Monday, July 21, 2008

Internet Marketing – Things You Don't Need To Know

By: Gordon McAlpine

For some time now I have become disillusioned with running my own traditional style business. You know the one where you have to rent premises, pay rates, employ staff, keep large amounts of stock and a million of other time and financially consuming things. Anyway, a couple of months ago, I decided to investigate the possibility of starting my own internet business or as they say in the trade, become an internet marketer.

During my search of the net and on my many visits to literally hundreds of sites, I was cordially invited to join the many free courses and obtain numerous free newsletters. This was great, all this information was soon winging its way to me. However, it was only on further investigation that I realised that the newsletters were only telling me so much but to get the really important stuff I had to send money. Now don’t get me wrong, I am a realist, I know there is no such thing as a free lunch, but hey, if I was to buy everything that everyone suggested I must have and really needed, not to mention the $5,000 courses and seminars that only a true internet marketer should attend then a remortgage of the family home was inevitable. Not being the impulsive type I refrained from enrolling for every must have marketing item. And I am glad I did as you will discover later.

What I did find most interesting and very amusing was some of the Headlines of the many automated emails I received and I thought I would share some of these with you.

So here goes.

What if?
He will email your ad to 1 MILLION people (sorta)
This is a killer
I am the Undisputed King of Cash….
I’ve found it ….
Get your site on Google in days
$250 - $500 every single day, guaranteed
Earn Minimum $300 A Day
Resources to Generate $11,643 Every Week
How He Makes $1500 Every Day
Powerful Training Methods
Start earning in 15 minutes from now
Get FREE links and Traffic within days
You will easily Earn $500 to $1,000
36 Ways to Affiliate Success
Profit Pulling Niche Packages
Limited Time Offer: Discover my Secrets, Earn $25,000 A Month

However, and what I mentioned earlier that you would discover later was during my investigations, I accidentally came across an excellent FREE eBook titled “Perpetual Profits” by Brian Campbell. This contained information which others were selling for $79 and upwards. I was so impressed with the content of the book I contacted Brian who kindly gave me his permission to distribute it. You can get your copy by visiting my website and I have attached a link below. Oh! and whilst you are there, sign up for my Newsletter. Only joking……

Happy marketing.

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Saturday, July 12, 2008

Succeed slowly at network marketing.
By: Daegan Smith

The common perception is that the hierarchical structure of network marketing looks like a pyramid scheme. And while pyramid schemes are illegal. To equate this to network marketing is simply not fair. The way the company is structured doesnít decide the organizationís legality. If at all the federal government would be like a pyramid.

The right kind of network marketing is legal since it entails marketing a product and the volume of products sold is what determines just how much amount of money the company (and consequently the distributor) makes.

In order to succeed in the network marketing business, you need to know what youíre getting into and have an idea of how much work it will entail to meet your goals. It may take a while, but starting slowly but surely will translate a much higher success rate than just plunging head first without prior thought whatsoever.

1.First you need to research on the company thatís recruiting you or you plan on joining. Since more than 90% of network marketing companies fail within a span of 2 years, it is only smart to avoid untested companies. Donít worry, there are plenty still to choose from since about 1 in 1000 network marketing companies are still standing after more than 5 years.

So in looking at a prospective network to join, youíre better off going with one that has a proven track record. Donít get swayed with the pitch new companies throw at you saying as one of the first people in the network, youíll achieve your financial goals in no time. Itís ok to be slow and steady so long as you know, your network wonít fold up on you at breakneck speed. Research resources in check out these companies can be found from the FTC (http://www.ftc.gov/) and several other online consumer resources.

2. It is important that your sponsor is someone you respect and trust. This person will be your trainer and coach. Even if youíre part of a good organization that offers good products, if your sponsor is someone you donít necessarily trust, being able to succeed may prove difficult. The sponsor is there to take care of you as you help the company grow. If you feel he is recruiting you simply to gain numbers for himself, then it may be wise to think twice about the venture. Besides, as you plan on building something long-term with this network, you might as well work with someone whom you like.

3. Check to see it you are required to secure permits. Although most companies will take care of sales tax and other similar matters, it is only smart to know for sure to be on the safe side.

4. Upon joining and receiving you kit, you are part of the network and of the business. So as part of the organization, make sure you know your products and can answer any questions about them. Best way to do this is to use them. Get to know the features but more importantly, the benefits it brings to the consumers. The most successful distributors are the ones who know everything about their products and are genuinely excited about them.

