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If you’re interested in internet marketing, affiliate marketing, information products, work at home opportunities, or other forms of online business, the sheer amount of information available can be truly daunting. It doesn’t help that much of that information is heavily laden with industry jargon and insider buzzwords.

Fortunately, getting started in internet marketing doesn’t have to be so complicated. This three-part article series lays out the three fundamental components of internet marketing and shows you how to bring them together in your own online business.

At its most basic level, an internet marketing business is no different from any other business. You really only need three things to be successful: a product, customers, and a way to market your products to your customers. Of course, these components are a little different on the internet than they are in your community.

This article, Part 1 of 3 in the series, focuses on the first component of your internet marketing business: The Product.

Just about any product and service you can imagine is bought and sold on the internet. The first key to a successful internet marketing business is figuring out exactly what you want to sell.

Producer or Affiliate?

The first question you have to answer is whether you want to create your own product or sell someone else’s. If you’re just getting started in internet marketing, IM-101 recommends that you learn the ropes by selling someone else’s product. This is called “affiliate marketing,” but this is just a fancy name for “selling someone else’s product online.”

Choosing the Right Kinds of Products

Once you’ve decided to become an affiliate, you have to determine the kinds of products you want to sell. On the internet, products can be placed into two categories: physical products and digital products. Again, IM-101 recommends that you get started by selling digital products, simply because it’s the fastest and easiest way to learn the business.

Digital products, or information products, are most commonly electronic books, or eBooks. These products are just like the books you buy at your local bookstore, except that they exist only as digital files you can open and read on your computer. By far the most common format for these files is called Portable Document Format (PDF), which can be read by a free downloadable program from Adobe called Acrobat Reader.

In addition to eBooks, you may also decide to sell software, audio files, videos, or any other kind of information that can be created, stored, and distributed in a digital format.

Where to Find Products

Okay, you’ve decided you start your internet marketing business by selling other people’s digital information products. Where do you find them? The single largest repository of these digital information products is ClickBank.

Go to ClickBank and browse through the Marketplace. You’ll find more than 10,000 digital information products to choose from. There are more than 100,000 affiliates registered with ClickBank who are actively selling these products. You’ll be joining their ranks.

The final step is to set up an affiliate account at ClickBank and select a few products to sell. Five products is a good number to start with.

Which products should you choose? You should choose to promote and sell those products that your customers most want to buy, of course. To answer this question, you have to figure out who your customer is.

This is the subject of the second article in this series, Internet Marketing Success: 3 Basic Components (Part 2: The Customer) [http://www.im-101.com/article2.html].

By: Greg Benage

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Everyone seems to be jumping on the internet marketing bandwagon lately. In the race to get their business online, many successful businesses forget to ask themselves some tough questions about what they are doing, what their expectations are and what their plan is to meet those expectations.

The internet can be a powerful tool that can put you on solid footing with bigger companies. On the other hand, the other companies may have more money to pay for advertising. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind as you analyze your internet marketing strategy.

Advantage of Internet Marketing

- your store is open, 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week. Further, your customers are worldwide in reach, and can shop anytime that they want to

- the cost of spreading your message is next to nothing. Emailing your subscription base is more oftne cheaper than sending a letter through the mail

- updating your subscribers can be done almost instantly through email. Visitors to your website can get up to the minute information on each visit. If you are having a sale, your customers can start shopping at the discounted prices literally as soon as they open their email

- if you have an information sensitive business, such as a law firm, newspaper or online magazine, you can deliver your products directly to your customers without having to use a courier

Disadvantages of Internet Marketing

- online marketing is not free. The cost of software, hardware, wed site design, maintenance of your site, online distribution costs and of course, time, all must be factored into the cost of providing your service or product.

- slightly over 50% of households shop online. While that number will continue to grow, you are reaching less than two out of three households.

- the internet is still regarded as a source of information gathering for the majority of your customers. Of the number of visitors to your site, the vast majority of visitors who are motivated to buy will do so in person. Many people prefer the live interaction when they buy. If you have a small business with one location, this may deter customers from buying.

- easier to have outdated information on your site, thus timing of updates is critical

- there is no replacement for good old fashioned customer service. The majority of internet marketers lack customer service and inquiry response programs. As a result, many online visitors to your site will already have painted your site as poor service before they have even contacted you. The majority of websites also have poor navigation, which makes it difficult for your visitor to find what they are looking for. Many sites were created with a marketing view, not a customer service point of view.

