Archive for December, 2010

The Internet marketing industry is an isolating career at times. You work from home, usually on solo projects, and except for the occasional forum and chat room participation, you don’t have the opportunity to interact with others.

Some newbie ‘net marketers take it to an extreme level of isolation, never branding their name, watching forum posts from the sidelines, too scared to put themselves out there for judgment in the marketplace.

But networking will help you make big gains as an online marketer.  First and foremost, it helps you brand your name in the marketplace. You’ll always want to participate in the Internet marketing niche, even if it’s not the niche you’re making money with.

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Many people start their blogs on hosted platforms.  Hosted blogging solutions can be a good way to start, because they’re free and they’re generally trusted in the search engines.  But there are perils associated with hosting a blog on someone else’s server.

For one thing, you’re at the mercy of the owner of the platform.  Blogger has been known to delete blogs without warning, simply because they felt the blog was too much like spam or too commercial.

WordPress doesn’t allow affiliate links to be used on their blogs, so making money by hosting a blog on their servers is difficult. Ideally, you should start your blog on your own server, preferably in the root of the domain.

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If you launch your Internet marketing business as an affiliate marketer, then you’ll want to know how to merge your offers to play off of one another.  On eBay, it’s called cross-promotion.

You go to an eBay auction for an iPod and find cross-promotions of all sorts of accessories, battery packs, and bling they can add onto their order.  You can do the same with an affiliate business.

Let’s say you want to promote work at home opportunities – like Internet marketing to stay at home moms.  First, you start with an eBook promotion about affiliate marketing.

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It use to be very easy to make money on MySpace but it isn’t quite as easy anymore.  Once upon a time an Internet Marketer could create a new account and add thousands of friends using an automated software program and then send out messages to those thousands of people.

It was only a matter of time before people started complaining about all the spam messages they were receiving and MySpace had to take action to salvage their reputation and hence become much stricter about their rules.  First they put a limit on how many new friends you could add in a day which really hampered quite a lot of people who were so use to adding hundreds or even thousands of friends a day.

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If you have your own product, launching an affiliate program is a necessity if you want to reach your full profit potential.  Even if you manage to control a massive 10% of your entire niche market on your own, that still leaves 90% of that niche’s traffic on the table.

By setting up an affiliate program, you can harness the power of having other people make money for you.  Instead of spending your time promoting your product, you can let other people do it for you while you spend your time forming JV partnerships, developing new product ideas, getting new products created, and taking care of other tasks to grow your business.

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Joint ventures (also known as JVs) are partnerships between two or more people, usually with the purpose of cross-promoting products.  There are various types of JVs, and what you offer your JV partners will depend on what you have to bring to the table, and what you’re looking for in return.

Most JVs are really affiliate relationships.  You have a product – your JV partner has a forum, website, or email list.  Your JV partner sends an email to his list about your product, or puts an ad on their website, blog, forum, etc.

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AdSense can be a fantastic moneymaker.  There are many people who make thousands of dollars per month through AdSense alone.  Hearing this may get you excited, and you may already have dollar signs in your eyes.  But don’t get your hopes up just yet.

Although you’ve probably heard about people who bring in five or six figures per month with AdSense, you need to keep one very important thing in mind.  In order to make that kind of money with AdSense, you need to have a ton of traffic.

In fact, most people who make more than $100 per month with AdSense either have a very large website with thousands of visitors per day, or they have dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of smaller websites.

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