Making Money Online: Pick A Strategy And Stick With It
By Star Smith
If there is a well kept secret about internet marketi ng it is this: you need to have a
workable strategy in order to make money.
I have read countless ebooks on internet marketing that explain in general terms what you need to do to create a
profitable online business. Most people know that you need to have a website, blog, or some other kind of stable
online presence to start with. Okay, great. So most of these guru types will tell us a little more about what kind
of content we should have on our sites and blogs, along with some other tips.
For example, newsletters are income generators. Building a list, as the experts say, is one of the best ways to
make a steady income. Okay, and maybe they will actually go into how you can do this. What they don’t really tell
you is that creating a newsletter and building a list is a strategy.
It’s a popular strategy and it can work wonders, or, fail miserably depending on how you execute it. The point is,
that strategies are what separates the serious marketers from those who are cluelessly hopping from one thing to
another.
This is not something that’s talked about much, in fact, I’ve only recently figured this key idea out for myself.
Most newbies will not know that this is the reason they are failing to get anywhere in their efforts.
What is a strategy?
A method of doing something to reach a specific goal.
Here are four basic strategies that are popular with internet marketers:
Strategy #1: Build niche websites and monetize it with Adsense
This strategy involves picking a specific topic for a website, let’s say, it’s going to be about blenders. You are
going to feature and review several types of popular blenders. You build your blender site, then put Adsense ads on
the pages. Ideally, people will visit your blender site, read the information, and some will click on the ads,
which will most likely feature blenders and other household products.
Your next site is going to be about car stereos. You build a site that reviews different car stereos and again, put
the Adsense ads on it. You repeat this several times, until you have many sites in various niches making you money
from Adsense.
Strategy #2: Promote affiliate products using pay per click (PPC) advertising
This strategy involves picking various affiliate products and promoting them using Adwords or another pay per click
program. You will have to create a landing page for each product and write good Adwords ads that attract visitors
to click on them. Once they reach your landing page, you hope that many will click through to the affiliate vendor
site and buy the product. You will make an affiliate commission each time someone makes a purchase.
Strategy #3: Creating your own information products and newsletter
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