Sunday, August 8, 2010

Did You Know?

Well here we are,it's August already.Were we not just celebrating the fourth of July?The summer seems to be going by way to fast.In a couple of weeks another school year will begin.With the back to school sales running full force in my little area of Pennsylvania,the parents are out searching for the best deals for their money.

Though the summer months are speeding by,the economic recovery is not.With the unemployment rate at 9.5% and 131,000 jobs lost in July(Gov. Stats),these are not good statistics.The economony has forced retailers and manufacturers to make cuts in their pricing in hopes that the consumer will buy their products.This is good for the consumer but cuts into company profit and growth.

With the economony moving at a snails pace there seems to be one part of the economony that gets over looked. E-Commerce,Internet Marketing or Online Marketing is a part and a growing part of the economony.With the United States Estimated Population at 310,232,863-Internet Usage is 239,232,863 users and the growth of Internet Usage in the United States alone from 2000 to 2010 is 151.6%.Now these are positive numbers.All these statistics and more can be found at http://www.internetworldstats.com/ and were updated as of June 30 2010.

As Internet usage continues to grow so does doing business on the Internet.What a lot of individuals don't realize is that they can become part of this growth and start their own Internet Business.This is something just about any individual can do.With some dilligence you will have the ability to take charge of your future,to Start-Nurture and Run your own Internet Business.So go out there and do your research,start your own Internet Business and Prosper.
            http://www.geoivan.com/

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Designing Your Website for Internet Marketing

If you want to start marketing on the Internet then you need to have your own website. This is the main requirement to start your online business. Your website does not have to be loaded with graphics, but it does need to be informative, simple and professional.            
                                                              
To make your website you will need to do three things. Purchase a domain name, purchase the hosting service and design you website to upload to your hosting server. While purchasing the domain name, try to get a name that contains the main keywords of your website. Or you may simply choose a name that you like.
                                                              While selecting your hosting company, look for reliability. Hosting companies will be responsible for the storage of your files and to keep your website up and running. Godaddy.com is a well known, reliable hosting company.

You can hire a web designer to do this design work for you. If you don't want to invest to do the designing then you can get some free templates.There are many websites on the internet thet are offering free website templates. Just visit these sites and choose the template you like. Fill in the template with your own content and upload it on your server.                                                                                                         
Your website is ment for business, so it must look professional. It should not be over loaded with heavy graphics and lots of flashy banners. Simplicity is best. Try to use light colors. Make a nice header to show your company and theme. The site navigation must be simple and easy. People should not have any difficulty in searching for a specific page or information; otherwise they will not re-visit your website.

Your own website is the key requirement for Internet Marketing. The overall look and feel of your website should be attractive and the site must provide the information for which people are looking for. Provide easy navigation and search facilities to make it user friendly.

This may all sound foreign to you. You may be saying to yourself that all this sounds good but how is it done? The answer is Education, ongoing Education. You will find the education you need to run your own Online/Internet business and learn from the best in the business at my website, http://www.geoivan.com/ .

Note: Fill out the box on my website with your name and email address and you will receive invites to webnars that will give you an inside look at some of the education you will receive.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

How Important are Autoresponders to Internet Marketing?

Ahh, Warm weather at last! Are you sitting by the pool or on the beach with your laptop sending email to your leads, opt-ins or customers? This article will give you insight to autoresponders that when used will save you a lot of time that can be utilized for other aspects of your business.




Internet Marketing and autoresponders essentially
go hand-in-hand. In today’s online business world,
you simply cannot succeed at Internet marketing
without the use of autoresponders. Autoresponders
are used to achieve many of the marketing tasks
that are essential to a successful online business.



Internet marketing can be very time consuming.
Whether you do affiliate marketing or market your
own products, an autoresponder is a big part of your
marketing arsenal. Autoresponders are used to keep
in contact with your past customers, and to develop
a relationship with potential customers.



An autoresponder can be used to deliver sales
messages to your opt-in customer list. It can be
used to deliver email courses, to send reminders,
and even to help you build an opt-in list if you don’t
already have one. There are many creative ways you
can use your autoresponder to make more sales and
to build customer relations.



Any successful marketer will tell you that there are
two tools that are vital to any type of online
marketing – an opt-in list and an autoresponder. In
fact, most marketers will agree that you could take
away all of their other marketing tools, but they
would fight to the death to keep the list and the
autoresponder! For more information on autoresponders and other aspects of online marketing visit my website at www.GeoIvan.com


George I Spracklin

Friday, May 21, 2010

Designing Your Website for Internet Marketing

 If you want to start marketing as an internet marketer then you need to have your own website. This is the main requirement to start your online business. Your website does not have to be loaded with graphics, but it does need to be informative, simple and professional.


To make your website you will need to do three things. Purchase a domain name, purchase the hosting service and design your website to upload to your hosting server. While purchasing the domain name, try to get a name that contains the main keywords of your website. Or you may simply choose a name that you like.



While selecting your hosting company, look for reliability. Hosting companies will be responsible for the storage of your files and to keep your website up and running. Godaddy.com is a well known, reliable hosting company.



How should your website be designed?



