Internet business is one of the types of business that you would want yourself to get involve with. You can start internet business with just a laptop and a wireless connection. 90% of the world population is poor, with 10% of the people controlling the wealth of most of the people of the world. Same goes to cyber population, where about 10% of the internet marketer is reaping profit from 90% of the internet users. It is a huge margin you can get out of this business, all you need is some passion and the spirit of NEVER GIVE UP (That’s what most of the successful internet marketer told me)The question is should you look for a product to sell (regardless of your interest) or should you sell your interest?

The answer to me is to sell interest. Internet business is a long journey to wealth (though some said can make it very short time, which most of the people not able to do that), the dream of getting rich fast will usually turn off an enthusiastic internet marketer really fast. Especially when they later find out that they could not make money as fast as what has been told.

My name is Luis Tee, and I am making my way in the internet business. I started off working as design engineer, getting myself involved in MLM in my early days, then property agent(make a couple of thousands but later find out that is not my interest). Before I get into this business, many people told me that we can make fast money in internet business. From my experience, I think not quite possible. If you are thinking of making a lot of money in a short time, you will get disappointed yourself really fast.

The secret to success in the internet is to continue doing what you do, consistently and systematically. I applied this principle for the past two months and it really works on me.

Let me tell you this, I started off my blog last month, with just 4 unique visitors for the first one week. I started to write articles seriously and began to attract interest from my readers. I ended my first month with 192 unique visitors.

This month is second month, I am currently at 220 unique visitors in just half a month. It is growing fast  and I have over thousands of visits from my visitor groups.

People all told me that there are intense and great competition in the internet business, especially in the affiliate marketing. But I don’t think that’s the case. It is a race against passion and interest, if you have the interest, you will find yourself going ahead of others in a long run. It is a marathon, not a 100m speed run. There are few steps that we need to learn in the internet business, taught by many Gurus:

Step 1. Find a niche market.

Find a niche market, that has great potential with less competition.

Step 2. Find a solution or product for that niche market.

Find a solution or product for that niche market, find it in the clickbank or other affiliate website. Go to forum, website, research site or any other channels to find out what people are looking for in that niche market.

Step 3. Setup your website

Setup a website targeted to that niche market. Fill the website with powerful content.

Step 4. Create an opt-in page to collect email address

You have to capture your visitors by their email and first name, so that you could continue to communicate to them and hopefully sell something to them.

Step 5. Create your own product for that niche market.

Create your own product/solution. The best product to sell is to have your own product. Try to create something that’s really useful and bring benefits to its’ readers/buyers.

Step 6. Have a great sales copy and start selling.

Sales copy is your sales man online, and it works 24 hours 7 days a year. You want to create the most interesting and attractive sales copy so that you could pull as many buyers as possible.

I am not in the position to comment further on the effectiveness, I have created some products which I am good at doing and I am starting to follow those steps as stated above. I will update you on the progress.

If you checking through the internet, you probably run into this term- Web 2.0.What’s it really mean? How you relate the development of Web 2.0 benefit you and your business online.Simply put, in Web 2.0, the websites become more conversational, it is a conversation through technology. In Web 1.0, you have to hire someone to build a website for you and then you need someone to maintain it before you try to drive people to that website so that they can see what you are trying to offer.

In Web 2.0, you can set up your website easily, you can use things like Godaddy, My Bloglog and Wordpress to set up your own website, you can then customize it using your own unique and niche content. Web 2.0 is very interactive, you can go out and actively network to find your new friends or clients looking for the same and unique products.

Other than this, you can get instant feedback and comment for in the Web 2.0. Consumer of the information have a lot power to review their experiences with your products, you will get fast and reliable feedback.

The other characteristic with the Web 2.0 is all about sharing information and knowledge online and you will be adding value first before you could expect sales. So in Web 2.0, you teach first before you sell.

Of course, you need to adopt a consultant approach rather than selling approach. You have to capable of teaching people what they don’t know, adding value to what ever they are doing before they could buy something from you. They will see you as an expert because you are giving them all this valuable information.

The best advertisement in business is the word of mouth, same goes to Web 2.0. It is the cheapest and most valuable way of advertisement.

