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December 4, 2008 | 
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A Business Associate and myself were discussing various things last night, as we do and it never ceases to amaze me, the amount of subjects we touch upon nor the solutions to some of these problems. Although, to be honest with you, I can not see some of our suggestions being accepted and approved by the wider population...hee hee
One of the more heated subjects was "How To Make Money Online" and to cut a very long story short, we finally nutted it down to the following:
1. Create Your Website, Product or Something
2. Generating Income - Affiliate Programs, Google Adsense, Your Own Product
3. Marketing / Promotion - If people don't know where you are, you ain't selling squat.
4. Profit - It must be profitable
Simple isn't it.
It took us approximately 4 hours to agree on this simplified list, however at the end of the day, this is it, there ain't no more. Four Simple Steps to Generate Profit and to be successful. If that is your goal and it is your definition of success. Here I go again, this was a large part of the discussion last night, My Goals and definition of success will be quite different from yours or the next person.
Let's look at the 4 easy steps in a general sense.
1. Create a website, product or information. A website can be anything you want, from a basic website to a targeted niche website specialising in left handed golf putters for people over 6 feet tall. Whatever your chosen area of expertise is, stick with it. Specialise in it and become an expert regarding it.
2. Generating an Income from your website. Affiliate programs provide an option of promoting a product, in our case, left handed putters for people over 6ft tall. Something to consider though, is to write a review based upon your experience with it. Their customer support, their postage, their delivery, their follow up. This review, based upon your experience, lends more credence to you and the product. Affiliate programs make it easy for you to make money. Another option to generate income is by placing Google Adsense ads within your website.
3. Marketing /Promotion. It doesn't matter what you are selling or if you habve the best looking website in the entire world, if people do not know you where you are or if the search engines don't index you, you ain't selling squat. Simple as that. Promote your website at every opportunity, give your customers a reason to return and return often.
4. Profit - Don't expect to retire overnight or to be a millionaire. But think about it, if you can generate $100 from your website in a week, how great is that. All you need to do is increase that accordingly and repeat your efforts on a regular basis.
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SEO Steve
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A Business Blog is considered a must have tool for online marketing, that can not only save you thousands of dollars but also can provide great business opportunities. Blogs are user-friendly, easy to customise and have numerous plugins available, all designed to get your marketing message out to your potential customers.
Companies engaging in business blogging have a definite edge over their competitors, who are not blogging.
1. Word-of-Mouth. In a survey, there are approximately 14 million blogs with 80,000 new blogs being added each day. It is believed that about 30 percent of the 50 million internet users are blog readers. The Internet is able to spread information quickly and effectively and 1 person passes your blog to 2 people and they in turn pass it to 2 people each, well it doesn't take long for your blog or post to have been seen and read by literally 1000's of potential new customers. This can then create ...
2. Awareness and loyalty. Communication, especially open and honest communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them. If you can offer true customer support and service and respond quickly and promptly to their questions and comments, this will then allow them to give you positive ...
3. Feedback. With positive feedback, this also helps to build trust with potential customers. Blogs are also good for product reviews and research. Imagine having at your fingertips, valuable information, feedback and ideas from your customers, that would allow you to make improvements or correct some minor flaw or policy, to make their shopping experience with you easier.
A Blog could be viewed as a booth in the biggest trade show on earth everyday. You need to positively promote, update, maintain and market it everyday. Gone are the days of if you build it they will come, it just doesn't happen.
The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important too in conjunction with your blogs in receiving the best benefits. Use effective keyword relevant phrases, in an endeavour to attempt to generate high ranking status within the search engines.
RSS for news update feeds which can be read via RSS reader applications are a very handy tool for business and internet marketers and should be used and promoted accordingly.
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SEO Steve
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