New to Internet Marketing? | How to Get Started In Internet Marketing

Are you tempted to start an on line business but just don’t how to get going? Start here!

Today was a special day in Wales (UK) – the sun was shining!  Last Spring the UK weather Guru’s forecast a Bar-B-Q summer and it has seemed to rain every day since but today the sun shone in the garden of our friends Mike and Karen. Mike owns a Kitchen Planning business my home town of Cowbridge and my wife Bee and I were invited to a feast of burgers and sausage, chicken and ribs, salad, baked potatoes, Tiramisu, cream and Coconut Ice cream. Life should always be this good.

Wales is very beautiful, very green and very wet, nearby is the place  Tom Jones was born and it is our classic wet weather which gives the lush scenery Tom sings about in his song “The Green Green Grass of Home”

Today though a dozen or so of Mike and Karen’s friends enjoyed idyllic weather and I met Roland, a Mortgage Advisor. The conversation turned to ‘What do you do’ and I told Roland how my blog ‘Internet Marketing Virgin’ helps people who are new to Internet Marketing by giving straight forward ‘non-techie’ advice. Roland is on the upper side of 50 and like many of us golden oldies would love to build a late life career which would give him flexibility to work when and where he likes and go on giving him some residual income when he gives up work altogether.

 ‘I want to figure out how to make money online’ Roland said ‘So tell me, just how do I get started?’

That’s what we do here, this section of ‘Internet Marketing Virgin’ will explain

• What internet marketing is and is not
• How to decide if this is a suitable business for you
• The tools and training you will need to get started
• Making a business plan for your e commerce business
• Researching to see how to make money online
• Building a blog or a website (if you need one at all!)
• Creating content for your website that will draw people
• Getting traffic to your website
• How social networks can help you
• Using e-mail to keep your existing customers
• Earning money from your online business

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Your e mail Signature is your Fortune | How to Use Your Signature to Promote Your Business

E mail signatures (those few lines under your e mail or posting describing you and your business)  are said to be the most effective way of promoting your goods and services when used with your e mail provider on social marketing sites and within an autoresponder.  But how is that done?

Internet Marketing Virgin is test driving Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring products which are designed to find distributors for MLM companies using low cost Internet marketing methods.

 In the of Magnetic Sponsoring getting started section Mike offers advice about content and we recently published a blog on that subject see “How to use your e mail signature to promote Magnetic Sponsoring” below, but newbies might find setting up a signature series a bit of a challenge.

 Is it Better to receive and send your mail in Outlook or Gmail?

 I only used Outlook until last year but then I discovered Google Mail and now I find I use g mail all the time. I like it.

G Mail is easier to use on the move, has a faster and more accurate search facility, a labels system which is far easier that the outlook folder system, a simpler rules and filters interface, better spam filtering, and best of all huge free storage space. BUT there are a couple of flaws.

I have a number of businesses and the signature for one business is not always appropriate for another. In Outlook you can add as many signatures as you like and select the one you wish to use for a particular e mail but in G Mail there is only provision for creating only one.  You can get over this using g mail ‘Canned Responses’ but it is a bit clumsy. A proper multi signature system would be better.

 It is possible to access G Mail using Mozilla Firefox and then download a Plug In from  http://www.wisestamp.com  however if you are an Outlook user it might be better to carry on using a system you are familiar with rather than be distracted by learning something new when time is of the essence.

That’s what I am doing, cutting out time wasting learning of new systems ands using the tools I have.

 The procedure for entering signatures is in Outlook is straight forward.

 Create or modify e-mail signatures in Outlook

There are few better ways to spread the word about your business than a well crafted e mail signature

An e-mail signature consists of text or pictures, or both. If you choose to create and use a signature, Microsoft Outlook automatically adds it to your outgoing e-mail messages.

Create and use signatures

 You can create custom signatures for different purposes.

1. In Microsoft Word, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
2. Click E-mail Options, and then click the E-mail Signature tab.
3. In the Type the title of your e-mail signature or choose from the list box, type a name for your signature.
4. Under Create your e-mail signature, insert the text or pictures, or both, that you want to use for a signature. Use the formatting tools to apply formatting to your text.
5. Click Add.

To create another signature, click New, and then repeat steps 3 through 5.

Set or change the default signature

1. In Microsoft Word, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
2. Click E-mail Options, and then click the E-mail Signature tab.
3. If you use more than one e-mail account in Microsoft Outlook, select the account for this signature in the Select the signatures associated with box.
4. Do one or more of the following:
   1. In the Signature for new messages list, click the signature you want.
   2. In the Signature for replies and forwards list, click the signature you want.

Add a signature to a single e-mail message

If Word is your e-mail editor and you want to add a signature to only one message, you can manually insert it.

1. In the e-mail message, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
2. Click E-mail Options, and then click the E-mail Signature tab.
3. In the Type the title of your e-mail signature or choose from the list box, click the name of the e-mail signature you want to use. Under Create your e-mail signature, select the signature text you want to add to your e-mail message, and then press CTRL+C.
4. Click Close, and then click Cancel.
5. In the e-mail message, place your cursor where you want the signature to appear, and then press CTRL+V.

 Note   The signature will not automatically appear in all new e-mail messages.

Select the most suitable signature for the e mail you are sending

If you have defined more than one signature, you can switch between them.

1. In the e-mail message, right-click the existing signature.
2. Select the name of the signature that you want to use.

Just Choose the most appropriate for the e mail you are sending.