Internet Marketing

Those 200 words bloggers write on their blogs to promote products, service and or an idea are getting more important every day. In addition to optimizing search engine rankings of the sites under discussion, they influence the consumers in a gig way. A consumer survey (carried out online in USA) says, “83% of consumers say that product reviews influence their online purchasing decisions, 70% of online shoppers actively seek out product reviews before they buy, more than half of US online shoppers surveyed, read user reviews as part of their product research and nearly 9 of 10 US online buyers read reviews at least “some of the time” before making a purchase.

This is not about how to write reviews, add visuals, write product descriptions, give proofs and urge readers to make buying decision. This is about the fact that local market is yet not online as it is the case in more connected countries. Therefore local bloggers and markets mostly turn towards foreign markets and write about them. Some of the bloggers are doing a good job despite all handicaps. Similarly some of the marketers are also taking advantages.

It is in this milieu that this is a call to local marketers and sellers to see the advantages and take benefit of any review stream can offer to them. Exceptions are already there, I personally know (and write for) a local concern that sells products online and how their  blog advertising investment is providing them  huge returns.  I suggest you buy a review or a link and experience what it does to your business. [X-Posted from Light Within]

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Secrets to Making Money

Earning money online is one of the fast growing modules these days. Everyone is trying to earn while “working from home” as they call. Most of those who are “in” are trying to earn by telling us how to earn serious money online using the Internet. They also publish proofs of the revenues they generate; may be for ego boasting or trying to authenticate what they are saying. I have been exploring in my own quest to learn if there is any substance to “earning while still at college.”

One thing that is very obvious; there is no harm in learning and trying. But claiming to sell “the secret of earning” is a little too much. Anyone who has some interest online knows what opportunities exist and how they can be taken. Have a product and or service and sell, teaching, writing, affiliates, AdSense, PPCs and PPAs, eBays (list goes on and on) are all open secrets.

So far I have found a few things; it is harder to make “serious” money using poor PC with slow Internet connection and having couple of blogs (having little content) with Google Page Rank from N/A to Zero. There is no shortcut to getting rich quick. No one can have success by clicking. Making money using computer and the Internet is a work like any other work and it takes hard work to succeed. Let me know if there is any other ways.

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