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Marketing online is the way you increase your internet presence and professionalism.

Many people are completely unaware of how marketing really works, they tend to think of sales as marketing, but a sale is simply the end result of your marketing efforts.

Marketing terms are generally misunderstood, so here is a bulleted list of the most common definitions of internet marketing.

• Networking definition: everyday contact with other people, business may be done now or in the future, the network buddy can then go on to meet more contacts expanding the network.
• Signature definition: your signature file is a small advert for your current offer, this can be placed at the footer of your websites, at the end of your emails and your posts in forums.
• Joint Venture definition: commonly known as JV, this is where you team up with other marketers to sell your goods, any number of JV partners can become involved, but profit shares and partner numbers must be agreed firstly.
• Email marketing definition: the art of sending offers via electronic mail, this is the number one cause of resentment toward the internet marketing community, there are strict guidelines to running an email campaign and they must be adhered to.
• Viral campaigns definition: these nasty sounding things are simply a method getting prospects to view your offer, where the said offer is knitted into something of such value, that your prospect would offer the package to a new user and so on.
• Blogging definition: marketers that use blogs to advertise keep a constant flow of information pouring into their blogs whilst sprinkling the content with their wares.
• Reverse blogging definition: this is the practice of leaving comments on popular blogs with a link back to your offer embedded into the comment.
• Article marketing definition: this is the most reputable, cleanest and honest form of marketing around at the moment, you simply write articles of interesting content, complete a signature file, then submit the articles to an online directory of articles. Interested parties will pick out articles that appeal to them and place them on their sites, leaving the link back to your offer intact.
• Forums definition: when you post messages on forums with helpful advice, this raises your status as an expert in your field.
• Free product marketing definition: these are given away to be used and distributed freely, somewhere, within the product is an ad, a link to your offer, or you must subscribe to an email list to receive your product.
• Autoresponder marketing definition: this was born from the process whereby when someone sent you an email, you sent back an automated reply, auto response, containing your offer. Nowadays, autoresponders are capable of sending many thousands of messages to different groups at set times, completely automating your email campaigns.
• Landing pages definition: these are simply single pages that have been set up to showcase your offer, many of these one pagers have a subscribe box on them.
• Ezines definition: publishing an ezine, or electronic magazine is firmly established in marketing circles, as an ezine publisher you have complete control over content, advertising and editorials. Other peoples ezines can be used to carry your ads.
• Affiliate marketing definition: here you are marketing other peoples products for a cut of the profits, as an affiliate you can often enrol fellow affiliates to earn a small cut from their efforts.
• Public service web sites definition: by displaying a useful service on your website, you have the opportunity to advertise your offers alongside the service.
• Webcasting definition: where a group of people hold online conferences to discuss various topics, there is usually an expert holding the webcast that will table some form of offer during the event.
• Podcasting definition: a movie version of the webcasting scenario, or just a simple movie advertisement, these need to content based with a very subtle sales message.
• Chat room marketing definition: many users freely chat about all the subjects under the sun, the chat room marketer infiltrates the room, as a chatter and attempts to recruit new blood.
• Content marketing definition: simply display relevant content on your web site, the information that your target group is searching for, then interlace the content with your ads. Google uses this method very well with its AdWords product.
• Blog Marketing definition: posting regularly to your own blogs and leaving useful comments on others blogs with your marketing theme hinted at.

Of course they are thousands of permutation's of all the above, and, as you become familiar with marketing, you can begin using advanced methods like name branding and authoring. Stick to the basics for now, there's more than enough to get on with.