Discover The Latest Trends In Internet Marketing By Tania B Parsons

All businesses need to follow the latest trends of the market and the customer behavior to exist and flourish. Internet Marketing is a great way to invest small budget in order to acquire maximum return for your business. You need to keep in mind that consumer analysis and smart timing is most important when you are investing in internet marketing. Generally, proper and effective internet marketing depends on the volume of traffic that has seen your messages and got lured to your online presence for a successful purchase.

The following list will guide you through the latest Internet Marketing trends that can help you to market your products or services effectively. They are:

Social Network Marketing - Social network marketing procedures are especially good for major brands, therefore you need to survey customers to identify how many of them consider the network to be a major form of communication. The existing customers need to be surveyed as they will be the ones who will respond to your offers posted on social networks than the strangers.

The most popular networking sites are Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. In these social networking sites, you only need to sign-up and post information regarding yourself and your services or products. By this method, you can open the way to your websites and business to millions of people. When posting articles on your website, make sure that there is adequate number of keywords that aptly describes your services or products. The consistent use of keywords will also lead to the improvement of your site's ranking.

Online Video - With faster internet connections, viewing videos online is no more a barrier now. With online video, you can achieve innumerable buying emotions and impressive brand moments. It is memorable, interactive, inexpensive, widely accessible and highly shareable. Through online outlets, the online video has become beneficial for small businesses also. It is reported that various investments are happening that are likely to create even more low-priced opportunities for small businesses. However, you need to keep in mind that the website should not be bereft of text as text can be quickly scanned for required information.

Podcasting and Online Radio - Online radio is considered to be a growing trend presently. The online radio broadcasters are making a whole-hearted attempt to locate and attract potential audiences. In case of podcasting, iTunes have been the leader for a long time. It is very important for internet broadcasters to make their media more attractive, engaging, sharable and traceable to attract lots of traffic.

Coupons, Savings and Discounts - Though these cannot be exactly considered to be an internet marketing trend, it is of significance due to the present economy. The scenario of 2009 has made customers accustomed to shopping products that offer great deals and discounts. Since resetting the customers' expectations is not an easy task, you need to swap discounts with special privileges such as free upgrades, loyalty discounts and more.

In comparison to technology and marketers, customers move slowly. Therefore, you should not quickly jump on new bandwagons; rather you should focus on attracting repeat business, solving problems and intensifying your relationship with the customers. Following the trends mentioned above will likely enrich and expand your business by bringing in more visitors.

Tania is an experienced business mentor. If you are just starting out with your online business, a seasoned IM Pro, have an MLM or network marketing business, then Tania can show you how to have Success using The Six Figure Mentors as your building blocks platform and together with her personal mentoring and coaching, would make all the difference.

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Ken Nourolahi

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States, business watch for effects of Illinois tax By Ben Klayman

Now that Illinois has passeda law to collect sales taxes on items bought over the Internet,other states and big retailers are watching for the impact onother parts of the country.

DETROIT, March 17 (Reuters) - Now that Illinois has passed a law to collect sales taxes on items bought over the Internet, other states and big retailers are watching for the impact on other parts of the country.

"There seems to be a flurry of these bills all at once. One reason is there's a lot of changeover in legislatures around the country," said Rebecca Madigan, executive director of the Performance Marketing Association, a trade group representing online merchants and affiliates.

"The big-box guys are really putting a lot of money behind this and stirring things up through a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt," she said.

"Big-box" refers to giant national chains that sell out of large stores and say sales tax laws give online retailers an unfair advantage.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled a company only has to collect sales taxes where it has a physical presence, saying that states' divergent tax systems are too complicated to require businesses to comply with them all.

That allows Amazon.com Inc and other on-line retailers to skirt collecting taxes in states where they do not have headquarters or a corporate presence. In turn, shoppers pay less on-line than at stores in many states.

For more than a decade, the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board has sought to change this by having all states agree to simplify their tax administration and make their tax codes uniform. According to the board, made up mostly of state legislators, 24 states have passed legislation conforming to the agreement and nine states are considering bills.

Now, though, some states are taking the more direct tack of requiring retailers to collect the taxes.

Last week, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed the "Mainstreet Fairness Act" to target those online retailers like Amazon that have affiliates in the state. He said the law will create fairer competition and help Illinois, a state hit hard by the 2007-2009 economic recession, build up revenue.

Illinois estimates it loses at least $153 million in sales tax revenue annually due to retailers not collecting the tax.

Texas is considering taxing online sales and California, which already passed legislation that was vetoed, is considering another bill.

"If Illinois and California and Texas move forward on this, then you will see a number of states take similar action," said Jason Brewer, a spokesman for the Retail Industry Leaders Association, which represents such large brick-and-mortar retailers as Home Depot Inc .

"You can't continue to operate with an unlevel playing field given the way online sales are growing," he said.

In 2010, total "e-commerce sales" were $165.4 billion, 14.8 percent higher than 2009, according to government data. Still, they only accounted for 4.2 percent of all retail sales.

The sales tax revenues likely will not make up for states' huge budget gaps caused by the housing market downturn, financial crisis and recession -- they are projecting shortfalls totaling more than $100 billion next fiscal year.

California, for example, says if its sales tax legislation were to pass, state and local revenue would increase $152 million this year and $317 million next year. The state's budget deficit through the middle of 2012 is projected at more than $25 billion, which means its Internet sales tax revenues would represent less than 2 percent of its yawning gap.

But Internet retailers say they could cause states real fiscal pain by hitting income tax revenues. Income taxes are second only to federal aid as a source of state revenue, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Amazon and Overstock.com Inc have threatened to cut off affiliates who work with them in states with Internet tax laws.

