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We know! Yes we know! We know that some people are making a living online, we know that some people can afford any of their monetary desires from their earnings online but the question remains, Why Can’t You?

Why can’t you make a living online? Why are you struggling for success while you see others reach greater and greater heights, seemingly with ease?

Do not despair! There is no hype here because I am not trying to market anything to you but I want to tell you five things you need to do if you want to start making money online.

1. You Have Not Started: Yes! You have not started, you haven’t made an attempt yet, you haven’t even raised a finger, you are just reading the same things again and again but you are yet to implement any of what you read. Take action today and you can now focus on the next step.

2. Overcome Your Fears: I know that feeling that feels like it can almost swallow you whole! But it isn’t supposed to be so. Let me ask you! Why are you afraid? Try to think over it again and again and you will see that there is no justifiable reason for you to fear. Eliminate your fears, believe you can achieve it, forget about your tomorrow… just think today, Implement your ideas and you will have a much better chance of reaching your goals.

3. Information Overload: How often do you just try to read and read and read until you don’t know what to do?Utilize what is in your head and decide to follow one strategy to the fullest before you embark on another one. When you read 10 different ebooks on affiliate marketing, blogging, freelancing etc, you will get to the realization that you don’t know where to start. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying reading is bad, it is necessary at times… but what I am saying is keep implementing as you are reading in order to avoid analysis paralysis.

4. Understand That Mistakes Are Necessary: You will have problems when you start out – most do and a perfect start is almost impossible. Learn to make mistakes and learn from your mistakes. In fact, continually testing and tweaking because of mistakes will refine your skills and eventually make you great. If things are going along too smoothly, what are you learning?

5. Be Patient: Have you ever heard that success doesn’t come overnight? Well, you heard it right. You have to be patient and wait to see the results of what you have been doing; the common phrase states that people stop digging just before they hit gold. The fact that everything isn’t going on well now doesn’t mean you have to quit, try and fix your mistakes before dropping your project that looks doomed to fail and be patient – without this you will not make money online.

The following are five things you NEED to do to start making money online, try and implement them and you are sure to see success.

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In this niche, if you ask most people which blogs you should follow they’ll tell you to follow the “A-List”… generally the big few in this niche with thousands of subscribers.

Some tell you this because they believe you’ll get value from those sites, but I reckon most people read blogs simply because others are, and even though certain ‘big’ blogs may not have any value to them people read them because of this reason.

Here’s my personal “A-list”… where A stands for awesome. These blogs are differing sizes, some have ten subscribers while others go to a few thousand. However, I believe that more often than not the posts on these blogs have value, which is why I read them.

By value, I mean that every single blog on this list has something I’ve learned from them, and I believe that reading them could help make you a better internet marketer. Here’s the list, in no particular order…

Blogger Illustrated – a blog Grizz recommended once and although I only got around to checking it a few days ago, its posts definitely have value to them. Read a few of them and you’ll agree.

The Infopreneur – run by James Richmond. He usually posts about twice a day, and the posts will help you think differently if you read and understand them. Probably one of the most interactive (in terms of comment discussion) websites I’ve seen in this niche too.

Make Money For Beginners – doesn’t really need any introduction on this blog, and although he doesn’t post much there’s still a tonne of valuable information there (skim through the archives, which are much better organized than this site’s ).

ViperChill – did a review about this blog a couple days ago as I stumbled across it and liked it, but again, killer content from someone successful. Check it out.

Int Mktr – Trent Brownrigg’s site. Read the interview to find out more about why should should take heed of the stuff he says.

Lis Sowerbutts – if you do nothing else on her website, go and read the last post. It’ll help you a tonne if you had problems with niches etc.

Hot Blog Tips – blog run by Keith Bloemendaal – some of the posts will help change the way you think about certain things. Anything that causes you to think is awesome in my book (or feed reader, shall we say ).

Michel Fortin – is one of the top marketing copywriters in the world, and his blog has a lot of good information that he’s gotten from experience. Another site that will tweak the way you think about certain things.

Leo Dimilo – internet marketing blog with information derived from online experience (the best kind of information). Again, if you read this site you’ll start to see a few things differently.

