Internet marketing, which was once thought to be a fad, provides a valuable service to customers from all over the world. Billions and billions of dollars are spent on ecommerce sites each year. This is because Internet marketing serves the customer well so if you’re worried that Internet marketing is a passing fad, don’t. Internet marketing is here to stay!
Convenience
Customers love the convenience of being able to shop from their homes whenever they are ready. They don’t have to worry about what time stores clothes or fight heavy traffic or nasty weather. They can research products they are interested in and compare prices much faster than they could traveling from store to store.
Affordability
With competition come sales, sales, and more sales. Online retailers hold sales and promotions just like their brick and mortar counterparts do. Customers know this and often get items cheaper than they would in their local store. Even with shipping charges added to the tally, since the customer isn’t spending money on gas, it really isn’t that big a deal for most customers.
Choice
No matter where customers live, they can shop at stores that don’t exist for hundreds of miles in their brick and mortar world. Customers who live in small towns or mid-size cities suddenly have a plethora of stores at their fingertips. Never before could a customer living in small town, USA hope to shop at Macy’s without taking a vacation or traveling perhaps hundreds of miles. In addition, customers can shop internationally from their homes as well. Never before has shopping been so easy, so convenient, or so much fun!
Other Interests
Of course, shopping isn’t the only thing that happens online and selling merchandise isn’t the only way Internet marketers can make money online. Some Internet marketers make money from informational sites. This happens, usually, when site visitors click on the ads displayed on those sites. One example of this is Google AdSense but there are others.
As you can see, there are various ways to make money online and various ways to serve customers. Since the customers are already online, you should be too! You may not know at this moment what exactly it is you want to do online to make money but if you are interested in being an Internet marketer, there are plenty of choices available to you.
Internet marketing is a diverse enterprise. There are many Internet marketers that don’t sell merchandise at all but make their money in other ways. If you are a creative Internet marketer, you can make money by blogging, in addition to other creative methods. There are millions of blogs on the Internet about various subjects. Some people blog just for the fun of it; others blog to earn money. Some blogs are Internet marketing blogs while other blogs read like diaries. If you like to blog you can add revenue to your Internet marketing business.
Blogging for Ad Revenue
Some bloggers choose a niche they are interested in and instead of featuring products, they blog about the subject to inform their readers. The premise of this type of blog is to attract readers to your blog who may then click on ads placed on the site by Google or other companies who share the revenue the ads generate with the blogger. In this kind of Internet marketing system, visitors don’t have to purchase anything for the blogger to earn money. The blogger earns when the ads are clicked on even if no purchase is made.
Update Your Blog Daily
It takes a lot of clicks on those ads to generate much revenue for the blogger. Many bloggers make only pennies from revenue sharing ads on their blogs. A slim few claim they make thousands per month. It is possible to make good money blogging for ad revenue but it takes thousands and thousands of clicks on the ads to make any real money. Because of this, bloggers need to update their blogs daily with fresh, new, and exciting content in order to attract more readers and to keep readers coming back.
Another Stream of Income
Blogging doesn’t have to be the only thing you do in your Internet marketing business but it can be another stream of income. You can update your blog on a daily basis and then work on your website. In addition, you can include a link on your blog that leads to your website and that can help drive additional traffic to your site. Some bloggers maintain several different blogs at once and make blogging their entire Internet marketing business.
If you have a talent for writing and you like to blog, this can be a great opportunity to either start your Internet marketing business or to enhance it.
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