5. Listen to your sponsor and upline. Theyíve been at this business longer than you have and may know something that you donít right now. Great thing about network marketing is that the plans for success have already been paved. Although it doesnít mean you canít try out new ways and ideas, but if something works, why not start from that?

6. In starting off any venture, go out with a set of goals you want to achieve over a specific period of time. This will help pace yourself on how much effort you need to put in and it gives you a gauge to measure your work against.

7. Start forming you network by making a list of people you know. Include even those whom you feel you could ever go up to. If the company hosts party-style, youíd likely host an opening that will introduce your business to people. Other methods to promote your business are through printed collaterals like flyers and classified ads. Be ready to talk to people about your business. As you do your rounds, ask for referrals from clients and friends and if possible, participate in trade shows.

8. Finally, even if you can work from your home, treat this business as just that - a business. If you go out thinking this is just some hobby, the attitude will reflect in how you are seen by your clients and your downline. Remember, you are running a business backed by a reputable corporation so feel confident about this and that attitude will take you further.

While some will go for the get-rich-quick way, chances are very great that these will explode in their faces at the same pace that they went for it. Going slow may seem a lot of work but itís the smarter way to go. In time, as you build on your network and look after your downline as well as your clients, the benefits that network marketing brings will come to you with greater satisfaction.


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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Niche Marketing is About Less Traffic More Business
By Mark Kimathi

Imagine two shops that receives 100 customer each every day. Of these hundred customers 40 always find and buy what they need in each of these two shop. Of these 40 that buy 30 come from across the road where fewer people live. Imagine that one of these shops decides to relocate across the road to the smaller population to be nearer to her customers and serve them better. Obviously because of fewer people she attracts less customers to her shop. However because of the closer relationships the customers can now request for what they want stocked. As a result not only do all the customers to her shop buy, they buy more often. This is the power of niche-marketing.

Remember 'Differentiate or Die', a noble concept peddled not so long ago for survival of corporations? Online it is 'Niche or Die'. This is becoming increasingly critical for the small internet businesses.

Niche marketing is a simple concept that involves targeting very specific keywords and optimizing your website and internet marketing for those specific terms. This practice can help a business, even one in a very competitive online category, to gain an advantage in the search listings.

You probably have heard that the internet has leveled the playing field for businesses small or large; those with huge budgets and those with shoe string budgets. As much as this is true, you will quickly discover that no sooner than you have rolled out a Pay per Click campaign, that your moneyed competitors are willing to bid 10 times more than you can even afford - a strategy called loss leader. As an online business person you are ill-equipped to market to the high traffic keywords - read huge markets- both monetarily and capacity wise. Unless you like the feeling of your head cramped in a vice, you are better of targeting more low-traffic yet closely related keywords. Though the internet does give you access to these huge markets theoretically, you will be quickly overwhelmed trying to satisfy it.

As a small business, trying to fight for the same market as itunes.com or amazon.com is often suicidal. However you could provide exclusively East-African Music and compete very effectively with itunes or sell specifically motivational books and compete effectively with amazon. These smaller markets provide niches which as a small internet business you can not only satisfy but easily over-deliver. Niche markets may provide less traffic but when well structure they give you more business.

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Sunday, June 15, 2008

5 Steps to Start Making $1 a Day From Your Blog
By Thomas Sinfield

The hardest part about making money from your blog is actually to start making money.

The first major hurdle you need to jump is the $1 a day hurdle. Making that elusive $1 a day is much harder than people think, but I believe if you take these few simple steps you will be well on your way to making $1 a day.

1. Make Sure Your Niche Is Something You Enjoy
Personally I have found it so much easier making money from blogs that I enjoy writing for. I know a lot of experts are telling people to pick the high paying keywords to target, I think it is a whole lot easier - and enjoyable to make money from a blog that is based on a topic you are interested it.

Blogging in a niche you are interested in and enjoy means that you will be more committed, write more content and be much more diligent with your promotion techniques.

2. Write, Write, and Write Some More
If you want to start making money quickly, you need to have a reason for people to visit your website. The more content you have, the more reasons you are giving people to visit your blog. Make sure you content is keyword targeted. A Fantastic product I use to find traffic driving, targeted keywords is Micro Niche Finder, it's not free but pays itself off very quickly.

Micro Niche Finder lets you find the keywords that are not only have high search counts, but also low competition.

3. Promote Your Content
Notice how I said 'Promote Your Content' NOT 'Promote Your Blog'?

This is because we are looking for high traffic quantities - that are targeted. Let me ask you a question: When you are looking to find out something on the internet what do you search for?

