A lot of folks tend to make the whole Internet marketing thing much more difficult than it really needs to be. Yes it’s a bit different than owning and operating a brick and mortar, but the same principles still pretty much apply to both. Find a profitable market, find profitable products, build a client base, and then leverage, leverage, leverage. Willie Crawford talks below about exactly how easy it really can be, and how you can get started doing it yourself with very little heartache. I hope you enjoy!
A lot of people struggle WAY too hard at building an online business. They struggle at finding a product that will sell, getting traffic to the page selling that product, and building a list interested in that topic… so that they can follow up with them and eventually sell some of them that product.
Here’s a BIG secret… it’s not hard when you get others to do it for you.
That’s actually what I do. I get others to show me what’s selling by looking at the Google AdWords listings for my primary keywords. That tells me what products are actually selling related to that market. Theoretically, people wouldn’t be paying to advertise unless they were making money from it.
So, looking at the AdWords Ads IS a good barometer. I also often just look at who’s a leader in the industry, interview them and give that interview away to sell their products… as an affiliate. Here’s my most powerful way of getting others to build my list, and send me traffic and customers… I create simple, inexpensive audio products on a topic that I then allow others to sell and keep 100% of the profit on the front end.
I may have a second or back-end product in place, but my real purpose in creating these products is to get others to do all of the hard work, going out, finding interested prospect/buyers and then sending them over to join my list and buy my other products.
To do this, I usually set my products up on an affiliate program powered by the Rapid Action Profits script. I use this script because it makes it really easy to pay instant commission directly to the affiliates’ Paypal accounts. When you pay affiliates instantly, have a good product, and let the right affiliates know about it, 95% of your work is done for you… by others
Willie
Willie Crawford has been selling goods and services online since 1996. He’s also created a ton of his own products, hosted seminars, spoken at dozens of seminars internationally, written and published several books, and provided ecommerce consulting to local offline businesses. Willie shares a lot of his experience in his free ezine which you can get at http://WillieCrawford.com
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When described like that, you can see how Willie Crawford is one of the marketing elite. Sheer brilliance!! Bravo Willie
Yes he has a knack for simplifying what folks tend to make harder than
it really needs to be! Lol
Thanks so much for your comment Milia!
Thank you Milia
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Because of internet marketing some business owners get successful and I'm really proud of them, I was also want to be like them so I work hard to know more about marketing and I'm willing to promote it using my knowledge and ideas.
I have been using adwords for about 3 weeks now and it has been a great boost to my online business. I have now went to using Microsoft Adcenter and MIVA for other types of Adword type traffic. You just have to be aware of your budgets!
Internet marketing is one of the post powerful techniques to be considered to be successful in your business. There are a lot of techniques out there but i think one of the most effective is using adwords because it increases your exposure, it is easy to use and it increases your conversation rate.
Not a huge fan of adwords myself, it’s way too easy for the inexperienced to lose their shirt. But for someone knowledgeable, adwords can be effective.