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How to Make Money Online with Expired Domains (Part 2)

2009-01-17T08:27:00.000-08:00

In case you haven't read part 1 of this article, please click here.

Automated grabbing system
There is another great way of keeping a tab on domains with a high volume of traffic that are due to expire. The automated grabbing system ensures that as soon as the domain becomes available, it is registered. One such service provider is www.snapname.com and they charge for the service only if the particular domain name becomes available. Such domain names can be sold for thousands of dollars.

Once a domain name is grabbed, the best way of finding a buyer is to register the domain on your name and then marketing the name and selling the domains to make a profit.

Setting a Price
This is a very important aspect of domain business. Too high a pitch will not get an immediate sale. For anyone looking to make an almost instant sale, a decent price range is important, keeping in mind the value of the domain name, the demand for that niche etc. A higher price can be fixed if one is willing to wait until a good offer comes their way but for some instant cash within a few hours, low is the way to go.

Selling expired domains
Selling the domain names on ebay is very easy because of the number of people looking to sell and buy them there and people just do not realize the amount of money that can be made in eBay. There are several other market places like Sitepoint and Digitalpoint where these domains can be sold for profit.

Other than selling, there are several other ways one can monetize on the expired domain names.

Buy Expired domain names for traffic
Buying expired domain names to get highly targeted traffic for cheap. This traffic can be driven to your website for just pennies a click and in turn increase sales due to the large traffic.

Mini websites with expired domain names
Buying expired keyword rich domains and building mini sites will show the website in top search engine rankings. These websites can be built using expired domain names to drive targeted traffic to them or to create a website and sell the domain name as a value addition. Domains with an attached website with good traffic are sold for higher dollars and are in great demand.

Expired domain names for affiliate products
Affiliate programs are a good way of running and profiting online without actually having a product of your own. Affiliate marketing entails redirecting traffic from the affiliate website to the website of the product owner and in turn earning a commission for any sales made. This is a great way of making money for newbies.

If affiliate marketing is the route taken, then expired domain names that target the market of the affiliate program should be bought.

There is a huge market out there for expired domain names, it only needs to be tapped. Some people may say that it has reached a saturation point, but that is nowhere near the truth. A lot of money can be made with expired domain names, if one only looks at the many ways of using them or even comes up with some new ways.

How to Make Money Online with Expired Domains (Part 1)

2009-01-17T08:26:00.002-08:00

An expired domain is a domain that was registered previously but the owner did not re-register it. Once a domain name expires, it becomes available for anyone to register.

Expired domains have gained in popularity because of the traffic some of them may be having. A domain with an established source of traffic is considered a great bet. Savvy investors make a killing with expired domains.

There are a few ways one can make money buying and selling domain names for profit. It would help to understand how the whole process works.

Domain names are registered for a limited time, from one year to ten years. After this period of time, the domain name rights expire and the user has to renew the domain name. If this renewal is not done even after a period of time, the domain name is made available for anyone who wishes to buy it!

Each day thousands of such expired domain names are put on sale and some of them are well-established domains. These domain names may be ‘grabbed’ (the term used for buying expired domains) by anyone who is willing to buy them.

Buying expired domains
These domains can be bought for a few dollars and sold at high rates, especially if it is a domain that has built up targeted traffic over a few years. Looking for a good domain name with qualified traffic is the key to succeeding in the buying and selling process. Grabbing an expired domain name anywhere from $5 to $50 and selling it for $150 to $1000 is very much possible and in fact, there are great domains found and sold at much higher rates. Doing this on a regular basis with a few domains a week is a great way of making money with expired domains.

Reasons why people buy expired domains from you
There are several reasons people would be willing to pay high dollars to buy expired domain names. If the old owners missed renewing the registration for some reason, then the sky is the limit and they would be willing to pay a lot of money to get it back. Other business owners in the same field as the domain would be willing to pay for securing a good name with traffic.

What should one look for when buying expired domain names?

Factors to be taken into consideration when buying
If the expired domain name had a traffic of anything above 1500 during the previous month, then it is considered to be a good deal. Ensuring that the site is actually a consumer site selling something, is another important factor to be taken into consideration. If one can find a site with tens of thousands of visitors during the previous month, then the likeliness that the previous owners will be itching to get it back cannot be ruled out and this is gold for the person buying it.

To continue reading part 2 of this article, please click here.

Money Making Post for November 2007

2009-01-17T08:26:00.001-08:00

Below are all the articles related to making money online posted here during the month of November:

How to Set Up an Article Directory to Make Money Online (Part 1 & Part 2)

Ideas for Making Extra Money Online in the Holiday Seasons of the Year

6 Websites Mistakes You must Avoid when Making Money Online

Tools for Making Money with AdSense

Benefits of Making Money Online Selling $7 Products (Part 1 & Part 2)

The Beginner Tips for Making Money on eBay

I have taken time to gather information for write these articles. Hope that these articles contains the knowledge and info you need for your online money making venture.

Upcoming Tuesday Teleseminars about Making Money on the Internet

2009-01-17T08:25:00.002-08:00

There is an interesting teleseminar this week that I just had to let you know about.

Shawn Casey and Jim Fleck are holding a one time only teleseminar on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 at 2:00 pm EST, during which these Internet millionaires will spill their guts about how they have made a fortune from membership programs.

They will be teaching you how to start a membership program even if you have no products, no customers, no money, and no idea. And giving you the info and tips needed to make your membership site succeed and make a lucrative income from your online membership business.

To reserve your spot and attend this free teleseminars, simply click here to send your registration details.

Building Your Home Business with Blog Marketing

2009-01-17T08:25:00.001-08:00

Whoever owns a blog would definitely involve in blog marketing. Bloggers market their blogs so that they can get readers, and make money online from their blogs. Marketing their blogs mean to increase exposure and generate buzz so that people that are interested in it can find it and read it. It is also a great way to sell text links and affiliate products. If you are interested in blog marketing, it can very well become your profitable home business.

Having a blog marketing home business would definitely entail that you have more than one blog. If this is something that you are considering, you will want to identify a number of niche markets that your blogs can cover.

To make a full-time income with blog marketing, you must know and understand every aspect of blog. You need to learn what has to be done to get readers and visitors for your blog, how to write content for it on a consistent basis and how to make it achieves first page in search engines. Doing so will lead to successful blog marketing and making a steady income at home.

One big aspect of blog marketing is search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is about optimizing your blog for search phrases related to your blog so that the search engines will find it and rank it as high as possible. Which also leads to more free traffic and revenue for your blog. If you don't have much time to learn about SEO, you may consider hiring someone to optimize you blog and do all the tedious SEO works for you.

You are going to outsource much of your work if you plan on making a living from your niche blogs. You may want to look for writers that can write the content for your blogs on an ongoing basis and submitting your blogs to directories. Write down all of the duties on a spread sheet and decide what need to be done daily for each blog. This will keep your blogs and home business more organized and knows what you need to do when, as well as prioritize. Using a spread sheet will also help you keep track of who is doing what.

Blog marketing is just like any other home business. The more effort you put into it the more you get out of it. If you only spend a few hours per week to work on your blogs, you can not expect to earn a living with them. However, being consistent and working on your blogs every chance that you get will pay off in the long run. You will soon find that there is no better feeling in the world than owning your own home business, and working for yourself.

Just remember to start small, learn marketing and work hard. That are what you need to succeed in blog marketing and make the amount of money you desire. All of your effort will pay off if you are persistent and working hard to keep it up.

Free Resources Helpful to Make Money Online - 05 Dec 2007

2009-01-17T08:24:00.001-08:00

I downloaded a great e-book about eBay selling and like to share with you. You will find below the eBay e-book 'Overlooked Treasure' and two more free resources about Internet marketing.

Overlooked Treasure
Overlooked Treasure is a brand new publication from Scott Foster where you can subscribe free and learn what types of everyday items can bring your good profit. Overlookerd Treasure is now open for subscription at http://www.overlookedtreasure.com. If you subscribe now, you'll received a bonus report called "91 Common Everyday Items that Bring Huge Profits on eBay" from Scott. The report details little-known everyday items that you can pick up for a song and resell for a huge profit on ebay.

The Internet Marketing Dirty Laundry Report
Why are so many people who are trying to start, launch, and grow an online business - with all of the information available showing you how to do that - still frustrated, confused, overwhelmed, and no closer to the success you desire than when you started? The Internet Marketing Dirty Laundry report will expose exactly what the problems are and give you some help you can depend on. To get a copy of this report, please go to Nitromarketing Blog.

Gettingbusinessreferrals.com
There are plenty of free resources and materials for referral marketing in Gettingbusinessreferrals.com. They provide newsletter, audio training and e-books to help you get more referrals for your online business which will increase your online profit.

Make Money with Affiliate Programs Using Ezine Articles (Part 2)

2009-01-17T08:22:00.000-08:00

In case you haven't read part 1 of this article, please click here.

Step 3: Turn your approach into a tips list or tutorial.
Let's use my example again. I decided that I would describe various uses of autoresponders and how the reader can actually profit from them. What kind of tips list or tutorial could I create?

"How to Generate More Subscribers, Sales and Profits With Automated Follow-Up Messages"

"7 Powerful And Profitable Ways To Use Autoresponders To Skyrocket Your Sales and Subscribers!

"Want to Increase Your Online Profits And Leads? Here are 7 Ways to Do It..."

That's all you need to do. Determine your end result. Decide how to get there with your "useful, but incomplete" approach. And then develop a list, or even a step-by-step tutorial for your article that leads the reader along.

With each new "idea" or "way" or "tip" or "step" or "strategy" that you share, you can further direct the reader towards realizing their need of your upcoming offer, and lay the foundation for them to accept the offer.

Step 4: Expand on each point to build your content.
Here's more of the easy part. Just "fill-in-the-blanks" to complete your article.

Write 1-2 short paragraphs for each of your points. Make them good. Provide quality content. The offer you will soon make will see poor results if your information isn't useful.

Remember, you are trying to presell the reader on the idea that they are going to need your offer. If you don't provide them with quality information that they WANT to begin using immediately, then why will they want to buy what you are promoting?

Light a fire in them. Motivate them. Challenge them. Give them such nuggets of gold that they want to keep mining until they hit the mother lode!

Step 5: Put on the finishing touches with the "five pillars."
There are five things that you should always do to finish up your ezine article. Don't skip any of them. They are all critical...

1. Polish. Re-read your article. Does it provide information that really is "useful" to the reader? And yet leaves them wanting even more? That's what you want. Polish it. Put on the wax and make it shine. It has a very specific purpose -- make certain it has the means to achieve it.

2. Promote. Use your resource box to promote your offer. This is why we've written the article, right? Remember step one? It's time to put it into play. Give the reader what they (hopefully) are wanting...a way to maximize the information you gave them.

3. Proof. Don't do this yourself. Have a trusted friend, relative or co-worker check your article for grammatical and typographical errors. The last thing you want to do is present a poor image after sharing some high quality information.

4. Publish. Zip your new article out to your favorite list of publishers. Submit it to the announcement lists and the ezine directories. Don't forget to publish it yourself in your own newsletter!

5. Profit. If you've covered all the bases that I've mentioned, then profits are almost certain to start coming in when your ezine article is published. You deserve it. Be proud of your accomplishments.

And then start it all over again!

Make Money with Affiliate Programs Using Ezine Articles (Part 1)

2009-01-17T08:20:00.001-08:00

Most people realize they can use ezine articles to promote a product or service, or their favorite affiliate program. But many of them don’t know how to best use ezine articles to promote their offers.

They know they are supposed to write an article, include some kind of clever offer in the text or in their resource box, and convince editors to publish their article.

But, there is a *very* clever way to use your article to promote like you've never seen before.

And I'm going to share it with you right now.

There are only five steps.

Step 1: Choose the product or service you want to promote.
This one is kind of a no-brainer. It all begins with deciding what you want to promote. Is it your own product or service? How about your favorite affiliate program?

We're not talking about your newsletter -- we're talking about an actual offer you want to present that you'll earn profits from when readers of your article make a purchase.

Decide what it is that you want to promote through your free ezine article. And then move on.

Step 2: Determine your "useful, but incomplete" approach.
I love to use what Jimmy D. Brown has coined as the "useful, but incomplete" approach when using freebies of any kind. (Ezine articles, free eBooks, reports, eCourses, etc.)

What he means by that is simply this: You provide your reader with "useful" information (something they find of value and are able to actually apply) but make certain that it is "incomplete" in that they can better use the information by making a purchase.

That's "useful, but incomplete." And it works like a charm.

The idea is to use your content to build up to your desired response. You provide the reader with content, and then you make an offer that allows them to fully utilize the content, gain extra insight from the content or maximize the content in some additional way.

Let me give you an example:

Let’s say I wanted to promote Aweber in a free ezine article. This is a service that offers unlimited autoresponders, tracking and all kinds of other stuff for one low price.

So, how could I use an ezine article to promote the service?

By writing an article that explains how to benefit from using autoresponders or mailing lists. My article explains different uses of autoresponders and how the reader can profit from implementing the ideas.
And, naturally, they will need an autoresponder service in order to put the ideas into practice, right?

And I just happen to know of a great service they can use.

OK, so that's an example of how to promote a SERVICE offer with your ezine article. What about a software product or an eBook?

Want some examples?

Good, because I've got two...

TO PROMOTE A SOFTWARE PRODUCT: Let's suppose you want to promote Armand Morin's eCover Generator. How can you do it?

-- Write an article outlining how important presentation of your offer is, and how creating a cover graphic can increase response rates by up to 1300%.

-- Write a step-by-step tutorial article for "do-it-yourselfers", explaining how to design your own graphics from scratch. And then promote the software as a
super-simplified way of doing it.

TO PROMOTE AN EBOOK: Want to promote Jimmy D. Brown’s ListProfitSystem.com?

-- Write an article that covers the "basics" of building lists, and then promote Jimmy’s product as the "advanced" tactics.

-- Write an article on how to profit from a list, and then promote Jimmy’s eBook as the "how to build the list."

See how easy this is?

That's how it works. Determine what your "useful, but incomplete" approach will be, and then...

To Continue reading part 2 of this article, please click here.

A New Video from Andy Jenklin Showing How You can Multiply Your Online Revenue Using only a Cool Trick

2009-01-17T08:19:00.000-08:00

Andy Jenkins from stompernet.net is going to publish a series of free videos with quality content inside the videos that will help people increase their traffic and website revenue. The entire series of this free video is called 'Going Natural 2.O'.

The first video of Going Natural 2.O has just released today by Andy. In this video, Andy will show you a cool trick that took one of his e-commerce sites from making $1,000 a day to $2,988 a day in less than one month.

