We want to make you successful, so we have included some helpful marketing tips for you down below. The first thing that you have to understand with internet marketing is that, on the average, someone will see an advertisement seven times before they buy. That is just a fact of life, so repetition is the key to being successful when marketing on the internet. Do not expect to send out some ads and make a bundle of money right away. You have to be consistent and repetitious in order to make this work. There are many outlets for paid advertising. You can just go to Google, type in "internet advertising" and you will find a virtual treasure trove of resources. Just be careful and do some research before buying as there are a lot of dubious sales people who scam people all the time.
We will now show you how to get some free advertising as well. The first thing that you must do is to set up a few free email boxes. You can use Hotmail or Yahoo for that, as well as many others. You will need those because free advertising resources work on a "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" basis. In other words, they usually require that you receive ads as well as send them. Here are the places to look for free advertising:
- Manual (only) traffic exchanges. Once again - go to Google (or any other search engine) and just type in "ree manual traffic exchanges". You join, post your ad, and you get credits by viewing other ads. Manual exchanges must be used as automatic exchanges do not require anyone to view your ad.
- Safelists. Once again - just go to a search engine and type in "Safelist". Always try to use double optin safelists as that virtually prevents anyone from crying "spam". You email an ad to the Safelist members, and they email an ad back to you. That is why you set up a dummy email account.
- Blogs. Blogs usually require no reciprocal ads, so they are a good place to post your ad. Just a short sentence and your affiliate url is all you will need to post there. Once again - just go to your favorite search engine and type in "Blog".
- Forums. Same as Blogs i.e. just post a short note and your affiliate url.
- Yahoo Groups. Find a group that has the same interests as you, join, wait a bit, and then tell them about us.
- Classifieds. Use your search engine, type in "free classifieds" and voila! There are quite a few out there for free, as well as paid.
- Newsletters. You can either join someone's newsletter and run an ad there or just create your own. If you are well versed in a certain subject, then by all means start your own newsletter. You can advertise there as well as charge others to advertise. Newsletters are generally just email information that is sent out. Make sure that you use a double optin function and also have a unsubscribe function.
- Others. There are many resources on the internet that you can use. Just be creative and use the search engines. You will always find someplace that you can post an ad.
The key, once again, is to keep sending out ads. There are NO shortcuts, magic programs, or methods other than doing it again and again. If anyone tells you otherwise, run!! Good luck to you all and we do hope that this was helpful.
