Internet Marketing 101

I am a part time internet marketer and a full time software professional . I started in internet marketing last year out of curiosity.

When I started I knew nothing about internet marketing. All I knew was how to build websites, though my full time job as a s/w pgmr does not have anything to do with web programming. Internet just clicked with me when I first signed up for a free hotmail account a decade ago.

The question I asked myself before I started on this path was, is there a way to monetize my internet skills and here I am today. I have already launched around ten or more web sites. I have had some successes and some failures. But a very good learning experience and still learnng.

When you have no marketing experience, you can not be successful overnight. But if you stay the course and are willing to learn from your mistakes, you will see some levels of success.

Being a programmer, my first approach to build a web site was to automate everything and build huge. So it took me 6 months to build my fisrt web site. Now I know that was a waste of time. The site was big, difficult to keep updated, takes a lot of time.

So what did I learn from it. Three things mostly. Build small, build small and build small. Its easier to maintain, takes less time to develop and if the website doesn’t succeed you can drop it easily. And move on to a new project.

The hard lesson learned – “To be a successful internet marketer, you will have to forget that you are a programmer”.  

That’s all for today. I will keep posting my experiences here time to time. 

Free Magazines

There are hundreds of useful magazines being published in the US  which are circulated for free, yes – you read it right the first time. And the free magazines span a wide variety of industries, from agriculture to business to computers just to name a few.

So why are these magazines free?

Because they are ad supported where the advertisers pick up the tab so to speak and the readers get them for free. The sign up process for these magazines take some time and a prospective subscriber needs to give a bit more demographic information like their skills, education, salary range, industry, job role, purchasing power etc. This is the cost the reader pays to get a free subscription.

The demographic data provided by the readers is the dough that attarcts advertisers to such free magazines with their ad dollars.

Browse through a listing of free magazines here and see if there is any magazine you may like to subscribe…. remember they are FREE. 

Happy reading.