You can use the business cards as a tool in your marketing campaign. The business owners or business executives of large companies give these business cards to a number of people they come across while making meetings, attending seminars and so on. You can exchange your business cards with many people.

You can also organize your business cards to give to people that you come across in your store or at the business place or at anywhere else, where you visit on official reason or even for informal visits. Some of them will keep those cards carefully and take advantage of the contact details whenever they feel the need to contact you for a service or the product you are dealing in. Your customers recall you through the mentioned phone number for further requirement of your products or services.

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One of the most common Internet marketing mistakes people make is trying to do everything by themselves. They try to do everything at once, with no help from others, and be everything to everybody. This is a lot of different hats to wear. You will need to be able to take small steps, one at a time, in order to insure your business success. If you must try to do everything by yourself then consider getting some tools that will help you along the way.

Tools to get your business started.

Have you ever heard the saying: “A mechanic is only as good as his tools”? Why do you think that is? Because his tools are integral part of his business. Change the types of tool he has and he becomes a carpenter, or a plumber. Having the right tools in your Internet business will make all the difference in the world to helping your business succeed.

• Domain name: This is your Internet name. It’s where people find you. If this reflects your type of business even better.
• Web Hosting: This is where your website and domain will reside on the internet. This is where you’re going to keep your files so that people can access them when they visit your domain name.
• Website: The actually website you create or have built for you. It holds the information about your business, sells your products, and gives your business a presence.
• Newsletter: This provides you with a means to communicate with your customers or subscribers on a recurring basis. This can be a simple tool to maintain interaction with your customers, and can be use to help promote your business.
• Auto Responder: This is a service that delivers your newsletter in an automated fashion. If you have hundreds or thousands of customers, you simply could not send out notifications manually, It would take way too long. Having an auto responder would take care of this.

These are the necessary tools to help you get started the right way with your Internet marketing business. You need to make sure that you have all of these if you want to start getting customers and seeing success. You can use just one or two of them but it will be much harder for you to make any money.

By having these tools, you can avoid making one of the most commonly repeated Internet marketing mistakes new marketers make. You will be able succeed without them, if you are persistent enough, but why put yourself through all the extra hard work?

If your new to Internet marketing, even if your not, then you likely have run into several roadblocks along the way that are preventing you from becoming an Internet marketing success story. The good news is that there are ways to overcome these roadblocks once you fully understand what they are.

Lack of Education

On of the most common roadblocks to Internet marketing success is a lack of education about the Internet marketing field when getting started. Having an online business requires that you learn a lot of new material, new ways of doing things and new business models. It is very important that you educate yourself on the many different aspects of Internet marketing, such as SEO, website promotion, Traffic generation, and much more.

Educating yourself for Internet Marketing Success

If education is your key to Internet marketing success, then how do you get the education? These classes are not often taught in school. The best place for you to learn is the Internet itself. There are many places where you can start to learn what you need to become an Internet marketing success, for free.

Several of the best places to get started are:

• Forums – There are many good forums out there, both free or paid, that will offer a community of people willing to help new marketers to learn the ropes. To find a starting list simply do a search for “internet marketing forums” in your favorite search engine.
• Articles – Articles can be a great place to learn new topics. Much like your reading this article now, many people put out informative articles every day on nearly every topic. Browsing these can give you ideas on how to get started, niches to work in, and much more.
• Newsletters – Like articles, someone somewhere is publishing an Ezine, (electronic magazine) or newsletter. Join these and you will receive updated posts related to the topic of the publication. These can be quite informative and useful to getting started.
• Online E-books – Electronic books are very common on the internet. This allows you to download them and read or print them at your leisure. There are also many high-quality, informative e-books that are freely available.

Lack of Productivity

There is a fine line between educating yourself and lowering your productivity within your intent marketing business. Some of the best places to learn stuff, also tend to contain so much information that you can easily get distracted and be affected by information overload.

A few of the more common places to waste a lot of your time on include:

• Forums – spend time learning, do not waste time trying to avoid doing work.
• Checking your email – set aside dedicated time to check e-mail, When its done it’s done.
• Using Search Engines – Stop surfing the web all day. Get your work done first.

The trick to doing these things every day is to make sure you have already accomplished something productive.

Lack of Control

When your first starting out, and trying to educate yourself, it can be quite overwhelming. One of the first things you must do on your way to becoming an Internet marketing success is to learn how to control your spending. Because there is no shortage of educational material out there for you to learn, there will be no shortage of things to spend your money on. Make sure your getting your money’s worth. Research before you buy. Check with forum members to see if they have purchased the same products and if it was useful to them.

Keep Yourself Focused

Society has a trouble with focus. We have short TV shows, short attention spans, and we are easily distracted. No one is completely immune from this problems. However, in order to become an Internet marketing success, you will need to do your best to prevent it from becoming a long-term problem. Focusing on what your doing is quite hard when your trying to be an online success story. Everyone wants to work at home, but then you have to walk the dogs, have a spouse to deal with, children arguing, or just relaxing a little too much, all of these things serve to distract you form accomplishing your workload.

Every business owner wants to be a an Internet marketing success story. No one wants to fail. By making sure you are aware of the potential roadblocks you face along the way, you can do your best to avoid them entirely. Take some time to learn what you need in order to get your Internet marketing business going. Take control of your time and money by not wasting them on stuff you do not need right now. Maintain a focused approach to your business. Once you learn to overcome these roadblocks, you should be well on your way to becoming a Internet marketing success story.

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Most people don’t really know why they want to start their own business. This often leads them to make a series of potential costly Internet marketing mistakes. They might have heard that it is the way to go, but go to where? Before you can start a business, you need to know what your motivation is behind starting it. Everyone will have different motivations, such as family time, money, or losing their job, so no one reason is right. Just make sure you truly understand what is motivating you. If you do not have sufficient reason to start your business, then you will likely be setting yourself up to fail.

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The problem is, you just cannot treat your list subscribers that way. They are people too, and many of them may be in the same sinking cash boat.

In order to keep your subscribers coming back to you as customers you need to cover a few basics first.

1) Understand the needs of your prospective subscribers. Know what it is that brought them to you in the first place.

2) Meet the needs of your list subscribers. If they came to you for help with marketing, then give them help with marketing, not with carpentry.

3) Build rapport with your list subscribers. Your subscribers are human. They all have needs, wants, and desires. Learn what they are so that you can better assist them in the future.

4) Treat your list subscribers and customers with respect. You’ve heard of “do unto others”. If you treat your subscribers like people, not just as some means to make money, then they will know the difference. People like to be well treated and in tern will treat you well.

5) Provide your subscribers with long term support. Subscribers become customers. Whether they do it today or next year does not matter. Always provide the same level of support from day one. They will appreciate your efforts to keep them happy. Happy customers make for a happy business.

1) Someplace to post a squeeze or lead capture page. While this should be at your
own domain, it does not have to be. Get a free hosting account to start with if you have too, once you get more subscribers and make money you can get your own domain.

2) Get an auto-responder service. This will make the process so much easier to manage. The auto-responder software will even help you build the section for your lead capture page where people enter their information.

3) Basic lead capture page. The page users land on where they will enter their name and email. It does not have to be pretty, but does have to be functional. Some of the best pages have a simple text blurb about the product and fields to get more information. Keep it simple, basic html, and copy and paste the capture part in from your auto-responder.

4) You should have a product or service. This product or service could be a book, audio, or video and should be relevant to your topic. You do not even have to be the author of the product. Many beginners feel they have nothing of value to give, but there are tons of things that can be provided as an incentive.

5) Traffic to your page. The simple truth to list building is that you need traffic to your pages before you can get a customer to subscribe to your material. You cannot just build the page and hope to gain a loyal following overnight. You will need to get peoples eyes to see your page

My biggest roadblock is simply – ME. There I said it. I am my own worst enemy when it comes to being a success.

Call Tony Robbins, Call Oprah, Call Dr Phil.

The true epiphany is that I can sabotage myself at any split second.

How? Well, because I have interests. I am human. I can be just as lazy as the next person. Or maybe even lazier then the last person. Not sure which.

But the truth is that I sometimes find it hard to write stuff. I have had mental blocks when working on websites. I am guilty of starting a project only to get sidetracked and then lose 3 weeks before going back to it. It happens.

Once you learn what your biggest roadblock is (and it will likely be yourself too), then you can learn what you need to do to change.

Stop getting in your own way. If you want to become a real internet success story, then you will need to work at it. No one is simply going to hand it to you. Go buy lottery tickets if you want that. But if you want the pride that goes with a successful job well done, then get off your behind and get to work.

The criteria first is that you should not read it at all, UNLESS you are willing to take a long, hard, and deep look into your own Internet Marketing Soul.

The category is called “Motivation” And it is not for those of weak hearts. This category will contain a no-holds-barred attitude adjustment feel.

By this I mean that I will not pull any punches whatsoever. The cold hard facts of marketing reality. I will tell it like I see it. There will no doubt be topics that will make some people think twice, but as I said it is not for the weak.

Why I am taking this approach. Simple. I am sick and tired of not hearing the truth. I have been researching, learning and trying to work at Internet Marketing for a few years now. And all too often I learn something that only presents more questions. This often has led me to become discouraged, de-motivated, and keeps me from pushing myself further.

It was not until I took that cold hard look at myself and my own life that I realized all of this. so if it can help you to become motivated, to become successful, and to earn a living online then that is what I hope to accomplish.

As I stated earlier, I used only articles marketing for this site. I did not do any search engine submissions or directory listing, no promotions of any kind, I did not tell anyone, you get the idea.

