Internet Marketing

It has been estimated that 99% of people who attempt to make money online fail to do so. I don’t know how accurate that is but based on the frustration I see posted online I’d guess it’s pretty close. The unfortunate thing is that most of these failures come from mistakes that all newbies seem to make. Here are some possible  reasons that you’re not making money online.

 1. You’re relying on building a downline. MLMs and any program that requires you to build a downline in order to make decent money is basically doomed from the start. A lot of people new to the internet see the paid to click or paid to read email programs that promise you all kinds of money if you just get ten signups and then those ten get ten signups, etc. The real tragedy here is that for the amount of effort that you will put into getting just ten people to sign up for a program you could actually build a long term income producing website. 

2. You’re working in the Internet Marketing niche. If you’ve never made any money online how can you reasonably attempt to sell anyone products on Internet Marketing? This niche is just too saturated with real experts for a new person to compete in. Find another niche to begin your make money online attempts in. 

3. You’ve put all your eggs in one basket. Many ideas, products and websites just don’t sell. If you’re committed to one of these ideas and are determined to make it work at any cost you will be in for a rude awakening. Most first attempts fail. You need to move on and try other ideas, it may be the next or maybe the tenth idea you try but eventually you will get it right. When I was heavy into PPC ads I often would start five to ten new ad campaigns on one day. 8 out of 10 didn’t make me any money so I would drop them and focus on refining the ones that worked. Imagine how broke I’d be if I refused to let go of those bad campaigns? 

4. You can’t or won’t follow directions. If you’ve bought one of the many courses available that claim to show you how to make money online there’s a good chance that even if everything in the course is correct, that you still won’t make any money because you tried to skip steps and didn’t follow the instructions to the letter. If this sounds like you, go back and start over, and this time follow the directions to the letter. 

5. Nobody wants what you’re selling. If you didn’t do keyword research to see what people were searching for and you just went ahead and made the site or product that you wanted to make there’s a good chance you’re going to fail. No amount of effort on your part is going to make people buy something that they aren’t interested in. You need to go back and find out what people want and cater your efforts to that. 

 6. You are paying for traffic. Anyone who does a little research and maybe buys a good course on getting listed in the search engines can get all the free traffic they want. Why are you paying for it? Paying for traffic affords you no time to correct mistakes or tweek your sales pitch or website. You will run out of funds before you figure out what to do. Find a good course on SEO and get all the free traffic you want through the search engines. 

I hope that if you see yourself in this article that you stop making these failure causing mistakes.

For more great free tips on how to Really Make Money Online, visit http://www.blog-makemoneyonline.com

Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/why-youre-not-making-money-online-1733774.html

What are niche information products?When you find them go and see what kind of groups have the most activity.What you really need to do is find groups of people with a lot of problems.Sometimes, you’ll find one large niche and then realize you need to build your information product line around a more targeted, narrow niche of people.Single moms on a budget, as a niche target market, may not be able to pay a high price for information showing them how to get organized.

Then you’ll want to have a whole range of products that focus on the same niche, so you can then follow up with "backend sales" to existing customers.They’re also rabid fans of the game who would do anything to improve their score or beat their competitors on the links.For instance, golfers have deep pockets because the game of golf in itself is expensive.Some niches, as you’ll discover, aren’t as profitable as others.

For instance, parents in general have many problems you could address, such as raising smart kids, dealing with discipline, and saving money.You need to look at your audience and see if they’re willing (and able) to spend money for the solutions they’re seeking.All you need to remember is that an information product is just a solution, so it needs to be presented as something that will benefit others.But you can then reduce that niche to moms or dad and go deeper by aiming at divorced parents or parents raising kids with illnesses.A niche just means your target audience.Groups for men such as AskMen might give you insight into what kind of products they might need and that will then help you generate a good living.To find these target niche markets you could start with online groups and forums which You can find by checking the search engines.However targeting this same niche , you may find some are willing to invest a reasonable amount in something that shows them how to make more money using their home computer.Before you begin selling information products on the Internet, you want to make sure you’re targeting a niche that will be profitable for you in the short and long-term.

