The Five-Minute Marketer

Issue 13, Volume 1 

Day One        Pick an affiliate program to join.  If you don’t know what an “affiliate program” is type the phrase into Google.

Day Two       Subscribe to an email broadcasting and autoresponder service such as www.Aweber.com  or www.Intellicontactpro.com or www.ConstantContact.com

Day Three    Put up a Blog by going to www.WordPress.com , www.Typepad.com  or www.Blogger.com

Day Four      Test some ads in ezines that target your market. You can research ezines at www.EzineSearch.com.  The goal of your ad is to get people to click on it and end up on a “landing page” that offers something of value free.

Read my article on “How to Construct an Effective Landing Page”

This is the key to building your list of hot prospects who are interested in what you have to say.

Day Five        Start a pay-per-click ad campaign using Google AdWords.  Listen to my 60-Minute seminar on this subject titled “How to Use Google AdWords to Build Your Business.”  You’ll find this in the “Internet Marketing” section of the Inner Circle area.

Day Six          Search for discussion groups and boards on the Internet that on are your topic.  Get involved in those discussions. When appropriate, send people to the sign up form to get your helpful free eBook on the subject.

Day Seven    Write a sequence of email messages for your autoresponder.  The mission of your email messages is to get readers to go to your Blog to see an article you have posted.  One in four of your email messages can take your readers to a sales pitch for the product you are representing.

Day Eight     Once you are see some success, find more products to offer as an affiliate marketer that fit well into your market niche. Once you see a little success and some profit, it's very easy just to ramp up on the Internet because the cost of marketing is so low compared to other media.

The purpose of your list is to bring people back to your website over and over again to read your articles and offers.  The money is in the list.  

Here’s an article by me on Basic List-Building Strategy 101

You’ll be amazed at the similarities between direct mail marketing and marketing on the Internet.

No problem. Go to www.eLance.com and hire a writer.  People go on the Internet to find information.  If you don’t like to write, you’ll need to hire a writer. The science of effective communication is key on the Internet . . .  and in all marketing.