Site Sketch 101 – a blog run by Nicholas Cardot, who is a full time infantryman in the US Army. Read a few posts on the site, liked that they were different from posts on most other sites, so I’m recommending him.

Nathan Hangen – a blog with internet marketing views, experiences and so on. Fairly solid content and a decent amount of interaction.

The University Kid – lastly… if you look past a lot of the unimportant dross on this site, there are a few posts that have made me & a few others and will make you money.

I didn’t want to go into too much detail for each blog above as I’m lazy as hell and there are 12 blogs above. A paragraph on each and that’s me all tired out. Nevertheless, I recommend all of them from what I’ve seen so far – some a few days worth, some a couple years worth, and I think that reading them will affect you positively. Visit them all, select a few you like and read them in your feed reader every so often.

I may have forgotten or not even know about other blogs that help people make money / boost their online marketing efforts, so if you know any feel free to mention them in the comments and I/others will check them out.

Selling on the internet is neither automatic nor a guaranteed success. Although thousands of businesses of all sizes have made a success of it, many more have tried and failed. What’s the difference? More often than not, ecommerce sites are most successful when a successful marketing campaign is consistently in place. If people don’t know about you, they’re not going to be able to come and shop – it’s as simple as that. And even if you do have a marketing campaign in place there’s little to stop customers who bought from you in the past from not returning because your competitors’ marketing efforts are getting their attention. Here are 7 essential tips for ecommerce marketing that will help you develop the online business you deserve.

1. Product feeds: One of the best ways to get the word out about your products is through the use of Google Marketplace (formerly Google Base). This free service allows businesses to either upload an XML file or submit a live feed that displays all your products, pricing and images in Google’s search results. This way, every time a Google user looks for something you have, you have a chance to make the sale. Sure, not everyone will click through to your site, but at least you’re getting your products out there to compete for clicks.

2. Customer reviews: Make sure your site has an easy to use interface where customers can create reviews of the products you sell. Their, opinions and experiences can be shared and that can be very helpful information to your future shoppers. Besides providing content that enhances the value of your site to visitors, customer-provided reviews boost your search engine standings since the search engines like to see a steady stream of new content.

3. Be SEO conscious: It’s well known that both the structure and content of a website can affect the way it is viewed by Google and the other search engines. Therefore, SEO is a constant effort of evaluation and correction. Make sure you have relevant keywords and phrases so that people searching for products like yours can find you. Also, simple on-site optimization techniques such as creating internal linking, using header tags and having relevant metadata can make or break an ecommerce site.

4. Make your policies easy to find: One of the biggest reasons for customers abandoning their shopping is the unavailability of vital information. Customers want to know about shipping costs, processing times, payment methods, return policies, contact information and privacy. In sort, everything that you’d like to see when shopping should be part of your Web site. You can even make the transparency and accessibility of your store’s information one of your marketing points.

5. Encourage repeat customers: As with regular businesses, the majority of the marketing dollars are spent attracting new customers. Once someone becomes a customer, it’s a lot cheaper and more effective to get them to come back than it is to get another new customer. That’s why you should send out regular newsletters that have company and product news and special offers for returning customers. This helps you establish a customer base rather than trying to rely on one time customers for your livelihood.

6. Use social media sites: You might be weary of hearing about Facebook and Twitter, but if that’s where your customers are, that’s where you need to be. Social media presents great opportunities for people to learn about your products and follow your store inside the Web site where they spend much of their time. Some stores have even made it easy to buy their products directly from their Facebook presence, so customers don’t even have to leave Facebook to shop.

7. Get others on board: Every store should have money budgeted for marketing, so why not use some of that money to get other people marketing for you? By setting up an affiliate program, you pay other people for delivering clicks to your site and sales from your store. Some Internet users make their living but doing nothing else than directing traffic to their affiliates. This is a great way to boost sales and get constant, high quality traffic to your site.

This guest post was written by Tom Walker, a blogger who works with an online supplier of HP 300 inks and refills as well as other supplies. He is a regular contributor to their blog where he writes about advertising and design.

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