10 More Steps to Internet Success

Written by Duane Marx


This article will teach yourepparttar basics of starting your first internet business. You'll be introduced to some very useful products and services. You can also use this as a checklist to help stay focused and make it easier to set up and improve your internet business.

1) ‘Find a Market’ - Find a market before you decide on a product. If you pick a product first then find out later there isn’t a market for it, you will have wasted a lot of time and money. So be sure to look forrepparttar 119675 market first. Also try to find an area that inspires or excites you. If you find your passion then it’ll be easier to stay motivated when building your business. Use Google to search different keywords. Try searching with Yahoo to see what else is selling. Check eBay for all their different categories. And use ClickBank to look for interesting markets. When you locate a market and find out what people want, all you’ll have to do is sell it to them. After your first internet project is up and running, and is profitable, then you may want to start looking for your next market. Remember it's very easy to jump from one project torepparttar 119676 next beforerepparttar 119677 first one is finished. So try to find a market or project that you really like and stay with it until its making money.

2) ‘Find a Product’ - After finding a market you’ll need to find a product to sell. You could searchrepparttar 119678 internet to see what other people are selling to get some ideas. Or buy resale rights to a product. Maybe you can sell an affiliate product. Remember you don’t have to reinventrepparttar 119679 wheel. Find a product someone else is selling and make it a little better, different, lower in price, or add a bonus whenever someone buy from you. If you choose to sell digital products you will find many extra benefits such as: no shipping or handling, low start up cost, your profit margin will be close to 100%, your customer will get their product right away. And a lot of it can be set up automatically so there’s less work for you. Make sure to take full advantage ofrepparttar 119680 automation possibilities ofrepparttar 119681 internet.

3) ‘Get a Domain Name’ – You’ll want to have your own domain name. Try to think of a few different names because your first choices may not be available. Choose a short name and it will be easier for people to remember. If possible get domain names ending with .com. You should also try to get a name to match your product. And maybe use keywords in your domain name to get a better listing on search engines.

4) ‘Hosting Companies’ - The purpose of hosting company is to keep your website running properly. They will make sure everything is working properly so your customers can navigate through it and buy your product or service. So this is a very important responsibility. If your website isn’t working properly or not at all then you are losing money. You may find some free hosting companies, but you really do get what you pay for. So it may be better to use a paid hosting company.

5) ‘Create a Website’ - Create a website so your customers can buy your products 24 hour a day. You will be competing with lots of other websites so try to make yours unique. If your site takes a long time to upload your potential customers will go somewhere else. Graphics are nice to look at but slow to upload so have more text and less graphic. Remember its words that sell products. To get ideas for you website searchrepparttar 119682 web and look for sites that you like. Make sure your website is easy to navigate. And if you are short on time and haverepparttar 119683 money you could hire a professional to build your site. Or if you want to save money you could do it yourself.

Marketing Hat for Graphic Designers or Wannabe's

Written by Joy Gendusa


Many people think thatrepparttar quality of any graphic design is determined by how aesthetically pleasing it is: Although makingrepparttar 119674 card look good is important, this couldn't be further fromrepparttar 119675 truth. The only true measure of any design, at least commercially, is "How well does it pull?". By pull we mean what type of response does it elicit? Does it pull in calls, or pull people intorepparttar 119676 store? In essence, doesrepparttar 119677 design accomplish what it set out to do?

From this fact it is not a reach to come torepparttar 119678 conclusion thatrepparttar 119679 merit of a graphic designer is based onrepparttar 119680 performance of his or her designs. You may be able to put togetherrepparttar 119681 most beautiful ad thatrepparttar 119682 world has ever seen, but if it doesn't makerepparttar 119683 phone ring it isn't worthrepparttar 119684 paper that it is printed on.

By giving clients designs that are not only attractive but, more importantly, that get themrepparttar 119685 response they need to turn a profit, you are making it much more likely that they will be willing and able to come back to you for future services. In short, ifrepparttar 119686 ad doesn't make your client any money, you don't make any money inrepparttar 119687 future.

The following text is a breakdown ofrepparttar 119688 different actions to take and ways to make sure that your beautiful design is also a big time moneymaker for both you and your client.

Chapter 1: “BE”repparttar 119689 Target Market

There is a monkey loose in your office and you can't seem to get any work done. The only solution is to catchrepparttar 119690 little distraction and FedEx him back torepparttar 119691 jungle that he came from. Question: How do you catch a monkey? You have to get into his head, think like him. You have to “BE”repparttar 119692 monkey to find out what is going to bring him close enough for you to catch him.

What does an annoying monkey have to do with Marketing Design? Keep reading.

Every potential customer is likerepparttar 119693 monkey. They are going to do whatever they want unless you can persuade them to listen to you. You have to get into their head, think like them, “BE” them. A monkey is a simple animal so you can probably get his attention withrepparttar 119694 stereotypical banana.

Human beings onrepparttar 119695 other hand are extremely complex. Then you add inrepparttar 119696 fact thatrepparttar 119697 mailing list is targeted and it can get quite challenging. Following are a few examples:

1) Product = Wrinkle Reducing Eye Cream.

Who do you need to “BE”? Probably a woman overrepparttar 119698 age of 40. Try it. Pretend you are a woman over 40 with crows feet (wrinkles aroundrepparttar 119699 eyes, for all you guys) and they are getting worse and worse each day. Did you do it? Are you her? Good.

Now, how bombarded with advertising is this woman over 40 that you’re being? Just think about it. PLENTY! So how are you going to communicate to her in an ad to get her to respond?

You may have a headline that pushesrepparttar 119700 button of how upset she is about those crows feet like, “Crow’s Feet Getting Worse as You Age?” You may want to show a before and after shot.

2) Product = New Golf Ball that goes farther and straighter thanrepparttar 119701 competition.

Your target market is Senior Citizen golf enthusiasts inrepparttar 119702 state of Florida. So what isrepparttar 119703 number one benefit of this particular product for that target market? To answer that question you should use three things:

•Reasoning •Experience

•Research

In this golf case, in particular, I can tell you from others’ stories thatrepparttar 119704 olderrepparttar 119705 guy,repparttar 119706 straighterrepparttar 119707 ball goes. Practice makes perfect and older people have generally had much more practice. Also, as people get older they start to lose strength over all. This means that they will start to lose distance on their shot. It is relatively easy to tell thatrepparttar 119708 distance factor is going to berepparttar 119709 biggest benefit and therefore should berepparttar 119710 focus ofrepparttar 119711 ad.

Sometimes it's really easy, most times it's not.

3) Product (Service) = Refinancing.

This example has you trying to determinerepparttar 119712 biggest benefit of refinancing a mortgage for families with a household income of $75k, revolving debt of $15k and 2+ children. Sound complicated? It can be. Mayberepparttar 119713 benefit is getting cash to pay off their debt, maybe it's paying for college, or even lowering their monthly payments. There is no real way to tell just by looking atrepparttar 119714 situation. Now you are going to have to do some research.

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