Internet Marketing University is Our Secret to Web Site Success!

In the past few years, we've learned an important lesson about the Internet and Net businesses: There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!

You have to know what you're doing, and you must work at it.

You found this site, Customer Service Point, but not by chance. We work at it following a specific method that results in a site that is actually found if you search for a term like "customer service definition" on Yahoo (#4 on the list) or Google (#5 on the list).

It's no big secret. You can do it too! If you have a minute to spare, I'll share with you what I've learnt to be succesful on the Internet, and where I learnt it.

A couple of years ago I thought that anyone with a website was making a quick buck, without any effort. I wanted that too (naturally!) so I registered a domain name, bought a hosting plan, and started building my own little Internet empire.

It failed miserably...

I found out the hard way that you don't build an Internet business just by slapping up a web site. You need a plan, just as with any other business. There's no "Get Rich Quick" on the Net (unless you can convince others there is, and take their money without remorse). I bought into the hype, without knowing anything. So I failed.

Next I started to look around if I could find a way to make me succeed. I wanted to learn the process of building a successful online business, and I found it at I.M.U.

What we Learn:

We are taught about the way the Internet works. And how you can make money with it. The process is called C-T-P-M, which stands for Content, Traffic, Presell, Money.

First you build Content. Information about subjects people are actually searching for. And you do it in such a way that it scores high in the search engines (Google and the like).
That results in Traffic to your site. People won't come to your site, unless they can find you.
If you offer good information, they'll keep coming. And they'll come to know, trust and respect you. This is the third step, Preselling.
And with the trust and respect comes to ability to actually make Money with your site, either by promoting other businesses, or advertising, or selling your own products. In fact, these are just a few of the possibilities.

This is a process that works! The course is showing how to build web businesses that follow this process.

The course is divided in 10 days. Each "day" you either do research or use the research. Don't be fooled by the term "day", though. Each step in the course takes as long as it takes. One step may take indeed just a day, yet another may cost a month. But every step is very doable. Baby steps towards the success of your site.

The Students

The students come from all over the world, and include work-at-home moms (like myself) and dads, teachers, doctors, consultants, small business owners, silver surfers (a much nicer name than seniors, don't you agree?). It's quite a gathering!

And most of us don't even have knowledge about the tech stuff going on at our sites. We just focus on writing quality content, and the program takes care of the technical stuff. We didn't even needed to know a snippet of HTML to make this page. It's like stacking blocks. Anybody can do it.

We are doing it!

The best thing about this school is that we are actually doing it! We're not just learning about what makes a great web business, we are actually building great web businesses as we go.

As you can see on my report, I'm getting some really good scores from the search engines on the keywords I target. We're on the first page for many of our keywords. And this results in a lot of traffic: 22,341 visitors in July 2007 (history: 13,932 in May 2006, 10,017 in August 2005) to be exact. And this traffic earns us a nice extra income of just over $1100/month. Not bad, eh?

Customerservicepoint.com even made it to the school's Hall of Fame! You have to watch carefully, though. The school churns out so many succesful web site owners, the list is very long.

It took a couple of months to get things going, but our website (the one you are actually looking at) is now delivering a nice extra income of just over $1,100.00/month. And this is just one of our sites.

A school that pays for itself, and then some. There aren't a lot of those around...

SuperKen aka Dr. Ken Evoy Now, if you'd like to see how well others are doing, check out these other case studies...

The Teachers

The School Principal and founder is Dr. Ken. He's a clever guy who literally knows everything there is to know about Internet Marketing. But don't get him started. He can talk and talk and talk about it, with the occasional sidebar thrown in (the pic I took down from the Bulletin Board just in time before Dr. Ken saw it). He's also known for his philosophy lessons. Recently he just educated us on why people fail, and why they succeed. Very insightful.

Here are some highlights of an interview with Dr. Evoy (this short interview is just 2,5 minutes, well worth your time!), where he explains why this is so powerful:

My favorite teacher is Mrs. Debs. She knows so much, and takes the time to help everyone along... Her motto is "Paying it forward is the best compliment", but if she's still paying it forward, then she must have won the lottery or something!

And then there's Larry, the resident grey dog who is actually a cat lover (just like us). If you're down because things aren't going as you'd like, he can really motivate you to keep going.

An online Forum for Students and Teachers

There is even an online forum where students and teachers can meet. It's a busy place, and everyone is helping each other!

Building a web business used to be a lonely activity, but now I've met so many nice people from all over the world. Some I even call friends, even though I have never met them face-to-face.

Anyway, the forum is a great place for learning and asking questions. You never feel left on your own if you're stuck.

Internet Marketing University

To be honest, it isn't a real school as you know it. It only exists in cyber space. In fact, it isn't even called Internet Marketing University. It's called "Site Build It!"

But the people I talked about are very real, and so is the process, the forum, and the successful Net Businesses we've built.

For learning all there is to know about running a succesful online business, this is as good as it gets. Really, I mean it:

You know, I choose the name Internet Marketing University for a reason. Those letters stand for something... I-M-U, or I am you, meaning that if I can do it, so can you!
Looking for an idea to make it on the Net?
Get loads of idea's here!

At your service,

Erwin & Marjan Steneker.

P.S. If you have a question about SBI!, feel free to contact me or put your question(s) to another succesful SBI! owner

P.P.S. Oops, forgot to say: you can get great F R E E study material on building succesful web sites here.

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