Saturday, December 30, 2006

Profit With Internet Marketing

by Ruth Brown

With some planning and initiative, almost anyone can earn a substantial profit with internet marketing. The best part is that it can be done all in the comfort of your own home. In fact, some very successful internet entrepreneurs work all day in their pajamas. How can that be? How can you get involved in this business? After reading this article, you too will know the tricks of the trade and the ins and outs of internet marketing.

The first step in becoming successful with internet marketing is to carefully decide on the product or service you will sell. Online auctions have become a very successful way to make money online. In fact, some people have found it to be so profitable that they were able to quit their day jobs to concentrate fully on their auctions. Internet based bookstores are also another effective way to make money online. Many of them allow a person to sell a used book online paying only a percentage to the bookstore. Some people see this as a business opportunity just as a man in Kansas City has done. People actually go to flea markets and garage sales and purchase books at very low prices. They then check the value of the book online, then re-sell it for a profit. At last count, this Kansas City man was earning an average of $200 to $500 per month with this simple process of internet marketing.

Information products offer a high level of profits for many people involved with internet marketing. By writing an ebook, you have the opportunity to sell it over and over again thousands of times without depleting the resource. If the ebook contains useful information required by many people for various reasons, they may be willing to pay top dollar for the pdf version online. Sometimes online shoppers who are in need of a specific book will be willing to pay up to $50 for an ebook, possibly from you. Once they make a purchase, you will have access to their email address. This can be very beneficial to you because you can include them on future private mailing lists.

By sending a newsletter to everyone on your mailing list, you are offering information about other products and services you have available and this is considered as back end selling. This will eventually increase your chances of making profits. By broadening your potential community of customers, you are also creating a new promotion possibility for yourself because each happy customer will tell a friend who will also tell a friend. After creating a following, a great idea would to be to write a sequel to your book, knowing that most on your mailing list will purchase it.

Another wise move would be for you to sell advertising to advertisers who want to have contact with people included on your mailing list. By doing something as simple as this, you are making yourself an author, a publisher and an advertising entrepreneur without ever leaving the comfort of your own home. This will of course, greatly increase your profit margin and lead you down the road to success.


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