Internet marketing is very simply making money from the internet. What a genious” but the thing is, it has to be described in that broad of a sense because there are so many types of internet marketing. Here are a few different ways to make money online that I have discovered:
1. Affiliate programs:
Affiliate means you sell other people's and companies products and you get a commission. Many huge companies around the world use the affiliate system to sell their products such as Yahoo, Microsoft, Macys, AT&T, Walmart, Blockbuster, etc...The products that can be sold from affiliate sites are never ending. I honestly can't think of a product that can't be sold through an affiliate program. Here is a short list of some of the products I can sell through various affiliate programs:
e-books,
softwares,
movies,
music,
healthcare,
medicinal herbs,
mobile phones,
satellite channels,
medicine,
hotel reservation,
credit cards, books, magazines etc. and the list goes on and on.
As an affiliate you sometimes are able to have other affilaites join under you and you also get a percentage of their sales. The typical affiliate commission structure is for the affiliate to be paid a higher percentage on their direct sales, say 50%, and then a lower percentage on the sales of those affiliates they sign up, maybe 10 to 20% commissions. Usually what we consider affiliate programs are limited to two levels. Most affiliate programs are free to join.
2. Network Marketing:
Network Marketing is simular to affiliate programs except they go more than two levels deep. They can go unlimited levels even. What this does is create great leverage so that you can possibly make huge amounts of money if you get an organization of thousands of members. There are different government rules for network marketing businesses, or MLMs, than for the typical two tier affiliate program. Network marketing has been around for about 50 years, way before the internet started. However the internet has proven to be a great way to promote network marketing companies.
3. Selling your own products and/or on your own website:
Having your own products and/or services with your own website is of course a great way to make money. There have been constant improvements to doing this and additional ways to make money this way. One addional way to now make extra income from your own website is by using
Google adsense. These are ads from Google's customers who pay by the click to advertise on other people's websites. This can make a good income for the website owners but you need traffic to the sites to make money this way. You can also have links to affiliate sites on your own website. Or sell advertising directly to other website owners.
4. Blogs:
A web log is called a blog. This is a way to instantly publish any information online. There are 9 million blogs out there, with 40,000 new ones popping up each day. Amazing. A blog can be set up quickly at no cost at
Blogger, a site owned by google. Anything that can be sold on a website can also be sold on a blog so many people are using blogs instead of websites.
5. Build Your List:
It's true what they say that the money IS in the list. Most successful online marketers have large lists of targeted prospects that they can send their offers to on a regular basis. Anyone new to this business should begin to build this list immediately.
6. Pay Per Click search engines:
Over the years I have used
Pay Per Click search engines to send 1000s of visitors to my sites. This is a fast track way to drive traffic to your sites. You can be up and running and getting hits in minutes.
I suggest you use
Wordtracker to accumulate as many TARGETED keywords as you can. The more targeted keywords you collect the more visitors you get. The idea is to ensure that you are paying less for visitors on a monthly basis than the sales you make.
7. Google Adwords:
Google adwords is similar in principle to Pay Per Click search engines in that you pay for your visitors. I suggest you use
Wordtracker OR
Google keyword tool to accumlate 1000s of keyword phrases.
8. Article Submissions:
Submitting topical articles is one of the most affordable and at the same time effective marketing strategies I know of
9. Regular Search Engines:
Google, Yahoo and MSN send me as many visitors per day as any other strategy I use. It is highly recommended that you get started immediately to begin to build the online web presence of your website and thus your search engine rankings.
10. Forum Posting:
One of the greatest things that happened to me in my online career was being appointed moderator at one on the most popular online internet marketing forums. This has opened up more avenues and opportunities than any other strategy. I suggest you visit the popular, high traffic online forums daily and make it a point of sharing your experiences and giving your advice as often as possible. Get yourself seen!
The game of internet marketing can be a tricky one that can hold back many affiliates and webmasters from becoming successful. Jumping into an Ad-words campaign could cost you a lot of money for no results if you are like many. One of the best ways to get FREE targeted traffic rolling though your site is with viral marketing. You can get 1000's of niche targeted traffic coming to your site without spending a dime.
The main two free viral marketing sites online are
Traffic Swarm and
T2000ultra. These two sites are enough for a web page to get 1000's a day of targeted traffic coming after seeding. It is suggested that if you do want to run a pay per click ad campaign then you should set up your viral accounts first. Of the people drawn by your pay per click campaign may join under you and seed your free ads. This can turn a small pay per click campaign into a residual ad campaign that could end up giving you 1000's of residual visitors a day.
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