So you’ve decided to par take in the world of Internet Marketing? Well good for you! There is nothing like entrepreneurship and taking control of your own destiny.

In this short report, my goal is to lay the ground work that you’re going to need, in order to build a good sound foundation, to start building your business on.

There are three things that just about every Newbie (including myself when I started) struggles with. But once you figure them out, you can start making money within the next 30 days and they are;

1. Finding the right niche to market to.
2. Knowing the tools needed to build an Internet Marketing business, both tangible and non-tangible tools.
3. How to drive good quality traffic to an offer quickly.

Once you’re done reading this, you will have a solid foundation in which to start building your business on! So let’s get started!

Finding a Niche

If you’re just starting out, the first thing you need to do, is determine what niche you’re going to market to, if you don’t already have one in mind.

When it comes to choosing a niche, I’ll start by saying this. If you have a particular activity, interest or hobby that you enjoy and know inside out, then I would say that’s probably a good niche for you to start in.

Because it’s something you know well, it should be easier for you to;

• Speak the “language” of those involved in that niche.
• Create content for that niche. (Articles, blog post, etc.)
• Have a better understanding of the demographics of that niche.

Now! If you’re interest is in a niche that has a small audience, you have to understand something…
Those involved in this particular niche, may have a deep passion for it and typically don’t mind spending money on things related to the niche.

But if the niche is too small, you have to ask yourself, will there be room to scale up and grow my business?

If you don’t currently have a niche in mind, I’ll tell you right now, you can waste time, researching different niches until you find one you’re interesting in or you can just pick one in the following categories that have been proven, time and time again to make money;

1. Making Money (Internet marketing, forex, work at home, etc.)
2. Saving Money (Insurance, debt, credit cards, loans, etc.)
3. Weight Loss / Health & Fitness
4. Self Help / Development

Out of these four, I would recommend that newbies start with “Making Money” for the following reasons:

• There are plenty of resources available to educate yourself on the niche.
• There are plenty of affiliate programs and products in the niche for you to market.
• There are plenty of resources available to get traffic.

One of the biggest mistakes I made when I started out was not drilling deeper down into the niche or “vertical” that I had chosen which by the way was and still is “Internet Marketing”.

What I mean is, find a niche within the niche. With Internet Marketing, there are plenty of sub-niches for you to consider:

• Social Media (Deeper niches; Facebook, YouTube, Twitter)
• Driving traffic (PPC Pay Per Click, SEO, Search Engine Optimizations)
• List building
• Blogging
• Affiliate marketing
• Article marketing
• And on and on

Please read this next line very carefully! When you’re just starting out, pick ONE sub-niche and ONLY one to market to!

Learn everything you can about that niche and become an expert in it. Trust me on this. You don’t want to try to master everything when you first start out.

You will go crazy and I can guarantee that you will come down with information overload…

Yes I’m speaking from personal experience!

Once you have learned all you can and have a steady stream of revenue coming in from that niche, then move on to the next.

In conclusion I’ll just like to say, don’t take choosing a niche for granted. Picking the wrong way can easily cost you time and money…

So take your time, research and choose wisely!

Despite the popularity of affiliate marketing, some people still ask the question “What is affiliate marketing?” or “how can I make money with affiliate marketing?” This article will answer that question and tells you what you need to make money in affiliate marketing.

Simply put, affiliate marketing is a kind of marketing strategy whereby a person (the affiliate) promotes the products/services of other people or companies for a commission. The company whose product the affiliate promote is called the merchant. In some programs, you get commission when people just sign up or download a software through your link.

You can join an affiliate program through affiliate networks. An affiliate network serves as a broker between the affiliate and the merchant. The network handles payment processes and ensures that no one is dupe. Few examples of affiliate networks are ClickBank and Commission Junction (cj.com). While registering with an affiliate network, you’ll be required to provide some personal and payment information. Once registered you are free to choose and start promoting any product of your choice. For each product you want to promote, you will be provided with a special affiliate link. Whenever somebody makes a purchase through your link you’ll receive a commission. Apart from crediting you for a sale, another thing the affiliate link does is to drop a cookie into the computer of anyone who clicks on it. This way, even if the person who clicks on your link does not buy immediately, you will still be credited if the person comes back and buy within a period of 30 or 90 days, depending on how long the cookie is made to last.

The above is basically how affiliate marketing works, that is, you sign up with a network, choose some products and start promoting them through your affiliate links. This is not as easy as it sounds; the real work is in the promotion. There are many smart tactics super affiliates use in their promotion but the most important is lead capture. To make it big you must capture the email addresses of visitors to your website. This is because in order to persuade a visitor to buy, you must educate them on the benefits of the product while feeding them with valuable information. Having your visitor’s email means that you can sell more than one products to a customer.

Another important thing you’ll need to make money with affiliate marketing is traffic, you have to be conversant with both free and paid methods of traffic generation. You can get free traffic from article directories, blog comments, forums, social networking sites, search engines and free to use websites. Paid advertising can be in the form of pay-per-click, link advertising or cost-per-mile advertising.

There are other things you need to make money with affiliate marketing, for example, you have to choose the right niche and products if you want to see good result. You also have to learn things like search engine optimization (SEO), keyword research, HTML coding, how to use autoresponders effectively, how to write engaging articles, article marketing etc.

The final truth is that making money with affiliate marketing requires some work and effort. You must be determine and believe that you can succeed. Many new affiliate marketers fail because they lack an action plan. Your action plan contains a list of things you’ll do daily in order to achieve your goal. Having a sort of one week marketing action plan can go a long way to help you.

If you want to fasten your learning process and learn how to do things the faster way, then you have to get a good affiliate marketing guide that already contain a step-by-step one week marketing action plan.