Internet Marketing: How To Get Started In 5 Easy Steps

Aug 19
07:41

2010

Cynthia Minnaar

Cynthia Minnaar

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Many people get overwhelmed with the big picture when in reality Internet marketing is not that difficult so let's talk about how you can do Internet marketing in five easy steps!

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Internet marketing is defined as promoting and selling products on the Internet. Sometimes people get overwhelmed with the big picture when in reality Internet marketing is not that difficult.

Let's talk about how you can do Internet marketing in five easy steps in this article!

1. Choose a niche to market in. This is going to be a lot of fun.

Get a piece of paper and write down a list of everything you enjoy. Then narrow that list down to things that you either have a real passion for or are an expert in.

This is going to be the niche that you choose to start your Internet business in. The chances of you being successful are very good because you will enjoy working this type of business.

2. Start a blog online. Go to Blogger.com and set up a blog in three easy steps.

You do not need any technical skills to do this. You can choose a template based on your own personal choices. Google owns Blogger and offers tutorials on how to set your blog up the way you want it to be.

3. Find products to sell. The best way to do this is to become an affiliate marketer.  You certainly want to start by joining the Google Adsense affiliate program because placing ads on your blog is easy to do.

Affiliate networks such as ClickBank and Commission Junction are also great places to find thousands of products to sell in one location.

4. Promote them all over the internet. This certainly will be the hardest part of the whole process. It's also the one that you will spend the majority of your time on in the future.

One important point is to find one or two forms of marketing online that you enjoy and concentrate on becoming an expert on them. Possible things you can do to promote on the Internet today include social media such as videos,Internet Marketing: How To Get Started In 5 Easy Steps Articles article marketing, blogging, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, email marketing, and much more!

You only need a couple of meaningful traffic generation tactics to succeed online. You can take a “hands on” approach and do them yourself. 

You can even outsource this type of work to other people. However you choose to do it you must get traffic to your blog if you expect to make any money.

5. Repeat until you are rich! You really can make a lot of money on the Internet today in numerous niches. 

Once you get a system in place that is working you can then just repeat this in other themes and continue on until your income is at the level you want to be.