My name is Jimmy Adames and I’m an information products promoter, web publisher and provide a free eNewsletter and Membership on the basics of Internet Marketing along with other no cost tips, tools and resources for online success.
When you first start a new website you have the dilemma all internet markets have - how do you get visitors. It doesn’t matter why you started the website or for what purpose you are going to put it, you need to get into search engines and you need visitors for it to succeed.
Cheap and Easy - Article Marketing Works
One of the easiest ways to get traffic to a new website is through writing and publishing articles to other websites, including article directories and other niche sites. These articles that you write act like a site magnet to the search engines. The link that you include in the article gets your site listed quickly in the search engines - and your site’s future is off to the races.
The Positives of Article Marketing
With article marketing, you can get links coming into your site from hundreds or even thousands of other sites that will use your article. Article marketing costs nothing - all it takes is your time to create original content that others might be interested in reading. Article marketing gets your name out on the internet as someone who has an interest in your niche area - soon you might be seen as an expert.
Besides being free, article marketing is effective - since there are hundreds and even thousands of sites that accept articles for publication, within a short time you can have your site visible to thousands of people - as well as have your site listed in all the major search engines.
The Bad About Article Marketing
You have to write original content (or pay someone else to do it.) Writing articles is actually easier than you would think, especially if you are writing about your product or your niche website. As long as you are writing about things you know about, writing a 400-500 word article can be accomplished in as little as twenty minutes.
Some people find writing easy. It is usually quite easy to write articles about things that you know well. Other things are easy to research. If you have trouble writing articles, though, you can outsource this work for quite reasonable cost.
You have to submit the articles to other niche sites and article directories (or pay someone else to do it.) Submitting articles one at a time can be time consuming. Finding all the right places to submit articles ...
A few days ago Business Week published the following article “Why Twitter Matters” and I wanted to provide the link to those of you who didn’t get a chance to read it:
Memories are a major factor in how we are impacted. Memories are saved as pictures which can be accessed much easier than words. They can capture both emotions and feelings in one picture image. Remember, “A Picture is worth a thousand words.”
Do you remember all the words flashed on the screen and what was said, or do you remember the pictures and how the ad made you feel? Visualization is important in capturing people’s minds.
Emotions can play a major role in our day to day decision making. All marketers need to understand that aside from logic and reason, human behavior is mostly influenced by emotions. Your marketing must spur some emotion to get the best results.
Here is a little experiment I want you to try. The of the word anger, and think or image what this looks to you. Did you see facts or some kind of image in your mind. I’ll bet you saw an image probably accompanied by some emotion. Scientists believe that decision making cannot happen without emotional responses.
Buyers need to access emotions to shape their behavior. You need emotion to generate consistent traffic. People want to be moved into action. A good marketing approach is to find out how people relate to your product and experiences. These experiences spark certain emotions which drives their behavior.
The next time you watch a commercial with lots of emotion and lights, think about the fact that what they are trying to do is to tie their product in with your happy emotions by association. There are very few words in these commercials, but lots of emotions.
Uncovering the common emotional responses, gives you insight on what you must say and do to succeed with internet marketing. Think about what your customer’s might feel about your product.
A hosting plan in it’s simplest terms is paying a company to broadcast your website onto the internet. This article covers what to look for in a hosting plan. Once your website has been created, it is time to make it go live on the internet. In order to do so, you will need a hosting plan. A hosting plan is different from a domain name. You own your domain name but you rent a hosting plan.
Many guarantee 99% uptime for their servers. That sounds great, but it does mean that your site could go down for 1% of the time, which means over 7 hours out of each month! If you can, choose a host guaranteeing 99.9 uptime.
Once your website is live on the internet you will want it to be up all the time. Therefore should a problem occur it is important to select a hosting provider that is readily available and will resolve the issue in as timely a manner as possible.The number one thing to look for in a hosting plan is service. It does not matter that a multitude of features are offered or if the price is low if the service you will be getting with your hosting plan is sub par or even worse, nonexistent.
For the novice user who is building a simple website the above may not be a consideration at first, but may become important later on as you become more experienced and add more features to your website.How was your Web site designed? For example, if you designed a website using ASP or ASP.NET, you’ll need to find a Windows hosting plan. If you have a Web site that uses CGI or PHP, you’ll need to get a Linux hosting plan.
How much traffic or how many visitors do you expect monthly? The more visitors or traffic you expect on your site, the higher the bandwidth you will need.How large is your site? Most sites do not require much space but if you’re planning on having a large site with a lot of multimedia content or an e-commerce site selling multiple items, you’ll probably need additional disk space.
You may have wondered; is the home based business something that you could do? How can you really tell if you are able to make a go of this type of industry?
Before just diving in you will want to pause to think about a few things first. Below are a few things listed that may help you decided if you want to build your own home based business.
Build Your Business
If you are permanent on a full time job that pays you handsomely, do not quit that job. You can use that job to pay bills and utilize the income generated from your fresh home based internet marketing business to build your venture.
Continue to set Goals
Once you meet your first goal continue to grow your business and your future by forming new goals. With each goal that is met set a higher goal and thus generate higher incomes; giving you financial freedom.
With your home based business running successfully you may want to consider building an additional business or two to continue your earning potential.
Spread the Word:
You Must Advertise!
You hear it on TV and online about how easy it is to make money at home; millions in just weeks even. Honestly, you will more than likely not get rich real quick if at all; however, you can make a good income with a home based business. The key is, you have to advertise your product or service. Using online advertising works great at getting known fast.
A cool little development is on the rise today called pay per click advertising. One example of this is Google’s Adwords and once used can start generating money within a few hours! Don’t discontinue your offline advertising though, the more you spread the word about your business the better.
Advertising offline, while slower, is also effective. Advertising such as classified ads and well written blurbs can generate quite a bit of awareness to your home based business.
Generating traffic to you business and website is essential. The more people that you can get to visit your site the better as it will reward you with more positive cash flow.
One of the best things about having a home based internet business is that it travels along with you. If you have internet access you can have your business; therefore, if you want to work at the park or at the coffee shop or even the beach; the choice is yours.
