One of my affiliates asked me that question last week.
Do you have a product to sell but don’t know where to go now? Let me see if I
can give you a hand.
1. Do you know your product or service inside and
out? If people have questions, can you answer them? One of the services I sell,
Virtualis Systems, is a web
hosting service. How do I know everything there is to know about it? I use it
myself. If you are going to try to sell a product, you better know and believe
in what you’re selling.
2. Now, you can design your web site. Make
certain you have a plan for your site. I’m going to devote my whole article next
week on how to plan your site.
3. You’ve built your site, how do you get
people to come? It’s very simple. Promote, promote and promote. Do you know what
Spam is? SPAM IS OUT! That’s what it is.
There are much easier and
smarter ways to promote your site.
4. Submit your site to the major
search engines. Alta Vista, Infoseek, Yahoo, AOLFind. The best way is to go to
each site individually. One good site that helps you submit individually is ADD Me! They quickly take you to each search
engine page.
5. Place your ads in some economical ezines. Some ezines run
specials and have special promotions. My ezine, Internet Business Success
Weekly, has a special where, if you go to my link contest page at http://advanceddata.net/contest.html,
get the link to my page, link to it from your page, and email me with your URL,
you can get 3 weeks free advertising for your 40 word ad, a 30 day link from my
page, and a special report. You can’t beat that!
6. Start your own ezine
to advertise in. It’s really easy to do, costs nothing, and will help you learn
as you earn and earn as you learn. At first, you may want to use others’
articles. That’s what I did. You can find free articles to print at
http://advanceddata.net/freeart.html.
7. You can place some ads in
free classifieds, but I have found little if any response there.
In
closing, I would like to say that the Internet is a wonderful place to earn
money but remember this: you do have to earn it. The over-used maxim, build it
and they will come, just isn’t true. You have to work. But it’s the kind of work
that to me is fun and exciting. I’ll never forget when I got my first check. I
had sold two of Jim Daniels’ book, “Insider Internet Marketing”. Which,
by the way, is my Internet Marketing Bible. I was thrilled! $20.00! You would
have thought it was two thousand.
Learn your product, use it, design your
site, promote, promote, promote and start reaping the
rewards!
