Monday, 29 December 2008
Earn Cash Online Submitting Articles
Bum Marketing is a sure fire way to market products without having a budget, a website, a squeeze page, or other great internet marketing amenities that you can think of. This is what I would call the Little Man’s Method with the Big Boy payout. Even the Big Boys in the business find themselves using this method to drive traffic to their website or to push and sell products that they stand behind. The great thing about Bum Marketing to Earn Cash Online is that you don’t even have to be a great writer. Its more about article quantity that article quality. I will explain this a little later. Now don’t get me wrong there is always a method to the madness, but you don’t have to be a professional writer or ad copy producer in order to give people what they are looking for.
Now that you have an idea of what Bum Marketing is and that it is a sure fire way to Earn Money Online lets talk about the HOW in this method.
The first thing you want to consider when using this method to Earn Money Online is “Product.” What is it that I plan on writing about? Not only that but do I believe in or stand behind the product or resource that I am about to promote. This is essential because the more you believe in something the more passionate you will be in your writing. The passionate your are the more likely people will begin to engage in your article. Its horrible to read an article written by someone who has now faith in his own words. My kids have this thing they do when someone is just talking to be talking...Blah Blah Blah...I used to wonder why they did that and then one day it hit me. The person is just talking “but they aint sayin nothin.” I know that’s bad English but I’m sure you get my point a lot better. That’s common among bloggers and article writers. So what ever you do believe in your product.
Once you have your product, your next step is to come up with a keyword. Keywords are critical to your success in any kind of Internet Marketing. How can you expect to Earn Cash Online if search engines cant find you. Mastering keywords or phrases is the key to your success. Lets use this article as a example. From the time you started reading this article until the time you reached this point there is a keyword phrase that you have read at least four times. Do you know what it is? I will give you a hint, its also in my title. You give up? Earn Money Online. This makes the fifth time that you have come across this phrase. Google and Yahoo will crawl your title and article to look for information that is relevant to what you said. When it sees certain words or phrases that are in the title and are repeated through out the article you will stand a better chance of your article or webpage being listed at the top of that word search or phrase.
Now last but not least. Once you have determined your product or niche, you have grabbed a keyword, you have written your article the final step is to submit your article for internet publication. If you read any of my articles you will notice that I am big on the word FREE. Why pay a boatload of money to have your article submitted to places when your main goal is just to get in the search engines. Guess what...... I’m about to let the cat out the bag and show you the premium free spots to list your article and be seen on Google with 72hrs. Now when you get to the top don’t forget about brother OK.
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Making Money Online
There seems to be a few men and women out there who are producing cash online and oodles of it. The rest of us just lust after in on the activity.
There is a surplus of web sites and pop up ads out there that recount you that you could be producing cash online at this moment now. All you have to do is sign up. Similar top goods in existence, these web sites and ad campaigns are undoubtedly too commendable to be right. Any stretch you see a web site that claims to grasp the secrets of producing cash online you have to acquire it alongside a kernel of rock-salt.
Most money comes from exertion and they hail it "labour" because it's not fun. If it was fun we would hail it "fun."
There are ways of producing cash online that we all grasp of. It seems identical everybody I comprehend has at one time or another has sold or bought something on eBay. I maintain regular seen ads on the Internet hopeful for eBay shopkeepers.
All you have to do is exchange substance for someone else and they desire to pay you for your time. I maintain at no time met anyone who is producing money online in this style and I objectively do not foresee to any period in the nearby future.
If you are ingenious adequate and possess a tolerable topic sense it is conceivable to beat the organization and initiate the beginning of making money online. Every so frequently you listen of a label new and entirely revolutionary way of making cash online.
Not too long ago I knew of a university undergraduate in England who started a web site and sold off portions of it to advertisers. His purpose was to create $1 million to pay for university. He succeeded but his saga is a uncommon one.
Be extremely skeptical of the ads you see on the Internet. If you sign up to labour for some person, it may be extremely demanding to belief them because you have at no time met and it can be a extremely dangerous move to start a business relationship with a newcomer.
Making cash online is feasible if you're resourcefully adequate. Possibly you can be the next big trend-setter of online work. Just make sure that you are not putting down too much cash up front in order to get your work off of the ground.
