Take Our Internet Marketing Tutorial Check Out Our Forum »

September 6, 2007

Clarification of an Internet Marketing Plan

Yesterday I wrote about defining an Internet Marketing Plan but probably wasn’t as clear as I should have been about formulating an Internet Marketing Plan that may be right for you.

We are all different and we all have our own interests and we are all good at different things. I’ll give you a short example of what your Internet marketing plan might look like.

Let’s say that you have the nicest lawn in your neighborhood and you know a lot about lawn care. By having the knowledge of this one thing you would be able to define a very vivid Internet Marketing Plan.

You would start out by listing the topics that you would write about on your website which would be how to get that lawn to look great and how to maintain that lawn to look good all year long.

You would then figure out what lawn products you would need to sell to get that lawn to look the way your lawn looks.

All you are doing here is outlining what your website is going to be about and how you will make money with it.

There will be a fair amount of people in the above example that would be interested in having a better lawn. If you show them how to get that lawn to look better they will buy the products needed to get this result.

As part of your Internet marketing Plan you would need to find a supplier of the lawn products. This could be a wholesaler that you buy directly from and resell the lawn products yourself or a drop shipper who will ship the lawn products directly to your customer or even a supplier who has an affiliate program and will pay you a commission for the referral.

Basically, an Internet Marketing Plan is a detailed road map for your online business. You need to work out all of the details of your online business to avoid problems when it goes live. It’s pretty difficult to sell grass seed without a supplier. These are details that need to be worked out before you go live online.

There is no better way of selling online than providing helpful information for free and then selling the tools required to follow through on that information. The above is a good example of that. In order to do this you need to have a good plan beforehand. Your Internet Marketing Plan is what will get your online business off the ground and will help you keep it running in good order for many years to come.

Without a solid Internet Marketing plan in place your online business is destined to fail from the very start.

You wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint would you? Don’t build an online business without one. Your Internet Marketing Plan is that blueprint. Don’t build your online business without one.

September 5, 2007

An Internet Marketing Plan is Essential

Having an Internet marketing plan is essential to the success of any web-based business. If you don’t know where you want to go with your web-based business how can you expect to get anywhere? That’s where a good solid Internet marketing plan comes into play.

Your Internet marketing plan should be in place before you ever go online with your web-based business.

One of the biggest reasons that many web businesses fail is probably because they never had an Internet marketing plan in place for their online business. Many just put up a website and throw caution to the wind hoping that he or she will make money. I can tell you that almost none will until some kind of Internet marketing plan is in place.

Before you ever put up a website you need to know what your website is going to be about and how you are going to monetize it etc. Don’t be one of those amateurs who throw up a webpage and throw your affiliate links on it and call it a website and hope for the best because it will fail miserably if you do.

Having an Internet marketing plan in place will help you build a website with substance and you will have a much better chance to succeed than just slapping up a website and hoping for the best.

There is a lot of competition in the online world with marketers who are experts at what they do. Without an Internet marketing plan in place, these marketers will squash you. Internet marketing is tough enough when done right and is impossible when you don’t do everything that you need to do to be successful.

If you want to have any chance at all of succeeding online it is absolutely essential to get an Internet marketing plan into place before you ever put it online.

If you haven’t drafted that Internet marketing plan yet go and get it done so that you can get a clear picture of what you want your web-based business to be and where you want it to go.

Here’s a link to an article that will help you draft your Internet marketing plan.

September 4, 2007

Adwords Tycoons

I’m sure that some of you have seen the Adwords Tycoons program that has been circulating on the net for a while now. I get spammed just about daily with this thing.

I am very leery of products that have a time limit on them. You know, the ones that say buy now before the price goes up or buy now before I stop selling this forever.

I can tell you that as long as this thing makes money they will continue to sell it. The price almost never goes up on these things either. It’s just a ploy to convince the reader that if they don’t buy now they will lose out forever.

The sales letter for these types of products are always better than the actual product is.

With Adwords Tycoons they really do need to have a great sales pitch to justify the $1500 price tag that they put on the thing.

I can tell you from personal experience none of these programs are anywhere nearly as easy as they are made to sound and forget about being taken by the hand stuff too. Everything that you do in Internet Marketing does require some level of knowledge otherwise you will never understand what is being taught to begin with.

Stay away from Adwords Tycoons because the price tag is way too high. I’m sure that you can get good info on the adwords system at a much lower price.

I use adwords and I can tell you that it is a tough game to beat even if you know what you are doing. It is however, straightforward enough to know that there are no hidden secrets to using adwords as Adwords Tycoons claims there are. I’ll bet that you can readily get the same information for free online if you were to look for it.

Bottom line. Stay away from Adwords Tycoons. It has scam written all over it.

Haven’t Posted For Awhile

I know that I didn’t write a thing here in the month of August. I will be writing often from here on. The reason I didn’t post anything in August is because I’ve been busy updating a piece of software that I created about a year ago. The revisions should be completed in a month or so. Will let you know when it’s ready and will make it available here for free.