Navigating a Successful Voyage Online

noreply@blogger.com (The Professor) — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:49:00 +0000

"In an endless sea of opportunity many a ship stray off course long before they reach their port of call."
- Dr. Seymour Truth

~CHARTING THE COURSE~

Therefore, before you decide to set sail and decide to jump on board one of the many business opportunities available online, we encourage you to take a moment and prepare yourself properly. Too many beginners get lost in the planning and never leave port.

To elaborate there are several types of marketing strategies to be explored online. As such, finding the business opportunity that's right for you can be exhausting, time consuming, and very expensive.

If you are looking for an honest opportunity to begin working part-time from home, or are in search of creating a solid full-time income by owning/operating an online business, we're here to help you plot your course.

In fact, the objective of this blog is not to get your email address, fill your mailbox with junk offers, or get you to sign up to some 2-Up reversed funneling marketing plan. Instead, it's quite the opposite. Over the years, we have explored several niches, marketing strategies, and different online opportunities before concluding the best the web has to offer. Naturally, that is an ongoing task, and we intend to bring you the latest and greatest as new developments unfold.

Believe it or not...there are several free opportunities online that offer better returns on your time and investment than some of these "hyped-up" marketing scams that require a substantial lump sum investment just to get your foot in the door. We highly suggest if you are new to online marketing, that you thoroughly research any program before juming in head-first.

BEWARE:

Many of the expensive high ticket programs are here today, gone tomorrow. Save your money and always research the company first!

You can learn alot by Googling the program, and learn the truth within the first 5 results displayed! Take the time to do this, it will save you a fortune!

There too are legitamit affordable and FREE programs that can offer you everything from owning an online store to getting paid for sending referrals to namebrand services and quality merchandise. Then there's resale rights, and some other interesting marketing concepts abound.

As an apetizer, let's start with something free and simple to use to get you started in the right direction.

Affiliate Marketing: (100% FREE)

This is perhaps the most global form of marketing on and off the internet. In fact, it is often misrepresented or misclassified as a "scam". I've been meaning to complain that a site as big as craigslist doesn't know the difference between Network Marketing and Affiliate Marketing. *But that's another blog in itself!

However, affiliate marketing is a simple straight forward approach to marketing that allows the "public" to serve as independent advertisers for a huge host of acreditted products and services. (i.e. Microsoft, Affliction, Tommy Hilfiger, iTunes, NetFlix,...just to name a few, as there are millions)

In fact, nearly every company in the world will gladly supply you with a 100% FREE affiliate account, and give you all the tools, training, and advertising essentials you need to start earning commissions for referring consumers to their products, merchandise, or services. The commissions generally between 5% -60% just to give you a random idea. For example, if you are creditted with a $1000 sale at 20% commission you earn $200.

The basic idea is that you post banner ads, creatives, textual ads (cut & paste) on your websites, blogs, FaceBook, Twitter, or any site that doesn't infringe on any TOS agreement, and for every person who purchases through your affiliate link (*embedded with your customized tracking i.d.) that link gives you credit for the sale. A cookie tracks your 'potential buyer' for 30, 60, 90, or 120 days, and should that person purchase before the cookie expires or gets deleted...you get paid!

Note: Sadly the only downside is if the potential buyer deletes his/her cookies, or it expires before the buyer returns and purchases...you don't get credit for the sale. I know; that sucks, but it's a reality of exploring a genuine "free" online business opportunity.

I once said; "You don't need to own a Ferrari to sell a Ferrari." -Point being, if you could imagine directing traffic to Ferrari's showroom and generate sales using their free advertisements...You too can be a successful Online Affiliate Marketer.

For now, if your interested in learning more about affiliate marketing, or want to join one of the more credible affiliate networks 100% free, we highly recommend LinkShare. (To review 'click' banner below). It is a Ratuken owned company. Perhaps you're not familiar with Ratuken...well they just bought Buy.com for $250 Million, and now offer offer 60 million products, spanning nearly 35,000 retailers, and has a generous customer base of roughly 78 million customers. Closely becoming competition for Amazon.com.

Be sure to stay tuned...to "Business Psychology" we'll be covering more marketing strategies, free tools & resources, and several valuable essentials to get your online business up & running. Future articals will include:

Web Hosting and choosing a Domain
Understanding eCommerce
Drop shipping pro's and con's
Master Reseller Rights
Reseller Rights
Viral Rights
Private Label Rights

In addition, we will live up to our title in providing some extensive considerations to strengthening your business psychology (mindset), and explore some of the brilliant philosphies employed by today's leading internet marketing entrepreneurs.

To Your Success,

Dr. Seymour Truth (a.k.a. The Professor)