Ok. Maybe your company offers many products and services. What do you want to focus on? I suggest that, at first, you focus on one or two products and/or affiliate opportunity. In other words, keep is simple. Once you get hang of what you’re doing, you will KNOW when it’s time to expand. Do only what you are comfortable with, every step of way. This is YOUR business, it’s your right and privilege to decide on your approach.

Internet marketing hinges on building trust. How will you do this?

Reaching customers means marketing. Your decision, once again. And again, options should be in your company's training materials.

So we’re talking developing a reading/study schedule. Here’s a possible list, once you’ve read enough to make your own decisions to answer above questions, start writing. Your writing can be lists of words and phrases, free-form brainstorming, outlines, mind maps, whatever works for you. Just write it down, and don’t forget to save often. If your home office is inhabited by cats or small children, they have tendency to press on random keyboard keys. Documents do occasionally just disappear. Saving avoids total disaster.

1. Study products. 2. Read training materials. 3. Read about commissions, bonuses, etc. 4. Study marketing aids and strategies 5. Find out what free tools are available. 6. Visit forums on a regular basis. Read everything about getting started. 7. Ask questions.

Your final written business plan will have at least four parts:

Introduction/background: history of company and its founder, internet marketing trends, why THIS company and why NOW, and so on.

Goals: I suggest you think of what you would like to be earning in two years, but mainly focus on goals for your first year. Realistic goals can be projected based on info on company website, in newsletters, searches on forums, and focused questions to other affiliates.

Marketing plan: based on your answers to first 3 questions above and your study of marketing aids and tools.

Action plans: specifics of what you will do on a monthly, weekly, and/or daily basis for next year.

I can’t tell you what your answers should be, because you have to decide how much money you have to invest. Only you can decide how many hours per day, week or month you can invest in your business. What products you feel most comfortable marketing, and who you decide to target as your customer base, are all decisions only you can make. If you get stuck and don’t understand a question, don’t know where to find information, or don’t know how to ASK a question, contact your sponsor or someone in your upline. If they can't help you, they should be able to send you to someonewho can.

You should NEVER feel alone. Work should be FUN!

The Internet often seems so impersonal. Your readers are seeking someone who is real, so why not write as a real person in a conversational manner.

Have a think and try to choose a hot online topic. Look at articles from other magazines and newsgroups in your industry. A good web content provider should write about current subjects that you're pretty sure will interest people.

The title is important and should grab people’s attention otherwise they may never read rest of article. If they don’t read article, they won’t see your resource box. Therefore have a good think about title and live with it for a few days until you feel you cannot improve it.

For actual web content, around 500 words is a good rule of thumb. Try not to be too long winded. Most users will do a quick scroll to see how long article is before reading. If it's too long or too short you may lose them. People don't like to read for too long online so stick to point.

At end of article add your resource box info. You will receive best results if you can include a short message related to article you have just written.

If you have impressed readers with your expertise, there's a good chance they will want to learn more about you and what else you can offer them.

Just like with headline, you'll need to leave your article for a short while, and "sleep on it". Come back to it next day and edit it. Improve parts that you then feel could be made a little better. It's amazing what a short rest will do for creative process.

Once you're happy and cannot improve article any more, now it's time to submit to ezine publishers. Below I have provided a list of places that ezine publisher look to find articles of web content providers. If you can get your article published at these websites, getting into many ezines should be logical outcome.

http://www.web-source.net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/ http://amazines.com/ http://bpubs.com/ http://ezinearticles.com/ http://goarticles.com/ http://promotenewz.com/ http://www.articlecity.com/ http://www.certificate.net/ http://www.articlecity.com/ http://ideamarketers.com/

Remember, this process could get you huge targeted exposure, so it's well worth effort - and it costs you nothing but your time.

Best wishes for your future.

Stuart Elwell

Article by: Stuart Elwell, Webmaster for WebSmart-Marketing.com; http://www.websmart-marketing.com/home.html which provides sound advice and strategies for making money from Internet.