So what exactly is Internet marketing? Simply put, Internet marketing is the selling and promoting of products or services over the Internet. It has its benefits over a conventional business, such as the fact that you do not need to set up a physical store & put products up on the shelves to sell. As such, Internet marketing can be much more cost effective than having a business in the “real world”. This is good news for wannabe entrepreneurs who have a tight budget.

Generally speaking, there are 4 things you need if you want to start an Internet business.

1. A product or service

This is what you’ll be selling. It doesn’t have to be your own product or service. You can sell someone else’s. This would be known as affiliate marketing, whereby the affiliate sells a merchant’s product or service and receives a commission for that sale.

Another point to take note of is that you need not just limit yourself to selling physical products. You can sell virtual products like ebooks too.

2. A website
This could be a blog or just an ordinary page with a sales copy on it. However, don’t just put a sales copy and a check out button on it. Too much selling will make you sound pushy. Be sure to have the next item.

3. A squeeze page and an autoresponder
A squeeze page (also known as an opt-in page) contains a form, asking visitors to subscribe to your emails. Usually this form is provided by an autoresponder. An autoresponder is a program that allows you to email your subscribers automatically.

You’ll need both of these for list building purposes. Cultivate a relationship with people before you sell them anything. This is so that you earn their trust. It is easier for others to buy from someone they trust. Make sure squeeze page grabs attention and stimulates curiosity. Make them want to subscribe to you.

4. Targeted traffic
It is useless to have a really good website but not have any traffic. It’s also equally pointless to have tens of thousands of visitors to your website but none of them come from the target market. Make sure you have targeted traffic coming to your website.

These are the general guidelines to starting an Internet business. It’s not about pushing for a sale. It’s more about developing relationships with people and then getting them to buy from you. If in future you choose to sell another product or service, you need not look for new customers. You can sell it to the list that you had built previously. A relationship with a customer can go a long way.

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All you student out there, you have to check this out!

I don’t know about you, but when I was a student, I would easily get bored during my school vacation.

I would relish the rest from school, and thus I didn’t want to get a part-time job. However there were times I would feel that I could spend my time more constructively while I take a break from school.

Do you feel that way too? Well, if you do, I have a possible solution for you.

Affiliate marketing.

What is it? It is an Internet business that doesn’t require a lot of resources, skills or money (actually you can jump into affiliate marketing for free). You can work from the comfort of your own home and even earn passive income! You also have the freedom to choose when you want to work.

“How do I get started?”

I’ll tell you how. I have created a free affiliate marketing mini course which you can sign up for at the link below:

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Start your affiliate marketing business today and you could be earning passive income every month, even if you are an Internet newbie!

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If you have not read my previous post, please take some time to read it so that you know what context this post is in. Click on the link below the read it:

Of Ants And Working Adults Part 2

Is there a better way?

Yes!

Enough of the example of the ant. Let’s look at another example.

Think of a pipeline that supplies water from a river to a village. The pipeline automatically transports water from the river to the village. Now instead of water and a village, think of it as cash and your bank account! How would you like to have money automatically flowing into your bank account? It is possible, and in the next post I will tell you how.

Monday blues?

When I was still schooling, I used to get that a lot. Having graduated, I decided to start working from home. Right now, I can work as and when I want to. Furthermore, I need not work 8 hours a day. I can work for just an hour, or 2, or 3…

It is totally up to me. I have more time to spend with family and friends.

Freedom. I’m free from Monday blues. You can be free too!

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So far, I have shown you 3 ways people make money online. Today, I’ll wrap up the series by talking to you about paid surveys.

It is possible to make about $4-$10 per hour just by completing paid surveys. It is a chance to earn extra income. Even kids are doing this.

The reason why there is such an opportunity to make money is because it is how companies conduct their market research. Rather than calling people and asking for their opinion about their products (which may result in the person hanging up), these companies pay people for their opinions.

Instead of setting up a brick-and-mortar store, you could set up an online store on Ebay. Alternatively, you could simply place an item for sale at an auction site and sell the product to the highest bidder. Today, I’ll talk about E-commerce.

E-commerce has been around for a long time. It was probably the first ever approach to making money online. Today, E-commerce is still a popular method in which companies use to generate revenue.

E-commerce isn’t just for businessmen. It’s for ordinary people too. If you have an unwanted item at home (like an old guitar which you have not touched for years), you could consider selling it online. It could get you a decent amount of extra cash to spend.

Stay tuned for more approaches to making money on the Internet.

In the previous entry, I talked about affiliate marketing as an approach to making money online. In this entry, I’ll talk briefly about blogging.

Setting up a blog is free and the process of maintaining it is fairly simple. You can write about absolutely anything. You can place advertisements on your blog, and these advertisements can generate a decent amount of revenue for you every month!

Blogger, Wordpress and LiveJournal are examples of websites where you can get a blog.
Stay tuned for more updates!

There are many approaches to making money online. In this entry, I’ll talk about affiliate marketing.

It is a form of Internet marketing which is similar to conventional commission-based sales. You promote a merchant’s product and get paid a commission for every sale made through you. You don’t need to create your own product to be an affiliate marketer. You just need a merchant whose products you can promote. It’s easy to get started on affiliate marketing since you do not need to worry about making your own product.

Stay tuned. I’ll reveal another approach in the next entry.