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The Secret of Selling on the Internet
The art of selling whether on the internet or offline is as old as man, it is a way of life, and there has always been a way of exchanging goods and services for monetary benefits. Selling on the internet is an art that should be mastered in order for one to excel in it; a lot of materials, CDs and e books are on the internet which teach on how to make sells, what am sharing with you here is a proven method that I use in making sells on the internet which most netpreneurs won’t teach you.Selling is a stage in marketing in which your goods or services are being offered to customers in exchange of money, it should be a relati

f using AOL back then but it also seemed that half the planet were already using AOL (how did they do that?!) hence the fact that the name you wanted was never available.

10. If you told people that you worked on the Internet, they immediately assumed you were some sort of porn king. No change there then, I still get this today!

11. You didn't need virus software or a firewall - your main risk of catching a virus was from opening an email attachment from someone you didn't know and who does that? Actually, quite a lot of people - back then, we didn't know any better....

Provide Your Customers with Scrappertainment!
Consider the lowly cup of coffee. It costs $1-2 a pound to harvest coffee beans. A single cup of coffee brewed at home costs about 25 cents. After all, it’s JUST hot water run over ground-up beans—it’s not rocket science. Now, if you go to Denny’s or Tim Horton’s to get a cup, what’s the cost to have coffee in a restaurant? Let’s say it’s $1.50.Now, take that SAME cup of hot water run over ground-up beans—add a fancy name and serve it somewhere with low-lighting, comfortable chairs, “mood music”, free wi-fi, fancy machines that make neat noises and “hip” people and suddenly, that 25 cent cup of coffee is $2-3! What’s

I started working online (on a part-time basis) almost 8 years ago. Amazing really as this means that I have spent nearly half of my working life involved in some form of Internet marketing.

I was recalling to a friend recently how I got started in business online back in 1998 and whilst talking to him, I was reminded of how much things have changed since those early days.....

1. Of course, computers and the Internet in general were considerably slower than they are today. My first proper PC (not including Sinclair ZX81s and Spectrums!) had a 266MHz processor and my dialup connection struggled to reach a speed anywhere near 56k. Not only that but there was no 'unlimited Internet access' - I paid something like 4.5p a minute to be connected to the Web and thought it was an absolute bargain when this eventually dropped to just 1p per minute.

2. eBay.co.uk didn't exist and all sales were conducted on the main eBay.com website. The majority of sellers (read 95%+) were American and nearly everything you bought or sold ended up traveling across the Atlantic.

3. Online payment systems were in their infancy and Paypal (which is today one of the largest and best known payment processors) didn't exist. Paypal wasn't founded until late 1998 and was originally purely for US customers. This meant that anyone trading on online auctions usually ended up making their payments by cheque (check) or even cash. I can remember regularly sending dollars to sellers in the US for something I had purchased on eBay and I received every single one of the items bought - no one ripped me off. Oh happy days!

4. There were next to no training products available that covered Internet marketing and related topics. Actually, that is probably not strictly true, there were a few but you had to really hunt to find them and in fairness back then, it didn't occur to me that what I was doing was actually Internet marketing. This being the case, it was highly unlikely that I was going to find any of the training products on the subject (and I didn't for several years!).

5. There was no such thing as a UK wholesale directory and my UK-Trader's UK Wholesale Guide was almost certainly the first UK eBook directory of its kind. So many people have tried to jump on the bandwagon and copy this idea that eBay now even has a specific category for 'Wholesale Lists'.

6. It was relatively easy to get your website to the top of the search engine rankings. All you needed to do was ensure you had a few metatags and some relevant text and you could almost guarantee yourself a first place ranking. Ok, it might have been a little bit harder than that but it was certainly a lot easier than it is today.

7. Receiving Spam emails wasn't anywhere near as big a problem as it is today. This was well before any legislation trying to outlaw junk mail and many 'big' Internet marketers actually sent Spam as one of their primary methods of marketing!

8. Websites weren't pretty! As well as being slow to load, I have this memory that every single website that existed back in the late 1990s was ugly beyond belief. I am sure that this is just my mind playing tricks but I am convinced that cyperspace is a more attractive place these days :-)

9. If you wanted to start an online business, you could get hold of just about any domain name you wanted. Maybe this is a slight exaggeration but you certainly didn't have to sit for 2 hours typing in different variations of the same name just to try and find something that was available. Saying that though, getting an AOL username was pretty hard. Everyone seemed to start off using AOL back then but it also seemed that half the planet were already using AOL (how did they do that?!) hence the fact that the name you wanted was never available.

