by Rahimah Sultan

Are you totally new to online marketing and have no clue how to start? Some people start out with affiliate marketing as they have not decided what area to focus on or a niche, or even if they want to pursue a business of their own. As an affiliate marketer you will get some experience at advertising online and building a marketing funnel or an internet sales funnel.

Soon you will probably want to consider building a business of your own so that you have total control and make all the income instead of building someone else’s business. With the proper information and training you can do just that. You can learn how to build a full-time, long-term business for next to nothing and have the tools to do so while continuing to be an affiliate marketer.

To conduct your own business online you will need to set up a site such as a blog. To do this choose a domain name and a hosting company. Once your site is set up you will need to advertise to get visitors by using a lead capture page—a way to get people to opt in to your email list. This system then becomes an internet sales funnel. Once you have decided on your product or service you will have this list of interested prospects to sell to. You will need an autoresponder to maintain contact with your list.

You can develop your own product or service and advertise it with your lead capture page (LCP). You may have a physical place of business that you can bring online and make that the focus of your website. Use the business name as your domain name and proceed from there.

You may want to use drop shipping for your physical products, or you may want to be a reseller for others and need contracts. I used this for step-by-step assistance with setting up An Internet Sales Funnel using a blog and tying everything together for business.

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by Rahimah Sultan

This is a discussion of a few quick tips to improve your email marketing subject lines. To start, keep your message straightforward and avoid splashy promotional phrases, all capital letters, or exclamation marks in your subject lines. Subject lines using questions can often perform better.

Be aware of your list quality and how often you email. When readers know what they are going to receive, they are more likely to open emails. Your list of engaged subscribers are more inclined to open and read them. If you start with a good list but send too often, open rates decline. I am listing only a few quick tips.

Your subject line should be no more than 50 characters long. Follow grammar rules.

Do not use false or misleading promises. You will be viewed as untrustworthy.

Make it clear how your readers will benefit from your email. Let them know about that SEO information.

Use questions to get your readers’ attention. “Is your blog in need of content?”

Use numbers in your subject line. “Are you making these 5 blogging mistakes?”

Hopefully these quick tips to improve your email marketing subject lines will help with your open rates.

For more tips read Olivia Allen’s 19 Quick tips to Improve Your Email Marketing Subject Lines.

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by Rahimah Sultan

According to Clate Mask, there are three ingredients of business success: Passion, Freedom and Impact. He goes on to say, “Impact should be at the core of your business. You might think that when your business reaches a certain stage of growth or you have a bigger budget you’ll then decide to make an impact. Don’t wait! Start from the beginning. Very early in our business we made giving and helping others a key part of our purpose. If having an impact is a key part of your business from day one, you will make an impact on someone’s life every day.”

Passion is your drive. Freedom is the ability to spend your time and money as you see fit, and Impact should be the core of your business.

Loving what you do and being paid for it allows room for mistakes and growth. You do not have to be an expert to start a business, but you must be able to keep your message going.

You need to start somewhere. Start with something you are passionate about that people will pay you for. Because you are not an expert yet, chances are that you will not be paid a lot of money for it. Look at the long-term goal for your vision, and do not be discouraged by the lack of pay or progress you will initially experience.

As you make decisions about a business, do keep in mind these Three Ingredients of Business Success.

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by Rahimah Sultan

An autoresponder is an e-mail utility that automatically replies to an e-mail message with a prewritten response when that e-mail comes into a specific e-mail or Internet address. You can increase your sales with autoresponders, connect easily with people, and brand yourself.

Autoresponders are used by individuals and also by Web sites that need to respond to user comments automatically. Businesses use them to inform an email sender that someone is out of the office and the date of return; a company may use an autoresponder for newsletter subscription opt-ins or cancellations.




An autoresponder is used by businesses to confirm purchases and pertinent information regarding that buy. Email marketing, using autoresponders, has been identified as one of the most profitable modern marketing techniques.

When someone responds to advertising you have mailed out online you have a series of responses set up that go out automatically. This starts to build a relationship between you and prospective clients or customers.




Autoresponders allow you to get your message and brand out to buyers and your community, encourage customer loyalty and repeat business, and retain and win back customers.

Your autoresponder allows you to have thank-you and reminder- messages all set up and ready to go out at certain intervals when someone joins your list or accepts one of your offers. This automated setup is the lifeline between you and your customer.




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by Rahimah Sultan

Are you a home business owner or thinking about working for yourself and starting a home based business? If so, then you have to read the following mistakes home business owners make.

Some things included on the list are treating your job as a hobby, not setting hours, neglecting to set goals, not setting work time and family time and not having a business website.

