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Top 5 Things You Must Do Before Firing Your Boss!

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:11:00 +0000

Before you make up your mind to join the bandwagon of internet marketers, there are a few things you need to keep in perspective should in case you’re one of the multitude that thinks making money online is easy. Internet Marketing ain’t easy.

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What Can I Sell On My Website?

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:19:00 +0000

Once you’ve managed to uncover a profitable niche, you have to start thinking about setting up a website but before you do that, there’s need to define what unique product or service you’ll be selling or offering in your niche and what kind of website would best fit your purposes.

This is similar to setting the goals of your online marketing.

What do you intend to achieve by creating yourself an online presence?

For those of you who already have an offline business, this is a walk in the park because in most cases you’re only trying to garner mass attention for your already existing business/product. Newbies are the ones who might be stressed out at this junction.

TIP: Investigate your niche very well and find out if there are any problems yet to be solved there. You can get ideas from forums with people posting about needing solutions to this problem and that problem.

Selling something which everybody in your niche is already selling wouldn’t do much good in the long run. It’ll only increase competition in the market as you and other marketers fight to sell the “same” products to the same buyers.

The time to make a big decision has come. You have to create a website based on what goods and services you intend to sell to your customers.

There are 4 main types of websites

Sales-Retail Websites: A good example would be Amazon.com. This is a site that comprises mainly of lots of pictures, a little text to describe the product and a shopping cart. The drawback with this kind of site is that they are not search engine friendly due to their design layout. But then again they are user friendly and easy to navigate.
Marketing Websites: These kind of websites are what internet marketers fondly call mini-sites. They are designed to promote ONLY one product. Examples are sites like AtomicBlogging.com and LegitOnlineJobs.com.
These sites are the simplest to build as they’re made up of just a captivating header and footer image that brands the site, a few images here and there to illustrate what’s on sale, a wonderful, often OVER HYPED sales letter and finally one button that says it all. ORDER NOW!
They are easily optimized for search engines and money is easily generated through advertising (Google Adwords) & affiliate programs (Click Bank & PayDotCom)
Informational Business Websites: These sites are all about providing information about certain goods and services. Have you ever browsed one of the Sony websites and not found a single price tag on the products on display? Well that’s because they are just there you give you kind of a heads up of what’s new in the market and what amazing features these products have to offer. In most cases they leave you a link to another of their sites where you can actually order the product.
These sites work for people who have a well-defined product to sell, but are better left for companies and small businesses that have a nationwide presence
Web Application Based Business Websites: This is a territory where most people fear to tread because they require a lot of perseverance, a very original idea, and a good team of programmers who want the product to succeed. In this scenario you are offering an application that functions like a traditional program except that it’s web based. A good example would be Skype Telephony, BetamaxSMS & Clickatell which handle internet phone calls and text messaging. So long as web surfers need these services (which are often cheaper by the way) the owners of this applications will keep making money.
NOTE: If you are new to online marketing this ain’t for you at all. Look for something within your league then grow from there.

Take time out to research your niche, to choose what you want to sell online and what kind of website to help you achieve that goal before you start any web site construction.

Before I sign off, let me touch a question that many newbies still ask day in day out.

Is Owning A Business Website Necessary?

Like I’ve said when I was discussing Web Resources, yes it is necessary but then over the past weeks since that post I’ve come to realize that if you are handicapped when it comes to knowing how to create a website or if you’re on a shoe string budget or don’t want to face the stress of managing a business website, there are various options you could explore.

This is where EBay, Amazon Webstore and Lulu come in. In summary Lulu.com is for self online-publishing. If you’ve written a book, created something artsy or recorded music you can these here. EBay is kind of an auction site where people sell various things and bidders place bids till they either clinch or lose the product. From what I hear Amazon Store is the best of them all with the drawback that they charge you a whooping $60 a month for hosting your shop and 7% of every sale you make.

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Do have a lovely day and in the next post we shall be discussing How To Design A Business Website.

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What Is Internet Marketing All About?

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:10:00 +0000

This is the first installation of a series of posts which I have mapped out to show the newbies to internet marketing a few things they ought to know about internet marketing and how they can go into it without getting burnt (money wise)

I very much hope, it serves it’s purpose.

The Internet as we know it is a perfect spot to launch a marketing campaign. Advertising through the internet is very powerful and saves one a lot of money as it reaches out to a large audience irrespective of the location of one’s business. Successful online marketers have mastered the act of thinking out of the box thus allowing them to compete very well with their online rivals.

One important fact to note is that unlike normal marketing, you don’t need a degree in internet marketing before setting up an online marketing career.

Hopefully with these series of post the newbie to internet marketing will get a peek at what it entails to make money online through internet marketing.

Internet marketing as we know it, is simply creating an online presence for your business or products, thereby placing it in front of millions of everyday internet users and hopefully maximizing your daily sales.

A few points to consider before plunging into internet marketing are:

Communication: You must master the art of replying emails promptly and efficiently. It’s hard to generate traffic online and for every visitor that stops by your site, you need to give them the deserved attention that could lead to your making a sale. The tone of your email counts very much as to whether someone who’s just making inquiries is finally going to turn into a potential customer.
Some internet marketers are so in the habit of not responding emails at all and when you finally decide to call them, the manner in which they talk to you makes you feel like a huge nuisance to them. This is a sure fire way of losing customers and believe me you, once word gets out of your lack of professionalism, your internet marketing endeavor could be brought to a screeching halt. Example if you take more than 48 – 72 hrs to reply an email, prepare to lose that customer as he/she might have been in buying mode at the time of that email and your delay could have made him/her look elsewhere for his/her needs. If Hostgator hadn’t shown a lot of patience with my insistent inquiries, I wouldn’t be with them today. Most customers will have doubts about buying from you and it’s in your best interest to calm their worries.
Human Resources: Depending on how huge your online marketing business/strategies are, you ought to look into hiring extra helping hands or outsourcing. Imagine, Amazon or Yahoo Shopping being run as a one man business. They will definitely not have made it today. If you can’t attend to your customers one on one, you need to hire people who can and not just ordinary people but folks you understand your business and the fact that the customer is the key to a successful business.
In Demand Products: There’s nothing as foolish as selling something people don’t want to buy online. Make sure your product has a good amount of people typing away at search engines like Google looking for your products. You also need to ask yourself if your services or products are worth buying online or in the nearby convenience store/off license. More about this when we talk about How to Uncover Profitable Online Niches

Finally, if you intend subscribing to my future posts on Internet Marketing For Newbies, I need you to read Dave Lovelace’s Making Money Online From Home: The Ugly Truth Exposed. If after reading it you still decide to go into internet marketing/making money online then I wish you all the best. With hope, perseverance & a lot of study/ground work, you’ll definitely make it!

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