The Amazing Secret Formula to Online Success

Like most things said to be secret, the formula for online success is not really a secret. However, it's  not fully appreciated. The formula is simple. To be successful in any business online or offline; you first must have YOUR OWN PRODUCT, and second you must have an ARMY OF SELLERS ready to sell your product.

Okay, so you're under whelmed by this momentous revelation, but hang on.

Internet marketing is simple but not easy.

It involves among other things: putting up at least one web page, optimizing the web page for search engines to get free traffic. It involves pay per click search engine and ezine advertising campaigns. It involves blogs, adsense, rss feeds, and offline promotions.

It involves joint ventures, email mailing lists, and product returns. It involves every traffic-generating scheme you can think up and or ever heard about. Internet marketing means learning how to write good direct sales copy.  It means setting up an affiliate network to help you market your product. It means keeping track of your affiliate’s earnings and paying them in a timely manner.

In other words, internet marketing involves lots of details. With all the things to keep track of in your business you need a game plan to keep headed in the right direction.

The amazing secret formula does exactly that. The formula keeps you focused on the basics. Furthermore, it’s not just for mom and pop internet marketers. Literally every online and offline business powerhouse uses this simple two-step formula.

Some examples:

Amazon.com was the first to put the formula to work online. Amazon had a product, books. Somebody at Amazon came up with the concept of AFFILIATION. By definition affiliation refers to a relationship between two unequal parties.

An example of affiliation is a local network TV station. The local station is an affiliate of either of the big three TV networks: CBS, ABC, or NBC.  The local station buys programming from a network. In turn the local uses the purchased programming to sell commercial airtime to business.

In a sense the local TV station is reselling programming purchased from the network.

All online affiliate programs work similarly. Amazon sells books. But Amazon.com being just one web site can only physically sell so many books. So they decided to hire affiliate sales men and women.

Amazon got website owners to sell Amazon books on their websites for a percentage of the sale! History will show that very many said yes! Viola! Amazon later started what they called Amazon.com Stores. The concept of online affiliation was born.

Amazon had product, but it didn’t have an army of sellers. By taking on affiliates in return for a percentage of sales made at affiliate web pages Amazon multiplied its profits, its reach, and branded internet commerce with its name.

Google's another example. Google’s product is search results. Google came up with the brilliant concept of adsense. Adsense is simply the affiliation of the Google search engine.

You can’t have been online and not seen the growth of ad sense. Website owners make money from the adsense ads on their site.

These  days, very few websites DON'T have a Google adsense ad. Just like Amazon, Google has multiplied its influence, it’s profits, it’s reach, and it’s brand all over the interent.

All Amazon and Google did was go out and get an ARMY OF RE-SELLERS to promote their original PRODUCT! The formula is stupidly simple. But the application is murderously profitable!

This two step formula has worked offline since the beginning of time. A pieman baked pies. The Pie man hired Simple Simon to sell his pies in return for a percentage.

All Simple had to do was promote the Pieman’s pies. But Simon was simple so he ate the pies!  The old nursery rhyme illustrates the fact that the amazing secret formula has been around forever.

What the amazing secret formula teaches is that there are many amazing secret formulas right in front of your eyes! 

And because the internet is the informational equivalent of the industrial revolution there are fortunes to be made by men and women who can see the stupidly obvious and apply it to internet marketing.

The point is promoting products for others is fine. It's a good way to make a living. But there's no getting around the fact that promoting your own product(s) is likely to be significantly more profitable.

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