Archive for May, 2009

by Logan Granville

The biggest mistake you will ever make, as a brand new internet marketer, is trying to do it on your own.

Learning to put all the pieces together is the key to becoming a successful internet marketer. Once you learn that, internet marketing can be very profitable. However, if you try to learn that on your own, it can cost you thousands of dollars very quickly.

Before you do anything, you need to decide what product your are going to market . . . your own or somebody else’s (affiliate marketing).

If you are going to market your own product, have you created that product? Is it an information product (ebook, video, etc.) or a physical product? If it’s a physical product, how will you distribute the product?

You’ll need a marketing system . . . splash page, sales letter, website, thank you page, and a payment processor. Also a domain name and web hosting.

If you’re going to be an affiliate marketer, does your program owner have a marketing system in place? Is it an effective system? What is your commission percentage and how is it paid? Are you going to market your affiliate link or re-direct to your own domain name?

How do you plan to market your product . . . email ads, pay per click, classifieds, articles, press releases, forums, social networking, etc.? Are you able to write interesting articles and press releases? Can you market effectively in forums and social networks?

Have you determined if there is demand for your program or product? Without demand, the best marketing campaign in the world is totally useless. This determination needs to be made before you spend one dime on product creation.

Before you spend a lot of money, you need answers to these questions.

Your bottom line is simply this . . . you need a mentor who knows what your next move needs to be. Someone who can keep you out of the pitfalls. Someone who will lead you safely through the internet mine field. Someone who knows what you need to do with your money.

If you want to learn how to make pretzels . . . who would you ask? A friend who knows nothing about making pretzels, or a family member who also knows nothing about making pretzels? No . . . you would ask someone who knows how to make pretzels. Someone who can teach you the correct procedure.

The same holds true for internet marketing. If you want to be a successful internet marketer, you need advice from someone who is already a successful internet marketer. Someone who can teach you the correct procedures.

How do you find a quality mentor . . . someone who has your best interest in mind? Study their website, are they offering real training, or simply links to other programs? Do they provide step by step tutorials and videos? Look around the internet for reviews and endorsements of their program.

Where to find mentors . . . in online forums, master mind groups, online marketing schools, live online marketing seminars and events. You’ll find online coaching programs. You’ll find hundreds of online mentors and mentoring programs.

You might be thinking . . . I can’t afford a mentor. Fact is, you can’t afford not to have a mentor. With a good mentor, you’ll make money from the start and avoid losing thousands of dollars in the online money traps. There is no substitute for correct information.

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by Winson Yeung

We are writing this mywaylinks review so that you can have a better understanding of how it all works. Now even though page rank may not be the be-all and end-all of Google or any other search engine ranking for that matter. Mywaylinks works when you submit sites that have a Page rank value of 1 or more. This ensures better crawling and allows us to know that the sites are of a good quality as far as Google is concerned.

There is a great advantage in obtaining links from sites that have at least some page rank as you know that it has not been banned by Google and you also know that it is not situated in an area which Google considers to be a bad neighborhood.

PageRank was one of the key factors born in mind when Mywaylinks was designed. The reason being that Google will re-crawl these sites so they are counted and indexed much faster. In this way the Mywaylinks system helps to get your PR higher as the more backlinks it has, the higher its PageRank will be according to Google.

The Mywaylinks system already contains over 125 high quality sites, all of them approved. You are able to make use of these to link out to your site and assist you in getting ranked. This ranking is particularly important in Google, but also matters in various others of the more popular search engines. There are PR1, 2, 3 and 4 sites in the Mywaylinks system already.

Mywaylinks works in that you submit your site to the system, you upload a links page and this will have the links of other users on it. As soon as your site has been approved, you will be able to go and get the links available from other websites on the system. You have complete control over the links that other people send to your website, and can approve or decline any links you want. These are one way links, not reciprocal links, and as Google no longer values reciprocal links, it makes this system more valuable.

This system takes care of the hard work on your behalf. Manually attempting to keep up with hundreds of links on a daily basis is a difficult task. Mywaylinks checks that all your links are still live, and verifies that they are still exactly where you wanted them to be.

All of the sites on Mywaylinks are categorized. This is to assist users in selecting the sites they want their links to appear on. For instance if you feel that you only want you links to appear on sites which mirror your own them, this is fine, however if you wish them to appear on more, this is also fine.

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by Gabby Softson

There are probably three reasons that you are reading this article at this moment. Either (1) you are starting a business and want to the best software for the best price that will help you get ahead; or (2) you are starting to hire new employees and need more software; or (3) you need to revamp your software and technology to stay compete in this ultra competitive business world.

Either way, you want the best software that can make all your business operations run smooth and efficient. But at the same time, you don’t want to bankrupt your business in the process.

So what do you do? There are a ton of products that cover a wide range of capabilities. Each industry has unique software to handle day-to-day processes. With all that’s out there, it can sometimes be confusing to know where to begin in selecting the business software that’s right for you.

However, as with choosing any other type of product, there are a few principles to apply that can help you choose the right software. First of all, check reviews, consumer reports and – of course – word of mouth.

There are a number of independent software reviews that try out products and software. For technology, try publications like InfoWorld, PC Magazine and CMP net. They give honest critiques about software, their implications, functionality, usability and so forth. These publications only make money if their reviews are trustworthy and accurate. So, you can largely go by the advice from these software review articles. There are a lot of professional industry sights and organizations that write journals and articles on new software. These, like other reviews, are trustworthy sources meant to help anyone choose the best software for whatever purpose is needed.

Probably the most accurate way to choose the right software for your business is to ask your peers. Ask them what they use, the pros and cons of their software, what they might purchase for next time, and what they might recommend for your particular business structure. Be careful about talking to direct competitors, however. Many people are honorable and want to help others have success, but your competition may not be keen on giving you great software advice.

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