I loved this email and was surprised to get an instantaneous, friendly response when i asked a question, despite them not knowing me from a bar of soap.
I guess all of us are at different points in our own "Discover Internet Marketing" journey; i get a bit stressed sometimes trying to deal with the tsunami waves of information that i think i should know, and this email's friendliness and simplicity made me smile.
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From:
Business Academy Online <info@businessacademyonline.com> Date: 2009/8/24
Subject: Find your hungry crowd
Hi alexis,
Nicci And Lee here. We can seen that you haven't yet taken
your internet marketing dreams and aspirations any further.
We would therefore like to encourage your participation in
your possible new lifestyle by sending you a 7 part
e-course named "7 Simple Steps To Get Started Online
Without Breaking The Bank" at no cost to you.
Now lets say hello to the 'new you' and a big goodbye to the
'old you'. Lets make life happen! Lets work out how you will
earn money online sooner, rather than later...Starting TODAY.
During your seven part series we will take you through how to
get started with Internet Marketing, Using a free website
(blogging), Utilising other peoples products (affiliate
marketing), Traffic generation (free and paid strategies),
and Email marketing.
Many people are unsure of how to actually get started online,
what to do and how to do it. There are four steps involved...
Your first step with online marketing is to IDENTIFY YOUR
PASSION. What is it you enjoy doing, and would prefer to
do over anything else? This could be cooking, surfing,
swimming, socialising, music, you name it. Imagine going
to work every day and doing something that you actually
loved to do. I bet you would never feel that Sunday night
dread ever again, you would actually be excited to work.
This is why it's important to choose an area which interests
you so when you are running your online business full time,
everything flows easily and you will undoubtedly reap the
rewards with very little effort at all.
Your second step is to ensure you have a hungry crowd who
actually want to know about your passion. So how exactly
do you do this?
You will need to conduct MARKET RESEARCH to ensure you have
people out there who want to know about it and ultimately
buy from you. A great way to conduct market research is to
conduct a survey. SurveyMonkey.com is a free site, which
you can utilise to conduct a survey to many people. In your
survey, you will want to extract information on people's
frustrations and also gauge how interested they would be
in your product. Be sure to use mostly multiple choice
questions so you can analyse the results. Survey Monkey has
some great tutorials on the types of questions you should
ask.
And here's a fast and effective way to do your market
research offline. Next time you pass a newsagent, pop in
to the magazine section and see if they have any magazines
on your particular product. Chances are, if there are
magazines available then there is definitely a hungry crowd.
Your third step is to turn your passion into a PRODUCT. Your
product can simply be an informational site about your
passion such as a blog. Or a teleseminar. Or an ebook. Or a
comprehensive course worth $1000.
Your fourth step is to get TRAFFIC to visit your web page via
article marketing, youtube, social networking, search engine
marketing, google adwords, offline marketing and a range of
other mediums (Don't worry if these terms seem foreign to you,
we'll go into more detail about them later)
Here's a little tip you can take to the bank: one of the
easiest ways of ensuring there is a market for your passion
is simply doing a Google search on your particular topic.
Have a look at the competition and also have a think about
the types or products you could actually market on your site.
Is there someone who is already being highly successful in
your industry? If so this is a great sign, as you know there
is a market for this particular topic.
You have now identified your passion and you have also
identified what service or product to provide. But what
happens if you don't have a website?
When we started out with internet marketing we had no website
or product. We just knew we wanted to have a life without the
corporate balls and chains, and one where a lifestyle meant
freedom. Freedom to go paddling or do what we wanted, when we
wanted. Both of us are avid outdoor lovers, and reside in
Drummoyne, near the city but also far enough away to enjoy
the internet marketing lifestyle of freedom and paddling on
the beautiful Sydney Harbour. Both of us had a passion to
leave the corporate world and we realised our common thread
and made our business partnership grow in to the 3 successful
online businesses that have now blossomed. 1 of our online
businesses successfully achieved targets of 1 million dollars
in affiliate sales in less than six months. We want you to be
able to do this.
That's a little about us, cant wait to get to know all of you
better.
Keep your eye out for Part 2 on how to get your fre.e website.
To the Online Success You deserve
Nicci And Lee
Internet Strategy Mentors
P.S We are excited for you. We love sharing our passion with
those who want to learn.
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