Hi my name is sam iam a internet marketer. I specializes in helping people with there marketing needs. I have been a internet marketer for over two years and helping people for over a year. http://bummarketing.clickintermart.com

Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/niche-information-products-1730087.html

A Review of Alexis Dawes’ “Desperate Buyers Only”

The reason why most people fail to make money online by creating info-products is that they do not know the techniques of searching the problems that keep nagging people all the time.

The best way to write the e-books that people will buy is to follow the footsteps of someone who is already making money successfully writing them. It is no use wasting time reinventing the wheel.

There are hordes of ‘gurus’ who just rehash and re-mash the stale information gleaned from the internet and present it in bold red and blue words in their sales letters to entice the tired and unsuspecting people and deprive them of their hard earned money.

I have myself been duped quite a number of times by the tall claims of such gurus. So might have been you too.

The question is:

Who is qualified to guide on how to write information reports that make money fast?

The best person is some one who has the knack of searching problems that afflict people and make them desperate for solutions.

Alexis Dawes is one such person.

Who is Alexis Dawes?

A single mom and an info-product entrepreneur, Alexis Dawes refuses to follow the age old wisdom of writing only on subjects that she is passionate about believing that the money will follow.

Her recommendation for choosing the topics for the info-products has nothing to do with “Doing What You Love”. The topic that you love to write most may have already saturated the market.

Let us face the harsh reality about making money online. Internet searchers may not be interested in what you love.

Alexis Dawes is honest enough to admit that instead of writing about the things she enjoys, she writes “on how to solve very specific, very difficult to solve problems.”

She, therefore, searches out the dreadful problems that people are desperate about and provides solutions through her reports and e-books.

Alexis Dawes, has created an ultimate guide for creating e-books and short reports which focus on finding the markets where buyers are faced with desperate problems and want instant solutions. The cost for the solution is immaterial to them.

These topics alone can help you make money on the internet.

Imagine a person drowning and flailing his hands wildly for help!

Or, hanging precariously down a cliff!

Or, yelling with piercing pain because a thorn is deeply entrenched in his back!

Or, a person who badly needs a house but is hard for cash even for making the down payment!

How grateful would they feel if a help was offered?

Would they ask for the price or like to bargain?

These are the dream situations for info-product creators.

These buyers, according to Alexis, do not bother about the volume of the reports or e-books; they just plain want solutions to their problems irrespective of the size of the reports.

Alexis Dawes’”Desperate Buyers Only” is a blue print for turning on the cash flow for marketers who are thirsty for such problems.

Introductory chapters

The book starts by discussing the problem of choosing the topics that attract buyers like bees to the honey.

Alexis, herself, once faced such a problem. It was about “How to get a bank account if you have been placed in the Chex Systems.”

She researched hard left and right to arrive at the solution. She contacted friends, experts and insiders and finally came up with a truly insider’s report on obtaining a checking account.

The “solution” by its very nature is never long. It is usually short and simple.

Those who have no real solutions for their reports just pad them with pages after pages of irrelevant stuff. This is sure way to disrepute and failure.

Alexis’s report comprised of just 6 pages and took her only one hour to write. It was priced at $24.95, too high indeed, but it has been selling like hot cakes.

To quote her:

“If you have a problem that’s making your stomach churn day and night,causing you to lose sleep, get into arguments with your significant other,

lose/gain weight, or just plain worry endlessly - it’s a serious issue. You want a solution, and you want it quickly.”

That is the type of audience you should search for. That is the type of audience who is willing to pay any amount for your e-book or report once they are convinced that it contains the solutions that they are desperate about.

She is the one whose footsteps we should follow.

Why do most info-product creators fail?

According to her, most info-product creators fail due to 3 main reasons-

•  They focus on general topics
• They focus on what are perceived to be ‘hot niches’
• They try to follow the hallowed approach of writing on topics that they are passionate about believing that the money will follow automatically.