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Sunday, 21 December 2008
Top 11 Myths of Home Businesses
Top 11 home business myths:
11. You will not have enough work to make money from home
Alot of people are concerned that there will not be enough work for them to make money from home if they start their own home business. Before starting your own business look into the regional market for your skills (or check online if you are hoping to work remotely). Depending on the local market for your skills and experience you may find that there is an abundance of work available.
MY TAKE: One thing that I found useful during my start-up phase was to work with placement agencies and other contractors in order to find work. Generally you will make less money working with other contractors or employment agencies however you will make invaluable contacts and it will allow you to work consistently.
10. You will not be able to afford to take self employment vacations
It is a common misconception that owners of home based businesses can not afford to take self employment vacations. Contrary to popular belief, with proper planning and good fiscal planning self-employed individuals have a lot more flexibility in the timing and length of vacations that they can take. Employees generally have a limited amount of vacation available to them and get paid for vacation in one of two ways. Hourly employees often receive their vacation pay as an additional percentage on every paycheck, whereas salaried employees are often paid their salary as usual during their time off. Similar to hourly employees, contractors should include vacation pay in their hourly rates or job bids. While market rates and competing bids will sometimes determine the profit you make, there is some flexibility in the rates you charge and there are many factors to consider when setting your rates (more on this below).
MY TAKE: My personal experience has been that successful self-employed individuals must choose between the money they would make during a time period and their desire to have time off. I have prioritized having time away from full-time contracts periodically over the money I could earn during that time. It allows me to try out my own ideas and fully recharge before starting a new project.
9. You will not be able to get a mortgage or small business loan
It is a long held belief that home based business owners have a hard time getting mortgages or small business loans. This is not true. With small businesses and consulting firms on the rise, financial institutions have recognized the need to provide better services and comparable mortgages and loans to self-employed individuals.
MY TAKE: I was an employee when I applied for my mortgage however I have experience working with self-employed clients and friends to successfully apply for mortgages. The first thing I have learned is that it is important to shop around. Some people will be able to leverage their relationship with their bank to get a great mortgage that they couldn't get elsewhere but it is important to be sure that you are getting the best terms. Mortgage brokers are invaluable for shopping around as they can find out the terms a financial institution would offer you based on your specific circumstances. It is also very important that as an entrepreneur you are able to provide the bank with clear, organized business records that show consistent business activity for the past few years.
I have no personal experience obtaining a small business loan or grant. The best sources of information on this are the websites of the major financial institutions and government bodies.
8. You will not be able to get small business health insurance
Many people are hesitant to start a home based business for fear of living without small business health insurance. There are a lot of great benefits providers out there for people who are self-employed. Government and non-profit insurance providers are available for lower income individuals and many other insurance providers have begun offering reasonable health insurance for all self-employed individuals. The key, as with everything, is to do your research.
MY TAKE: My experience seeking benefits for myself has been that there are many companies offering insurance for self-employed individuals but there are some special considerations. Some companies insist that coverage for less than 3-5 individuals will only be offered based on the results of a physical and they may exclude pre-existing conditions from the coverage they offer. It can also be difficult to get coverage in areas such as dental, optical and for specialists such as chiropractors.
7. You will not be able to save for retirement with self employment
Often people fear that they will not be able to save for retirement from self employment without a company pension plan. Financial planning is the key to saving for retirement as an employee or a self-employed individual. Unfortunately many companies are no longer offering pension plans for their employees and therefore the burden of retirement savings on the employed individual is much higher now. Ironically, this shift has meant that self-employed individuals may have an advantage over employees. Most self-employed individuals make their cash up front and pay less in income tax installments and with-holding taxes. This provides them with the cash flow to invest more money in 401ks and RRSPs during the year than employees. Additionally, self-employed individuals often have the option of "soft retirement" by shifting to part-time work before retiring completely.
MY TAKE: Personally, my switch to self-employment has sparked me to be more cognizant of saving for my retirement. In fact, my pension savings more than doubled in my first year as a contractor and have continued to grow steadily since then.
6. Your self employment income will be too sporadic to cover your costs
It is common for employed people to fear the fluctuations in self employment income that many people experience. With good budgeting and planning most contractors are able to spread their income over the full year. In fact as an employee your income is fixed but as a self employed individual you can tailor your work schedule to earn more or less money as you need it. Many entrepreneurs find themselves filling downtime or earning "overtime" with smaller ventures such as project or interim work.
MY TAKE: Since I started my consulting company I have not had any downtime that I did not plan out as vacation, training or transitional time. Personally I enjoy having one to two weeks off between major projects to work on my own projects and take some time away - therefore I plan for this with both my work schedule and my budgeting.
