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New Bag of Fresh Ideas
for Your Internet Business
By Terry Dean
Every Internet
business needs to come up with fresh ideas to drive more traffic to their
site, increase their sales, and multiple their profits. Too often, we get in a
rut in our Internet businesses. We keep doing the same things every day
even when they aren't working. My definition of
insanity is someone who does the same thing over and over again and
expects to receive a different result.
Many people believe
that there are only so many different ways you can market your products or
services, such as: banner advertising, search engines, classifieds, etc.
How do you expect to
come out ahead of the competition if you are going to limit your business
to what other people in your market are already doing online? Every multi-million
dollar Internet business has one thing in common. They all came up with a
new and fresh idea for creating an e-commerce site that stands out in
their industry. For some it was
becoming the World's Largest Bookstore like Amazon.com. Others choose to
spend their time organizing and indexing web sites like Yahoo.com. Another
company named Ebay created the largest auction house in the world.
Each leading web site
had one thing in common. They came up with a fresh idea for helping
Internet users find what they are looking for. They found out what
frustrations people had and came up with solutions for them. Yahoo was originally
started by two young college guys who wanted to make the Internet easier
to use by indexing and categorizing the sites they found. This idea
eventually evolved into the portals that we see everywhere today: Infoseek,
Alta Vista, Hotbot, Goto, etc. Guess which one still gets the most
traffic? The first is the still the best. If you are out to
create little wealth for yourself and your family, then an affiliate
program may be the way to go. They can be a good start for the beginning
web marketer. You get to learn how to make money online while being taught
by experienced Internet marketers. You will have to step
over to the next level when you want to start developing some real profits
from your Internet business. You will need to come up with your own fresh
idea. Don't tell me it can't
be done. Remember, Yahoo was not created by a large corporation. It was
created by college guys. What Internet trend are you about to create or
what Internet trend can you cash in on? It's funny. Most
million dollar plus Internet businesses are not the creation of the major
corporations. There are a few to be sure, but the majority of them were
originally started by one to three people who just came up with a better
way of doing things. They all started as a
fresh idea. Then, they evolved into a system and a web site. Then, as the
site grew, they would quickly become the target of larger companies
willing to buy them out. Overnight, after months or years of work, the
creators become millionaires. This type of scenario
happens every day online. Don't tell me it won't happen to you, because it
could. It can only happen if you become one of the Idea generators instead
of just the Idea followers. I want to reveal two
simple secrets of success to help you learn how to generate your own fresh
ideas. Step One: Pay
Attention. You need to start
paying attention to what is happening around you. Every story you see on
the news is a potential idea for a web site. If the public is interested
in a subject, it shows you have a market. One thing that I have
found common in successful direct marketers is that they all pay
particular attention to the news. You will find that the ones who are
successful are the ones who have spotted the prevailing trends inside of a
market.
I used ISyndicate to
deliver daily news from Time News Daily, The Web Guide, Web Development,
News: E-Commerce, Wired News: Business, and CNET: Computers. A little
further down you will find the hottest CNET Downloads. The hottest message
boards and discussion groups online are also linked daily from this page.
Start spending time
watching the world around you. What trends do people keep talking about?
What types of frustrations are people experiencing? What is the hotnews of
the month? If you go to the
bottom of my News page, you can track and see what message boards and
discussions groups are hot. Jump into some of the discussions and read
what people are talking about. What are they frustrated with online? Where
are the potential opportunities? The most successful
entrepreneurs aren't always the brightest, the most educated, or the most
likely candidates, but they are people who learn how to spot
opportunities. Learn how to ask
questions of your visitors. Take polls. Put a form on your site for people
to leave their comments. Find out what your targeted market is looking
for. Then, give it to them. Step Two: Learn How
to Relax. Something that most
people have yet to realize when it comes to developing fresh ideas is that
they usually don't come while you are actively working. They come later on
while you are playing golf, doing your hobbies, or in the shower. Too often your mind is
plain too stressed out and worn out to come up with solutions while you
are at your desk or on your computer. If you want to develop fresh new
marketing ideas, you are going to have to learn how to relax.
The most successful
marketers are usually those who have learned the right balance of work and
relaxation in their lives. They actively work on their business and then
while they are away from their business they let ideas come while they are
doing the things they love. You should always keep
a notebook handy for this very reason. After you have thought about and
studied what types of Trends and frustrations people are experiencing
online, you never know when that winning idea may come to you. It could
come when you wake up in the morning, on the golf course, or wherever you
go to relax. If you actively
prepare yourself and allow yourself to relax, you are giving your mind
what it just may need to come up with that next fresh idea to take your
business to the next level of profits. Terry Dean, a 5 year
veteran of Internet marketing, will Take You By The Hand and Show You
Exact Results of All the Internet Marketing Techniques he tests and Uses
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