subject: 5 Important Internet Marketing Tips [print this page] Anyone with a product to sell knows they need to sell it online. But how do you get customers? How do you market the product? Why isn't anyone visiting your website? There are plenty of people waiting to hand out advice, but how can you tell what is the right advice to take?
So, to make your life a little easier and your wallet a little less thin, here are the most important things to remember. Kindly read them over several times, print them out, and put them next to your computer.
1. Optin for every free product you can. Create one email address and use it for every single offer. You'll get the free product AND you'll be put on someone's mailing list. The product might or might not be useful. The mailing list is where you want to be. Get on as many lists as you can.
2. Evaluate the free products. read through the ebooks, give the software a trial run, delete everything that does you no good and save everything else in folders. Organized folders. You should also create a document in the main folder with a list of what you have and what it is. That way you can find information when you need to look something up.
3. As the newsletters come in to your email account, watch all the free webinars and take copious notes. Watch the video sales letters and take notes. Sometimes there won't be anything but hype, but frequently there will be excellent free information before they get to the sales pitch.
4. Don't click the buy now link. Do not buy anything, no matter how tempting, until you know what you are doing! Keep taking notes, keep watching webinars. Keep opting in for mailing lists and getting free products and KEEP READING everything you're sent. By doing this, you're getting quite a bit of education and you're getting it for free.
5. Unsubscribe from any mailing list that isn't providing you value. You can expect to receive things such as free offers for other people - which is good because sometimes the exact person you need to listen to you would never run into on your own - or even the email content itself.
After you've absorbed free information for a while, and hopefully have put into action what you've learned, you'll find your confidence improving along with your knowledge. At that point, you'll know what you actually need to buy and what you don't. For example, you know you need a website. If you come to realize that building a website is just really not your thing, then shop around for a solution. If you write a few articles and realize that article marketing is something you can't stand doing, then shop around for a solution. But don't do any shopping until you've digested enough of the free information to know WHAT It is you need to shop for.