10. If you told people that you worked on the Internet, they immediately assumed you were some sort of porn king. No change there then, I still get this today!

How To Improve Your Affiliate Marketing Profits Using Product Recommendations
If you are a newbie to affiliate marketing, don't worry. Every affiliate marketing expert had to start somewhere and if you are willing to invest time in learning and studying various strategies, there is no reason you shouldn't be a success too.There are various ways to increase your revenues in affiliate marketing, most of which can be learned easily. Product recommendations are a very important way of increasing your bottom line and sales figures. A lot of marketers know this already and are putting the knowledge to use.If someone visits your website and trusts you, they will have faith in your recommendations. Yo

conducted on the main eBay.com website. The majority of sellers (read 95%+) were American and nearly everything you bought or sold ended up traveling across the Atlantic.

10. If you told people that you worked on the Internet, they immediately assumed you were some sort of porn king. No change there then, I still get this today!

Balancing the Needs of Customers and Shareholders in a Public Corporation
Many people say; It is All About Money when it comes to big corporations. Well yes, that is their job to make money and yet if you look around today you will might take a look and see that every thing you see everywhere you go was brought or built by a corporation. You cannot have it both ways. These people say that the corporations only care about shareholders equity and quarterly profits and cannot therefore focus on customer needs?Well I would say to them, then do not buy their products then if you do not like it. Vote with your dollar, go somewhere else. Buy online, buy from a co-op, buy from a small businessperson or g

o find them and in fairness back then, it didn't occur to me that what I was doing was actually Internet marketing. This being the case, it was highly unlikely that I was going to find any of the training products on the subject (and I didn't for several years!).

10. If you told people that you worked on the Internet, they immediately assumed you were some sort of porn king. No change there then, I still get this today!

Viral Marketing - The Exponential Growth Method
Have you heard of the term viral marketing? Well in its purest form it's a type of marketing where most it is done through one individual telling another. Then that other individual goes off to tell another and so forth.On the internet this remains as one of the most powerful strategies you can implement into your marketing campaign. One classic example of viral marketing is with Hotmail. Back in the earlier days when the competition wasn't as strong, having a free e-mail service was pretty attractive. What Hotmail ended up doing was offer a free e-mail service, but with a catch. At the end of every person's message was an

ing Spam emails wasn't anywhere near as big a problem as it is today. This was well before any legislation trying to outlaw junk mail and many 'big' Internet marketers actually sent Spam as one of their primary methods of marketing!

10. If you told people that you worked on the Internet, they immediately assumed you were some sort of porn king. No change there then, I still get this today!

Can You Make Multiple Streams Of Income Online?
I first learned of the term Multiple Streams Of Income from Robert Allen the No Money Down guy. He pretty much coined the phrase all the way to the bank. I read his book a few years ago, it was the number one best seller on The New York Times Best Seller's list. I was so thrilled to get my hands on it I just knew that this was the long awaited manuscript that we marketers wanted to give it a test drive.It was a good read, however it had too many twist and turns and it cost a bit much at the time to implement his methods from just one website, and it was not the results I was looking for. I knew there had to be a better

f using AOL back then but it also seemed that half the planet were already using AOL (how did they do that?!) hence the fact that the name you wanted was never available.

10. If you told people that you worked on the Internet, they immediately assumed you were some sort of porn king. No change there then, I still get this today!

12. The dot com boom was in full flow - millions of dollars were being pumped into crazy Internet companies which would eventually flop and lose a fortune. Companies were achieving unheard of 'burn rates' (the burn rate is the rate at which a business is spending/wasting its cash assets prior to actually making a profit) yet at the same time, individual entrepreneurs were starting to use the Internet to generate substantial incomes (without the need for huge financial backing).

I could go on but I am running out of space (remember when we had 2GB hard drives and thought we would NEVER fill them up?!) but think about this for a moment....

The last 8 years have flown by - how will things change online over the next 8 years and more importantly, how can you turn these changes to your advantage?

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Your brand identity will either make or break your business venture. Building a brand is not a gimmick or fluke, marketing for deep positive branding is a necessary part of business.

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