Marketing and Automation

Scotty: She's all yours, sir. All systems are automated and ready. A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her!

Captain Kirk: Thank you Mr. Scott. I'll try not to take that personally.
-Star Trek

If you have spent any time on the Internet looking into the affiliate marketing arena. You have most likely come across the latest and greatest product to automate and integrate your marketing efforts.

"What marketing marketing efforts you ask"? Why the ones you outlined from the ebook you purchased just last week. The one that informed you that you needed at the very least: 3 new software programs, 2 new e-books and an upgraded hosting account for the thousands of visits your going to get.

And this e-book had all the answers. It neatly listed all the resources you could possibly need, (in hyper text links of course) with all the appropriate affiliate codes.

"But", not your affiliate codes and that’s the point.

The person who wrote that e-book had a plan. He/she actually followed through on it and dare I say it, "Automated the end result".

Automation comes after the process of creation.

Internet marketing is the most lucrative way of starting your home-based online business. It is the “big break” that many are looking for in a very long time. Do you want to become the boss? Do you want to work with your own time schedule? Do you want to work while wearing your favorite Hawaiian pajama and shirt? Do you want an extraordinary income that will exceed your expectation?

However, there is a great marketing misconception.

Contrary to the popular belief of becoming a computer geek first before earning money through Internet marketing, there are ways of ensuring success in online business without dealing too much with computer expertise. In fact, you do not have to be a web development guru or web programming expert to make your own living on the Internet.

There are Internet marketing business opportunities that are designed with simplicity. These opportunities have low barrier entries for individuals who lack technical know-how about the business. You can use these fully-automated systems to your advantage even if you are not a computer wizard. These programs are growing as your knowledge base expands.

What you need to learn are the basics of these automated systems (such as HTML and JavaScript codes) so that you can use them to your advantage. Most of successful Internet marketers studied this basic knowledge and applied what they have learned on simple automated systems. Only the fundamentals matter—and the rest will just follow.