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From Riley West (Successful Internet Marketer)

If only I had stumbled across this article when I was just starting. What a difference it would have made.

But, that didn’t happen. I got a horrible start.

Fortunately I stuck with it! Lots of people give up right here. I’m embarrassed to admit how bad of a start I got…but I’m going to tell you about it. Maybe it will save some newcomers to Internet Marketing the waste of money and time I went through.

When I first noticed Internet Marketing (IM) it was on my computer at home and I think I had typed into Google something like this… “how to make money with computer” or similar.

I wasn’t ready for what happened next. How could anybody be?

Google came back with a first page of results (about 20) all practically shouting headlines like “Make 300 Dollars per day with Our FREE Website!” There’s thousands of these offers and a LOT of them are just set up to take advantage of people who need money for any reason. Well, I fell for one. I think it was called (it’s gone now…funny) “Incredible Wealth Membership” Lets call it IWM for short here. For $49 dollars it offered me a FREE website worth $297 just for signing up.

I couldn’t lose! Anybody would buy 300 dollar items for 50 bucks! So I did.

I can’t believe I was ever this gullible but what else would explain it?

Here’s the short version of what happened. I can hardly write this but maybe it will end up being somehow theraputic.

I paid the $49 Bucks. Then they told me I had to go to this Domain Name/Hosting outfit. I honestly didn’t know what that was.
After quite a bit of confusion I had a domain name and a hosting plan purchased. It cost me about $100 bucks. But IWM told me they had hundreds of folks making darn good money…daily, with this website. And, now I was only in it a hundred and fifty dollars.
I hid this from my wife. Now, remember that IWM had promised me great support. I would need it! But I didn’t get it. I had to deal with them by way of “support tickets” and it took me quite a while to get that worked out. I mean it! I didn’t have the technical experience to make getting support easy!

I started to smell something fishy, but I remembered they had a money back guarantee, so I felt ok… but uneasy. I wanted to see my website! It wasn’t there however. There were still things I had to do to get it up and running, so to speak. I got an email with “source code” in it and an instruction I will never forget.

They said (I’m not kidding-they knew I was a total newbie)…”Just upload the source code to your URL with an FTP package!”

I stared at that instruction for some time and started getting mad. I had no idea what to do. I was a total beginner and they knew it. They said they were going to make it easy for me but, instead, it was practically impossible. For me anyway.

After a bunch of back and forth that took days I got them to upload it for me. Both sides were a little irritated by now. After a bunch of other little hangups I had a website I could access but no way to alter or change it in any way. Get this, the website sold memberships to IWM. Oh, my God…I suddenly got the picture. I was expected to sell unsuspecting newcomers this thing that had caused me so much trouble AND that I knew virtually nothing about! I was out!

I asked for my money back and they became unresponsive and I never did get it back. At least two weeks had gone by with me getting nowhere but mad, and them getting my money!

I called the Domain/Hosting Company and asked for a refund. They said they could not refund the domain fee ($25) and that there a non-refundable set up fee for the hosting ($25) that would be deducted, also.

I just wanted out.

It’s at this point that I’d like to say that what happened there is actually common. In the last two years I’ve learned a lot of lessons…and this is one of the lessons that I have learned.

Everyday, thousands of newcomers to Internet Marketing wash up onto the shores of the “Make Money Online” world. Ninety percent or more never make it further. They waste time and lose their money into the pockets of those scavengers who will pick them off and look for their next victim, fast. It’s huge and it’s every day. But, and this is where it gets good and where I got to soon after my bad start. I realized that there were any number of “programs” out there that would gladly take my money and give me an ebook. But only a few of them were really any good.

You see, Internet Marketing (sales by means of the internet) has (like all businesses) it’s own technical language, it’s own jargon, and it’s own methods and, until you know what those are you are a prime prospect for people who just want to separate you from your money.

There are actually a lot of people in this business who are genuinely concerned with imparting a good education to those who want it. They’re also in it for the money, but not in a bad way.

I eventually found my way but it was hard and longer than it had to be. Also my education in Internet Marketing was far more expensive than it had to be.

Luckily I ran across what amounted to be an Online Internet Marketing School! I joined it. I’ve had lots of education and training in my life and a lot of what I am is the direct result of that.

In this school I learned it all. The jargon, the techniques, the big picture. I didn’t make any money but I learned how it is done.

I also learned that you need to know your stuff at least a little bit before you can start to find your way. That shouldn’t surprise anybody but I am constantly impressed with how little I knew at first. Now, I am up and running with an online business. I look back at what was impossible two years ago and now I see a lot of it as easy.  I guess two years isn’t so long but I’ll bet a headline like “Try Really Hard for Two Years and You might Make It” probably wouldn’t sell well. Now I know a dozen ways to make money online without much setup at all. I even teach people to do this now. I never thought that would happen.

In conclusion, I have to tell you, that the best way to get a good start in Internet Marketing is to avoid getting a bad start in the first place.