Going Natural 2.O - First Video

Andy has made this video professional with step-by-step guide to help you learn the technique he has applied to increase traffic and sales.

Using Business Cards and Coupons to Generate Traffic for Your Website

2009-01-17T08:07:00.003-08:00

It’s no secret that business cards and coupons have been used for generations as a method of advertising a business. But, how do you use these tools effectively for your online business to bring you more traffic?

First of all, make your business cards or coupon actually say who you are and what you do. I don’t know how many times I’ve found a business card and had no idea who it was or what they did. Of course I wasn’t going to call them to find out… so the card just found a new place in my garbage can. That probably wasn’t what the person had in mind when they gave it to me, but then again, no one wants their promotional materials to end up in the garbage.

Ideas to make your Business Cards or Coupons Sticky:

Make your promos “sticky”. Give the recipient a reason to hold onto it.
If you run a football card trading store, then print your business cards onto a schedule for your local Pro or Semi-Pro football team.
Turn the card into a fridge magnet.
Hand-write a note onto them to make them stand out.
Give out bookmarks, calendars, recipe cards, or notepads with your URL on them.
Print a quote, tip or inspirational saying on your cards.
Include a cartoon or joke on your cards.
Write “for a free gift, stop by” … on your cards, and send them to your mailing list where you can include a freebie when they sign up.

How to Distribute your Cards
If you ship products, include your business cards or coupons with every order. Encourage your customers to share them with friends, and they may end up bringing you new customers.

This is a great way to network with moms. Send your coupons to business womens (who aren’t your direct competition) and ask them to include your coupons with their orders and offer to do the same. Your customers will appreciate the discounted offers and you’ll both benefit. Find out where people in your target market hang out and leave some cards there. Are you trying to reach Breastfeeding moms? Then, go to a LaLeche meeting and leave coupons there. Is your target market Christian moms? Go to a Christian bookstore or even a prayer group and ask if you can give away some goodies to the members. You’ll get your name in front of exactly the people you’re looking for – which is the goal.

Using Business Cards and Coupons to Generate Traffic for Your Website

2009-01-17T08:07:00.001-08:00

Make your promos “sticky”. Give the recipient a reason to hold onto it.
If you run a football card trading store, then print your business cards onto a schedule for your local Pro or Semi-Pro football team.
Turn the card into a fridge magnet.
Hand-write a note onto them to make them stand out.
Give out bookmarks, calendars, recipe cards, or notepads with your URL on them.
Print a quote, tip or inspirational saying on your cards.
Include a cartoon or joke on your cards.
Write “for a free gift, stop by” … on your cards, and send them to your mailing list where you can include a freebie when they sign up.

Get Some Online Money Making Ideas from the eBay 2007 Holiday Hot List

2009-01-17T08:06:00.002-08:00

If you have been thinking about how you can make money online in this holiday season, perhaps the eBay Holiday Hot List 2007 can help you generate some ideas and strategies to cash in for the holiday.

The predicted top 25 hottest eBay sellers in the list are:

1 iPhone	13 PlayStation 3
2 Webkinz / Lil'Kinz	14 I'm Not A Plastic Bag
3 Transformers	15 Motorola RAZR2
4 Collectible Barbie	16 Designer Fragrances
5 Dooney & Bourke Zebra Tote	17 Citizen Eco-Drive Watch
6 Nintendo Wii	18 Nike Air Max 360 II
7 T.M.X. Friends - Ernie & Cookie Monster	19 Abercrombie & Fitch Hoodie Jacket
8 BCBG Dress	20 Dept. 56 Snow Villages
9 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	21 Nike SasQuatch Sumo2
10 Rock Band Video Game	22 Gibson Electric Guitar
11 iPod nano 8GB (Black)	23 Craftsman Hand Tool Set
12 The Simpsons	24 Burton Snowboard
	25 Vtech Gadget

The above are just the overview of the list. You can get access to the full details here.

The list has been created by eBay based on research, interviews with respected industry experts, and review on Internet blog and past eBay holiday data. So, you can rely on it.

It tells you what products will be in high demand and and short supply in the holidays. So saving you a lot of time and work in figuring out whats to sell in eBay or in your website for the holiday seasons. For those who make money with AdSense and affiliate programs using niche website and blog, you may get a couple of niche ideas looking at the list.

Some Christmas Gifts from Joel Comm that are Useful for Making Money Online

2009-01-17T08:06:00.001-08:00

Joel Comm (an AdSense expert) has put together a collection of Christmas gifts for giving away to the public. All the gifts are products and services related to Internet marketing and making money online. Get Joel Comm Christmas gifts now at http://www.agiftfromjoel.com.

Here's what's inside the collection:

Five Original Instant AdSense Templates
- The AdSense templates are loaded with PLR content. They can be uploaded instantly to your web host and publish on the Internet to make money with AdSense.

Kontera AdLinks Secrets v2.0 ebook
- This e-book will give you tips and ideas for monetizing your website with Kontera Content Link advertising program.

Traffic Geyser $1 Trial Membership
- Video can generate massive traffic for you but only if you know the right ways to create and market your videos. The Traffic Geyser is a system you can follow to generate traffic videos.

ScriptDojo $0.01 Trial Membership
- Find out which scripts were naughty or nice at ScriptDojo.

Make Money Online with Pay Per Play Audio Ads

2009-01-17T08:05:00.006-08:00

I have recently received a number of emails from some of the Internet marketing gurus informing me that a new pay per play (PPP) audio advertising program will soon to be launched on the Internet. My first question to this program is 'is this program real'. And the answer I found is they are real and will be doing business on the net for long term. This ppp ads audio program was created by an online company called NetAudioAds™ 2 years ago and now they have partnered with one of the big 5 search engines to widely expand their PPP ads network.

Because of the expansion, NetAudioAds™ are now inviting web publishers to join their PPP network and make money running PPP audio ads on websites and blogs.

How does PPP audio ads work?
When you join the NetAudioAds™ PPP network, you will be given a set PPP code that need to be inserted into your site. Once the code has been inserted, your site will start running PPP audio ads. Every time a visitor land on you site, a 5 second audio ad will automatically play and after the 5 second audio ad finished playing, you'll earn 25% of the ad revenue spent by the advertisers that play audio ads on your website.

It works just like CPM basis. The more visitors you drive to your site, the more times your audio ad will play and the more ad revenue you'll earn.

Besides that, NetAudioAds™ PPP network has a affiliate program where you can join and earn by simply referring other web publishers to run PPP ads on their website(s). You'll earn 5% of what the advertiser spends on PPP ads played on the website(s) of those referred by you up to 2 tiers.

Is NetAudioAds™ PPP audio ads compatible with Google AdSense program
I have re-read Google AdSense program policies and didn't find any rule and policy that disallow publishers to use PPP audio ads together with AdSense contextual ads. So you will not against any AdSense policies when using PPP audio ads in conjunction with AdSense text ads.

Increase web revenue without driving additional traffic
Theoretical speaking, adding PPP audio ads to your site will increase your online revenue without traffic increase needed. Practically, it only works if the 5 second ads doesn't annoy most of your visitors. 5 second isn't long, I think many of the visitors are willing to listen to the audio ads.

It is not difficult to find out whether PPP audio ads are working or not on your site. All you have to is test the PPP audio ads on your site for a few days. If there is not obvious negative effect to your AdSense and affiliate revenue after adding audio ads, it is a good news as you'll be making more money online with your site without extra effort on traffic building.

PPP can be placed on free websites and blogs
According to the FAQ of NetAudioAds™ is allowing websites and blogs that are hosted in free hosting servers. So if you own a blogspot blog, you definitely can join NetAudioAds™ and place their PPP ads. And you can even insert your PPP code into your social networking profile pages if the terms of your social networking sites allow.

A Way to Make Some Quick Cash Online in this Christmas Season

2009-01-17T08:05:00.005-08:00

Santa Sal's Christmas Giveaway program is about to launch. He has set up a website to invite people to sign up this giveaway program. He made this giveaway program a little special than other giveaway events. People who join Santa Sal's Christmas giveaway not just have to change to get free access to a collection of Internet marketing products, they will also get paid for referring others to sign up Santa Sal's Christmas giveaway.

You'll be paid $1.00 for every single person you refer to Santa Sal http://santasal.com/famil that signs up Santa Sal's Christmas Giveaway. And if the person you refer invites a friend to join Santa Sal's Christmas Giveaway, you'll be paid $0.50 for the sign up. So they are paying out 2 levels.

The link to sign up Santa Sal's Christmas Giveaway is http://santasal.com/famil. Once you have sign up, you will not see any free products uploaded in the member area yet, the free products should be uploaded very soon into the member area, and you will be given a unique URL to invite people to join Santa Sal's Christmas Giveaway and make money for every confirmed sign up.

Learn to Achieve More in the Next 12 Months than the Previous 12 years in this Thursday Tele-Seminar

2009-01-17T08:05:00.003-08:00

Are you working hard and tying hard on your online business, but can't seem to achieve the type of success you want?

Does everything seem to move so painfully slow that sometimes you feel like you want to abandon your long-term goals and online money making venture completely?

Well, you're not alone.

Even the highly successful people can find themselves frustrated by the barriers and roadblocks that will stop their movement to success.

Don't get discourage easily as there are people on the Internet can help you.

This Thursday 2pm EST and 8pm EST, Derek Gehl will be holding a 70 minute tele-seminar with Dan Kennedy, the advisor to ultra-successful entrepreneurs, and the creator of the new DVD sensation - The Phenomenon™ to show you exactly what to do and how to do it to be successful in your business.

There is no charge to participate in this tele-seminar except for the normal long distance charges.

Register now to reserve your spot.

And just for registering and showing up for the call, you can claim a bonus gift.

Make Money Online by Contributing to Wikimmunity.org

2009-01-17T08:05:00.001-08:00

Wikimmunity.org is a fairy new website where people worldwide can join as a writer and make money for their contribution on local info. Writers of Wikimmunity will be responsible for writing and publishing articles about local communities, places, organization, businesses, events and anything else related to where they live, making Wikimmunity become an online community with information from local communities around the US and around the world.

Publishing articles in Wikimmunity is fairly easy. First, you need to register yourself as an affiliate of Wikimmunity and then you will be given access to start publishing articles. You'll get paid $1 for each approved article that has a minimum length of 200 words.

$1 per article seems to be too little, but if you have a lot of local things to talk about, this is may be a good way to earn extra cash. And since you are an affiliate of Wikimmunnity, you can send your website visitors through your affiliate ID to Wikimmunity to join and publish articles in Wikimmunity. You'll also get paid for the approved articles published by your website visitors.

To sign up and start contributing in Wikimmunity, simply go to:

Wikimmunity affiliate sign-up page

The minimum payout is $25 and payments are sent on or before the 15th of the month for the previous month's earnings.

3 Secrets for Creating a Successful Newsletter that will Bring You a Nice Online Profit (Part 2)

2009-01-17T08:04:00.005-08:00

Secret 2 - Provide Helpful Content that Your Readers Want
Want to have a newsletter with thousands of fans and loyal readers?

Then simply give your readers helpful information that they want.

What does it mean?

It's simple. Everybody knows you should offer helpful content in your newsletter.

But what few people pay attention to, is giving their readers what really want. Because not every helpful information is what your readers want. Let's say you publish a newsletter about cars. You keep including information and pictures for Mercedes Benz in issue after issue.
The information and pictures are really cool and useful. So you think your readers love it.

But without you knowing this, there is a problem with that…

85% of your readers are interested in Ferrari – and not even a bit interested about Mercedes Benz. So imagine how frustrating it is for them to hear all about Mercedes Benz in your newsletter week after week.

See the problem here?

That's why you should not only provide helpful content, but also the information that your readers really want. Otherwise, it will be like giving very valuable information about growing a coconut tree to Eskimos. Your information is still very helpful – but not to your readers.

Most newsletter publishers give their readers what they think their readers want… which is by the way 80% not right. So How can you discover what your readers really want?

Simply ask them!

Yes, you can run a simple and easy survey from your list and ask them what they want to find most in your newsletter. You'll be surprised about the responses. You can simply create your survey outline by email and send it to your list and ask them to reply back, or if you want to look more professional and get more response, you can simply use SurveyMonkey. It's a great survey service that I have personally used and have seen other big newsletter publishers use too. So find out what your readers most like to hear about, and then give it to them. Then I promise you will have a big list of fans and loyal happy readers behind you.

Now let's get to the last newsletter success secret.

Secret 3 - Use a Professional, Reader Friendly Newsletter Design
I still can't believe how many honest, hard-working newsletter publishers spend hours on writing and preparing each issue and still kill their efforts and results by using a poor newsletter design for their newsletter.

It's like you spend years of your life writing an awesome book and then when it comes to choosing a cover for it, you use a very cheap and low-quality paper and write the book title in handwriting on its cover.

Wouldn't it be insane?

Still, some people do the same with their newsletter. Even if the newsletter content is very helpful, people won't still read it because they are turned off by the low quality and cheap looking design so much that assume the content will be as bad as the design. Or maybe the design is so bad that hurts their eye to read the articles – like too small text or a cluttered look that confuses them which part is where.

So what about you?
Is your newsletter design really professional? Or maybe it is killing your newsletter readership...
You can read this article and learn 3 ways to easily get a professional design for your newsletter that your readers will love. You will find this article an eye-opener.

Final Thoughts
So now you know the top 3 secrets to have your own highly successful newsletter...

1. Give Your Newsletter a Personal Voice
2. Provide Helpful Content that Your Readers want
3. Use a Professional Design for Your Newsletter

So now you are armed with powerful information that can help you transform your newsletter success.

3 Secrets for Creating a Successful Newsletter that will Bring You a Nice Online Profit (Part 1)

2009-01-17T08:04:00.003-08:00

Creating a successful newsletters, like everything else, has a formula for success. If you don't follow it, your newsletter probably will be just another newsletter that your subscribers will hit the "Delete" button and send it to their mailbox trash. However if you follow the same formula that other highly successful newsletters are using, your subscribers will read your every newsletter issue, love it, and even recommend it to their friends.

So would you like to discover the top 3 secrets of this formula to make your newsletter highly successful?

Then let's get started...

Secret 1 - Give Your Newsletter a Shining Personality
When I compared different highly successful newsletters in different topics, I found a similar very interesting trait in all of them…

Having a personality.

So what does it mean?

It means the author makes his newsletter unique by letting his personality shine through his every word in his newsletter. You see, we are humans and it's a proven fact that people are interested in people. We don't like to read a faceless newsletter who we can't feel a connection with – like a robot has written it.

