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By Terry Dean
You are being lied to...and
it's costing you a fortune.
Receiving all the traffic
in the world isn't going to help you if you don't make sales
when the traffic gets to your page.
A mistake that I see people
make over and over again is to believe the hype that it
is easy to make money online...sign up for several affiliate
programs...put up a page...and then place free classified
ads.
This strategy will not
work. It does not work today. It will not work tomorrow.
You cannot just join affiliate
programs and try to generate free traffic to them (not in
the normal ways at least).
I have been interviewing
some successful affiliates lately and have found out an
interesting secret...Not a single one of them (not even
one that I have found) just joins an affiliate program and
puts up links or banners on their web page.
Every one of them does
something a little unique. One is a search engine master
and spends well over 40 hours a week learning all the intricacies
of the search engines. Another is a master publisher who
publishes a quality ezine every single day.
Still another model of
success is becoming an expert at sending out articles to
ezines. You could also create a community atmosphere where
people keep coming back to visit through chats, forums,
etc. Then, make referrals of affiliate programs.
These types of affiliate
techniques work, but what people have been publishing as
the easy affiliate opportunity just isn't true.
All of the top affiliates
come up with some of their own ideas and lead generation
methods...and none of them rely on just placing a few ads
here and there. Nor do they just put up another banner on
their web page that nobody visits anyway.
If you want to be successful,
find someone who is already successful and model them.
HINT: Don't necessarily always do what they say. Find out what they are doing
and do that!
What are the successful
Internet entrepreneurs doing?
They are doing one of
two things:
1. Some of the successful
entrepreneurs are creating products or finding unique products
to sell.
2. The rest of the successful
entrepreneurs are building an audience.
Those are the only two
ways to be successful on the net. Either sell a product
you control (and don't try to sell something people can
find at the local Wal-Mart store) or build an audience that
you can contact over and over again.
If you want success, you
will fit into one of those two classes.
If you created an information,
you are one of the unique product sellers. If you publish
a growing ezine, you have the audience.
If you got an exclusive
on a new golf club, you are a unique product seller. If
you run a discussion board that has hundreds of thousands
of visits a month, you have an audience.
If you have a product,
you just need to find people who have an audience and convince
them to become affiliates with you or buy advertising from
them.
If you have an audience,
you just need to become an affiliate with someone and endorse
their products to your audience.
These are the two hands
of Internet success...
Please Note: Some people
do quite well as both having ezines, forums, etc. and also
having their own products. They fit in both classes.
Is this article going to
make some people angry?
It sure is, but I want
you to stop and think for a moment. Can you find successful
people who don't fit in one of those classes?
You may say, "What
about the search engine expert?" The answer is he has
an audience. He can generate free leads for ANY product
anytime he wants.
Which class are you in?
Do you have a product, an audience, or both?
If you don't fit into one
these groups of online businesses, then you don't have the
right vehicle for online success.
It would be like trying
to compete in a Nascar stock car race with a bicycle.
You might be the strongest
and fastest bicyclist that has ever walked the planet, but
no matter how hard you work you don't stand a chance in
the Nascar race!
Many of the Internet marketers
I meet are just like that bicyclist. They know they can
do it if they just work hard enough, but they aren't using
the right vehicle for the Internet race.
Are you using the right
vehicle?
Terry Dean, a 5 year veteran
of Internet marketing, will Take You By The Hand and Show
You Exact Results of All the Internet Marketing Techniques
he tests and Uses Every Single Month" Click here to
Find Out More:
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