Build Your Online Success My name is Bonnie Holscher and as I grow I will be bringing to you resources to help you build your online success. I have been online since 2006 and enjoy a great lifestyle while sharing how I am creating a six figure income and so can you.

Internet marketing has become more popular with the fall of employment in brick and mortar establishments. But as easy as it can be there are a few key points that will make or break your success online. Three particular mistakes will hinder or sabotage your progress online.

The first and foremost mistake being made by newbie marketers is that they do not have opt in box to build a list with. This mistake that internet business owners make is to not have a way to collect information about their visitors and potential customers. There is no way to contact them back and even thank them for the visit or find out if there is something more that you can do to make their experience on you website a win win situation. As the old saying goes in internet marketing is “The money is in the list”. An autoresponder will be one of the best investments you can make for your online business.

Another common mistake that newbie online business people do is to have a website that is too busy. Visually, there is too much going on and the visitor gets lost in all the ads and links and just stuff that they virtually can not find the content readily that they went to the website to read in the first place. They will tend to leave the website before gaining any knowledge of the author or what that author is try to say or even sell. The targeted visitor is no long interested in learning more or even revisiting the website. The key is to Keep it Simple.

One more important element for the newbie internet marketer is understand is that the autoresponder content needs to give valuable info as well as offers. Many times your subscriber is looking for more information to improve their success journey and build whatever your niche is providing information for. Offers are great and affiliate marketing is an outstanding way to create online income, but you have to provide value as well and that comes in the form of tips and information your subscriber can use along the way. When you begin to build your online success, follow those that paved the way before and use proven methods to shortly the time frame it may take you to start reaping the fruits of your labor.

With the growing popularity of social networks and the social media, publishing your articles has found a new dimension. The opportunity to get your article seen let alone read has been extended by the phenomenal growth of social networking.

Two networks on the rise and growing are the ever popular Twitter and Facebook. Not too far behind those is MySpace and several others. It is recommended that you take advantage of this opportunity and use the power provided by these networks. Your article distribution will reach outrageous proportions as well as you will make new friends and gain internet exposure.

There are a few things you must do to utilize the power of Facebook and Twitter. Once you have your Twitter account you will need to go to EzineArticles and edit your Author Bio to include your Twitter username and your Twitter URL. When your articles get approved they will automatically post to your Twitter account for all your followers to access. You can Tweet about your articles in mini-posts and refer people back to your articles that are fitting to the conversations that you are having.

For Facebook, you can also add your account URL to your Author Bio in your EzineArticles account to be seen when people pull up you bio page to read. You can list in the notes section of your Facebook account your most popular articles with the most views and click thrus for a wider exposure.

You can even create a domain name and forward your EzineArticles link so that you can direct people in several different ways to your expert author page and list of all your articles. When you have created this kind of exposure and internet presence you will be seen more widely as the expert you are. People will do business with you when you are not always on the sell and on the helpfulness. You will also learn so much through your interaction with the various experts you will meet in these networks.

Writing articles has become a common occurrence when people begin to build online presence and establish credibility. There are a few very important items you must pay attention to before you publish your articles.

Although this is something most writers think they keep in mind, this common mistake happens again and again.  Always check your punctuation, your grammar and your spelling. On many occasions I have read through my material and thought that I had corrected all of the mistakes. I have later reread it or had it brought to my attention of the mistakes I did not catch. Bad spelling is a downfall for even the most successful of writers and internet marketers. Most programs do have a spell check and some have a grammar check that can be use before you submit you articles for publishing. 

 Make sure that your article is long enough to be called an article. Anything less than 300 words is more like a blogpost. This piece of writing is not long enough to give any pertinent information and probably will not be consider very seriously. On the other hand, make sure that you are not writing a book either. After a certain length, your reader will get bored or overwhelmed and will probably not finish reading nor will there be a likelihood that your reader will click on your links. Too much information is just as deadly as not enough. A good average is between 300 and 500 words.

And with that said, make sure your article is not a sales pitch only. Your article should contain good information but leave an avenue for the reader to want more information. Most readers will know when they are reading an obvious sales letter and will likely not click on your links. Every article must contain nuggets of good information to create credibility and trust from those who will read it and continue to follow you.

It is in your resource box that you can then put a link back to your blog or website. Or you can suggest or recommend other products and services that are related and that can help your reader get where he/she wants to go.

So many times you get caught in the hum drum of writing an article and feel we are just running out of steam. When you sit down it just does not seem that you can think or the ideas you had just don’t seem to flow. What you may not realize is that if you do not have a mentor or coach that you are just needing someone to bounce some thoughts off of or just some conversation to free your mind. That is when a group of 5 to 6 people will give you just what you need to break loose.