We want to feel there has been a real person just like ourselves behind the keyboard typing those words. We want to feel we know that person.

How Can You Give a Personal Voice to Your Newsletter?

That's not difficult. Here are some ideas...

Include a section at the beginning of your newsletter called "Editor's Notes". It's where you always get a chance to say "hi" and talk to your subscribers from a more personal level. Here are some other creative names for this section that I've heard...
(For example the editor's name is Mike)

• Greetings from Mike

• Mike's Friendly Corner

• Coffee Break

• Mike's Ramblings

• On The Personal Note

The list can go on and on.

Another good idea is to include your photo in your newsletter. You can just include a small photo of yourself in the Editor's Notes section. (Of course you'll need to have an HTML newsletter to be able to include pictures.)

Also you can talk about some recent things that are happening in your life. For example if it's near Christmas, let your readers know what your plans are for the holidays. In the upcoming weeks before Christmas, tell you readers what you're going to do.

Free Resources for Making Money Online - 13 Dec 2007

2009-01-17T08:04:00.001-08:00

Here are some new money making e-books and course you can get access free:

Real Reason Reports
Paul Smithson is in the process of putting together a series of free reports called Real Reason. This series of reports will tell you why do so many online businesses struggle to achieve their full potential and what can you do to make sure you maximize the chances of success in your online business. The first of these reports has been released and is available for download right now at http://www.xsitepro.com/realreason.html.

Post Launch Profits e-Books
Alex Jeffreys has written down his success stories "how he went from working long days of construction to having a six figure online business in under a year in an e-book titled Post Launch Profits. And he laid down the methods and strategies he have used to generate a six figure online in the past year. So you might want to read this e-book, and learn some his useful techniques for improving your online money making venture.

Email list Building Video Course
List-building-videos.com has a step-by-step listing building Video course that you can sign up free and get access to the videos to watch how joint venture marketing can grow your subscribers list.

The Right Content for Your Email Marketing

2009-01-17T08:03:00.003-08:00

Email marketing may include sending email advertisements to a large distribution list, publishing and distributing an e-newsletter and sending informative emails with a soft sell approach to encourage recipients to make a purchase or visit your website. Whether you opt to utilize one or all of these email marketing techniques, you will be faced with one specific dilemma and that is writing the content which will appear in these emails. This is critical because these emails may be the first impression potential customers are receiving for your products and services. Superior content will give the potential customers a good first impression which may make them more likely to purchase your products or services. This article will discuss some proven techniques for ensuring the content you use in your email marketing campaign will reap the maximum benefits.

The importance of hiring a professional writer to assist you in your email marketing campaign cannot be stressed enough. It is one of the most critical elements to the success of your campaign. You may be a decent writer or you may have a staff member who you think can do a good job creating the content for your email marketing but unless you or your staff member is a professional writer by trade, the quality of the work will likely not be of the same quality as a professional can produce. This can be very damaging especially if your competitors are hiring writers to create their content. Your emails will likely not be viewed as favorably as the emails written by professionals.

The content you decide to include in your email marketing efforts is largely a matter of personal preference but there are some methods which have traditionally been more successful than others. The type of content which may be effective often includes informative articles, short useful tips, links to relevant websites, advertising for complementary products and even some subtle forms of advertising which are meant to persuade the recipients of the email to either make a purchase or visit your website.

Full length insightful articles which are likely to be of interest to the members of your email distribution list are an excellent idea for your email marketing campaign. These articles are a good idea because they will likely contain information which the recipients of your email will appreciate. Additionally, these articles give you the opportunity to include information about your products or services in the copy of the email. This can be a subtle form of advertising when it encourages the recipients to purchase a product or service or visit the website without actually asking the recipient to do so.

Short product reviews can also be very useful and helpful when you include them in your email marketing campaign. These reviews can help to attract a great deal of attention especially when the reviews focus on the products you offer and provide favorable reviews for these products. This type of information can either be subjective in nature or can remain objective by simply specifying the features of the products and offering other concrete pieces of information as opposed to opinions of the products.

Advertising is often a quite important part of an email marketing campaign. This advertising may either be direct or indirect in nature. Direct advertising may include banner ads or other graphical advertisements which encourage website visitors to click through the link to reach either your website or a sponsor’s website. Indirect advertising may apply to content in the copy of featured articles which subtly encourage visitors to make a purchase or visit your website. The indirect marketing in an email marketing campaign is usually supporting the products or services you offer while direct marketing will likely promote products and services offered by sponsors who paid to receive advertising space on the email. Email recipients are usually well aware these graphics are part of an advertisement and will choose to click on these links when they have an interest in the products or services being offered.

The AdSense Finder - A New Software to Help you Make Money Online

2009-01-17T08:03:00.001-08:00

The AdSense Finder is another Adwords software designed to help you get more pay-per-click (PPC) traffic for your website with lower PPC cost and increase your return on investment (ROI) from all your Google AdWords advertising campaigns.

Not long ago, Google introduced a new system called "site placement targeting" Where AdWords advertisers can choose to place their ads only on the sites they like to advertise. The good thing about site placement targeting is you can reach highly targeted audience with lesser competition. But, finding a list of relevant and large traffic sites to advertise on can be time-consuming. And the AdSense Finder is created to solve this problem.

What this software will do you is, it will automatically seeks out quality sites that run Adsense, on the exact topics that you want. It then provides the traffic details of these sites and gives you a list that you enter into your campaign so can start advertising on them for a fraction of what the search network costs.

The AdSense Finder is free to download and use. The download link to this software is here. There is no trial version in this software, you'll full access after installing it on your PC.

Outsourcing - What it is and how it Benefits the Internet Entrepreneurs

2009-01-17T08:02:00.002-08:00

People sometimes wonder when they hear the term "outsourcing'. Here's is a brief definition of outsourcing and some ideas on how it can benefit the online business entrepreneur, especially one who is making a go on the Internet.

In actually, outsourcing has been going on for many years. The essence of outsourcing is simply engaging the services of an individual or organization outside your full time staffs to handle certain aspects of your business plan.

These aspects may be public relations, marketing, content creation for website, clerical and administrative functions, or IT management. In fact, with today's virtual environment, there is really no part of the business that could not be outsourced effectively.

Of course, the big question is whether or not there are any benefits to outsourcing, especially for persons who are building their business on the Internet to make money online. Actually, there are several good reasons to outsource certain functions. Here are some examples.

Often, an Internet business is set up with a shoestring budget and one person doing all the work. As the business grows, it is easy to get caught in dealing with general office functions, such as answering emails, handling correspondence, creating unique content and maintaining client lists.

By outsourcing your clerical support needs, you can spend more time focusing on the expansion of your business, not the day to day details of running it.

Second, promoting your online presence is a full time job all by itself. You can hardly manage that and still be involved in making the big decisions that impact the overall operations of your company. Using outside agents to promote your presence and to stimulate sales makes it possible for you to do what owners need to do, which is grow the companies roster of goods and services.

Last, outsourcing allows you to not get bogged down with employee taxes, withholding and providing a benefit package. When you outsource to an agency or to another individual, they will not expect a benefit package to go along with their pay.

You will save a great deal of time and money on accounting functions; these savings can be pumped right back into your business and used for expansion.

Outsourcing is a great way to expand your online company without undue stress on your resources. Why not look at your present situation and see if you would benefit from outsourcing a function or two.

Outsourcing - What it is and how it Benefits the Internet Entrepreneurs

2009-01-17T08:02:00.001-08:00

Your New Training Site to Learn Everything about Making Money Online with Membership Sites

2009-01-17T08:01:00.004-08:00

Jeremy Gislason from SureFireWealth.com emailed me yesterday introducing me his new training site. The training site is created by him and his business partner Simon Hodgkinson. They have been working hard to put together as much solid content as they could over the past couple of months into this training site. And they don't charge a single cent for the training site.

Check out the training site here:

http://www.MembershipMillionaire.com

The training was build to teach you everything they know about building online businesses and marketing with membership sites to make money online. You'll get free access to all the information you need to get started to profit online with membership sites.

Hubpages Needs More Bloggers and Writers

2009-01-17T08:01:00.003-08:00

You probably heard of Hubpages.com multiple times already because the site has been mentioned in many blogs and websites.

Hubpages is an online publishing community where users can publish their content on the topics they love to write with an opportunity to make money from Google AdSense, eBay and Amazon ads on all their published content. Hubpages has been growing rapidly during the past 12 months, they now have over 100,000 register users and near five millions visitors per month. So if you have been searching for some ways to make money online by writing and still not yet join Hubpages, I suggest you take a look at it.

http://hubpages.com

Hubpages provides a set of non-techie tools to help you publish your articles easily. You can add photo and video to your article pages (hub pages) to make you articles more interesting to read. And since Hubpages get millions of visitors monthly, if your articles are interesting and helpful enough, you may get a lot of people viewing your articles. And more article views would mean more ads revenue generated for you.

You may earn a nice extra income if you publish your articles often and each of your article is good enough to attract a reasonable amount of people reading it. There are actually quite a lot of authors making few hundreds dollar extra every month from Hubpages now. But there are also many users not making money in Hubpages. It all depend on your hard work, the number of articles your have contribute and most importantly the amount of visitors your article pages can attract.

Is Making Money Online from Private Label Rights for You

2009-01-17T08:01:00.001-08:00

Are you new in Internet marketing or an Internet marketer who has been around the track a few times and is still not making all the money from your business that you believe is there to be made? Are you making use of private label rights materials? Should you be?

If you are not making use of private label rights materials, then you most certainly should be. You are leaving money on the table so to speak by not taking advantage of private label rights material.

You may even have a lot private label right material sitting in some dusty back corner of your hard drive. It is time to take it out, dusts it off and put it to work for you.

If you are a new Internet marketer, it is likely that you are wishing for 48 hour days because you have so much to do just to get your business launched. If you are a seasoned Internet marketer, you are very likely even busier.

There just isn't a lot of time or energy left to create your own digital products, is there? Having new digital products created for you can be a fairly expensive thing. Ghost writers (the good ones) don't work cheap. A single well written article can cost between $10 and $30 and a whole e-book can cost several hundred dollars and you don't just need one of each.

A website eats up material at an alarming rate. It needs to be refreshed, updated and changed constantly. Think private label rights!

You can subscribe to a private label rights website and gain access to all of the digital material that you need for a lot less money than you can have these products produced for you. Granted, the private label rights articles, e-books, reports, etc. that you download are not ready to use a rule.

Unless you are just going to put them in a newsletter, you are going to have to either rewrite and change them yourself or have someone do it for you. However, rewriting only costs half what writing costs.

There are several things that must be done to private label rights material in order for it to become of the greatest possible value to you.

First the title of any work needs to be changed. You will want to keep your related keywords in the title but change is necessary.

Second you will need to insert your own keywords into articles, e-books and reports that you download and you will want to change enough words so that you can claim authorship to the material.

The time and/or cost of making changes are far lesser than creating or having a new product created.

Getting the most value out of private label rights products means that you need you be a 'value topper' if you are a natural salesman, you are already a 'value topper'. If you weren't born to sell, you can learn to become a 'value topper'.

Other marketers will have access to the same private label rights products that you do so you need to learn to enhance the value of the products...that us what is meant by the term 'value topper'.

You change to product; you add to the product, you package the product with other products. In other words, you simply make the private label rights product of greater value than it was in its original form.

That is the way you out fox the competition. While others simply download and sell private label rights products at low prices, you increase the value of the product and sell it for a much greater profit.

Private label right products can be used in a variety of ways. Using them to you own best advantage is the objective. If you are an innovator and a value topper:

You can use private label rights to build your own credibility as a guru in your niche market without having to invest a lot of time or money in the articles, e-books and reports that you need to be able to claim authorship of to accomplish.

You can use private label rights products to build your own list.

You can learn to bundle and promote private label rights materials as unique stand-alone products.

Boost Your Affiliate and Marketing Earnings with HopURL

2009-01-17T08:00:00.002-08:00

I just come across a link management tool that you may want to use to make more money from your favorite affiliate programs.

HopURL.com

Here's what the tool would do for you:

Make your affiliate links shorter - Make you link tiny and avoid losing clicks and earnings due to broken links.

Track traffic stat for every affiliate link - You know how many unique and non-unique visitors clicked your affiliate links daily, weekly and monthly.

Conversion rate details - Give exactly the conversion rate for each affiliate link, thus you'll know which affiliate programs are making money.

Make your marketing efforts more effective - Compare between serveral link statistics in one screenshot, and find out easily which of your promotions work best!

Get this free tool here.

Start the New Year Right

2009-01-17T08:00:00.001-08:00

Christmas will arrive in less than a week and after Christmas a new year is about to start. What's your plan of making money online in year 2008? What types of online money making ventures you will be taking in 2008?

Focus on creating a new blog to generate ads revenue while making yourself popular?
Developing and launching a new product?
Building niche websites for AdSense and affiliate programs?
Setting up a membership program business?
Concentrate on Internet marketing methods best to your strength? SEO, social marketing, PPC advertising, etc.
Starting your own web 2.0 sites?
Entering into the Affiliate marketing industry?

There are so many things you can start doing in 2008. However, you'll have to decide which type of online business that you want to start most, then focus on the online business you've decided and put your effort into it. You just can't start a few types of online business together at the same time since your energy and time are limited.

Within the next two weeks, try to sit down and think how you are going to make money online in the new year, and then write a business plan for 2008.

And below are some free resources and tools that may be able to help you in the new year, to help you start the year right...

http://www.starttheyearright.com

There are a total of 20 free e-books, tools and resources you can download in the site. All these free stuffs are helpful to kickstart your online earnings.

Blog is a Powerful Marketing Tool for Your Online Business

2009-01-17T07:59:00.003-08:00

Business blogging can brings many benefits to your business. It enables you to reach your targeted prospects in a manner and using a tone that really connects and reverberates with customers and potential customers. What’s more, it’s a very low cost method of communicating with your target prospects, whether you’re announcing a new product, reinforcing your brand, or simply staying in touch to keep your business at the top of their minds.

You don’t have to be an expert writer or expert marketer to successfully make more money using business blogging. In fact, some of the most successful businesses approach their business blogging as a friendly, informal conversation with their target audience. No hard sell, no pushy sales tactics, just a normal conversation that serves to build and strengthen customer relationships.

Of course, you can’t just start a business blog and expect the profits to start rolling in. It takes a bit of planning, time, and energy to understand and apply the right tools to make your business blogging efforts as effective as possible, right from the start. It’s easy, though, if you have the right information at your fingertips.

Setting up your blog is not all that difficult, but you do have to put some time into determining the best place to put it. Some blog hosting services charge a fee, others are low or no cost, and you always have the option of hosting your blog right on your own business website.

