Hello Fellow Reader,

No matter what business in you’re in, you can put the Internet to use for you and use it to help you build your business and rake in more sales.

The statistics on how many people are online now are mind-blowing.  As of November of last year, there are over One Billion people online.  This gives all of us an incredible opportunity to grow our businesses – to global proportions, if that’s what we want.

However, the Internet is not without pitfalls and obstacles.  In fact, if you make the wrong move, you can find yourself in very real danger of losing everything you’ve worked so hard to build.

Here are some things to keep in mind when it comes to using the Internet to market your business:

Create a professional-looking Web presence.  These days with all the readily available Website templates, blogs and highly affordable Website designers who can be hired to design a custom Website, there just isn’t any excuse for amateurish or poorly built Websites these days.  Even when you add the cost of Internet access, hosting, buying the right domain name and the cost of having a Website built, starting an online business is affordable to almost anyone – and so even if you run your business from your home, it doesn’t have to look that way!

Make sure that you’ve done your research.  Find a hungry market that is already buying in your chosen niche.  Choose a product that your target market wants to buy – the best way to do this is to choose a product or service that meets a need, takes away a pain or solves a problem.  Competition is good – but make sure you choose something where you’ve got a good chance of getting close to the top.

Write a business plan.  Even if your business is completely online, a business plan is your roadmap that helps guide you from where you are right now to where you want to end up.  Business plans aren’t just for people who are looking for venture capital or business loans. Include your plans for marketing and selling on the Internet in your plan.  Be flexible and willing to adjust those plans as needed.

Start with the end in mind.  Do you know where you want to end up?  What are you going into business for?  To make a little extra money? To build a business that you can later sell and live on the proceeds?  Whatever your reason for going into business for yourself, decide what your ultimate goal is.  That way you’ll be able to direct your actions towards achieving it.  Brainstorm as many different ways as possible that the Internet can help you to achieve your goals.

Create a vision board.  Although some people call them hokey or old fashioned, having a vision for your business can help you to stay focused and moving towards what you want.  Whether you believe in them or not, a vision board can keep you excited and motivated.  If you do a Google Search, you’ll find several companies that let you build a vision board online – and will even let you send it to your team, your mentors or other people who matter to you.

Have an action plan.  Once you know your long-term plan for your business, it’s easier to chunk it down and create shorter, medium and long term goals that will help you to achieve them.  Write down your plan for marketing on the Internet and make sure that you take at least one or two actions towards those goals every single day,
Surround yourself with positive, supportive people who will hold you accountable when you need it, give you encouragement and keep you on your toes and stretching beyond where you think you can go.  Thanks to the Internet, the people on your team no longer have to live in your town, your region or even your country!

Test, test, test.  Whatever you’re doing – whether it’s banner advertising, using a newsletter, trying an AdWords campaign – or any other form of Internet marketing or advertising – keep testing your results.  (But here’s a hint – when it comes to your copy, don’t waste your time on unimportant elements – only test the ones that are going to give you the biggest return on your investment.)

Spend your time where it’s going to do the most good – making money.  There’s so much information available – and so much to do online, that it’s easy to get sidetracked and involved in activities that waste your time.  If you find yourself with lots of plans for what you’re going to accomplish in the morning, but suddenly the entire day’s gone by – and you wonder what happened – then chances are you’re wasting too much time online.  You can find some great time-tracking programs online – monitor yourself for a few weeks and you’ll be amazed at all the ways you can find to turn things around and become more productive.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.  Develop a marketing plan where you’re using offline as well as online marketing methods to grow your business.

Follow these simple rules for being online and marketing your business, and you’ll end up exactly where you want to go.

With Success

Pedro Sardinha

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Hello Fellow Reader,

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With Success

Pedro Sardinha

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Hello Fellow Reader,

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With Success

Pedro Sardinha

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Hello Fellow Reader,

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With Success

Pedro Sardinha

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Hello Fellow Reader,

Did you know that according to the World Internet Usage and Population Data that as of there were approximately 1,262,032,697 online as of November 2007?

Stop and think about those numbers for a minute!  There are more than 2 billion people online right now…that’s pretty amazing, isn’t it?

Now think about this for a minute…of those more than two billion people, how many of them have stopped at your Website and/or purchased one of your products or services?

Pretty depressing, right?

But don’t let it get you down – because if you take the time to put together an Internet Marketing campaign, you’ll stand a much better chance of making connections with a few more of them!