Tip number 1 for creating a mastermind group of people to learn from and support you is that the people involved should be at your level of income or making more than you. The key point is to team up with people who are already where you want to be. Many people at a higher level are more than willing to share their experiences that may otherwise not be shared. Especially with article writing there are times when sharing ideas with someone who has been writing successfully for sometime will help you through a time of discouragement.

Tip number 2 is to conduct these meetings on a regular basis, either weekly, every other week or monthly. Although in person is preferred, most mastermind groups meet over the phone. Plan at least an hour but preferably two hours for each meeting. It is recommended that for the first few meetings that each person be given at least 30 minutes to talk about their situation, needs, and challenges so that the rest of the group can effectively give feedback and brainstorm was to help. It also insure that each member gets what they need to move forward in their endeavors. With article writing, it may be an advantage to have members in several different niches to create variety in the feedback.

Tip number 3 is for each member to make a commitment to stretch and grow. There should always be a next action stated before the meeting ends from each of the members. There should also be a time to share the successes from the last meeting no matter how small they may seem. This commitment should not be a continuation of the previous goal not met. It must stretch just beyond the goal set from the meeting before so that the member must not only finish the first goal but other things just beyond the last. By doing this it is an assurance that the group in moving forward toward completing the goals they set. If you are writing articles set a clear amount of articles to be written in a specific amount of time hold you accountable to your group and affords you enough pressure to help push you through. It also brings you to a point of accountability. People tend to produce more when you set a deadline or timeline. You will more actively take steps to accomplish the tasks you set out to do. If you say you will write AND submit 5 articles, you will do what it takes to get all or most of it done before the group meets again.

Article writing does not have to be difficult. There are several groups available for mentoring or masterminding your way to success. There are also tools available to help you as well to create an effective article for whatever you happen to be writing about.

Internet marketing has become one of the widely used avenues for marketing a business. Whether it is a brick and mortar business or one that lives online, owners are turning to the internet for a means to reach the masses. Among the many ways you can market, there are some emerging media markets online business owners are using more regularly.

Video is one of the more common tools being used by marketers today is video broadcasting. Along with YouTube, other websites are cashing in on the widespread use of video. Since most laptop computers have built in webcam with sound, It is easy to create a video and upload it not only to personal websites but to blogs, newsletters and now articles.

Podcasts is a popular audio tools to reach people around the world. It is becoming more popular since many are holding trainings on how to create a podcast. And it is recognized by the search engines as an entity of it’s own.

Teleseminars on the other hand sit somewhere in a file and are not recognized by search engine. However, they are more widely used and there are also several websites created for marketers to become involved with and share their information with listeners who can either listen by phone or by the use of their personal computer.

Webinars are similar to teleseminars but add the ability to see what the host is doing on you’re your own computer screen. The person giving the webinar can speak and show you what they are talking about at the same time.

Internet Radio, although not as widely used is becoming a popular way to give information to a number of listeners and answer questions as well. Many people use this method to do interviews of differently niched online business people to help promote them and their websites.

With such a variety of tools to use to market and promote yourself and others, the possibilities are endless for business and online traffic growth.

When I got started on the internet in 2007, I had a lot of learning to do. Some was trial and error. Some was proven methods I learned from my mentors. But for the most part, I studied many of the already successful people who had built their businesses on the internet. What they did, how they did it and why they did what they did. There was one area that I did not grasp at first but learned the extreme importance within the past year.

How do I attract visitors to my websites is a question asked by so many trying to become successful in internet marketing. The answer was in how to build link popularity to your website. I thought, as most newbies do, that once you put a website or blog up, it will automatically bring visitors and they will easily find you. That is far from the truth and a disappointment to the beginner just getting started. The internet is a vastness that need to be utilized by linking your website or blog with inbound links. There are millions of websites out there in cyberspace and the more you have linking to your website the more you will be found and visited by the millions of people that use the internet today.

One of the most important things to remember when building your website or blog is keywords. Find out what people are searching for and use those words to attract visitors to your site. Use them in your titles, on your pages and everywhere there is a place to insert keywords for your work. This makes it easier for the search engines to find you and drive traffic to you.

Another way to drive traffic to your site is to write articles. This is a very effective way to increase traffic to your site. Make sure at the bottom of each of your articles you have an author biography and the link back to your website. Submit to several article directories and watch you popularity rise. Be patient because it will take a little time to become noticed so be persistent. Don’t stop at one or two, write articles on a regular basis. Two article directories you can started with are EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com.

One more thing you can do to get more recognition for the search engines is to comment on other peoples’ blogs and include a link to your website. Make sure they are relevant to you niche or topic. If you have a website, you must make sure that all your pages are linked to the homepage so the search engines can assign a popularity to each of the pages in your website.