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There’s no diploma you can strive for to be in the Internet marketing industry. You have to learn as you go – on your own – soaking up information along the way.  The first thing you need to know is what it means to be an Internet marketer, because it isn’t always clear to everyone.

Let’s start with what Internet marketing is not.  It’s not being a con artist. It’s not being a spam king.  It doesn’t just mean selling on eBay or having your own website and products.

In reality, Internet marketers can pick and choose from a whole host of options available to help them make money.  Your opportunities are virtually endless, and include one or more of the following:

• Selling digital downloads (information products like eBooks)
• Promoting other people’s products for a commission (affiliate marketing)
• Selling on eBay or other auction sites
• Running a membership site
• Selling your online services (writing, graphics, etc.)
• Owning a website that sells dropshipped or wholesale items

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.  Being a newcomer to Internet marketing, you might be worried that you don’t have anything to sell.  That’s okay – most people don’t start out with anything, and you never have to stock a tangible inventory if you don’t want to.  That’s the beauty of Internet Marketing, flexibility, you are in control and you choose what and how you will run your online business.

Internet marketing creates no gender or age boundaries for you.  There are teenagers who have launched multi-million dollar companies as budding Internet marketers whose ideas sprung to life and catapulted them to instant success.

You don’t have to do anything unethical or shady to succeed at Internet marketing, and in fact, launching a respectable business with a solid reputation is the secret ingredient that will allow you to hatch an empire on the ‘net to fulfill all of your dreams and those of your family.  The sky is the limit!

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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There’s no doubt in my mind that Internet marketing has a pretty steep learning curve.  While it may be true that some new marketers hit it big quickly with some good timing, offline experience, luck, great contacts, and being correctly positioned, the majority of new marketers find success at a much slower pace.

What makes the pace even slower is getting stuck.  It’s like getting your car stuck in the mud – you spin your wheels, waste gas, waste time, throw mud all over… and don’t get anywhere.  You’re tired and frazzled and you’ve got nothing to show for it.

When I get stuck with my Internet marketing, I try to stop banging my head against the wall and come up with something that will be a positive action such as:

1.  Google the problem.
2.  Go to the Warrior Forum and look it up with the search function.
3.  Look in Yahoo Answers.
4.  Email my techie friend, my marketer friend, or my WordPress friend (which is one reason I love networking with other marketers.)
5.  Post my problem on a forum.
6.  Look for You Tube videos that might explain how to do it.
7.  Submit a help ticket.
8.  Just take a break, sometimes just stepping away and coming back later gives me a fresh perspective.

What do you do when you are feeling stuck?  Please share some of your getting unstuck methods.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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If you have been in Internet Marketing for a bit, you have most likely heard the term “social marketing.”  It’s another term for social bookmarking.  That’s not the same as bookmarking a favorite site on your own browser.  What you do in social bookmarking is save favorites to a particular site on the Internet.  This makes your favorite places public (if you want them to be) and friends and family can see what you like as you cruise about the web.

There are a lot of social bookmarking sites and most of them require you to register.  Once you do that, you can save all your bookmarks for public view.  Most sites allow you to mark some things as private if you only want to share with a few friends rather than the entire world.  When your bookmarks are public, visitors can do a search by keyword or even by your name and find out what favorites you’ve saved.  This works the other way as well.  If you hear of someone whose product you find interesting, do a search for them on the social bookmarking sites to see what they’re doing.

The biggest advantage to social bookmarking is driving traffic to your sites.  It is really a form of free advertising and a way to promote your sites with only a small investment of time.  It will give you a leg up on other marketers in your particular niche.

It’s best to update your bookmarks on a regular basis.  This is the easiest way to bring visitors to your sites.  One popular bookmarking site is delicious.com.  This site automatically organizes your bookmarks by what tags you put on them.  A tag is a description of the bookmark and you can use as many as you want.  The more tags you have, the better your favorites will be organized.  You will see traffic in a very short time once you start submitting to delicious.com and similar sites.

Bringing visitors to your site through social bookmarking happens in a variety of ways.  For instance, the more links you have pointed at your site, the higher your page rank is with the search engines.  Because social bookmarking sites have so many links on them in the first place, their own page rank is higher.  This gives links back to your site more value with the search engines.

What happens next with all these links pointing to your site is that you’ll get higher search result rankings.  This means that being on the first page of the search results out of 10,000 pages of results will bring in a ton of new traffic.  People are much more likely to click on a site that sits at or near the top of the page than they are to wade through thousands of results.

A lot of people browse through these social bookmarking sites every single day.  If you have enough links on there to capture some interest, you’ll get some clicks to your site.  Also, people search the social bookmarking sites constantly because they know a real person is behind the bookmarks.  Random search engine results are not as appealing as seeing what other people are doing.

People are always interested in people.  Get busy developing the art of social bookmarking so you can bring some of that traffic to your own site.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,
Jill Lillvis

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