There are generally two types of people who get involved with home internet marketing business opportunities. The first are internet marketers with a budget and the second being internet marketers without a budget.
One of the most critical points is that you MUST keep your internet marketing advertising budget separate from your personal money. You simply cannot dip your fingers into your online marketing budget for your personal expenses. It will be the fastest thing that will kill your profits online.
So here's how to implement a plan to become successful at internet marketing business opportunities on a shoestring budget.
Choose A Business Model
The first thing you need to do is to decide what kind of online entity or business you want to get involved with. While you might think that creating and selling your own product is a great idea, I would advise that you stay away from this at first. When you are new to online marketing, you'll be better off promoting someone else's product so that you can focus on learning how to run an online business.
Website Design
It is imperative that you have a website to tell prospects about your online opportunity. While your company will have their own website, you also need to have your own. More specifically, a lead capture page is what you need. This is a simple and concise one page site that tells your prospects a little about you and your company. You'll want to include a video or audio message introducing yourself, a picture of you with or without your family, and a place for people to input their contact information. This carries us right into our next subject of autoresponders.
Autoresponders
Once your prospects enter in their name and email address on your capture page, your autoresponder will now go to work for you. An autoresponder will keep you in touch with your prospects by sending out automatic, predetermined by you, follow up messages. Your success will be in the follow up. An autoresponder will greatly cut down on the amount of time that you will have to be personally sending out emails.
Generate Traffic
Your next area of concern, and where you will spend the bulk of your time, is in generating traffic to your site. There are so many options for free or low cost advertising. Article marketing, chatting in forums, keeping an online blog, YouTube video production, and Craigslist ads are just some of your potential options. It is advisable to try out a couple and find what works best for you. After some of the free or low cost options start generating you an income, you will be able to reinvest and spend some money to advertise.