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This will be the first blog post of my life. To be honest, I always thought blogging was stupid and I had my reasons which I will not go into.

My name is Bobby Chindaphone, I'm 18 years old. I'm an internet marketer. I've been in this industry for nearly a year, and so far I've been truly successful as far as reaching and even surpassing the goals that I've set. I never believed in "making money online" or "working at home". I do now.

What exactly is "internet marketing"? Simply put, it's marketing on the internet. Offering products or services using the internet as a medium for potential customers to come to you.

For two years I worked at a shoe store making $6.00. My average paycheck there was $200 if I was lucky. Two hard weeks of part time work everynight after school, I made $200 per two weeks and $400 per month. That's not too bad you might think. It's horrible.

In 1 month's worth of time investment, I started my own marketing plan, and executed it. At the very moment that I am typing this, I am making double what I did working at the shoe store. In a couple months from now with little to no effort, I'll have doubled my monthly profits yet again. It's true and even I never thought it would happen.

So yes, there is money to be made on the internet. Advertisers and consumers alike, spend more and more every year. Who's to stop you from taking your own share?

It's tough, yet it's so simple.

Bobby Chindaphone is an Internet Marketer, check out his Blog at http://bobbychindaphone.blogspot.com/. This article may be used freely for non-commercial purposes and only if this entire paragraph is included.

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It's official. The Web 2.0 is here. If you have no idea at all that it is already here or what it is in the first place, then you must have been living in the cave for the past 5 years.

Face it. If you're still using some of the outdated Web 1.0 methods to increase traffic to your website, you may still get some results out of your marketing efforts but you will eventually lose out to the newer guys who go Web 2.0.

Now let me share with you 3 tips on how to increase traffic to your website, the Web 2.0 way.

1. Think viral. The concept of viral marketing will never die out. The Viral meme is what defined and made Life in the first place. For as long as there is Life, the concept of the Virus (biological, marketing, electronic, etc) will still continue to haunt us - for good or ill.

There are 2 basic elements that determine the success of your marketing virus:-

I) The strength of your viral marketing message, or in the words of Mark Joyner, its "Buzz-worthiness", that is, its merit or quality that makes people want to tell others about it because it is so good.

II) The mechanism by which the virus must spread. Is it easy to spread the message? Must your referrers go through an elaborate and troublesome process to spread the message? Or need they only do what they've always been easily doing in order to spread your viral message?

From the above 2 elements, you already have an action plan formulated for you that can be condensed into one sentence:- create a message that promotes your website, be it in the form of a video, audio, multimedia, text, blog or a whacky buzzword, that is truly "buzz-worthy" and at the same time easy to spread via existing networks.

2. Attack the Social Networks. Either exploit the existing social networks such as MySpace, Friendster, Squidoo, etc, or create one of your own that is built around your niche.

There are many Friendster or MySpace clones out there available for download (for a fee of course) which you can use, tweak or get a programming expert friend of yours to develop a Social Network of your own that is built around the niche that you're involved with.

A good way to market through Social Networks is by having an interesting profile that offers consistently updated information about yourself and your business or your website. Duplicate your blog in your MySpace or Friendster blog as any updates to your profile or blog will be reflected to the friends in your network.

Browse the Social Networks for friends who share the same interests and passions as you and add them as friends. Send private messages to them and work something out. Say you're starting a private group of like-minded people who are passionate about whatever it is your niche is about. Mention incentives such as money, exclusivity, fame, etc.

Place a limit to the number of people who can join this private club of yours and be sure to include only those people who have lots of friends in their network, perhaps ranging in the hundreds.

3. Blogging, of course, is one of those defining elements of Web 2.0.

There are different approaches to exploiting the Blogging phenomenon to market your website. One is to have a blog of your own. The other is to somehow enable others to have blogs hosted by you. But if you go the second route, you'll face tough competition from Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, etc.

The trick is to create a service or software which has something the others do not have. Or you can create a service, software, tool or tip page that complements your so-called competition by giving something of benefit to users of such blogging services.

One way is to offer RSS feeds tools that enable other bloggers to syndicate their content to other websites or deliver their feeds to their readers' desktops or emails.

