I was reading a number of blogs the other day when I came across one in particular – like many others I’ve seen in the past have to say – offering to Reveal the Secrets of Internet Marketing. Many people have made that offer already and mostly simply talk you through the steps of making a website on video, uploading it to a hosting company, connecting up to a transponder etc. I wouldn’t call that a secret! It’s important to a newbie of course but you can have the best looking website in the world and get zero sales if you have no one going to look at it. What every budding Internet entrepreneur wants to know is the cheapest and most effective way to market his or her site successfully. So surely that’s a secret worth revealing though I have to add if everyone is offering these secrets on line in some form or other what is secret about them? Isn’t there a saying along the lines a secret revealed is a secret no more?

The first thing you may hear when you come onto the Internet is the money is in the list and maybe another old saying so often repeated, if you continue to do what you have always done then you will get what you’ve always got. All true of course but hardly a secret. Maybe you are banging your head against a (metaphorical) brick wall but you cannot see how to change things. Perhaps even though you do not lack incentive or motivation by what you are doing you find it frustrating because it is not yielding good results. I have been there, done that and it’s all too common. Then I found a site designed by experienced marketers that organised my thinking and processes to change all that. Take a look here. That is what I would call the pathway to success because success does not come to you like the Big Bang theory but rather after time and effort.

In summary, the secret of success on the Internet is to get known as a supplier of relevant, quality information and you will become a dominant force to be reckoned with. If you don’t have much knowledge of your own right now then do your own research and pass it on to others. By giving a service to others in that way you become knowledgeable, make yourself known to others, gain respect and make yourself money. If you lack organisation in your sales and marketing or want to find out the best way I have seen on the Internet to get organised to make money go here.

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I am really excited to announce I have now got an arrangement with Liz Tomey so I can promote her extremely useful websites for Internet Marketers. Just in case you haven’t heard of Liz, she got started in the marketing world at the age of 19 by building up her own direct mail/mail order business. Liz created several products and services to help others in the direct mail/mail order business build their businesses quickly and easily. She has successfully run this business since 1998.

In late 2004 Liz took the Internet marketing arena by storm by creating products and services especially for Internet marketers. These proven to work products have allowed Liz to become the well-known and the liked Internet marketer that she is today. I am honoured to be working with her on these projects even though I have to confess she will provide most if not all the content. I will add my comments about this arrangement on this blog in due course.

These are the web addresses:

Http://is.gd/x3Qp

http://is.gd/G9Wv

http://is.gd/Ga41

http://is.gd/x3XL

Please let me have your feedback.

You are probably one of the many who is looking at the Internet to make money. I’m sure you’ve seen or been told that your chances are slim. Most people find it’s quoted statistically a 98% failure rate. So when you come across those programs which more or less guarantee your success you feel confident enough to part with your money rather than start a business of your own. There is also a perception that you’ll make huge money in months if not days on the Internet. I don’t believe that! Like any business, it takes time to get established, to get your name known and gain confidence with your potential customers.

My conclusion is formed from over three years of trying and that’s not long to turn failure into success on the Internet according to some. Many of those that make it without a manufacturing business of some kind have discovered a trick along the way to get success and despite what the site owner might say to you he will guard that knowledge with his life because after all it is his income source. If everybody knows how to do what he does then he no longer has a competitive edge, that to me is obvious so it’s unlikely he would divulge that knowledge for any amount of money.

Many people who are successful usually have something unique to offer. There are ladies making a fortune out of making and selling bikinis, there are people selling their own cosmetics or potions of some kind and there are those who are clever at selling other people’s products which you probably know is called affiliate marketing.

Look a little deeper at the people who have achieved an Internet business success and you will see the hours of dedication they have put in to make their dream come true. Its just like any other business if you want it to succeed, you have to work at it. It doesn’t just happen by chance.

Some entrepreneurs are clever in their marketing to you and by listening to their videos it appears they really offer something unique which you feel if you had access to you too would soon be making millions. I signed up for one of those recently. Yes, I admit the marketing was clever and the ideas for money making sounded quite unique to me. I had my doubts earlier and looked at the site several times before deciding to sign up. Even after I decided to give it a go the doubts came back when I found there were two options of payment offered and only one of them worked, that was the one which only allowed you to pay them with your credit card. I hesitated for a while before finishing the transaction.

Having been given a login using my email address in both boxes and I was able to bypass another offer of additional mentoring at a price of course before entering the main page. Now I was able to download several videos which explained to me how to make money getting others to this website to make a sign up. I didn’t like that; I would not recommend anyone buy something without in depth knowledge of what I was trying to sell to them first. The next thing that annoyed me was I logged in on the next occasion having given myself a new login password and I found myself stuck on the login page with a link to the additional features for sale. This meant I couldn’t access the main website pages with the other information about their specially money making marketing schemes. I saw this arrangement as holding me to ransom. To put it more succinctly, if I wanted to know more I had to pay more. I won’t succumb to that sort of behavior so I left the sight for good, fortunately with a refund which I didn’t expect.

I would be interested to know if you’ve had any encounters with any funny membership websites.

John Reese has just released his Traffic Secrets 2.0. Everyone, that is mostly everyone is raving about it. It is a superior product, no doubt of that.

When you read through the instructions you do find some hidden extras that will cost you money over and above the cost of the course. This quite happens we know but after web hosting which is to be expected there are some other propositions. It suggests for example you get someone to create content for a start. Hey! This is going to cost me extra. How much will it be and can I afford that?

Now about research, John teaches you how to do excellent research but suggests you get someone to do it for you. What a great idea! I simply love to pass the hard tedious tasks over to someone else. But hey! This is going to cost me extra. How much will it be and can I afford that?

Do you like choices when starting a business? Of course, I would, provided I have a real focus on what I need as apposed to what might be a useful extra that I don’t actually need. I’d love to have that beautiful receptionist sitting at the desk smiling at my customers everytime they enter my premises. A bit difficult to organise with an Internet business perhaps and I’d have to pay her of course. Then I’d have to keep the camera on her all day. She might just get a bit fed up with that! Now keep your feet on the ground, boy!