Social And Business Networking: A Fundamental Requirement For Internet Marketing Success

Internet Marketing Success Takes Time and Determination

Regardless of thousands of instant money making proposals and offers you may receive on the internet, I am prepared to put my head on a block that it is not possible. Internet marketing success comes with time, research, acquiring skills and knowledge, perseverance and determination.

For people like me who want to embark on a road of affiliate marketing, the confusion with all the junk and rip-offs thrown at you, and with all the processes and techniques to implement can be so overwhelming that you take on the hit-and-run approach or simply throw in the towel.

It took me several months to sort the wheat from the chaff and to get process and structure into my activities. Focus, structure and process are vitally important or you will get swept away by a tide of confusing and haphazard affiliations and activities.

For anyone serious about earning online: It is all about Internet Marketing and Internet marketing requires knowledge, skills and tools. Get training first! There are some excellent online courses and learning sites available requiring a nominal expense, which must be regarded as an investment rather than an expense. I owe the jump-start to my success, as far as fundaments knowledge and skills go, to the Profit Lance Course. It is excellent with a treasure trove of online resources, tools and training modules. Ideal for beginners.

Once you have mastered the initial and fundamental essentials, subscribing to membership sites offering more advanced training and resources, with tools to tap into as they are required, is as important. Learning to earn online is a progressive and never-ending process. Membership sites can provide peer support, guidance and a wealth of resources, as well as opportunities to enter into joint ventures with other Internet marketers.

The training resources I referred to above will also teach you about the importance of NETWORKING , or interacting with people to be successful. Networking online with other people so that you can become known and trusted.

Regardless of your knowledge and skills, get people to know about you!

You might have heard this before: The Money Is In The List. That’s true, but not any list! It must be a list of people YOU have established a rapport with, people who know about your online identity, people who trust you sufficiently to receive information from you about whatever you want to inform them about. So, fundamental to your success, even if you have the greatest products/services to sell, is networking with people, getting them to know about you.

The Money is In The List You Have Built!

So, unless you want to bankrupt yourself with pay-per-click advertising with the hope that one in a hundred visitors to your site will buy from you, start networking. (That’s correct, you cannot expect to get a conversion at a rate of more that 1:100 and unless you are a Google PPC expert you will can pay between 50c and $2 per click.

You can network with people for free and get them to know you and build up a list of top quality leads. People who know about you, people who are keen to listen to you and who have an interest in what you are promoting. Then you can email them with peace of mind and without having to worry about spamming people.

Network and List Building Sites

The largest and oldest business and social networking site in the world is available to you with free membership. Direct Matches has hundreds of thousands of members where you can be matched with people who are interested in YOU and what you have to offer. Direct Matches is huge and reputable and established in 1994. If you click on the link above, you will see my picture welcoming you to the site!

I am also mesmerized by a new and very FRESH site allowing you free advertising on the site and generating free business leads opportunities. I’s called Orange Leads and they have alive chat room where you can get known AND publish your website with a “shameless” add while you are in live chat with others looking for business opportunities. This is an awesome site and you will know what I’m talking about just by visiting the site.

That’s it for today!

To your networking success!

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On Disability, Work from Home and Internet Rip-offs

When hearing is a problem

The Foggy Labyrinth of Internet based Business Opportunities

 

A Rationale for Work-from-Home Jobs

There must be many thousands of people out there, who, like me are in search of legitimate opportunities to work from home. Not because we are too lazy to get up early for work, or because we are greedy or opportunistic, but simply because we are compelled by our unique personal circumstances to work at home, and more specifically, to do something that is internet based.

Some are more vulnerable to be preyed on

Who are these people who have a very limited choice about their work environment and what type of work they are capable of doing? Perhaps it is a single mother with a special needs child. Perhaps a middle-aged man who was retrenched from his job and is unsuccessful in finding alternative employment due to the specialized nature of his qualifications and experience. Or perhaps it is someone, like me, who is confronted with a disability at a later stage in his life; a disability preventing him from practicing his profession any further. A person whose dreams were shattered when he was at the pinnacle of his career. A person forced to go on disability retirement prematurely without the financial security to afford retirement. That is me and I’m convinced I’m not alone. At the age of 48 I unexpectedly and abruptly suffered a loss of hearing with such rapid progression that at 50 I had less than 30% hearing left. I am highly qualified in the social sciences/services and my entire career had been all about working with people for people. Not the type of work you can do when you cannot communicate verbally.

The Potential Behind the Disability

But I like my computer and I am fascinated by the potential and power of electronic information and the internet as an information source and marketing tool. Moreover, I have the ability to string a few good sentences together and enjoy it to put pen to paper, or fingertips to the keyboard, for that matter. Hence my venture into a search for a work and income generating opportunity which is internet marketing related.

The Disgrace of Internet Scams

I have spent days on the internet searching for something legitimate, but have been mainly dismayed at what is being flaunted as instant roads to riches schemes, requiring you to subscribe and pay without knowing what you will be marketing or what the strategy would entail. Once you’ve subscribed (yes, I have been conned out of desperation to find something real), you discover that it is nothing less than a groundless pyramid scheme with no substance whatsoever. Shame on the fraudulent inventors and perpetrators of these scams! The fact the I have been exploited and conned is of little relevance, what is of more concern to me is that there must be many vulnerable others whose situation is more desperate that mine who have been abused and defrauded by these conmen and women. As much as I stand for freedom of speech and the liberty that the internet provides, as much do I believe that the lack of control over internet fraudsters erodes the moral fibre of the online community and stains the enlightenment of the age of information technology.

The Good News: Legitimate Opportunities are Available

At this point I need to caution, however. My litany must not be construed as a blanket condemnation of all internet advertised work at home programmes. This hub should rather be interpreted as a call to caution, especially for those who are in a similar situation to me and are therefore perhaps somewhat more vulnerable than those who have broader career options.

There are indeed some highly legitimate work at home programs offered on the internet. Opportunities through which you can enhance your knowledge and skills and use it in internet marketing with the potential to produce significant income. They are often of an affiliate marketing nature, which means you become an affiliate of a company to market that company’s products or services via the internet. These good companies not only provide you with all the information you need to market their product, but they also impart the knowledge, skills and tools to embark on an effective internet marketing campaign. On site that I can highly recommend identifies and describes a limited number of real and legitimate work at home opportunities. The site can be accessed here

 

The Top Ten Work at Home jobs/businesses you will learn about here all have potential to produce significant income, but not if you are unprepared to put in some effort or unwilling to explore the myriad free marketing opportunities the internet provides. The programs will guide you to these opportunities, but you will have to work them.

I wish you abundancy and for new doors to open for you as they have for me.

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