All About Internet Marketing For Beginners

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Introduction

If you have more time than money, then use the process detailed here to start in internet marketing. Once you earn some money with the strategy detailed here, then start using money to further build your internet business.

Only steps 1-4 are required. Step 5 is optional.

Now, you can read books (or lens, as the case may be) till the cows come home. Like riding a bike...you can't learn it from a book. You just have to get started, fall on your butt, get back up and do it again.

As Nike says, JUST DO IT!

Step 1: Find a Niche That Buys! 

Find The Hungrey Crowd

  • Write a bunch of articles. If you write at least 100 articles, in several different niches, I don't care how horrible you are! You will make sales! (follow the Bum Marketing Method).

    How do you know they will buy?

    Because you aren't guessing. You have PROOF they bought, because you are getting those checks and sales from the articles you wrote. You aren't fiddling with the overture keyword tool or looking endlessly at Clickbank gravity, which is all just THEORY that they may buy anyway.
  • The good news is that it may not take you 100 articles to find a hot niche. You might start making sales after 10 or 20 articles. As SOON as you have some success with a product or niche, move on to step 2!
  • Review the marketplace and see what people are buying. Find out what they want. It's much easier to sell people what they want. So go to places where people are buying stuff.

    Look through magazines, online marketplaces like Amazon. Brainstorm a list of ideas for articles that teach a technique or solve a problem.
  • The article shows the reader what needs to be done, but only the paid affiliate product will teach your reader how to do it.

    Your article provides the information that helps a reader decide what to do - to solve a problem, create a product, improve a facet of their life. The paid affiliate product goes on to show how to achieve the goal - details the steps to take.
  • Once you have a long list of niche ideas, use one of the online keyword suggestion tools to analyze associated keywords for the product and/or niche - and see how popular relevant keyword phrases are. You want to find keyword phrases that regularly get a good volume of searches.

    After you've narrowed your keyword list down to those niches that are actively being searched for, you need to see which ones have good affiliate products available to match them. You'll want at least three good products that pay good commissions and have compelling sales letters.
  • Remeber, as you are conveying information to your readers, look for opportunities to give them a link to even more detailed information - in affiliate products that will pay you commissions.
  • ACTION STEPS:

    Step #1: Find a market to sell to that's irrationally passionate about... something... anything.

    This needs to be a group of people who are easily identifiable but not too great in number, yet have plenty of money and are insanely rabid about a certain hobby or topic. For example, golfers, brides-to-be, parrot lovers, female bodybuilders, toy train collectors and Japanese garden enthusiasts.

    These folks are crazy about their interests and will spend money on just about anything that fuels their desire!
  • Step #2: Find out exactly what they want to buy right now! (And not what they need to buy. Big difference!)

    If you know how to do it (and do it right), the process is painlessly easy and amazingly fast. This part is crucial. But it's also the one most people fail with.

    I'll have more to write about here, but start with with Amazon.com's bestseller lists. This doesn't mean you have to sell whatever product you find is a bestseller on Amazon. Just recognized if the product is part of a niche. If people in the niche are buying one product they are more likely to buy other products. Your just looking for activity and interest.
  • Think of it this way: Imagine you're in a desert and you see a crowd of people who are about to drop dead from thirst. And you have a map to an oasis that's hidden just a few feet away. Let me ask you this...

    Do you think you'd have a hard time selling the map?

    Not at all. Would it matter if the map was written on a wadded up cocktail napkin or even a used tissue?

    No way!

    And would those people still buy even if you were that bad at selling?

    Absolutely!

    Because you have what they desperately want in the first place! You are giving the thirsty crowd exactly what they need to quench their dying thirst.

    And that's how this system approaches this whole "Internet marketing" thing.

    We teach you specific techniques, using a paint-by-numbers approach for locating your "thirsty people in the desert" and then selling them "maps to the oasis."

    And guess what?

    There are jumbo jet loads of thirsty people all over the Internet!

    And there can be a website that sells to each of them ... with each little standalone "mini-site" pulling in orders on its own, completely on auto-pilot, without any extra time or effort devoted to them.

    They're all selling simple little downloadable products to "strange and mundane", hungry markets that meet the easy criteria I just showed you.
  • Find HOT markets that are buying products like sharks in a feeding frenzy .

    It's funny on how hard most people are working trying to make a few thousands a month selling to the typical markets - when there are niche markets EVERYWHERE that are not being marketed to.

