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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

Writing through the eyes of a person still very “green’ or “wet behind the ears” to the concept of how to find a good Internet Marketing resource really reminded me of shopping for new pair of shoes.

Step #1:  Off To The Shoe StoreSo what is the first thing you do when shopping for a pair of new shoes, obviously you head for your local shoe stone to look around.  As a “newbie” to the world of Internet Marketing, I head for my computer to look for Internet Marketing resources online.  Googling this term “Internet Marketing” or perhaps a phrase like “Internet Marketing resource” is like entering the doors of a huge shoe store!  The shelves, or in this case, the Internet, is jammed with all kind of products for your inspection.  Each one competing for your attention and eventually your hard earned dollars.

Step #2: Browsing The MerchandiseIf you are like me, I like to browse around to see what is available in my area of interest before seeking the help of the sales people.  Others I know prefer to go directly to the sales people first, get advice and then browse in their area of interest. So that means steps #2 and #3, may be done in reverse order, depending on your shopping style.  So to continue, rather than walking around the shoe store, as a person interested in a good Internet Marketing resource you are browsing the Internet listings by clicking on various websites to read what the authors have to say, or perhaps you go to the paid advertisements and click on some of interest.

Step #3:  The Sales PitchesSooner of later, you will seek out a shoe store clerk, or they will notice you browsing and approach you.  In the Internet Marketing world, this process is often started  after you read a marketing article, a product review, or a paid sales advertisement,  and are taken to what is sometimes called a “pitch page” or  a “landing page”.  This is where someone is going to tell you all the many reasons why buying this product is going to make you very successful and rich as an Internet Marketer, it is a “one of a kind product”, “best of the best”, etc..  Just like the shoe store clerk telling you all the advantages of buying the shoes they are describing to you based on appearance, durability, level of comfort, and other features designed to make each shoe “the one you just have to have”.  Often a shoe store will have “specials” or brochures available to view as well to promote products in the store and your Internet Marketing resource search experience is no different.  Instead what will often happen is that some website “pitch pages” will have gimmicks to obtain your e-mail address, often in the form of a free downloadable information product related to some aspect of Internet Marketing.  Often these are very good products and merchants know that we all like to  “get something for free”.  What you may not realize is by doing so, you are opening the door to a flood of e-mails, from the merchant themselves or their affiliates (online sales people), who  try once again to persuade you  one more time to buy their Internet Marketing resource.  Once on their mailing list, don’t be surprised to see weekly e-mails in your in-box from the same merchant or their affiliates as the aim here is to “stay current” in the hope you will reconsider and buy their product or another merchant’s produce with whom they are working together in a joint venture.  The old “you help me and I will help you” to promote and sell our products is the idea here.

Step #4: Trying On The ProductAfter listening to the sales pitches, either from your shoe store clerk, or visiting a number of “pitch pages” in your Internet Marketing resource search and reading the sales e-mails you probably have flooding your e-mail in-box,  it is time to start trying on the products to see what “fits” or will work best for you.  As you well know with shoes, one size does not fit all, one shoe type does not serve everyone’s purposes, and not very one likes the same color.   Basically the same thinking applies when looking at products to make money through  Internet Marketing.  Every Internet Marketing resource pitch out there claims to have discovered the “magic button” or “recipe for success” that you will only get from buying THEIR product.  So what do you do?  Well just like in the shoe store, try on the shoes!  Only here, you start trying different Internet Marketing products to see if they live up to their “hype”!

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For internet entrepreneurs, there are many internet marketing strategies to increase sales and maximize profits online. You will discover and learn the best internet marketing strategies in this article. With those strategies, you will boost skyrocket your profits and grow rapidly your home based internet marketing business.Strategy #1: Research You Everything You Need to Know Effectively.

It is obvious that research hot niche keywords to attract more traffic, maximize the benefit of your pay per click (or PPC) campaigns, and find new hot niche markets with high demand are required in this strategy. Of course, this is the first important strategies you must do for your own home based internet marketing business. With those well-researches, you will understand everything you must know for your markets, particularly needs and want in the market. There are many resources on the internet to help you to discover hot niche markets and keywords. The highest recommendation for discovering those markets and keywords is to use both of Overture and WordTracker keyword search tools to generate a massive list of keywords. With the list, you can analyse and evaluate the market, competitors and keywords.

The first key success of home based internet marketing business is to discover niche keywords with low competitors. With those keywords, you can: (1) set up your high quality website with high relevancy quality traffic (2) Improve your search engine ranking in search engines (3) Build your unique & high quality content/articles with keyword-rich and (4) Create your pay-per-click campaign.Strategy #2: Approach the Front-Back Sell through Great Sale Letter.

