Internet Marketing For Newbies

If your looking to get into IM (Internet Marketing), you have some choices to make. Below is what I would recommend for newbies.

First and foremost, get some knowledge under your belt before you jump in. This will save you time and money. I would highly recommend signing up with Wealthy Affiliate University (click here to go to “My Recommendation” page for more info). You will get a solid understanding of IM, all the different areas you can get involved in and a lot more.

I ran a across this FREE eBook the other day and found it most informative. Not only will it give you some great information on “How To Sell Any Product” but if you chose, you can turn around and start making money right away with what they show you.

In this short (38 page) FREE ebook Harvey Segal has managed to include several unique ideas on a wide variety of topics starting with his controversial stance on search engines and moving on to

- Getting traffic to your site
- Preselling with free ebooks
- Preselling with articles
- Autoresponders and follow up campaigns
- Ad tracking
- Affiliate marketing
- ClickBank
- Viral marketing
- PDF book creation
- Ebook rebranding
- Creating niche sites
- Resale rights

He even throws in an amazing viral idea at the end. This is a great way to start bring in some income while you study up on IM.

To get your own copy of the FREE “The Ultimate Super Tip” Click Here

Here is a little worksheet I use to help keep me organized. I’ll put it in the download area but you could probably put it together yourself faster then it would take to download.

What this does is keep track of all my sites, reminds me what type of site it is i.e. blog,affiliate,BANS. It also tell me the last time I worked on the site (added some type of content) and keeps a running count of the number of sites I have.

The labels are in red and from left to right No. is the total running number of domains it also correlates with my index in my 3 ring binder for each domain. Next is My Sites which is the hyper link name for the domain, this way I can jump to the site from the worksheet if I want to check something out. Last Worked On, now this column tells me the last time I worked on the site. What I usually do is print out this sheet and hand write in the dates in this column. And the final column is the type of site. You would think you would remember this but trust me, when you get past 30 sites you have to stop and think about it a little.

You could also add other columns like start date (when you went online with the site) domain expiration date, if you bought a used domain you might want to have an age column. I have all these but I have them in a different worksheet but you could put them here.

I have two different hosting companies. The hosting company that this blog is on, I would NOT recommend to anyone, the other hosting company, Host Gator, I can not save enough good things about, but I’ll try.

Hosting companies are not all equal. This blog is on xxx (if you are on my newsletter list, you’ll know which company it is) and has NO cPanel. Just about everything I want to do I have to submit a request for. Many of my WordPress plugins do not work here.Now when I call they do respond fairly quickly and I can almost always get someone on the support phone.

Contrast this with Host Gator. Host Gator has a cPanel which puts ME in total control of what happens on my site. WordPress goes in seamlessly and all the WP plugins I’ve tried so far have worked. I pay one flat fee ($9.99) and I get UNLIMITED domains on this account.

Now if you only have one domain then you could get away with the $4.95 plan. But if your reading this then your interested in IM so you be looking at 30 to 100 more or less domains per year, all depending on how you focused your business. For $9.95 you can get the baby account which will handle all these domains for this one low price.

I was on the phone with tech support for Host Gator today because I was having problems with two of my domains. When I typed in http://www.MyDomain.com it would change to http://MyDomain.com (no www). This worked fine until I tried to get Google to see my sitemaps. Google wanted to see the www, otherwise it gives error messages (404) because it could not find the page.

Tech support was fast at answering the phone and solved the problem quickly. It turned out the problem was in WordPress. In the setting tab it listed the domain without the www so all I needed to do was type in the www and Google was happy.

Bottom line, Host Gator was designed with Internet Marketers in mind and I highly recommend you use them for your hosting company. Host Gator has several hosting planes, but this is the one I would recommend. Once you get larger you might want to upgrade. Check out Host Gator here for all the details on their plans. I’ll gust list a few things here for Baby account.

1. 300 gb Disk Space
2. 3,000 gb Bandwidth
3. Unlimited Domains Allowed
4. Unlimited Databases
5. PHP5
6. So much more - Just go to their website for complete information

Check it out now. You won’t be sorry.

I have some great news to go along with the great timing. Mark, from “The Niche Store Builder” website, is doing a one week series on how to convert most WordPress themes to work with BANS. He has converted quite a few already and has some themes for sale if you just want to get up and running without learning how to convert them yourself. If you would prefer to buy a converted theme, click here to see the available themes. However, if like me you want to learn how to do this yourself, then click on “Converting WordPress Templates to work with BANS” and join us at the Niche Store Builder blog.

I’ve have several of Marks themes and I can tell you from personal experience that Mark has the ability to convey information so that you will understand it! Mark uses both text and video most of the time so no mater how you learn best, you’ll be covered. I would urge you to subscribe to his RSS feed, you will learn a lot about BANS and where it’s heading.