First, I want to let you know that I use a free tool called Wblogger to do all my posts. It has a build in spell check plus it will save a copy of all my posts on my local drive. If I just did my posting the normal way then I would have a lot of spelling errors and people might think that I only have a 3rd grade education like Jethro from the Beverly Hillbillies. A list is the single most important item in any business. You have to have a list of potential customers and you have to have a relationship with everybody on your list. Now there are a good number of ways to establish a list like you could give away a free report or a piece of software that you found. Another way, and a lot of marketers have told me hos successful this was for them, is to join a co-reg like Mark Hunter's "The 12 Days of Christmas". This is a promotion where Mark gets a bunch of marketers each to give away a product and then this is sent to people lists offering them 12 days of free gifts. In order to get the gifts the person needs to fill in a form with at least their fist name and their email address.
Now you can buy lists of optin names from some list brokers but from what I have heard usually only a very small percentage will become your subscribers. Some of these brokers are offering double and triple opt in and these will have a higher percentage of subscribers for your newsletter but Co-reg is by far probably the best way to build a list. A good authority on these co-reg service's is Ed Thorpe of Lazydudepublishing.com .
It helps greatly if you have a website where your potential subscribers can read about you. There are a lot of marketers that are offering templates but the fastest way to get a site up would be to just visit blogger.com and create a blog. You can have Adsense on your site but unless you are getting ungodly amounts of traffic I would not count on Adsense to provide a great income for you. The best way would be to sign up as an affiliate for various products through a site like commission Junction and get the text links, not the banners, if you want a site that will load fast and not keep people waiting. I created a site called hosting-choices which gives links to various Web hosting companies that I have checked out. If someone signs up for hosting by clicking on one of my links then I could earn about $100.
Building a list of subscribers and by having affiliate links on your site are really the only two ways that you will make money unless you are able to create your own products. If you know how to program you could create a nice little software utility that serves some purpose or if you are into gardening or refinishing furniture then you could create a how to ebook on the subject.
To get traffic to your site you have a few options and the best is by using a pay per click campaign but not a lot of newbies, I know I can't, can afford to do this. Writing articles and submitting them to article directories can be a great route to become know as an authority on a subject. I have written articles and within a few days of submitting them I have seen a sizable increase in the number of sites that link to me and the number of results that show up on me in sites like Google or Yahoo. I try to submit an article every two weeks or so.
One thing I must caution you about is these sites that provide free articles where all you have to do is add your information to them and submit them. I tried this when I first got started and it got be banned from certain article directories because other people had submitted the same article. The only way to effectively use these type s of articles is for you to read them and then in your own word write your thoughts on the article. You may want to read several articles on the same subject and write a summary of what you learned from these articles.
David Watson has this great product called websitecontentwizard but he sells this product for almost $200 and I know that most of us that haven't made any money yet in the internet arena will not be able to afford this. He would have been smart if he had offered some sort of installment option or I even thought about creating a bundle with his product, an article submitter and a website builder and offering the whole thing for under $40 per month.
With article directories, there are some sights that tell you that for a fee they will submit your articles for you but I signed up with one of those and later found out it was much easier to just submit them myself manually. I use a piece of software called Article submitter which I had paid 3 payments of $19.95 for. I found out later on that I could have got this software at no cost elsewhere.. There also some groups on Yahoo where you can submit your articles to and all you would have to do is put your article in the body of an email and send it to a certain address.
If you go to Articledashboard.com you can get the software to have your own article directory completely for free which is probably a better bet than having these Adsense sites that some marketers will give you. The reason these marketers will give you these Adsense sites is because your Adsense ID will be rotated along with others including that of the marketer that gave you the sites. He is figuring that if he gives these sites away to 1,000 people and his Adsense code will show up 30% of the time then if these people were each making $10 per month from these sites then he would be earning $3.00 per user times 1,000 users which equals about $3,000 per month for him.
I just finished reading somebody's post about using these free PLR article as website content. I will not mention the marketers name but the whole thing is garbage. You have to ask yourself when somebody send you these free PLR articles how many other people are receiving the same articles? how do the search engines treat duplicate content? If you receive some of these PLR articles and only add your name to them you have to ask yourself how many other people are doing the exact same thing. Even adding an intro and footer paragraph to them their bodies will still contain the same text. The Only way to take PLR articles and make them work is to read the articles and completely rewrite them in your own words.
Adsense ready sites, If you have a simple word processor like MS Word or something like openoffice.org then all you need is to log in to your Adsense account and follow the instructions and Google will generate the code you need to display a nice Adsense banner right on your site. Simply copy and paste this code right into either your word processor or your HTML editor and then use the free Filezilla to upload your site. No need to buy these ready made Adsense sites, no need to waste your money on these. If you still think you need a template then email me and I will send you one completely for free.
With buying traffic for your site do not do this unless you are guaranteed that it is targeted traffic. Why have traffic from people who are only interested in knitting or bowling or something of the sort when your target is horse back riding. Targeted traffic would mean that they would only send you people that are interested in horses. If you have a site that is recipes for baking why get traffic of people who only want recipes for brewing their own beer? Also unless you have great copy on your site that will take visitors and turn them into customers or at least subscribers then there is no reason for you to waste your money on traffic.
If you want to see how good the copy is of your site you may want to sign up at a Hit Exchange. Usually for every 5 sites you visit you will get one person visiting your website. You may even want to purchase a very small amount of targeted traffic or you can go to Williecrawford.com and sign up for his free Saturday brainstorming calls where he will critique three sites. A lot of times if you email him that you would like to have your site looked at on one of these calls he might just do that.
Internet marketing, once you get it up and running can be a great place to make good money but it is no get rich quick scheme. It takes work. There are some marketers that will try and sell you a push button method giving you a blueprint to follow but the best way is trial and error. If you are looking for a place for some great ideas about business along with step by step instructions then go to your local bookstore and see whether they carry Millionaireblueprints.com magazine. Another great place are these forums on internet marketing like the Warrior Forum or on Willie crawfords site.
