Sunday, December 7, 2008

3 Keys to List Building in Internet Marketing

By Zeze Mensah

Internet marketing can be defined as juicy ways to draw people to your business and make that sale that puts bread on the table. Like clockwork, that word contains a lot of entities such as generating traffic, list building, and the like. Internet marketing is a very sweet job, if you know how to do it effectively.

It definately takes getting used to and demands slick preparation as well as time and effort. However, with that being said the paycheques can be incredibly high with the hope that you will soon retire rich. Building a list should be one of your top priorities. Yes, the list is the money and when you're getting 100's of leads a day - cash will be flowing all day.

Hooray, you joined the millions of people online who are looking to get rid of their cheap paying jobs, now what? well, you need a product to sell. Now you can either create this product or take the easy way out and sell another man's goods. Either way works just fine.

The goal is to find a good product that sells like cotton candy. Successful affiliate internet marketing is almost impossible to achieve without finding the right product. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. Also, keep in mind that when looking for a product search for one that you would be willing to spend your money on. Now let's talk traffic and Listbuilding.

Great, we have the product that we want to sell, now what? In order to be successful online visitors have to be able to find you on the Internet. Success as an entrepreneur is about being passionate, giving wholly of yourself, busting your butt, falling flat on your face and getting right back up to do it all over again. However,you get to dance in the thrill of complete and total victory at the end of it all.

Remember that for every visitor that comes to your site you want to present a good incentive for them to leave their contact info with you. Building a list becomes easy when you put yourself in your website visitor's shoes. What would it take to get you to leave your contact details with someone. To apply this same thing to your site and presto!

Traffic Exchanges - (easiest way to get traffic)

YouTube - (comeon, don't be camera shy)

Safelists - these do work if used correctly

Article submissions- Whew, these are among the best!

And much much more?

Be creative and you just might invent your own unique way which others would pay you BIG BUCKS to use!

Pay particular attention to the number of Unique visitors, Number of visits and Hits to your site.

So now let's get to the good stuff...Can you say chi ching! Depending on what affiliate program you join you get paid anywhere from 30% - 75% (ClickBank). Some programs even show you a way to make the full %100 on every sale but I will touch on this later. Similarly, if you created your own product you can potentially make %100 off your sales. Though it takes more time and effort you might want to consider creating your own product as you get used to internet marketing and become an expert at it, well hopefully! so what is our millionaire strategy?

Like all things in life young grasshopper you need to have a strategy. You can't just go off charging into that red carpet without an objective. So what are you objectives? What do you want to accomplish in you internet marketing career? You need to create an everyday routine. The secret to your success is in your daily routine. Where you are in life right now is the result of what you did yesterday. So just like life you need a strategy online. Effective internet marketing requires a millionaire strategy. For example, if you say you will send out 50 emails today don't go to sleep until you do. Persistence my friend is the key. So how bad do you want it?

Internet marketing is relatively inexpensive when compared with the opportunity to make quadruple the amount of money you make on your day job. Letting your target market know about your product or service on the internet will get you sales and sales equals money. Now building a list while you do this is the creme de la creme. Internet marketing is still very much in its early development and people will always be finding new and improved ways to drive traffic to their website and build their lists. So capitalize on other people's techniques to traffic building as well as creating your own. Lastly, make sure you create your own product in the future so you can get %100 profit from your sales. If you are not sure how to create one I have helpful tips on my site.

Remember, sky is the limit. So aim for the sky and even if you do miss, you would have caught some little girl's balloon. - 16738

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