As an internet marketing newbie I found that creating information products was an easy thing for me to do. I loved writing so I knew writing it would be easy. What I found was putting together an information product that makes you money and has the potential to turn viral takes more than just writing.

After looking back at what I could have done differently I realized that there were 5 internet marketing newbie mistakes I made whilst creating free viral information products that you can avoid.

So let’s get started shall we. First of all don’t do this…

Internet Marketing Newbie Mistake # 1: Creating information products without links to a product/website

It was one of my earlier mistakes. I created free viral information products but didn’t include an affiliate product that had the potential to make me money. At the very least you should include your bio that links to your website(s) and or product(s). An even better approach is to promote a product that will help with what you have just talked about.

Your free information product will be out on the internet for years to come and you want to make sure you get the best out of it so if you don’t have your own products then include links to affiliate products.

Internet Marketing Newbie Mistake # 2: Including links I had no control over.

Always make sure you use a redirect link that directs the potential customer from the link in your information product to the actual website promoting the product.
Re-direct links are easy to control from your own web server. Using a redirect link means you redirect visitors from your link to your assigned affiliate link. This is important so you can CHANGE the link anytime you want to in the future.

If you stick to using your designated affiliate link and then stop using the product or the company your links become unusable and eventually obsolete. Do you really want free viral information products out there on the net with dead links? With a redirect link you can very easily adjust the target page and send the traffic to a different service, or web page because you have full control and can change the link from your site. So, never include a link to a product that you have no control over. Always use redirect links.

Internet Marketing Newbie Mistake # 3 : Using specific information that may eventually be out of date.

Remember you are sending out free viral information products that will be around the internet for a long time (hopefully) so adding a link to buy within a few weeks or because you are having a sale is a big mistake. If you send out a free viral information product that says “buy for the next 2 weeks for only $9.97″ in 2005 and someone reads that in 2008 you will open yourself up to being accused of deception or worse.
This is a common internet marketing mistake made by newbies when they start distributing their free viral information products.

Internet Marketing Newbie Mistake # 4: Including Personal Details In A Free Viral Information Product

I-CANN Spam laws dictate that you must have your contact details on your website, but avoid including personal information like your cell phone number in your free viral information products. Again things change and you don’t want old information being passed around. You also don’t want to be receiving phone calls at 3am your time because someone else in another country has dis-regarded time zones! So never put anything into your free viral information product that you don’t want the world to know and use.

Internet Marketing Newbie Mistake # 5: Not Checking links, spelling and grammar in my free viral information product

It is important you check your information product for grammatical errors and typing mistakes, but just as important is making sure that the links inside your product go to the right place, and that they are all working. Imagine sending out a viral information product only to discover 3 months later that one of the website links are incorrect or has a comma (,com) instead of a full stop (.com)
Ask a friend or colleague to check your information product and test the links for you because whilst you may not be able to see a mistake someone else might.
I know I have said this a few times but it is worth repeating. Once your product is out floating through the information highway there is no recalling it! So check, then check, then check again.

If you are looking to build your list then free viral information products are fantastic tools to help you do that but you want to ensure that everything works from the get go.

Learning from your mistakes is a great tool but it’s so much better when there is someone available to let you know what to avoid! So learn from my internet marketing mistakes instead because history doesn’t need to repeat itself on this one.

I wish you much success online and in all areas of your life.

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Diane Corriette runs the Women Internet Marketers social network at http://www.womeninternetmarketers.net. She helps people build and profit from using blogs, podcasts, free ecourses and membership sites at http://www.inspirationalguidance.com and shares her expertise and personal experience in internet marketing to help people avoid the same mistakes that she made. Read her eBook at http://www.myinternetmarketingmistakes.com

There are a number of internet marketing mistakes you can make in your internet based business and hopefully by sharing them with you, you can avoid making the same ones.

This mistake only came to light a few days ago because I am following a traffic generation system that includes writing articles. Now I write articles all the time but here is the mistake I made

I was not writing them keyword specific according to the website/blog they were being placed on!

Yes it’s nice to write about internet marketing success but right now my focus is on internet marketing mistakes and internet marketing newbie mistakes so that should be my focus when writing articles and blog posts.

Of course to ensure that works you must know the keywords for your website/blog and if you don’t that’s a mistake in itself. Your main aim should be to get noticed by the search engines as quickly as you possibly can and your keywords will help you get there.

Lesson to learn:

Know your keywords and if you don’t go and figure out what they are now!
If you have a blog that you include your articles on make sure your articles are relevant to the blog and website you are promoting. They should always include your keywords and always have a signature at the end of them

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Diane Corriette teaches others by sharing her internet marketing mistakes at http://www.myinternetmarketingmistakes.com.

Top 7 Internet Marketing Benefits for Mothers

by Diane Corriette

When your life revolves around family and raising children it can be nice to have something that you can develop for yourself as a mother even if the only purpose is to remind you that you are a person too and not just “Jake’s mom!”

I believe that the internet provides an awesome opportunity for mothers who want to be able to look after their family but also enjoy the feeling that comes from bringing in an income (no matter how small).

Internet marketing continues to grow in popularity as more mothers build and develop their own internet based business and here are 7 internet marketing benefits that I believe relate particularly well to mothers:

1.    Flexibility: Let’s face it when Jake is sick having to find someone to look after him is a nightmare and most mothers want to be at home if their child is unwell. Running your own internet based business means being at home when your children need you most.

2.    Little commitment: All businesses need a commitment to grow and flourish but with the internet you can start and stop that commitment as family needs dictate. Of course your results will reflect that but it is one of the reasons why moms love working online.

