To make a living online is the dream of many internet marketers.
How do you do this Unfortunately, if you want to expedite the process, you need to spend some money.There are many people that will tell you that it can be done for little or no cash, but this is a much longer process.
Tips to expedite the process.
1 Get a mentor. One who is willing to show you the ropes. Even the basic stuff they have forgotten or take for granted that everyone should know.
2 Subscribe to a few good teaching newsletters. If you join to many, you spend most of your time reading instead of doing.
3 Find your niche. Make sure there is a demand.
4 Write or develope your OWN product. If your cannot, find one that has a reasonable commission.
5 Market your product. This is what will make you a success or not.
6 Build your list. A list is your customer base. Once you establish a relationship with them, you can market to them over and over.
7 Do the same process over in a new niche.
This is the basic process you need to follow.
Most people fail because they never start because they are afraid to fail.
Start, learn from your mistake and persevere until you succeed.
Eddie Scotten has been in business for over 20 years.He is now moving into internet marketing and wants to help others achieve this goal as well.One for all and all for one.
Find out more here as he shares his experience.
Yes folks, there is a way of making absolutely certain-sure that you have developed a winning product.
Do you want to know how to do this You do
Well, its quite simple: You allow the punters to tell you whether or not they want your product.
I am being deadly serious here when I tell you that the only certain way to be sure is to test your product in a suitable, email broadcast, newspaper ad or direct mail campaign.
The punters will pretty soon tell you whether or not they want to buy or not. Either you will get lots of orders, or you will just about break-even, or you will hardly get any orders at all. You just wont know until you test!
Now, do you want to know the single most powerful piece of information in the product development and/or direct marketing business This information is worth more than everything I have previously told you, put together.
It is this: Believe the punters - not yourself.
There. I never thought Id tell anyone not to believe in themselves... But in this particular instance, you must put all of your faith in the punters. It doesnt matter how much of a pet your product is. It doesnt matter how much your old mum and your friends tell you its a GREAT product. It is wholly irrelevant that you have seen scores of adverts for similar products at a higher price. - If the punters dont respond to your advert, then you must drop that product and move straight on to the next one.
The only exception to this is if you have a modest response, and you think you made a slight mistake... (say by going in completely the wrong paper, or 5 too expensive, etc.). In this case, it might be worth testing again. If this second attempt also fails, then drop the product immediately.
Dont try and second-guess the punters.
Dont worry too much about how, or why the punters didnt buy your product. You will probably never work this out... I never can!
The greatest mail-order gurus in the world often find themselves scratching their heads in disbelief at what works, and what fails. They are continually amazed that their dead-cert product flops completely, and their rank outsider, no-hoper product which they whacked-in for a quick test, results in bulging mail-sacks. There is often no rhyme or reason to this. Who knows why the punters will go for a product, or leave it alone It could be one word in the copy, a feel, the picture, the price, their perception of your ability to deliver.... ANYTHING. Youll never find out.
Now the big difference between a winner, and a loser is that the winner will listen to the punters no matter what he thinks. If the punters tell him that his red-hot favorite product is a lame dog, then hell drop it immediately. Losers will back their hunches right down the line until they go broke.
They just know that this product is a winner.... If the marketing fails, then they attribute it to the media, or the day of the week, or the price, or the delivery time. They dont believe that the punters could ever reject such a super product. So they promote it again, and again and again until they have lost a very great deal of money. Then they believe. But even after all this, they still harbor a sneaking suspicion that if theyd just altered the coupon shape, or increased the money-back guarantee to 30 days, or........ you get the idea....
To Become A Mail-Order Winner, You MUST believe the punters. They KNOW, you only BELIEVE. This principle can be summarised in this vital concept:
MILK YOUR WINNING PRODUCTS, DROP YOUR LOSERS.
More on this in my next article.
Copyright 2005 Nick James
Nick James is a UK based direct marketer and product developer. During the last 3 years Nick has sold in excess of 1 Million of products and services. Subscribe to his Free Tip Of The Week email at: