Internet Marketing; Newbie Tools
You decided to give internet marketing a try. You are still excited and raring to go. You are what we call a newbie. It's all right. I remember being a newbie, being filled with hope and excitement.
The hope and excitement can quickly fade when you realize it's a big and sometimes bad internet marketing world out there.
Never fear, I want you to keep your hope and enthusiasm forever. To reach that end I developed this lens to share tools every newbie needs to get started, in other words, you guessed it! Newbie Tools!!
Take a look around, and implement and use some of the tools mentioned and you will begin to see your internet marketing career take off. :) Good luck and I'd love to hear your success story, so bookmark this page and come back and share it in the Success Story book at the bottom of this lens.
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Learn Internet Marketing Basics from the Professionals.
I know when I started my internet marketing journey I bought ebook after ebook, thinking I would learn the magic secret to making money online.Little did I know . . .
Are you still spending your hard earned money on ebook after ebook? Are you implementing any of the techniques you find in those ebooks?
Is it hard, even with the information to actually make it happen and change that knowledge to money in your bank or paypal account?
I know it was for me.
What I decided to do was STOP BUYING EBOOKS. Instead, I decided to take my monthly ebook expenditure and join Affiliate Classroom.
At affiliate classroom I found a huge library of ebooks that I could download included in my monthly tuition.
I found step by step instruction, written by professional affiliate marketers that I could read. In addition to the step by step courses I found support from a helpful community.
I got to interact with not only other students, but the teachers themselves.
Even though I was paying the tuition for Affiliate Classroom I was still saving money by not wasting money on ebooks.
Oh yeah ~ and I started EARNING MONEY!!
In fact, Over 50% of AC Students Reported a 23% Increase In Business! and 75% of the students report they never needed another learning source after affiliate classroom. That means NO more ebooks!!
If you are a struggling affiliate marketer, I highly suggest you join affiliate classroom.
Oh yeah ~ you can join now for 2 weeks for only a dollar!!
I'll see you on the inside.
How to Squidoo ~ From Squidoo!
Here are some great lenses that will help you get your lenses up and running as well as making a little money in the process!
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Domain Name Redirect
Get rid of ugly affiliate links
People will look at your URL and realize it is an affiliate or business link.
The way you solve this problem is buy a domain name and then redirect it to your original url. This sounds really complicated, but it's not.
First think of a phrase that correlates with your business or product.
Here's a quick example when I joined the 5 Dollar Franchise I got a url that leads people to my sales page that looks like this: http://www.5dollarfranchise.com/?id=momtohanna Wow, that's something. It's ok to use that if you are going to have a live link with anchored text where no one sees the actual link. It's not good to put in email or to just have your link showing.
Here's what I did. I thought of a phrase. 5 Dollar Blessing. I went and looked it up at a domain name seller. I use 1&1 Hosting because their domains are the cheapest I've found (6.99 for .com). Doing this will let me know if that domain name is available. Try it here. Just put your phrase in the box and hit go. It will come back and tell you if that name is available or not. If it's already been taken you have to go back to the drawing board and think of another phrase.
Once you find a phrase that works for your business and is available, just purchase it. When you get your confirmation you can go into your control panel and redirect it. (make it so when people click on your new url it will take them the same place as your old url.)
Stop Being a Victim
Don't lose another dime online
People who are new to internet marketing can easily be pulled in by masterfully written sales copy and the dream of easy riches. Before you shell out any money read Stop Being a Victim and get to the bottom of the most tempting scams on the internet. URL Freeze, keep all your commisions by cloaking
That's exactly what URLFreeze does and more.
Ok, here's why I went to take a look. I wanted to be able to better track my ad campaigns. I wanted to know which ads were pulling and which places I was putting them were working. URLFreeze answered this problem for me. It allows you to create a new URL for any product. It's similar to "tiny url" but it will create more than one new URL for the same product. It also has lots of tracking in the back office so you can see where your hits are coming from.
This is really useful because it will allow you to focus your marketing efforts on things that are really working, instead of spreading yourself around "hoping" people are looking at your ads. You will be able to see which ads are working for you, which ones aren't and stop using the ones that aren't and create new ones, or use others that are working. You may find a signature in one place works great, but it works terribly in another spot. This information will allow you to tweak your campaign to get the most from your efforts.
