The 3 Most Popular Online Business Models

Written by Gobala Krishnan


Copyright © 2005 Gobala Krishnan

Amid allrepparttar noise and hype onrepparttar 108578 Internet today, not many people realize that allrepparttar 108579 ideas and techniques you can find are petty much useless if you don't first understand your business model. In other words, evenrepparttar 108580 most amazing Internet marketing technique will not work if you don't understand how to apply it to YOUR business.

The 3 most popular business models are:

1) Affiliate Marketing

This is perhapsrepparttar 108581 most popular one out there, since there are absolutely no barriers to entry. Almost anyone can sign-up for an affiliate program for free and start promotingrepparttar 108582 product or service onrepparttar 108583 Internet with hopes that someone will buy, giving them instant commissions. Affiliate marketers don't carry any risk, since they do not pay forrepparttar 108584 creation ofrepparttar 108585 product, they do not handle customer service and they do not need any up-front investments.

When you consider that those arerepparttar 108586 top three things people want to avoid, it's no surprise that almost everyone and their neighbor promotes an affiliate program or another. In fact, if there is a single reason whyrepparttar 108587 Internet today is so proliferated with ads and banners, it's because of affiliate programs.

Even though there are so many affiliate marketers out there, only 5% ever make any money and only 1% makes big money. The "Super Affiliates" do it very differently from allrepparttar 108588 other millions; therefore they earnrepparttar 108589 big checks. You can get a good idea of how to be a good affiliate marketer here: http://affiliatemarketing.sitesell.com/globalmillionaire.html

2) E-book and Information Publishing

Sitting atrepparttar 108590 other end ofrepparttar 108591 spectrum, e-book authors need to be more disciplined in their approach to Internet marketing. Of course, they also need to invest more than affiliates do. While affiliates can get away trying to "get something for nothing"repparttar 108592 same is not true forrepparttar 108593 e-book type of business.

If you're thinking about publishing and selling your own e-book online, and you think it's going to be easy, think again. You'll need to learn a lot more than affiliates are required to. You'll need to spend some amount of money getting your business up and running. However, when you do it right,repparttar 108594 payoff in this online business model is much more rewarding.

The reason why e-book marketers and "Infopreneurs" make more money is simple; they have very, very low production and maintenance costs. Anything digital doesn't cost a single cent to be produced in millions if necessary. Whatever initial start-up costs spent can be covered by selling just a few copies of high-margin e-books, and you can even recruit an army of affiliates who are more than willing to do allrepparttar 108595 selling for you.

Of course, it's not as easy as it sounds, butrepparttar 108596 point is, when done properly,repparttar 108597 "E-book Publishing" model is a truly profitable business. You can learn more about e-book publishing at http://egoods.sitesell.com/globalmillionaire.html

Finding Keywords Worth Gold That Are Easy To Optimize For…

Written by Nick Singal


Copyright 2005 Anik Singal, Kurma Group

The real aspect of building a website for search engines is to do your keyword research correctly. This can berepparttar most time consuming, hectic, and frustrating aspect unless you know what you’re doing – that is why we want to teach you today.

Are you ready for this challenge? Not many people are. Find good keywords isrepparttar 108577 step that most give up and that is why most can never make a penny online. But, withrepparttar 108578 secrets we’re about to reveal, you should be able to sulk profits from search engines for years to come…

We’re going to help you learn how to chooserepparttar 108579 keyword that will help set-uprepparttar 108580 foundation of your online business.

Why are we looking for keywords?

These keywords are going to becomerepparttar 108581 foundation of your site’s CONTENT. These arerepparttar 108582 keywords that will determine how you optimize your website for search engines. They’re alsorepparttar 108583 same keywords you can use to buy cheap traffic through pay-per-click.

How to start?

First, make a list of 5-10 keywords or keyphrases that are related to your niche. For example, if your niche is computers, come up with a list like this:

1. Computers 2. Computer Parts 3. Computer Software 4. Cheap Computer 5. Building a Computer

Next, you’ll use a tool that will expand on these keywords for you. The best tool to use is Wordtracker. It’srepparttar 108584 most highly recommended keyword searching tool onrepparttar 108585 web. This tool actually lets you type in one general keyword and it will come back with hundreds and even thousands of related phrases out of which many are great keywords to optimize for.

What kind of keywords should you look for?

Look for keywords that are about 2-3 words long – so you’re really looking for phrases. The next goal is to findrepparttar 108586 phrases that aren’t too competitive. Meaning, look for keywords that are getting a good amount of traffic but do not have a bunch of competition too.

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