Four Ingredients For Internet Marketing Success
There are four essential elements to online business success, four ingredients, if you will, to the internet marketing feast you hope to have.
As your knowledge and your business grow, more in the way of side dishes can be added, but these are the basis of your business success.
Number One: You must have your own website.
It must be your own domain name, hosted on a server you pay for, not a free website paid for by the ads next to your product.
Some marketers have started on a free hosting site, but because the host's name is part of the url, this practice doesn't give the best first impression.
After all, if you're not going to spring for a domain name and website, are you really serious about your business? Certainly some internet marketers have had a successful start on a blog, or marketing at first through a forum, but the most professional marketers know that at some point the domain name and website need to be your very own.
Number Two: You must have your own product.
Affiliate marketing is viable for some savvy marketers, but it is a difficult way to make money.
As an affiliate, you are representing another's product or service.
This does save you the step of product development, but you still need to make yourself familiar with the product so you can promote it.
All the marketing is up to you, and even when you land a sale, your affiliate link can be hijacked so that you lose the commission.
The product can be pulled, the company can be slow to pay, and when that happens, it can mean promotion with no compensation.
It's much better to have your own product, with which you are totally familiar, and to stay in control of the compensation.
Internet marketers who make the most money have their own products; it is that simple.
You can even hire your own affiliates should you wish to.
Number Three: You must market your product.
Read, learn, ask, listen to every marketing tip and sort out what makes sense for you to do on a consistent basis.
Build a list by giving away a sample.
Offer your product as an upsell for another internet marketer to use.
Link to your website on blogs and forums and offer freebies that point to the need for your product.
Interact with others and offer advice, and answer questions that are addressed by your product, then offer it as the full resource.
Don't put all your marketing efforts in one basket, but do put in time marketing on a consistent basis.
Number Four: Don't quit.
You cannot start and stop, anymore than you could if you had to get a boulder to the top of a hill.
Your business is like that boulder; you keep at it, struggling, pushing, sweating, getting tired and frustrated, until finally, you make it to the top.
At that point, you will find that your marketing will start your business rolling on its own accord down the hill.
Then you can begin to enjoy the fruits of your labor as your internet marketing business finally takes on a life of its own.
As your knowledge and your business grow, more in the way of side dishes can be added, but these are the basis of your business success.
Number One: You must have your own website.
It must be your own domain name, hosted on a server you pay for, not a free website paid for by the ads next to your product.
Some marketers have started on a free hosting site, but because the host's name is part of the url, this practice doesn't give the best first impression.
After all, if you're not going to spring for a domain name and website, are you really serious about your business? Certainly some internet marketers have had a successful start on a blog, or marketing at first through a forum, but the most professional marketers know that at some point the domain name and website need to be your very own.
Number Two: You must have your own product.
Affiliate marketing is viable for some savvy marketers, but it is a difficult way to make money.
As an affiliate, you are representing another's product or service.
This does save you the step of product development, but you still need to make yourself familiar with the product so you can promote it.
All the marketing is up to you, and even when you land a sale, your affiliate link can be hijacked so that you lose the commission.
The product can be pulled, the company can be slow to pay, and when that happens, it can mean promotion with no compensation.
It's much better to have your own product, with which you are totally familiar, and to stay in control of the compensation.
Internet marketers who make the most money have their own products; it is that simple.
You can even hire your own affiliates should you wish to.
Number Three: You must market your product.
Read, learn, ask, listen to every marketing tip and sort out what makes sense for you to do on a consistent basis.
Build a list by giving away a sample.
Offer your product as an upsell for another internet marketer to use.
Link to your website on blogs and forums and offer freebies that point to the need for your product.
Interact with others and offer advice, and answer questions that are addressed by your product, then offer it as the full resource.
Don't put all your marketing efforts in one basket, but do put in time marketing on a consistent basis.
Number Four: Don't quit.
You cannot start and stop, anymore than you could if you had to get a boulder to the top of a hill.
Your business is like that boulder; you keep at it, struggling, pushing, sweating, getting tired and frustrated, until finally, you make it to the top.
At that point, you will find that your marketing will start your business rolling on its own accord down the hill.
Then you can begin to enjoy the fruits of your labor as your internet marketing business finally takes on a life of its own.
