Step #10 How to Start an Internet Business w/etc. The Most Important Factor!

   Welcome back and I hope you all enjoyed your holiday weekend. As promised, today I will be telling you the things you’ll need to have to become a success in affiliate marketing.

   And what are they?

   They are: Confidence, self assuredness, determination and positivity.

   One of the most successful affiliate marketing companies, The Empower Network, instructs their members start each day by reading (or listening to or watching) positive reinforcement books, CD’s and videos by self improvement gurus like Tony Robbins, Napoleon Hill, Zig Ziglar and Les Brown. They strongly believe a positive attitude to start the day, leads to positive results.

   One of the most successful affiliate marketers in the business, Vick Strziheus makes it clear in his mentoring sessions, that you CANNOT succeed if you maintain a negative attitude and has cut off contact and refunded money to students he felt were simply too negative minded and self defeating.

Zig Ziglar speaks about the importance of self confidence here: http://youtu.be/iikC8daibmg

   None of us is a stranger to failure. Thomas Edison, one of the great inventors of the last century readily accepted failure as part of the process. He once said, “I have not failed. I have simply found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” He also said, “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to succeeding when they gave up.”

   Booker T. Washington the renowned educator once said: “You cannot hold a man down without staying down with him.”

   And here’s a strange fact that almost proves the above statement. Most successful people absolutely believe that if you press hard enough, push long enough, are unrelenting in your drive, keep trying new ways to achieve success, and believe with all your heart that you will persevere…

   The universe (because it has other things to do) will stop fighting you, relent and let you have your way.

   I have been in the affiliate marketing biz for a few months now and have also noticed that those who are now very successful, but were on the verge of bankruptcy, were at the end of their rope and had experienced their world crumbling down around them when the universe finally relented and let them through…

   Are also the ones who are most generous with their time, talent and mentoring. This is not to say they aren’t trying to sell you something. They are! And there’s absolute nothing wrong with that.

   As I have said many times during this ‘How to Start and Internet Business w/, etc. series, everyone needs to create a business email address and use it to get information from various sources on the internet.

   I can honestly say I have used mine hundreds of times for various reasons and I have never once regretted it.

   Internet marketers are looking for customers just like any brick and mortar business like say, an Italian restaurant. They don’t have time to waste courting people who aren’t interested in their product anymore than an Italian restaurant would chase after customers who don’t like Italian food. (Good grief, who doesn’t like Italian food?)

   But, the advantages! I can honestly say that I enjoy opening my business email far more than my personal email. I get to try tons of products for free or with a 30 and sometimes 60 day no questions asked return policy. I have tried many of them and like any product you buy at a store, some were good, some were bad, (which I sent back with no problem) some were just okay (which I also sent back with no problem) and some were spectacular!

   I received a near college course on business marketing for free from the Empower Network, learned the bones of constructing websites for selling on facebook from get10000fans.com /  I got a great tutorial on how to boost my book sales on Kindle by downloading the Kindle Bestseller Roadmap. (Have a look on the right. Click on the image to see all it has to offer.

   I have also downloaded a tutorial on how to create and sell phone apps for smartphones. (I’m working on one now) plus how to create and sell wordpress minisites for amazon products at $250 a pop.

   And no spam!

   As I have said throughout this entire series, our future, the future of the middle class is not the two or three minimum wage jobs that corporations are offering to work us all to an early grave. It will be you and me, selling our products on the internet, easily competing with giants like Walmart and Target because we all get our products from the same place. Amazon proved it is the wave of the future. When people realized they could find a book they liked at Borders or Waldenbooks and could then purchase it for considerably less through Amazon, they did.

   Which is why there is no Borders or Waldenbooks anymore.

   So folks, the time has come to get in the game. And I because I readily give out my business email address to marketers whose products I find interesting, I have received numerous videos and e books on how to market just about anything AND make a good deal of money doing it. So if you’d like to see them, just type in your name and email in the box on the right to get my monthly newsletter. Or email me at czarrichards@gmail.com 

   The world is changing, my friend. The time to get on board is right now.

Step #9 Start an Internet Business w/etc. Finding your niche in marketing.

   It’s common knowledge in the internet marketing business that Health, Wealth and Love are the top niches and generate the most sales. Why? because they have so many facets. Start with health; there is: How to stay healthy, how to get healthy, how to eat healthy, how to exercise healthy etc. Wealth runs the same gamut: How to get wealthy, how to stay wealthy, how to invest, how to buy real estate etc. And love, well that’s the biggest of all. There is dating, marriage, baby, college, retire, breakup and divorce, etc.

I even wrote an ebook and audio book called DIVORCE-The Middle-Aged Man’s Survival Guide, Here’s the link: http://amzn.to/19N2tQi

   The point is those niches are filled with affiliates who are highly experienced and already know which one to go after and which ones won’t convert (sell). If you’re new at this you probably don’t want to cross swords with the heavy-weights just yet. So 

   

   I’m going to show you a way to test out niches to see if the is a market for what your selling or not.

   For example, I’m a writer and so I went to www.google.com/trends and found out the level of interest there was in what I produce and sell, which are ebooks and audio books.

   Here’s the level of interest in ebooks:

Here is the level of interest in audio books:

    Both are doing well so apparently it’s a good niche for me to promote.

    As for what you might consider, here is a video by internet marketing guru Travis Sago where he explains exactly how to check the niche you’re considering for the level of interest and potential customer base.

http://youtu.be/LXHJOARjfA8

   We have a nice long Memorial weekend ahead and I’m sure you all have things to do and people to see so I won’t publish step #10 until Tuesday.

   In the meantime, when you get the chance, review steps 1 through 9. You have all the basic information you need to start making money as an internet marketer. What you need to do now is start practicing.  

   So here’s a quick guide:

Set up your business email address

Chose a niche

Test that niche on google trends following the video tutorial above

Go to www.clickbank.com and www.warriorforum.com and sign up

Check out the products and find something you want to market.

Set up a free account on www.usfreeads.com so you can write ads to sell the product

Set up account on www.ezine.com and www.goarticles.com so you can write an article promoting your product (*NOTE ezine will not let you put a link inside your article. There are ways around that, that are acceptable but more on that down the road)

Create a headline for your ad and article that will attract the most amount of viewers. There is a video that will show you how to create laser targeted keywords in the title that will drive traffic directly to your ad or article. Here’s the link:

            http://youtu.be/dcCn9SKuPHo

     

   There are a number of other ways to attract customers to your products other than writing ads and articles but this method is the simplest, cheapest and the quickest to master. As we move ahead I’ll show you more advanced techniques but for now, study the basics, get your feet wet and get a sense of what you’re doing. There is A LOT of money to be made BUT you’ve got to find your own way by figuring out what works, why it works and how you’re going to promote it.

    I’ll likely be beering and barbequeing it over the weekend but I still check my email so if you have a question or run into a problem with the above email me at czarrichards@gmail.com and I’ll get back to you ASAP.