Traffic is the common denominator for all marketers. It does not matter how great the product or opportunity we offer, if no one visits us, then our marketing life will be short lived. Take a restaraunt for example. What good will it do to have the best food, the best service, but no customers? I hope you like to eat your own cooking.

Traffic will be the key to your success. Folks get started in the Internet world with high hopes and expectations. With no knowledge of a plan to market their business, most will drop out due to disappointment and failure. It really does not have to be that way.

Allow me to offer some advice that may help you stay in this thing long enough to decide if this is for you or not. Will all succeed? Will all get rich and retire early? Let me be blunt an to the point. No! But you know what? You can at least have a chance, and the more you know before hand, can save you lots of money and time. Here are a few pointers to get you started on the Marketing journey.

Know the WHY. Why are you marketing. What are your goals? Once you answer the why, you are ready to begin building your model to help achieve your dream. Learn before you get burned. Do you have a product or service? If so, do you believe in them? In other words don't try to offer up something that you know does not work. It can ruin your reputation and your reputation means a lot. That may the one thing you carry with you to your grave. So do the best you can to keep it clean. Educate yourself on web hosting, site building, where and how to draw folks to your site. Whether it be on the Internet or the corner lot, you gotta have customers. Find out for sure what is working the best.

Some ways to educate yourself is by joining forums. There are tons of knowledge in forums and it gives you a perspective of what you will face. You can get great advice from seasoned veterans, and you will learn how to utilize forums to build your traffic. Study ezine articles. You will find ideas by reading what others are posting in directories. You will have to spend some money for advertising. You can waste a lot of time by trying to join free list or surfing traffic sites. Regardless of what the sites promise, be leary. Feel free to use the free sites, just don't expect lots of results.

Remember you are looking for targeted traffic. You will see ads that will offer you thousands of leads that will build your business. One of the pitfalls of ordering leads is that you may be getting someone who filled out something for free, and have no concern for your offer. So you pay for them and then get jolted into reality. They did not even know what they were signing up for. Some lead places are better than others, so if you do use leads, study the company first.

This marketing concept, especially Internet marketing offers each one of us a great opportunity that otherwise we may not have. Don't wait until you think you know everything there is to know about marketing before you take off. Just know the basics, you will learn more along the way. If you stay patient, be honest, educate yourself, and work to reach your goals, then you may have a very rewarding marketing experience. Remember you very well can be the one to control your destiny.

My name is Wayne Clark and I feel blessed to have the opportunity to make it in the marketing world. The Internet offers each one of us the means to succeed. Don't pass it by. See if we can help in your journey. Come see us at http://www.youropportunitycenter.com