If you're thinking about starting a home based business online and making some fast cash from the comfort of your own home there are three things you will need which are absolute necessities, in my opinion, if you want to succeed with your endeavor. These three components and how you use them will ultimately determine the success or failure of your Internet enterprise; so without further ado here they are:
* The first piece of the Internet marketing puzzle which you must have in place is your website. Some Internet marketers will advertise on the web arguing that you can make money online without a website, without an email list and without any money.
This may be true, but if you want to achieve long term and ongoing success with your Internet home business you will need a website. Preferably this web page will be a blog which will attract your visitors and direct them to your sales page where they can purchase your product.
You can use your blog site to post articles which are written with your website key words in mind in order to attract the search engines attention so you can achieve a first page ranking in searches related to your home page and your topic. Your website must be constructed with the search engines and your target market in mind.
You want a site that's attractive to Google and company so you'll be able to generate the traffic you need to sell your merchandise. You also want to make your home page enticing for your visitors so they will stay and look around and want to come back again for more and eventually become paying clients. So when you're designing your site be sure to keep these two entities in mind when you're doing so or your Internet marketing career could be a short one.
* The second element you will need to succeed online is traffic to your home page. Without people visiting your site you can't make sales and you won't make a profit so all of your hard work to this stage will have been in vein. After you build your site your first consideration should be how to attract targeted visitors to your web page.
Targeted traffic is a must because you only want people on your site who are interested in your merchandise and who have a need which you can satisfy. For example, you wouldn't want people visiting who are looking for widgets when you're selling Internet marketing products. This is where keyword research and using the right inducement comes into play to make sure you're attracting the people you need.
You can accomplish this goal in several ways including, as we mentioned earlier, article marketing. By writing editorials using the key words which should be sprinkled through out your website and by tailoring these pieces toward attracting people who have a specific interest you will guarantee that you'll receive guests on your website who have an interest in your products and your topic.
Generating traffic should become an every day habit because you can never have too much of it and without it your home business is doomed to failure.
* The third component of your Internet marketing strategy which you should have in place right from the beginning, after you build your website, is your squeeze page or your landing page or your opt-in box, whatever you wish to call it. Your squeeze page will capture your visitor's name and email address so you can follow up with them at a later date and persuade them to become customers.
As the old Internet market adage states: "The money is in the list"; and this is just as true today as it was when it was first coined many years ago. This list of email addresses and names is just as good as money in the bank if it's made up of targeted prospects and current customers because the larger it becomes the more sales you will make when you decide to send a mass mailing to these people.
This directory will also ensure the long term success of your home business because you can email new offers whenever you please and expect a decent financial reward depending on how many names you have on your list. Just as with driving traffic, building and adding to your email list should become an every day habit if you want to guarantee your success online today and in the future.
* The first piece of the Internet marketing puzzle which you must have in place is your website. Some Internet marketers will advertise on the web arguing that you can make money online without a website, without an email list and without any money.
This may be true, but if you want to achieve long term and ongoing success with your Internet home business you will need a website. Preferably this web page will be a blog which will attract your visitors and direct them to your sales page where they can purchase your product.
You can use your blog site to post articles which are written with your website key words in mind in order to attract the search engines attention so you can achieve a first page ranking in searches related to your home page and your topic. Your website must be constructed with the search engines and your target market in mind.
You want a site that's attractive to Google and company so you'll be able to generate the traffic you need to sell your merchandise. You also want to make your home page enticing for your visitors so they will stay and look around and want to come back again for more and eventually become paying clients. So when you're designing your site be sure to keep these two entities in mind when you're doing so or your Internet marketing career could be a short one.
* The second element you will need to succeed online is traffic to your home page. Without people visiting your site you can't make sales and you won't make a profit so all of your hard work to this stage will have been in vein. After you build your site your first consideration should be how to attract targeted visitors to your web page.
Targeted traffic is a must because you only want people on your site who are interested in your merchandise and who have a need which you can satisfy. For example, you wouldn't want people visiting who are looking for widgets when you're selling Internet marketing products. This is where keyword research and using the right inducement comes into play to make sure you're attracting the people you need.
You can accomplish this goal in several ways including, as we mentioned earlier, article marketing. By writing editorials using the key words which should be sprinkled through out your website and by tailoring these pieces toward attracting people who have a specific interest you will guarantee that you'll receive guests on your website who have an interest in your products and your topic.
Generating traffic should become an every day habit because you can never have too much of it and without it your home business is doomed to failure.
* The third component of your Internet marketing strategy which you should have in place right from the beginning, after you build your website, is your squeeze page or your landing page or your opt-in box, whatever you wish to call it. Your squeeze page will capture your visitor's name and email address so you can follow up with them at a later date and persuade them to become customers.
As the old Internet market adage states: "The money is in the list"; and this is just as true today as it was when it was first coined many years ago. This list of email addresses and names is just as good as money in the bank if it's made up of targeted prospects and current customers because the larger it becomes the more sales you will make when you decide to send a mass mailing to these people.
This directory will also ensure the long term success of your home business because you can email new offers whenever you please and expect a decent financial reward depending on how many names you have on your list. Just as with driving traffic, building and adding to your email list should become an every day habit if you want to guarantee your success online today and in the future.
