Oh how I remember being a newbie. There's
nothing wrong with being a newbie, we've all been there at one time. Right?
Any business you decide to do online you will have to learn how to advertise
online. This has got to be the hardest task to accomplish for anyone. I
know it was for me.
Ok, so you're new and you would like to get started making some money working
online, right? So what do you do first? What I suggest is, if you don't
have your own business, find a good reseller program and buy the product.
If you believe you are marketing a good product, then you can start
your advertising.
Please read the above paragraph again.
Why?
Did you understand what I just said there? Buy the product! If you don't
believe you have a good product, how can you expect to go anywhere with
it? You have to know it's good yourself, believe in it, then you can sell
it like crazy. Actually, if you believe in it, then it usually sells itself.
The same goes for reseller or affiliate programs. Yeah, you can join
hundreds of them for Free, but how much do you think you're going to make
with Free? You guessed it, not very much.
Don't get me wrong, free is good when you're first starting out to learn
how everything works. But I can guarantee you that you'll see yourself
spending money for information, marketing, products to resell and affiliate
or downline programs.
It happens to all of us!
So pick one program or 2, and stick with them. Buy the service or product
and advertise it like crazy, and you'll soon see the money coming in.
Now that you have a good product to sell, where do you advertise it?
I suggest if you are new, to start out using the Free classifieds. One
good one that still sends me visitors is
Adlandpro.
Sign-up for their discussion list while you're there. There's always valuable
content in their discussions.
Suggestion 2: Never post to ffa or link sites unless you are a Pro member.
Otherwise, you will receive a lot of emails from the Pro members. When you
are a Pro member, you can post your links without receiving everyone's emails.
You can also email your offers to everyone who posts to the entire network.
A few good Pro ffa's that have been responsive for me are:
Monster
Traffic
Daily
Targeted Leads Network
Traffic
Wave
And
My Biz Pages
And you should also submit to the search engines once a month:
http://www.altavista.com
http://www.excite.com
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.lycos.com
http://www.hotbot.com
And there's a lot more search engines on the net.
And finally, I suggest subscribing to ezines and submitting your Free
5 line ads weekly. Your ads will be seen by 1,000's for Free using this
method. Ezines also offer a good source for advertising deals as well.
Here are a few ezine directories:
http://new-list.com
http://ezine-universe.com
http://www.ezinelocater.com
http://tile.net/lists/addlist.html
http://www.escribe.com/internet/-aannounce/
http://www.escribe.com/internet/lbd
http://www.escribe.com/internet/listbuilder/
http://www.goodstuff.prodigy.com/Lists/main.htm
http://www.liszt.com/
http://www.paml.net
http://www.newsletteraccess.com/
http://www.promotefree.com
http://www.virtualpromote.com
http://www.webcom.com/impulse/list.html
Make a daily marketing plan and stick to it daily! You won't get rich
over night but if you stick with it for the long haul, you will start to
see results.
And test your ads, track your results and keep testing your ads to see
which ones pull the most response.
All the best,
Audra
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