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Have you ever experienced fly fishing?

You’re out there by yourself standing in an ice cold stream with its dark blue water rushing by.

The sun’s glittering reflection makes it impossible for you to see more than a few inches under the surface.

A huge Bass may be only a few feet away but you’ll never see it – never even know it’s there waiting for you.

For hours you stand there casting into the shadows, bringing your fly rod back over your head – letting the line play out so that when you whip it forward the almost weightless fly at its end will drop precisely where you wanted it to land.

Knowing that the fish are there you make this rhythmic cast again and again until a hungry fish leaps out of the water and grabs your fly in the air.

If this isn’t like Internet marketing for small business I don’t know what is.

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The simple steps to get you started using the internet in your business.

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I want to try marketing using websites like myspace, facebook, youtube and twitter.

Eliase

The web site suggestion is valid but don’t take the "shotgun" approach.

Target your articles and other content toward the customers you want to attract. Think about what your customers are interested in and talk about what interests them.

This will take a bit of time.

Try to avoid spending time and money marketing to too broad of an audience.

There is a great deal of good information on attraction marketing at the link below.

Best of luck!

http://special.inexpensiveexposure.com On Monday, August 10th the Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch kicked off their 11th annual Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, California. The three-day conference opened and closed with two training days on Monday and Friday. There were over 70 sessions, covering a wide spectrum of Internet marketing industry including Pay-Per Click, Search Engine Optimization, duplicate content, social media, link building, and video optimization to name a few. This massive conference also included a two-day expo floor with over a hundred companies.

Networking the Expo Hall
I had the privilege to attend Day 1 on Tuesday, August 11. The day opened with keynote speech by Clay Shirky, adjunct professor at New York University and author of Here Comes Everybody. From there, the knowledge-hungry group of marketers flooded into the Exposition Hall, where Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask booths were on the front line. Through the hall, sales reps and HR recruiters waited patiently to offer their pitches and pass out their advertising toys. Findoloy, a smaller search engine, was giving away free massages all day. Other booths were the Online Marketing Institute, Bruce Clay Inc., iProspect, Facebook and Webmaster Radio.

Turning Social Media Into ROI
One of the more interesting classes I attended was entitled “Turning the Social Web Into Real ROI” with Sean Heywood, Claudia Virgilio and Rogelio (Ro) Choy on the a panel of speakers and mediator Tim Kendall, Director of Monetization at Facebook. The emphasis of the class was to monetize social media as a potential sales force. For instance, Facebook gets more inbound links than Google, which means that having a Facebook fan page can be just as productive as a website. If you are ignoring social media, then you are missing out on the biggest Internet marketing opportunity and tool available to you and your online business.

Tackling Statistics
One of the unfortunate aspects of Facebook and other social media sites is that they are still difficult to measure despite the high return on investment they offer. Still you can keep track of click-throughs from specified actions on fan pages and profiles. Facebook ads can also help you to measure statistics. Regardless of difficult measurement, social media offers a great ROI for web success if done correctly.

Understanding the Social Media Investment
Although you may want to see measurements, sometimes companies must invest in what works and not how it works. Think of a television commercial or an ad in a newspaper. What is your ROI for these? Companies spend millions of dollars without a solid knowledge of who sees the ad. But they still invest because it works. Social media works in the same respect but is much cheaper and can almost guarantee exposure to targeted markets.

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I am a graduate of IT and I want to start a small internet business. My question is, what people I need to start? What knowledge I need to know first. I can do the technical but I don’t know how to market internet business.

Any idea? Tips where I’m going to start? Forums? Links? Books? Thanks.

I own 2 companies now. My first one folded. It can be rough but I have learned a little bit about it now. First get incorporated or file the assumed name form at the court so your business name will exist and you can start opening a bank account and getting marketing materials together. One of the best things to do early on is join your local chamber of commerce. It costs about 200 dollars but you get free advertising, free referrals, and they put you into their directory of member companies so that other chamber members can do business with people in the organization. That will help you get a start. Email me if you want. I’ll send you some more details.