The Keyword or Phrase

Most people don't necessarily look for a website when searching the internet, they search for content. So what we need to do is make sure our now keyword targeted content is being promoted effectively. This is best done through article marketing.

Article submission is highly effective. I have had one of my articles receive over 10,000 views and 1,600 clicks!

4. Monetize Your Blog

This is where a lot of bloggers fail. They don't know how to monetize a new blog properly. Most start by trying to sell their 125×125 ad spaces or text link ads, but who wants to buy an ad spot on a brand new blog that has no traffic history?

I have tested a fair few different methods on new blogs and my current favourite way to monetize a new blog is Google Adsense. The reason I have recently started loving Adsense is:

* You don't have to go looking for advertisers

* You get paid per click (Don't have to wait for sales)

* Easy to get accepted into Adsense

* Reasonable Payout Leves

5. Optimize Ad Placement
I think the reason that most people do not make money from Adsense is because they have choose the wrong ad sizes and put them in the wrong spot. I am not saying my ad placement is perfect, as I know there are still ways to improve on the ad placement, but there are a few simple ways that you can improve your CTR to over 10%.

I think if you put these 5 steps into motion you will be well on your way to earning atleast $1 a day from your blog. You can then start pushing for $5 a day, then $10, and building it up until you are making a full-time income online.

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Friday, June 06, 2008

The Quick and Easy Way To Write Free Reprint Articles by Daegan Smith

Publication of these articles is a way to help the writers, advertisers, publishers and webmasters as they go about their business in the Internet.

Free reprint article means you are allowing publishers to publish your articles on their site, newsletters and ezines provided that they follow your Terms of Reprint. If they do not, you are in the position to ask for a cash payment for your article used. The Terms of Reprint is found on the top of the article.

One thing you have to guard yourself of, as a writer, is the illegal use of your article. This is why your Terms of Reprint is very important. This protects you as a writer and sole owner of the article from plagiarists and those who illegally posts or use your articles. It ensures that you will enjoy your pay for all the hard work, not monetarily speaking though, but through promotional ways like the ìresource boxî attached at the very end of your article. This helps in generating traffic to the authorís website and a probable increase in sales for his own online business.

The Terms of Reprint are often very liberal in nature so anybody in his right mind can follow through. Remember, you were the one who sweat it out on your article, spend 12 hours doing it only to find out you cannot benefit a single from it. Hmmm!!!

Aside from the cash payment you may get from those who have improperly used your article, you can also call the attention of the webhost carrying the site where your article is illegally posted. The Terms of Service of most webhost have policies that prohibit plagiarism or contents obtained illegally. The webhost has the authority to officially shut down that site.

Who benefits from your articles?

ï WRITER. You as a writer benefit from your articles through the resource box you provide at the end of each article. Plus all benefits including getting published, free publicity, image as an expert, establish lasting contacts and increase traffic.
ï WEBMASTER. Free content to build strong keywords for ratings is what webmasters are looking for. Thus, it is very important for them that articles are informative and useful.

ï ADVERTISER. These people are on the lookout for websites with good, steady flow traffic where they can advertise their products. Free content and articles can provide them with these through the links attached at the bottom of each. If advertisers see that articles are posted to several good sites then they will advertise on these sites and yours. This is a way to have a good return of investment for advertisers.

ï EZINE PUBLISHER. Of course, any publisher would want good quality articles in his newsletter or publication to drive in more visitors and maintain the regulars.

ï END USER/READERS. Internet surfers come in categories ñ students, internet marketers, online businessmen, educators, etc. All of these people have reasons why they need information about certain topics but everyone has one common reason why ñ to learn.

Enough of the benefits, you may know all the good it will do to you but you got to start somewhere, right? What you need to know is how to do it. Here are quick, easy, anyone-can-do-it-ways you need to follow to start your pen writing now.

1. Gather your ideas, establish the main idea and focus. Articles that you will produce must have strong relevance to your website because this will direct readers, potential visitors, to your site. This is why you should create informative articles to which everybody can learn from.

Make your articles to two parts. Put the first part on other sites with the NEXT link at the bottom. The second part will be on your own site.

2. List down five or more key points and provide explanation for each. These points should give the core information you think needed by readers. How-to articles most often use this method to explain steps in doing something.

3. Simple introduction that captures and summarizes what you will cover in your article is required. Readers will know instantly if the information they need is included in the article then they would continue reading.

4. After a capturing introduction, end your article with a blast. Summarize all the main points and bring your article to a natural close. A tip would be to review some articles in an article directory and study how authors end their articles.