5. Self employment will look bad on your resume
Truthfully, there are still some places that would frown on some self employment experience on your resume as they may see this as a sign that the person is not suited to be an employee. However, many companies recognize the value of having an employee who shows initiative and has a well-rounded variety of experience. Successful business owners demonstrate many skills that potential employers are looking for such as: leadership; project management; accounting and budgeting; initiative and entrepreneurial spirit.
MY TAKE: In my experience recruiters for full-time jobs will often spread this myth in order to convince you to apply for jobs with their clients. Contracting recruiters will claim that the opposite is true. My experience with employers and human resource professionals has been that they recognize the value of hiring people with the diverse and well-rounded backgrounds that self-employment allows. The main questions that potential employers have are: why did you become self-employed? why do you want to return to being an employee? why now? why here? If you can answer these four questions satisfactorily then even the most skeptical employers will consider your application without reserve.
4. You will make more money with small business earnings
Typically small business earnings are based on higher hourly rates than the effective hourly rate earned by employees and therefore people often assume that contractors make more money for the same amount of work. The truth is that the rates charged by self employed individuals include a premium to compensate consultants for the added risk to the contractor; the convenience factor for the hirer; the costs normally covered by an employer (benefits, pension, some government remittances, vacation, statutory holidays, bonus, double-time, training, supplies, overhead, professional dues and medical or maternity leave); and the cost savings to the employer (administrative and human resource costs such as hiring, termination and severance costs). The larger monetary benefits of working as a contractor seldom come from higher hourly rates but come from lower taxes, more cash flow for pension spending and the ability to control your income by working more or less hours.
MY TAKE: My earnings as a contract worker have been similar to the "all-in" salary and benefits+ amount that I was paid as an employee (with the same growth as my employed contemporaries). The main non-monetary benefit to me has been the ability to work less or more depending on my desire and having more choice over whom I work with and what I work on. The main monetary benefit have been the tax savings I have experienced due to both the additional deductions as a contractor and the additional RRSP (401k) contributions I have been able to make due to the up-front cash I have received.
3. You will be your own boss
You probably want to start your own business in order to be your own boss and truthfully there are many areas of work that contractors have more control over than employees however contractors are not entirely without oversight. As a contractor instead of having just one boss you have many bosses. Every client you have is also your "boss" - they determine what you work on, when you work on it, how you work on it and where you work on it. Further, when working on-site for clients it is necessary to comply with all their office rules and guidelines. The other aspect of being your own boss is the responsibility that comes with it. As your own boss you are the one solely responsible for every aspect of your business from beginning to end. You must be comfortable pursuing new work, applying and interviewing for new projects, working at different places on different tasks, and taking care of customer billing and collections.
MY TAKE: As a contractor I can often negotiate my hours, the location of my work, the type of work I do, the companies/people I will or will not work with and the amount of money I get paid. Unfortunately this does not always mean that in the short-term I never have to compromise for a client or project. Some projects dictate that you work longer hours or work outside your region. The main difference is that I have the choice to reject the project or discontinue the work at anytime without legal repercussions.
2. You will set your own hours and work less
Many people start their own businesses in order to have control over how many hours they work but contractors aren't guaranteed to work less than employees. It is true that once you have established your business you can pursue contracts and projects that allow for more flexible hours and less overtime. There is not guarantee, however, that you will always be able to find such projects. Further, as the one who is solely responsible for every aspect of your business, people often find that they are required to work additional hours in order to establish and maintain their business.
MY TAKE: Personally I have chosen to take contracts with longer hours in past due to other considerations (experience, networking, higher rates, great location, etc...) however for the most part I have strived to find positions with flexible hours and little or no overtime. This has given me the freedom to pursue my own projects and spend more time with my family. This has required a lot of planning and budgeting and has generally led to lower annual incomes then I might otherwise earn however the improvement in my quality of life has made this more than worth it.
and the biggest myth of home based businesses...
1. You will always be able to work at home
The words "home based business" bring to mind images of working at home while wearing your pajamas. Home based businesses often require travel and/or visitation of external offices. Sales and service jobs typically require meetings with clients. Even remote IT personnel often need to visit their head office periodically. The flip side of this is that, the majority of the time, home based businesses can be run from anywhere - with only a phone and laptop.
