Your Questions About Internet Marketing Company

Jere answers:

The great thing about starting an internet marketing company is the low start up cost. I can’t think of any other business where the start up costs are so minimal.

The best way to start is by becoming an affiliate marketer. You can set up a free account with clickbank.com. There you can market hundreds of products (down loadable). Clickbank is the place to start because they except everyone and you don’t need a web site.

There is a lot to know about internet marketing, the learning curve can be very large because of all the bogus information you’ll come across online.

However, there is a place called Wealthy Affiliate University where you’ll shorten the learning curve by getting help from successful marketers who are willing to help others succeed. It’s a membership site that costs less than $1 a day!

They started me out on an 8 week action plan. Each week I learned more about the business and then would take action and implement the things I learned.

Article marketing or blogging is the most cost effective way to start, but first you must learn about keyword research, SEO (search engine optimization and relevance). Knowing this stuff will help your articles rank with the search engines, thus giving you much traffic.

Your articles need to be targeted and relevant to the product you’re recomending. Notice that I said recomending instead of selling.

You’ll have more success if you recomend products that will help or fulfill a need for someone, just as I’m doing here.

You see, the job of an affiliate marketer is to connect people with what they’re looking for. It’s not the idea of trying to sell something to someone. You are providing a service by helping people find what they’re looking for.

I could go on and on but you’ll get a more comprehensive understanding of what I’m talking about at WA (Wealthy Affiliate). I’ve provided a link for you below in the source area.

If you do decide to join Wealthy Affiliate University, look me up in the forum (carpenter).

One action is more valuable than a thousand good intensions.

To Your Success!

Jere answers:

I don’t know, but I think it’s important to know that the best (most effective) internet marketing company serving customers in Orange County, CA is probably not located in Orange County. There is fundamentally no advantage to being “local” for 98% of internet advertising activity, even when promoting a “local” company only within a small geographic area.

I assume that you’re seeking to hire an internet marketing company, and perhaps you’ve chosen to limit your search to Orange County because you want to meet someone face-to-face, or perhaps you just realize that there are many thousands of companies so you figured you should “buy local.”

I understand that attitude, but you should first identify your specific goals and then try to determine which company can best meet your needs. There are many different “types” of internet marketing companies, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Many companies are really just one person, or a few people, with their own unique attitudes and skills.

What industry is your company in? Are you seeking to sell products, or services? What kind of products? To what audience? Will you actually sell online? Can you track and analyze performance internally? What are your goals (immediate sales, customer leads, branding)?

Good luck.

Jere answers:

The Best Internet Marketing Company is the one that is the right fit for you!

Here’s how to choose the right internet marketing company for you:

Choosing the wrong company can cost you thousands, and get you ZERO results.

To make certain you get a great Return on Your Investment, ask the right questios!

1) Show me proof you can do this.

A) I want to see highly competitive key word search phrases you competed for, and got to the top of google

b) I want to see proof you know how to convert a visitor into a sale so show me some examples of how you convert the traffic into a lead or sale.

C) Show me a white paper of one of your clients, where they started with low traffic, and within months are getting a higher volume UNIQUE visitors.

Without proof, an Internet Marketing Company doesn’t have much.

Jere answers:

That’s strange, the company you are speaking of just launched their site less than a week ago.

A local internet marketing company I recommend is http://www.planetsearch.com

They are actually certified by Google and Yahoo. They have over 20 clients, and I am one of them. They specialize in local seo and local search advertising. They are considered the local online advertising experts.

What I like about them is that they put the clients best interests as priority one. With Planet Search, they have me own my Adwords account, so I am in control and know exactly what I am paying per click. Everything is 100% transparent with them.

Jere answers:

The naming of your business could be one of the most important decisions you will make. A name’s originality and legal availability will create a real asset value of its own, as it becomes marketed and gains market acceptance.

The name you choose will become the focal point of all the benefits and features that relate to your business. Customers will be able to find and refer others to it in the future.

Since any names that are suggested here may already be owned by another party, I wanted to go a different route…

I suggest either hiring a name creation firm or get together with your friends and/or family and throw a “name party” & have everyone bounce some ideas around. Compile a listing of names that you like the best. Once you have that list, do as much free research as you can before you delve into comprehensive research.

I listed some links where you can do some preliminary name checking. However, please be aware that this is merely scratching the surface of what’s out there.

Only comprehensive research will tell you if the name is truly available. But, these links are free & a great place to start, so I’d try them out first.

Comprehensive research consists of looking at marks that are similar in Sound, Appearance or Meaning in the pending & registered Federal AND State trademark files as well as the US National Common-Law files.

There are other sites that offer free searching capabilities in conjunction with their commercial services, so I’m not able to post those links due to the Yahoo! TOS. You’ll also want to check domain names & yellow pages, so simply do a search for “free domain name search” and “national yellowpages” and the appropriate links will pop up.

Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!