The Myth of Internet Marketing: aka "The Golden Carrot"

Written by Cathy Smith


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Quit your job and have your own home business. Make a fortune. Learn how to do it from an expert.

Send me (insert anywhere from $9.95 to $5000) of your hard-earned dough and I'll show you how to get rich in 7 easy steps.

Click here to order!

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I figured that I'm at least as smart as a baboon, so I ordered! And I ordered, and I ordered, and I ordered.

Now I have an entire collection of "Golden Carrots" taking up hard drive space on my computer!!

Am I rich? NO! Am I still stuck in my exhausting job? YES! Am I $4000 poorer? YES!!

Now do you know WHY I want to throw my computer outrepparttar window??

So what isrepparttar 120068 "Myth of Internet Marketing"??

The Internet is NOT a Magic Carpet that can help you market some program, product, ebook or widget and guarantee overnight riches.

Internet Marketing is still "MARKETING". HELLO!!

Do you have a degree in Marketing? No? Neither do I. Do you have a degree in Advertising? No? Neither do I. Do you know how to design a website? No? Me either. Can you write sales letters? No? Nope, Me either.

But if you believerepparttar 120069 Internet Marketing "Experts" who dangle their "Golden Carrots" in front of your face you'll believe that you can be successful in internet marketing. All you need are enough carrots and you can realize your dream.

Have I given up on my dream to have my own home business?

Absolutely Not! I'm working at it everyday but I'm doing itrepparttar 120070 right way. The way I should have done it inrepparttar 120071 first place.

If you have a "Golden Carrot" story, I'd love to hear it. I'll be publishingrepparttar 120072 best ones in my "GoldenCarrotMonthly" Newsletter.

No this isn't a ploy to collect your email address and send you MY "Golden Carrot"!! I genuinely want to sharerepparttar 120073 experiences of people just like you and me who are looking for help in realizing their dream of a home business.

email your story at cathy@upwholesalers.com

Cathy Smith works at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan located in Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula. She owns her own business, UPWholesalers. UpWholesalers specializes in offering only the best affiliate marketing programs available on the internet. Get details at http://www.upwholesalers.com


Understanding the Difference Between Marketing and Promotion

Written by Jeff Casmer


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At $10, our projected weekly earnings are $10,000. When we sellrepparttar product at $50, we know that we can earn $25,000 per week. Most importantly, we know that we can earn $29,250 when our product is priced at $45.

Withrepparttar 120067 imaginary testing we have done on our imaginary product, we can easily see that selling our product at $45 per item will earn us more money overrepparttar 120068 long haul.

Thus, when we makerepparttar 120069 decision for a national rollout of our product, then we will price our product at $45.

Of course, this is a very simplistic analysis ofrepparttar 120070 point I am trying to make. Though simple, I believe this analogy will help you understandrepparttar 120071 methods of developing a product's prices.

PROMOTION

Promotion, onrepparttar 120072 other hand, isrepparttar 120073 process of notifyingrepparttar 120074 consumers for your product or service of your availability to serve them.

Methods of promotion vary distinctly and should be arranged to meet very specific goals.

As with product, place and price, promotion should not be left to chance. You should test every ad, every media, and every price point to determinerepparttar 120075 best bang for your promotional dollars.

HEADS UP!

If you are an online promoter or marketer, please factor inrepparttar 120076 most important element concerningrepparttar 120077 cost of your promotions.

What element is that? Your time!

Value your time at a certain dollar amount, and figure in your time intorepparttar 120078 cost of your promotional accounting.

I say this because too many online promoters lose sight of this concept and spend 20 hours to generate one sale while using free advertising. Even if you rate your time atrepparttar 120079 federal minimum wage, then you will have invested $105 of your time for one sale that might only net you a gross sale of $45!

ARE YOU TRULY A MARKETER OR ARE YOU JUST A PROMOTER?

Most people who run a business onrepparttar 120080 Internet call themselves marketers. Yet, most of these same people are really just promoters wrapped inrepparttar 120081 label of a marketer.

True marketers do not promote without a lot of advance work. They spend time planning, testing and measuring their actions and results to getrepparttar 120082 most out of every dollar spent and earned.

Entrepreneurs finesserepparttar 120083 art of marketing as they build their company into a major enterprise.

If you are a promoter who does not keep an eye onrepparttar 120084 total marketing equation, then you are bound to fail.

If you do call yourself a marketer, then do what a professional marketer does. Make sure that every dollar spent is spent well. Make sure that every dollar earned is put to good use. Market well so that whenrepparttar 120085 people ofrepparttar 120086 next generation look at your life, they will see a fine example of a successful entrepreneur that they will strive to emulate.



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