I’d like to present to you a more formal definition of marketing. The whole “problem-solving middleman” image is just to help you better understand where you fit in. If you’ve done any study in the area of sales and marketing before, then you will be aware that marketing has two important components. If one component is not present, you cannot make money.

Component #1: Demand – there has to be a person or group of people who want or need something.

Component #2: Supply – there has to be something that you can provide to meet this demand.

That’s it! One of the best things about being online is that supply can be virtually infinite (pun intended). A lot of people have built up 6-figure and 7-figure businesses selling information online, whose supply is obviously limitless, unless you choose to limit it.

So, back to the example in the previous email about the person who searched up, “how to lose weight by skipping rope”… if you had information about this in your possession, don’t you think this could be of particular value to someone who was looking for this?

Both components are present. What’s stopping you from selling what you have? A lot of people tend to get cold feet at this stage. That, or they give up. They don’t know how to set up a website, or they don’t know who to contact or who to ask about different questions they might have.

They’re leaving money on the table, simply because they got too lazy to follow through!

Other people have a different problem. They know how to do all the technologically advanced stuff. They can set up websites, build shopping cart applications into it and get the website up and running, but they don’t have the information to sell.

This is where a subset of “Internet Marketing” that I talked about in the first module comes into play. The next module will talk about something called “Affiliate Marketing”.

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Marketing was essentially the act of solving problems. I spoke of the marketer as a “middleman”, someone who brought together people who had a problem with the solution that they were looking for. This is really as simple as it gets; for some reason, people tend to make it more complicated than it’s supposed to be.

Regardless of whether you conduct your marketing online or offline, it’s all the same. You’re still the problem-solving middleman. A marketer who works “offline” tends to work as part of a team. They might be charged with the task of trying to sell a product and finding the group of people who the product is best suited to.

This may involve surveys, giving out free samples and getting people to do short questionnaires. At any rate, it’s pretty time consuming and a lot of it involves the marketers themselves having to go out and collect this data.

The great thing about the Internet is how everything is networked together. You can be on different sides of the planet and still be talking to someone . The next best thing about the Internet is that people go on it predominantly to find information. There are numerous ways to do this. One of the most popular is to type your search query into a search engine, such as “Google” or “Yahoo!”.

In other words, information is being virtually force fed into this search engine on a daily basis, every second. This is a marketer’s dream come true; gone are the days where you have to go out and painstakingly collect data. All the data that is needed is right there in front of you, on your computer screen.

Think about it. If someone is typing in the phrase, “how to lose weight”, what do you think that person is after? Information on how to lose weight, of course. Then again, they might be after a diet, an exercise or a liposuction clinic in their local area. Whatever they are after, they will type it in.

Someone who types in, “how to lose weight by skipping rope” has a clearer idea of how he or she wants to lose weight than the first person. If you provide them the means of “how to lose weight by skipping rope”, what do you think you’re doing?

Being a marketer, of course!

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As an established Internet Marketer, something that annoys the heck out of me is the lack of quality information out there on the World Wide Web that actually teaches marketing. There are heaps of keyword tools, SEO techniques and other things that promise you riches overnight, but if there’s one thing that will never fail you, it’s understanding what the “marketing” in “Internet Marketing” is.

It doesn’t even have to be “Internet Marketing. Depending on how long you’ve been on the scene for, you might have heard terms like “Affiliate Marketing” or “Network Marketing” being thrown around. People who are trying to promote these different forms of the same thing to you don’t hesitate to rave about how successful they are with it. What they purposely don’t tell you is how the marketing side of things works with each form.

This article will help you to better understand the fundamentals of marketing so you can appreciate really just how it works and where you fit in the picture. As far as I’m concerned, there are no other courses out there that will explain this often overlooked topic to you to the depth at which I’m about to go into.

Without further ado, let’s dive in!

A good starting place is what you think “marketing” actually means. If you are newest newbie out there, then you probably will have only heard of marketing in conjunction with the word, “sales”. Or you might attribute marketing to those annoying people who call you at dinner time, trying to sell you the latest craze.

The reason why sales and marketing are often said in the same phrase is because they’re like two sides of the same coin. You’re dealing with people from whom you want money from. Obviously they’re not going to give it to you willingly you have to persuade and/or prove to them that whatever you’re selling to them is worth the value that you’re asking for.

Simply put, sales is the actual process of selling something. The whole persuading side of things. Marketing is what is meant to make sales easier. How? Think of a marketer as a middleman. The marketer’s job is to solve people’s problems with solutions. The solutions are that which they’re trying to sell. The hard part is trying to find the person who has the problem.

As long as you think of yourself as the middleman (or woman) who solves problems, you’ll be in the right mindset to be a successful Internet Marketer.

In the next lesson, we’ll combine the marketing with the Internet and talk about how Internet Marketing works as a whole.

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Do you like your job? This is a very important question that far too many men and women fail to ask themselves. If you dislike or even despise what you do for a living, it may be high time you rethought your career choice. After all, there is no reason to waste your entire life doing something you do not enjoy. It really does not even matter if you make a fortune doing it. Money is certainly not everything. You would be amazed at home much more satisfying happiness is than cash. Granted, the two things can be related, but not always. These days you may want to consider a Business Opportunity from home.

As funny or absurd as it may sound, there are a number of business opportunities from home. This is one of the many wonderful aspects of living in this modern era of technology and convenience. Not only can you start a business from the comfort of your home, but you can actually make a great deal of income this way. While some business opportunity from home ideas typically make a lot of money, you should really set aside the “big money makers’ for a moment so you can clear you head. Think about what you really enjoy. Believe it or not, but you can make a lot of cash doing something you love. Being passionate about something is often what brings people a lot of income.

Now, what is the right Business Opportunity from home for you? Well, you may want to start with your skill set and what you truly enjoy. These are two factors that can play a major role in whether or not your business opportunity from home succeeds. After all, if you dislike or have no idea what you are doing, it can be difficult making money at it. Therefore it is important to brainstorm prior to making a career decision. A few websites that may be able to assist you with business opportunities from home are Allstate.com, VisaBusinessNetwork.com, and CruiseOneFranchise.com. Be sure to look these over.

As you may already know, there are plenty of individuals who work from home and have successful jobs or businesses. Often all you need to go about this is an idea and a personal computer. Naturally it pays to be connected to the web if you are promoting a product or service. Do not forget that some companies hire employees that can work from home as well. There are both writing and data entry jobs that are done from home, as well as a number of telemarketing positions. Again, it is imperative to like what you do, and this generally makes you more successful in your field of choice. Business Opportunity

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Promoting affiliate links using email can be extremely effective to a list. Having a list of many people who are potential customers; or being apart of a membership site, both allow you to use email marketing as a means of promotion. Through this way of marketing you can email these people an affiliate link which will divert them to an affiliate site. If they follow your affiliate link and purchase the product/service, you will get a commission.

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