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What steps must you take to start your business internet money online opportunity to make money online for a purpose filled life? I could think of hundreds but will discuss 5 very basic and initial steps you must take in order to begin. If you are new to this process you need to begin somewhere. If you have been around for several months, then pass these basic steps on to a friend who wants to learn.

Here are 5 steps you must do to get started.

(1) Take a computer course.

Even before you own a computer, you really need to understand what it is. A computer course will explain the terms operating system (OS) and how to navigate the internet, often referred to as the world wide web (www). Computers have been around a long time but the past 40 years they have evolved from mainframes through minis to micros and even cell phones are computers to access the internet. It is worth your time to take a basic course on computers and you will learn a lot about what they do and how they work.

(2) Buy a computer.

If you don’t have a computer, then you need to pick up a book and read about them to learn what they do and how they do it and what you need to buy one that works for you. A book on computers is a good start. Once you have read this book you will then know what a mouse is, a keyboard, random access memory (RAM), hard disk space and many more acronyms or terms that are part of the computer language. Before you buy a computer, go to the library or a friend who has one and learn all about that computer. When you are ready to buy a computer don’t spend a lot of money.

(3) Get an Internet Service Provider or ISP.

Once you’ve taken a course and have a computer, you need to get an internet service provider or ISP. The ISP will be your link from your computer, through your telephone line or cable box or device to connect it to the internet. Remember that your telephone line is much slower and also less expensive than using your cable service provider or even a DSL (digital subscriber line) provider. Both these are more expensive but will provide the state-of-the-art speeds.

(4) Learn about the internet and specifically affiliate marketing.

Learning about the internet is such a generic statement that I added specifically affiliate marketing. Learning about the internet is about like saying, learn about the encyclopedia Britannica. There are so many areas of knowledge on the internet; you need to focus on affiliate marketing. Do a Google search on affiliate marketing and start from there. You will get a lot of information and still have to choose what area of affiliate marketing. I recommend article marketing as a start.

(5) Work on your computer daily.

This is the most important of the 5 steps. If you aren’t ready to buy a computer, go to the public library and use theirs for free. The key is to do it every day so you aren’t intimidated by the movement of the mouse or typing on the keyboard. Once you get into a comfort zone you will find yourself falling in love with it and your ability to use it will rapidly move forward.

Just when you thought you knew email marketing…

• Your email marketing campaigns are sent out on schedule.
• Advanced email marketers send out campaigns when it is proven to be convenient for both them and their recipients.

• Your email marketing campaigns provide consistent results.
• Advanced email marketers review email strategies and look to explore how else email marketing can work to their advantage.

• Your email marketing budgets are based on how much you want to spend.
• Advanced email marketers base their budgets on how much they want to make.

• Your email marketing lists are clean of inactive addresses.
• Advanced email marketers attempt to define ‘inactive’ by looking for decisive patterns which may turn active addresses into inactive ones and seek to rectify the problem by developing preemptive reactivation strategies.

• Your email marketing lists only contain active addresses.
• Advanced email marketers reward active addresses for their loyalty over a specific period of time.

• Your email marketing campaigns are conscious of anti-spam laws and ISP regulations.
• Advanced email marketers care more about what their recipient thinks of their emails and understand that abiding to anti-spam laws and ISP regulations is often negatively influential on the quality of the actual email.

• Your emails are tested regularly and efficiently across different browsers and operating systems.
• Advanced email marketers test their emails more, and are committed to changing things when they simply aren’t working.

• Your email marketing is consistent with best practices in your field.
• Advanced email marketers plan their strategies because it suits their long term objectives.

• You are evaluating your email marketing campaigns using statistics on your email marketing software.
• Advanced email marketers incorporate this data into their ongoing strategies to target statistics which are more relevant to their long term goals.

• Your email marketing campaigns show good open and click-through rates.
• Advanced email marketers aim to find out why people aren’t opening or clicking.

• Your email marketing campaigns show proven results.
• Advanced email marketers try to gather solicited feedback and aren’t afraid of criticism.

• Your emails abide to all the best practices in the field.
• Advanced email marketing abides to most of the best practices in the field but to the best of their potential.

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Every business needs some sort of marketing strategy and when you are web based marketing is even more important, because you are not just competing with the stores in your area you are competing with the world. This is why you must have an internet marketing strategy.

Email marketing is just one aspect of marketing on the internet. It has advantages and disadvantages just like everything else however it can provide you with a good medium to reach a number of people quickly. Email stands for electronic mail and it is one of the first and most widely used internet marketing medium. It is not the only one used in a strategy but even if a person or company is using other methods you will find they most likely also employ email marketing.

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