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Establishing links with other websites provides webmasters with a number of unique benefits. First, webmasters will find that link building improves the success of their website and helps them create unique and important connections in the Internet community. But, there are many other benefits to link building; here are some of them:
Affiliate marketing has become one of the most effective ways to advertise online. It is also one of the easiest ways for anyone with a website to make a profit online. Affiliate Marketing is an agreement between a merchant and a website owner. The website owner, or the affiliate, allows the use of their site for the promotion of the merchant’s products by linking to the merchant’s website. In exchange, the merchant pays a commission to the affiliate on all sales generated by the affiliate. Every time someone clicks on the link on the affiliate website and proceeds to make a purchase, the affiliate gets a commission. The merchant will pay the affiliate only when a customer clicks on the product link and makes a purchase.
Affiliate marketing has many definitions, yet all have the same meaning. Affiliate marketing is huge business on the Internet. It is a co-operative effort between merchants and an affiliate’s website.
For many years now, affiliate marketing has proved to be a cost-efficient, measurable, method of delivering long-term results. It is a useful way to make extra income on any website. People continually attempt affiliate marketing with an intention to make money out of it. But, in many cases, these new affiliates do not fully understand the affiliate world and make costly mistakes. In other words, affiliate marketing has often been misunderstood.
Most people think marketing’s just advertising or selling goods and services. Advertising and selling are part of it, but not the whole picture. Marketing is everything involved in identifying the wants and needs of a targeted group of customers, and then doing what it takes to satisfy those customers.
Of course, you’ll have competitors trying to do the same thing better than you. You’ll do market research on customers and analyze their needs. You’ll use what you learn to make decisions about designing your product, pricing, promoting (including advertising), distributing and trying to sell your product.
It is estimated that approximately 95% of people fail online, lose money, or never make a penny from Internet marketing….. and that’s not just some made-up statistic to get your attention. If I had a dollar for every time a ‘would-be’ marketer asked my advice about where they’re going wrong……
Internet marketing is one of the fastest-growing and profitable businesses today. It is an excellent way for anyone to start a small business with little investment, no overhead and high profit margins. Anyone can get up and running with an online business in hours. Sounds like an easy way to make money, doesn’t it? Compared to other offline small business ventures, it is.
Yet Internet marketing failures still vastly outnumber those who have succeeded in Internet marketing. For every story you hear of someone making $10,000 a month at Internet marketing there are hundreds of untold stories of those who failed to make a profit or only made a few dollars and then quit. Why do so many fail when the potential to succeed is high?
Whether your business exists solely on the Internet or in a traditional bricks-and-mortar store, you will benefit from an online presence. Customers, potential employees or business partners and perhaps even investors can quickly and easily find out more about your business and the products or services you have to offer from your website.
This article will teach you the basics of starting your first Internet business. You’ll be introduced to some very useful products and services. You can also use this as a checklist to help stay focused and make it easier to set up and improve your Internet business.
My MasterKey Corporation’s soft launch will focus on the publication of a number of niche websites covering a wide range of topics.
These websites will also promote the MasterKey Club. Membership of the club will, initially, be FREE and subscribers can use our unique affiliate programme to earn extra cash.
Anyone interested in having their own niche website, with a view to turning a hobby or interest into profit, will be able to subscribe to our ‘My Niche Website’ service. More on this later.
At the same time the MasterKey Directory will offer FREE advertising to all businesses, wherever they are in the world.
The MasterKey ’empire’ will be huge, so watch this space for further announcements.
Known as Peter Body’s Profit Warrior it showcases the cream of the cream in terms of Internet marketing and offers a number of ways to make money online, easily.
Programmes that I’ve carefully selected, tested and screened to help you start, build and profit from your own Internet business.
They are categorised for your browsing ease in seven topical indexes:
Please go to: http://www.profitwarrior.com/cgi-bin/pwarrior.cgi?name=braemara and take a look.
I am assuming you have already decided on your business format and if you haven’t there is loads of advice to be had online (see links at end). So, you are ready and raring to go. However, as a permanent reminder, here is a check list of the issues you should have dealt with:
The legal structure of your business:
Self-employed sole trader; have you:
§ Registered as self-employed with HM Revenue & Customs?
§ Obtained any permits and planning permission that you may need from your local authority?
§ Found out from your local authority whether you need to pay business rates?
§ Contacted HM Revenue & Customs
§ Set up a record-keeping (filing) system?
§ Set up a basic profit and loss account?
§ Identified the National Insurance contributions you must pay?
Private limited company; have you also:
§ Clearly displayed its name on the outside of the office (or your home)?
§ Ensured its name is clearly displayed on all its business stationery, including letters, invoices, receipts and cheques?
§ Ensured its place of registration, registered number and registered office address are clearly displayed on all its business letters and order forms?
§ Completed and signed all the necessary registration documents and forms and returned them to the Registrar of Companies?
§ Received confirmation (Certificate of Incorporation) from the Registrar of Companies that your application for limited company status has been successful? The company comes into existence when the Registrar of Companies issues a Certificate of Incorporation.
§ Contacted HM Revenue & Customs?
Whether you are to be a sole trader or private limited company, have you:
Appointed an accountant?
Appointed a solicitor, if required?
Registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (Data Protection)?
Registered with the Health & Safety Executive?
Useful Internet Resources
Companies House – http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk
Directgov – http://www.direct.gov.uk
Small Business Service – http://www.sbs.gov.uk
Achieving Best Practise – http://www2.dti.gov.uk
– http://www.businesslink.gov.uk
Business Advice (Wales) – http://www.businesseye.org.uk
Business Advice (Scotland) – http://www.bgateway.com
Business Advice (Northern Ireland) – http://www.investni.com
Information Commissioner’s Office (Data Protection) – http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
HM Revenue & Customs – http://www.hmrc.gov.uk
Health & Safety Executive – http://www.hse.gov.uk
Federation of Small Businesses – http://www.fsb.org.uk
Royal Bank of Scotland (Small Business Service) – http://www.rbs.co.uk/Small_Business
Cobweb Business Information – http://www.cobwebinfo.com
Microsoft Business Centre – http://www.bcentral.co.uk
Thomson Directories (Mailing Lists) – http://www.businesssearch.co.uk
Google Internet Search Engine – http://www.google.co.uk