So how do you decide? Start by thinking very carefully about your budget, your own computer skills, and your readiness to learn some basic blogging software. Just as importantly, though, also have to decide how you plan to keep your business blog current and interesting. Updating your blog has to become a scheduled part of your business operation if it is to be truly effective. Another consideration is assigning responsibility for writing blog content and/or actually updating the blog.

Are you going to do this yourself?

Are you going to hire someone to do it for you?

Are you going to do some combination of the two?
These may seem like boring details, and I suppose they are. Certainly they’re not as exciting as actually coming up with creative content that readers will enjoy. These details, though, can mean the difference between the success or failure of your business blogging, so be sure to give them the time and attention they deserve.

Using a Business Blog will teach you exactly how to set up and use your business blog, It will also show you exactly how to use business blogging to reach the most profitable customers possible.

Make Money Online Now by Giving Away Jonathan Leger's Free SEO Report

2009-01-17T07:59:00.001-08:00

Jonathan Leger's new SEO report "Search Engine Myths Exposed" is set to be released on Jan 9th 2008. This report is packed with quality content about getting high rankings in Google.

The site for downloading this SEO report is now in pre-launch, if you sign up early you'll get the chance to download a preview chapter of this report. The sign up link is here:

Search Engine Myths Exposed

And you'll be paid for referring other people who sign up and download this report. You even get paid for referring people to download the preview chapter during this pre-launch.

For every confirmed sign up, Jon will paid $0.25. It's 2-tier, so if someone signs up through you and then they promote the report, you will get an additional $0.25 for every person they refer as well. Your earnings will be paid via Paypal on 1st and 15th day of each month after the launch of Search Engine Myths Exposed on Jan 9th 2008. The minimum payout is $5.

I experienced that Internet marketing experts who run these types of promotions tend to forget to make payment to member for the sign ups they generated. I believe they are too busy. So if you generated earning and didn't receive payment on time, you can send an email to ask for a payout.

Free Resources Helpful to Make Money Online - 23 Dec 2007

2009-01-17T07:58:00.002-08:00

Below are this week useful materials for your online business:

Getafreewebsite.info
Getafreewebsite.info is a membership site allowing you to make money with clickbank affiliate programs in a few steps. When you join, you'll get a free Clickbank shoping mall with over 25,000 Clickbank info products added into your mall. You can then send visitors to your mall using different traffic generating methods and earn commission for each sale generated by your mall.

Simple Product Big Profit - Audio Content
Do you have problems coming up with a new product idea to make money online? Well, Jason Dinner explains in a MP3 recording how easy it is to come up with a simple product idea and then turn it into an immensely successful product. The length of this MP3 recording isn't long, only about 20 minutes, but packed with quality information that you can use.

E-mail Marketing video Tutorial
Writing promotional emails that get result isn't easy. You could easily made the common email marketing mistakes such as over use of powerful words, too many things included in your email and other common email mistakes. The new video tutorial from Michael Rasmussen will tell you the different types of email mistakes and how to avoid them. And the video will walk you through the process of creating killer email promotions that get people to buy whatever you're selling.

Pay Per Play Audio Ads program may be the Next Big Thing on the Internet

2009-01-17T07:58:00.001-08:00

Two weeks ago, I wrote about a new money making opportunity for webmasters and bloggers called pay per play audio ads program. The company behind this pay per play advertising program is NetAudioAds and they will be launching this program very soon.

The best part about this pay per play audio ads program is that web publishers who run the 5 second pay per play audio ads on their sites and blogs will be paid for every people visits their sites and blogs.

You can read more about how this program works in my previous post here or read the pay per play audio ads sale letter here.

Up to today, the pay per play audio ads has gained pretty high level of popularity due to their massive promotion. More and more well known Internet marketing experts have started to pay attention to this new ads program. Joel Comm is one of the online experts started to recommend pay per play audio ads program to others after he did some research on NetAudioads. I got an email from Joel Comm this morning recommending the program.

NetAudioads is backed by one of the big five search engines and claim that they already have 66,000 advertisers will be paying web publishers to run their audio ads. And the click-through rate is 100%. This mean that you'll earn advertising revenue for all the visitors come to you site. All this good signs seem that NetAudioads will be another popular money maker for web publishers and a close alternative to AdSense.

However, I would not be fully optimistic on this program until I test it after the program launched completely. One of the potential problem I identify is that NetAudioads doesn't provide an option to visitors to let them decide whether they want to hear the 5 second audio ad message. The 5 second audio ads would play automatically every time a visitor landed on your site and could possibly annoy your visitors.

But, I hope that NetAudioads would really be another money maker just like AdSense that will generate good income for websites and blogs.

Merry Christmas and a Free Tele-training about Making Money Online

2009-01-17T07:57:00.002-08:00

I like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas especially to those who have visited and read this blog. Thanks a lot for your support.

And here is an opportunity to get into a free tele-training with Tellman Knudson and Santa Sal which will take place on January 3rd, 2008. 3.00pm EST. This tele-seminar will last approximately 60 minutes, and Santa Sal will expose in the seminar his 7 profitable marketing methods used for making money online.

And everyone that has registered for this live tele-seminar will be eligible for the $1,000 cash prizes lucky draw. The 3 lucky listeners will win cash prizes:

1st place gets $500 Cash
3rd place gets $200
2nd place gets $300

Plus, everyone on the live call will win something just for listening in. So don't miss out this free tele-seminar:

http://www.overcomeeverything.com/curtain

There is no charge to attend this live call except the normal long distance telephone charges.

Online Market Research - The Foundation of Building an Internet Business to Make Money Online

2009-01-17T07:57:00.001-08:00

Whether your online business plan is to start a content website or blog to make money with Advertising programs like Google AdSense, text link ads and, etc; or your big plan is to set up an e-commerce website to market your products and services, you must conduct online market research prior to your online business launch.

The Internet has plenty of free and inexpensive tools to help you research your market or niche online independently. Online market research is essential for a number of reasons:

1. To determine whether there is a targeted market or group for the products, services, or information you would be providing through your website.

2. To find out the competition on your target niche or market. If your research shows that there are hundreds millions of websites competing in an online niche or market, this could mean that the niche is already saturated.

3. To identify the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors as compared to your own online business.

4. To understand better the target audience of your niche, their needs, and how to reach your products, services or information to them.

Below are a number of online niche research tools and tactics you can use:

1. Search Engines – The 2 biggest search engines on the net, Google and Yahoo are simple tools that allow you to research any niche or market at no cost. Google and Yahoo are best use for determining the competition of your niche. Simply enter the common search phrases of your niche and press the search button; you'll discover how many websites roughly are competing for your niche. So you'll know how tough your competition is.

The search engines are also helpful for your website SEO such as checking your competitor’s website incoming links, so you can target the similar sites in your link-building campaign.

2. Keyword Suggestion Tools – Keyword suggestion tools will give you an idea of the demand level and the size of your target niche. Simply enter a search phrase commonly used by people to search websites in your niche and the tools will show the total number of searches done in the last month. If a niche has more than 50,000 searches monthly, then you can assume that the niche has a good level of demand. You should avoid entering into niches that have less than 10,000 monthly because they are lacked of demand and hard to make money. The 2 Keyword tools that often used by people to do niche research are Overture and Wordtracker. Overture seems not working properly right now, you may use another free tool here.

3. Online Market Research Reports – There are online companies and researchers conduct online market research and compile their research into reports available for the public to download online. Some of them charge a fee for the download and others offer the report absolutely free. Speaking about free market research reports, ebay has a section at http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html where you can access to download several reports that tell you about what's hot in ebay market. Since ebay market is very large and worldwide, whatever items hot in ebay could also mean hot in the Internet market. So if you want to know whether your niche is profitable, you could always refer the ebay reports to get an idea of how profitable your niche is.

4. Online Survey – Conducting online survey is a great way to gather feedbacks from your target audience. One of the methods to conduct online surveys is by using poll sites like http://www.quimble.com and http://www.dpolls.com. You can join these poll sites and create polls to get a general consensus of what people want, how people think and how they make decisions among other things. Once you know what people are interested in buying or knowing, you can start setting your website up to offer them the products and services they need or to provide the info and content they are looking for.

The Complete Step-by-Step Training Materials on how to Make Money Online with Resell Rights

2009-01-17T07:55:00.002-08:00

I just visited a tutorial site set up by Liz Tomey & John Hostler and found that they have put together a package that has everything you need to start making money online by selling resell rights products. And the best part about this tutorial site is that you can get access to the package at no cost.

The link to join this tutorial site and get this free package is http://www.resellrightsfornewbies.com.

Here's what you'll get in the resell rights package:

1) A Series of Video Tutorials - Resell Rights For Newbies
There is a total of 12 video tutorials showing you how to start a resell rights business from scratch using the right tools and set up a website to launch your resell rights business.

2) Resell Rights For Newbies Manuals
E-books and resources you can read to understand more about resell rights, learn how to become a profitable reseller and the different marketing strategies you can use to promote your website to generate sales.

3) The Newbies Ultimate Resell Rights Toolbox
Info and guide about getting more traffic to your site.

Money Making Opportunities (21st Update)

2009-01-17T07:55:00.001-08:00

Below are two sites that you might want to join:

LetterRep.com
Letterrep.com is a marketplace where you can join and make money by writing letters for others. There are hundreds of letter requests posted by visitors on letterrep.com every week, you can view these requests, then write and upload letters in response to the requests. You'll earn $10 every time a requestor uses one of your letters. Payment will be sent to you via Paypal, check or Western Union 30 days after each letter sale.

Socialsplash.com
If you can refer people to join social networking site, then the SocialSplash affiliate program may be right for you. SocialSplash is a social networking website that pays web publishers for referring people to join SocialSplash. For each visitor's sign up referred by You, you'll earn $0.40. And if you meet the promotion requirements of SocialSplash you'll earn more cash from their monthly bonuses.

Tips for Creating a Website to Make Money Online

2009-01-17T07:54:00.001-08:00

There are several choices in creating a website to earn money online, you can either choose to design a website from scratch yourself or use a professional ready-made web template to build a website for your online business. Whatever your choice is, there are several things to think about and ask yourself from the start:

1. Do you need a shopping cart or an e-commerce solution on your website?

2. Do you want to reserve some space to display articles?

3. Would you like to make money with advertising programs (such as Google AdSense, Kontera Ad Link and, etc)? If yes, you'll need to plan for on-site advertising space in the website design.

4. Do your website design need to be interactive for site visitors?

5. Are you going to use a content management system (CMS) to run your website?

6. Is there a need to add audio or video player on your website?

Once you have answered these questions, it is time to start designing a website for your online business. You have a few general options to consider when deciding how to design a website:

1. Pay a web design company or professional Web designer to design and create a custom website according to your requests and needs.

2. Design a website yourself if you already possess web design skills and experience or you can take a course to learn about web design and HTML code.

3. Search for a ready-made professional web template from free website template sites, or buy one from a web template provider. Then use the template to start building your site. You may customize the template to fit your needs.

Using a web template is probably the best option if you don’t need a custom web design, and don’t want to design a website from scratch yourself. The good things about using template are it saves you a lot of work in the website building process and you don't need to spend a hard time thinking about the background and layout for your website since web templates have all the design made ready. Below are some of sites that provide ready-made website templates where you can use to build a money making website:

1. Freewebtemplates.com – The website has a collection of 3937 Free Templates created by designers from around the globe available for download. They also provide free web graphics and links to professional website template.

2. Templates5.com – A lot of pre-made web templates created to fits the needs for different online business in Templates5.com. Most of the templates are well designed and in good quality. Each template in Templates5.com costs $50 to $90.

3. Aplustemplates.com – This is one of those subscription based template sites. For a yearly fee of $49.99, you can access to Aplustemplates.com's library to download different types of website templates. New templates are added weekly, so you have the chance to use fresh new template for your website.

Whatever your decision is in designing a website for your online business, make sure that the website design serves the needs of both your online business and its target visitors.

This Thursday Tele-Training: How to Make Money Online Starting from Scratch

2009-01-17T07:53:00.000-08:00

Year 2007 has come to an end and now we all start to focus on 2008. If you plan to make money from the Internet in 2008 but still don't know where to start, this upcoming Thursday tele-training may be able to help you get started.

Lisa Diane and Mike Antoni is currently inviting people to attend their free 60 minute tele-training to be held on January 3rd 2008 at 9pm EST. Sign up details of this free tele-training can be found at http://www.turningpointcall.com.

During this tele-training, you'll discover the step-by-step method used by Lisa Diane and Mike Antoni to create a successful online profit business in less than 12 months. And you might find any useful techniques and ideas for your online money making venture startup listening to this tele-training.

eBay New Changes Benefited Your eBay Selling

2009-01-17T07:52:00.000-08:00

eBay has announced a major changes on the selling policies and rules. The areas that affected by this changes are fees, eBay PowerSeller rewards and standards.

Here's a rundown:

Lower Listing Fee
This is a good news to eBay sellers as lower listing fee mean lower up-front cost to sell stuff on eBay. Effective February 20, 2008, the insertion fee (listing fee) for Auction-style, Fixed Price listings and Store Inventory listings will be reduced according to the fee chart in eBay basic fee page.

$1 Minimum Starting Price for Store Inventory and Fixed Price listings
This will affect those who sell info products like ebooks, reports, etc where they usually start their price under $1 in Fixed Price listings.

No More Gallery Feature Fee
eBay no longer charges you for adding picture to your listing. This is a pretty smart change of eBay to encourage sellers to upload product picture which will help in attracting more bids and achieving higher final sale price. It is good for the profit of both eBay and the sellers.

New PowerSeller Standards
Starting July, a score of 4.5 or more Detailed Seller Rating is needed to maintain PowerSeller status on eBay.

New PowerSeller Rewards
PowerSellers who have record of excellent customer service will be rewarded with discount on final value fee of 5 - 15%, expanded Paypal protection, extended unpaid items protection and greater search visibility for their auctions.

New Feeback System
eBay designs it own Feedback System to increase buyers confidence in eBay sellers by providing a true and accurate record of previous buyers experiences. Here are some changes made toward achieving this goal:

Seller can only be able to leave positive Feedback to buyer.
Positive feedback from repeat buyer will count toward a seller’s overall Feedback Score.
Feedback left by members older than 12-months will not be counted towards your Feedback percentage.
If a buyer doesn't respond to the Unpaid Item (UPI) process eBay will remove the negative or neutral Feedback they have left for that transaction.
eBay will remove all the negative and neutral Feedback left by members who have been suspended.

