Before you start spending time, effort and money on any type of advertising, you should first learn who your target market is and extra information about them which will make your advertising strategies more effective. Without this, you’ll spend money that you don’t really need to spend, and you won’t even get much back from it either. Here are four of the things you should know about your target audience.
With so many bloggers and blogs on the internet, it’s a very competitive market and can make succeeding very difficult. With blogs, one of the best things that you can do is build a good sense of community and develop the relationship you have with your readers. If you give them something special and which is different from the regular blogs out there, they will keep returning and will remain interested.
Sales funnels have been around for a long time, probably since humans first arrived on Earth. When early man wanted to get a person or animal to do something, a basic sales funnel was used (OK, OK, it wasn’t exactly the same! By stick with it…) Sales funnels are used to get your business from unsuccessful and unprofitable to profitable success. When your caveman ancestors needed to eat, they used the precursor to today’s modern sales funnel to attract animals.
After several days of having nothing to eat but plants, a tribe of early humans would be desperate for some meat. This is because meat carries a lot more protein than plant-based foods. Protein is needed by the human body for optimal health and well-being. So after “No Meat Monday” stretched into “Nothing but Plants All Week”, your plant-munching ancestors that longed for a saber-toothed tiger steak knew they had to do something.
Basically, they had to attract the type of animal they wanted to eat.
Bing is nothing more than Microsoft’s proprietary search engine. It was formerly known as the “windows live search” service, and later as the “live search” engine. It has been integrated into windows services since the MSN days, so it is more than likely that you have used it at some point.
Bing is a search engine just like Google. Despite not being as popular as the latter, it still accounts for more than 20% of web searches currently made in the US. It is integrated into Windows operating systems, and offers a number of attractive features including:
The concept of virtual real estate and flipping blogs and sites is broadly similar, although there are one or two slight differences.
The main difference is that whilst in the real property world, you would almost always buy a derelict property for renovation, when you’re flipping blogs or sites, it is often easier to create the site yourself from scratch. Whilst it is possible to find sites that already exist, improve them and then sell them on at a premium, having the ability to recognize sites which can be improved and sold is an acquired skill.
If you’re just getting started with internet marketing for the first time and you’ve finished reading the full book, then your mind might very well be racing with all the different subjects and techniques we covered. There’s a ton of jargon to dig through here and countless different approaches and methods that all need to work together synergistically for the very best results.
If you’re having a hard time absorbing all that information then, this cheat sheet is going to become your best friend. Here, you will find all of the different ‘pillars’ of internet marketing and all of the key techniques. Any time you get confused as to what a phrase means or what you should be doing, check back here and you’ll find the answers…
