Internet Marketing Blog

Too many or none at all? While there is no magic number it is a good idea to find two or three internet marketing blogs that you really enjoy, because they can help you on a day to day basis when you are developing your online business.

Why is this?

Why should you pay attention to what anyone else is saying when it comes to doing your own thing?

While you shouldn’t let any internet marketing blogs run the way you do things, they can be of enormous help when you are building your own knowledge of online business and how things work.

It could be said that they are of more use when you are a newbie, but that’s not necessarily the case. The internet marketing blogs you choose to read on a regular basis may change over time however, as your own needs and tastes change.

As a newbie you will probably be grateful for a certain level of more basic information and advice. As you progress in your own online career and your knowledge develops these initial sources of information may become too basic for you to get any more real enjoyment and knowledge from. So you will probably progress onto more advanced internet marketing blogs that will help you to negotiate the next stage of your career.

But how many should you be reading?

This is really a matter of personal choice, but as a general rule if keeping up to date with them all means you aren’t getting your own work done, then you’re probably reading too many. Two or three is about my limit – and if one ceases to become useful I replace it with something that appeals more to my level of knowledge at that stage.

There are plenty of internet marketing blogs out there – all you need to do is find the ones that will help you the most.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007 - 2008

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If you know the answer to that one, then you’re an exceptionally well organised internet marketer. If like the rest of us you’re struggling to find an answer, then it’s time to figure out how much of the time you devote to your internet marketing activities is actually well spent.The best way to get your answer is to keep a blow by blow timetable for the next couple of weeks.

Write it all down – from the moment you sit down at your computer to the moment you switch it off again. What sites do you visit and why? How long do you spend checking your emails? How much time do you devote to promoting your products and/or services? How much time do you spend looking for new products to add to your current range?

Income From Internet Activities

You might be surprised – and shocked – by the amount of time you actually spend working towards your goal of building a substantial income from your internet activities. Chances are it’s much less than you think.

The first step towards becoming more efficient is to become more aware of how you are spending your time. Make a list of the activities you do that really move you towards a bigger income from selling products and services online, and try and spend the majority of your time on those activities. The more things you can automate the better. If you use an autoresponder, block out an afternoon each week to write four emails that can go out weekly for the next month, for example. They can then be loaded onto your autoresponder in advance and sent out at weekly intervals.

You might be like me and tend to overestimate how much time it takes you to do certain jobs; over time you will be able to plan your timetable much more efficiently as you get the hang of how you work. Just be sure to use the information you glean from your efforts to structure your days more profitably.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007 - 2008

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Too many or none at all? While there is no magic number it is a good idea to find two or three internet marketing blogs that you really enjoy, because they can help you on a day to day basis when you are developing your online business.

Why is this?

Why should you pay attention to what anyone else is saying when it comes to doing your own thing? While you shouldn’t let any internet marketing blogs run the way you do things, they can be of enormous help when you are building your own knowledge of online business and how things work.

It could be said that they are of more use when you are a newbie, but that’s not necessarily the case. The internet marketing blogs you choose to read on a regular basis may change over time however, as your own needs and tastes change.

As a newbie you will probably be grateful for a certain level of more basic information and advice. As you progress in your own online career and your knowledge develops these initial sources of information may become too basic for you to get any more real enjoyment and knowledge from. So you will probably progress onto more advanced internet marketing blogs that will help you to negotiate the next stage of your career.

But how many should you be reading?

This is really a matter of personal choice, but as a general rule if keeping up to date with them all means you aren’t getting your own work done, then you’re probably reading too many. Two or three is about my limit – and if one ceases to become useful I replace it with something that appeals more to my level of knowledge at that stage.

There are plenty of internet marketing blogs out there – all you need to do is find the ones that will help you the most.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007 - 2008

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I’m not talking about online, I’m talking about offline. Networking is an essential part of building a worthwhile internet business, because it leads you to all kinds of interesting people. But just as you don’t spend all the time sitting in your computer chair staring at your computer screen (you don’t, do you?) neither do a lot of other people. Actually getting out and meeting with other internet entrepreneurs at seminars, get togethers and all manner of other meetings can be a great learning experience, and a golden opportunity to get networking.

