Building Your Internet Business (Part 1)

By craig | January 21, 2008

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Hi All,

Today I am starting a series of posts that will help you build up your Internet business into a successful, money making machine.

These posts will not be full of “Guru Secrets” or anything like that. I will provide you with basic, fundamental steps that will help you make money on the Internet.

So, your are sitting there wanting to sell something to someone, but you are unsure on what to do next. Now, what you are selling is not of importance right now. It doesn’t matter if it is something of your own creation like an E-book or if it is a product from one of the affiliate programs you are a member of.(I will cover affiliate marketing more in depth later), what matters is that you have something to sell.

So you have a product to sell, but no one to sell it to. How are you going to get your customers? There are many ways that you can accomplish this, but I like to get the most bang for my buck and I will try to get as many customers as I can and do it for free or as cheap as possible.

Building your customer base is called “building a list” and every one of the top Internet marketers do this as this is the most important part of your Internet business.

So how are you going to start building your list? One of the most popular and best ways to do this to give something away. I know, you are saying that your supposed to be making money not giving stuff away.

Giving away information is an easy way to attract people and in exchange for this information they give you their name and e-mail address. The information you give away can be written by you or you can hire some one to write it for you, it doesn’t matter, just be sure that it is related to your product you want to sell later.

You will want to post ads to Craigslist, forums, make a Squidoo lens or even start a PPC campaign to drive traffic to your website so they can get their free info and you can collect their e-mail addresses. Once they start doing this, your list is growing and your bank account will be too!

In part two, I will discuss what to do with these e-mail addresses once you get them and how they will help you make money and build your Internet business.

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To Your Success!

Many Blessings,

-Craig

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