Shoppers going online First!
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Are you generating sales for that new widget you invented? Perhaps your going for the affiliate commissions and promoting someone elses widget. Either way, there is some very good news for all aspiring netreprenuers. Recent studies such as the one performed by burst media found that 49.8% of the people asked said that television was the media that most effectively grabbed thier attention.
Now comes the good news. The internet came in as the second type of media with 22.3% of respondents going online to browse what interests them, followed by magazines newspapers and radio respectively.
That should have you out of your chair and doing the happy dance considering that the internet is still the newest of the lot.
The number of new online entreprenuers will also be increasing due to the fact that more and more working moms have decided that they want to and now have the opportunity to stay home while they conduct business online while at the same time watching and raising their children themselves instead of farming them out to the daycare centers.
Hopefully, the ones that do decide to start a new journey online will be able to avoid the scams and the hype that so many marketers fall for (yours truely included) when their just beginning.
These days though, it's much easier to find reputable business owners and affiliate programs and mentors such as the wonderful teachers at the "affiliate classroom" or "linkshare" and "clickbank and of course "Amazon.
E-bay is always a good starting place as well for new stay at home moms who wish to get their feet wet in the online marketplace.
So is it easy to start a new career online? absolutely not. It is simple though with the right guidence, and all of, or rather most of the tried and true marketing strategies that have worked so well over the years in the real world carry over into cyberspace very well.
Actually the hardest part for the people that are Very green behind the ears is finding a good mentor.
They Are out there, and they need to find them first before wasting any time or money trying to just feel their way through how to operate a business.
Now is the time though to start because of the trends that online marketers are seeing in the consumers.
As the internet grows, so too, do the number of households that are using their trusty laptop or home computers to gather information about products and services that they want to purchase.
Oh and it gets even better.
It seems that the more that households make, the more likely they are to fly through cyberspace for what they want rather than trudging across the tundra at the local malls.
The studies show that the number of consumers that use the internet as their primary source of information about what they want to purchase are 50.6% for households bringing in $35.000 per year.
As income rises the percentage rises with 58.1% who earn between $35.000-$49.999, to 61.3% at $50.000 - $75.999 and a whopping 69.2% at the $75.000 plus range.
When the brick and mortor operators find out about these studies, the ad dollars going to TV at the moment will soon be moving online.
So if you are already here (online) get ready for the flood.
Dont-cha just love it when a plan comes together.
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Rich Carter is the CEO of Rapid Enterprises and is an expert affiliate marketer and consultant. Working with the Affiliate Classroom fledgling marketers learn the right way to earn a living online.
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