Full details of these new eBay changes can be access here.

You may want to know more about how these changes can affect your eBay business. There will be an eBay Seller Webinar at 10:00 a.m. this Friday, February 1 you can attend to understand more about the benefits of these changes.

Your Complete Libraby of Resources for Making Money Online

2009-01-17T07:49:00.000-08:00

More than 100 hours of free training related to Internet marketing strategies, advice and business development were added into Ken McArthur's membership site 'TheImpactFactor.com yesterday. All these materials and training series are free. You can get instant access to these information and learn what you need to know to make money on the Internet by going to TheImpactFactor.

Topics you'll learn include:

How to Optimize Your Website for Search Engine
How to Write Effective Web Copy that Can Increase Your Profits
How to Make Money Online by Blogging
How to Make Money Online from Affiliate Programs
How to Build Your list
How to Create a Profitable products
How to Use Multi-Media to Increase Your Sales
And much more.....

All these topics are presented by experienced Internet marketers

How to Choose a Busines Name and Domain Name

2009-01-17T07:43:00.000-08:00

Before you launch your online business to make money on the Internet, you need to choose a business name and register a domain name for your business website. You can choose to name your online business first and then select a domain name that corresponds to your business name.

A quality and effective business name will be:

a) Marketable and can adapt to the different kinds of branding efforts easily.

b) Easy to remembered by your target prospects.

c) Representative of the image your online business is trying to describe.

d) Not infringing on the trademark and copyright of other businesses, companies or websites.

Once you have thinking out a business name and decided to use it for your online business, begin choosing a domain name for your business website. There are several basic considerations when selecting a domain name for your site:

1. The first thing need to think about is what domain name extension you like to use. Dot com(.com), dot net(.net) or you country code(.us, .ca and etc); which one you prefer in your domain name?

2. How long the length of your domain name you want it to be? Short domain names usually are easier to remember and good for offline advertising such as radio advertising, magazine advertising Vinyl/Magnet Car Advertising and so on; where people need to memorize your web address and type in to their web browsers to find your website. But, if your marketing plan is to get traffic solely through online advertising, then you don't have to use a short and easily remembered domain name for your business.

3. Are you going to choose a domain name exactly the same with your company name, or something closely relevant to your business name?

4. Do you need to use hyphens in the domain? If the domain you want to choose has already taken by other people, then you may need to use hyphens. For example: you planned to register a domain named onlinedatingtips.com, but someone has already bought this domain earlier. Your choices now are either use hyphens in your domain name like online-dating-tips.com or think about another domain name.

5. If numbers are essential to your domain name, would you include numbers to your domain or you prefer to have everything be spelled out? Adding a number like '2' or '4'to your domain will help visitors remember your domain name easier but putting a few numbers together can confuse them.

Once you’ve answered those questions about choosing a domain name, it is time to choose and register a domain name for your online business. Here are a few tools that can help you select a domain name:

1. Domain Name Registrars – Web hosting companies usually are domain name registrars also, which mean that you can register and buy a domain name from them. You can conduct a search on a Web hosting company site to see whether your domain name is available. Many registrars have a built-in tool that will suggest closely similar domain names, if your first choice isn’t available. You may think about taking their suggestion if the domain you want to register has been taken by someone earlier.

2. Domain Name Generators – Domain name generators are often free tools found online that can help when selecting a domain name by either adding random suffixes and prefixes to a primary keyword or by combining multiple keywords that you provide, all while searching for available domain names.

Money Making Posts for December 2007

2009-01-17T07:42:00.000-08:00

Here is a recap of the articles related to making money online I posted here last month:

Tips for Creating a Website to Make Money Online

Online Market Research - The Foundation of Building an Internet Business to Make Money Online

Is Making Money Online from Private Label Rights for You

Make Money Online with Pay Per Play Audio Ads

Make Money with Affiliate Programs Using Ezine Articles (Part 1 & Part2)

How to Make Money Online with Expired Domains (Part 1 & Part 2)

Hope these articles would give you some helps to succeed in your online money making venture.

Where to Find Help and Support If You Have Questions about Making Money on eBay

2009-01-17T07:40:00.004-08:00

When you have a question about selling on eBay and it's difficult to find an answer, it's a good idea to ask about it at one of the many discussion groups and forums of eBay. For a start, you can be sure that your problem isn't totally unique. Someone somewhere would have had that very same problem or question and ask it at the forums. Many people who have worked out solution to their problem are willing to tell you how they solve it.

Even if their advice not suited to your condition, you would usually be able to work out what to do after reading their advice. Experience moderators are also watching the forums to answer any questions and help solving problems. Sometimes you may have missed some important information in your surfing on eBay rules and regulations. And the answer in the forum will be just what you needed.

The discussion boards are divided into three categories:

Community help board
General discussion board
Categories specific discussion board

You can access the above three boards through the discussion boards page in ebay.com. There are also workshop boards and eBay giving works on the same page. eBay also provides an online help link that will help you find the answer to just about any problem. If you are new to eBay, it is advisable to take the guided tour from eBay Learning Center. Then there is a contact us link if the problem is not resolved.

Discussion groups have been formed on a great many subjects. Some completely unrelated to selling and buying on eBay. They are fun to use and offer friendly comments and advice on a number of topics. The more you use these and other discussion boards and forums, The more you familiarize yourself with the rules and regulations of selling on eBay.

For the newbie on eBay, discussion groups and forums offer not only advice but also invaluable support. There may be hints on the best selling techniques, packaging, insurance, return policies, guarantees, how to sell and where the sources from that you may not be getting from reading a list of rules. So when you have a spare of minute, it is wise to search through the discussion boards and forums. You will be likely to pick up information that you need to further down the track. Knowing a lot about eBay selling and the different aspects of eBay will save you much time and frustration.

Free Resources Helpful to Make Money Online - 04 Jan 2008

2009-01-17T07:40:00.003-08:00

This is another post about free resources. Take a look at them as they can teach you more.

Traffic Report Vol. 1 Report
There are plenty of ways to get visitors to your website and the Traffic Report Vol. 1 report covers a number of them. The report will give you a few strategies that you can apply to increase your website traffic and revenue. You'll also be given access to a 7 day free course containing additional information about traffic generation when you sign up to download this report.

The Easy Home Business System
Liz Tomey has recently released a new ebook product called The Easy Home Business System and she want to offer this ebook free for a limited time. The ebook is packed useful content and information you need to make money online with Internet marketing.

Conversionelite.com
The site, http://www.Conversionelite.com is a good place to learn about how to improve your conversion rates and website sales. You'll discover a technique that you can copy and use on your online business to boost your sale and opt-in conversion rates.

Make Money Online From Blogging - This Week Opportunities

2009-01-17T07:40:00.001-08:00

Here are the latest blogging job opportunities I came across on the web this week:

Writers/Bloggers Needed in Type-A Mom
Type-A Mom is looking for mom writers to contribute content for Type-A Mom. Mom who become writer of Type-A Mom will get a 50-50 share of Google ads on all the published articles on Type-A Mom and get a free banner advertisement in the rotation on the site. Find out more: Type-A Mom Writer.

AwareGeek.com - Several Gadget Bloggers Positions Opened
AwareGeek.com is one of the gadget blogs in yaBloggy Blog Network. They are currently paying $3 per post to bloggers that can write interesting and unique content for AwareGeek.com. Bloggers must be well-informed, experienced in their topic and have at least a basic understanding of HTML to apply this position. Full detail can be found here.

Bloggers Wanted in 5 Sites
There are 5 established and new sites now searching for bloggers to write the following topics: environment, green cars, technology, car technology and gadget. The chosen blogger(s) for each site will be responsible for 4-6 posts per week. And the pay is 5 canadian dollar per post with average lenght of 300-500 words. If you are interested, you may apply here.

How to Build Your List Effectively via a Squeeze Page - Part 2

2009-01-17T07:39:00.004-08:00

In case you haven't read part 1 of this article, please click here.

3. Use a “graphical” optin box at the top of the page – This has been shown to increase my squeeze page optin rates by as much as 39%. Naturally, your sales copy will most dramatically affect your percentages… however by simply providing this additional graphical component on your page you have a much greater chance of increasing your overall optin rate significantly.

4. NO External Links – This is where many folks fail! Again, this is a squeeze page with one sole purpose – GET THE EMAIL ADDY! Never place external links on your squeeze page. You can sell later. For now… no links! Two options: Leave or subscribe.

5. Never ask for more information than is absolutely necessary in your optin form – I see it time and time again. Name, address, phone number, best time to call, how you heard about us, marital status, shoe size, etc, etc… Never ask for anything more than name and primary email address. That’s it! That’s all you need. You’ll drastically reduce your subscriber rates once you start asking for anything more from a customer (and frankly you don’t need anything more).

6. Always provide your name and email address at the bottom of your squeeze page – In recent tests I’ve conducted with my own squeeze pages, I found a 3% to 8% fallout rate when I removed my name and/or email address from the bottom of a squeeze page. For optimum subscribe rates, include this information EVERYTIME! Personalization is a must.

7. Less Is More – Don’t confuse or over-complicate your optin offer. Keep it short, sweet and to the point. Too many times a squeeze page is far too long and confusing. Explain the benefits to your offer and that’s it. LESS IS MORE!

8. Privacy Policy – It’s imperative that you place a brief (small and subtle) statement directly under your form subscribe button letting folks know you won’t rent, sell or share their personal information with anyone. Privacy is a major concern for most people and by simply displaying this privacy message directly under your form will significantly increase your subscribe rates.

9. Professional Graphics – Never use a cheaply designed e-cover or amateurish looking software box with your optin offer. Nothing turns away more customers than cheap looking cover graphics. As they say… a picture says a thousand words… so make sure those e-covers are eye-popping and captivating! It will definitely pay off in the long term.

10. Test…Test… and Test Again! – You can always increase your subscriber rates… ALWAYS! Until you’re getting every single visitor who lands on your squeeze page to optin to your list there’s always room for improvement! Never stop testing.

So there you have it. Building your optin list of targeted subscribers should be your first and foremost task online.

How to Build Your List Effectively via a Squeeze Page - Part 1

2009-01-17T07:39:00.003-08:00

When it comes to marketing on the Internet to make money, there’s no better way to virtually guarantee your success than by building a loyal, targeted database of optin subscribers.

For most online businesses, you can quickly see a dramatic turn in sales and/or profits - virtually overnight - if big competition happens to settle into your market. It happens everyday… in every niche imaginable.

But once you build a list of “permission based” optin email subscribers… it doesn’t matter how much competition you have in your niche market. You’ve already built a rock solid foundation - a strong customer base eager and willing to hear from you over and over again. You can send email anytime to your loyal list to:

Promote your own products.
Promote affiliate products.
Promote a new service.

One of the way to build your list as quickly and as efficiently as possible is through the use of squeeze pages. So what is squeeze Page? A squeeze page is a webpage created to solicit opt-in email addresses from targeted web visitors. Squeeze pages generally offer freebies such as a free trial, a free download, a free sample or a free subscribtion to entice visitors to opt-in for the offers.

There are “right” ways and there are “wrong” ways to approach an effective, profitable squeeze page design. Here are the top 10 mistakes most Internet marketers make regarding their squeeze pages… and what You must do everytime to guarantee your optin success!

1. Create Urgency/Fear In Your Headline – When writing an effective headline for any squeeze page, it’s imperative you create urgency and/or fear. Remember, a squeeze page is not meant to make a sale… it’s meant to acquire an email address… period! For example:

Urgency:

- As part of this special 48 hour marketing test…

- For the next 10 subscribers only…

Fear:

- If you fail to read this report, you have a 90% chance of never being able to…..

- Statistics have now shown that children can also be seriously effected by…..

2. Provide two optin forms on every page – You’ll increase your chances significantly if you provide two optin forms on your squeeze page. One form should always go in the top fold of the page (left or right) and another at the very bottom of the page as the last element of the page.

To continue reading part 2 of this article, please click here.

Make Money Online? Learn from the Successful E-entrepreneurs

2009-01-17T07:39:00.001-08:00

For past three months, Mike Long from area51marketing.com has created a series of videos trainings with good content on how to start an Internet business to make money online. And today he want to share all of his video training materials totally free with anyone interested to watch his videos. These video trainings will provide you a lot of tips, strategies and case studies on how to succeed online.

Here's the link to sign up and watch these videos trainings:

Area51marketing.com - Video Trainings

Inside these videos, you'll discover a new method that you can apply to build a highly profitable online business from scratch without a product of your own and without a list. There are also case studies with e-entrepreneurs who have successful making a fortune using this new method and interviews with Internet millionaires like Derek Gehl where he reveals a simple licensing technique that help him generate over 1 million of sales.

Tips for Choosing a Web Host for Your Money Making Website

2009-01-17T07:38:00.002-08:00

There are several important steps in setting up and launching a money making website for your online business and one of the most important steps is choosing a web hosting company to publish your website on the Internet so that your target prospects can find your website and see what you are offering. You have a few of options in selecting a web host:

Free web hosting - The company hosts your site absolutely free, but they will place their own ads on your site.
Shared web hosting - The company hosts your website together with many other sites on one web server. Many online businesses use Shared Web hosting.
Dedicated servers - The company use the entire server to host your site only, not shared with anyone. Needed for large traffic site but the cost is high.

When thinking about these hosting options and choosing a web host that meets your business needs, there are several questions to ask yourself to make the web host selecting process easier:

1. Are you ok with your web hosting company adding their ads on your site? If you run a content-based website that makes money online with Google AdSense and affiliate programs, then you may accept free web host that places ads on your site. But if you are selling products and services, you'll want your site look very professional, so free web host probably isn’t for you.

2. Would you upload a lot of audio and video files on your website? You'll need plenty of bandwidth for a website that uses a lot of audio and video. So, you may consider using a dedicated server, or at least choose a web host that provide heavy amount of bandwidth.

3. Do you expect to host more than one website on a single web hosting account? If yes, choose a web host provider that can give a least 5 domains add-on. And if you also need subdomains, check the offer of the web host provider to see whether they provide the facility to set up a good number of subdomains as well.

4. Are you running various websites with different staff members? You are likely to use multiple email accounts for your different online business websites. So, when selecting a web host company, choose the one that doesn’t charge extra for setting up multiple email accounts, and make sure the host can provide sufficient email addresses.

5. Are you using scripts, either within a website, or as the backend of a website (such as a content management system (CMS), blogging platform, or e-commerce system)? If yes, you should specifically read your web hosting package to find out whether the host supports the various scripts that your website will require.

6. How much downtime you can tolerate? Downtime means your website goes offline, you are losing visitors and profit. To ensure these wouldn’t happen to you, check out the uptime guarantee offered by the web host and the technical support they can provide if downtime really occurs.

