Me & the Boss

Me & the Boss

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Becoming An Internet Marketer Could Be Fun

By Douglas Blackley


Are you perceiving that you can rake in large sums of money as an internet marketer?

Seems simple right? Set up a few websites selling popular items and just sit back and watch the profits roll in, right? Sounds so easy that anyone could do it right? WRONG!

How many times have you been approached with "opportunities" that sound like you can't loose? You know, just buy our software or access to our system, plug in your name and you're set to make a bundle of money. Opportunities are often cheap to suck you in. Once you're in, you find out you have to invest more money on additional materials if you want to be successful. WOW! You just realized you were duped by the sales pitch to believe that anyone could do this when it actually requires investment of more money or time or both.

Most people who buy into these opportunities do not succeed. They never make any money. Once they have the product, they find that they really have to invest more time, money, or both to make it work and just give up. They don't even take advantage of the "money back guarantee" because of the hassle of getting their money back. The scammers just continue to offer their opportunities to unsuspecting targets.

Setting up business as a internet marketer requires the same basic skills as opening a brick and mortar business. The major difference is in capital investment. Most internet businesses can be opened for very little capital investment whereas brick and mortar businesses require considerable capital. Otherwise, the basics are the same.

Selecting a product that the market wants to buy can be challenging. Offering that product at a competitive price can be even more challenging. Once you satisfy those requirements, you have to figure out how you're going to get traffic to your location.

There are a plethora of resources out there which will identify the hot commodity of the day. You just have to select what you're going to sell. Then you have to decide whether you're going to sell it on the internet or in a brick and mortar store.

If you decide on an internet store, you have a few choices. You could set up a store on e-bay or you could just set up a website. In either case, you are going to have to drive traffic to your site in order to make sales.

Marketing is the part of internet marketing that promotes your product and store. Its a fact that most people don't want to be "pitched" so the old advertising methods don't work so well anymore. There's a new technique called attraction marketing that works much better.

Free is a frequently used word which usually causes people to look further. Offering something of value for free causes people to come back to your site time and again. They get to know you and have benefited from whatever you offered for free. Now you can present your product or service as someone they know.

This is a new approach for the internet marketer and has already proven its potential.

One company that offers education and training in using these advanced techniques is My Lead System Pro.

Yours truly,

Doug




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