Thursday 21 February 2008

Hot Marketing Ideas

Start An Internet Business - Hot Trends
By Brian Peters




If you are looking to start an internet business, then the best thing to do is become aware of the current market trends and then make a smart decision. If you can become aware of the current trends you will find what you think are good Internet business ideas and what are bad ideas. If you can follow that rule of thumb, then there will be no need to find the best Internet business ideas - a solution will just present itself.



Start a Social Networking Website



To start a Social Networking website you need to find a group of people who are interested in the same thing, then bring them together to allow them to network with each other. The key is finding a niche & remembering that your job is to start a social networking website that brings people together. Myspace was a great pioneer of social networking software – and, facebook, youtube, flickr, mp3, and others have followed.



Simply purchase social networking software and then let your members have full control over the website so they build it, not you. In the end you are just one person - so why not have 100,000 people building your business instead of one? By being smart about starting a social networking website and which social networking software you choose, you can really maximize your efforts!



Social Networking Hot Trends: The original, photo sharing, music sharing, video sharing, movie sharing, broadcasting (future).



Start a Dating Website: The dating industry is one of the best Internet business ideas to ever hit the market, and is always a good industry to get into. Many people feel social networking websites do a better job these days but nothing beats the original. What is pretty popular right now is to own a speed dating business locally, and combine it with an online dating website. A good example is MochaMates.com.



Dating Hot Trends: Original, Speed Dating + Online Dating



Start an E-Commerce Website: Originally one of the top Internet business, ideas, most e-commerce websites today are old and boring. Drop shipping is out, but fulfillment houses are offering a new wave of drop shipping services. Fulfillment houses are warehouses that accept bulk shipments, sort merchandise, and then ship orders out for the customer. So it is the same concept of drop shipping; it just maximizes your ROI.



Another great type of e-commerce internet business idea is starting a site similar to cafepress.com & customink.com. They manufacture t-shirts (could be anything) and instead of selling just their designs; they allow others to upload their own designs, and sell everyone else's designs. So instead of selling 5 styles, they sell 1,000,000 styles from people all over the world.



What is great about sites like this is it allows members to promote your business for you. The people uploading the designs promote their own pages on cafepress.com because they get commission from every product of theirs that sells.



E-Commerce Hot Trends: E-Commerce, SEO E-Commerce, E-Commerce B2B, E-Commerce + Social Networks, and sites similar to cafépress.com



Content Management: There is a lot of clutter online. If you are an expert an ANY field, share your knowledge with others; you never know where it could go! There is free content management software like joomla.com that allows you to create & post all of your own articles in a nice, easy format online. The site About.com gives people tons of information online, does a great job of SEO & Linking, and they are one of the top 100 sites in the world.




The author writes articles about start a Social Networking website and social networking software.



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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Working at home is a dream for a lot of different people. I've seen people start out pursuing their dreams of work at home with the Internet end up falling flat because they either have an idea, maybe even the technological know how, but they've narrowed their vision to one method of making money: selling products online.



I am a HUGE fan of online businesses, but for those of you who don't know what the next big idea is, read on, I'm going to show you what you can do to broaden your online business vision and make money online instead of set up a product site and hope to make a sale. It is not too difficult for someone to put together a money making site, you just need to adjust the way that you think and the way you see the Internet.



So let's start with this question: What is it that you want when you are online? Put yourself in the shoes of the millions of search engine visitors - ask the question again, what is it that I want when I'm searching online? The answer is this: 1) Information and/or 2) to buy something.

So give people what they want!



It may sound simple, but newbie online marketers have laser focused themselves on product sales and therefore cut themselves off of another means of making money - advertising. There are alot of ways to make money advertising on your site - most people will sell banner space, but you have to have a site that has a certain level of traffic before you are seen as a viable advertising website.

If you want a way to start using your homepage as a means of advertising, you need to sign up for affiliate programs and get yourself a Google Adsense account. If you have a website and you don't post affiliate offers and Google Adsense ads, you are missing out on a lot of potential cash and giving your website visitors what they want. If people knew how much money Google is paying out EVERY MONTH in Adsense revenue or how much affiliates are willing to pay simply for posting a link to their products on your website, online business owners would stop focusing solely on how to sell the latest as seen on TV gadget, and start putting out related affiliate product offers as well.

Take a look at these sites for ideas on layout, affiliate offer presentation, Adsense layout, and know that sites like these ones are making hundreds of dollars a month, simply by broadening the website focus to meet the needs of the website visitor.



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This is NOT DIFFICULT! Now that you have the idea, run with it and start giving yourself alternate ways to make an online income.



If you have any questions about this method of marketing on your site, please email me at seoangelgoddess@gmail.com – I'm tired of seeing good people's dreams getting trashed simply because the experience and vision of online marketing was not there. Take advantage of online advertising and start working on your own success today.

Anonymous said...

Ecommerce is definitely a trend setter, it provides a medium for the buyer and supplier to meet without actually the need of travelling any distance. For example, a furniture manufacturer requires raw materials such as wood, paint, and varnish. In B2B e-commerce, manufacturers electronically place orders with suppliers and many times payment is made electronically. http://www.infyecommercesolution.com/