Another way is to give other bloggers the opportunity to include "Bookmark" links on their blogs. Websites such as http://Del.Icio.Us or Digg offers users the ability to share their favourite websites with other people.

You can exploit this phenomenon by creating an account with the various social bookmarking sites and sharing links to your websites or you can create cool-looking "Bookmark This" icons for other bloggers and get them to link to your website in return.

If you write a blog of your own, you can market your blog by visiting other people's blogs and leaving useful and beneficial comments on them. Most of the time their comments forms enable you to include a link back to you in their comments page.

Browse the blogs around your niche and most of the time they have a link saying "Links to this Post". This enables you to link to their posts in your blog if you happen to like their blog posts. Give and take. Blog about another person's blog and a link to your website may appear in that person's blog in return. This process is automatic.

There you have it - 3 new Web 2.0 ways to increase traffic to your website. In truth, there are literally hundreds of other ways to improve your website marketing the Web 2.0 way that are not covered here in this article. Now it is up to you to apply what you have learned here and come up with something that is even better.

Mohamad Latiff is the Creator of the http://www.TrafficTimeBomb.com, a revolutionary software that will exponentially increase traffic to your website by the power of viral marketing.

It has been estimated the as much as 8000 internet businesses are started each year, unfortunately many will be out of business within 5 years. Financial Security usually is one of the top reasons why people want to start their own business but many people may not look at or even want to see the answers that arise in why a business fails.

Heres a list of some of the reasons why an online network marketing business fails:

1. Lack of Experience and Knowledge

Many people go with the idea that their experience and knowledge is all they require from their own previous brick and mortar businesses and use that knowledge completely for an online business. Having previous business experience is valuable but not knowing their competition in a global marketplace or understanding internet marketing as it applies can affect their online business negatively.

2. Lack of training on how to start an online business

Finding a company with a good compensation plan may be an important but if it does not have good training or support for how to start a business with them, many people quickly run into trouble. Sponsor or Upline support for starting an online business is equally important because how will you be able to train and consult new members to start an online business if you have no support from others who are doing the business?

3. Lured towards get rich quick schemes

All too often, people are easily duped into the get rich quick type of business only to find out that it is not as easy as the companys advertising claims to be. The claims of making thousands per month without effort are highly exaggerated and usually only after they take their money, does a person realize what is involved.

4. Not being consistent or quitting the business too early

Quitting and not being consistent with a new online business is an early killer when the business does not grow as it is expected. Getting rich quick scenarios all too often cause a new person in the business to give up early before it has a chance to grow. Stop thinking about immediate Riches and start thinking about what the business consistently requires to allow it to grow. Remember consistency = growth.

5. Dealing with companies that are not credible

Fly by night companies have been seen too often on the internet. To protect yourself, do some investigation on some of the search engines to see the companies reputation, history and complaints, if any. Another area is online forums to get further information from people who are doing business with the company.

6. Lack of motivated team members

The purpose of an online network marketing business is to have people on your team working and encouraging others to be part of your business. It starts at the top and if you are not motivated, your members below you will lose focus in working with you in your business.

7. Treat the business like a hobby and not as a business

We all have other family life responsibilities and activities, but if your business is treated like a when ever business, it surely will be a maybe never type business doomed to fail.

8. Improper use of time dedicated towards the business

Dedicating your time for only one day a week or going 14 hours straight on one day of the week is not good time management. For an online business to be successful, dividing the time evenly through out the week is better than dedicating only one day per week to it. This can apply even if you can spare only 5 to 10 hours a week.

9. Lack of organization

This is an obvious one but often overlooked. If papers, receipts, and information from members or prospects is all over the place, surely your work and business will suffer. Ideally, important documents should be placed in separate folders and kept in a safe place.

10. Lack of the latest information

The internet is always changing and it is important to keep up to date with the latest information when it comes to getting potential leads or prospects for your business. This does not mean that you have to hunt for all the information yourself. A Good Sponsor or Upline support should help because they may already be applying the new information to get prospects and people that want to be part of the business.

This is not to scare people from starting an online network marketing business, but to help set a better plan of action. So if your ready to overcome any challenges, then go get-em!

Brad Jacobsen is a Web Developer and Internet Marketer.