Working at home in your own business requires the same discipline as working in an office for someone else. If you treat your business like a hobby it will be difficult to make progress. You must have a plan, a proper set up and keep good records.

If you are truly serious about a home business, these are some serious considerations you must accept. You must have a plan and structure. These mistakes home business owners make are covered in detail in the article 9 Mistakes Most Home Business Owners Make. You can click here to read it.

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We are now into springtime which is a good time to revisit your New Year’s resolutions, especially if one of them was to start your online business or expand your current one. You can refocus on your business building now and get ahead of the upcoming summertime lethargy. Can you envision yourself with a spring in your step because you are making progress with your business or have at least started your online business? Do you have what you need to start or grow your business?

Do you need some guidance, some hand holding or some step-by-step actions to take? I know I did when starting out new online. Although I stumbled I still made progress. And then a couple of mentors entered the picture and helped me sort out just how to get things going the right way.

I started out with affiliate marketing and found out some things through trial and error. Although it was frustrating at times, I did not give up. Because I kept going I eventually found those mentors who were honest and willing to help.

Now is a good time to put that spring in your step and Refocus on Your Business Building

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Social media marketing has come a long way. There are many new avenues to explore and places where businesses can stand out. Boost your social media and add something to your online marketing with these tips for improving your social media marketing.

Put New life into Old Content

You can put new life into old content by finding your most popular posts and updating them and then re-sharing.

Keep Learning

Social media requires constant learning and mastering of new skills. Learn how to use audio, video, photography and focused content marketing.

Use YouTube

Create brand awareness with quality videos posted on YouTube, and you should develop a YouTube channel.

These are just a very few options for improving your social media marketing. You can read the entire list in this article by Debbie Hemley… 26 Tips for Improving Your Social Media Marketing.

 
 
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Lillie Lacy discusses some alternatives for the future of the Baby Boomers, who may not have saved enough for retirement. One choice is to keep working as long as possible, and another is to start an online business. Online marketing as an alternative for Baby Boomers is a beneficial choice, as it can be done from home and almost any place in the world.

‘As a group, they were the wealthiest, most active, and most physically fit generation up to that time, and amongst the first to grow up genuinely expecting the world to improve with time. They were also the generation that received peak levels of income; therefore they could reap the benefits of abundant levels of food, apparel, retirement programs, and sometimes even “midlife crisis” products. The increased consumerism for this generation has been regularly criticized as excessive.’

Many people are using Internet Marketing as a means for extra money or a fulltime income and are very successful. Just think it through, make a plan and use online marketing as an alternative for Baby Boomers.

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If you are starting a business are you fully committed to doing what it takes to make it a success? Have you decided what avenues to use for growth? What is your commitment to Internet Marketing for your business and how do you deal with the marketing?

Are you going to use a blog, social media, traffic exchanges, safe lists, and email marketing? Will you use both paid and free sources. You must include a marketing strategy in your business plan and it has to outline the way you will handle your marketing.

The first thing you must know before starting a business is your personality and philosophy. Are you a person who is passionate, persistent and who perseveres once you commit to something?

I was reading a magazine article by Dr. Philllip C. McGraw in which he stated, “The way you do anything is the way you do everything.”

He went on to say that at age 12 he discovered that he was an all-or-nothing person. If he let himself get careless in school, everything else started to slide. If he aimed to be the best in one area that commitment raised his game across the board.

If in your commitment to Internet Marketing you decide to use a blog as your platform you must make regular posts.

When using social media you have to follow through with ways that increases your audience, engagement, and sales.

With traffic exchanges and safe lists you have to pay for traffic or surf for credits or do both in order to send out mailings (Ads) daily.

So figure out your philosophy or guiding principle which in turn will determine your commitment to Internet Marketing for your business.

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Social Media Optimization (SMO) involves implementing changes both on-site and in social accounts to make content more visible, liked, shared and linked to via social networks. Using SMO Strategies in Internet Marketing opens up a communication avenue with current and future customers.

Did you know that having a solid social media optimization (SMO) strategy can also improve your SEO performance and organic rankings?

Good SMO strategies will drive traffic from social sites and search engines and shares, and leverage the power of social sharing to create benefits for your website.

When you create social media profiles and pages, for your business you are creating a platform for discussions/conversations and a community for your fans. Your social profile pages become a form of word-of-mouth advertising.

There are seven steps you can take to improve your SMO Strategies in Internet Marketing that include building your reputation, engagement, and becoming an authority.

“The author of this article states that, “Social media is an ideal platform to communicate your sales messages instantly and in a cost-effective manner. When you include social marketing to your overall marketing strategies, you open up a very powerful avenue of communication with your current and prospective customers.”

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