredients For Internet Marketer Success
Running a successful Internet business can be a very time consuming venture. Not only must you design and market your web site, but you must also either develop your own products or locate affiliate products.
Below, is list of what I feel are the most important ingredients for Internet Success:
• Focus on the Three Most Profitable Internet Revenue Streams
There are three main internet revenue streams if you don't want to pay for advertising. They are free search engine listings, permission email and affiliate programs.
Motivated prospects will come to your site from your search engine positioning. Once they arrive on your site, rely on your sales message to convert the prospect into a customer. Test different sales messages and track the results.
Direct email to your permission list is one of the best ways to make money. It can be in the form of product announcements, a newsletter, or advertising affiliate programs that you belong to. The best way to get visitors to sign up is by offering a newsletter, special report, or something of perceived value in exchange.
Affiliate programs can make money in two ways. People make a commission by selling your products. Or you can join other peoples affiliate programs and recommend their products.
• Learn All You Can Educate yourself about basic HTML so you can edit and create web pages. Learn how to master - or at least become competent in - search engine optimization. Learn how to write effective sales letters and persuasive email offers. Learn what affiliate programs are, how to apply them, and start profiting from them right away.
Please invest in yourself. Dedicate yourself to constant and never ending self improvement. Personally, professionally and spiritually, take positive steps towards your goals each day. And don't forget to reward yourself for each little success or victory.
• Keep Your Website Simple. Remember: the engines like simplicity, and so do your visitors! If you use "fancy" or complicated Web design strategies, you stand a good chance of hurting your search engine rankings and losing those visitors who access at slower speeds or who aren't computer/Internet savvy.
• Submit Your Important Web pages manually to the major search engines, rather than using a handy dandy software program that will submit your pages to 3,000 engines. You can also use a submission service like Position Pro or Submit Director, or use a software program like Web Position Gold or Search Engine Commando that mimics a manual submission.
• Choose Very Focused Keyword Phrases, and don't try to go after general phrases. The competition is too fierce, and research has shown that though you will get more traffic through general phrases, that traffic doesn't convert to sales. All of the traffic in the world will do you no good if it doesn't convert to sales!
• Work hard at building your link popularity by asking sites that are related to yours in content to link back to your site. Also, make sure that you get your site listed in all of the major directories, such as Yahoo!, LookSmart, the ODP, and About.com, because that can provide a significant boost in link popularity as well.
Below, is list of what I feel are the most important ingredients for Internet Success:
• Focus on the Three Most Profitable Internet Revenue Streams
There are three main internet revenue streams if you don't want to pay for advertising. They are free search engine listings, permission email and affiliate programs.
Motivated prospects will come to your site from your search engine positioning. Once they arrive on your site, rely on your sales message to convert the prospect into a customer. Test different sales messages and track the results.
Direct email to your permission list is one of the best ways to make money. It can be in the form of product announcements, a newsletter, or advertising affiliate programs that you belong to. The best way to get visitors to sign up is by offering a newsletter, special report, or something of perceived value in exchange.
Affiliate programs can make money in two ways. People make a commission by selling your products. Or you can join other peoples affiliate programs and recommend their products.
• Learn All You Can Educate yourself about basic HTML so you can edit and create web pages. Learn how to master - or at least become competent in - search engine optimization. Learn how to write effective sales letters and persuasive email offers. Learn what affiliate programs are, how to apply them, and start profiting from them right away.
Please invest in yourself. Dedicate yourself to constant and never ending self improvement. Personally, professionally and spiritually, take positive steps towards your goals each day. And don't forget to reward yourself for each little success or victory.
• Keep Your Website Simple. Remember: the engines like simplicity, and so do your visitors! If you use "fancy" or complicated Web design strategies, you stand a good chance of hurting your search engine rankings and losing those visitors who access at slower speeds or who aren't computer/Internet savvy.
• Submit Your Important Web pages manually to the major search engines, rather than using a handy dandy software program that will submit your pages to 3,000 engines. You can also use a submission service like Position Pro or Submit Director, or use a software program like Web Position Gold or Search Engine Commando that mimics a manual submission.
• Choose Very Focused Keyword Phrases, and don't try to go after general phrases. The competition is too fierce, and research has shown that though you will get more traffic through general phrases, that traffic doesn't convert to sales. All of the traffic in the world will do you no good if it doesn't convert to sales!
• Work hard at building your link popularity by asking sites that are related to yours in content to link back to your site. Also, make sure that you get your site listed in all of the major directories, such as Yahoo!, LookSmart, the ODP, and About.com, because that can provide a significant boost in link popularity as well.
