subject: Essential Tools Needed to Begin Online Marketing [print this page] In this piece I want to share some fundamental programs/websites that every serious marketer needs to use. There are many others, but these are the bare essentials.
Here are some fundamental tools that anyone marketing on the internet must have. I have incorporated links for easy access in my blog, just follow the link at the bottom.
AWEBER
AWeber is one of the most well-known and commonly used e-mail auto responders on the Internet today. The company, which is located in Pennsylvania, has been a leader in the field of CAN-SPAM compliant e-mail marketing for over 10 years and is greatly regarded as the auto responder of choice by nearly all affiliate marketers.
For any affiliate that is earnest about using e-mail auto-responders, becoming an AWeber member is virtually a given. The service is very inexpensive at only $19 a month for up to 500 subscribers and offers the following benefits:
" The capability to make an unlimited amount of auto-responders
" The ability to make messages with boundless length and a built-in HTML messaging platform
" The ability to manage unlimited campaigns
" The capacity to design broadcast messages
" The ability to use customizable fields in the e-mail sign-up forms
" The capacity to track clicks from e-mail messages to links that are integrated within the message
" The capacity to set up very customizable opt in forms
" 100% automated handling for undeliverable e-mail addresses
" 100% integrated CAN-SPAM conformity
Marketing system
There are several marketing systems on the market today. Depending on which one you make a decision to join, they can vary from $29.95 - $149.95 each month. Each system offers a range of levels of live and recorded training, customizable websites, and support. All of them offer affiliate programs and a number of levels of advertising help.
The system I propose is MLM Lead System Pro (MLSP). This system is $29.95 the first month and $49.95 each month afterward. MLSP has some of the best training and support in the industry along with fantastic websites that are incredibly easy to adapt.
Created and run by successful internet marketers Norbert Orlewicz, Todd Schlomer & Brian Fanale, MLM Lead System Pro is geared to addressing the problems that people meet with network marketing. The MLM Lead System Pro program promises to address and successfully fix each of these problems for its members.
Mike Dillard's Magnetic Sponsoring
This is not completely essential, but this is the most thorough guide to "Attraction Marketing" in the business. Any marketer who wants to be a success must study this material.
The biggest concern with getting started with network marketing is the nature of tactics you have to resort to in order to find leads and build your downline. Nobody likes to call all their friends and family and inform them about the most recent exciting business opportunity. What's more, very few people have the personality to pull that off for the long term.
Magnetic Sponsoring teaches you how to become the hunted instead of the hunter. It is a course that goes against the traditional networking strategies and introduces how to use the Internet and a separate positioning strategy to get the leads you require.
Blog
Wordpress is the number one blogging program and is the only one top marketers will employ. I would passionately propose that you use .org and not .com. This is because you will have full control with wordpress.org. Wordpress is a leading "web publishing platform" in the blogging world.
The last fundamental tool is a website. I recommend that you use two separate companies to acquire your website.
GoDaddy
Use this company to purchase your website.
GoDaddy is one of the principal domain registrars in the United States. The company was founded by CEO Bob Parsons in 1997. Over the last few years, GoDaddy has become enormously well-known through their outrageous SuperBowl ads and commercials with renown racers Danica Patrick and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Host Gator
Use this company to host your website.
HostGator is a hosting company that was founded in 2002 by CEO Brent Oxley and is one of the prime hosting providers in the U.S, with over 5,000 under management. Their service is used by greater than 150,000 customers, and the company was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in America in 2008.
This is in no way intended to be a thorough list, but these are the essentials needed to get started.
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