Think about building a virtual network online, you are building a network for your products. Same as any business in the real world, you are building a relationship, you have got to develop your relationship strategy online.

You want to build the relationship and that’s the nature for any small business. You got to build your communication strategy online. It is about conversation, relationship sharing and trust. Web 2.0 made it easy to do it in the virtual world.

This is the summary of Web 2.0

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Why people want to use internet? What drive them to user internet?

Internet is basically a platform for people to gather information and to share information. People use internet basically because they need some information, which only internet could provide the fast and immediate response. Ask yourself, why you use the internet?

You use it to keep in touch with friends and family, especially when you go oversea, you can use Skype to get cheap phone call and video calls to your family members and friends.

You use it for networking, like Facebook, Blogs and Friendster, people use it as a platform to know more people from different culture and background.

You use it to know about latest news, across different time zone and countries, other than get the information from the traditional way like radio and television.

You use it to know the latest movement about stock market trend, to trade and buy stocks, all transaction could be done through the internet. You also use it to know the weather forecast and to know about traffics.

All in all, it is about INFORMATION. Everyone is going after the fastest and most reliable source of information. If you could provide the information, you will be always ahead of others in online business.

Nowadays, people needs more than mere information itself. Internet users expect more than this. Internet becomes more interactive with Web2.0, where you could get feedbacks and reviews easily prior to your purchase of any products. You could get the best price out of several providers through their websites in split seconds.

You could make money out of people’s needs of information. Whoever gets the information, he/she would be able to tons of traffics and to make money online.

To your pursuit of Happyness.

Article by Luis Tee, owner of www.greatselflearner.com

 Hi again, Let’s continue yesterday discussion:Pay per sale, the most common method in affiliate marketing where affiliate marketers get paid with every successful purchase from the visitors. Generally the commission is quite high, for example clickbank.com products can offer up to 70% of commission out of the products. This is also the highest commission paid among all 4 methods of commission structure.

Pay per lead, the “lead” actually refers to “Sign Up”, which is a number of person sign up to the merchant website. In affiliate marketing, it is very important to get the contact information from the visitors. Contact information such as name, address and most importantly email are the channels to establish relationship with the visitors. This is the channel where the merchants or affiliate could go through to promote their products. However, the commission paid on pay per lead is relatively low.

Pay per post structure generally pays their affiliates to write review on products or services for the advertisers. You may refer to the top right corner of this website for http://www.smorty.com/ or http://www.pay2u.com/, affiliate will get money for their writings. Mostly this is common among bloggers. Blogs that are not indexed, have little or no content, are banned from search engines or contain hate related and crude content may be rejected or put on Probation until corrected. You can get paid up to $5 or a lot more with quality reviews.

All these commission structures are designed to suit different market demand. It is for you to discover which one suits you better, and which one could lead you to road of prosperity.

Hope this helps,

To your pursuit of happyness

Article by Luis Tee

 How Affiliate Marketing Work?

Affiliate marketer makes money through commission they earn referring sales to the merchant’s online store. Simply put, affiliate marketing is a process of earning commission selling other products on the internet. There are three type of commission in the world of affiliate marketing:

• a. Pay per sale- commission based on sales amount
• b. Pay per click - commission based on number of visits
• c. Pay per lead - base on registration through downloads.

Both the merchant and affiliate marketer benefited from such process. There is nothing to lose on merchant side as they enjoy free advertising from affiliate marketers; all they have to do is to share their profit with affiliate marketer. In fact, most of the merchants give high commission to the affiliate marketers to motivate them to drive more traffic to their sites.

There is nothing to lose on affiliate marketers, they don’t have to worry about customer service, delivery, maintenance, product enquiries, or management as they are all being handled by the merchant. In short, they sole effort is to drive more traffic to the merchant website, and if someone buy the product, they get the commission. Sometimes, the sales commission they earned is higher than the profit that the merchant get.

It is a win -win business strategy that benefited both merchant and affiliate marketers.

For more understanding, download the following links for the flow chart showing how affiliate marketing works:

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There are some FAQ for those who wish to start an affiliate business online, questions like:
• Why affiliate marketing is the best choice for high income and low risk business?
• What makes affiliate marketing or online business profitable when there are millions of websites around?
• What makes affiliate marketing successful?