5. After you have formed the body of your article, except with some minor revisions perhaps, you can now add a catchy, attention grabbing title. The formulation of a good title is important because this is where you can generate visitors to your site. Publishers scan titles of articles, choose several that grab their attention and post it on their publications and ezines.

6. Be conscious of the length of your articles. Usually, most publishers accept 500-700 words with a ceiling of 1,000 words. An articleís quality is not dependent on the number of words but on the content and information it provides.

7. Have your own resource box. This is the reason why you wrote your article in the first place ñ to promote your site, products or services. Do not waste it. This is the only pay you will get from your article. See to it that you make it simple, devoid of any promotional words, avoid an obvious advert and include only one link to avoid confusion.

A resource box is a bio information, you state your name, contact details, perhaps a sentence about that presents yourself as an expert to establish credibility and a sentence about your site with the link.

Do all these and you are ready to go on your way to being popular even just in the web.


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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Tips For Decorating Your Home Office
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Because of the other expenses involved in operating a business, those who are just starting a home-based business may feel that decorating the office seems like an unaffordable extravagance that can wait until you become rich from your business. However, your home office is where you will be spending an inordinate amount of time and, the way you feel when you’re working can make a difference in productivity.

Most will not be able to afford a professional decorator or organizer to come into their home office and put everything in its place, creating a friendly, inviting atmosphere. A vast majority of home business owners will be doing the work themselves or with the help of a spouse or children. For the fortunate ones that have a separate room in which to set up their office, the task is much easier. Others will have to carve out a space from the family living area in which to work privately and without interruption.

The ones with a separate room for their home-based business can start from scratch by emptying the room of all items, including furniture and pictures. You may decide to paint the walls to create an atmosphere more conducive for work and, the color will be an individual choice. However, light colors or earth tones have been shown to provide a better work environment and to reduce stress and spark creativity.

You can then make a floor plan on a plain piece of paper to determine where each item and piece of furniture will go so that your home-based business office is organized and everything is easily accessible, including your office chair. You can also create a materials flow chart to help with placement of the office equipment. Then follow the plan when you put the furniture back into the room. There may be some pieces that won’t fit, such as beds or dressers that were in a former bedroom, but they don’t belong in your office. So, consider storing these pieces in your basement, garage or a storage unit or selling them or giving them to charity.

You may need a file cabinet and the top can be used to hold your phone, fax machine or copier and if you have one machine that performs all these functions, the top of a file cabinet can be an ideal spot and space saver. You can use an open book case for storage of office supplies as well as books concerning your business. Be sure nothing unrelated to your home business is allowed on the shelves in your work space. Consider a traditional office when deciding what to place in your home-based business office. Keep it professional. A few favorite pictures on the wall can improve the working environment as well as a potted plant, just to add some ambience to an otherwise sterile work center.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Internet Home Businesses
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If you don’t know much about online internet business opportunities, you’re not alone, as there are many people who don’t understand how to make money online. If you have a computer and an internet connection, you can run your own home-based business. Since so many people are already set up, the cost of buying a computer and getting an internet connection is eliminated.

There are countless opportunities for those who want to work from home by using their computer. While some of these may not be legitimate, there are many that will allow you to run your own business and set your own work hours. As more and more people begin to use the internet to purchase goods, locate information and to find entertainment, the growth of internet business will continue. New online, internet business opportunities are always available to those who are willing to research, market, and supply quality goods and services to those who need them.

If you have always wanted to open a store, but you don’t have the money to pay for a retail space, equipment, and employees, you can open an online virtual store and sell your goods. All you need to do is take orders and ship them on time. If you have a spare room or garage, you will be able to store items until they need to go out. Many people support themselves by selling items online through their web sites. Setting up a site is not difficult and you can begin to make money very quickly. If you don’t know how to set up a site, you can hire someone to do it for you. You’ll need to advertise your business in order for people to be able to find your web site, and once you have a solid customer base, you can make money every month. If you don’t want to store items, there are companies you can associate with that drop ship for you.

Internet business opportunities are not limited to selling items online. You can offer content and join affiliate programs and more without having to sell anything. If you don’t want to be responsible for shipping items, you can offer your services. If you have writing, editing, design, or computer programming skills, you can start an online business. This is an exciting opportunity to use your skills and make money doing so. Since the internet is not gong to disappear any time soon, you have the opportunity to make money for a long time. If you grow tired of running your own business, you can just shut it down and do something else. This is a very good opportunity for retirees and those who don’t have a lot of money for start up costs.

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