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Blowing The Smoke Off Of Making Money Online

By Jeff Schuman

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Published: 31Jul2009
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When I was a factory sales rep in my off line job I had a boss who used to like to say let's blow the smoke off of it. What he was really saying was let's tell it like it is. So I want to blow the smoke off of making money online and tell it like it is.

Relying strictly on free or nearly free advertising methods for 100% of your marketing efforts is just not enough for most Internet marketers. If you sell high ticket items you can probably find ways to market yourself utilizing article marketing and social networking and you can get by without doing paid advertising.

But if you are going to make your income selling low priced products, cost per action programs, or pay per click affiliate programs, you are going to have to step up to the pump and purchase advertising. That probably will mean setting up a pay per click advertising campaign with either Google or Yahoo.

Meaningful traffic is the only way you are going to accomplish your financial goals. It is very difficult to get enough traffic to any website or blog relying strictly on free advertising.

If you are an article writing machine you might be able to create enough articles to give you long-term traffic and search engine optimized traffic but it's not likely.

The sooner an average person realizes they must pay for advertising them sooner they will figure out how to take that happen. That might mean going out and getting a part-time job to fund your Internet business.

This may not be what you want to hear but this is the realities of Internet marketing today. There are billions of websites all competing for attention.

Writing an article in submitting it to ezinearticles.com is a way to get one back link and some good traffic. However rationally think about what that one article means to your business. It is just one article on a webpage. There are still billions of other webpages on the Internet that you must contend with.

The other thing is building an email marketing list for future follow-up is an absolute must. This is especially true if you are going to do paid advertising.

You are purchasing traffic anyway now so why not capture names and email addresses so you can follow up for free. This would seem to be common sense yet it is amazing how many websites or blogs are not utilizing this basic Internet marketing technique.

Develop relationships with your subscribers and you can really benefit in terms of future sales down the road.

These are a few tips on making money online. If you are not doing paid advertising, or building your list, hopefully I have blown the smoke off of it enough for you to understand you need to get started doing these things.

Jeff Schuman invites you to visit his make money online website for JV With Jeff free training, 4 ways to make $10 a day taking paid surveys, and Hands Off Article Marketing.

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