If you’re looking to take your online marketing to the next level, you’ve come to the right place. You’ll learn proven methods and get the access you need to grow your business successfully.

In addition to gaining a basic understanding of how to market online, you’ll discover the essential tools that come with your own account. Plus, you’ll discover how to leverage affiliate marketing, which is one of the most effective and simple ways to generate additional revenue online. You’ll even learn how to create a free marketing page to attract potential customers to your side of the business. Across the board, you’ll walk away with invaluable takeaways that will propel you forward.

Marketing on a Budget

Often, entrepreneurs and small business owners have to choose between investing in marketing or investing in product. They often wonder which is more important and try to prioritize which should receive the most attention. Yet, all too often, they fail to consider the importance of each element. Product and marketing are inextricably linked, and, as you’ll learn in the course, neither one can exist without the other.

By prioritizing marketing over product even before the company has found its footing, you could be doing great damage. After all, if you can’t attract customers to your site, you’ll never garner sales and, ultimately, your business may never thrive.

Attracting Customers Through Content Marketing

When someone lands on your website, the very first thing they’ll see is content. Whether you have a blog article or some other engaging piece of content, the key is to constantly be supplying your audience with content that will keep them coming back.

In the content marketing world, this practice is known as “feeding the beast.” While there’s nothing wrong with putting out content for the sake of having content, when you’re doing it just to gain more traffic, that’s when you’ve gone too far.

Creating content does take time, so instead of doing it just to gain more web traffic, you might want to consider doing it to provide value to your audience. If you can become known as an authoritative source for your industry, you’ll gradually begin to attract more and more qualified leads to your site. These leads will, in turn, become your sales team and fuel your growth.

How to Utilize Affiliate Marketing

Many businesses opt to forego using affiliates altogether and, instead, rely on their own in-house team to market their products. While this may work in the short term, it doesn’t give you the long-term growth you may seek. Why?

When you use affiliates, you’re taking advantage of a system that was designed to help businesses just like yours grow their business.

Take a look at some of the biggest brands today to get an idea of how an affiliate program can work for you.

• AirBNB
• Blue Apron
• Fab.com
• Neiman Marcus
• Overstock.com
• Reebok
• Target.com

You may choose to use a tool like Google AdWords to gain more web traffic, but once you have that traffic, you can integrate affiliate marketing into your strategy. In other words, you can use your blog to attract potential customers to your site, and then you can use your site to convert those visitors into sales.

Setting Up Shop

Once you have attracted the interest of potential customers, the next step is to establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry. This can be done through various means, including:

• Creating web content to attract potential customers to your site.
• Building a community of customers and potential customers through social media.
• Attending industry events and conferences to establish yourself as an authority in your field.
• Creating and selling your own products.
• Gradually introducing new products to your audience as you gain more expertise.
• Becoming a go-to source for additional resources for your industry.
• Generating leads and converting them into paying customers.
• Upselling products and receiving commission on sales.

There are various ways to monetize a blog or website, but the most effective and simple way is to simply charge for access to specific content or to sell and display ads on your site. When you choose this route, you don’t need to worry about the traffic coming in and immediately leaving. You’ll simply need to focus on creating engaging content that is useful and informative to your target audience.

Building a Customer Base

Once you have established yourself as an expert in your industry, you can begin to gradually build a customer base by offering people what you believe to be the best value in your industry. In order to do this, you’ll need to consider many factors, including:

• Costs. What is the price of my product or service?
• Quality. Is it of high quality?
• Delivery. Is it delivered on time and, if so, how?
• Value. Do I offer something that is worth what I’m charging?
• Reliability. Can I be trusted to provide what I’ve promised?

By carefully considering all these factors and factors, you’ll be able to provide individuals with the best possible value when they choose your product or service over others in their industry.