7. Do you want to use the hosting company for long term without thinking about switching to another web host? If so, then choosing a pre-paid yearly web host plan is a good option to save money. But, if the freedom to change hosts is more important than saving web hosting cost, then you are advised to go with a monthly web hosting plan.

8. What types of technical support and assistance you expect from your web hosting company? Some offer help and support only via email and FAQ; some offer good support via phone, email, and even live chats but only available during business hours; other offer all kind technical supports 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

Answering all the questions above would help you a lot in choosing a right web host company for your online business. But before really choosing a web host, identify what your online business need from a host would make you understand clearly what type of web hosting service you want.

The Recording of Santa Sal's Tele-Training: Make Money Online with Giveaway Program

2009-01-17T07:38:00.001-08:00

In my previous post on December 25th 2007, I mentioned about a tele-training where Santa Sal will be telling people how he makes a lot of cash from running a giveaway program online. The tele-training has been taken place according to schedule on 3th Jan 2008. And the recording of this tele-training is now available for access.

If you weren't able to attend the call or if you are interested to learn how giveway program can help you make money online, you can now access the recording at:

http://www.byoaudio.com/play/WvMbN9GQ

Sal is showing how he starts a giveaway program from scratch, then build a massive opt-in list from the giveaway and make a nice consistent profit from his opt-in list. I'm sure the information inside the call are useful to you.

A New Way to Make Money Online with Bidvertiser.com

2009-01-17T07:37:00.000-08:00

In this new year, Bidvertiser.com has taken a further step to expand their pay-per-click (PPC) contextual ads network by offering a new way for bloggers to make money with contextual ads. It is called 'BidVertiser Ads for Feeds'.

With BidVertiser Ads for Feeds, you will be able to display Bidvertisers contextual ads in your RSS/ATOM blog feed and make money each time your feed readers click a BidVertiser ads. Besides that, Bidvertiser has also created several multiple-subscription feed widgets to help you publicize your new feed.

It seems that the BidVertiser Ads for Feeds is targeted for top 3 major blog platforms on Internet:

Wordpress
Typepad
Blogger

If your blog is powered by one of the above platforms and like to test BidVertiser ads on your feed, you may read the ads installation instructions here.

Social Marketing - A Good Option For Anyone Wants To Make Money Online With A Website or Blog in 2008

2009-01-17T07:36:00.002-08:00

Social media marketing has been a hot trend in year 2007 and it will definitely continue to grow in 2008 because there are getting more and more Internet marketers, web publishers and online business owners realized the power of social marketing. The good thing about social marketing is that it is a no cost method that anyone can use it to get traffic and those who learned it well have got massive amount of traffic through social media sites like Digg.com, Squidoo, Myspace.com and many more.

We all know that making money online through a website or a blog require traffic. No traffic means no income to your website. Thus, you'll want as much traffic as possible to make the most from your website or blog. You can get a lot of instant traffic and generate sales, affiliate commission and AdSense earning by paying to pay-per-click (PPC) advertising programs. But since you have a lot of options now 2008, you may not have to rely solely on PPC advertising programs anymore.

There are many social media and "Web 2.0" sites on net that you can use them to drive a lot of consistent traffic to your sites and turn these traffic into cash-paying customers.

However social media traffic have proven to be hard to convert into sales, affiliate and AdSense commission. There have been a number of people commenting in the forums and article sites that they have got a massive amount of "useless" social traffic. So you definitely need to test. You'll want to start testing all your social marketing strategies and campaigns to see what work and what don't.

Speaking about testing social marketing strategies, Andy Jenkins and his team from Stompernet has recently released a social marketing video in their Going Natural Series and a 40-page guide that you can access free to learn how to drive traffic using social media sites.

Going Natural Vidoe Series - Social Marketing
The SMARTS Social Marketing Strategy Guide

These guys have been busy testing a bunch of social marketing techniques and can save you a lot of time and shorten your learning curve.

The AdSense AdVantage - Your Guide to Making Money Online with Google AdSense

2009-01-17T07:36:00.001-08:00

The AdSense AdVantage was actually a report written by Matt Callen from Hypervre.com last year. It is a case study report on how a person went from zero to $15,691 AdSense revenue by building AdSense sites and promoting them using paid advertising. It outlined everything in step-by-step format where you can follow to start profiting online with AdSense

Few days ago, Matt re-released The AdSense AdVantage with latest updates included in this new edition.

The AdSense Advantage - New Edition

You may have read the original report in 2007, but I think you would be interested to read this new one because there are new strategies, revised 'older methods' that used to work but a year later needed to be changed, Do's and Don'ts, and even a new article series at the end of the report.

How to Choose an Online Business Opportunity Best for You to Earn Money Online

2009-01-17T07:35:00.001-08:00

The first thing you need to do prior to starting an online business is to choose a money making idea or a profitable online business opportunity. When selecting an online business idea, there are a number things to think about, including:

1. Passions - Most of the business opportunities on the Internet are just like any small business startup, they take time and effort to become profitable. So when choosing an online business, you should first think about what types of online businesses you have an interest in and what area of business work your are passionate about. Doing what you like and interested will keep you working consistently and avoid getting bored easily when profit is low on the initial stage.

2. Skills and abilities - It is very difficult to work on something that beyond your abilities. Before starting an online business, you need to make sure that the online business opportunity you have chosen fits well within your abilities and constraints. You may evaluate your abilities, skills and knowledge as an business owner, and ask yourself whether you can handle the record-keeping tasks, online marketing work, and other administrative tasks required of each business opportunity. If you cannot do it all yourself, outsourcing will be a good solution.

3. Market demand and competition - Before going into any opportunity, it is vital to conduct an online market research to identify the market demand for your product, service, or information you will be offering. You would definitely want to start an online business that has high market demand or at least has a reasonable amount of market demand. If the size of your target market is too small, consider looking for another business opportunity. Also think about looking at a narrower market within each business opportunity to find a need that hasn't been filled.

On the other hand, competition analysis is also needed, you don't want jump into a niche that is crowed with tons of competitors.

4. Operating expenses - Do some calculations to get a general sense of an online business startup budget before deciding a business to pursue. Weed out those business opportunities and ideas that will exceed your predetermined budget.

When you find an online business opportunity that:

Interests you.
Is manageable using your skill and knowledge
has a profitable market with reasonable competition,
and falls under your budget

You have found an online business opportunity that is potentially workable.

Below are several common online business opportunities that you can choose to make money on the net:

1. Content-based Websites - Websites that are in content-based typically offer some kind of useful content to their targeted audience in the form of articles, e-courses, audio or videos. The targeted content will then be monetized in some ways (usually through contextual advertising programs such Google AdSense, YPN, Kontera ads link and many more) to generate revenue. Community websites like online forums and social media sites that have fresh content posted every moment can be also monetized in a similar fashion.

2. Online Services - There are plenty of online services you can offer on the Internet through your website. Some examples of services are web design, SEO, Internet marketing, web programming, Java script, web copy and content writing, data entry, account and administrative services, or even Web services such as domain registrations or Web hosting.

3. Online Products – You can virtually sell anything on the Internet. There are plenty of choices of selling products on the Internet, including creating custom products, promoting affiliate products, reselling others’ products, or developing your own digital products such as e-books, reports, DVD courses, audio and video tutorial, etc to sell online.

Use these basic example of online business opportunities together with the above tips for choosing the most appropriate business idea for your online startup, to aid in creating a manageable and in-demand online business.

Free Resources Helpful to Make Money Online - 14 Jan 2008

2009-01-17T07:34:00.002-08:00

This week has been hard to find any helpful resources, but I do found some useful resources:

Murder Your Job Report
This is a 51-page report that explains how you can make money online by creating your own niche info product at a painless way and sell it on the Internet. The author will show you a 3-step plan for setting up your own info product business. You may access this report here.

Landing Page Video Training
Landing page is sale webpage or squeeze page designed to generate sales, leads or simply get opt-in subscribers. Landing page is important to your online business as your online revenue and business performance rely on it. To get good result, you need to know the proper ways to optimize your landing page. It will take a hard time to find out what work and what doesn't work on your landing page. And I came across a recording of video webinar that may cut your learning curve. The video offers a lot of free tips and advice of landing page for getting you conversion rate up.

Affiliate Marketing E-Course
Are you looking for ways and ideas to increase your affiliate commission? Stephanie Dryden has put together a 14 days e-course where you can sign up free to learn how to make more money by promoting affiliate programs.

5 Tips for Running a Profitable Drop Shipping Business

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Drop shipping is a business arrangement between a retailer and a wholesale company. The drop ship wholesale company will take care of shipping, packaging and storage of goods. And the retailer will set his/her own prices for the products of the wholesaler and sell them on the net. When someone purchases an item, the retailer will pay the wholesaler and the wholesaler will ship the product to the customer.

The benefits of drop shipping are that the retailer needs not to spend money to buy stock from the wholesaler until a customer purchases an item and thus eliminating the need of product storage space and cash flow issue.

There a few things you must know and understand to ensure your drop shipping business are profitable. In this article, we will take a close look at these 5 important aspects to ensure you can start and operate a profitable drop ship business.

1) Product's market and profit margin
In order to make your drop shipping business as profit as possible, you need to find a product that has a good market and be able to sell at a price level that will cover your cost and bring you profit. So market demand and profit margin are 2 important factors that have direct impact to your drop ship business profitability:

Market demand - you need to find a product or a range of products that already have an existing group of people wanting to buy them. Your market need to be large enough so that you can sell many quantities consistently for long term profit.

Profit margin of each product - The product you are selling will provide you a good mark up in order to make your business truly profitable.

Besides that, you need to identify what competition you have. Find out how much your competitors are charging for similar product. You may need to lower your profit margin to survive in the market.

2) Your decision on what product to sell
When you just begin selling products supplied by your drop ship wholesaler, it is advised that you only pick a few products to sell. Also that those that you have chosen are related, or can be targeted and sold to the same market set. It is important that you don't sell every product you see in the wholesaler's product catalogue. This is to avoid losing concentration and to keep your cost down to minimum. And also you'll have more time focus on marketing to generate sales.

3) The reliability of your drop ship company
Drop shipping has become quite popular. There are many drop ship companies nowadays but not every one of them can be trusted. Over the recent years there have been many scams appeared in this particular industry. Avoid those people who offer to sell your a list of drop shipping companies details for a price about one hundred dollar. Unfortunately, many of these are middle men who portray themselves as drop shippers, and will then charge you much more than you actually need to be paying.

But, don't let these scams frighten and discourage you. Because there are still a lot of reliable drop ship companies you can use for your business. I have compiled a free list of real drop ship companies that you can deal with. You may access the list here.

4) Order and delivery
Some unexpected problems associated with back orders and returns may occur to your business. There will be situations where you find that an item that has been ordered by your customer is not in stock and so there will be a delay in shipping the item which leads to customer dissatisfaction. Thus, you need to discuss these matters with your wholesaler company to work out possible solutions to these matters. This will then provide you with answers that you can provide to your customer if such a situation happens.

5) Business license and trust seals
Since you are running a real online business that sell physical products to people, you are responsible to register your business with your county clerk. It is also necessary that you register with the Tax office so that you get a Tax ID to run your business smoothly and be prepared to file taxes annually. Be honest when dealing with customer and do not spam when marketing your business and products. Make your e-commerce site look professional and pay some money to get the "trusted seals" from websites like bbbonline.org and truste.org added on your site. Customers are more likely to buy from you if they see these "trusted seals" on your site as these seals will make them feel more secure and confident to make payment.

As long as you begin your business with an expectation that your business will be generating decent profit for you, then the chances are that you will automatically see an increase in this.

Joel Comm's Guide to Making Money Online with WidgetBucks

2009-01-17T07:33:00.002-08:00

WidgetBucks shows pay-per-click (PPC) shopping widget ads on web publishers sites and blogs and the publishers will earn money each time a visitor clicks on a WidgetBucks ad. It works just like Google AdSense except their ads format are so different, AdSense displays contextual ads while WidgetBucks displays their creative widget ads.

Since WidgetBucks is a PPC ads network and is compatible with AdSense, you may have used it on your site or blog and earn a nice extra income from it. If you have really done that, congratulation to you. But, if you have tested it and get poor result or you have heard about WidgetBuck but don't know how to optimize it on your site to make more money, I suggest you check out Joel Comm's new free e-book 'Widget Bucks Secrets' released few days ago.

Widget Bucks Secrets - 33 Page e-book

Joel Comm who has made an extra $1,000 monthly from Widgetbucks will teach you step-by-step how to generate additional web income using WidgetBucks.

Blogging for Cash in Know More Media Blog Network

2009-01-17T07:33:00.001-08:00

Know More Media has recently recruited 11 experts to write and contribute content for the blogs in Know More Media Network. But it seems that the owners of this company haven't found enough bloggers for their blog network. They are still looking for people who can write topics and subjects such as real estate, entrepreneurship, fitness, finance (ie. commodities, mortgage, double ledger, and etc), retailing and call center.

Know More Media claims that bloggers who join its network would typically make $150 - $1000 per month. This is a nice extra income for beginner wanting to start making money on the Internet. You may apply for a paid blogging position by visiting the below link.

http://www.knowmoremedia.com/write-for-us.html

Some requirements of these paid positions are:
1) You must be passionate on the topic you want to write.
2) A personal expert in your topic and able to share your opinions and give advice.
3) Good writing skills and able to write in a unique voice that your readers will enjoy reading your blog entries.

Full details about Know More Media blogging opportunities can be accessed here.

MY Google Rankings Drop Gradually

2009-01-17T07:32:00.000-08:00

This blog, MoneyMakerInfo.blogspot.com uses to rank #1 for a numbers of my primary keyword phrases in Google below:

Make Money Online
Making Money Online
Make Money
Making Money
How to Make Money
Earn Money Online
Money Maker
How to Earn Money Online

But, for the past 3 months I have experienced several times my Google rankings drop. The keyword phrases 'earn money online' was first taken down from no.1 to no.2 and it never go back to no.1.

And then the same happened to my other keyword phrases 'make money online' as well. It fell from no.1 to no.2 also. The drop didn't affect my traffic level since I still no.1 for this keyword phrases in Google other countries such Google.ca, Google.in, Google.com.au and etc.

My Google rankings didn't stop here. Today when I check my Google positions, I found that my Google rankings in a few of other keywords went down also. The keywords phrases are 'how to make money' and 'money maker'. Both rankings went down from #1 to #2. Besides that my top positions in Google other countries have got busted too. What a bad day I have.