It appears they have added some new features including some advertising for member, and it also has what appears to be a lucrative affiliate program, which could be some nice passive income for you, but to tell you the truth I haven't really looked in to that part yet. I will continue to play with this and let you know as I find out more.
But to cloak your url and track your ad campaigns it's a huge thumbs up!! and It's FREE, can't beat that.
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MLM Bootcamp, not just for MLMers
I found Jonathan Budd on myspace while I was searching for friends. His profile is great and he seems like a "real" person. He offered a 7 day mlm marketing bootcamp series, and even though I am not in an MLM company, I liked him enough and thought it might be some good information so I got it.All I can say is WOW!! He gave me so many good ideas that I had not even thought of. He also put it together in an easy to follow blueprint. I definately recommend taking the time to read this series, whether you are floundering or flourishing in an MLM or are affiliate marketing. You are bound to learn something to improve your traffic and conversion rates.
It's free but worth a lot!
Get your MLM Marketing Bootcamp
Why You Should Be Using a Squeeze Page
Affiliate Cash Secrets: Helping Newbies Get Started with Affiliate Marketing
-- Excerpt from CanUDigot? e-Commerce Newsletter's 03/18/07 Issue -- http://www.canudigot.com/2007/march/23/art_3/ A few weeks ago, I found what I consider to be a true GEM among internet marketing programs and opportunities. Why? Because it helps newbies get started with minimal effort, knowledge and investment risk. It truly is one of the best business opportunties I've seen. The marketing genius behind Affiliate Cash Secrets is Derrick VanDyke, a very successful affiliate marketer, who has taken it upon himself to create a membership site that offers many useful services to new and experienced affiliate marketers alike, such as Affiliate Marketing and Traffic Generation Tutorials, Ad Trackers, a top-notch Support Forum and my personal favorite: a Squeeze Page Generator that creates lead capture marketing pages FOR you and hosts them on his servers....you don't need to have your own web hosting or even know how to code HTML.
Newbie Tools; Books
You can never have enough information!
Internet Riches: The Simple Money-making Secrets of Online Millionaires
Amazon Price: $14.96 (as of 10/06/2008)
Affiliate Millions: Make a Fortune using Search Marketing on Google and Beyond
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 10/06/2008)
The Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other People's Stuff Online
Amazon Price: $57.27 (as of 10/06/2008)
Affiliate Cash Flow Marketing
Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 10/06/2008)
The Complete Guide to Associate & Affiliate Programs on the Net: Turning Clicks Into Cash
Amazon Price: (as of 10/06/2008)
Stacked Income
Do you know what it is and how it can create wealth in your life?
I just read the most interesting ebook on internet business I think I have ever read. This wasn't like any of the ebooks I've read before. It didn't tell me techniques to drive traffic, or how to start a blog (I do love those books too), this one talked about an entire business model.It's called Stacked Income. It's based on the concept of adding products for additional income without any extra work. It made such perfect sense.
If you are looking to start a business or make money online I seriously recommend you read this book before you get started and possibly waste a lot of money.
The book is only 5 dollars. Very affordable and the information could be priceless to you!
You can get Stacked Income here.
Are you an internet marketing newbie?
If you are a newbie, what's the one thing you would most like to learn or know about internet marketing?

Oh, My Lord! You are provide a world of valuable information. This is truly unbelievable! I have great information on internet marking as well. I'll show you how to make seed money to invest into bigger opportunities. You'll start making money into your pay pal account right away. You don't even need a website.
Andre' Smith AKA "Dre' Day"
www.andresmith.biz
Posted August 13, 2008
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stevaxx
Good lens. plenty of solid info for the newbie. Posted July 28, 2008 |
Help me to rate my lens
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Thanks
Posted April 24, 2008
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ClaireDean13
Marketing products over the Internet is truly a difficult task to master and quite overwhelming for newbies. With the right tools, however, the job can be made simpler and easier. Here's a related Spanish site on internet marketing run by my friend. Please drop by! Posted April 19, 2008 |
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YourOnlineBusinessAdvisor
Great site! In case you aren't aware of it, Affiliate Cash Secrets is a program I highly recommend, as it is a great foundational tool set for new and experienced marketers alike. Learn more at http://www.YourOnlineBusinessAdvisor.com Posted April 14, 2008 |












