Marketing Promotion

Let's face it...marketing is DULL for most people. I read in a forum about a woman who loves her handmade Etsy store, but HATES to promote the marketing side of it. She hates trying to get visitors through all the traditional methods of promotion and I really can't say I blame her.

One of the key elements to being a success online is to actually ENJOY what you do. Don't promote some long, boring affiliate gateway page if your heart really isn't in it. There are people who do like online marketing, but if you're not one of them then avoid doing something you can't stand, as that will only add to your frustration and make you want to give up your online business without giving it a proper chance.

Find something you like first, and then find a fun way of promoting it, so it will then seem less like work and you'll stick with it longer. Think of the internet as a big flea market where lots of people have stuff to sell, but with social sites you can swap ideas of what works for you. Find forums and sites related to yours and chat with others within your niche.

If you're having fun, then you're more likely to succeed. Your enthusiasm will likely spill over to other aspects of your online business and every little bit helps. Get away from anything you're not happy with now! Enjoy your new business!

Combining Programs To Maximize Profits

Hello! I hope everyone is doing well!
For my tip today I wanted to give a quick example of how you should combine the programs available to you in order to maximize effect and profits. I know you have some sort of affiliate program to sell, in either an ad or a website you are trying to promote, but how do you get that message across with the least amount of investing and effort on your part? Well, there are many ways.
The most obvious ones are to join a link exchange program to promote your website, or an ad forum to post an ad. I have some fast, free and easy ones to join listed in my links. However, one other way that works amazingly well is to join a pay per click (PPC) or Paid To Click (PTC) program site. I know you're thinking "Oh, those don't make any money. I tried one and only made a few cents!". Exactly. I couldn't agree more, and I don't recommend them to actually make any money, but rather, to use them as a free advertising forum for your product.
This is putting a bit of a twist on it when you use it NOT as a means to make money. Let me give you an example. If you were trying to make money, the average threshold for most of those programs is $10, which would take the average person MONTHS to acheive. They also don't tell you that, once you join, there are hardly ANY ads to click in the first place, so there's virtually no way to make any big profits.
However, you CAN use this to your advantage. If you join a program like Adbux (in my link list) they have a system where you can exchange your click credits for views of your own site to others. Now, the vast majority of people are in it for the money only and don't even consider that, but when you see how few ads there really are, and that they have a membership currently OVER 700,000 (ALL greedily looking for new ads to click), then you realize what a potential marketing goldmine it is.
So the plan is simple. You join up at no cost to you, then click their ads until you reach the exchange credits threshold (which is only 75 cents!) and then put your ad/site up for everyone else to see. Keep in mind too that these are all people looking for "work at home" money making programs, so it's the perfect target audience!! And it's all FREE advertising! Can't go wrong there. Tip: When choosing your interests upon sign up, make sure you pick "biz2biz", "get Paid to" and the like. While you may like music and sports and the other categories, there are NO ads for these topics, so you'd be out of luck. You must pick all the money making type topics for it to work.
Until next time, have a great week!