Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Marketing your home business - Creating Awareness

If you’ve made the decision to get involved with a home business or online business, then chances are one of the biggest questions you may be asking yourself right now is “how do I go about promoting my home business or online business to create awareness of what I’m doing among my customer base?” The answer may just be in internet marketing through affiliates. This answer is particularly relevant if your home business *is* an online business, because with an online business, the entire scope of everything about running your home business, from product and brand awareness to your customer base to your business process takes place online. So it makes sense that online business owners will rely heavily on internet marketing as part of their promotion efforts.

Some methods of internet marketing for your home business or online business will achieve better penetration than others. For example, while high volume e-mail marketing will reach a huge number of people, those so-called “leads” are typically not qualified and there are absolutely no guarantees that they are even receiving your message. Most e-mail internet marketing is considered “spam” by both the individuals who own the inboxes those e-mails ate getting sent to and the e-mail programs those individuals are using to read their e-mail. Even if your internet marketing e-mail for your home business or online business gets through the spam filters, there’s still no guarantee it will even get read, let alone that it will lead to a click through for your website.

One of the best internet marketing initiatives for an online business or home business website is probably the affiliates tactic, where like-minded businesses (perhaps even other home businesses or online businesses like yours) exchange links with you to drive traffic to each others’ websites. Another affiliates tactic is to compensate average people for linking back to your website through an automated affiliates program that posts links back to your home business or online business website based on the keywords in their site content. Both of these affiliates tactics can result in very good results.

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Sunday, April 15, 2007

2006 - 2007 "Online Marketer Of The Year"

My friend Stone Evans has been nominated for the 2006 - 2007
"Online Marketer Of The Year" award. Check it out here:

http://www.onlinemarketeroftheyear.com/stoneevans

You'll have a chance to login to Stone's personal computer
and watch him compete against the top marketers in the world
including:

Dan Kennedy, Joe Sugarman, Robert Allen, Mark Joyner, Yanik
Silver, Mike Filsaime, Rich Schefren, Nick Marks, Gary
Ambrose, Alex Mandossian, Anik Singal, Armand Morin, Bill
Glazer, Bill Harris, Brad Antin, Brad Fallon, Carl Galletti,
Dan VanOrman, Dave Lakhani, David Frey, David Garfinkel,
Donna Fox, Eric Holmlund, Gauher Chaudhry, Harris Fellman,
Jeff Johnson, Jill Lublin, Joel Comm, Joshua Shafran, Keith
Baxter, Lorrie Morgan Ferrero, Liz Roberts, Lynn Pierce,
Marc Harty, Matt Bacak, Michel Fortin, Dr. Mike Woo-Ming,
Perry Marshall, Rhea Perry, Ray Edwards, Rick Raddatz, Ryan
Deiss, Shawn Casey, Stephen Pierce, Stu McLaren, Tellman
Knudson, John Carlton, Frank Rumbauskas and Russell
Brunson.

You will have a chance to watch all of these legendary
marketers LIVE and vote on who gives the best content.
Because they are very competitive people and want to win
this competition - they aren't going to hold ANYTHING back.

To register for this FREE webinar series, please enter your
name and email address in the form on the right on this
page: http://www.onlinemarketeroftheyear.com/stoneevans and
you will be given a free ticket to this webinar series.

It's like the "American Idol" for Internet marketers...

Enjoy the competition! :-)

Sincerely,

Wonder Nyatanga
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Thanks for your support!

Sincerely,

Stone Evans

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Marketing an Online Business - Affiliates

Running a home business or online business, despite many claims to the contrary, is by no means necessarily an easy or effortless task. Just like any other business, people who run an online business or home business have to work just as hard as (if not harder than) the people who work for any other type of more traditional business to market their products, create brand and business awareness and attract customers to their home business or online business. One of the most obvious, accessible and easy to implement promotion strategies you can use internet marketing using affiliates.

Affiliates internet marketing for your home business or online business is a good strategy for several reasons. For one, internet marketing with affiliates can often leverage an existing interest in the product or service your home business or online business is offering. For example, if you are using an auto-generator affiliates internet marketing service that compensates participants for placing ads on their website that are related to the existing content of their website, it means that if their website is related to your home business or online business product/service in some way, then people surfing for that product or service who find their website will also find yourself. Their interest is already qualified, which makes this type of internet marketing more effective than random mass e-mail campaigns.

You can also leverage affiliates internet marketing through your own personal business network. For example, an affiliates banner exchange is another internet marketing tactic for your home business or online business that can work well. It is also one of the most well established tactics in internet marketing, having been in use since pretty much the first graphical-based web browser was released. You and your partners can help drive traffic and sales to each others websites.

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E-Mail Marketing Tips

Internet marketing is an important element in any home business, but it is doubly important if you are running an online business. Because an online business relies on Internet technology for product penetration, brand awareness, company awareness, customer service and almost every other aspect of running a home business, it stands to reason that internet marketing will be the most effective type of marketing for an online business. After all, the customers of your online business use your business on the Internet. People on the internet make up pretty well the entire customer base of your online business home business. Hence, internet marketing is crucial.

There are a lot of different avenues you can pursue when it comes to internet marketing strategies for your home business or online business. For example, many online business owners and home business owners rely heavily on mass e-mail marketing campaigns where they send out hundreds or even thousands of e-mails every single day to as many different e-mail addresses as possible with the hopes that even a fraction of one percent of the recipients will respond to this internet marketing effort and express an interest in the product or service. While this type of internet marketing is very inexpensive to execute and reaches an extremely large audience, penetration is often poor because the overwhelming majority regards this type of marketing as spam, nothing more than an annoyance. Most “spam” e-mail gets deleted before it ever gets read.

On the other hand, internet marketing initiatives based on affiliates have a much higher “click through”, or penetration rate. Some common affiliates programs include content auto-generators, where people who want to get paid every time someone clicks an ad on their website can actually leverage the content that’s already on their website because the auto-generator places ads related to the subject matter of their website. An audience that is already interested in the subject matter of the ad is a lot more likely to click on it.

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Friday, April 6, 2007

Online Home Business Marketing

Whether your home business is an online business or not, chances are that you have a website you want to promote. Websites are virtually a must have for every home business or small business owner because they can be relatively cheap to produce, they are far reaching and they are accessible to a wide range of people from all over the world, which transforms your online business or home business into an international enterprise.

So now that you have a website for your home business or online business, then your next step is to do some Internet marketing to promote it. In the case of an online business, Internet marketing is essential because the very nature of your business is Internet-based. You will be attracting customers online, taking and filling orders online, and conducting all your business online so it makes sense that internet marketing will be a cornerstone of your promotional and product, brand or company awareness efforts.

Internet marketing through affiliates is one of the most effective promotional tactics you can use to promote your home business. Internet marketing through affiliates is cheap, easy, convenient and it works. Typically, internet marketing for your home business or online business through affiliates will involve things like a banner exchange, where you and a partner site will provide banners and links advertising each others’ sites to drive traffic. Alternately, there are affiliate facilitation programs where you pay a service fee and the program will offer average website owners a paid compensation for letting their program scan their website for keywords and automatically placing ads based on those keywords.

This type of internet marketing with affiliates is often a good place to start with promoting your home business or online business in the early stages, so if you are new to internet marketing or online business, it is definitely a good thing to try near the inception phase of your effort.

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