I then started writing a series of articles geared toward pet training as I have done it with my own dogs. Here is what I have so far.

First thing I did was decide on topics that I was going to write about. As this is an ever changing and growing list, I keep a copy readily available in my editing program. I wrote down a list of nearly 50 different topics that I could pull form and customize as needed.

Coming up with a list of topics in your niche should not be hard to do. Pick topics relevant to your site content. Pick it apart as much as needed. Think of things you needed to know and learn.

I then wrote out a total of 20 articles. My original goal was to write and submit 1 article per day and see what happened. Unfortunately time, energy, and other duties got in the way. Starting with my initial collection of 20 articles I then looked for article directories that I would submit them too.

If you do a Google search for article directories, you will find hundreds of them, actually closer to 200 at my last count. Before you go off the deep end, you will not need to submit to them all.

You can submit to directories one at a time, and it is a tedious and time consuming process. I only recommend that you do it once. The reason for this, is so that you know how to, and why you should automate the process.

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The main thing when considering where to submit your articles to are two factors: potential traffic and potential links.

Sure there are other factors to work on later on, but in the beginning you need links to raise your site PR and traffic to increase sales. The article submitter program helps with this as it gives you a list of sites along with their Alexa (traffic) ratings and Google PR rank of the site.

For this site I chose a combination of manual submissions and the use of article submitter. Using the article submitter I submitted a total article count as follows:

• Day 1: 8/7/07 – Submitted 3 articles to the EzineArticles directory
• Day 2: 8/8/07 – Submitted 2 articles to the EzineArticles directory
• Day 3  8/11/07 – submitted 1 article to the EzineArticles directory

Over the course of 5 days, I submitted only 6 of my projected 20 articles to this one directory. While I did submit these articles to other directories as well, I am only going to highlight this one directory at this time due to ease of statistical data.

EzineArticles only gives you 10 initial submissions until you get your account upgraded. This is a free upgrade, but you must submit 10 articles first, and then it can still take a few days depending on how busy they are.

Of 6 articles that I posted, 3 are live, and 3 are still pending approval.

These three articles have produced a total of 112 article views, and a small number of click-throughs at just 5.

Tomorrow I will go into more detail about other article directories I used, and the results from them. However a side note is that as of tonight I have a total number of 88 visits to the site and total number of new subscribers of 8.

Not bad at all, that’s an average sign up of 8.1%. I have one headline that is converting at this point at a rate of 13.5%.

First, if your not sure what article marketing is, the very basic principle is that you are simply writing articles based on a topic that you feel you can write about, submitting those articles to article directories for other sites to read or use. You provide content to other people’s websites, and in exchange you get to add a link or two to your author resource.

The topic of your articles can be pretty much anything, but should be relevant to the topic of your website. Else why bother writing off topic content.

For this discussion let’s assume you got your articles in one of two ways, you either wrote them or had them written for you by a ghost writer.

The case studies I will be presenting over the next few weeks is related to the pet industry. I have several sites in this category, and will present differences based on several topics, including articles written, website design, site purpose and more.

So let’s get started with the first one.

German-Shepherd-Obedience.com is a website dedicated to providing pet training tips to the masses. This site has sat dormant for some time up until 2 months ago. I had no website to speak of and no traffic what-so-ever. Basically a blank domain.

As I actually own and personally train my own two lovely German shepherds, Abie and Axel,  I felt this topic was one I could relate to.

My own background on pet training comes from having and training large breed dogs for over 20 years and being an avid dog lover. Until recently I was too busy to really work on article marketing for any larger number of sites, and had not used article marketing for a while.

In this case, I had to create a page of some sort. For this I chose to use a squeeze page design that was built through the use of MarketingMakeoverGenerator.Com

I chose this service for a number of reasons.

1) You get a 1 month trial for a $1
2) You get access to several Templates
3) The templates are highly configurable
4) You can upload your own pictures
5) You can add multiple headlines and audio clips
6) Tracking features that show which headlines or audio are producing better

It took me a day to setup the site. This could have been done quicker but I admit I tested the different templates, rewrote the offers a few times, and had not really given much thought to design before hand. If I had I could produce a site in an hour or so.

Once I had my site done, it allowed me to use a built-in auto responder or add my own. For this site I chose to use all the in-house tools for simplicity.

I created my offer, uploaded a single html page to my domain, and it does all the url redirects for me. You cannot even tell there is another system behind the scenes unless you are looking for it.

I wrote a small auto responder e-mail course of a total of 6 e-mails. In these e-mails I offer tips on training, an option to e-mail me questions related to pet training, and a simple recommendation for a single click bank program.

 Thats it, done. The site even has a checklist follow through that guides you from one step to the next. It is super easy to follow.

Then a started marketing this site through the strict use of articles only. Tomorrow I will give more details on the results so far.

-Derek