Steven Holdaway's Blog » Websites http://www.stevenholdaway.com Internet Marketing Tips, Details, & Information Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:44:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The Best Places for Free Information http://www.stevenholdaway.com/2009/01/23/the-best-places-for-free-information/ http://www.stevenholdaway.com/2009/01/23/the-best-places-for-free-information/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:02:14 +0000 Steven Holdaway http://www.stevenholdaway.com/blog3/?p=81 With internet marketing, it’s always important to know what’s going on with other affiliates so you can learn tips, tricks, and things to avoid. But the question is, where do you find this information?

You need to be careful where you get some of your information, because there are a lot of websites out there that give “false information” to scare people into listening to them rather than listening to their competitors. These websites include certain ezine articles, blogs, and other personal pages where amateurs can easily create an article without knowing what they’re talking about or just to persuade people to listen to them and buy the products they recommend.

So where should you go to find the best free information about making money online? There’s one place that never fails…the forums. Internet Marketing forums are often the best places to go to get information on what’s going on in the internet world. Since hundreds or more people participate in forums, there’s no risk of getting false information because other members will correct false statements.
There are a few internet marketing forums that I recommend:

The four forums above are the ones I go to the most frequently to browse and see any new techniques, strategies, or internet marketing news is available.I recommend participating in at least one forum…just don’t devote several hours per day to it because there are more important things such as making money.

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Adsense Ads and other advertisements. You can earn a fairly decent amount of money by placing AdSense advertisements on your website. Depending on the subject matter you can make as much as $1 each time someone clicks on one of these advertisements.

Developing a site newsletter. By having a site newsletter you can legally email people new products and/or promotions to products they would be interested in. You do need to make sure that whatever you’re emailing them is relevant to what they signed up for (you cant email people dog training guides who signed up to receive movie reviews). I’ve seen people make $1,000 per month just by sending out a few emails to several thousand subscribers.

Give away free coupons which make you money. This may not make sense, but there are several companies that give out coupon incentives for affiliates to use to get people to purchase their products. An example is Yahoo Search Marketing. Lets say Yahoo pays $50 each time you get someone to signup with them. If they offer a $50 coupon for you to give away for free, you can promote that coupon on your site and get paid each time someone uses it and signs up to join Yahoo. Commission Junction is usually full of these type coupons which range from online advertising to pet supplies.
There are of course other ways that you can use to make more money from your website, but they require you receive a lot of traffic each day and therefore would be a waste of time to implement for most people. Remember, the more streams of income you have coming from your website, the higher you can bid to receive more traffic which will make you more money.

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Advantages:
Helps with advertising – If you have your own website that you’re advertising with, you don’t need to worry when other affiliates are promoting the same website as you. This is because you have your own website address that you’re using, and Google will always allow your website’s advertisements to be displayed.

Can cut advertising costs – If you have a website of your own, you can use it to help cut your advertising costs by putting advertisements on your website such as AdSense or paid banners. So if your advertisements pay you $1.00 for every 100 visitors you send to your website, that’s a $0.01 deduction per visitor on your advertising costs.

Can promote multiple products – With your own website, you have the ability to advertise multiple products on your site. This way you can show more products to your visitors so they can easily compare two or more similar products and sometimes they may even buy both products.

Can start a newsletter – You have the ability to start your own newsletter with a website of your own. A newsletter can be as simply as emailing your subscribers once a month to tell them about new tips or products available. Many people use newsletters to generate a new source of income.
There are, however, some disadvantages with having a website of your own.

Disadvantages:
Maintenance – Although most websites don’t require too much maintenance, you’ll still need to be able to make a few changes every now and then. So some basic web programming skills are required.

Costs – With nearly all websites you’re required to pay for website hosting and a domain name (sometimes the domain name is free).

Responsibility – You’ll also be responsible for your website. You’ll need to answer emails people ask or they’ll lose trust in you and you’ll also need to make sure your site is relevant and true, otherwise your site won’t seem legitimate.

If you’re thinking about getting a website of your own, use this information to help you make your decision. Of course, if you don’t know how to design/manage a website of your own there are ways to get around this. If you want a website you can get one of the templates that we’ve built by going to http://www.stevensites.com.

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