Where Do I Start in Internet Marketing?
I am been asked this question often by friends and students who want to start an online business in internet marketing. Many of whom I have spoken to have spent money attending seminars presented by experienced online marketers from Canada, USA, Australia and the UK. These friends and students have continued to spend money buying more information products online. In all, this whole period and exercise of learning internet marketing business takes about 1- 2 years.
And, all this time, some would have created their own websites using HTML, some would have bought ready-made templates, some bought affiliate programs that comes with ready-made sites or some became Affiliate Marketers promoting information products not of their own creation.
And 90% of all these seminar attendees does not even have a website or a blog yet. These students have learned what internet marketing is all about but many have failed to put these concepts to work. Majority of these students have a full-time job and has very little time to devote to their online business. Very few have attempted going full-time on this. And for those who spent lots of time and effort in it, reaps the profit.
But Where do a Newbie start in Internet Marketing?
It all starts with having your own Website or a Blog.
As long as you have not started implementing your own web site or a web page or a blog, you have not even begin to step into the internet marketing arena, let along play by the rules of the game.
Step 1: When you have your own web site or a web page or a simple blog, you would have taken the ‘first step’ into the online marketing business world.
Step 2: You would have learned ways to upload your content to your web site by this time. Content can be in the form of a Post, an Article, a Video Clip or an Image.
Step 3: When you have an adequate amount of content or web pages in your site, you want to attract visitors to come to visit your web pages and read your content. Drive Traffic to your website. Online and Offline strategies.
Step 4: You can experiment with the various traffic generation strategies you have learned. Implement and put them to good use.
Step 5: Now, you have a website and a hosting company, you want to communicate to your list. List Building or build your own name list. Get an Autoresponder service. Write messages to your list. Send them valuable information.
Step 6: Find out from your list of subscribers (after they have opt-in) what problems are they having that they would like you to solve for them.
Step 7: If you do not have your own product, them go online to find a suitable product to meet their needs.
Step 8: Lastly, but not least, track your web site. Go and get the free tracking tool from Google Analytics and insert the tracking codes to your web site. Go back to check on the tracking reports and get surprised by the analysis.
Starting an online internet marketing business is a Learning Process that comes with Experience, involves a lot of Time and Effort, in addition to attending Seminars. Put what you learn into practice and you will find yourself heading towards the right path.
Focus on your first website of your chosen niche market and find out what the problems are. If there are problems, identify them and fix it. If it cannot be fixed, move on and find another niche market to work on.
Tags: blog, google analytics, Internet Marketing, ready made templates
. 17 May 07 | Articles, Internet Marketing
