How to Start Up Email Marketing - 3 Simple Steps to Get Started Instantly

Email marketing has become increasingly popular as a mean to earn passive income. Why? Simply because email marketing can work for you 24/7, can be started with very little capital and can be managed almost everywhere. But, the only problem with a lot of people out there, including you and me, is this ultimate question: How to start up internet marketing? To get a good head start, you need to purchase a domain, a reliable hosting account and autoresponder.

What you need

Well, some of you may already have products in your mind that you want to sell which is very good while some of you are still looking for products elsewhere. Not a problem, we shall tackle into that later. What you need to have right now is 3 things - credit/debit card, computer/laptop and internet connection, which obviously you already have two of them (else you would not be reading this article!).

Purchase a domain

A domain name is basically the name of your website. Some words of advice, you would not want to choose long domain name like "idonotknowhowtoreadthisdomainname". Keep the domain name short, simple and related to the niche. If you are doing internet marketing niche, then choose ad domain name that allows the visitor to grasp some ideas on what the website is about. You can also use your own name as the domain name which is just as good. Once you are ready with your domain name, go to GoDaddy or NameCheap to purchase the domain from as low as $10.69 per year. Remember to choose only the top level domain, I personally prefer to use ".com" only.

Get a hosting account

You will need a host for the domain to get your web pages up and running so that you can start earning big bucks. Good hosting is a must to ensure your web page can be loaded quickly. A visitor will only wait an average of 7 seconds for the web page to load. You would not want to risk losing hundreds and thousands of visitors just for the sake of saving a few dollars! The most recommended hosting company is HostGator which you can subscribe from as low as $3.96 per month.

Get an autoresponder

Of course you wouldn't want to spend all your time sending emails to tens of thousands of subscribers. That's why you need an autoresponder to help you send the emails out as the click of few buttons. Although HostGator does provide autoresponder services, companies like Aweber, Getresponse and GVO are more specialized. You can subscribe for a reliable autoresponder from just $3.95 per month.

Once you have bought the domain, hosting and autoresponder, you can now create a squeeze page and upload it to start getting your visitors to subscribe to your page. This will be the start of your journey to successful email marketing.

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How To Formulate Online Marketing Plan With First 4 Steps (Part I)

However good a product or service is, no one is likely to know about it unless it is marketed properly. Even if you are offering a service that caters mainly to the needs of the local populace, it will be best for you to have an online marketing plan that will increase your exposure not only locally but globally as well.

Those of you who have put in writing a solid internet marketing idea can easily merge it with your current marketing practices to increase your turnover. For those who have not, I am providing the necessary guidelines herewith.

There are ten basic aspects that you should take into consideration while formulating an online marketing plan. We will discuss each in detail.

Points 1 to 4:

1. Your Objective: While making a marketing plan, the first thing you have to consider is the objective of the plan, or the purpose for which you are making the plan. You may want to increase the number of clients, provide better service to the clients you already have, create product or service awareness, or create online support for your product. Identify that objective first and decide the amount of money you are ready to spend for it.

2. The Sales Funnel: The sales or marketing funnel is a funnel-shaped marketing model designed to bring customers down through it into purchasing a product. The design starts at its broad top, at which level it consists of creating consumer awareness by advertising and giving freebies. Then it narrows to getting their opinion, then knowing their preferences, and finally making them buy the product or service. Create a plan where you place your products at these different levels and decide how the products that you are offering will relate to customer requirement. Then repair any flaw your product may have, to increase its appeal to the buyers.

3. Current Competitors: Every business owner is striving for a greater share of the market pie. You should frequently search the internet with the keyword customers are likely to use for searching your product or service, and thus identify similar businesses that are doing better than you. You should then analyse the strengths and weaknesses of these businesses and use that knowledge to make your proposal more attractive to potential customers and thus improve your business.

4. Targeting the Right Market Segment: Target marketing, also known as rifle marketing, where you target selected consumer sections for selling your product, is better than shotgun marketing or mass marketing, where you take your business to the masses. However, for target marketing, you should first of all identify the market segment that is likely to be attracted to your product. Various considerations like the gender, age, social strata, ethnicity, educational level, purchasing power, internet advancement, and even artistic inclinations of the people have to be analyzed to correctly isolate this target group from the general public.

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