MY TAKE: I have taken on contracts which require me to work off-site everyday, four days a week or once a week. I have also done work that was completely remote but I find this to be the exception rather than the rule for my field (chartered accountant).As mentioned above though I have also enjoyed being able to work at home, at the cottage, at campgrounds, at family members houses and many other beautiful places. There is definitely a lot more freedom as to where you work when you have a home based business - but you should not rely on the idea that you can run things without ever leaving your home.
Overall, the best way to know what you are getting into is to do some research. If possible talk to someone in your field who has an established business, talk to local recruiters and businesses about the availability of work, look for contract or project listings online. It is also a good idea to sit down and calculate the amount of money you need to earn every month in order to maintain your desired lifestyle - this will provide you with a benchmark to compare expected earnings to. Whether you decide to take the leap or not it pays to be informed.
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5 Key Areas for Making Money Online with Niche Article Writing
How to write a Niche Article
Promoting key Affiliate Programs
Web mastering Your Success
Create a Blog site
Submitting your work to Article Directories
How to write a Niche Article
The first thing to do is to find a niche to write about for your article. However, make sure that what you write about has a huge interest base of people wanting to know more about the topic, product, or service you are writing about in your article. This is your niche. Example: you create jewelry in a unique way using inexpensive items that really adds a unique flare to casual wear. You post a couple of photo images online at different fashion forums and blogs. Several weeks later, your postings get 25,000 unique visitors inquiring about your new jewelry designs. Thus, you have found your huge base of people who show an interest in your jewelry designs and products. This is your niche base.
This is the same step for any type of product, information, or service and it can be profitable for the person who provides the type of products, information, or services to this group of interested people. Simply write and article about your niche and promote it to your niche. Find out in detail how to write niche articles geared to your niche audience.
Affiliate Programs
The next area for making money online is joining key affiliate programs geared toward your niche audience. If you do not have products, information, or services geared toward your niche market then you can use services such as Google's Adsense marketing system to add unique -products, services, and information in to your articles. In fact, you should have an Adsense account period if you want to earn an income from your online marketing efforts. You can also use affiliate -programs like www.Clickbank.com to search for your key niche affiliate products, services, or information to market to your niche market. To learn more about Clickbank, how to us it in your article marketing endeavors and earn more income click here > Clickbank Affiliate Product Marketing.
Web mastering Your Success
To become a successful web site marketer it is better to have your own web site that you can control. However, you can use your affiliate links or free web hosting services.
Having your own web site and domain name gives you credibility and it helps greatly to promote your articles and to drive more traffic and sales to your affiliate links. With the use of a marketing system that consist of article writing for niche markets, incorporating products and services that have an affiliate marketing program, and your controlling and promoting your own web site, your success would be more obtainable with such a system in place. Each stop of the system should work synergistically to drive more traffic and sales to your affiliate program links.
Blogging
In addition to having your own web site to promote your niche articles, you should have a blog site where you add your articles to your blog site, daily, weekly, or monthly. This will help with your search engine marketing since, search engines love to index blogs and they do so more quickly and frequently that web sites. Therefore, the key reason for your blog site is to help drive more traffic to your web site and niche articles. Sign up for a free blog site here www.Blogger.com, or do a search for free blogging site. Wordpress.com is another excellent choice and it is free to join.
Article Submission
Once you have all four major areas of your article marketing completed, you are now ready to promote your niche article to your niche audience massively. I hope that you can do this free of charge. With a good niche article system, you should have free article submission resources to promote your articles. By downloading this Ebook, you can get a system that will teach you how to earn money online using articles and affiliates marketing programs to make your fortune.
In summary, you need to learn about how to write niche articles, what to use for making money with your article, what tools and resources to use in the creation and promoting of your niche article, when to use blogs for web site traffic generation, and submission services to use when marketing to reach your niche market. All of these should be part of the system - a packaged system - designed for your niche article marketing success.
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3 steps to make money online
You technical computer ability is not a major factor in your potential to make money on the internet.
You also do not need to limit yourself to data entry jobs or online paid surveys for a few dollars here and there. It would be better to find a way which can generate revenue which is safe and not dependent on fly-by-night operations.
If you can read and don't mind some initial hard work, it is totally feasible to make money online without working for an employer.
It really comes down to selling products or marketing other people's wares.
Both are possible with or without your own website, but having your own website will give you more scope to grow.
The 3 steps to making money online revolve around research, putting your plan into action and then tweaking your results for optimal profitability.
