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HTML <html> <head> <title>Internet Marketing Business as Likened to a Farm</title> </head> <body> <h1>Internet Marketing Business as Likened to a Farm</h1> <div class="info">Author: <a href="author_1_98174.html">Joel Christopher</a></div><div class="body"><br><br /> “What!?”, I can imagine you musing as you read this. You must think I am crazy. But actually, building your list may be likened to a farm. The techniques may be different but they are very much analogous in so many aspects. <br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Prepare the soil: Your humble beginnings in Internet Marketing Business</b><br /> <br /> Internet moguls did not become legends overnight. They toiled, nay, started out with a few pieces of straws which they were able to make use of in the best way they can. You must not underestimate yourself. Even if all you see right now is a handful of mud, you must see beyond and prepare the soil—your mindset, your marketing plans and strategies. <br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Cultivate the farm: Building a List</b><br /> <br /> Building a list is cultivating the farm. When you build your list, you hunt your prospects and you make yourself known. You come in, fill a need from within your target market and make sure the people concerned know all about it. Build a list, since that’s where all the earnings and magic from internet marketing begins. <br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Plant the seeds: Building Traffic in Your Site</b><br /> <br /> Traffic is not just about the list you build. It is the regularity of people milling in and out of your site to read, learn, obtain information and best of all, to buy products. You do not just build traffic by enlarging your list. <br /> <br /> You can also do triple techniques such as the triple M and the triple S techniques. Triple S stands for sharply segmented sublists and triple M means message to market match. <br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Water: Followups and All that Jazz</b><br /> <br /> Your autoresponders and outsourcing capabilities compose the phenomenon called followup. Your availability, the humanization factor in your business as well as your attempts to keep your prospects and turn them into buyers is part of what waters the seeds you have placed in the early parts of your venture.<br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Fertilize: Cross selling, upselling and other ventures to expand within your niche</b><br /> <br /> You never get content with a single network. You fertilize, and you maximize what you have. Fertilization may be likened to cross selling and upselling techniques. Joint ventures, affiliations or links and increasing your product line are just some of the things that strengthen your identity and relationship with your clients. <br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Seeds grow and your reap your Harvest</b><br /> <br /> Every internet marketer’s dream is that weeds won’t eat up what they worked hard for. Given that you are able to sustain all the maintenance required in your marketing farm, you will be able to reach that season in time where your seeds will finally grow and you reap your harvest with it. <br /> <br /> As you can see, the internet marketing business can get very lucrative to its loyal aficionados. But it is not an overnight thing, or something that brings instant wealth. Like many other ventures, you have to work things out and expect the results at the end, after a season of working hard. The only difference of your internet marketing farm is that it grows exponentially at minimal cost and the rewards and potential is unexplicably higher.<br /> <br><br><br /> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.masterlistbuilder.com" >Joel Christopher</a> is a best-selling author, speaker and mentor, known worldwide as The MasterListBuilder.<br /> To find out more on how you can triple your leads, sales and profits. Visit <a target="_blank" href="http://www.masterlistbuilder.com/" >MasterListBuilder.com</a></div> <div class="source">Article Source: <a href="http://www.articlealley.com/article_193177_3.html">http://www.articlealley.com/article_193177_3.html</a></div> <div class="author"> <div class="authorOccupation"><strong>Occupation:</strong> Internet Marketer</div> <div class="authorBio">Author, Speaker, Philanthropist, Master List Builder, Family Man When Joel Christopher came to the United States from the Philippines on August 8, 1988, he knew nothing about the internet. He was a physical therapist who wanted a better life for his family. Yet today, Joel is known among internet marketing gurus as the "Master List Builder". Master List Builder Recognizing the business and marketing potential of the Internet, he started his own online business in late 1999 and launched his first website on January 1, 2000, geared towards providing aspiring Internet entrepreneurs with a step-by-step guide to succeeding online. He was himself merely a beginner, or what he fondly calls a “newbie netpreneur”. After faltering and floundering in his first year online, he attended a live seminar, took a lot of notes and applied what he learned. It only took two months after that for him to become successful enough to quit his job and make a full-time living creating and selling products on the internet. Speaker Since, then, Joel has attended more than 100 live seminars, boot camps and conferences, and has actually spoken at more than half of them on the topic of "opt-in" list building. He has spoken in front of thousands of people in the U.S. and Canada and has shared the stage with many marketing legends such as Ted Nicholas, Joe Sugarman, Robert Allen, Mark Victor Hanson and Mark Joyner. He has grown his own opt-in list to more than 153,000 newsletter subscribers in just three years. But he earned his "Master List Builder" nickname when he tripled his list to over 30,903 names in only 99 days. Author Using the email marketing principles he teaches, he recently demonstrated the power of a huge opt-in email list when his co-authored book "Mining Online Gold With An Offline Shovel: How To Build A Massive Online Mailing List By Mastering Offline Promotion" zoomed to the top of the Amazon.com best-seller list just 13 hours after it was published. Only the pre-release of the latest Harry Potter book beat it to the number one position. International best-selling author and radio talk show host Mike Litman recently nicknamed Joel Christopher the "Tony Robbins of Internet Marketing" and Randy Gilbert of the "Inside Success" show called him "The Michael Jordan of Internet List Building". Joel Christopher is the Director and Owner of SuccessAccess.com and MasterListBuilder.com. He is a consummate entrepreneur who wants to share his passion for self-employment with others because of the time and financial freedom it offers. Philanthropist In addition,Joel Christopher has made a personal commitment to help young Philippinos receive the education they need to improve their lives. To this end, he has begun a foundation and is donating 100% of his profits from his first book to this cause. Family Man Joel's beautiful wife, Sheila, is his constant companion and supporter, as well as playing a key roll in Joel's businesses. They live with their precious daughter Simone in Helotes, Texas </div> <div class="authorUrl"><a href="http://www.masterlistbuilder.com" target="_blank">http://www.masterlistbuilder.com</a></div></author> </body> </html>
