Simple Internet Marketing Advice
To Help You Beat Your Competition
By Bill Fletcher
Introduction
Internet marketing is a great way to get your product or service known. Millions of people use the internet each day and you could have hundreds of people looking into what you are offering.
To help you beat your competition, you need to use all the available resources. The use of Social Media sites such as FaceBook, Twitter, Linkedin, Squidoo and a host of others are necessary to beat your competition and develop you home based business.
As important as these sites are, you have to remember this is a business not a hobby. Treat your home business as a million dollar, worldwide business and you are the CEO of this business then you are in the right position to grow.
Your Million Dollar Home Based Business
In this article we will explore a few quick and easy ways to use internet marketing to your advantage.
Blogging
Blogging should be on top of your list for moving your home business from start-up to greatness.
Blogging is fun, easy and a great source for qualified leads. Having a well designed blog prospects will come back for more information and will soon begin to see you as an expert in your business.
Understand if you are new to blogging, it will take time to get yourself noticed. “How do I get noticed?” You must blog daily about your business or offer some tips and advice on how the product or service will benefit your prospect. You should have good content and use the SEO requirements.
Not really certain how to do this? Here is a video to help you understand how blogging make you money while growing your home based business. This is a great video on blogging.
Starting Blog
Starting a blog is a fast, easy, and an incredibly inexpensive way to create buzz about your product. Many websites offer free blogging services. Creating your own blog from scratch requires work and costs but it will pay off if done correctly.
But to beat your competition, you need to do set-up your blog correctly!!!
Noticed I said “creating” a blog is inexpensive. The problem with this is many people are not technical enough to “create” a blog. Sure the easy way is to go to WordPress and use a FREE template. This may be okay in the beginning to get you up and running but in time you will want to have a more “professional” look.
I find that many bloggers become frustrated, angry and soon quit because they lack experience and knowledge in “how to blog”.
Blogging Can Be Fun If Done Right
Let’s go back to an earlier comment: Blogging is fun easy and a great source for qualified leads. Fun only of you are experienced in establishing a blog. Easy only if you know how to promote your blog. A source for qualified leads only if you know how to target your prospect. Here are some
Simple Internet Marketing Advice To Help You Beat Your Competition..don’t do it alone.
Don’t Go Alone In Establishing A Blog
If done wrong you will be wasting your time. Remember you are a CEO of a million dollar business. CEO’s delegate to others while working on “getting business”. Outsource the technical stuff to a third party.
Spending money on your home business is all a part of getting your business noticed. If you are not willing to spend some money this may not be the right marketing for you.
Now the question, “how much money should I spend to get my blogging empire going?” Tough question. The answer is “what ever it takes”. My advice here is budget at lease $500 to $600 to start much more if you are serious.
Blogging Tools You Will Need
If your home based business marketing plan is focused around blogging, some of the tools you will need are:
- WordPress blog platform. Free theme to start
- Autoresponder to collect emails. Aweber or Get Response
- Keyword research tool. Google keyword planner will be good to start
- Microsoft Word or similar writing software
- Hosting platform. I recommend Host Gator
- Time and focus
As you become more experienced, you may want to invest in a “professional” blog platform and a keyword research tool such as Market Samurai. I have listed above the tools I use and recommend. Look at “Tools” above for that list.
How To Blog For Making Money
To make all this easier, you may want to look at Empower Network. Empower Network has a well designed blog already set-up for you. Empower Network is an “authority” site. This gets you noticed quickly. If you don’t have a product to offer but want to make money blogging, Empower Network has high demand products you can offer. The best part of offering these products is you get paid 100% on each sale made.
Summery
Establishing a blog is not that hard and you can make money blogging. What is the problem, is the technical knowledge to get your blog up and running. You will need tools to get established. Spending some money up front will pay big over time.
I recommend WordPress as you blog platform, however this will take time and some knowledge to get your blog established. You will need a theme, plug-ins, pages and more. If this is presents a problem, use a third party to develop your blog. I recommend Empower Network for a variety of reasons.
- Already done for you blog
- Authority site
- High demand products
- 100% pay structure
- All you do is to blog daily, market and make money
While all this sounds good, remember it will take time and focus on your goals. If you are serious in making money blogging, I have other articles in the blog to offer additional tips and suggestions on “how to make money blogging”, “how to start a home based business” and “how to blog”.
Here is another article you may like: Tips and Trick Toward Successful Blogging. How To Make Money Blogging
PS: This has been some “Simple Internet Marketing Advice To Help You Beat Your Competition”. If you want to make some serious money blogging, look at this video from Justin. Very likeable person and his story will touch you….Here is Justin’s story.
The true life story of Justin Verrengia and his struggles with lost business, lost income disappointment when he could not pay for a dinner on his wife’s birthday Justin is really likeable but a little weird.