Alexis asks her readers to forget their passions in choosing the topics. If writing about passions alone could bring in success there was no need to spend so much money and time grappling with keyword research tools to find out the niches or keywords that are searched most.

“Desperate Buyers Only” is for those online marketers who want to make money by creating information reports but are wandering like lost souls in the immense jungle called internet.

It will guide you about choosing the topics that have immense sales potential even though they may be boring and dry.

We do not entirely agree with Alexis Dawes

Though Alexis may have a solid reason in recommending that we should ignore our passions, it cannot be denied that in the long run the most successful marketers are those who write about what they are passionate about. This approach may take long time and patience to succeed.

Unfortunately most people lose their patience and perseverance as they wait for the results. So the ideal course would be to try to combine your passion with the profits. You have to choose the topic that you love most and which is capable of making money as well.

Choosing the right topic is the greatest challenge especially for newbies in the internet marketing.

Here are certain important questions that she answers in her book.

1. How to find desperate buyers?

According to the author there are 13 groups of people who are hard pressed with urgent problems that are driving them crazy for solutions.

These are people who are

•  Facing legal challenges such as foreclosures,
•  Desperate about how to lose weight,
•  Facing divorce suits and so on.

Alexis goes a great length in describing each type of situation in such a way that you can develop an empathy with the type of audience you want to create your reports for.

2. How to choose websites related to the group you have selected?

These are sites or forums which your chosen audience is browsing through. Alexis provides valuable clues about how she herself finds such sites. She also recommends that you outsource this research explaining how to go about it.

3.How to isolate the root problems in your chosen group?

You have to study the habits, conversations and language of your potential audience in these discussion groups or forums. This step will help you to find out what they are discussing most, what questions they are asking; in short what they are desperate about.

This is the place where the money lies.

4.How to find what pains them most?

Once you have isolated the desperate problems of your audience, you should try to understand the psychology underlying the problems.

Alexis provides a list of 9 acute psychological needs that torment people most.

You have to find out which need you can provide most help about. The need you can help about may be about finding a job, reducing the weight, eliminating the nauseating odor from the house and so on.

Traffic and Marketing

Alexis recommends finding the hottest key words from the WordTracker and buying traffic for them. This, according to her, is the real deal maker.

Teaching by example

She cites a practical example of buying the cheapest traffic by using Google Ad Words to promote her 6-page report on obtaining a checking account.

She spends a ridiculous $20 a month on an average on her Ad Word campaign in Google. Here’s a breakdown of her daily numbers:

Price per click: $.04

Daily: $2.00-$4.00

Click thru ratio (the # of times her ad’s are clicked on compared to the number of times it’s shown): 5%-30%

Number of sales: 1-3 sales a day.

The report sells for $24.95 and she is making an average of $150-to-$250 a day in a market.

This is despite the competition from those sites that freely offer lists of 100+ non ChexSystem banks and also run their ads side by side to her Ad Word listings every, every single day.

Besides this she uses the following methods to get traffic to her sites:

Buying classified ads especially by registering with USFree Ads

Affiliate Marketing

She relies heavily on affiliate marketing. Her approach to affiliate marketing is different from others. She recommends that only those persons should sell her book who purchase and read it. And this is how it should actually be. You cannot recommend a product without knowing anything about it.

Article Marketing

Though there is noting new in this approach, but here too Alexis tells that mere broadcasting articles does not make much difference in sales. You have to choose the right keywords that relate to the buyers’ desperation.

Warrior Forum

In another classic example of creating sales, Alexis tells how she used Warrior Forum special offer and made $2,600 in just two weeks.

It is quite well known that Warrior Forum is a website community of online marketers. It consists of thousands of internet marketers of all levels of abilities.

It provides a section where the members can offer their products for sale as a special offer. Since the membership of the forum runs into thousands, you can easily make sales worth thousands of dollars in a matter of few days.

How to create content for your reports?

