Thursday, January 3, 2008

New Marketers Start Here

I'm in the process of writing a guide for new marketers (and those marketers who have gotten lost along the way and need to refocus). I've been taking a number of tutorials myself in order to find the best tools for the least cost.

Tonight I went through the video tutorials of Ewen Chia's Autopilotprofits and conclude that it is a great place to start if you are new at marketing online, or just want to refocus on the basics. In 2 hours of watching just the video portion of his product, I had all the information I need to set up a site with Chia's sales page, download site and recommended classified ads. This $27 product also includes resale rights, so that once you buy the product, you can market it and keep 100% of all the sales profit that comes in. You can take a look at:


http://viralurl.com/emailfree111/autopilotprofits

The video tutorials start with how to find a product that is in demand by a ravenously hungry market. Chia suggests that it is better to find a large niche, even if there are a ton of other people in that marketplace then to try to generate buzz around a tiny niche that has little sales potential.

By generating "long tail keywords" you can get a piece of the action with terms that don't have a lot of competition. (Read Chia's guide and watch the videos to find out more about long tail keywords.)

Since the focus is on selling information products, the guide particularly goes into depth on finding profitable products at Clickbank. There is not much concentration in this particular guide on other types of affiliate products, but you can certainly take what is said here and apply it to other types of affiliate products.

There are at least a couple of videos on how to generate traffic both short term and long term. Some of these methods include, paying for advertising through Google and other search engines, creating traffic through blogs and forum postings, using some of the better free traffic exchanges, creating and About Me page at EBay and selling information products through this medium, using Craigslist for advertising, creating a Squidoo lens, and then doing more long term traffic strategies such as writing articles, exchanging links, and adding RSS feed to your sites.

While none of these topics are described at great length, the guide serves as a great introduction and checklist to getting to profit quickly in the online world through affiliate product marketing and is highly recommended as a first step product for new marketers.

Liz Nichols

http://viralurl.com/emailfree111/autopilotprofits

http://www.desperatemarketer.com

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