Budget Internet Marketing Plan

If you are an online marketer, and you are on a budget, this plan helps you enormously to have a successful online business if you take action on it. That is what only 3% of marketers achieve. It is easy, but it needs diligence, persistence, perseverance, and determination. If you do not have any of these qualities just now, do not worry. You will add them to your tool kit as you go along, and moreover it is going to be a fascinating journey.

You want to use the free advertising methods as much as you can in the beginning, until you earn some money, and reinvest into paid advertising methods. Moreover if you implement this plan of action, you are going to build an online presence, which will then serve you as a strong foundation upon which you can go on building and improving your online business. Here is what you can do to build your online business, and have an online presence with a budget of $500 or even less.

• Video Marketing

Sign up with Trafficgeyser. They teach you from scratch how to build you list, educate them, and have them buy your products or services all through video marketing without having to sell anything. There are valuable resources and training in your trafficgeyser back office such as video marketing strategies, keyword research, online marketing in general, and a lot more. They distribute your videos, blog posts, content, and whatever you have to every directory on the Internet, and you will be on top of all search engines in a matter of months.

You could use Youtube and Tube Mogul as free video marketing strategies to brand yourself online. Customizing your Youtube channel is a great way to brand yourself, and show your subscribers/followers who you are as a person, and how you are different from others. You can design your Youtube channel yourself. In order to do that, you can Google "free youtube designs", and use the free resources on the Internet. Alternatively, you can outsource it all together. You can hire a freelancer from either of the following websites.

http://odesk.com

http://elance.com

http://guru.com

• Social Media

Social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and MySpace give a great head start, and get your name out there, if you use them the right way. With social media, your goal is to add value to those following you, and educate them, and not pitch them on your business opportunity or service at all. People do not like that, and those who do that.

Betternetworker is also a great website where you can socialize with other marketers, and build relationships.

You can set up a group on Facebook, and put valuable content on there. It takes some time for your group to catch on, and for people to get to know about it, and recommend it to others, but it is definitely worth it. You will be amazed at how rapidly your Facebook group becomes popular if you put value content on there, and serve your members in the best way you can.

There are some automation tools for your social media web sites that will save you a lot of time, but as you know, social media is all about relationships. So though it's not possible to do everything manually, at least once the number of people on your list grows, but you can always give it a personal touch, and have a personal relationship with those that follow you, subscribe to you, or join you in any ways.

For your Twitter account, you can use Tweepi to follow and unfollow people. Also you can use Tweetdeck to manage your account, automate some tasks, and make things much easier. You can use Socialoomph to schedule you Twitter updates, and make your Tweeting pretty automatic.

• Aweber

Aweber, as you know, is an email automation service and it helps your business in many ways. It is a paid service, but you definitely want to use it

Register yourself with Aweber, and it will cost you $20/month.

Once you do a vidoe, blog post, etc., you should broadcast it to all your lists on Awerber- you do realize that you should broadcast only the kind of content that is relevant to your list- and let them know that you have created new content. Also you want to publish your content to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and all the other networks that you have.

• Blogging

If you want to use free blogging services, you can use Wordpress.com, and Blogger.com. They are both free, and rank so well in Google.

If you want to have your own domain name, host your own blog, and have much more control over your website, you can use wordpress.org. Here is how you can get a Wordpress.org blog. You can go to Hostgator, buy a domain name, and have it hosted by Hostgator itself. They have great hosting services and plans. Then you can install a Wordpress blogging platform on your shared hosting account from inside your website Control Panel in less than 10 minutes, and you are ready to go.

On your blog, you introduce yourself to your audience as a person, not as salesperson. Your blog is all about you as a person, and your goal is to brand yourself, and not your business opportunity on your blog.

Here is what you do on your blog:

Make at least two new posts every week. Your posts should be short, to the point, informative, and well written. Remember that every post should talk to your reader about only one point and then sign off. About structuring the text, you need to break the text down to digestible chunks, paragraph, etc., so your readers want to read through your posts. You need to make every effort to make it as easy as possible for them to read your posts.

