Internet Marketing - Necessities and Luxuries Defined

I know I'm not the only person that sends you email and you have a choice to listen to as many "gurus" as you want. I'm not a "guru" by any stretch of the imagination, but I know what it takes to make money online and I do care about you and your success. I hope I have gained that much trust fom you.

To be successful online, not only for the short term but the long term, there are 5 things you absolutely NEED. They are:

1. You NEED a good product or service, whether its your own or an affiliate product or service. This is the easiest of the needs to meet, yet the hardest because I said you need a GOOD product or service, not some "hyped-up, nobody needs or wants it" product. There are thousands of products on the market but you want to sell something that someone needs and has to have it. (I will have recommendations at the end.)

2. You NEED your OWN website to market your product or service, even if its an affiliate product or service. You NEED your OWN website.

Why? Because this is the only way people will know about YOU and get to know YOU for who YOU are. If you are an affiliate for some other company, all of your work is going towards building their business and not yours. So you need your OWN web site to build YOUR business.

Now this leads me to the third necessity,

3. You NEED your OWN list of people you contact on a regular basis. You have probably heard it a thousand times from every corner of the Internet - THE MONEY IS IN THE LIST! THE MONEY IS IN THE LIST!

This is one of the truest statements ever preached on the 'net.

And the only way to create your own list is to fulfill necessity #2 - have your own website that can collect names and email addresses so you can followup with your web site visitors.

Now in order for you to collect, store and email the addresses, you NEED a good autoresponder service that will send out periodic emails to your list. This is how you will make sales long after your visitor's first visit.

You have heard this before, I'm sure, but it bears repeating again. Sometimes it takes a person 5-7 times to see a message before they respond to it. Well, an autoresponder with preset messages will fulfill this purpose for you and help produce sales LONG after your visitor's first visit.

So, necessity #3 is you NEED a list and an autoresponder to send emails to that list.

4. Traffic, Traffic, Traffic! You NEED targeted traffic to your web site. Traffic is the holy grail of the Internet. It is the sugar in the Kool-Aid, the gas in the Mercedes, the "air" that the Internet breathes in order to live. In other words, you can have needs 1 and 2 met, but without traffic, need 3 of building your list will never be met.

Finding quality traffic can be expensive both in time and money unless you know where to look. Later in this report I will show you the most effective places to get quality traffic for your web sites and products.


5. Necessity #5 is you NEED a way to get paid. When people buy your product or service you want to provide a easy means for the transaction to take place. Paypal and Clickbank have been the most reliable methods I have seen thus far on the Internet. Both companies have been around a long time. This speaks to their stability and popularity.

To summarize the 5 needs:

1. A good product or service
2. Your OWN website (not an affiliate web site)
3. Your OWN list of people
4. Quality traffic
5. Payment Method

I must emphasize at this point that these are NEEDS, not luxuries to succeed. If you are jumping around from one product to another, trying to sell this or trying to advertise that, you are setting your self up for failure - guaranteed.

Just as if you don't meet the needs of food, water, and shelter you will physically die, the same will happen if you don't meet these 5 Internet needs. Your business will certainly die, too.

So sit back, take a deep breath (go ahead - inhale then exhale) and now answer these 5 questions honestly:

1. Do I have a product or service that people NEED? Yes___ No____

2. Do I have my OWN web site with an autoresponder? (not an affiliate site) Yes___ No___

3. Do I have my OWN list of people to contact? Yes___ No___

4. Do I know WHERE to get quality traffic to send to my web site in order to build my list and make sales? Yes___ No___

5. Do I have a Paypal or Clickbank account? Yes___ No___


If you answered "No" to any of the above questions, now you know what NEEDS you need to meet to not only survive, but also to thrive as an Internet marketer.


Product -> Web site -> Autoresponder -> Traffic -> Build List = Sales!



Addendum to the Orignal Post -

I apologize to everyone but I never got a chance to update my blog with the specifics of the NEEDS you must have to get started.

I will cover the first 2 NEEDS in this post and they are:

1. A good product or service

There are products, services, and tools I use every day to create and maintain my income.

Profitmart is an excellent web site builder service that gives you Clickbank, Amazon, Ebay, Adsense and any affiliate program you choose for income. Plus you can earn residual affiliate income by sharing Profitmart with others.

Income 4 Dummies is an excellent tool to earn multiple $40 payments every day. Get the Free ebook here that explains it in simple terms. Even a child could do this one.

On Demand Profits is another simple program that can make you a good income. You can find out more about it here.

2. Your own web site

I can't emphasize this need enough. EVERYONE needs their OWN web site if they expect to succeed online. Its like being in the middle of the ocean without a life raft. Even if all you sell is other people's stuff (you know, an "affiliate") you still need your own web site.

If you don't know how to build one, then have someone do it for you. There are some options I recommend, both for the DIY'er (do-it-yourself-er) and the person who would rather have someone else do it:

a. Virtual Real Estate 1000 - Get your very own 1000-page web site with Adsense.
b. Profitmart - Already mentioned it above in #1
c. Instant Site Maker
d. EZ Web Business Builder
e. Word Page Builder


For more details and some additional information, go to

http://www.myexpertadvice.org/blueprint/

I explain in greater detail not only "what" to use but "why" to use it.

http://www.myexpertadvice.org/blueprint/