Monday, December 8, 2008

List Building Can Be So Easy When You No How

By Zeze Mensah

Internet marketing is defined as a generic term used to describe techniques that leverage the Internet for driving traffic and customers to one's business. Internet marketing is more than just search engine marketing. It is the promotion of products and services online or through the internet.

Internet marketing takes getting used to and demands that you take your time, prepare and be slick about what you do. Let's face it, if this lucrative transaction is going to work for you, you definately have to put your time into it. You can't just slap on salamy, cheese, and some mushrooms and call it a pizza, you gotta heat the crust just right and get that perfert sizzle. That's internet marketing! First, you need a product.

Let's say you decided to become an internet marketer to offset today's economic recession, so now what? The first step in your internet marketing journey is to either create a good product to sell online or if you are totally new, find a good affiliate program. Affiliate programs allow you to sell someone else's products and get a certain percentage of the sales in return.

Slow down young lad, you need to find something that sells. I mean if you are trying to sell a banana that sells for $10 bucks a piece, it better be a pretty super gigantic banana or else your gains will be lower than the titanic. So try to find a product with good sales appeal and one that draws the crowd. You know, the type of product that makes people want to empty out their wallets. Yeah, that one! Alright, now we are getting somewhere...let's talk traffic and listbuilding.

Wonderful, we've got a product. Now what? Well, if no one hears about it you can't really make money so guess what our homework is? We have to get as much people seeing this hot new product as we possible can. And oh, when these visitors come to your site try and convince them to let their contact details with you because that equals repeted sales. Everyone loves repeated sales. That is the idea behind building a list. So let me give you some ideas that will shoot up your traffic meter skyhigh.

When visitors come to your site try to convince them to leave their contact with you. This my friend, is the key to building a successful list. Why do we need a list?...because these are repeat customers you will buy into another opportunity you are promoting. Internet marketing takes work, no scratch that, lot's of work. But the payouts are incredible high. Now there are a number of traffic pulling techniques you can use to build your opt-in list and you can take a look at you-tube or checkout Google to get more detailed explanations of these.

Traffic Exchanges (by far the quickest way to get traffic)

YouTube- (I sure hope you are not camera shy)

Safelists - these do work if used correctly

Article submissions- don't even get me started on this one ?let's just say it's HOT!

And much much more?

Be superfabulastic and you just might discover your own unique way which would make you big BUCKS!

Be sure to pay attention to the number of Unique visitors, Number of visits and Hits.

Okay, now let's get to the good stuff...Can you say chi ching!

Depending on the program you sell you could make anywhere between %25-%75 profit and %100 if you have your own product. So note to self, create your own product or learn how to. Folks, you could seriously be on your way to retirement if internet marketing and list building become a passion in your life. I just hope your spouse doesn't get jealous - hehe! Okay, so what's next....

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.

Cheers to your Success! - 16003

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