Your Questions About Internet Marketing Association

Jere answers:

One of the first things I would recommend that you do is start thinking about your interests/passions… And go into an internet business that is based on that. Why? Because it makes the work a lot easier.

Answering the following questions should help you develop ideas:

1) what websites do you visit when you’re just surfing online?
2) do you have pets?
3) do you play and sports?
4) do you collect anythings?
5) do you have any specialized education?

See what I mean….

After that,you’ve got to decide the business model that you want to use – do you want to develop you own product or do you want to be an affiliate marketer (market other peoples products)?

Then you’ve got to learn basic skills such as building and uploading websites, setting up autoresponders, setting up a merchant account to take orders, etc.

And then, probably the most important part… You have got to learn how to market you business.

If your interested in starting up your own internet business, then I would like to recommend the following great resource:

http://www.affiliatemarketinglessons.com/internet_business_startup.html

This program shows you, step-by-step, how to create a sucessful online busines. But, what is unique about this, is that the creator of the program also provides you with a special hotline, so that you have one-on-one assistance at anytime.

If your interested in affiliate marketing (marketing other people’s products/services) then you’ll want grab a copy of this book – http://www.affiliatemarketinglessons.com/superaffiliate.html

If your interested in joining an existing internet business, then I would recommend SFI Marketing Group (http://affiliatemarketinglessons.com/SFI.html). I would recommend that you join this opportunity either way because 1) its Free and 2) you’ll learn a lot through their training.

Anyways, I hope this helps… And I wish you much success.

For more information, you can try out the International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs – http://www.affiliatemarketinglessons.com/iahbe.html

Jere answers:

Hello,
Just as in the Princess Bride, Grandpa says “when I was your age, TV was called books,” so in the same way books the way that people researched colleges when I was in high school. I am a librarian who remembers the Moon Landing, btw. What tended to happen is that prospective students requested a lot of information and pamphlets and course catalogs from colleges they were looking at, went to bookstores and libraries for college descriptions and rankings, and looked at rankings in US News and World Reports. They went to college fairs and asked guidance counselors questions, contacted alumni associations in the
ir towns, and, once they narrowed the field a bit, often went on trips to college campuses.
These days it is both easier and harder to get good college information. While the university that you are looking at may have an excellent website with great admissions web pages, there are also all kinds of marketing sites that come up when I do an online college search. Many of the links on the first page of results of any college information search are from marketing groups that are not necessarily concerned with information but rather with persuasion. Sorting through the links can be a lot of work, and so I still often use a combination of books and news articles as well as the free internet when helping students search for college information.

Nicolette
Librarian
Michigan

Jere answers:

It’s who you know.

If you have a lot of contacts in the field, you will hear about unadvertised openings.

That 5% figure is bull. 95% of job openings are not “hidden”. If they were, most of the country would be unemployed.

Try looking at employment ads in trade publications or on association websites.

Jere answers:

Go to http://www.score.org/mentors and enter your zip code. On the next screen, you will get information on the nearest SCORE chapter. Call them and arrange for a free meeting with a volunteer SCORE mentor. They will guide you through the process and you can meet with them as many times as you need to.

SCORE is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide and is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

SCORE has 350 chapters in locations throughout the United States and its territories, with 13,000 volunteers nationwide. Both working and retired executives and business owners donate time and expertise as business mentors.

Jere answers:

Assuming that you already know what your going to be selling, then you’ve got to learn basic skills such as building and uploading websites, setting up autoresponders, setting up a merchant account to take orders, etc.

And then, probably the most important part… You have got to learn how to market you business. I would like to recommend either one of the following great resources:

If you don’t have much experience with computers and the Internet – http://www.affiliatemarketinglessons.com/warpspeedwealth.html

If you have good experience with computers and the Internet – http://www.affiliatemarketinglessons.com/IS2006.html

Be sure to check out the money back guarantees …you simply cannot loose. They can offer such guarantees because of their success rate…

You’ll be able to find specific guidelines on how to launch your website – find a hosting company, designing your website for success, uploading your websites, how to get free traffic, how to build your business, etc.

Hope this helps….

PS For more home business advice, you can check out The International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs (http://www.affiliatemarketinglessons.com/iahbe.html)