Put your affiliate links on your blog, so your visitors can sign up to different services through your links. This way, you will get paid if someone signs up through your.

Along with your Aweber account, you will have an option to make web forms, and place them wherever you want. You want to go to your Aweber account, create a list, make a web form related to that list, and then place it on your blog. Your visitors can then subscribe to your blog- as you can see on the top right hand side of this page- through your form, and then be added to your broadcast list.

• Articles

Article help you a lot in ranking in search engines, and you can link back to your blog through your articles.

You can start with Ezinearticles, and then publish your articles to more websites as you go along.

Follow this plan for at least two months, and you will definitely be successful. Thank you for your attention.

Have Your Own Home Business

The global recession has taught us many valuable lessons already. People were laid out, families were torn apart, and a lot of people had to take extra classes just to manage to stay where they were. Employees's revenues were slashed, and their working hours were extended. People had to work extra jobs to manage their lives financially. Family members cannot see each other every day any more. Kids cannot see their parents in long times, and even in some cases do not know them well any more. Although experts predicted some time ago that it was going to end soon, it seems that we are going to have to deal with it for a while, and it is here to stay.

Things have changed considerably, but we have not. We always want things to stay the way they were before. We do not like change. We want to stick to our old ways. But we have to change at some point. We change as a result of pain or pleasure. We reach a point where the pain is so intense that we cannot take it anymore. Or we want to make our lives better than it already is, so the pleasure is the motivating factor. Whatever your motives are, if you have come to the point where you feel you should take action, and do somthing about your situation, read on.

Entrepreneurship, online marketing, or Internet marketing is so famous these days. Everybody talks about how well it pays, and how easy it is to earn money online. But the point is that fully 97% of the people who start this business, quit after their third or sixth month. Only 3% of those who start are actually able to grow their business in a sustainble way. There are many reasons why people fail at online marketing.

Internet is a place where you can easily publish anything to many places, and in many cases nobody reviews your articles, videos, or whatever your content is. You are free to say anything. There are some rules and restrictions, but as long as you do not offend somebody, you are free to talk and write about your own subject. For the same reason, there are many web sites that promote get-rich-quick programs. Many people buy what they advertise, sign up for the program, spend some time and money, and are not successful once the stipulated time is over. They drop out, and try some other program, but this time, they try not to make the past mistakes. But the fact is that nobody can stop making mistakes. We stop making mistakes the day we leave this world! Moreover, there is no prefect system on earth. All systems, even those that work, have a lot of flaws. But there are some systems that have been around for some time, and have been refined over time. Those systems work for almost anyone who sticks to what the system teaches, and does not try to reinvent the wheel. The bottom line is that if you join the right system, and do what the successful people have done before, you too will be successful.

You cannot do something well if you are not educated on it. People fail at online marketing for the simple reason that they do not know how to do it in the first place. You need a good and practical online marketing education to be successful. The company that you join must educate you on online marketing concepts in a practical way, and take by the hand, show you the way, until you are good at marketing.

In most online marketing companies, you find somebody that is already a member, and you join the company and the business through that person. You must know who your sponsor is, and make sure that they are a good mentor. The success of your business, in the beginning considerably depends on the your sponsor's assistance. You must make sure that they will actually help you to be successful, and will not leave you until you can manage your business all by yourself. Of course you are going to need their help every now and then even once your business is up and running, but then you will not need them so much as compared to the time you start out. Your sponsor must be a dependable and responsible person committed to your success.

When you start out a new business, you do not know much about it. You do not know how you really need to start your business in a sustainable way. You do not know what tools you need in the beginning, and how to get them. If you want to figure them out all by yourself, you are going to need a long time to get started, and by the time you have figured them all out, you have lost your motivation, and you quit. Nobody knows everything about the Internet, at least to the extent they need to know in order to have a business online. Nobody knows how to manage a web site, a blog, and many social media web sites unless it is their profession. So the company that you join must have all of the facilities that you need in place, and give them to you in a digestible way, so you can make use of them, and do not get fed up with the fast flow of the information you need to keep up with.

