CRITICAL STEPS TO ONLINE SUCCESS - You must have a Website

If you are to succeed online in any significant way then you must have a website of your own.

Yes…I know you can make some money as an affiliate without a website but you really limit your options.

Why have a website? You need a website as an interface for information exchange between you and the clients on your list. That is a place online where you can give information about yourself and your clients can communicate with you.

Until we come up with a better solution, marketing success online depends on having a list of clients who have indicated an interest in your niche and are responsive to your emails. You supply them with valuable information via your newsletter and from time to time you show them one of your offerings. Some of them will buy from you if they have had a good experience with you in the past. You need a website to make this transaction flow smoothly.

If you are using Article Marketing or Pay-per-Click as your process to attract clients then you need a website for them to visit so they can read about you and your offer and decide if they want to join your Newsletter List or investigate you Free Offer or whatever else you are promoting. If they decide they want to proceed further then they need to be able to communicate with you. You could do this by email but as the volume of responses begins to pick up you just won’t have the time to handle every individual response and you’ll want to have a Web Form on your webpage that connects to your auto-responder so they can give you their contact information.

Once you have their contact information you will want to respond with a “verification notice” (hosted on your site) that tells them where to go and how to respond to the email they will receive from your auto-responder. In these days of spam email it is critical that the visitor verifies their willingness to receive your information.

And finally you will want to send them your “download” page so they can download your free product or make payment for a paid product.

I think you can see how critical it is to have a website of your own to make all of this possible. You can have your own website hosted online for as little as $4 per month so it really makes sense to take this professional step forward.

About the Author

Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. Over more than 20 years he has taught many people the strategies to accumulate and leverage wealth. You can subscribe to his “Free Newsletter” and get a copy of his FREE book: “3Surefire Ways to Make Money Online” by visiting his website at: http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/cap/ or http://successdynamixgroup.com Visit his Blog at http://onlinemlmsuccess.blogspot.com/