Meeting new people face to face can be difficult

When you think about it we’re used to getting to know people online – replying to emails, posting blog entries, replying to other peoples, and all manner of other things that don’t actually involve holding a conversation.

But there is one important thing to remember when it comes to networking face to face. We all have plenty of things in common as internet marketers. We’ve all surfed the same sites; we all rely on the same – or similar – methods of promoting our sites; we all experiment regularly with products, web pages, layouts and getting in touch with our customers, and we all know how we started out.

That is a lot of knowledge we can share through networking – and a lot of conversation starters as well.

Quite often the worst part of meeting anyone new is in trying to get a conversation started. That’s not exactly a problem if you visit an internet marketing convention because you know that everyone in the room has internet marketing in common. There is a huge array of subjects you can start talking about, and while you may not gel with everyone you will certainly be sure to click with some of the people you meet.

So get out and about more often and leave your computer at home for a change. Networking can help you in more ways than one.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007 - 2008

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You could replace the word niches with challenges, because that also has a bearing on the subject of this blog entry. It’s sensible to start with what we know in internet marketing, but once we’ve been around the block a couple of times it’s also wise to start looking for fresh challenges.

You don’t have to dive into something you know nothing about, but think about exploring a topic you have an interest in yourself, but would like to know more about. Is there enough interest in it to warrant an internet marketing presence?

Try looking online to see if anyone else has built an internet marketing business around that topic already. What are they doing to earn money? Could you do the same? How would you vary your idea so you can tap into a previously ignored part of that market?

A subject for your internet marketing venture

Picking a subject you want to learn about yourself guarantees you’ll enjoy the research required to make this new internet marketing venture a success. You’ll be able to find out where like minded people tend to congregate online, and you’ll know how to find them as well. Incidentally, going to forums and participating in discussions can help you to identify new products and services that the market would be interested in buying.

Exploring new niches helps to keep you on your toes and enjoying all the benefits that internet marketing has to offer. It also makes you a more versatile marketer – able to meet the needs of more than one kind of customer. This will ultimately lead to more profits for you and an increased ability to recognise new markets and penetrate them with the right products for the right customers.

So think about finding yourself some new niches to explore. It’s the best route to making more money online.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007 - 2008

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That’s a pretty personal question, but it’s also one of the most important ones you could ever ask yourself.

Internet marketing is a huge umbrella term that covers many opportunities for making money. There is never any reason to get bored – there is simply way too much to be learning and doing.

Why do you need to do it now?

So if you are bored, you need to ask yourself why and you need to do it now. If you don’t you could end up becoming so disillusioned with internet marketing that you leave it altogether, and that would be wasting probably the best opportunity of your whole life.

One reason for a lot of people becoming disillusioned is that they aren’t following their own interests into internet marketing. They tend to follow whatever is making everyone else money – regardless of whether they actually have any interest in it themselves.

This is a sure fire way to head to the deep realms of boredom in double quick time. Just because someone else is making lots of money at something does not make it right for you. If you don’t have any real interest in it you won’t have any enthusiasm for it. That means little or no sales… and hey presto, you’re in internet marketing boredom country.

Have passion for what you do

It’s ironic that so many people want to get out of their dead end jobs and do something more appealing – and then go straight into trying to sell something they hate online, just to try and get the bucks rolling in. It’s akin to selling insurance door to door. The chances are you wouldn’t do that, so why try it online?

Internet marketing is your gateway to another life, but you can open that gate onto any world you want to. Why pick one you hate? Pick one you love and you’ll never be thinking about how bored you are again.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007 - 2008

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Web logs, to give them their ancient sounding and somewhat archaic name, were begun so that people could share their thoughts and feelings with the world at large… or at least with a small corner of it. But when internet marketing took the world by storm and more and more everyday average people started making money online, the idea of monetizing your blog came into being.

Some people disagree with the practice, feeling that it degrades the whole point of having one somehow. I don’t subscribe to this particular theory. I can’t see any problem with monetizing your blog – after all, it’s your blog and surely the main thing you should be interested in is the overall quality of it.

The only thing you need to be careful of is stepping on the toes of the site that hosts it for you – if you have a free account. If you are monetizing your blog and you’ve got your own hosting and domain sorted out then you’ve got no worries. If you’re relying on the goodwill of a free site then beware that there is a cost for that free service – namely that a lot of them don’t tend to like you making money from it.