1. Info-gathering
The first step involves researching your chosen niche to make sure there is sufficient demand for the products you plan to represent.
This is important regardless of whether you will do so with or without your own website.
You will also spend considerable time researching products and vendors in your niche to determine who offers the most attractive commission scheme.
Out of this research comes a plan of action.
2. Plan of action
Here you need to do the physical work of marketing your chosen product.
You can create your own website if you know HTML or use online software to help you build it using simple block-by-block building tools.
Alternatively you could market your affiliate links directly without building your own website.
Once your site is ready, the next phase is to market your site in order to attract a lot of traffic.
Not all your traffic will be potential customers, so it is necessary to attract as much traffic as possible to allow for the best possible bottom-line.
3. Fine Tuning
You will need to monitor your efforts in order to understand what works and what does not.
By testing different marketing methods and website components, you will be able to make a difference in your online earnings and targeted traffic.
The magic in this strategy is that you can repeat the effort.
The next site will take much less time and effort because you do not need to learn everything again.
By duplicating your initial site, even if it is only generating a modest income, you now have a blueprint which has unlimited growth potential.
The revenue from your site is earned passively once you have gone through the 3 steps mentioned above.
Even though your first site will probably not be profitable from a time and effort point of view, the important thing to remember is that it is generating revenue independently of the amount of time you put in (once it is in maintenance mode) and you no longer have to depend on a client or employer for this additional income.
The magic lies in the fact that your site is repeatable.
Now go ahead and flesh out these concepts.
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Saturday, 20 December 2008
Affiliate Marketing
What Is Affiliate Marketing?
Put simply, affiliate marketing is the online version of the offline world's commissioned agents. Just as a real estate agent earns a commission for selling a house they neither built nor own, with affiliate marketing a person earns affiliate commissions by referring buyers to a web site's salespage. When those referrals buy the product on that visit, the affiliate has earned a percentage of that sale.
Depending on how the affiliate marketing program is structured, that commission may be paid instantly, through an online service like PayPal, in 2 - 4 weeks, or most commonly, on the 15th of the following month to allow time for any refunds that must be removed from the sales and affiliate commissions before payout.
Various types of affiliate programs exist, including those run through major affiliate marketing management companies like ClickBank and PayDotCom and those run by the site owners, such as our own Team Champigny Affiliate Program. In general, affiliate programs for physical goods pay 2% - 15%, while affiliates promoting digital downloads like e-books and software should expect to be paid between 35% and 75% of each sale.
How Do I Start Affiliate Marketing?
I'm often asked why I recommend people new to Internet Marketing start their online businesses through affiliate marketing. There are a myriad of reasons, the most impotant few being a) One can start affiliate marketing investing only their time, not money, b) The affiliate marketing world provides the greatest variety of free training resources for learning the basics of all Internet marketing, and c) One can begin right now, today - no need to create or buy products, design or purchase a website, etc.
The simplest formula for starting your afrfiliate marketing business involves blogging, writing and submitting articles and using the Web 2.0 social bookmarking sites. Step one is to decide what area, or niche, you want to promote products to. It may be the Internet marketing arena, pets, children, sports enthusiasts, gardeners, the home improvement crowd, etc. While each of these areas is too broad to attack in whole, each has sub-niches with plenty of products for affiliates to promote. Once you settle on a major niche, look through the available affiliate marketing opportunities to see which sub-niche appeals to you AND has plenty of products for affiliates to promote. Chosen sports? Maybe you'll go after the golfing niche first, or tennis, or even skiing - each has plenty of products with affiliate marketing programs.
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Next, set up a blog - either on your own domain or through Blogger or Wordpress. The content of your blog is up to you - just make sure every post is relevant to your niche. If you're a little more advanced and want to go after two or three niches, use a separate blog for each. Don't dilute the power of your blog by cross-posting articles appealing to different niches. There is a rising trend among affiliate marketing and Internet marketing bloggers to simply write reviews of the products they're promoting, providing an ample supply of affiliate links to the products in the process. While this is perfectly acceptable and does work, remember that you want to appear as an authority on the topic, and want to promote other related affiliate marketing opportunities to this same crowd down the line, so the more info you can bring to your blog on the subject the better, instead of simply reviewing/promoting the products directly.
