To have a successful Internet business, you need only three things:
1. Product
2. Copywriting
3. Traffic
It really is that simple. If you have those three things competently performed, you will have a succesful, profitable Internet business. Lets talk about competency in each of those three areas and how you can quickly master each one.
Product
You need a product that people want. Dont fall in love with a product just because you think its cool. Ill go into details in a future article, but I look at two things to determine if a product is wanted enough for me to sell it:
1. Are there people searching for that product (I use the Overture tool)
2. Are fellow marketers willing to pay a significant amount of money for traffic for that search term because people are buying (I also use the Overture tool).
I multiply those two numbers. If the result is higher than the result for the product air guns, Im willing to get into that market. Why air guns? It was simply my first profitable product. Can products that score lower than air guns be profitable? Im sure they can, but there are enough markets that score higher than air...