Many people who are new to online marketing get into it because they want to make some money. They don't know what to sell, so they fall into the easy option of selling ebooks and reports; either directly or as an affiliate through ClickBank etc.
While this is not a bad idea - it can bring in a very nice income if done well - but it's not an ideal situation.
Most successful businesses are run by people who are passionate about the product they are selling. Unless you're a good writer, or an experienced marketer, the chances are that your ebook business isn't going to produce a life-changing income.
So think about your interests and hobbies. Even if it is something you dabble with now and again. Could you earn an income from that?
Take photography as an example. It is something which I really enjoy. I'm not a professional by any means, but I believe that I have an eye for composition, and I have taken some good pictures in the past.
So how do I make money from this hobby? If I take a picture that I'm particularly proud of, I post it at RedBubble. This is a site for photographers and artists. You set up an account, upload your images and set a price for them. Anyone visiting RedBubble can buy prints of your work in various formats ranging from cards to framed prints. RedBubble handle all the order fulfillment. All you have to do is provide the images. It also helps if you publicise your "bubble", but you can use any online and offline marketing techniques for that.
RedBubble have base prices for each product, and the artist/photographer simply specifies a markup on those prices, which is typically 20%, but you can set whatever markup you see fit.
RedBubble will protect your images on the website by applying a watermark. This of course does not appear in the printed products.
I like the service that RedBubble provides so much that I now carry a camera with me wherever I go, just in case I see something worth capturing.
So if you're into photography, why not consider selling your pictures at RedBubble.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Monday, July 07, 2008
Article Marketing Works - If You Do It Right
Do you use Article Marketing to promote your business?
It's a very popular way of getting traffic to your site, as well as building up backlinks.
Backlinks are links to your site that get indexed by the search engines. The more relevant links you have to your site, the higher you appear in the search engines results pages.
So what other benefits are there to using articles to market your site? Well, if somebody is starting to get interested in the kind of thing you are selling, they often go to the Internet search engines to find more information about it.
If the search engine takes them to your article, they can read all about the products that you sell, how to use them, what factors to consider when choosing one, etc. If you write well-reasoned articles about your products, without giving them the hard sell, the readers are more likely to consider you an authority on the subject. This is even more likely to happen if you submit a number of related articles on your subject.
So when you include a link to your site in the resource box at the end of the article, the readers are more likely to go to your site.
There are a number of article sites around, but my current favourite is Article Content King. The reason why I like it so much is that for a small fee, you can get your articles syndicated to a blog which very often gets your articles into Google within an hour. But the piece de resistance of the site is that you get to control the ads that are displayed on the pages containing your article - and keep 100% of the profits from displaying those ads.
This means that I can stop my competitors' ads from appearing on the same page as my articles, Display whatever ads I choose (including ads for my own products), or even sell the ad space to other people. Whatever I do with the ads, I stand to make extra money from them.
If you use articles for marketing, or want to start now, you could do a lot worse than go to Article Content King.
It's a very popular way of getting traffic to your site, as well as building up backlinks.
Backlinks are links to your site that get indexed by the search engines. The more relevant links you have to your site, the higher you appear in the search engines results pages.
So what other benefits are there to using articles to market your site? Well, if somebody is starting to get interested in the kind of thing you are selling, they often go to the Internet search engines to find more information about it.
If the search engine takes them to your article, they can read all about the products that you sell, how to use them, what factors to consider when choosing one, etc. If you write well-reasoned articles about your products, without giving them the hard sell, the readers are more likely to consider you an authority on the subject. This is even more likely to happen if you submit a number of related articles on your subject.
So when you include a link to your site in the resource box at the end of the article, the readers are more likely to go to your site.
There are a number of article sites around, but my current favourite is Article Content King. The reason why I like it so much is that for a small fee, you can get your articles syndicated to a blog which very often gets your articles into Google within an hour. But the piece de resistance of the site is that you get to control the ads that are displayed on the pages containing your article - and keep 100% of the profits from displaying those ads.
This means that I can stop my competitors' ads from appearing on the same page as my articles, Display whatever ads I choose (including ads for my own products), or even sell the ad space to other people. Whatever I do with the ads, I stand to make extra money from them.
If you use articles for marketing, or want to start now, you could do a lot worse than go to Article Content King.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Dead Easy Way To Get Started Marketing Online
Ok, it is time to get real here.
Thousands of people just like you are trying to make money with their Internet business.
However, most of them are COMPLETELY missing the point!
You have probably learned about list building, traffic generation, web design, and just about 1000 different ways you can become an "Internet millionaire" in just a few weeks, and yet you have not made your first dollar.
Well, that is about to change.
I found this fantastic opportunity from Matthew Glanfield that gets a new online business started at no cost. Now I have arranged with Matthew to get you into his high-selling affiliate marketing membership FREE of charge!
He is going to show you every step you need to make to do EXACTLY what he has done to
make over $10,000 per month from his one list.
Here is the link:
Affiliate Marketing Formula.
Go and get that membership NOW - trust me, you are going to love it.
Thousands of people just like you are trying to make money with their Internet business.
However, most of them are COMPLETELY missing the point!
You have probably learned about list building, traffic generation, web design, and just about 1000 different ways you can become an "Internet millionaire" in just a few weeks, and yet you have not made your first dollar.
Well, that is about to change.
I found this fantastic opportunity from Matthew Glanfield that gets a new online business started at no cost. Now I have arranged with Matthew to get you into his high-selling affiliate marketing membership FREE of charge!
He is going to show you every step you need to make to do EXACTLY what he has done to
make over $10,000 per month from his one list.
Here is the link:
Affiliate Marketing Formula.
Go and get that membership NOW - trust me, you are going to love it.
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