Are you brand new to e-commerce and want to figure out how to make money online? The Web Marketing Today site is huge (2,500 pages plus) and it's easy to become overwhelmed. The basic tasks are:
Researching to see how to make money online
Building a website
Creating content for your website that will draw people
Getting traffic to your website
Using e-mail to keep your existing customers
Earning money from your online business
Use the guide below as a jumping off place for each of these areas.
Site Organization
First, let me tell you what I do. I provide information about Internet marketing in the form of articles, annotated links to key articles, newsletters, books, and seminars. Here's how the site is organized:
Web Marketing Today Free Edition is our free e-mail newsletter is our e-mail newsletter published to 101,000+ confirmed opt-in subscribers , which is designed, over time, to help you learn your way around Internet marketing. Each week I bring you a short article or two. Within a month or two you'll be getting your bearings. Why don't you subscribe right now, join nearly 100,000 subscribers, and browse the recent articles? You can also search my articles for keywords using the search form at the top left of every page in the site.
Web Marketing Today Premium Edition offers you get a ton of key e-books about Internet marketing that are worth several hundred dollars. It's a tremendous deal for only $49.95 annually, but since you're just getting started, look at the free stuff first.
Books. I've written more than a dozen books on all facets of Internet marketing. John Wiley and Son published my Planning Your Internet Marketing Strategy -- a good place to start. I've also written self-published books on shopping carts, e-mail marketing, landing pages, promoting a local business, and starting an e-business on a shoestring. You'll find lots of wisdom collected in these books. You can download most as e-books or order as print copies.
Annotated Links called the Web Marketing Info Center, are comprised of more than 21,000 articles and resources on Internet marketing. Every month my team and I scour the Internet for new articles and resources on 105 topics. The database of annotated links includes the author, title, publication, date, URL, and a brief synopsis of what the article is about, saving you huge swatches of research time. Every month we add about 150-200 links and periodically purge the bad links. About half of these are free to all. But the topics about selling online are reserved for my paid subscribers. (I have to make a living, you understand.) You can search the annotated links database using the search form at the top left of every page in the site.
