When I first started my internet home business,
I realized that in order to make money I would have to bring
visitors to my website. I didn't have a lot of extra cash
laying around, and my mentality at the time was "Why would I pay
for it, when I can get it for free"? So, I starting searching
the internet for places that would accept an ad for my product
for free. I was very happy to find literally thousands of sites
willing to accept my ad. As the weeks went by I worked hard and
learned a lot. The phrase that comes to mind when I think back
is, "you get what you pay for". I was placing ads on the
internet every free moment I got and was getting very little
results. Not being one to quite, I figured I would move on to
another form of advertising or figure out what I was doing
wrong with the free advertising.
As soon as I placed my ad, I would go back and look at it. I
expected my ad to be at the top of the list since I had just
placed it. Much to my surprise, my ad was listed down the list
a little way. I realized that at the very moment that I was
placing my ad, others were doing the same. And as each person
placed an ad, mine moved further down the list. In my infinite
wisdom. I realized that potential visitors would probably not
search past the first page before choosing a product.
So then I decided that I would go into that site and place my ad
every few hours. This way I knew it would always stay close to
the top of the page, and hopefully be viewed by a potential
customer. How right I was!!! Eventually, I had my first customer
and had made my first sale on the internet! What a feeling! I
was ready to take the internet by storm...
The week ran into the weekend, and I continued in the same way
with my free ad campaign...and no luck. Several weeks went by
were I was getting visitors and making sales through the week,
and none on the weekend. Are you seeing a pattern here? I sure
did. I soon discovered through statistically data that I pulled
up from a search engine that the internet traffic on the weekend
is super low compared to the weekdays. I also learned that the
internet traffic is at its peak around the noon hour in the US.
From that day forward, I didn't waste my time advertising on the
weekends. Instead, I would sit down around 11:00 a.m. every
morning and run as many free ads as was humanly possible. I
could just about plan each day at noon that I could get a
potential customer, affiliate, sale.
I'm also a firm believer in the phrase "work smarter, not
harder". It didn't take me long to figure out that I could
utilize copy and paste and run the same ad in every category
that it applied. I also used the back button on my browser a
lot. Most of the time by using the back button, all my
information was still there and I could just choose a different
category.
It wasn't long before I had several paying customers and was
bringing in a small monthly income from my small internet
business. I often try to teach this method to my members who
cannot to pay for advertising to start out with...without much
luck unfortunately. Many will not sacrifice their time to this
extent, or they will run one ad on the internet and expect to
get up the next morning and be a millionaire.
For those of you who don't have the money to invest, you will
HAVE to invest your TIME. How much is your time worth? Many are
drawing 6-figure incomes from the internet within 2-5 years. The
internet has made more millionaires from the average Joe than
any other vessel in history. Is 2-5 years a hard pill to
swallow? It shouldn't be. How many of you are going to work your
nine to five job for 40-50 years and have nothing to show for
it?
Am I still running free ads? No, I'm not. I took my very first
paycheck that I earned from free advertising and put it back
into paid advertising. I can reach a vast number of customers
with paid ads with no effort on my part at all. Instead, my time
has been filled with teaching others to do as I have done, and
building my own business day by day.
Not a day has gone by in the last year and a half where I have
not built onto my business. I started out running free ads, then
I moved on to paid ads, ppc's, email lists, enzine ads, then I
built and optimized my own website, got link partners, got
listed with the search engines, etc...
If you want to turn your life around and live without any
financial constraints, then the internet is the place to be. All
it will take is patience, persistence and the will to succeed on
your part.
Best Wishes for your future success and prosperity!
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Written by Becky Gilbert, a veteran of Internet marketing. She
will Take You By The Hand and Show You Exact Results of All the
Internet Marketing Techniques she tests and Uses Every Single
Month. Find Out More: http://www.101homebusiness.org
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