By Lonnie Minton | Submitted On April 25, 2009
You may be involved in an affiliate internet business to make money online but you will find that the marketing rules are the same no matter how big or small your business. Let’s look at some of the tangible benefits of internet marketing.
The dictionary uses the following terms to define tangible:
a. that can be touched or felt
b. definite
c. objective
d. assents having real substance
f. able to be appraised for value
Let’s use that definition, the terms, to examine the tangible benefits or results of internet marketing:
a. That can be touched or felt.
Here are some ways to make your online business yours, something that you can touch and feel. Something that reflects you and what are trying to do in your online business.
1) brand your product,
2) determine your target audience and how they relate to your product or products,
3) obtain sales (that means that you get to feel the income) and build a relationship with your customers, and
4) turn customers into repeat customers.
Internet marketing is very effective in allowing you to implement all of these areas.
b. Definite.
The very definition of internet marketing provides a definite benefit to your efforts to make money online.
The definition is simple. It is you placing your business or products on the world wide web, or internet as we generally refer to it today. Once there the potential for millions of internet users to become your costumers exists. You benefit by turning your web presence into a definite tool to maximize your sales and increase your business potential.
c. Objective.
In order for your online business to be successful you must do more than just establish a definite presence on the internet. You need online goals. You need to establish an objective and/or objectives for your business. Now that may be as simple as to make money online. And that is OK, but refine it a bit to say how much, over what timeframe, and the process you will use to accomplish your goals.
Other objectives might include; establishing that there is a need for your service or product, how will you advertise your product, will you use a normal website or a blog, will you try to make all the sales of your product yourself or turn it into an affiliate product as well, etc.?
d. Assents having real substance.
Your online presence or website/blog is an assert and it must contain real substance; that translates to content. if you are using a blog, for example, it must provide useful and pertinent information to your readers.
Your eBook or whatever your product is must have substance that is perceived by your customer as something that he can truly use in his own efforts or maybe just something that will make him more content with life. He must feel that your product will in some way enhance his quality of life. Maybe it will help to make him more healthy, wealthy, etc.
f. Able to be appraised for value.
You must do more than just advertise your product online. Your marketing efforts must include communicating with your customers. They must perceive that your product is valuable for them; but, they must also perceive that your follow up with them is of value. If they do not, you will not have repeat customers.
That is one of the main asserts of any affiliate internet business online. There is a lot of detail to it but it is called list building. As you build your list and your subscribers or current customers come to realize that you are giving them value some of them will buy again.
You won’t need a lot of money to make internet marketing work for you, but you will need to insure that your products and the information that you provide result in tangible benefits for your potential customers. That in turn will provide tangible benefits for you and your efforts to make money online.
Lonnie Minton writes about Promoting Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Marketing in his newsletter, eCourses, and eBooks. Visit his blog at [http://www.affiliateinternetbusinessonline.com/] Sign up for his Promoting Affiliate Programs Ezine at [http://www.affiliateinternetbusinessonline.com/tsplist/] Copyright 2009 by Lonnie Minton, All rights reserved.
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