The community you are in touch with, could make you or break you. If you are in touch with some people who are high achievers, you are going to be a high achiever yourself. One the other hand, you cannot accomplish much if you are not surrounded with successful people. You should know what kind of people are members of the community you are going to join. It is very important.

Internet marketing pays well, and there is no doubt in that. But you must understand that it is just like any other brick and mortar business that you start up. In the beginning, nobody knows you, and nobody buys from you. But as people know you better, and know what you do online, your business starts getting its wings off the ground. Starting every business, offline or online takes its own time, and you should be patient enough for the day your business starts paying you. But you must know the difference between being patient enough, and being overly patient, if that makes sense to you.

A very important point marketers usually do not notice is that Internet marketing is a business like any other business. When you are at work, you need to work, or you will not be paid. Since this kind of business is usually done at home online, marketers do not take their business seriously, and they fail. As an online marketer, you need to perform a set of activities on a day-to-day basis from the beginning, until your are at the point where people see you as an authority in this industry, and want to interact with you. In other words, you reap what you sow.

A very important point that every marketer must know is that no matter what your business is, your goal is to place yourself as an authority and an information center in this industry, and not just as a simple salesman that only tries to sell his product or service. People like leaders who help them, educate them, and add value to them. Your goal as an online marketer is to be one.

I hope the points discussed here help you to make an informed decision if you are considering taking up online marketing full time or part time. Thank you for your attention.

Do You Know Why Only 3% Of The Internet Marketers Thrive?

It is fairly easy to build a supportive mindset through writing down your goals or affirmations supporting you that you definitely will thrive in your Internet Marketing business. Whatever is reinforced on your mind through repetition and enough emotional intensity will be believed by the mind and ultimately by you, since we are defined by our minds in this world. Our minds control our behavior and how we look at the world around us. There have been many instances we have believed something to be absolutely true, to find later that it is not. We simply live by our perceptions of the truth, and not the truth itself. So it is absolutely imperative that we make sure what we are doing on a day-to-day basis will ultimately take us where we want to end up.

The title of this article has been chosen to be relevant to Internet Marketing, but it relates to just about anything else in our lives. Once you have made sure your goals are in alignment with your core values, you can break them down to a set of identifiable concrete actions, plan and schedule them and ultimately achieve them.

We plan according to the information we receive from our environment. This applies specially when we embark on a new journey, and we are new to what we are about to start. But what if the system you are going to follow, which ultimately guarantees your success, is not so accurate or even wrong?

It’s always very good to follow some proven time-tested system, but there is no such thing as right and wrong, probably except for the law of gravity or the like. Our right and wrong is identified through our circumstances, and the kind of people we are. The most righteous thing in the world might not be right for somebody or even might be wrong for them, and it does not necessarily mean that they are a bad or immoral person, not at all. You do know that we human beings are all different from each other and there are no two identical human beings on earth. So we should choose consciously rather that solely depend on one’s recommendation.

When it comes to Internet Marketing, which is a kind of business, and needs your time, money and all the other resources you would need to start one, you need to know what exactly the company you want to join is about. The most important part that is contributed to you by the company and the community it provides you with, is the education they offer. Otherwise all the companies on earth do have more or less the same system, and proceedings.

As important as the education offered by the company is, it’s you who is going to utilize it. So even if everything education-wise is in place, you won’t get anywhere if you don’t know how to use it in order to produce the results you want. This part again is a part of education that teaches how to use the system right. And even more important than all those factors is that you need to know how to identify what you really really want, and why you want it. So the company should look at you as a real person with valid feelings and your own psychology, and not merely as a machine who is going to be used to promote the company like an ATM machine.

It is very important that you do a thorough research on the company you want to join and find out as much information as you can about the system they have. If you think Internet Marketing is the right business for you, go do your research today, and take action now. It is always my pleasure to help.