But fortunately, my traffic level isn't seriously affected. The Google traffic I get today is only a few percent lower than usual and my daily earning from this blog is just slightly lesser than usual.

I have no idea what's the reason causes this drop. May be Google has done another ranking algorithm update causing my blog down or may be it is a little penalization from Google to me for climbing too high. Whatever reason is it, I'm optimistic with my Google positions. I guess this is just another Google ranking fluctuation that happen to many site and blog also. I think I will get back my no.1 rankings when another Google ranking fluctuation occurs.

Latest Video Content Important to the Success of Your Online Money Making Venture

2009-01-17T07:31:00.003-08:00

Lately there have been a number of quality video trainings and content released by the big name experts in the Internet marketing industry. First, it's the video training in the Going Natural 2.0 Series I have mentioned in this blog last week. The video were published by Andy Jenkin from Stompernet. It is professional and provide numerous social marketing strategies. You should watch them if you want to double or triple your traffic and website income using social marketing.

Stompernet.net - Social Marketing Video

Just after a few days Andy published his latest video, Frank Kern has come out a list building video. Frank is the guy that has brought in millions dollar into his bank account by building a list and promoting products to his list. So I'm sure that you'll learn something useful for improving your online business profit from watching this list building video.

MassControlSite.com - List Building Video

And Yesteday, John Reese released a video also. He encourages people to make money online by marketing Internet marketing products and exposes a lot of good info on how you can make money in the Internet marketing niches. You may watch John's video here.

How to Use Google to Find a Profitable Niche Market

2009-01-17T07:31:00.001-08:00

Google is the biggest search engine you may have used when searching for information on the Internet. But have you ever used Google for more than just finding information you need? If not, then you are missing out on some very good tools provided that can make searching the Internet not only more effective, but also fun.

One of the best places to begin is by finding out which products are popular today. On Google’s homepage, click ‘more’ located in left-hand corner. Click ‘products’ and you will see a list of products. You can begin your search for niche markets here. Compare what’s on your list to see if there are any categories that match. If not, don’t give up; hold on to your list as you can use these topics in other searches. Begin by clicking on topics that interest you. These topics may also be easier to create products for later on because you have an interest in them.

Keep in mind that for now, you are simply browsing the Internet looking for popular items that people are searching for. Listed below are other tools to use when searching for niche markets.

Google Directory
When you want to narrow down a topic, the Google directory is a good place to begin. To get to the directory, go to http://www.google.com/dirhp. You will be given a list of popular categories to search that will help you narrow down your topic. Pull out your list and begin your search. Each category has sub-categories to search. Eventually, you will reach a page that contains a list of websites where you can find additional information. If there are few websites listed, this is a good indication that you have found a profitable niche because the niches needs are not being met.

Google Sets
If you are having difficulty narrowing down your topic or you want to generate more categories from a larger topic, use Google sets. This is a tool that allows you to create a set of like items that you can search from. Visit http://labs.google.com/sets to use this tool.

This is a good tool to use when brainstorming for niche markets as well. After a set has been created, you can search through websites that contain the information.

Google Zeitgeist
This tool is used to help you generate niche ideas or to see how popular the topics on your list are. You can search in the US or around the world if you choose. While this is tool will only give you an idea of how popular a trend is becoming, it is handy when beginning your research.

Google Trends
If you have a few topics that have gained exposure in the past few months, you will want to check out their popularity to see if it will continue to be popular a few weeks or months from now. Google trends is a tool that can give you a better idea of how many people have been searching for a topic over a certain amount of time. You can track the progress of any topic you like to see if the trend will continue of if it will die down. Trends on the downside are usually not worth pursuing.

Visit Google Labs, http://labs.google.com/, to see more search options and tools that are available. While some of the tools are experiments at the moment, you will find some that are very useful in your search for profitable niche markets.

Itarang.com - Free Money Making Website

2009-01-17T07:30:00.003-08:00

If you want to make money online with Google AdSense and bypass all the website design and setting up processes, the free services provided by Itarang.com may interest you.

Itarang.com is giving out SEO friendly websites specifically designed for making money through Google AdSense and eBay affiliate program. When you get a website from Itarang.com, it will have the following features:

Auto Updating Content
XML Google sitemap built in
Can be customize and personalize according to your preferences.
Add, change and delete content

To get started, you'll need a domain name and web hosting. Itarang.com has made a special deal where you'll get a free domain name and 1st month's hosting fee off in hostgator.com (Monthly hostgator.com hosting fee is $6.95).

And to make things work, you must put in hard work on promoting your website to get traffic and generate AdSense revenue. The site has also prepared a series of step-by-step training materials to help you succeed.

Itarang.com - Free Money Making Website

2009-01-17T07:30:00.002-08:00

Auto Updating Content
XML Google sitemap built in
Can be customize and personalize according to your preferences.
Add, change and delete content

How to Make Money Online by Selling Domain Names - Part 2

2009-01-17T07:30:00.001-08:00

Now, you have your domain name and are ready to move on to the next step which is creating a website. It doesn’t have to be the biggest website ever built, as a matter of fact, it could be just 5 to 10 page site. Write several keyword rich articles and create a simple site using a program like Microsoft Word. Just be sure you save them as a .html file.

Go ahead and sign up for Adsense or add a few affiliates to the page so that it looks like a resourceful website for your visitors. Any sales made or AdSense revenue generated from your site will be an added bonus.

Step 4 - Drive traffic to your website and grow your backlinks
Once you have uploaded your website, focusing on traffic is next. You can start out with purchased visitors as long as they are coming from quality websites like Google search engine, content blogs and etc; and not a form of incentive traffic (like paid emails) or a bot. After getting paid traffic for a while, you should start building backlinks / inbound links for your site. There are many free places you can post your url to get backlinks pointing to your site like directories, forums, and online classified ads. You can also write a few good articles related to your website’s topic and post them on article directories to get free quality backlinks and traffic. Furthermore, social marketing can also be used to generate traffic and build links.

Keep growing inbound links until you have a regular flow of traffic to your site. If you can get sufficient visitors, you will get an Alexa rating. If the rating is pleasing, look for a domain name appraisal to see how much roughly you can sell your domain name. This will give you a good idea of how much you can expect to make from selling the domain name. If the numbers aren’t as high as you like, don’t worry there will still be someone willing to give you a higher dollar amount because of the traffic you have built up already.

Step 5 – Sell your domain name
When you are satisfied with your website and the amount of traffic it receives, it’s time to put it on the domain name market for sale. You may want to sell it with your website on it, although it is not necessary. Once you have sold your domain name, you will simply transfer it over to the buyer’s account. Most of the time it is free to push a domain name from one account to another as long as the both of you have accounts with the domain name registrar.

When you have seen a profit from selling domain names, you can reinvest your earnings into another domain name, and possibly try getting an expired domain name this time that already has a nice flow of traffic to save you some time. This can be done over and over to create a nice income from selling domain names.

How to Make Money Online by Selling Domain Names - Part 1

2009-01-17T07:29:00.003-08:00

Many webmasters have found that it is quite profitable to sell domain names. If a domain name has built in with a line of traffic, it will be much profitable. Some domain names have generated thousands of dollars to webmasters. A few good domain names have even went as high as a million or more dollars, making the webmaster an instant millionaire. You too can start selling domain names and profit from your domain names business. Here’s a few basic steps you can follow to begin:

Step 1 – Do keyword research
First, you will need to do some keyword research to find a keyword that is highly searched but not used very often by other websites. A good keyword analyzer tool can do this for you. Word Tracker and Keyword Analyzer are two of the good tools you can use to research keywords but there is a cost involved for using them. If you don’t want to pay for a keyword analyzer tool. You may use the free ones to conduct keyword research. But the free ones only tell you how many times the keyword has been searched for the last month, they don’t let you know how much competition there is with a potential keyword like the paid keyword tools did. I would suggest you use paid keyword tools because they provide in-depth detail on the keywords you are researching. If money is an issue, you may find a keyword analyzer that offers a free trial, like Word Tracker does. You can always upgrade to the paid version once you use it to profit from selling a domain name.

Step 2 – Get a domain name
Once you have chosen your keyword, you need to buy a domain name and a good web hosting package. You might think you don’t need hosting since you are just going to sell the domain, but in order to sell it for big money, you need to create a website for your domain name and do some web promotion work to build in consistent traffic for your domain. Traffic is what sells a domain name for the higher dollar amounts. To be profitable your domain name needs a good flow of traffic.

Anyway, try to find a hosting package that will include both a web hosting service and a domain name. Because you don’t need to worry about transferring anything later.

When choosing the domain name, make sure your keyword is included. If your keyword has been registered by other as domain name, try adding a series of numbers or other letters with your keyword. If you wanted the keyword for your domain name to be “dogs” but it has been taken, you could try getting “dogs101” or “A1dogs”. Alternatively, you may try looking for a relevant keyword that isn't taken as a domain name. Either way, keep finding until you get an easy-to-remember yet keyword-rich domain name that still has a .com extension.

Money Making Opportunities (22nd Update)

2009-01-17T07:29:00.001-08:00

I usually post two opportunities in every update, but this time I will post an extra one.

Get paid to submit photos
Fotolia is another worldwide stock photos marketplace where you can register for a free account to upload your photos or images and sell them for a profit. You can choose to sell photos as royalty-free or with an exclusive buyout license. Either way, you will earn money. There are numerous benefits becoming a seller of Fotolia. Some of them are free marketing to increase your sales, low earning payout, Fotolia affiliate opportunity and so on. More details can be found here.

Professional bloggers needed in Performancing
Performancing.com is now searching for an experience Internet marketer to write about blogging, SEO, social Media, monetization, etc on a daily basis. The blogger who get hired will be paid $1,000 per month, but the position has a few strict requirements. To read the full details of this position, please go to Performancing.com - Blogger Jobs.

Get paid to write in NicheBlast
When you sign up to become a writer of NicheBlast, you will be able to view the articles requested by NicheBlast. You choose and write the articles that interest you. NicheBlast will approve your articles and publish them on different sites within the network of NicheBlast. Then you will share a large percentage of the revenue generated by the sites that publish your articles.

My First Wordpress Blog Launched

2009-01-17T07:28:00.004-08:00

After about 20 hours of hard learning and work, I finally completed the setting up process for my Wordpress blog and published it on the Internet. The URL of my new blog is:

http://www.home-business-info-online.com

This new blog is about home business. I will post everything related to home business in this blog. So if you are interested to start a home business or find some ways to make money at home. You can check out this new blog often, you might find some info and content helpful for your home business start-up and growth.

My goal is to achieve financial freedom through blog marketing and SEO. My existing blog, Money Maker Info has made a living for me but still a long way to reach financial freedom. So, I will use this new blog to help me make more money online in order to achieve financial freedom faster. Right now I just added two money making programs into this new blog, which are Google AdSense and a banner ad from CJ affiliate network. I will be adding a few more money makers into it once I get a good amount of daily traffic.

Installing and setting a Wordpress blog up isn't easy as I thought. I did read a few free Wordpress tutorial I found from Google search engine. There are helpful but unfortunately they don't cover everything. I know that it is not possible to cover everything in one article or one video tutorial. These people are kind enough to provide free Wordpress tutorial, I understand I cannot expect them to tell me specifically from A to Z.

Anyway, If you too are now learning how to set up a Wordpress blog now, you may try this link.

One good thing about Wordpress is that you can optimize your blog in almost any way you like by modifying the code of your Wordpress theme. If you know not much about editing your theme, you still manage to optimize your blog to the way you like by installing different types of Wordpress plugins. Here's is a link to a list of plugins (or at least a few of the plugins in the list) that most bloggers need for their blogs:

A Guide to the Wordpress Plugins Used on Our Blog

To me, it is fun to install plugins because my blog's look will change exactly according to my preference after activated my plugins. There are so many useful plugins available free on the Internet, but for now I only installed 3 plugins. I will be using more plugins in future.

The 3 plugins I currently use are:

All in One SEO Pack - This plugin has been suggested by many well known bloggers. I tested it on my blog, it is really good for blog on-page search engine optimization. It provides most of the things you need for on-page SEO. You can add title tag, write a long meta description for on your home page. And also you can have a unique title tag and meta description for each of your pages. However, All in One SEO doesn’t work on all Wordpress theme.

Akismet - This plugin was included in Wordpress 2.3.2. It helps reduce spam comments. You'll need a WordPress.com API key to use it.

Mighty AdSense - It lets you insert your AdSense ads within your post entries and increase your AdSense CTR.

I will be testing different features of Wordpress in the coming weeks and will post it here again when I find something good about Wordpress.

Free Resources Helpful to Make Money Online - 24 Jan 2008

2009-01-17T07:28:00.003-08:00

These resources contain new tips and techniques, I thought you might be interested.

SEO Interview with Jonathan Leger
Jonathan Leger, an SEO expert was interviewed by Keith Baxter last week. In the interview, Keith ask about SEO topics such as Google, links, site structure, social bookmarking and other related topics. The Interview has been recorded and you can access it and listen to Jonathan's SEO tips now by clicking the above link.

Make Money Blogging - E-Course
This is a free e-course prepared by Dave Isaacs and Aaron Leighton that teach you how to start a orinary blog, marketing the blog to gain exposure and make money from the blog traffic you gain. When you sign up this e-course, you also receive a report useful for your blog marketing.

Traffic Building E-Course
Are you running out of taffic generating ideas? If yes, you may think about signing up Tellman Knudson's three part, step-by-step course. Tellman will show you his powerful methods of driving traffic to website that can boost your sales and profit.

How to Choose the Right Internet Marketing Methods for Your Online Business

2009-01-17T07:28:00.001-08:00

When you are running a website to market your Internet business and make money online, choosing the best Internet marketing methods is crucial for your online business, which will give you the greatest reward in traffic and revenue compared to the amount of work put in and the time and money invested. This is called getting a good ROI (return on investment) from your Internet marketing campaigns or effort.

There are many common methods of Internet marketing, and most can be applied to market a wide variety of websites, blogs and e-businesses. Below are a few of the general forms of Internet marketing:

1. Email Marketing – build a opt-in subscribers list through a website, newsletters or e-zine. Then send offers, promotions, coupons, etc to the opt-in subscribers.

2. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – it involved on-page and off-page optimization which include changing your website keywords and structure; and building relevant inbound links.

3. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) – search engine advertising like Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing, etc.

4. Viral Marketing – video / file-sharing, tell-a-friend, spreading free e-books, report and other downloadable things.

5. Affiliate Marketing – having others market your products or services free, share a percentage of sales with those who made sales for you.