Thank you,
Riley West

The internet is now the way for doing business and companies see significant returns by doing business online. Just as marketing strategies play an important role in the traditional way of doing business, they are equally required when the Internet is used to do business. Internet Marketing is all about making the best use of the power of the internet to reach across to a wide audience, located across the globe. The many aspects to internet marketing include affiliate marketing, pay per click advertising, e-mail marketing, banner ads, interactive advertising, search engine marketing, article marketing, and blogging.

Through these hosts of techniques, companies can gain attention of people who surf for information about their products or services. In other words, they can reach out to a targeted audience and get a positive response from such as audience, since the people they target are the ones actually seeking their services. Internet marketing” has a lot to offer to companies doing business over the internet and is now seen as a vital tool for business promotion. It offers a host of benefits such as:

• Customers can buy the product or service they want, at their convenient time. All they have to do is log onto the Internet, search for the relevant site, learn about products and make their online purchase.

• Internet marketing saves time and money. All the time and money resources that would have otherwise been put into ad campaigns in the T.V or through the newspapers can be put into other important business requirements, because internet marketing is not so expensive or time-consuming.

• Any company operating at a local level can move onto an international platform using the internet as a tool. Using the internet they can spread information about their products or services to national and international markets.

• The results of internet marketing are easier to track than traditional media. So, the effects of strategies used are seen immediately and this information can be used to shape business ideas.

Internet marketing is gaining popularity because of the advantages it offers to businesses trying to reach out to customers using the internet. If we must understand the benefits offered by internet marketing, we need to see how it actually works in an example.

As an example, let’s see how internet marketing can be applied to a website to promote it across the internet. If a company wishes to popularize its products and services across the internet, it requires a good website. This means the site must look good and present information in a clear and concise manner. It should have tools by which user can easily navigate the site and it should have security features in place for visitors to make purchases safely.

Above all these measures the website must be search engine friendly for it to turn up in top listing during searches. This includes placing the right keywords in the contents and using link popularity services to promote the site in search engines. It is all these strategies put together that will make the site popular over the internet.

The objective of Internet marketing is to increase traffic to your website, thereby promoting sales. Affiliate programs, pay-per-click, behavioral targeting, latent semantic indexing, targeting at the right audience, are all steps which form part of the internet marketing strategies that promote this objective. If a company adopts just the right mix of internet marketing strategies, their popularity in the internet rises and they see a constant stream of visitors. Much of these visitors turn into qualified leads and sales, which helps them in turn to achieve business objectives.

However, there are some issues of concern in the area of internet marketing. One main limitations is that technologies which process payment (though they seem very reliable) have yet to fully advance and emerge and fool-proof systems. Shopping over the internet nothing like real shopping, where you can actually feel the goods you want to buy before you buy them and as a result no matter what strategies you use, the internet is really not the place to sell certain goods which really need touch and feel before purchase. If a company were to design a large and complicated website, a user with a slow internet connection can’t have the shopping experience the site can actually give them and this is a turn-off for the visitor.

Above all these concerns and in spite of the popularity of television and other media, internet marketing is being widely used to sell products and services, because the internet is playing a vital role in spreading information to people across the globe. It is the new way to reach out to a wider audience and in course of time will be as much used as television, radio and other forms of advertisement by businesses to promote themselves to potential customers across the globe.

Internet marketing is a lucrative business. There are many individuals who are earning substantial revenues by just selling their products or services over the Internet while at the same time endorsing the products or services of other Internet marketers. Revenues are flowing out of different outlets—through affiliate programs, direct product selling, or offering Internet marketing-related services.

With several features such as round-the-clock operability, opportunity of widening clientele base, and low starting costs, it is not surprising that the Internet marketing industry is now full of mushroom businesses owned and operated by novices who are eager to share the wealth of this lucrative industry. However, in order to grab a slice of wealth offered by Internet marketing, you must bear the stiff competition over the market. In this stiff competition, Internet marketers who possess the knowledge and capability on this type of investment will win the game.

The rule of the Internet marketing game is simple: learn the rules and apply necessary marketing strategies in order to win the game. Though you have several websites that are easy to navigate and contain useful features such as complete inventory listings as well as shopping cart facilities, if it is unable to generate generous amount of traffic, your Internet marketing career will be a total failure.

To avoid reaching possible career failure, it is important that you seek the help of an Internet marketing consultant. One of their business objectives is to provide their clients the necessary strategies or possibly handle the situation by themselves in terms of generating web traffic to their clients’ sites. This can be done through various ways such as affiliate marketing programs, web page optimization, web content development, or pay per click advertising. Even though as an Internet marketer, you are familiar with the aforementioned marketing concepts, you need sufficient time and expertise to apply it to your Internet marketing business. To fill up the gap, an Internet marketing consultant has the capability of applying the necessary strategies to build essential web traffic that will result in increased sales and generated revenues.

