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So, You Think Marketing on-line is Expensive? Or is it?

Guest post by: Thomas Chandler

Article Overview: OK, I am not the type of person that points out all the little obvious things about on-line marketing, but let's get to the truth...if you plan on getting in the market place, there are so many avenues and ways to go it could very well get expensive. So, expensive you price yourself right out of the market if you don't know what you are doing.

So, You Think Marketing on-line is Expensive? Or is it?

OK, I am not the type of person that points out all the little obvious things about on-line marketing, but let's get to the truth...if you plan on getting in the market place, there are so many avenues and ways to go it could very well get expensive. So, expensive you price yourself right out of the market if you don't know what you are doing.

So, I compiled a list of things you can get involved in and these numbers are not 100% exact, but they are very close to the averages. ( yes, I do have to point out that someone out there might find these numbers to high, or even to low. That is why I averaged them out.)

So, here is a short list if some items on which you can market yourself/brand/product/company you name it, along with the cost. So, here you go:

• Web 2.0 Marketing - $600-$3,000 (depends on how in-depth you want to get.)
• PLR - $50 - $140
• Blogs - as low as $300 for a very basic one up to the thousands. Once again, it depends on you and how creative/animated you want to get.
• Article Writing - $50 (1 article) up to $500 for multiple ones.
• Press Releases - $100 - $250 - this depends on how many places you want to be seen and how much you are willing to spend to get seen.
• books & Reports - $400 - $3,500
• Landing Pages - $800 - on up. This is a very broad number, but can get quiet expensive depending who does your Copy-writing for you.
• Background Images - $250 on up. ( I found a buddy to do mine, but he would have charged me $350 for what I have.)
• Squidoo Pages - %400 - $1,800 - depends on how many pages you want.

So, as you can see things could get a bit pricey for you if you plan on making in this industry. Or you can do what your so called up line tells you to do and make a list of all your friends/neighbors/relatives and bug the heck out of them - WRONG! If you truly want to get out there with your brand/product you need to be in the market place. The list above is just a simple basic list of things. We have not even talked about adwords/Google/Bing/Yahoo/Pay Per Click/Facebook advertising.

Yes, we all can do "organic" advertising that will take months to get your name out there. (This too is vital to your business, so don't leave it behind.) But, I am here to tell you thast you can have all of the above items in 1, that's right 1 location for an extremely low price. Add up the smallest column on these items, now think what one company would charge you to have all these things at your finger tips. What would you pay to have all of these things? How much do you want to be out in the Internet Market place? How bad do you want to make money??

What you will find out for yourself, nothing should cost this much when we all know what it really cost to market a company. So, why not learn how to do all of the above on your own, or be taught by tutorials or webinars. How would you fell about that type of learning? On your own time and speed?

If you want the inside scoop, then check out what I have to share with you below.

If not, no worries. I wish you the best of success.

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