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Here are some interesting numbers.

Right now, today, there are 3 or 4 million people looking at the Internet Marketing (IM) world as a possible place for them to make money, proper, and thrive. In bad times, even more.

There's even MORE people looking for solutions to problems.

They're just looking now! They do a lot of looking (searching). They do a lot of buying, too.

There's a lot of them and they are growing fast. The internet is where it's happening.

There is a definite economic recession going on in the offline world right now. I don't see any trouble in the online sales world. It's growing fast. That makes it more of a sellers market.

Easier, so to speak.

In the Internet Marketing world there is little to no competition! It's just you. baby! When your prospect is looking at your offer on your page they are NOT looking at anybody else. For that moment.

The thing for you to do is create a LOT of those "moments" and get good at selling them right there, right now. Oh...don't forget to build your list, so you can have another shot at those who didn't buy the first time.

Your success, or lack of it, will be a direct result of the amount of work and the quality of work you put into it.

There is such a huge amount of people looking to buy online that all you have to do is get a very tiny slice of that pie.

Remember Sam Walton? He said "A very small percentage of a really big number is still a big number." I agree.

Internet Marketing itself is a great niche, but it requires more expertise than a lot of folks would have or want to learn. It doesn't take anywhere near as much know-how to sell info products or physical products to some very large "other" markets. (read "easier")

Markets like "weight loss" and "credit" and "baldness" and "abs and "golf" and "acne". Those are huge markets that are far easier to break into. One reason...maybe the main reason...desperate buyers! Or excited buyers.

People searching for a cure for their acne are not doing research. They have their credit card out and are looking to buy a fix. They want a solution to their problem.

There are a lot of things to learn in online marketing. Learn to build a website. Learn to set up a blog. learn to make a video. learn email marketing.

One of the hardest things to learn is "which market to go after and how to go after it".

Get that nailed and you'll be ahead of the mass of prospective marketers that haven't focused in on a market.

Then you have to settle in and go to work...build some infrastructure. Website, autoresponder, blog, email marketing, article marketing,etc. These are the "tools" that allow you to put up, on the web, an offer and drive the right traffic to it in order to generate sales.

Yes, Internet Marketing can be complicated. It can also be simple. Simple is usually the case for someone who has already put in a LOT of work! i.e. already learned to edit html and build a web page on which to put an offer.

The basics are what get you there! It's always been that way and it will remain that way.

Here's something basic. It's a formula. Offer + Buyers = Money You gotta love it.

In this business, like all others, you are rewarded for what you do (action) and not for just being there. So get to work!

Find a market, a group of people buying certain things. Find a product, affiliate is fine, that they will buy. Now find a way to get some of those people to see your offer!

Offer + Buyers = Money.

If it's not shown for direct sale on the net it is at LEAST advertised for sale on the net.

Picture yourself in a car on a nice day going down a typical commercial street. Can you see it? Look around as you move down the street.

What do you see? A fast food joint...an oil change outfit...banks...a mall with clothing stores and a nice restaurant. Did you see a bookstore?

A bookstore sells information. It's true that the information is sold in physical products but...the ratio of "other stores" to "bookstores" is just HUGE.

Like 99 to 1.

And it's the same on the internet. Physical products and "real stuff" are the vast majority of the things sold. Both in the Internet world and the real world.

Consider that for a moment. Where is your best opportunity?

Your best shot is to define and understand a market, the products that market likes to buy, and the markets buyers.

Find the market. Find the right product for that market. Get the people in the market to see your offer!

One of them is probably just right for you. Don't you wish you knew which one it was? Or maybe you do. if you do, congratulations, you are way ahead.

In any case don't for a minute despair! There are known ways to to sort out which way will suit you the best.

One way is to type in the search at Google "list of niche markets". Don't jump on the first thing..you're just looking. there's going to be a bunch.

Another great place to find out what's hot is good old Ebay. They even have a what's hot and whats not list and trend analysis. So does Yahoo!

And don't forget one of the very best sources of marketing information in the world ezinearticles.com. Go there. Find the most popular article in the niche you are looking into. Read it. Find it's keywords.

If it's really popular the people in that niche like that content and use those keywords to find it.

From Info marketing to sales of physical products there's a niche out there just waiting for someone like you.

Here's to your success,

Riley West - An Internet Marketer In The Making.