Let’s start by looking at the four different stages visitors to your Website go through when they’re online.  Although they’ve been classified in different ways, the four basic stages can be described as:

Just looking

Thinking about buying

Ready to buy

Let’s start with the first one: Just Looking

People who are in this stage have something on their minds.  They want something – usually information – and they’re probably not thinking about systematic keywords, or features of a particular product or service.  They’re probably using very general one or two word searches to get more information about the niche or topic.

The best way to reach a visitor to your Website at this point in the game is simply to provide them with lots and lots of general information.  Some ways of doing that would be:

* Writing articles about the topic

* Reviewing different products or services and posting them to your Blog

* Offering a free, informative newsletter about the niche topic

* Doing weekly or monthly Podcasts

* Doing free teleseminars and interviewing experts in the industry, or arranging to be interviewed.

The main thing to remember is to provide lots of broad information.  The more questions you can answer for your visitor right now – the more they’re going to remember you as they move through the buying cycle – and the more they’re gong to perceive YOU as the expert in your industry or niche.

The Second Stage: Thinking about Buying

People who are in this stage of the buying cycle have the information they were looking for.  They understand the basics, and now they’re starting to look for reasons to justify their purchase – they want to be convinced that they need it!

Something to keep in mind is that the larger and more expensive the purchase is, the more logical reasons you’ll need to be able to give them.

So to engage visitors who are thinking about buying, you’ll want to provide easy access to all the features of your product or service.  If you’re selling cameras for example, this is where you’ll want to have lots of customer reviews, descriptions of the different benefits and features of the product and answer all the “how to” information.

For example, you’ll want to make it easy for someone to find out how they can buy your product or service, how you ship it, how much shipping costs and what your guarantee and return policy is.

You’ll want to give them the logical reasons for justifying the purchase at this point.  (But don’t forget that you need to keep showing them what your product or service is going to do for them at the same time – so be subtle, but push the benefits here too.)

By answering their “how” questions, you’ll not only continue moving them through the buying cycle, you’ll also help to guarantee that you’re the one they’re going to want to do business with, because you’ve shown them how easy – and secure – you’ve made the buying process.

The Third Stage: Ready to Buy

If you’ve done your job right, the people who are ready to buy will move quickly and smoothly through your sales process – and come out on the other end as something completely new – your customer!

Here’s how to attract visitors who are ready to pull out their credit cards:

You’ve answered their “what” and “how” questions and they’re feeling safe about making an informed decision.  So now you want to appeal to your visitor’s “emotional” side.

Here’s where you start piling on all the benefits and goodies and feelings of urgency!

Make sure you’re giving visitors “future pictures” to get them thinking about what your product or service is going to do for them, and how it’s going to make them feel.

Here are a couple of concrete examples:  If you’re selling lawn services, for example, you’re not really selling a greener lawn.  You’re selling pride in yourself, in your home.  Becoming the envy of all your neighbors because of your beautiful yard!
Or if you’re selling tooth whitener, you’re really not selling whiter teeth.  You’re selling sex appeal, and beauty and being instantly more attractive to the opposite sex.  You’re appealing to the person’s needs to look nice and to have people think that they care about the way they look and feel.

See how easy that is?

When you’re piling on the benefits, don’t forget to take all the risk off the buyer’s shoulders.  Offer a rock-solid guarantee – and be very clear about exactly what your guarantee is.

You’ll want to add a sense of urgency to the offer – something needs to be time – or quantity-limited.  (People hate thinking that they’re going to miss out on a bargain.)  And add enough – relevant – benefits that your visitor feels like they’d be a complete idiot to miss out on your deal.
That’s really all there is to it.  By following these simple steps, you’ll be able to turn those low-down, internet marketing blues into a “Happy Happy Joy Joy!” song as you watch visitors to your Website – and your sales – hit the high notes!

With Success

Pedro Sardinha

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Hello Fellow Reader,

Viral Marketing is one of the best ways for you to sell a product or service – in fact, it’s one of the best ways to make a lot of sales.

How?  Because thanks to the way that viral marketing works, you don’t need to have a big list, or a lot of money to put into an advertising campaign – but you can still have a huge impact.

First of all, let’s go over exactly what viral marketing is.  (According to Wikipedia, “Viral Marketing refers to marketing techniques that use preexisting social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet. Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily. Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, images, or even text messages.”)