In case you have the knowledge and technical expertise about Internet marketing, you may also consider the career of an Internet marketing consultant aside from being an Internet marketer. If you have the marketing background and such is proven to be effective for other Internet marketing business, you may serve as a consultant to other Internet marketers, especially the new ones.

To be a successful Internet marketing consultant, you need to conduct an “inventory” of your Internet marketing skills and knowledge. You start by figuring out your strengths and determine what particular areas of Internet marketing you are weak. From such information, you will be able to construct a plan that will help educate yourself and improve your weak points. Begin by working out in your weaknesses and consistently testing it to determine if you have improved or not. Once you have developed your skills and you feel that you can go on, you are now ready to embark the career of being an Internet marketing consultant.

Once you are now in the field, always prepare because you will deal with numerous clients of varying needs. You will be able to meet complete novices as well as seasoned veterans on the Internet marketing industry. If you have come across clients who knew nothing about the business and ask you to take charge, you will have to take them under your wing. As a consultant, it is your responsibility to provide your clients their needs, whether they are complete novices or marketing gurus.

Start your consultant career on one or two areas of expertise. You may specialize on search engine optimization, newsletter writing, and other Internet marketing strategies. Identify the niche which you are strong with and make sure that you are regularly updated about any developments on those particular areas of expertise. You may also try concentrating on “hot niches” by typing your question on major search engines and see what comes after.

Being an Internet marketing consultant has the responsibility he needs to bear on serving the marketing needs of his clients. However, it takes common sense, solid knowledge, and enjoyment on what you are doing in order to help other Internet marketers in the long run. If you think you have the edge over a certain aspect, you can always go to that consultant direction. All of these are really up to you to think about.

Everyone needs a mentor. If you want to be successful in your chosen college degree, you need to be under the care of your college professors who have the necessary knowledge and expertise in your chosen college degree. They will prepare you to the real world and equip you with the necessary knowledge and expertise so that you will be able to be successful and stand against any obstacles that will block your way towards reaching your goals, whatever it is.

Even starting Internet marketers needs to be educated by Internet marketing experts. Keep in mind that vital factors are on risk in this type of investment – your name, reputation, effort, and most especially your monetary investment. Once you have plunged in Internet marketing without learning first the necessary knowledge and strategies, expect that it will be the cause of the downfall of your Internet marketing career. Thus, to avoid losing what you already have, you need somebody to guide you throughout your Internet marketing career.

And that is why Internet Marketing Center is built.

Internet Marketing Center was founded in 1996 by the late Internet marketing expert Corey Rudl that is focused on the research, development, and test of cost-efficient e-business and e-commerce marketing strategies and automated solutions that could be applied to small and home-based business owners and produce revenues and profits. As one of the recognized leader in the Internet marketing industry, Internet marketing Center continues to develop practical and cost-efficient marketing software and strategies for online-based businesses of all size. Because of their innovative software solutions and effective marketing recommendations, their websites draw more than 1.8 million web visitors every month, which brought more than $7.6 million each year. It is exclusive of millions of dollars worth of income generated by thousands of Internet marketing business worldwide.

How can Internet Marketing Center help you with your Internet marketing career? There are several steps that you need to undergo with the Center so that you will be able to achieve success in your chosen business opportunity.

1. Choosing a Product- you will be provided with a wide selection of products or services that you can endorse over the Internet. They will also provide you the list of products and services that are most purchased over online shopping websites.

2. Getting Started with a Website- Internet marketing will be of no use to you if you do not have a website to start with. You will learn how to start with your Internet marketing website, such as its design and development, web page optimization, registering under a unique and original domain name, and others. You will also know what are the “do’s and don’ts” in creating and developing a website.

3. Writing Sales Copy- sales copy is essential to Internet marketing, since it will serve as your “campaign material’ in endorsing your products or services. You will learn about the appropriate contents of your sales copy and how you will effectively market it to potential clients.

4. Getting Internet Traffic- you will not succeed on your Internet marketing career if you do not have Internet traffic to convert into loyal product evangelists. You will learn much about the promotional tools that are used and proven effective in marketing your site and its products or services.

5. Search Engines- this will bring you the targeted Internet traffic that you want towards your website. You will learn several search engine factors that have direct effects on your website, such as keywords, optimized web pages, search engine spider, unique niches, and others.

6. Starting a Newsletter- by getting subscribers to read newsletters, you will be able to build a strong clientele base. Feeding them with latest and consistently updated information will help you get the targeted traffic that you want.

7. Testing Email Marketing Solutions- emails are now widely used by Internet marketers in advertising their products and getting the clients that they need. You will learn how you will convert your regular email into traffic-generating machines as well as the things that you need and need not to include in sending emails to your subscribers.

8. Recruiting Affiliates- you are not alone. There are thousands of Internet marketers out there and getting them as affiliates will surely boost your Internet marketing business. You will learn how to recruit affiliates once you have established your Internet marketing company.

There are hundreds to thousands of success stories about online marketers who sought the help of Internet Marketing Center. Want to have your own success story? Try Internet Marketing Center and see the difference!