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9 Tips to Great Design for Your Marketing Materials
9 TIPS FOR GREAT DESIGN 1) Don’t just hire a good designer. Hire someone who has had plenty of experience designing business collateral. Your designer needs to ask you the right questions about the project. And he/ she needs to be able to...
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"Pull Marketing" has always been, and will continue to be the most effective internet marketing strategy at your disposal. Allow me to explain. Most marketing efforts can be placed into one of three categories:
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Just recently, I took a break and caught "The Return of the King" at the movie theater. At the same time, I was pondering a topic for this article. As often happens, the themes and timing converged. Here are 10 things you can learn about...
MLM Training- The Secrets to Deciding Who You will become in Network Marketing
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Seven Low-cost, No-cost Marketing Ideas
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I'm an Internet Marketing Guru
I trained as an accountant so I'm not used to being excited about my work.
I've changed careers and I'm now an Internet marketing guru. I've got all the right tools in my bag... I've written an eBook, I have a direct response web site AND my very own opt-in newsletter. I've also joined some great affiliate programs. In short, I know what I'm doing and I can teach others to do the same. All I have to do is sit back and watch the money roll in. I'm excited!
I'll just check my hit counter for today. Hang on, there must be a zero missing... they must mean 50 hits not 5. And how many eBook sales today? Only one. That's odd - I've got some great testimonials for the eBook and I've told loads of people about it. And only $40 in affiliate sales so far today. The affiliate programs are for some of the best Internet marketing products you can find. What's going wrong?
1. I'm more excited than most of my potential customers. 2. There aren't enough of them.
Having great products and a great web site is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard if I don't have traffic. It's a bit like me opening a McDonald's halfway up Mount Everest; however good my burgers are, I won't get many customers.
OK, so I'd better downgrade my status. I'm no longer an Internet marketing guru. I just know a lot more than someone starting out with an online business. Now I come to think about it, the real gurus don't even call themselves 'gurus' or even 'experts'. And none of them reached the lofty status of respectability in a few weeks; it took months and in most cases years. Most of them say they are still learning.
The Internet marketing hype stories are getting taller, just as the promised timescale for online millionaire status is
getting shorter. I get many emails which suggest that if I invest just $39.99, $14.99 or even $zero, I can make thousands of dollars a month within a few weeks. I can master the art of Internet marketing in one course or one eBook and 'hey presto' I will be successful, with lots of money rolling in on autopilot. In some cases I'm told I can just sign up without doing any work.
The Internet gives us a powerful potential source of income, however, like any trade or profession, it takes time and effort to learn how to succeed. It took me 5 years to qualify as an accountant and with my new career it has taken me just 6 months or so to get a successful business going... but it wasn't 6 WEEKS and no, I'm not earning millions yet.
In any home-based business you obviously need a good product or 'formula'. There are three other essential ingredients which are often omitted from the success recipe:
1. Realistic expectations. 2. Motivation. 3. Action... doing not just hoping!
Most people who quit a home-based business have unrealistic income expectations.
Motivation is often overlooked... do you NEED your online business to be successful or do you just want it to be? If you don't need - or have a burning desire - to succeed, you probably won't. The low investment doesn't help here either. What have you got to lose - $39.99, $14.99 or even $zero?
And as for action, well it's time for me to DO something... back to traffic building school.
About the Author
Richard Wall left the rat race in 1994. He has 6 years of home-based business experience and his new eBook 'Residual Dream' includes valuable hype-busting information for home-based entrepreneurs. http://www.squillionaires.com mailto:richard@wallpotential.com
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Direct Marketing Association: Telephone, Mail & Internet Marketing |
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