This can pose a real challenge for most of the online marketers. Alexis provides a simple formula about creating the content. It is meant for those people do not like to write. She suggests that you market only short reports and get them researched and written by others.

Copywriting

This is one of the best and most delightful highlights of the book “Desperate Buyers Only”.

Even if you are an already established online marketer, you need to buy the book only to learn Alexis’ art of copy writing.

Alexis provides an amazing description of how to write a killer sales page practically for any product. She herself admits that she is not an accomplished copy writer.

She does not present any in-depth analysis of buyers’ psychology. Still she presents a truly fantastic and simple list of the elements that constitute a successful sales letter.

You must copy the check list and place it on your desk top to refer to it every time you have to write a sales copy. You only need to fill in the blanks provided in the check list and that’s all.

The chapter on writing sales copy details certain important recommendations. Some of these are:

1. You should demonstrate to your audience how you empathize with them and understand their needs better than your competition.
2. Prove that your competition, both free and paid, simply sucks and aims at making money from them
3. Prove in what way your information provides them more value for their money by explaining how you have researched, formatted and presenting it.
4. Prove that your information is the latest available in the market and responds to the needs of the audience
5. Prove how your information can show the results RIGHT NOW.

These are the basic guiding principles of writing any sales letter.

She illustrates the points from the examples of her own sales page. You can take her sales page and use it as a template-just copy what she has written and only make changes in context of what you are selling and who you are selling.

Be honest enough to point out flaws in your product

She also emphasizes on the need to point out flaws if any in your product.

She explains how you should write an FAQ page and use it for better conversion; how to justify the price of your product and what to write in the order box, in your P.S and a lot more.

It is simply amazing how a person who is not a copywriting expert can create a killing sales page as hers. Her sales page format can save you hundreds of dollars that you may have to spend on getting your sales page written by an expert.

Her interesting tip about buyers

The Buyer is not always as shrewd as you think.The web is attracting thousands of new searchers every day. These newbies are usually not search savvy.

If you offer quality content in your reports that truly helps people and use appropriate marketing techniques, you can make good profits even if the same kind of information is abundantly available on the Internet.

What should you NOT expect to find in her book?

Her book does not mention techniques on how to rank high for obscure keywords. “Desperate Buyers Only” is not an SEO guide for beginners.

There is no mumbo-jumbo about search engine optimization methods. This is not her expertise.

There is no talk about AdWords advertising.

Her technique of making money has nothing to do with getting a top 10 position for an AdWords advertisement or any other Pay Per Click search engine.

Alexis does not explain ‘black hat’ techniques that are going to get you banned by the search engines.

She does not recommend you to submit your site to 50 million different directories.

She does not teach anything about getting link partners or using cheap publicity tactics.

There is no talk about eBay, newsletters, blogs, RSS, or any other derivatives.

How much money is Alexis Dawes making?

Alexis has written several information products for desperate buyers and has been making huge money on daily basis.

“I’m talking Christmas, holidays, everyday. The money doesn’t stop. As long as the problem exists, I make money,” she says in her e-book Desperate Buyers Only.

In a recent interview Alexis revealed that she has been earning anywhere from $200-$7K+ a day for the past more than five years.

And mind she is only in her 30s, by no means old enough to be labeled as a guru.

Why should you buy the “Desperate Buyers Only”?

“Desperate Buyers Only” is a great product and you cannot find any major draw back with it. It can be very useful for those who have spent tons of money on Adword campaigns and written numerous reports without any success.

The book changes your outlook by being practical about creating money. It reveals mind-blowing secrets of searching deeply to find the right niches and how to make tons of money on writing short reports.

“Desperate Buyers Only” is a unique book for any info-product creator who has been struggling to make money and has not been able to find profitable topics to write about.

It is a great guide that provides almost all the answers to the questions of those who want to earn their living from online marketing.

It is a plain ticket for a surefire cash flow. You will never be at a loss to know about how to find products for desperate buyers after reading the book.

