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Internet Marketing Alternatives - You Must Know!


Membership Sites
"Do I really need to create an e-book for sale? Can't I do some other things?"
Absolutely yes you can do many other things, you don't need to necessarily create an e-book for sale. There are too many things out there you can do on the Internet! In fact, there are too much to list we're embarrassed we can't tell you everything.
Let's have some examples:
You may be someone who's very good in playing the piano, having a membership site to teach people how to master piano in a short time is a good idea. Maybe you know something about sky diving, sea diving, you know about mountain hiking, every each of them can be turned into a great money making opportunity.
A hobby usually, is excellent as more than half of the people who goes online every day are searching for information related to their hobbies. Membership sites are very profitable, we'll explain why.
Let's take a membership site for example, which teaches violin. Every week, you will only need to update step-by-step instructions where your subscribers can follow and learn.
Even if they know how to play the violin, they still need music pieces right? There are tons of music pieces out there. Updating 5-10 pieces of music you personally choose will probably be the only working routine for you each week.
After that, you can consider having a trip some where and enjoy yourself, Austria for some classical music, Disneyland in Florida, and come back the next week just for the sake of updating it! Well not really, you don't need to return because having an Internet Business gives you the freedom to do it from anywhere, anytime – as long as you have a laptop with an Internet connection.
That's all!
Nevertheless, you will need to do your very best to make the membership site worth while, people who are happy with your membership site will gladly become your recurring customers in the future.
The fundamentals are: you will need to sound special, you want yourself to be appealing to people, give them a reason why they must sign up for your membership site. It must be something different, that's how your membership site will be preferred than music teachers.
For example, anyone who joins your membership site will get to learn the violin in 2 days,
"How can I start a membership site?"
There are many ways. Nevertheless, we would rather stay on to using paid membership scripts or companies which provide a membership system, trust us that's the best way! You don't want to waste a lot of time and effort to figure out how to get the membership system going.
We would rather pay a higher price for breads in Delifrance because they taste more delicious compared to the breads in other shops. Furthermore, we don't want to risk having a stomach upset after our meals.
Same goes with the membership site, we would rather spend more money buying a membership script or paying for the service, run a neat and tidy membership site for customers so that they can have a nice experience in their process of learning, than confusing them with lots of unnecessary problems.
If you are interested in creating a membership site, a few of the membership scripts you can use are Interlogy and aMember, simply make a search on Google with the keywords "membership scripts" will get you all the results you need. You can even hire experienced programmers to write a membership scripts especially for you, and as for most of the professional Internet Marketers VisionGatePortal is the hot one. VisionGatePortal provides a very good membership system, hosting, as well as excellent support.

Physical Products
To achieve more success doing business online, we will need to jump into selling physical products.
This is not a secret, but it is the best step if you want to make a difference between driving a Chevy or a Porsche. If you are aware all along, Internet Marketers who are really successful lately have been coming up with their own physical products.
Here are little examples of the famous Internet Marketers which are making a fortune from their physical products: John Reese with Traffic Secrets, Jeff Walker with Product Launch Formula, Tim Knox on eBay, Yanik Silver with Underground DVDs, Derek Gehl with Insider's Secrets and Andrew Fox with Millionaires Mega Yacht.
People are usually attracted to something they can keep, feel, touch, see or hear. Physical products can be sold for a price so much higher than it is as e-books, or downloadable software even up to even ten times!
Now the problem is, not everyone is willing to do it. You'll need to hire the fulfillment house to do everything for you: producing the products as you want them to be, wrap them up, and prepare them for shipping. It will cost a large number of money.
The higher the price of your product, the more you will earn. It's something really common but sometimes they just sound so common we just happen to forget about them.
John Reese for example, earned 1.08million in one day with Jeff Walker's product launch formula selling $997 per course. $997 is a really big number, but his product is highly sought after and many people will still buy from him.
If you're selling books on the Internet, consider changing them to files. Make them more manageable, people want to keep something and refer them from time to time, and you'll make it easier by providing the files with a few bookmarks.
Physical product selling is very profitable – especially when it can allow you to have vacations anytime you want, anywhere you like, and the fact that it lasts long.
Always aim for furthering your business, be a credible business man or business woman, make customers glad, only in that way can you earn a great income from the Internet.

About The Author

Seth Chong is the owner of IMViral, one of the largest, greatest viral Internet Marketing Newsletter which is being spread around the world, you can sign up and see why the world's talking about it at http://www.imviral.com.
sethchong@imviral.com