Second of the best internet marketing strategies you must concern is to provide a great and easy to understand sale letter on your website. This internet marketing strategy is all about writing a great sale letter with high conversion rate and builds your online mailing lists. The sale letter on your website is the first place for visitors to walk through your products, services, testimonial, bonuses and your required action. You should state all required information for what they are looking. You should definite clearly what you want visitors to do in your website. For example, you might want them to order your products, you want them to subscribe your mailing lists or you want them to download your bonuses. The highest recommendation in this strategy is to focus on how to convert those visitors to buyers through your own sales letter. You will not earn any dollars if you can not convert those visitors into your buyers. Also, you are losing your time to drive traffic to your website if you can not convert into sales. Remember, the more conversion rate you have, the more sales you get!

Apart from trying to sell your products through sales letter, it is obvious that you should capture visitors’ information in order to sell your products or other products to them after they leave. Without capturing the information, you are losing the opportunities to earn money in the future.

The real keys to your success in this strategy are: to create a powerful sales letter with high conversion rate and sell products in the future. With capturing the visitors’ information, the opportunities to make money in the future are opened.Strategy #3: Do Not Reinvent the Wheel.

The core concept of this strategy is that you do not reinvent the wheel all the time. You must utilize the full use of others’ expertises to maximize the opportunities to make serious money online from home based internet marketing business. There are many websites, expertises and other successful entrepreneurs on the internet. You can ask them to minimize your mistakes and grow your home based internet marketing business. The highly recommendation is to join other membership sites and utilise the others’ expertise as much as possible. The more you learn, the more you know! With others’ support, you will minimize your mistakes and can grow your business easier.

The real keys to your success in this strategy are: (1) to research effectively from others and (2) utilise those others’ expertise to minimize your mistakes and maximize your profits. Many studies reveal that those truly successful internet entrepreneurs are willing to help people who are serious and passionate with the internet marketing and success.Strategy #4: Automate Your Home Based Internet Marketing Business.

Without the automation internet marketing strategy, not only you would get fewer sales, you simply would not have more time to research ideas for new home based internet marketing businesses. By building home based internet marketing business that is fully automated. You can withdraw from your daily business as usual works and you will have more time to look for more untapped niche markets and other opportunities. Many studies show that this strategy is the best of the best internet marketing strategies to grow your home based internet marketing business in the long term. The rules of thumb, 80/20 rule, for your business are: (1) put 80% of your effort and time for your day-to-day operation tasks and (2) put another 20% for growing your business.

The real keys to your success in this strategy are: to find automated tools to help you and automate your online business. With those tools, you will have more time to think and grow your business. Otherwise, you will live in the daily business as usual works.Strategy #5: Set up your own affiliate program.

There is no doubt that affiliate marketing business is a win-win relationship business between merchants and affiliate entrepreneurs. If you have your own products or even profitable products, it is a great idea to boost your sales through the affiliate marketing business. You will pay the affiliate commission to those affiliate marketing entrepreneurs when they gain sales for you. All you have to do is to support and follow up with those affiliate marketers in order to maximize your profits online. With those super affiliate marketing entrepreneurs, your sales will be increased rapidly and consistency.

The real keys to your success in this step are: to build a great relationship with affiliate entrepreneurs and support them as much as possible. Their sales are your sales too.Strategy #6: Improve Yourself Consistency.

The last best internet marketing strategies for your home based internet marketing strategy is you. You are the most important and valuable asset in your business. You have to improve yourself all the time. Learning everything you need to know for your business is a must. Also, you should not give up too quickly if you can not earn big money in the short term. Truly entrepreneurs are always looking forward to the long term success. The online internet marketing business is a real business. With this sense, you have to treat it as real business.

The real keys to your success are to improve yourself, the best valuable asset in your business, and to build consistency your online internet marketing business always.

Final thoughts, the best internet marketing strategies for your highly successful in home based internet marketing business are: well effective researches, front-back sell, smart utilization, automate effectively, and self-improvement consistency. With these things, there is no doubt that you will success in the home based internet marketing business.Join now – get the full access to unlimited business and revenue ideas, detailed reviews of your sale letter, candid critiques of your website design, traffic campaign strategies proven to attract buyers and tricks to increase your sales by 400% or more! You will discover and learn proven moneymaking secrets to instantly increase your sales over $10,000 per month or more! Learn success secrets from other regular people why they can earn over $5 million dollars per year. You will discover real-life success stories in the internet marketing world who success in their career. You will learn top their secrets for their success. Also, you will learn how to create high conversion rate website, worth $5,000, from the expert team.

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