a.k.a. Keep it simple, lets get going The first three articles in this series about Internet marketing focused on choosing the right online business opportunity for you. If you didn’t get a chance to read them and you would like to send an email to the address at the bottom of this article and I’d be more than happy to send them to you. In this, the fourth article in the series I think it’s about time that we get started building your business. I hope by now you’ve been able to pick a business that is suitable for you, one of mine I hope :o), and that you have made a good choice. One of the very first things I am going to recommend to you is that you spend as much time as you can getting to know your business, and by that I mean the company, how it works and the features that it offers. Most good affiliate companies have really good online training and many good tools to help you promote your business. So what the heck do you even need to read my articles for if your company has all this great training? You probably don’t need me except for one thing and it’s right in the title of my article, “keep it simple”. From my experience with many of the different online businesses I’ve looked at I find that “keeping it simple” isn’t exactly the company’s motto. Unless you’re a real computer whiz you’re going to get caught up in a lot of Internet jargon that probably doesn’t mean a whole lot to you. Don’t despair, we all have to start somewhere and I’m going to do my best to get you off on the right foot. Earlier in this article I referred to getting to know your business, meaning the company you’ve joined. Now lets talk about getting to know your business. I know I know just bare with me. No matter what company you’ve joined you are going to become an Internet marketer. This is your business. If you’ve joined an affiliate program or even if you have your own business or product to promote you are going to become an Internet marketer or you just aren’t going to have a business. You need to promote your business to have a business. There are services that will do your marketing for you and if you need a marketing service and have no plans of actually doing your own marketing contact me and I’d be happy to help you choose a company that can look after your whole campaign for you. For the purposes of this article I’m assuming that you have a modest advertising budget and that you’ll be doing your own online promotion and advertising. Whether you are trying to sign new members to a downline or you just want to sell your product you are going to need website traffic and your going to need to know what to do with it. Let me repeat that last bit, you are going to need to know what to do with the website traffic your generating. Just because someone has visited your fancy online business card i.e. your website, it doesn’t mean they ‘re going to start sending you their hard earned cash. You’re going to have to close the sale. But I’m getting ahead of myself. In the articles that follow I am going to explain in much more detail how to attract website traffic and what to do with it once you have it. For now I am going to suggest that you get yourself a business email address, one that is completely different than your personal email address. Once you get started marketing your business you will very likely get a barrage of emails from prospective customers and of course from other Internet marketers. Business is business. Keep it separate from your private life. Wouldn’t it be a shame to miss an email from your favorite Aunt Gertrude because it got lost in all that business mail? Trust me you don’t want to bring your dear Aunt’s wrath upon yourself. The best place I have found to get a free email provider is from Gmail.com. You can have as many email addresses as you need to run your business and they provide an unlimited amount of storage, which is great because you won’t have to worry about bounced emails. They also give you the opportunity to decide what mail is spam and which isn’t. Lots of other email providers simply block what they perceive to be spam and you may not receive valuable information that you requested. As a matter of fact lots of online businesses won’t even accept email addressed from some providers. If you don’t know which ones email me with your new Gmail address and I’ll be happy to get back to you and I’ll be able to. Your business email address is for business pick an appropriate email name. Names like sweetie pie @yourplace is great if you’re selling pies but not so good if you’re just a really great guy. Save that one for Aunt Gertrude. So here is the first thing you are going to need to get off to a good start. In part five of my Keep it Simple series I’m going to talk about getting your marketing campaign up and running and introduce you to some really awesome free advertising tools that you can use to build your business. Brian Downie edcgoldprofits@gmail.com http://www.dailyprofitmaker.com
Brian Downie is an Internet Marketer.
Brian has extensive experience in online
promotion and advertising and tutors
people that are new to the online marketing arena.
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