Once you have the first 3 or 4 blog posts written and posted to your blog, set up free accounts at Technorati and MyBlogLog and notify them of your blog. Each of these two sites will help you attract more traffic over time, which will often convert to a larger number of buyers, making you more from your affiliate marketing blogging efforts. Similarly, use a service like Pingoat or Ping-O-Matic to notify the various blogging directories of each new post. Set up a free account at Twitter, and announce each new blog posting there too.
Next, write two or three articles on the topic - they can be brand new articles or modifications of the posts you made to your blog. Do not include any links in the article, as most directories will not accept articles with links in them. Instead, your affiliate marketing links go in your signature or Author's Box at the end of the article. Since most directories allow two or three links in that area, use one directly to your affiliate link and one to the blog you're writing for your affiliate marketing in that niche.
With a bit of practice it becomes a lot easier to research and write articles and blog posts on any subject, and your affiliate marketing efforts will kick it up a notch. Don't expect results from Day One, nor even to make any money in your first month at it - although it does happen sometimes. Instead, think of the growing collection of blog posts and articles you've submitted a 'paying it forward' - each of these affiliate marketing efforts will remain online for some time and provide a growing empire of online materials with your affiliate links in them, being seen by an ever-increasing number of people. It takes time for your writing to be indexed in major search engines like Google, and even longer for some of your posts to work their way further up the results pages.
Pay attention to the resources provided by the merchants whose affiliate marketing programs you're part of, and learn as much as you can about both the products you're promoting and about affiliate marketing in general. While most affiliate program managers don't go that far, be sure to find out just what training is available from the companies whose products you're promoting. If you're targeting the Internet marketing or affiliate marketing crowds, by all means join our Team Champigny affiliate program and make the most of our free affiliate training sessions.
As the first few weeks go by, start marketing your blog through the social bookmarking sites as well. Set up pages at FaceBook, MySpace and Squidoo, and be sure to link all 3 to your blog, your Twitter account, your Technorati & MyBlogLog pages, and to each other, of course. Try to post to your blog once a day or more, and to write and submit at least 3 articles a week to the directories. All of this can be accomplished in about an hour a day, but on days when time is tight settle for just a blog post and a tweet (a Twitter post).
If you're not starting to see notices of affiliate commissions earned by the third month, however, it's time to review your affiliate marketing efforts. Start by auditing your own affiliate marketing efforts. Have you been diligent and consistent? After two months you should have at least 50 blog posts, at least the same number of tweets, 20 or more articles in the various directories, and have kept your MySpace and FaceBook sites updated. If you've been lax in your affiliate marketing efforts, by now you'll be realizing you only get out of it what you put in - so redouble your resolve to put in the required time EACH DAY on your affiliate marketing. Otherwise, you're just wasting your time online, and would be further ahead looking outside the house for a part-time job instead.
If you HAVE put in the time on your affiliate marketing and still aren't seeing any results yet, contact the affiliate managers for the products you're promoting and ask them to evaluate what you've done so far and what suggestions they can offer to improve your results. Affiliate managers LOVE affiliates who have demonstrated they'll put in the required time and effort, and will be happy to help out. If you run into one who won't, simply drop their product and find another affiliate marketing opportunity to replace it with - immediately! If they don't treat their affiliates right chances are they don't treat their customers right either, so they aren't a company or product you want your name attached to.
Advanced Affiliate Marketing
Once you have some affiliate commissions rolling in, it's time to take your affiliate marketing business to the next level. Set up an account with a company that provide you with your own web space, unlimited autoresponders, etc. The low investment in these tools will repay itself many times over once you start building your own double opt-in lists for each niche you're promoting products to. One of the most valuable tools you'll build in your affiliate marketing arsenal is your e-mail list of interested buyers, since you'll be able to provide them with ongoing information, and have them prepped and ready for the next product you want to promote.
Along the line you'll probably also run into related products in your niche that offer resell rights; now you can add to your affiliate marketing revenue by moving into your own Internet marketing as well, setting up these resell rights products on your new web space and marketing them right alongside the affiliate products you promote. Since both appeal to the same niche, no doubt some of your existing clientel will opt to buy both, while others will buy your products even though they may not be interested in the affiliate products you're promoting. On your new sites, as on your blogs, be sure to provide an easy way for interested people to opt into your e-mail list as well.
