Friday, April 13, 2007

Online Marketing Information Overload - Where Do You Start?

Help! I've looked at so many websites with offers to make money online that I am now confused as can be. If you're like me, you don't have a clue where to start! Don't worry you're not alone. This is called information overload and it can give you the feeling that you've missed the Internet marketing boat, or that you've missed the ground floor and it's just too late to get involved. However, nothing is farther from the truth because on the grand scale of things the Internet hasn't even begun and you have definitely not missed the boat. There is room for you and anyone else who wants their slice of the Internet marketing pie. So don't feel like it's too late, just take a break from your computer screen for a while and give your eyes and mind a rest.

Keep in mind that it's no longer 1996; it's 2006 and things have begun to heat up online--big time. Many people are making their fortunes at breakneck speed. There are three very popular methods to make money online. They are products with master re-sale rights, affiliate marketing and the Google adsense program. Let's take a quick look at each.

First, people are making a fortune by marketing their own products that they have obtained master resell rights to. This gives them the opportunity to make 100% of the profits since they basically own the product and have the right to resell it--or to sell the resell rights to the product and make even more money. Most good resale right products will come with a website that you can use to sell the product from. This is the best option you can get for making money fast and you don't have to create a website from scratch. You just add your paypal or payment button, set up your domain name, upload your website and you're ready to go. You can even set up your master resale right websites and sell them on e-bay if you wish. You can do this over and over as many times as you want; you just need a different domain name for each site.

Secondly, people are making fortunes marketing other people's products; this is called affiliate marketing and has become very big business on the Internet. I bet you've heard of the amazon.com affiliate program or maybe another big player in the world of affiliate marketing: Clickbank.com. Clickbank deals in digital products such as e-books and software and is a great place for entrepreneurs to get started with affiliate marketing, as most vendors will give 50-75% of the profits to you.

Lastly, you've probably heard of people making their fortunes with the Google adsense program. This popular affiliate program pays you on a per-click-basis. If someone clicks a Google ad on your site you make money. So, no sale has to be made at all, they click the Google ad on your site and you get cash. These are some of the most popular money making methods around but online there are many, many opportunities to make your fortune.

What I like to do is take in a lot of sites and then take a little break because it still can seem overwhelming to me. The trick is to check out other sites to give you ideas for yourself and your site(s). See what others are doing in any market by doing a search on Google and check out the sites you find under the keywords you used. For example you can do a search for "master resale rights" to see what others are doing. You can also find products that you can get master resale rights to and offer them on your website.

Use the Internet to your advantage and to learn what others are doing and do it yourself. There's no need to reinvent the wheel. Stick with proven Internet marketing strategies that have proven themselves to work. Don't give up and if you start to feel that Internet marketing information overload feeling just take a break from it all for a day. That's all you really need is a rest.

About the Author

Mike Nagle is an enthusiastic seller of digital information. See his two sites for complete details on how YOU can get your own information business at http://www.digital-resell-rights2.com and http://www.digital-resell-rights5.com . You get the Net's best selling ebooks with complete resell rights.

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