Thursday, May 31, 2012

Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing in simple words is marketing (promotion) of goods and services over the internet.
Also known as "i marketing" or "e marketing" Internet marketing has revolutionized modern business and nowadays Internet marketing is a very important factor which almost every business keeps in mind when deciding on a strategy to promote their business.

With the onset of Internet in late 1990's and subsequent increase of internet for almost everything, it became quite predominant that Internet marketing is the way to go if you want to have a long term stable business.

Besides being a boon to the businesses, Internet marketing has also generated tons of employment for people in last 10 years or so. In countries like U.S.A , U.K there are people as young as 17 years of age who are doing Internet marketing full time and earning thousands of dollars every month.

Since it involves promoting your business over the internet, Internet Marketing has been criticized for giving false information to the customers sometimes. But there is no denying the fact that every one who is looking for some kind of information be it on latest shopping deals or nearby dining outlets, searches for information on the internet rather then calling someone and getting wrong information.

As the word about Internet marketing grew, the more popular internet Marketing became. Now we see thousands of people who have quit their full time jobs just to earn money from internet by sitting at home and employing others to do jobs for them.

Here we will be discussing a few Internet marketing methods:

1.    Social media marketing  Yes, we are talking about social networking sites. But not just Facebook, but around 300 more websites like Facebook such as Linkedin, Youtube, Myspace, Orkut, Digg, Stumbleupon and many more social networking websites.
Companies pay big time to improve their reputation in social media sites as well as to interact with their present and potential customers.
It also helps them improve their services if they get any negative feedback from their users.

2.    E MAIL marketing  Another common form of Internet marketing is E MAIL marketing wherein the present and potential customers are sent E MAILS to improve interaction with them as well as to generate revenue from these mailers.
This is a very important part of the overall strategy of a company to build its brand and show a positive side of the business to customers.

3.    Search Engine Optimization - Search Engine Optimization or SEO is basically a method to improve your website standing on popular search engines like Google, yahoo.
Search engine optimization helps in targeting more potential customers for the business and bring them to the websites.

4.    Affiliate marketing  Affiliate marketing is a huge part of Internet marketing and basically involves  selling the products of others and earning revenues or small percentage of commission in return.
Affiliate marketing has been around for very long time and still continues to be a very important factor in Internet marketing.
Apart from these, there are various other methods of Internet marketing but these are the major ones.


There are various books, methods on how you can provide these services and say good bye to your stressed full time job.Remember, its not difficult to earn a full time income from Internet marketing but you will need proper guidance and dedication to start earning money online.

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