Internet Business and Internet Marketing Tools
Free Internet Tools and Resources the Steptoe (Sanford & Son)
Way
By Patricia A. Jones
Can you build up a successful Internet marketing business with
low cost and free tools and resources or should you take a big
risk and blow all of your capital before you learn how to become
an Internet marketer? Yes you can! Read on to learn more…
Today I was just about to get into the shower when I heard a
once familiar call and the clip clop of a horse. I couldn’t
believe what I heard and had to look out of the window to check
that I was hearing right. I saw a sight which I haven’t seen for
many years – a scruffy man with horse and cart collecting other
peoples junk from which he was planning to make money – a rag
and bone man.
It reminded me of Steptoe and Son (Sanford and Son in the US)
the popular sit com from the sixties and seventies, the rag and
bone man even looked like Harold Steptoe from a distance. Harold
and his father Albert ran a scrap yard and the rag and bone men
went out on their rounds daily collecting junk, some free some
paid for, the junk was recycled for profit proving the saying
that one mans rubbish is another mans treasure.
I used to love watching Steptoe and Son and I’ll never forget
the phrase “You dirty old man” said by Harold to his father in
such a despising way. The humour probably wasn’t politically
correct, but sometimes I think that PC has gone too far anyway.
Seeing the rag and bone man made me think about
entrepreneurship and Internet marketing in a roundabout way. It
made me realise that just as he collects free products for
resale you can use free products and free tools and resources to
build your Internet business and there is no better time to
start than now.
We keep hearing about the credit crunch and how it is affecting
the lives of millions. When recessions hit many people lose
their jobs and struggle to find other employment, but it is also
a time when entrepreneurs rise from the ashes of high
unemployment. Some create empires from real world businesses
like my rag and bone man. Others get involved with business
opportunities on and offline. Many don’t succeed but some do and
it is because of those success stories that so many try.
New businesses need different levels of start up capital
depending upon the type of business that is being launched. Real
world businesses generally need more start up capital. For
instance the rag and bone man would need a horse and cart and
somewhere to store his ‘stock’. He would also need the know how
to renovate or recycle his ‘stock’ and where to sell his goods.
An Internet business can be started with nothing except a
computer, an ability to search and learn, a commitment to hard
work and patience. There is no need to throw your life savings
into Internet marketing because there are an awful lot of free
products and free tools and resources waiting out there for you
to make money with providing that you realise that it takes time
and that you have a lot of patience.
Following you will find a list of the types of low cost or free
tools of resources available on the internet to help you to
build your internet business:
Webspace (hosting, blogs, Squidoo, Hubpages)
Website and Blog Templates
Products (ebooks, software, templates, graphics and scripts)
Product & Service Affiliation
Free Advertising
Search Engine Submission (limited)
Article Directories (mostly free to submit articles)
Auction Sites (small fees
Forums (For knowledge & marketing)
Marketplace (Payloadz & Tradebit – small fee)
Free Informative Courses
Link directories
Email Marketing
Autoresponders
Google Publisher Tools
Just do a search for any of those and you will find that there
is a massive amount of free tools and resources for Internet
marketers out there, plus more than I have listed.
Be Warned
This is sad but the other day I read a forum post from somebody
new to Internet marketing. In his late fifties he had just been
made redundant and believed that at his age he wouldn’t get
another job. He was planning to blow every penny that he had on
starting up an Internet business. I don’t think that it was
because he believed in himself, more likely that he believed the
BS ‘you’ll make a fortune’ sales spiel that you see everywhere.
I wanted to tell him not to be an idiot, that only a small
percentage ever make fortunes, that those who blow all of their
money on pipedreams and without knowledge are the ones who go
away broke and disheartened, but hey somebody got there before
me!
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