There are four reasons why you must choose affiliate business:

1. Low Set Up and Maintenance Cost
Unlike traditional business, affiliate marketing or online business only required very minimum starts up and set up cost, All you need is to register a domain and a hosting which will only cost you few hundreds dollars a year, you can simply run them from home without having to rent shop or to keep stock. The very next thing to do is to keep your readers informed, attached to your website and draw as much traffic as you can. Almost zero maintenance cost.

2. Worldwide market place
In affiliate marketing, you can sell your products to everywhere else in the world, regardless of location, races and region. It is the global market you are targeting. You can reach out to the people from every corners of the world. All you need to do is to find a niche market where there is intense needs flooded with buyers who are willing to pay for it.

3. No inventory at all
Affiliate marketing doesn’t require you to carry inventory. You are representing a company; the company will handle all the delivery and handling of customers enquiry. You don’t have worry about buying goods and even fork out your cash for stocks. There is no warehouse management, no supply chain issue, and no staff management issue. You only have to do two things, sign up for affiliate products and start promoting your site, attract more people to your site and get your messages heard. If people trust you, they will start to buy your products.

4. High Margin products
Internet products are all high margins, especially digital products like ebook, audiobooks and software. If you are an owner of a product, there is Zero duplication and delivery cost.

These are four major benefits you will get if you were to start off with an affiliate marketing business online. If you are to explore deeper in this business, you will learn even more.

Thanks

Luis Tee

Hey everybody, today I want to talk about affiliate marketing, Affiliate marketing is probably the most common way to make money online.

Let you support a product, let say you support dreamweaver, you created a site, let say something to do with dreamweaver, you put a link on your site, let say somebody click on it  and purchase, you will get pay a certain percent of commission, the commission will depends on what program you are using and all that kind of stuff.

Today I am going to show you 4 sites that have affiliate programs. There is tons more out there, but today I am going to show you four of them. The first one is probably the most well known, which is the “Clickbank”.

Clickbank is a site where you can promote of ebooks on. Select let say I want to promote Ewen chia super affiliate, all I have to do is to create a hoplink, copy the html that I want and paste on my website and that’s it. Anytime that somebody click on that site, I will get pay 23.37 cent, you can get up 30,60 or 100 dollars with this. It is really a great site, and it is free. All the site I m going to show you is free to join, this is really a great affiliate site, this is the one that I used and probably the best one.

The second one is the one that I don’t use but I heard good things about is probably the Commision Junction. I don’t whole about this, I don’t really know what it sells, but if you don’t like Clickbank you can check out Commission Junction. And I heard it is a good site, so you can check out the marketplace and stuff like that.

The 3^rd one is Apple, Itunes, if you want to promote Itunes, if you have website or blog on music(reviewing music), you can join the ITunes affiliate and earn some money, collect some cash from it, it is kind of cool affiliate because once you put the link on your site and that’s it, you don’t have to put a whole attention to it, only you to get the traffic so that people can link and buy.

The last program is Adobe, I don’t do it but I would highly highly recommend this one because you can earn up to 10% commission, which is great on Adobe products because some of the Adobe products are pretty expensive. I am not saying they are bad products, but they are really good quality products. Like I say Dreamweaver, ColdFusion and tons of great programs for design, photoshops and all that kind of stuffs. So if you have a website or may you have a website on photography or maybe you have website on webpage, you join this affiliate and you can put some links on your page, and if somebody clicks on it and buy it, you can get 20 or 30 bucks or higher. If you get 65K more of a month, if you get 10%, which is 6,500 dollars which is more than some other people , the people that I know make in a month.

So affiliate is really a great way to earn money online, one thing I want to say before I go is make sure if you do affiliate marketing, you don’t get it over your head, I tried that, I tried joining 4-5 affiliate program and that just kind of not working, you just get too much money sources but you are not going to make as much money. I would suggest finding one maybe two at most in Adobe, or maybe Clickbank, I would also check out Commission Junction, I heard good things about it.  Become affiliate and starts marketing today.

Message from Anonymous Marketer

Lesson Learnt:
1. Do not promote too many products at one time, promote one or the most two products in one website.