Have ever you ever heard anyone talk about 888 numbers? How many times? Okay, now how many times have you heard people talk about 800 numbers? 888 and 877 numbers are known as step brothers and sisters of 800 numbers.

Similarly, when you want to send a package overnight what company do you think of first? Probably Federal Express because they were first company to do overnight shipping. You can use UPS or Airborne Express or some of other smaller companies, but FedEx is company that gets most business because they're thought of first. You need to have a ".com" domain because that's where visitors will go first no matter how many new domain endings are created years and years from now.

If you have ".net" domain name then you'll be setting yourself up to lose visitors to whoever has ".com" domain for your name. Outside of earthlink.net how many ".nets" come to your mind right now? On other hand, how many ".coms" can you think of?

When you hear about a cool company and want to see if they have a website do you try their name with a ".com" or with a ".net" or ".info" or ".tv" or ".anythingelsebesidesa.com?" I'll bet money that you try ".com" first everytime and you always will because it's always going to be your first choice.

So if you haven't already, go buy a domain for your birth name and get crackin' on coming up with a great name for your business and go buy a domain for that name before it's taken. Honestly, we're talking about a $15 a year investment. If you're not willing to invest $15 into your business then you don't have a business. If you want to be taken seriously you have to have your own domain name or you will die online trying to make money. Period, end of story.

Third, make a list of your "pet peeves." What gets you angry? What do you wish people wouldn't do? What do you want people to "get" or "get sooner?"

One of my pet peeves is a teacher telling students how hard something is going to be for them "before" student starts. It sets up their failure; it sets it up to be hard. I do not believe any teacher has right to say what is hard for someone else. It just might be easy for them. This pet peeve didn't come out until I started attending many writing conferences throughout United States. Every single author kept telling other writers how hard writing is. When I talked with many successful and to be successful writers, they told me they always found writing easy not hard.

Yours could be "people changing lanes without signaling." A challenging one to connect with you and your expertise. I did this as an ecourse and sold it to AAA for their web site use. They used it for a whole year on their web site. There are branch offs to these, like, "How to stay in NOW while you are driving," or "How to stay present when driving."

If you don't know what your pet peeves are, ask your spouse, your friends, your coach. I bet they know yours.

Three Ways to Market Ecourses

1. Add to your web site and ezine. 2. Submit to every online newsletter (ezine) you can find. Do a search on Google.com to generate a list of sites that will allow you to submit your link. 3. In your e-mail software, create a signature with announcement for this ecourse.

Strategy

Complete one course a week if you are aggressive until you have ten. Draft, edit two or three times, and have it professionally edited. Write a marketing paragraph and your signature lines. After ten, you will begin to see topic possibilities everywhere and you will have techniques and system fairly down pat. After 10, pick one or two days a month and just write ecourses. Then begin seeing topics and creating ecourses that you can sell. Now you can start creating residual revenue. Write and market, write and market, and keep on going. You can do this for a year and have 50 or 60 of them done. Then you can skip writing any for next year or two and focus in on another marketing tactic.

Another strategy is to hire someone else to write them for you and you focus on marketing only. On other hand, you write and have someone else market. The more you can leverage to other people’s time, money and success you will have.

Internet marketing and making money online is serious business, just like any business in "real" world. Just like any business, you have to put forth an effort in order to succeed. You need to invest time and money. It never ceases to amaze me how some people relentlessly expect to succeed without making an investment of any kind.

Go ahead, give it an honest try. I believe it will work for YOU if you work with it! Let me know about your success.