Main Points of This Article:

• You must have a website
• You must build a list
• What should you market?
• How should you market when you are first starting out?

Internet Marketing 101 for Affiliate Marketers – An Overview

If you will be marketing anything online it will be a preference to have your own websites. While sending people to an affiliate link can get you sales, you will be miles ahead of the game if you have your your own squeeze pages, at the minimum, to allow you to build-up lists and make valuable repeat sales.

All that is required for a basic website is a domain name and hosting.  Both of these can be acquired very cheaply these days at any major hosting company such as godaddy.com.

By using a simple and inexpensive service such as www.Aweber.com you can build lists and use auto-responders to send messages to your list members to stay in contact with them and promote more products.

List Building is a BIG desirable

If you are going to market online, then you need to be building a list.  By building yourself a list of customers, and potential customers, you give yourself the ability to reach your target market over and over again any time you wish.  This gives you the ability to build a relationship with your list members, and also gives you a marketable business should you choose to sell it at a later date. In internet marketing, your list is your business.  Plain and simple.

What Should You Sell?

Finding your own niche market is very important.  The best way to do this is to take some time and think about all of the things which interest you.  Because you will be spending a lot of time working on your websites, posting on message boards, blogging, writing articles, and all of the other things internet marketers do on a daily basis, you want to make sure that your niche market is something that you are excited about.  If you choose something you are not excited about you will be bored and loose interest in your marketing efforts.

Marketing on the Cheap

Let’s face it; most people start out in internet marketing to make money, not to spend a lot of it.  The good news is that you can make a lot of money through internet marketing without having to spend a lot of money upfront.  Through marketing via blogs, product review websites, forum postings, article marketing, and other free ways, you can easily drive a lot of traffic to your sales websites very cheaply.  The secret is that you want to drive all of your traffic to your squeeze pages where you can gather information on your potential customers and build your lists.

Final Thoughts

The two major reasons that you need your own websites, as opposed to sending people directly to your affiliate sales website, is because you want to build your own list, and because you want your customers to give you their contact information so you can market to them on an ongoing basis.  For a very low cost you can get your website up and running and have an opt-in and auto-responder service to follow-up with your customers. By finding a niche you are interested in, and marketing it in free and inexpensive ways online, you can make a good living as an online affiliate marketer.  You are only limited by your own efforts and imagination. 

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