"For us, there's really no side effect, but for the states, they lose the income tax," Overstock President Jonathan Johnson told Reuters.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc last week invited Illinois online businesses to join its affiliate network.

California's Board of Equalization, which runs the state's tax program, said the state's bill "would have an adverse impact" on employment and its personal income tax. It could not forecast how much, though, the state stands to lose.

For Rob Babek, a partner at independent accounting and advisory firm Marcum LLP in Los Angeles, asking Amazon to collect taxes would create an administrative nightmare because the company has "thousands and thousands of transactions everyday all over the country."

"The only fair way to handle this would be to simply impose a federal sales tax on all Internet sales and then the federal government would distribute such taxes to each state," he said. (Writing by Lisa Lambert; Additional reporting by Karen Pierog in Chicago and Lisa Lambert in Washington; Editing by Kenneth Barry)

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Ken Nourolahi

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Affiliate Marketing - The Basics For One Week. By Michael A Bryan

Many people today are turning to internet marketing to try their hand at making money online. The usual starting place for most of them is in affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is an arrangement between an online merchant and an affiliate (you), in which the affiliate earns a commission for generating sales, leads and/or clicks for the merchant's web site. If you are just starting in affiliate marketing, or if you've been at it for awhile with no success, I suggest that you should stick to the basics. You can create and build a campaign in one week this way. Before I get into the basics, let me tell you what affiliate marketing is not.

• * It is not a plan to "get rich quick."
• *It contains neither an "easy button" nor a "magic bullet."
• * There are no secret "loopholes" or "underground tricks" to achieving success. (There are so called Black Hat tricks that   can be employed, but using them could get you into serious trouble with the search engines. I refuse to use them, and you should too.)
• * Mostly, it is not "Rocket Science!" It is a business that requires a lot of work, but you can learn it and be successful as long as you take action on what you learn.

So, what are the basics? Research, Creation, Driving Traffic, and Rinse & Repeat

1. Research. Find a need. What are people searching for when they go online? Are a lot of people searching for the same thing? What kind of keywords are they using? Will you have very much competition if you start marketing to that group? If the competition is too large, can you narrow the problem down to something more specific? For example: It you searched "dog training" you would find nearly 58 million searches by people looking primarily for free information. However, if you look up "how can I train my dog to stop peeing in the house" that number would drop to about 125,000 people with a serious problem. These people would be more than happy to pay you for the solution.

Once you have found a need, you need to find a product that has the solution for fixing the problem. You could try a site like ClickBank which carries thousands of downloadable ebooks and courses, or do a search for "your problem/forum." When you have found the right product, sign up for their affiliate program and get your affiliate tracking link. Now you can begin marketing.

2. Creation. Now, you will need to build a landing page. (If you are going to use PPC this won't be necessary, but I cannot recommend PPC to "Newbies" because you will be competing with very experienced marketers. It could be extremely expensive for you.) There is no need to panic over creating a landing page. You can do this easily using a blog or something like a Squidoo lens. There are plenty of free tutorials online that will show you how. The landing page is where you will send traffic. From there you will link to your product's sales page. One great advantage to a landing page is that it gives you a chance to build trust with your customers and to do a little preselling. There are many great products that do not have great sales pages. This is your opportunity to overcome that problem.

3. Driving Traffic. Without traffic you are dead in the water, regardless of how good your product and your landing page are. This is probably the most difficult part of internet marketing because it involves search engine optimization or SEO. SEO is the technical term for getting a webpage ranked highly in the search engines. This ranking is contingent on three factors: the quality of the content on the page, the number of quality or authority links to the site, and the amount of human activity on the site. When people are searching online, they are looking for information. You must provide valuable information that is well written, unique, and easily digested. Do not copy someone else's material. 

You will use this knowledge on your landing page and also in several articles that you will submit to various article directories. I like to submit a primary article to EzineArticles.com and link it to my landing page. Then, I will write additional articles to send to several other directories. Towards the top of those articles I will place a link to the landing page, while at the bottom I will have a link to my ezine article. What I am accomplishing is getting more content online and creating backlinks for my site. Besides article directories, you will want to create backlinks through social bookmarking sites, RSS feeds, Web 2.0 properties, blog commenting and forum marketing. A word of caution concerning blogs and forums: provide good content! Merely posting, "Great post," is considered spam and will get you banned from the site.

Human activity on the site is a fairly recent piece to the SEO equation. This is the reason I like to use a blog for my landing page. I can add to the site on a regular basis to create new posts or update an older one.  Websites that are left unattended for too long can start sliding down the search engine rankings. Of course, if you have provided enough good content and secured sufficient backlinks, you will be getting enough people clicking onto your site to satisfy the human activity factor.

4. Rinse and repeat. Find another need and a product to satisfy it, and do it all over.  It really isn't that difficult, but it does take time and practice. The more you do it, the better you will get.  Learn the basics, and then take action. One can easily set up one campaign per week, and by the end of one year, have fifty-two products that are supplying them with a good income. Imagine this: only one sale per week from 52 campaigns, with an average commission of $20, will earn you $1040.00 per week, or $54,080 per year.

I will leave you with a quote from a very successful internet marketing friend and mentor of mine,

"If you are willing to do for a year what others won't, you can do for a lifetime what others can't!" - Jennifer ~ PotPieGirl -

Michael A. Bryan is a certified trainer who currently earns a living as an internet marketing affiliate. If you are interested in learning about internet marketing, go to his website at http://im-affiliate-tipsandtools.com/

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Ken Nourolahi

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