- is your site secure? Does your customer know this? There are many incorrect stereotypes about the security of the internet out there. As a result, many of your visitors will not want to use their credit card to make a purchase. The fear of having their credit card info stolen is a clear and present danger in the minds of your visitors

- there is a lot of competition for your product already out there. By the time your visitor finds you, they have already been clicking many links. Unless they can find what they are looking for quickly, they are gone.

- many web visitors expect something for free. What do you have to offer them?

There are many other pros and cons of internet marketing. Its important for you to consider each when creating your internet marketing strategy. Each of the disadvantages can be overcome, but only if you view the customer experience from the eyes of your customer, not as an internet marketer.

By: Christopher W Smith

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Internet Marketing Business Entrepreneurs can fail very easily.

I have been in the business of medicine for 30 years and internet marketing for one month. Now most people don’t think of medicine as a business, but it is and that reality is even truer today than it was 30 years ago. As a physician, you can’t just hang your shingle and the patients will come and internet marketing is no different.

Some patients will come but they won’t return if you don’t give good service and treat them well. Of course, you have to help them get better. It is all about solving their problems. As I get more into this internet marketing business, I can see that the rules are very much the same

There are tons of free offers out there which tell you how to get high traffic to your internet business website if you just pay someone $47 or $29 or whatever and let them do the work and you just sit back and collect the checks.It is becoming increasingly obvious that you have to build your internet business with hard work and that takes time. When I started my medical practice 30 years ago, I went to courses to learn how to run a practice. I let someone who has been there teach me what to do. I am going to take courses in the internet marketing business as well.

So some of the tips I am learning are the same I have learned all my life.

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. On the internet, you have to work hard to succeed. Don’t waste time and keep your eye on the prize just like the turtle and the hare. Add your own original touch to your business, but let someone teach you the basics.
With that in mind, I continue to try to listen to people who have been there

By: Edgar Dapremont

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Many marketing campaigns for products hook a potential customer in with a catchy advertisement. The hook may come in the form of a slogan or picture. While snappy text and pictorial design might make a customer take a second look, it does not always convert a customer lead into a sale. What Internet marketing tools can you utilize to convert more sales leads into actual customers?

The answer is multimedia marketing. What is multimedia marketing? Let’s define “multimedia”. Multimedia is media that involves an advertisement that “talks and moves”. For example, multimedia contains more than just text and/or pictures. Multimedia advertisements contain audio and video elements. By adding audio and video ingredients to your marketing campaign you will see your sales conversion rates soar.

What exactly are audio and video multimedia marketing elements? Audio elements include voice-overs, sound effects, and music. For example, when a potential customer visits your web page the first thing that catches their eye is the beautiful graphics and text information. At this point your customer needs to feel an emotional connection with your company, products, and services. This is where audio elements play a role.

You can provide music that sets the tone for your product or services. Perhaps you are in the party planning business and you have an advertisement about planning children’s birthday parties. You can play fun, upbeat music to mimic the atmosphere of a birthday party.

You could also add in a button that allows website visitors to listen to your actual voice. You can demonstrate your passion for your product and money back guarantee through your voice. Potential customers will feel that their experience has been more personable. This allows them to feel more comfortable with your company, services, and products. A wonderful side effect of this safe feeling is increased customer sales.

Video elements are another tool you can employ in your marketing campaign. You can create your own Internet commercial. You can demonstrate how to use your product through a video. You could even video testimonials from happy customers. A video will allow potential customers to attach a “face” to the product or services you are selling.

You are building a relationship with your customers when you make their Internet experience rich and satisfying. Plus, did you know that adding an audio element to your website can increase your response rate by 300%. Wow! That is a massive increase that you just can’t ignore.

Another great benefit to creating audio and video components for your website is that you can build CDs and DVDs from these files. You could create reports on specific topics and burn them to CDs and DVDs. Then you can sell these products to customers.

The Internet is ready to handle sophisticated audio and video files. Plus, Internet technology is improving every day. You can create these audio and video components in the comfort of your own home or office. It really is that simple. The effort you put into creating your own multimedia marketing campaign on the Internet is well worth it when your sales conversion rate skyrockets.

By: Matt Bacak

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