Hire a Designer



You can hire a web designer to do this design work for you. Just ask him to make the site professional looking and clean. The easiest way to hire a designer is to use an auction website like RentACoder.com or ODESK.com. Simply type a description of your project and designers will enter their bids. You will receive many bids from different designers. Check the portfolio and rate of each designer. Select the one which is best for your work and award him your project. After getting your website you can pay him through the auction website.



Use a Free Template



If you don’t want to invest to do the designing then you can get some free templates. There are many websites on the internet that are offering free website templates. Just visit these sites and choose the template that you like. Fill in the template with you own content and upload it on your server.



Use Site Builder Tools



Another choice is to use the site builder tools. You can use “dreamweaver” and “frontpage” to make your website yourself.



Characteristics of a Good Website



Simple and Professional



Your website is meant for business, so it must look professional. It should not be over loaded with heavy graphics and lots of flashy banners. Simplicity is best. Try to use light colors. Make a nice header to show your company name and theme. The site navigation must be simple and easy. People should not have any difficulty in searching for a specific page or information; otherwise they will not re-visit your website.



Provide Search Facility



Your website should have a search box on every page to search your website. This will be a great help for the visitors that want to search for a specific product or information on your website.



Build Your Mailing List



Some affiliate programs offer you a website to promote their business. This is the ready made solution. But in this case you cannot build your mailing list. Always try to get your own website where you can easily build your mailing list to promote your business.



Your own website is the key requirement for online marketing. The overall look and feel of your website should be attractive and the site must provide the information for which people are looking for. Provide easy navigation and search facilities to make it user friendly.



George Spracklin

www.GeoIvan.com

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Articles and Autoresponders

Writing articles to market a product or service is an
excellent way to build business. The articles should
be very informative, providing the reader with
information that is relevant to a specific topic. The
article usually includes a link to a webpage for more
information. The webpage, of course, is designed to
sell a product or service that relates to the topic of
the article.

These articles are commonly submitted to article
banks, websites, and ezine publishers. This is one
of the most effective ways to market a service or
product on the Internet, and it can become even more
effective when it is combined with the use of an
autoresponder.

Begin by setting each of your articles up in your
autoresponder. It is important that each article have
its very own autoresponder address, so you will
need an autoresponder service that will allow you to
do this. Next, make a master list of your articles, with
the autoresponder address for each article listed
beside the title. You can even add descriptions of the
articles on your master list if you want to.

Advertising your articles one at a time can take a
great deal of time…but advertising one autoresponder
address – the one for the master list – won’t take
very much time at all. Simply put it in your newsletter
and on your website. You can even allow other
ezine publishers to use this as a free resource for
their subscribers!

Charlie Page - Publisher - Real World Tactics                                Internet Marketing For The Real World!

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Three Tools For Successful Online Marketing

Following are the top three essential tools for a successful online marketing business.

Create Your Own Website

Your own website is the basic tool which is essential for successful online marketing. If you want to make a good start in this field you must build an impressive, credible and professional-looking website. If you are able to create a website successfully and it is appreciated by the users, then it is the sign for a successful online marketing career for you. You must create a site which will fulfill the requirements of almost all visitors and all of your prospects may be inspired by it. A user friendly site will promote the user to visit the links to the products and services that are advertised on the site. This will give you sales.

An important point to note is that the majority of the visitors do not come online to buy something. The reason of using the internet is to find some information or they may be looking for entertainment purposes. So all you need to do is just fill your website with this kind of stuff to gain the traffic. It is fact that when people visit your website they will click on the links of your affiliate products. So it will help to increase your sales. You should provide your own original content on your website. You can put some interesting articles there. If you provide good stuff, it will be liked by your visitors. If you add interesting content, then your website can become very popular and your search engine rating will also be improved.

Give Incentives to Your Visitors

Competition today is very tough among marketers on the internet. If you want to get the major share of your target market, then you should always keep an eye on your competitor. You should use every possible technique to make your users visit your site regularly. You should also stride to make it easier for your visitors to click the links and take a look at the products and services that you are offering. Creating an opt-in email list is a good method to get prospects. You should provide newsletter to your users, and offer them attractive incentives. This is the ideal way to convince them to subscribe to the newsletters. Offering free software or e-books to attract the users to your website is always a good idea.


Link Popularity

If you want to run a successful website then you must remember the fact that your success is hidden in driving more traffic to your website. It is necessary in order to achieve a good income. To achieve this goal, your website must be rated high in search engines. Link Popularity is an important factor which is used to determine search engine rankings. To get the high rankings, you must try to enhance your link popularity. Link popularity simply means how popular your website link is. For example tinyurl.com is a very popular website link. Try to choose a website name that is short, interesting, easy to remember name that is related to your business. This will help to increase your link popularity.

Conclusion

Above are the three basic tools for you to increase your sales in the field of online marketing. There are still many other methods and tricks that can be used to maximize your earnings as an online marketer but these are the basic tools. Make your own website. Your website must be easy to use and informative. It should deliver what people are looking for. Try to attract people by offering them free incentives. Try different methods to increase your link popularity to achieve a high ranking in the search engines. Use a simple, easy and interesting name for your website. Long and difficult names are hard to remember, so try to avoid them.