Monday, November 10, 2008

Internet Marketers, One Thing That Can Make Or Break You

By Gary Harvey

A quick but important question: What is the #1 thing that determines how much money you will make online?

(A) How much traffic your website gets

(B) How eye-popping your website looks

(C) The product you're promoting

(D) The niche market you picked.

If you said "product", give yourself a well earned pat on the back.

Agreed, you need an appropriate website and you need targeted traffic, but it is the product that is the #1 decider of how well you'll do online.

Let me explain why.

You could be promoting a product with a low PROFIT MARGIN per sale but even if you sold a whole pile of them, you'd still wouldn't make very much money. And that's not what you want.

Or you could be promoting a product with a low VOLUME of sales. Now unless you had a stupendous profit margin on every sale, you'd still be floundering. So that's not what you want either.

But what if you were promoting a product with a high sales volume AND a high profit-per-sale? You'd be grinning from ear to ear.

That's why getting the right product to promote is the #1 factor in determining how much money you will make on the internet.

Or to put that another way, the "secret" of making a substantial internet marketing income is this...

Find a hot profitable market where the products you promote sell well and pay well. That could be in a large market or a smaller submarket (often called a niche, thus "niche marketing") because there is profit in BOTH big markets and tiny niches.

Ah yes, talking about niches... You might be a big player in some niche that hardly anybody else has found, but if there is no product that you can profitably promote, what's the point? - that's why answer (D) above wasn't the right one.

So the great big question now becomes...

How do you find these hot PROFITABLE products?

Luckily for you, there is a site that explains all about how to find hot markets. Cleverly it's called... http://FindHotMarkets.com - 15478

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