3.    Save money: When your internet business is at a stage where it is bringing in a regular income for you and you are working at home full time you can save money on the commute to work, having  to buy lunch, needing suits and other clothes, childcare costs and other expenses.

4.    Make money: Of course the unlimited potential that the internet offers in terms of how much money you can make is what attracts people in the first place but as a mother even if you didn’t want to focus on huge amounts it still offers you an opportunity to contribute to the household income.

5.    Not needing a product to sell. Many mothers will love the fact that they don’t have to create their own product to be able to benefit from internet marketing. Having products that you can sell on behalf of a supplier for a commission is an easier way to go, although I recommend eventually creating your own product once you are familiar with how everything works.

6.    If you don’t know how to do it you can get help. If you have the income to pay for other people to do work like setting up your website and designing graphics then it will save you a lot of hours trying to do it all yourself. Not being able to do these things is no longer a barrier because there is always a company you can outsource it to.

7.    Getting help from other mothers: Work at home moms or WAHM’s is a huge area in internet marketing and you will be able to find a network of other mothers who work from home and who can support your development.

Internet marketing appeals to anyone who is looking for a flexible working environment with huge opportunities which is why millions of people take a look at money making opportunities on the internet every week.

As a mother the internet offers a particular attraction becomes of the flexibility it offers for fitting in around family commitments and because of the income potential it can provide when your business is a success.

Like anything in life it takes time and dedication to nurture and grow your business into a money making machine but once you do the opportunities are endless.

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Diane Corriette provides free information on easy and low cost ways to make money online at http://www.womeninternetmarketers.com/easy she also shares her internet marketing mistakes at http://www.myinternetmarketingmistakes.com

Five internet marketing mistakes you should avoid making

by Diane Corriette

When you first start out in internet marketing it can become pretty overwhelming pretty fast and before you know it you are spending 10-12 hours online without actually making any money for your efforts.

I started online back in 2005 and what I have found in my relative short internet marketing life is that it doesn’t take much to end up with more debt than income, which is what promoted me to write about it.

Wherever you are in your journey towards running your own successful internet based business I hope writing about my internet marketing mistakes will help you avoid them.

Internet Marketing Mistake #1
Joining way too many email lists and trying to listening to what every expert was telling me to do and becoming overwhelmed. My inbox was full of information but some of it was saying different things and I became confused about which expert to listen to. If you have 10, 20 or more emails coming in from different people consider unsubscribing from the ones you don’t read and focusing in on the ones you do.

Internet Marketing Mistakes #2
Listening to many voices expect one. I took on a mentor very early on and I am glad that I did but I didn’t give his advice long enough. While he was mentoring me I was still listening to all the other experts and sometimes ignoring what my mentor said because of something I read in an email! If I was doing it all again I would tune out all the other voices and only listen to my mentor for the time that I was with him and a few months after that until I had achieved the goals I set myself.

Internet Marketing Mistakes #3
Believing the hype! Yes we all get caught up in product launches and ticking clocks that tell you the price is about to go up, or special fast action bonuses only for the first 100 people. I got caught up in it all time and time again. I ended up with fast action bonuses that I never used anyway and products I never got round to using plus a huge credit card bill.  If I was doing it all again I would only be focused on buying products that directly relate to my business goals and I would stop to think about exactly what value that product will bring to my business.

Internet Marketing Mistake #4
Not building a list. I was running my internet based business for 12 months before I realized that I had no real business because I had no list. It was only when I took part in my first mastermind group and everyone began to talk about group promotions that I realized I had no one to promote to! Building a list would definitely be my first priority (after finding my target market of course).

Internet Marketing Mistake #5
Not staying focused. With no target market, no list to build, no idea about what I really wanted to achieve I moved from one business idea to another. Whatever the latest product was I bought into it in the hope that somehow the product will be the thing that happened me decide what I wanted to do.  If I was doing it all again I would definitely take my time reading the information provided by experts and use that to help me decide on my target market and business vehicle that I would use to make money online.

So those are my 5 biggest internet marketing mistakes and I hope you go out of your way to avoid them because it will save you a lot of frustration and a very large credit card bill!

Limit the number of emails hitting your inbox, find yourself a mentor and only listen to their teaching, don’t get caught up in the hype, build your list once you know your target market and stay focused on what you want to achieve.

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Diane Corriette provides free information on easy and low cost ways to make money online at http://www.womeninternetmarketers.com/easy she also shares her internet marketing mistakes at http://www.myinternetmarketingmistakes.com

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They are all saved in the one place. You can create folders to keep all related passwords into (e.g. I have a folder called hosting accounts)

It is a life saving and I recommend it. I upgraded too because it made life easier and doesn’t cost much.

http://www.roboform.com/

Women Internet Marketers is running a month long teleseminar providing free teleseminars in the area of internet marketing and personal development.

The event runs from May 1st-31st 2008 at different times of the day. Check their blog for full details at http://www.seminarblog.info

Some of the events taking place include:

How Fighting With Your Destiny Can Suck The Joy & Profit Out of Your Business
with Lorraine Cohen & Anita Pathik-Law
http://www.powerofmyway.com/alignedbusiness.html

Do You Ever Wish You Knew How To : Add Video to Your Blog Posts and earn at the same time? with Charly Leetham (this is the fourth part of a four part teleseminar)
http://howto.arvoreentreasures.com/teleseminars.php

Clear Your Path to Success with Becky Kimes
Discover a fun, easy to use method that shows you how to clear the unconscious, limiting beliefs that are standing between you and your dreams and desires.
http://www.intuitiveabundance.com/teleclass.html

Visit the blog for a full listing of what’s available http://www.seminarblog.info