Step 2: Write MORE articles 

Verify the Niche is Profitable

Write MORE articles in the niche you are ALREADY MAKING SALES IN. Do this for several reasons. So we can "double verify" that the niche is profitable. So we can use our original content to build a website, And BECAUSE you will also become more and more of an EXPERT in that niche with each article you write.

Step 3: Build a Simple Website 

Work once, profit forever (well, a long time at least)

Put up a simple website using the profits from the previous steps. With your own website you can place all of your articles that you have ALREADY written. You can also link from the VERY POWERFUL Ezinearticles.com site to your site (or even Squidoo.com)...which in some niches gets enough traffic on its own to generate sales, even without the search engines.

Continue using Bum Marketing to drive your traffic.

What should be included in a "simple website"?

That is a great question and will change for YOU depending on your experience level. I will say you can be EXTREMELY successful at any level with a website that has just a few pages (or even one).
If you are a very fresh beginner I would focus on doing a website that has...

A page that gives something valuable away (see step 4) in exchange for your prospects name and email, often called a squeeze page.

Most sites include:

1. A privacy policy page.
2. Contact Us Page
3. About Us Page
4. Articles pages
5. Product pages

I hope that is making sense?

All YOU REALLY NEED...is a one page website! Now go drive traffic to it using bum marketing. Get your conversion numbers.

This is the opposite of what I see many frustrated folks do. First, they start off with an unproven niche and/or product. Spend weeks or months putting up a HUGE SEO website. Try every traffic tactic in the world and make a whopping $12 in Adsense income per month.

Is it any wonder so many people quit?

Step 4: Build a Niche Specific Opt-In List 

Make money from repeat visitors and customers

Start collecting opt-ins and emailing them AT LEAST two times a week. You don't send them a pitch every time, instead you rap with them about their problems and how you can help. Give them links to niche related Youtube videos, articles and resources that they will enjoy and use. If you have a crochet niche. I bet you could find youtube videos on a gal that is displaying some handiwork or showing some new or old technique.

What will you give them as a gift to make them opt in? GLAD YOU ASKED! Bundle all of your articles from the same niche, the ones you have already written into an ebook.

NOTE: Over time, you may end up with several email lists, each in a different niche. To keep your sanity at that point, fall back an email or two per month.

The advice I would offer is to make your communications with GOOD INTENTION. You should be familiar with your niches problems and dreams and help them to achieve them. No more and no less. Do this and you will make a ton of money and a TON OF FRIENDS.

In fact, you can send them articles you may have already written in there niche not included in the ebook.

I hope I have inspired you, if even just a smidge. While you can probably get by without step 4, you will feel so much secure about your income and have a lot more fun in your business if you don't ignore it.

Step 5: How to Make even More Money 

this step is optional, but recommended

You may NOT even need step 5! If you follow steps 1 - 4 you will more than likely smack down $100, $200, even $300 a day. Seriously! But, step 5 is the insurance if you want to take your income even farther. This next step is so simple (not always easy, but simple) and it is...

START DOING ALL THE OTHER THINGS YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT ONLINE!

The one time offers, the large back-end offers, producing your own products if you wish, Joint Ventures, thank you pages, video, etc. Any one of those can multiply your profits. Also, NOW you have profits to work from, where you can do those other things you have been learning...like PPC, Banners, Co-Reg, etc. See all of those HINGE on having a profitable model in the first place.

You can either SPEND YOUR MONEY getting to that profitable model...or you can use your time and the steps laid out here to get to your profitable model. I am not saying one way is better than the other. I am saying that most people have more TIME than money and these steps will take you from zero to an income most people slave away all day for...very quickly.

One Last Dose Of Brutal Honesty . . . 

I want you to answer the following questions honestly, even if you have to choke on some of your own answers because you will thank me for it one day.

* Are you are looking for a magic pill to solve all of the problems in your life overnight?

* Are looking for a 'get-rich-quick' scheme?

* Are you 100% serious about your success and you are too darn lazy to do whatever it takes to become successful?

* Will you wipe out of your memory forever all the negative dribble all the naysayers and well meaning friends and relatives in your life are preaching to you?

* Are you willing to leave your own pre-conceived ideas at the door, get off your butt, take action and follow the exact outline we set for you that are critical to your success?

If you can answer yes to ALL of the above, then please proceed.

Procrastination = Poverty . . .

Remember nothing will happen for you unless you take ACTION and actually DO something!

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