Text Internet Marketing Business as Likened to a Farm Author: Joel Christopher “What!?”, I can imagine you musing as you read this. You must think I am crazy. But actually, building your list may be likened to a farm. The techniques may be different but they are very much analogous in so many aspects. Prepare the soil: Your humble beginnings in Internet Marketing Business Internet moguls did not become legends overnight. They toiled, nay, started out with a few pieces of straws which they were able to make use of in the best way they can. You must not underestimate yourself. Even if all you see right now is a handful of mud, you must see beyond and prepare the soil—your mindset, your marketing plans and strategies. Cultivate the farm: Building a List Building a list is cultivating the farm. When you build your list, you hunt your prospects and you make yourself known. You come in, fill a need from within your target market and make sure the people concerned know all about it. Build a list, since that’s where all the earnings and magic from internet marketing begins. Plant the seeds: Building Traffic in Your Site Traffic is not just about the list you build. It is the regularity of people milling in and out of your site to read, learn, obtain information and best of all, to buy products. You do not just build traffic by enlarging your list. You can also do triple techniques such as the triple M and the triple S techniques. Triple S stands for sharply segmented sublists and triple M means message to market match. Water: Followups and All that Jazz Your autoresponders and outsourcing capabilities compose the phenomenon called followup. Your availability, the humanization factor in your business as well as your attempts to keep your prospects and turn them into buyers is part of what waters the seeds you have placed in the early parts of your venture. Fertilize: Cross selling, upselling and other ventures to expand within your niche You never get content with a single network. You fertilize, and you maximize what you have. Fertilization may be likened to cross selling and upselling techniques. Joint ventures, affiliations or links and increasing your product line are just some of the things that strengthen your identity and relationship with your clients. Seeds grow and your reap your Harvest Every internet marketer’s dream is that weeds won’t eat up what they worked hard for. Given that you are able to sustain all the maintenance required in your marketing farm, you will be able to reach that season in time where your seeds will finally grow and you reap your harvest with it. As you can see, the internet marketing business can get very lucrative to its loyal aficionados. But it is not an overnight thing, or something that brings instant wealth. Like many other ventures, you have to work things out and expect the results at the end, after a season of working hard. The only difference of your internet marketing farm is that it grows exponentially at minimal cost and the rewards and potential is unexplicably higher. Joel Christopher is a best-selling author, speaker and mentor, known worldwide as The MasterListBuilder. To find out more on how you can triple your leads, sales and profits. Visit MasterListBuilder.com Article Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_193177_3.html About the Author: Author, Speaker, Philanthropist, Master List Builder, Family Man When Joel Christopher came to the United States from the Philippines on August 8, 1988, he knew nothing about the internet. He was a physical therapist who wanted a better life for his family. Yet today, Joel is known among internet marketing gurus as the "Master List Builder". Master List Builder Recognizing the business and marketing potential of the Internet, he started his own online business in late 1999 and launched his first website on January 1, 2000, geared towards providing aspiring Internet entrepreneurs with a step-by-step guide to succeeding online. He was himself merely a beginner, or what he fondly calls a “newbie netpreneur”. After faltering and floundering in his first year online, he attended a live seminar, took a lot of notes and applied what he learned. It only took two months after that for him to become successful enough to quit his job and make a full-time living creating and selling products on the internet. Speaker Since, then, Joel has attended more than 100 live seminars, boot camps and conferences, and has actually spoken at more than half of them on the topic of "opt-in" list building. He has spoken in front of thousands of people in the U.S. and Canada and has shared the stage with many marketing legends such as Ted Nicholas, Joe Sugarman, Robert Allen, Mark Victor Hanson and Mark Joyner. He has grown his own opt-in list to more than 153,000 newsletter subscribers in just three years. But he earned his "Master List Builder" nickname when he tripled his list to over 30,903 names in only 99 days. Author Using the email marketing principles he teaches, he recently demonstrated the power of a huge opt-in email list when his co-authored book "Mining Online Gold With An Offline Shovel: How To Build A Massive Online Mailing List By Mastering Offline Promotion" zoomed to the top of the Amazon.com best-seller list just 13 hours after it was published. Only the pre-release of the latest Harry Potter book beat it to the number one position. International best-selling author and radio talk show host Mike Litman recently nicknamed Joel Christopher the "Tony Robbins of Internet Marketing" and Randy Gilbert of the "Inside Success" show called him "The Michael Jordan of Internet List Building". Joel Christopher is the Director and Owner of SuccessAccess.com and MasterListBuilder.com. He is a consummate entrepreneur who wants to share his passion for self-employment with others because of the time and financial freedom it offers. Philanthropist In addition,Joel Christopher has made a personal commitment to help young Philippinos receive the education they need to improve their lives. To this end, he has begun a foundation and is donating 100% of his profits from his first book to this cause. Family Man Joel's beautiful wife, Sheila, is his constant companion and supporter, as well as playing a key roll in Joel's businesses. They live with their precious daughter Simone in Helotes, Texas http://www.masterlistbuilder.com
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