So, put your preconceived notions away and be prepared to learn a technique that nearly guarantees you’ll always have a productive, cash producing business

As an added bonus, you can avail free 30-minute consultation with Alexis, which can be much more rewarding than the pile of useless books that most authors offer to bribe the readers.

I have read this book a number of times. The more you dig it, the more new ideas you will discover. You will feel grateful for such valuable goldmine of information.

Above all you have a 60 day money back guarantee as well.

To turn on your cash flow, please read Desperate Buyers Only

I am an affiliate marketet and I do not recommend any product without having a thorough knowledge about it

Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/making-money-online-how-to-find-topics-for-infoproducts-that-sell-fast-1730131.html

THIS is How you Transform Any Amount Of (Personal Debt) Into ($5,000) Per Month Income or More Quickly & Easily (CLICK HERE NOW!)

7 Hot points for Building and Selling of Ebooks
By Bimla Sheokand

Every part of your book can be a sales tool. When you include the essential 7 Hot-Selling Points before you write chapter one, you will sell more books than you ever dreamed of…

1. Write for your one preferred audience. Not everyone wants your book. Find out what audience wants or needs your book? What problems does your book solve for them? Create an audience profile and keep your audience’s picture in front of you as you write. Ask yourself, is my topic narrow enough? The Chicken Soup for the Teenager, For the Prisoner, and other specific groups sold far more copies than the original Chicken
Soup.

2. Write a sizzling book title including benefits. You have 8 seconds to hook your potential buyer. While an eBook cover doesn’t need fancy graphics you will want to create one that can be printed both in color and black and white. It must be easy to see and read. Your title and cover should compel your audience to buy.

3. Write a thirty-sixty second “tell and sell.” You only have a few seconds to impress your potential buyer. Include your title, a few benefits, and the audience. This billboard needs a sound bite to grab attention. Write, Finish, and publish your eBook Fast to Pull Online Sales shows professionals how to shortcut each step of writing, publishing, and promoting a salable short eBook.

Add a sound bite to the above “tell and sell” something like this: Compare your book to someone who is famous. One client’s title Passion at Any Age used the sound bite this book is the Artist’s Way for seniors.

4. Write your sales letter before you write your book. Think about your potential buyer. What are his resistances? His problems or challenges? Be sure you address these. Your sales letter used to promote your book either by email or on your Web site needs to give the benefits your potential buyers want and need. .Include compelling ad copy, features, testimonials, and a small blurb about you, the author. If your potential buyer likes it, they will buy on the spot.

5. Write your eBook’s introduction. Include the problem your audience has, why you wrote the book, and its purpose. In a few paragraphs include more specific benefits, and how you will present it (format). Keep it under a page. Your introduction will help you write your sales letter.

6. Create a table of contents. Each chapter should have a title, preferably a catchy one. If your reader can’t understand the chapter title, then annotate it. Add some benefits or a sub title. In my first chapter called “Why Write an eBook?” I added this partial list of benefits: Ongoing lifelong multiple streams of income, credibility as the expert, products sell easily online, buyers are more targeted and hence you create more profit.

7. Reach out to opinion molders. After an initial contact of asking for feedback, resend them the same chapter and the table of contents of your book. Ask for a testimonial then. These influential contacts’ testimonials will help promote your eBook Online.

Design every part of your eBook to be a sales tool and a beacon that brings out your best: writing–compelling, easy to read, organized, and enjoyable. Your book can sell to thousands, even hundreds of thousands when you design it correctly.

For more details visit to www.create-free-pdf.com or www.easy-pdf-toolkit.com

www.ebook-secrets-revealed.com

Article Source: Articles island - Free article submission and free reprint articles

THIS is How you Transform Any Amount Of (Personal Debt) Into ($5,000) Per Month Income or More Quickly & Easily (CLICK HERE NOW!)

Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/7-hot-points-for-building-and-selling-of-ebooks-1725878.html

A copywriter is a person tasked to write the text used for advertisements in magazines, newspapers, television, radio and other kinds of media. A copywriter may also be assigned to come up with the words for press releases, informational or promotional pamphlets, and other promotional materials. A copywriter may also be tasked to rewrite or edit existing materials.

A copywriter usually works in advertising firms, retail stores, and marketing companies in a metropolitan area. The working environment of a copywriter is usually found to be quite hectic, which makes creativity under pressure necessary. Advertising is known to be a very fast-paced field where many crises can suddenly occur.

People encounter products of copywriting everyday through slogans, mail advertisements, jingle lyrics, website content, commercial scripts headlines, taglines, press releases or other text that are used in marketing and advertising. Copywriting can be manifested in billboards, print ads, catalogs, brochures, websites, letters, email, post cards, commercials and other forms of advertising media.

You should hire a copywriter who has experience in your product category and stand back and give the copywriter room to do his work. You should have an opportunity to review the work and make suggestions, but take the copywriter’s suggestions seriously-as you would take that of any other professional.

Good technical writers are experienced in bridging knowledge gaps. This means they have to understand the technology, but they also have to be able to talk about it in the layperson’s language. A copywriter with technical writing experience in the IT industry is likely to have domain knowledge and an ability to hit the ground running.

These changes have led to a growing appreciation of the value of quality web copy. This appreciation has, in turn, led to an influx of opportunistic ‘copywriters’ promoting themselves as website copywriters or SEO copywriters. Don’t get me wrong, there are quite a few excellent SEO copywriters out there, and you should definitely shop around.

The first trick of the trade in copywriting includes being able to constantly improve at your writing. You should be able to write effectively in a variety of styles, and be able to do it at a proficient level. If you are unable to do this, you should practice until you are able to. You may want to pick up on a writing class, or even a writing course.

As a marketing copywriter, you’re a strategist. You may oversee the complete launch of a new product or service, or you may offer advice in areas like Search Engine Marketing (SEM) with which agency copywriters are unfamiliar.

You can also ask your copywriter if they provide video marketing services to their clients. Currently, there are very few who do, but since video is increasingly used as a viable marketing medium, the need for video marketing services will increase, and copywriters are in a very good position to offer this.

Read about seo services. Also read about blog designs and rss submission

Read abut Seoflicks is ranked amongst the fastest growing search engine marketing and web development firms.

Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/copywriting-tips-1706034.html

Article directories are websites that house free articles. These articles are usually put there by whoever owns the copyright to them as a promotion method. Each article has the owners byline placed under it so that those who eventually read the article will know who wrote it (or at least who owns it) and will be able to get in contact with or visit their website for further information.

Articles directories are a great place to put your articles so that they will make you money. By using this method, people who are interested in your product or service will see your article, view you as an expert in the subject, and will visit your website. Even if you cannot write or do not have any knowledge on the subject on which you are promoting (for example for you run an affiliate website), you can always hire a writer to do the work for you. Getting quality articles written will be expensive up front, but they will pay for themselves in no time, either through affiliate sales or selling your own services, and everything from then on is pure profit.

Let’s take a real life example. Imagine that you are an accountant working from home. You write an article on an accounting topic and place it on various article directories. Those who are looking for the subject you wrote about will read your article, see that you have the knowledge and skill that is needed to do a job for them, and visit your website or contact you via e-mail. Your article just gained you a new client who may use your services regularly, but will definitely give you a nice profit at least once.

Furthermore, since you have posted it on a free article directory, others who have affiliate websites about accounting will inevitably use your article for their website. Since they must attach your byline to it, this will bring you even more exposure for every website that re-posts your article. This because you will be benefiting of off the traffic that they get to their website.

There are numerous article directories out there for you to utilize. Your bet best is to put a copy of each of your articles on every one for maximum exposure. It will eventually help to bring more traffic and customers to your website, which will lead to new orders and more profit.

Create Your First Website and Begin Making Money Today! FREE eBook — www.brooklynmetzleronline.com

Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/making-money-with-articles-article-directories-1693246.html