As usual your watchword should always be quality

Always keep one eye on your content and development needs when you are in the process of monetizing your blog, to ensure they don’t get left behind in the dust. If you can keep your readers happy then there is no reason to suppose that earning some cash from your efforts is in any way a bad thing.

And supposing you get some naysayers that disagree? Don’t worry too much about them – you’re the boss after all, and you’re the one that has to pay for the hosting fees every month.

Enough said?

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007 - 2008

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Don’t fix it? Isn’t that how the saying goes? Question is, does it apply to internet marketing? The problem is that the online world is moving faster than most of us can keep up with. Internet marketing is much the same. If you are currently promoting a particular affiliate scheme or product and it’s selling well, there is no guarantee it will continue to remain that way. New products and affiliate items are coming out all the time, ready to knock your success reeling.

That’s why you need to be on your toes and alert at all times

Even when your internet marketing efforts are paying off big time. Things can change so quickly that what works today may not work so well tomorrow.

Of course some things will probably always be popular, and the same goes for some long established websites that many of us use to raise awareness of our internet marketing ventures. But that doesn’t mean we should sit back and stop searching for the next big thing.

The danger with the online world is that it’s very easy to get comfortable with what we know, and settle into our own little corner where we’re familiar with all the knowledge we have and all the sites we know, not to mention all the ways we currently have of making money.

But why settle when there is so much more out there?

With one eye on what we’re already doing, we should all make more effort to look at what everyone else is doing; look for new horizons and goals to reach, and new areas of internet marketing to explore.

If we don’t there is a danger we’ll become narrow minded and forget why we ever went into internet marketing in the first place – which no doubt had something to do with wanting our own freedom.

Once you have that freedom, why not make the most of it.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007 - 2008

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Do you ever get so wrapped up in your own business and online marketing efforts that you forget to look around you to see what’s going on elsewhere? It’s easily done, but it can harm your business if you don’t stay in touch with what everyone else is doing. That’s why it pays to stop and smell the roses once in a while.

Take time out from planning your next marketing campaign and have a look round the internet for a while. Let one click lead to another, one site lead to another and one source of information to yet another. You’ll learn from what you are reading and digesting; different ways of doing things might occur to you that are working for other people already.

The internet is never the same two days running

It’s great to stake out your own corner of cyberspace, but don’t ignore what everyone else’s little corner is like in the process. You might just be missing a trick somewhere.

Look out for what other people are recommending, whether it’s a product, a service or a way of doing something. It all goes towards building your knowledge and your experience of doing business online, and it can build your sales and visitors to a more healthy level as well.

You’ll also find you’ll be more aware of new developments in various different areas, and you can easily come across a new ezine that might be worth subscribing to. All the new knowledge you’re gaining will come in handy at some point, whether it’s to help you create a new product or website, or decide which affiliate scheme to sign up for.

So allocate some time to checking out what your competition is doing, and make notes of any good sites you come across. You’ll be surprised how much you can find out when you’re sitting back with a cup of coffee doing ‘nothing’.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007 - 2008

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Who is? We could all earn more if we really put our minds to it. But if you started out in internet marketing to make a decent enough amount of cash to enable you to quit your day job, then it’s understandably frustrating when it doesn’t pour in as quickly as you’d hoped. This is when you need a plan of action if you want things to change – and it starts by looking at what you’re doing now.

First off, how many income sources do you have? You’ll get the best results online if you have plenty more than just one. Set up a website, set up a blog, monetize them both and link one to the other to drive traffic in between them.

How many affiliate schemes are you a member of?

Are you actively promoting them all, or do most of them get lost in the shuffle? It helps if you choose a number of affiliate schemes in the same area of interest, as it increases the chance of people seeing more than one product that they’d like to buy. If you promote them all on one website and provide plenty of extra information for them to use as well, then you’re giving them more reason to revisit your site and buy more in the future.

You also need to be devoting a reasonable amount of time to your endeavours if you want to get up and running quickly. You can’t expect to get started on ten minutes a day and have hundreds of dollars pouring in a couple of weeks later.

Your time will be rewarded later on though, so don’t become disheartened if you don’t see results straightaway. The best way to boost your income is to figure out what you really want to achieve and then concentrate on one thing at a time to see better results – and more money.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007 - 2008

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