But that sounds a little complicated, don’t you think?  To break it down into plain English, basically Viral Marketing is just a way of getting a bunch of people to tell other people about something you’ve created to build a buzz about your product or service.  And by passing it around to other people, it builds social proof – (because there’s a kind of implied endorsement when you send something to someone else.)  Sometimes you get lucky and the more it’s passed around the more it takes on a life of its own.

A perfect example is the “Free Hugs” video on YouTube.  It has been viewed by millions of people, and the music – a song written by a group called the “Sick Puppies.”  That video was responsible for launching their singing career – even though that was not the original intention.  That video – and the story behind it went viral and caught the attention – and the hearts – of people all over the world.  It even spawned a movement that is still going on.

Although you might not be able to pull off a viral marketing campaign that does as well as the “Free Hugs” video, if you are willing to spend a little time researching your market and your target audience, and can think outside the box, you can create a very successful viral marketing campaign of your own.

What kind of things can go viral?  Obviously videos.  (In fact, if you look at most of the “gurus” in the Internet Marketing field right now, you’ll see they’re all heavily using videos to promote their launches and create marketing  campaigns that go viral.  However, if you don’t have the desire to do videos, you can go with that old standby – the “Special Report.”   Podcasts, white papers, even case studies all have the ability to “go viral” and get a lot of people very interested in what you have to say – and sell.

To create a successful viral marketing campaign, it’s very important that you find the right mix of media, marketing and audience.  Make sure that your target audience is going to be interested in what you have to say, the way you’re saying it and how you’re bringing it to their attention.  If you get these three things right, chances are, you’ll have a winner on your hands, and your next marketing campaign will go viral too.

With Success

Pedro Sardinha

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Hello Fellow Reader,

Okay, that sounds a little contradictory, right?  You’re probably reading this article to find out how to sell your next Ebook, and I’m telling you to give it away!

But if you’ll keep reading for a minute, you’ll find out why this could be one of the best Internet Marketing ideas you’ll ever try.

Here are 5 tips that will help you to make the biggest ROI (Return on Investment) from giving away a free Ebook.

1. Write a short Ebook about how to get the most out of an affiliate product that you’re promoting.  Or choose another subject that fits a particular product. Put the link to the product inside the Ebook.  Make sure that the information in your Ebook is both interesting and valuable to the reader.

2. Contact the person whose affiliate product you’re going to be promoting and offer it to him/her to give away to his list.

3. Contact newsletter publishers and offer to let them give the Ebook away to members of their lists. (Of course, you’re going to send everyone to your squeeze page, right?)

4. Put the link to your squeeze page at the bottom of your email signature and on your signature at forums, blogs you post on, etc.

5. Set up JV partnerships with other people who are promoting similar – but not competing products or services and give them the chance to give away your Ebook.

Here are some other ideas to keep in mind when writing your Ebook so that it is perceived as valuable by your target audience and your JV partners.

• Use screenshots, graphics or photos so you’re not only telling your readers “what” to do, but they can see “how” to do it also.

• If you’re not a writer, you can hire someone else to ghostwrite it for you. (Just a hint, don’t only go for the cheapest price – otherwise you may as well write it yourself, because the quality will probably be about the same.)

• Have someone go through it to check for grammar and spelling mistakes.

• Read it out loud to check that it makes sense and flows smoothly.

• If you’re handy with graphics editing software, create a cover for your Ebook.  People will see it as more valuable if it looks like a “real” book.  If you’re not handy, you can always outsource that.

• People don’t want to read 50 or 60 page reports – everyone is pressed for time. Keep your Ebook short – between 13 and 18 pages is just about ideal. Get rid of the fluff and cut right to the heart of the information that you’re giving away.

• Put the link to your affiliate product in a several different places throughout the book. You never know what one idea is going to spark someone’s interest or overcome their last objection and be the deciding factor in them buying your affiliate product.

• Because your Ebook may go viral (which is the idea) and get passed around in ways you never imagined, put a signup box or link to your squeeze page in the book, to grab new subscribers.

As you can see, sometimes giving something of value away for free is one of the best ways for you to make money.  This is one of the best-kept secrets of successful affiliate marketers.  Follow it, and you’ll soon see your success on the rise as well.

With Success

Pedro Sardinha

P.S. – This article was provided by Viral eBook Explosion (Click Here)

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