It can be made very simple to make money on the internet for anyone.
Making money as an internet marketer boils down to this: Making product sales to people to whom you sent an email.
Why are so many people failing with their internet businesses and their websites?
There are a number of reasons for this and they are all remedied by simple marketing methods which every internet business person should be practicing.
One very big reason for a lot of failing online businesses is the way sites are being designed. Newbies and amateur copywriters don’t get very good conversions with the traffic that is hitting their sites. These webmasters are trying to make direct sales from product recommendations, reviews, and banners displayed.
First of all, banner-blindness is very prevalent nowadays so these banners are taking up valuable space on your website that could be better used.
Next, you can fight banner-blindness by changing out the ads on your sites regularly. Test to see what is converting better or getting more clicks.
Another reason for a lot of failed websites is the lack of a name capture mechanism used for list building purposes. If people are immune to banners but your sites are getting traffic, don’t you think you should be building your list instead of just hoping your site makes sales all by itself by having the same banner up there forever?
You can and will make money from your website traffic if you use it to build you list and make sales at the same time.It’s possible to do both, but first-time vistors who come to your site and see some banners won’t convert hightly.
Your highest converting traffic will come from the emails you send to the subscriber list you built.The prospects on your list who take your product emails and product recommendations seriously will trust you. They are more likely to buy from your recommendation than a first-time visitor whose trust you haven’t earned yet.
I have seen this time and time again when some people on marketing forums tell me that their product isn’t selling for them and many of them had yet to make one sale on it.
I would take a look at their sales page see that is wasn’t all that good. Then I’d ask them how they ae promoting their products. They invariably tell me that they use forum links and traffic exchanges for site promotion.
So I encourage these people to create a simple squeeze page and a newsletter with 7 – 8 emails. These should emphasize the value of obtaining the product, and that the sales always start coming in once they divert their attention to list building instead of direct sales.
If you’re not building a list, that is one of the biggest internet marketing mistakes you could be making and I suggest that you change your focus a little to see how powerful this change in attitude will be for you.
When you see how well this works, you should work to automate you list building so that you can have your very own automated profit system.
Daniel Mcgonagle’s automated list building system generates 15-20 optins a day from just 3 of his websites