By this point you'll be making money with your affiliate marketing, and starting to see revenue from your own Internet marketing as well, and you can chart your own course from that point on. You may decide to continue to focus on affiliate marketing, may want to keep growing both areas of your online business, or may want to start creating your own information products to sell online. Once you've chosen your direction, the fastest route to growth is to hire a professional coach or mentor in that field, but that can be a very expensive option, usually ranging from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars a month. If that's within your means at that point, by all means do so; if not, follow your instincts and what you see successful super-affiliates doing in their affiliate marketing practices, along with following what the mainstream Internet marketing 'Big Dogs' are doing in their area of operation until you ARE making enough to hire a mentor.
As time permits, start to visit and participate in the affiliate marketing forums and Internet marketing forums as well - to find the best, do a quick search at Google and then visit the forums, paying attention to how busy they are and how many of the big names you recognize participating in them. Do a similar search for forums in the niches you're targeting too, such as 'dog forums' or 'golf forums', and start participating in those, answering questions whenever you can to help establish yourself as an expert in that niche. Again, don't blatantly advertise unless the forum rules specifically state that's acceptable - most don't allow it, and that's not your main reason for being there anyway. But DO put your affiliate marketing links to relevant products in the signature file at the end of each of your posts.
Be honest in all you do online, be ethical in your dealings, and keep up the diligent efforts in your affiliate marketing, and this business can be very rewarding. Be greedy, dishonest or lazy and you'll get nowhere fast - word of shady characters or garbage products spreads unbelievably fast online, and you'll be burning bridges you'll need to cross as time goes on. As stated much earlier, you will only get from affiliate marketing what you put in - but it can be a wonderful way to earn a living, and a very good living indeed if you have the patience, the tenacity and the integrity - and can keep yourself focused on moving forwards at all times.
Best of luck with it - I hope to see you at the top of the affiliate marketing leaderboards in no time!
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On the merchant end of affiliate marketing, you have control over what your affiliates can promote and how they get paid. Most merchants pay when a sale or lead has commenced, though there are pay-per-click and pay-per-impression affiliate programs available. The latter two are recommended if you are looking to build traffic quickly, though you should make sure that your affiliates don’t use unethical, black-hat techniques to draw traffic to your website. In either case you can further reward your affiliates by offering payment in a system of tiers. Tiers could be used if an affiliate has reached a certain threshold of products sold or leads generated. They could also be used to reward affiliates who are able to get new affiliates to sign up for your program. Additional rewards can be provided through individualized commission rates, where you can give your higher-producing affiliates the opportunity to earn more money for themselves and your business.
How do you get started with the merchant side of affiliate marketing? You could buy affiliate marketing scripts, though if you do not have sufficient knowledge of HTML Javascript don’t bother. Another option is signing up with an affiliate marketing service such as Commission Junction. The advantage with this is that the service takes care of managing your affiliate program for you, along with the payments but it could take hundreds of dollars to get started. The best way to go about the merchant end of affiliate marketing is to find a web host that provides affiliate marketing tools within its account manager. Frontier Power Hosting, a premier hosting service used by Internet gurus such as Jim Edwards and Armand Morin, offers affiliate marketing tools to its customers at no additional cost.
Once you have gotten your affiliate program set up, it’s time to look for affiliates. The quickest way to do this is to advertise your affiliate opportunity in Internet marketing forums. However, keep in mind that the field of affiliate marketing is very competitive… you must offer rates and/or special incentives that separate you from another merchant.
You will also have to prove that you will pay, something that affiliates won’t know about until they actually work with you. To increase the confidence of potential affiliate marketing candidates, consider signing up for the Better Business Bureau. Through this company, your business will be evaluated periodically. As long as you do the right thing, they will give you a good rating, something that is very attractive to both future customers and affiliate marketers.
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Friday, 19 December 2008
Make Money With Your Own Home Business
But how do you know which home business is the right one for you?
Learn All You Can
The key to succeeding in a home business is knowledge. By continually expanding your knowledge about running a successful enterprise you really can increase your efficiency, which means you could be making a lot more money with even less effort.
There is a huge amount of information on how to make money at home on the internet, but it's difficult to know which sources are legitimate and which sources to trust.
Research Your Home-Business Options
If you're serious about wanting to make money working at home, then you should consider spending as much time researching your home business options before you begin as you can.
After all, you'll be spending a lot of time working in your business so you want to know the business you choose will still be profitable and able to still offer you the original freedom you originally sought.
Choosing Your Home Business
The main issue that arises when considering starting a home business is figuring out which business is the right one for you. There are so many different options for creating business at home that only you can know which one is right for you and your situation.
