Websites for Individuals and Small Business

The Top 10 Reasons Why Your
Online Marketing is Failing

10) You haven't done anything yet!

This is the best place to start in a list like this...A lot
of people have slapped a website together and just put it
up on a free server without ever doing any type of promotion
for it. You have to promote your website.

Even if you don't have any money, you can still place Free
Classifieds & Links, submit to search engines, and participate
in chat rooms, forums, and newsgroups. There are so many
free ways of advertising online, it is shameful that the average
website only gets 100 hits a year!

9) You don't accept credit cards!

If you want to do business in the 21st century, you have to accept
credit cards. If you aren't currently accepting credit cards,
many of your customers will look at your business and see
it as a very small time operation.

Someone comes to your website, they are excited by your
products, they are ready to order...AND then you make
them send an order in by mail! You must be kidding...
there is no worse way to lose the sale than this.

7) You don't have your own domain name!

WHAT? You haven't ordered your own domain yet...Well, get
busy. This should honestly be one of your very first expenses.
Having your own domain name gives your business it's own
identity instead of just being a /member/ of a free web host.

Plus, if you ever desire to changes hosts, your domain comes
with you. If you change hosts from a free server, your name
and traffic stay behind. You are essentially starting over in
your online business. For low cost monthly domain hosting,
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6) You have a confusing website!

Way too many webmasters have too many products online,
too many pictures, and too many links. The longer I am online,
the more I learn that simplicity is the key. We often try to make
it way too difficult for ourselves and our prospects.

You will be better off if you try to focus only on one or two products
on your website and then use your other products for backends
of the main products.

5) You don't give people any reason to come
back to your website!

Is your website just one big sales presentation or do you
include free information in it as well. Have you considered
using Free Classifieds, Free Postcards, or other Traffic
Building tools as free items on your site?

You can pretty much guarantee that if all you have is a
sales presentation, your website will not make it very far.
You have to give people a reason to come back...because
most of the time your sales will not be made on people's
first visit to your site.

4) You don't follow-up on your prospects!

The fortune in marketing is in the follow-up. If you don't
follow-up on your prospects, you could be missing out
on the majority of your sales. Do you even try to get
the email address of your visitors?

A new type of autoresponder which automatically
does your follow-up for you is now available and could
be the answer to follow-up to many of us who are too
lazy to consistently do our own follow-up emails.

3) You don't have your own ezine!

If you don't have your own online newsletter, you are missing
dozens of marketing opportunities. Many people are too scared
to start their own ezine because they don't know how to write.
That is not an excuse. There are dozens of writers in any type
of market online who will be willing to give you good guality
articles for your ezine for free.

2) You don't have your own lead product!

Being an affiliate or a reseller of other people's products can
be a great opportunity...but I would not recommend it for
your primary product if possible. You need to develop
your own products. Then, use affiliate programs as
secondary products or backend products.

If you own your own product, you can make the maximum
profit from every sale. You can set up dealer networks.
You can determine the prices. You are in charge.

The easiest product to create is an information product.
What do you enjoy doing? What are good at? What would
you like to spend even more time studying? Start working
on a simple information product in that area. You can be
the prime-source for a product or service.

1) You aren't constantly seeking out new internet marketing
training information!

Everyone of the successful people who are marketing online
are what I call "information gluttons!" They spend hours
reading everything they can get their hands on about
internet marketing.

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