10 Common misconceptions about marketing on the Internet

Written by Pam Renovato


1. You will get rich quick. Marketing onrepparttar internet takes a lot of work. This is not a get rich quick scheme. It takes much time learning and failing before you will succeed. Your success is entirely up to you. You will reap what you sow.

2. You won't make any money. Again you will reap what you sow. Your key to success is through consistency and persistency. If you are willing to learn and accept failures from time to time, learn from your mistakes and apply that knowledge-repparttar 121700 money will come. Don't give up. There are lots of people who truly do make money this way.

3. Anyone can do this. If you tell your self there is nothing to this , you will set yourself up for guaranteed failure. A profession such as this takes a lot of discipline and most of allrepparttar 121701 willingness to learn. It takes a lot of hard work and an open mind. You have to be willing to embrace new ideas as they come and take this seriously.

4. Not everyone can do this. This is also not true. As long as you free your mind to skepticism such as these you have taken your first step. While this profession takes time to figure out, it is not hard to figure out. Rememberrepparttar 121702 only person stopping you is you!

5. It is to hard. Look within your self. There is an online business in you. What do you know? What do you like. What do you need that has not been created yet? Answers to these questions and questions like them arerepparttar 121703 beginnings of you havingrepparttar 121704 ability to set yourself apart fromrepparttar 121705 crowd.

6. It will be easy. It will get easier, but you will have to do loads of studying. Spend many hours brainstorming. You will spend many hours reading, writing, and learning what works and what doesn't. It will get tedious and hard to stick to. Persevere, your reward is coming.

Help Yourself to a Great News Release with "The 3 I Technique

Written by Paul J. Krupin


Getting publicity to attract attention and getrepparttar word out in your local area, field, or industry is crucial to jump starting any marketing or promotion effort. Ask any editor most news releases end up inrepparttar 121699 trash can or recycling bin. But how do you prepare and transmit an effective news release so that it will actually achieve results?

Most people have real difficulty writing press releases. Some people even compare writing a press release to working while underrepparttar 121700 influence of a week-long migraine headache. Ugh!

You don't have to strain your brain. Relax! Believe it or not, it's easy to have fun when you write a news release. You can minimizerepparttar 121701 hassle and help yourself to a great news release with something I callrepparttar 121702 “The 3 I Technique". Here's how.

Start by usingrepparttar 121703 following basic assessment strategy to define what to say in a basic press release:

1. Who are my customers?

2. What do they read, watch or listen to when they get information that motivates them to buy a product I can offer?

3. What media allow me to target these people with a news release inrepparttar 121704 way they appear to be responding?

4. What types of articles or feature options are presented inrepparttar 121705 media you've identified?

5. What can you offer to matchrepparttar 121706 readership and editorial interests you've identified?

The answers to these questions establish your writing environment. To makerepparttar 121707 actual news release creation process simple, you then utilize “The 3 I Technique” to see what you can learn about what your key target media look for. This can be a very insightful experience and you can learn how to do it and develop your own great news releases.

The specific goal in this case is to learn and devise an approach to getting in to say, USA Today. Of course, you can use this technique to write news releases for any individual publication or a target group of publications.

The 3 I Technique is pretty simple and works like this:

1. Identify a successful model. 2. Imitaterepparttar 121708 structure and content ofrepparttar 121709 success model. 3. Innovate with your own information.

Step 1: Select your top media or publication.

Study it carefully and identify a successful article or book or product review similar to what you want to offer. What you are looking for is an article that is just like what you wish would be written about you. If you want to be in USA Today, study USA Today. Look at and analyze five to ten USA Today articles.

In each case plan to evaluate their writing structure and glean what USA Today produces from their contributing reviewers.

Identify and reviewrepparttar 121710 number of words in each article and know that a one-page news release can have between 200 and 400 words and still fit on one page in 14-point type.

Identifyrepparttar 121711 number of words per paragraph.

Identifyrepparttar 121712 number of sentences per paragraph.

After analyzing five to ten articles, select one or two of them as your favorites. These are your success models to emulate.

Step 2: Imitaterepparttar 121713 structure and content ofrepparttar 121714 success model.

Develop a general outline ofrepparttar 121715 structure and purpose of each sentence and paragraph in your chosen success model article. Do this so that your own article will parallelrepparttar 121716 outline ofrepparttar 121717 successfully published review article.

Then start atrepparttar 121718 headline. Then go on torepparttar 121719 first sentence, thenrepparttar 121720 second, thenrepparttar 121721 third, and so on.

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