Your journey from unemployed to self employed
Internet marketing can be the new American Dream, instead of ‘Get a good education, get a good job with a good retirement plan, retire’. Then spend your golden years wishing you were young and energetic enough to enjoy the things he couldn’t do in his youth.
With internet marketing you can get a good education of a different kind, work hard and dedicate yourself to your new online business, and actually have enough disposable income, what you don’t need for food and housing, to go on vacation whenever you want. . please work from your computer and laptops go wherever you go.
The New American Dream Internet Marketing
Building a home-based internet marketing business requires a somewhat different skill set than running a brick-and-mortar business or holding down a job, but there are similarities in all three.
You have to work hard and apply yourself if you want to get ahead.
Internet marketing needs to be approached as a business from the start, it can’t be ‘I’ll try’. When your goal is to win a check, you can’t just ‘try’, you have to make it.
When you start a new job, you don’t “try it”, you do your job to the best of your ability and try to earn raises and/or promotions.
When you open a store in a mall, you don’t “try it”, you advertise, promote your friends, anything you can think of to attract customers to your store. You’ll have someone in a funny outfit on the street if they get you customers.
To be successful in internet marketing you need to apply yourself in the same way, treat it like a second job if you must, a job where you are paid solely on commission, you are not paid for your time, you are paid for your results.
Startup
Most people who want to make money online start with a vague idea, have heard about it and want to check it out, but don’t know how or where to start.
You need a framework for how what you do online parallels business practices in the ‘real world’.
When building a brick-and-mortar business, what’s the first thing to have?
Something to sell or a place to sell it? Which first?
Both are important, but having something to sell doesn’t do much good if you don’t have a place for customers to buy it.
Start with a place of business, then work on a product line or lines. You start to generate a list of potential clients or customers. The basic steps are;
- Rent or buy a building or office space to do business.
- Stock your business with inventory.
- Generate a list of prospects or clients.
- Open for business.
That’s simplified, but it’s the general idea. Now to compare it to successful internet marketing.
#1 Rent or buy a building or office space to do business.
In internet marketing this is a blog or website, blogs are much more versatile, easier to manage, much less expensive than websites to build and can be built in less than a day while traditional websites they can take weeks to build.
That being said, some businesses still prefer a website to blogging, in both cases you need to get a hosting account and at least one domain name. A hosting account is the way other people see your site online, your Internet storefront. Your domain name is what people type into the address bar to go to your site.
One hosting account can service multiple domain names. Domain names cost around $12.00 a year for dotcoms, the best option for a US-based company.
You can get good hosting for less than ten bucks a month, just make sure they have CPanel, that’s a must if you want to build your blog fast and easy.
#2 Stock your business with inventory
After setting up your Online Store, you need products to sell. There are many different ways to get products that you can market online, without having to buy them yourself first, a huge advantage in internet marketing.
The two best ways are affiliate marketing and network marketing, both business models give you immediate access to products that you can sell online.
Many affiliate marketing programs are free to join, as are most network marketing opportunities, however, to earn a monthly residual check on network marketing, you must have a monthly autoship, which varies from one chance to the next.
#3 Generate a list of potential clients or clients
Now that you have something to sell and a place to sell it from, you need leads, or prospects for short. When you have a physical store, you place ads and hand out flyers, online you create a list of names.
Internet marketing has a saying: ‘The money is in the list’, more specifically, the opt-in list.
You need people to agree to your marketing emails before you send them. To get this permission, you need what’s called an autoresponder, and you use it to create a signup form.
Place your signup form on a lead capture page, also called a Squeeze page, or in a text widget on your blog.
Once a Lead has signed up for your list, you can set up their autoresponder to deliver pre-written marketing emails without having to do anything else after setting up their autoresponder, which can take some time.
Once set up correctly, your autoresponder is like the autopilot of your business, once prospects sign up, everything is automatic.
You can get a one month free trial at most Auto-Responder providers, after that they start at around ten dollars a month.
#4 Open for business
It’s time to make some money, surprise, you’re already open. He opened the business the moment he put his Opt In Form live online.
Unlike a traditional store with internet marketing, you don’t have to advertise opening day for weeks to get people to come in, once you start advertising, you’re open for business.
The cost
- Hosting $6.95 per month at BlueHost.com
- Auto Responder Starting at $10.00 a month
- Domain name $12.00 year
Those are your basic costs for marketing online if you go for affiliate marketing, with network marketing you also have your monthly autoship which can be anywhere from less than $100.00 to over a thousand dollars.
Can you seriously afford not to start internet marketing?