Avoiding Home Business Scams
There are unscrupulous marketers online that are more than willing to take your money and offer very little in return.
The easiest way to avoid getting scammed is to avoid any invitations or advertisements that promise great money without giving you any real details about the business itself.
While it is true you really can make great money with a home business, it's important to work with companies that offer real products, real support systems and a very real way to grow a profitable home business.
Home Businesses That Make Money
It's been proven that some the most profitable types of home business include consulting work, medical or legal transcription, web design, desktop publishing, photography, freelance work and affiliate marketing.
This isn't an exhaustive list and there are plenty of other opportunities available where earning great income from home is possible. These are just a few options to give you ideas for your own home business.
Making Your Home Business Work
Working from home offers great freedom and huge opportunity to make a good income, but it's important to realize that it's the same as running any other business.
You need to take care of your customers and respond to any correspondence in a timely manner. You'll also need to keep the books balanced so you'll know if your business is profitable or not.
It's very easy to become distracted when you work at home. Phone calls and visitors can help you lose precious business time. Friends often think that just because you're home, you must be free to chat or to hang out. Learning to say no to distractions can be difficult, but in order for your business to thrive, it's important you learn to set boundaries about your working time.
Running a home business can be a great way to make money, but you need to remember at all times that it's still a business like any other.
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Sunday, 14 December 2008
Marketing Your Site
Make Your Website Famous
Marketing your site on and offline can be just as important as marketing your actual product or service.
The question used to be, Do you have a website? Now, the more relevant question is, How do you market your website? It truly isn't a "Build it and they will come" scenario.
If people don't know about your website, they can't visit--and learn about what you have to offer. That's why marketing your website online and offline is just as important as marketing your product or service.
Promoting your site can be simpler than you think. Here are some suggestions:
Offline Marketing
Many website owners forget about the offline options for marketing. But you need to make yourself visible in the places your target market lives and that means the offline world as well.
All marketing communication materials should emphasize your URL and entice readers to visit your site. This includes business cards, letterhead, envelopes, brochures, flyers, folders and newsletters.
Print your web address boldly on the front side of direct mail postcards. Sometimes simply printing your URL in a large, attention-getting style will cause the recipient to turn the postcard over and read the other information you want to share with them.
You can issue a press release announcing anything new or newsworthy on your site. Maybe you're offering a free report, a free e-course or a unique approach to the marketplace that the media will be interested in.
On-hold messages are now very popular for directing people to a website, especially with phone systems that use automatic attendants. But live attendants can direct people to your website, too. Make sure they know what information is available and relevant for the caller.
If you ever get the opportunity to be interviewed on the radio, make sure you find ways to drop your URL. You can say things like, "On my website, www.UpMarketUrls.com, I offer free marketing articles and products for sale to help grow businesses." Don't just say, "On my website ..." without mentioning the URL. This applies to any interviews you might do with a reporter, editor or producer.
Some publications will ask you to write a guest column or a feature article related to your expertise. At the end of the column or article they'll usually let you include a few sentences related to your experience and ways to contact you. Obviously mention your website and e-mail there.
Advertising specialties are great ways to distribute your web address. They include key chains, coffee mugs, mouse pads, pens and pencils, as well as any apparel that might carry your logo or identity.
You can also promote your URL offline with the following: fax cover sheets, vehicles, billboards, license plate frames, Yellow Page ads, other printed ads, T-shirts, and golf balls and bags.
Online Marketing
Online marketing should be done in conjunction with the offline marketing mentioned above. Here are some ideas to get you started:
Even though people are at your site, mention it often within the text of your web copy. This will reinforce it in the readers' minds and help with search engine optimization.
Mention your website or include it in your signature for all news group, discussion group or forum postings.
Ask your fusion marketing partners, board members, advisors or other business partners to mention your website on their sites.
Use online press releases and articles just like the offline method mentioned above.
Pay-per-click marketing
Banner advertising on your site, as well as other related sites that your target market visits
Online directories
E-mail signatures
Be creative with both your offline and online marketing. Sometimes the best marketing comes from the wild, crazy, extreme or unique ideas that your competition hasn't thought of. Remember the guy who auctioned off his forehead as advertising space for a URL, or the pregnant lady who offered her pronounced stomach for URL placement for a Super Bowl ad website? Now that's guerrilla marketing.
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