What are the various Web sites that are making you money?

In the next few paragraphs below, I will give you a blueprint for my Internet business rollout. I hope by sharing here, you can plan the strategy for your own Internet business success.
In my climb on the Internet Wealth Mountains, I started with Affiliate Marketing. If you are a newbie and intend to sell your product long-term, this is a good starting point as you get to hone your selling skills while promoting other people’s quality products. Your risk would be greatly reduced while you learned about the market.

After I gained initial success, I started a Portal Web site at http://www.WealthMountains.com. At this site, I provided recommendations and tips to fellow Wealth Mountain climbers. To keep my members updated on the latest tips and exclusive special deals, I had my own eZine, which you can opt-in from my WealthMountains.com site.

At my next stage, I moved into creating and reselling digital products. My first product was an eBook which taught aspiring journalists and freelance writers on how to be a successful writer that newspapers and magazines editor would love. My first product was called “How To Write Special Feature Articles,” which I updated from Public Domain material. Through this product, I learned about copywriting (another essential skill as an Internet Marketer). You can see my current copy (which I am still updating regularly as I learn more) at http://Write-Feature-Articles.WealthMountains.com

At my third stage, I built a series of sites to earn from pay-per-click passive income. This includes income from Google Adsense and Chitika EMiniMalls. This required another set of skills (i.e. finding hot niches and great keyword list). I experimented with various tools and started to see success coming in. Along the way, I had my fair share of failures as well. It is important to learn from the failures and improve as you go on. Never hold back because of fear of failure.
How do you promote your Web site?

I have tried several techniques to promote all my Web sites. The following are the top 3 techniques to generate targeted traffic to my Web sites.
Technique 1: Find JV partners with good list
If you have just started and you do not have a big list, you could leverage a responsive list from partners. Search for joint venture (JV) partners in your marketing niche. Offer them something irresistible in return for the partnership. For example, you could offer them an exclusive commission scheme for each unit of your product sold to his list. Do set the responsibilities/agreement clear upfront.

To find your JV partner, one free way is to go to Google and do a search for the keywords of your product. For example if you are selling secrets to planting rare roses, you could search for “rose gardening” or “flower gardening” sites. Go through those at the top of the list and identify those sites that had their own opt-in list (or eZine). As those sites are in the top spot in the search engine for your keywords, you would expect them to have a fairly targeted list. Remember: the main objective is that you are finding a way to reach a huge targeted list. Hence, such JV partners are an integral component to your success.

To begin, sign up to their opt-in list first. Try them out before you bring up your offer to do a joint venture with them. Do not be disappointed if you are turned down. Keep trying. Rejection is part of the game. To ensure your success, highlight to your potential JV partners on what’s in it for them for promoting to their list. That is the main key to getting them interested!
After you are accepted in the joint venture, make sure it happens! Many times deals are not followed through and you would have wasted all your effort. TRACK all your results. You can tweak something (like headlines) and increase your profit by 20%, 30% and even 100%.

Technique 2: Pay-per-click advertisement

Sign up with a pay-per-click service such as the following:
• Google Adwords (http://www.Google.com/adwords)
• Yahoo Search Marketing (http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/index.php)
Pay-per-click advertising providers allow you to create your own ads, choose keywords to help match your ads to your audience and pay only when someone clicks on them. This is a direct marketer’s dream come through in the online world for testing your ads and generating targeted leads to your Web site.

Typically, you can:

• Reach people looking for your product or service
• Fully control your ad budget
• Easily create and edit your ads
• See your ads on provider system within minutes of creating them
• Have 24/7 access to detailed performance reports that help you track the effectiveness of your ad campaigns.
To really profit from the above, make sure you have the following:
• Identify the list of targeted keywords or phrases for your ads. This is critical or else you will be spending too much on your ads. There are tools that can help you. One of these is SEOSurf. Try to search for it.
• Track your marketing campaigns daily. Kill off those campaigns that are not performing immediately before you throw more money down the drain. Tracking is a necessity.
• Establish your ad budget upfront. Once it is reached, either drop the ad or change the copy on your Web site/ads.