6. Online Advertising – banner ads, text link ads, sponsorships, etc.

7. Online PR – Write and submit press releases to news sites, blogging, etc.

8. Article Marketing - write interesting articles related to your website, products or business, and then distribute them to article directories and submission sites.

To finding and select the Internet marketing tactics that work best for your website or online business, you need to create an Internet marketing plan, including a budget.

When creating an Internet marketing plan, list all possible Internet marketing methods and techniques that fit your budget and have the potential to reach your target prospects. Once you've completed a master list of potential Internet marketing methods, test each of them to discover which methods work and which ones aren’t working for your website. Testing each potential Internet marketing techniques and tactics will take some time and money. But it is worth doing it because you will discover the effective marketing methods for your business that will provide consistent traffic and revenue.

You will be able to narrow down the best marketing options once you have done testing, and create your final list of Internet marketing methods and tactics for your website or online business that:

- Will reach your target market.
- Will be able to influence the target market.
- Has been applied in this niche targeting a similar market successfully before.
- Will not exceed your budget for Internet marketing campaigns.
- Provide consistent traffic and revenue for your website.

Xeal's UpComing Webinar Focuses on Improving Website Revenue

2009-01-17T07:27:00.007-08:00

Tony D. Baker from xeal.com has run a few Webinars about improving conversion and online sales last year. If you have missed them all, here's a opportunity to join another webinar with Tony D. Baker to be happened on 31st Jan 2008:

Xeal.com webinar sign up link

Like the previous Xeal's webinar, Tony will review sites live on the upcoming webinar and show you the ways to increase website conversion, leads and sales with a simple 25-point checklist. You will pick up ideas, tricks and techniques to improve your website revenue watching Tony review other sites. This is just first half of the webinar.

For the second part, you'll discover their comprehensive strategy for Internet Marketing Success and learn how to save cost in pay per click advertising.

Free Marketing for Your Product: Recruit an Army of Affiliates

2009-01-17T07:27:00.005-08:00

If you have done good online research on a niche and developed a new product that will meet a need or solve a problem of a group of people, then probably your product will be selling well on the Internet. But to successfully sell your product, you first need to get it into the public eye which will require Internet marketing knowledge, talent and experience. If you lack of that, don't worry you can get some support free on the net.

There are many professional or experienced Internet marketing experts ready to help you out and to promote your product to thousands of targeted prospects. They will work on commission basis, giving them an added incentive to market your product as efficient as possible.

We are talking about affiliate marketing, of course. The affiliate marketing method, in its most basic form consists of a merchant or seller (in this case you), affiliates (the sales force, who will market the merchant product on to earn sales commission), and the customers or buyers (located and referred by the affiliates).

What you need to recruit a team of affiliates?

One of the good ways is to create a merchant’s account at Clickbank or other affiliate programs network sites. Alternatively, You may set your own affiliate program without joining a affiliate network, but Clickbank and other like sites work well for many sellers. You’ll pay a one-time fee, and in return, you can list your product, along with a sales page and a “thank you page.” Once approved, your affiliate program will be created and anyone can join your program to market your product.

There are a few ways to make your affiliate program work.

You need to have a professional written sales page, a good product and offer an attractive commission.

You may think about offering 50% or more sale commission per sale to your affiliates. This may sound harsh to you, but it is the high commission ratio that will motivates them to market your product on the net.

Your affiliate payments management will depend on the system provided by your affiliate network. Some can be set automatically to pay your affiliates who make sales for you. Others will require you to manually manage your affiliate payouts. Make sure you are familiar to your affiliates payment system and send payment to your affiliate accurately on time.

Why not I market my product without recruiting affiliates?

Sure, you don't share any profit that way, but you could be selling more and more of your products by recruiting a group of experience affiliates who are willing to promote your product on the Internet in different effective ways.

If you have a product and want to have a massive promotion for it, think about starting an affiliate program. The commissioned affiliates can provide you a steady stream of potential customers to you.

Set up Your First Online Business Fast in AffiliateCashSecrets.com to Make Money on the Net

2009-01-17T07:27:00.003-08:00

Is your online business on hold because of obstacles like not being able to get your website up online?

I understand that even creating a simple email follow-up system can be a pain in the butt.

Are you tired of the problems and obstacles?

Derrick Vandyke has just set up a new program 'The 30-Day Challenge' at Affiliatecashsecrets.com which will guide you through every step of setting up an online business that will make you a nice income every month. It's clear, simple, and won't cost you a fortune to start a online business with Derrick's step-by-step instructions.

Here's how you can get in to this new program:

1. Go to the site at AffiliateCashSecrets.com.

2. Sign up to take 'the 30-Day Challenge'.

3. Sign in to your member's area and click "Start Here" to read Day 1 of your 30-day training course.

You'll know what you have to do and what tools you need to get your first profitable business up on the Internet.

Keep Your Web Copy Short and Sweet to Attract Web Visitors

2009-01-17T07:27:00.001-08:00

As a webmaster, you are looking to keep visitors coming to your website and also get them to return often. Besides web promotion and Internet marketing, your web copy (text and content inside your website) will play an important role in attracting new and returned visitors to your website. There are several points you need to think about when writing web copy.

Keep your copy short and simple
What you need to know and remember is that unless a visitor has been sent to a particular web page on a site, more often than not, they will only read 1 or 2 sentences of the text. So the longer your text is, the less likely they will want to read it. So if you can, do not add any long copy to any pages where visitors are not expecting it to be.

Also use as many simple words as possible for your copy. It is important that your visitors are able to understand what has been written on their first reading. They do not want to have to spend time thinking about what you have written.

In most cases, you should be able to convey one key idea effectively in just one or two lines of writing. By writing any more then that, you are likely to ruin the chance of the first idea you are providing to get through to them.

So by anticipating that your visitors will be willing to learn more about something, then they will look for the page that has more copy on it. So provide them with a link to another page of your site where they can get hold of the information that they need.

What if you do need to write long copy?
If you do need to include some longer copy, then organize it. Even if your visitors are expecting to find a page heavy with text, they may not actually be willing to read it. So in order to help them, divide any distinct ideas you have into separate paragraphs. Provide them with useful headings, sub headings and bulleted lists. This is a great way of introducing key ideas to them deliberately.

It is best to assume that not all the visitors to your site will read longer pieces in their entirety. So write copy that they will be able to skim through and lets them read the parts that they are only interested in.

Although longer copy does not need as direct as short copy is, it should still be easy to read. You will find that those visitors to your site who have difficulty understanding what has been written, will stop reading it.

Make your copy lively
Keep your copywriting clear and write vividly. You should be aiming to write in a light, unassuming tone of voice. If what you have written is boring or overbearing, this will in turn affect the reader, and what you are trying to convey will not get through to them.

So use a consistent voice throughout your copy. By doing this, visitors will more quickly recognize it and so become familiar with it. The more familiar a site or subject is to them, the more effective it will be.

This Wednesday Teleseminar: Learn How to Generate Massive Affiliate Income

2009-01-17T07:26:00.004-08:00

This coming Wednesday at 9 PM ET, Anik Singal from Affiliate Classroom will be doing a special teleseminar with someone who has made over one million of affiliate sales.

The call is with Armand Morin. Armand is a top Internet marketer, you may have heard his business success story. But do you know that he is also an affiliate in over 110 niches and earned $1.2 Million in 2007 just as an affiliate?

In the teleseminar, Anik is going to specifically talk to Armand about the exact strategy he uses to go after so many niches. And the things you can expect to learn from listening the conversation between them are the system that Armand used to generate massive affiliate sales, PPC advertising strategies and affiliate sales conversion tips.

It is a free teleseminar, to register simpy go to:

http://www.internetmarketingexplained.com/anik

Also, Anik will be giving away some cool prizes on the call such as free copy of PPC Classroom and 'The Affiliate Manager' training course.

Money Making Opportunities (23nd Update)

2009-01-17T07:26:00.003-08:00

As usual, I will update here if I found some new money making opportunities. Here are two I have learned about lately.

Digital Journal - Report news and get paid
Digital Journal is one of the most active online news sites. News are reported by their citizen journalists. You may sign up to become a citizen journalist of Digital Journal and get paid for contributing news to the site. Digital Journal rewards citizen journalists by sharing ad revenue with them. The more you can contribute, the bigger your ad revenue share. Your earning is also determine by the rank (popularity) of your posted news. Payment will be sent to you via Paypal at the beginning of the month once your account exceeded $10 earning.

Find out how to join Digital Journal here.

Creamaid.com - Earn money by submitting blog posts
On Creamaid.com main page, there is a conversation section consisting of a long list of conversations or topics. You can choose one conversion or more in the list, write a post relevant to your chosen conversion on your blog and then submit it to Creamaid. When your post is selected, you will recieve a royalty payment and the link to your blog post will be syndicated through Creamaid website, giving you free blog promotion.

Your blog post is very likely to be accepted as long as you keep it relevant, unique, true and not offensive.

eBay New Changes Benefited Your eBay Selling

2009-01-17T07:26:00.001-08:00

Seller can only be able to leave positive Feedback to buyer.
Positive feedback from repeat buyer will count toward a seller’s overall Feedback Score.
Feedback left by members older than 12-months will not be counted towards your Feedback percentage.
If a buyer doesn't respond to the Unpaid Item (UPI) process eBay will remove the negative or neutral Feedback they have left for that transaction.
eBay will remove all the negative and neutral Feedback left by members who have been suspended.

Your Complete Libraby of Resources for Making Money Online

2009-01-17T07:24:00.006-08:00

How to Optimize Your Website for Search Engine
How to Write Effective Web Copy that Can Increase Your Profits
How to Make Money Online by Blogging
How to Make Money Online from Affiliate Programs
How to Build Your list
How to Create a Profitable products
How to Use Multi-Media to Increase Your Sales
And much more.....

All these topics are presented by experienced Internet marketers.

Writing an Internet Marketing Plan for Your Online Business

2009-01-17T07:24:00.005-08:00

Creating an Internet marketing plan is a crucial step in launching an e-commerce website to make money on the Internet. Knowing the website's target market, competition, budget for the various Internet marketing campaigns, strengths and weaknesses allow for the most effective Internet marketing methods to be selected to get the most target visitors and profit with the least amount of investment and time.

A good Internet marketing plan should have the following outlines:

I. Executive Summary
Just like writing a traditional business plan, you need to include an executive summary into your Internet marketing plan. The executive summary is actually the overall summary of your Internet marketing plan. The executive summary will be written at the last section of your plan, but it is the first marketing plan element.

II. Market Analysis
Provide background information on market that your e-commerce website or Internet business is entering into. The background information for your market should contain the demographics of your target market, a description of the greatest competition and an analysis on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that your online business will face (SWOT analysis).

III. Internet Marketing Strategies and Goals
Once background information of your market has been completed. It is time to think about the marketing goal for your online business. Lay out your marketing goals in the Internet marketing plan, general strategies to reach those goals and write down specifically the Internet marketing methods you will apply.

IV. Finance
Setting budget is one of the most important steps in creating a plan for online marketing. You need to do some calculation and decide how much money you can invest in Internet marketing and promotion, and when some money will be allocated to specific Internet marketing methods and tactics. Also make a forecast including an anticipated revenue figure that will achieve from the planned Internet marketing efforts.

V. Evaluation
Mention how the success and failures on your marketing effort will be measured against the pre-determined marketing goals. List out the evaluation methods to be applied to prove the success of your marketing methods or tactics. Some evaluation methods you can use are online survey, focus group, etc.

VI. Addenda
Provide any additional details, charts, or other materials that cannot be included directly in the text of the Internet marketing plan.

Meet the Top Internet Marketers Every Week

2009-01-17T07:24:00.003-08:00

A new teleseminar series titled Follow My Success will be organized at followmysuccess.com. Each week followmysuccess.com will do a teleseminar with one of the top Internet marketing experts who will reveal their successful methods used for building profitable Internet businesses and making a lot of money online.

Here are some of the insider tips you'll learn when joining Follow My Success series:

Robert Butwin will show how to build a massive team with the least amount of work and how you can copy his success...

Dale Calvert will teach you the proven ways to generate lead for your business...

Tellman Knudson will guide you to creating and growing lists which will generate multiple income streams for your online business...

Tom "Big Al" Schreiter delivers the goods to make you a better marketer, no matter how much you think you already know...

Johnny Wimbrey will show you his #1 secret for achieving complete success and will inspire you to reach your peak performance level...

Interested to participate this teleseminar series? You may go to http://followmysuccess.com to find out how to get in this teleseminar series.

Finding and Evaluating Potential Residual Income Programs Online

2009-01-17T07:24:00.001-08:00

Programs with the potential for residual income are easy to find with a simple search for the words. You will find that many websites may try hard to get your attention but it takes more than that to find a program suitable for you. Finding the right program with the potential for residual income for you can become more difficult. Below you will find detailed information on how to research and evaluate the perfect program for you.

First off, you need to take into account what your interests are and look for programs that are closely related. Dedication to a program will always make you more money and when you are interested in it, you are more likely to dedicate the time and effort it takes to be successful.

Now, look for a product that will give you the continuous income you will need. Some programs will have more steady streams of income than others that are seasonal. Seasonal products will only produce the income you need for a few weeks or months and then taper back off to nothing until the season comes around again. Being able to keep going during those low sales periods and then profiting from the peak periods is vital to making money. Those who are interested in such seasonal products should consider finding more than one program so that the stream of income is steadier all year long.

Market research for programs promising a continuous income stream in the form of residual income is often overlooked. This research can be performed by you, there is no need to hire someone to hold a case study, all you have to do is find out whether the market for the products you want to promote and make it your main source of income is saturated. If the market is saturated already with the product, it’s best to move on to a more suitable product that hasn’t been tapped out.

Once you started your research you will see that services produce more results than products do. No matter what kind of service you offer, whether it’s financial or insurance services, most people who buy the service become loyal to your service and are most likely to return as a repeat customer.

On the other hand, you may want to consider the option for wholesaling products. The competition is fierce for this industry, but if you can watch the current trends and market conditions you will be able to make a lot of money. You have to be ahead of the game and have the products to sell to retailers before the trends become popular.

It is evident that there are plenty of residual income opportunities on the Internet, and for those inclined to do so, these kinds of online business opportunities will at times also convert well into a nice offline business.

Free Resources Helpful to Make Money Online - 03 Feb 2008

2009-01-17T07:23:00.005-08:00

Hope this week free resources can help you in any way to be more effective in earning income on the Internet.

Free Business Model
John S.Rhodes and his brother Matthew W.Rhodes have a proven online business model that works for them repeatedly. And they created a video to demonstrate their entire online business model - you may watch and learn how you can also implement their business model to start making money online.

E-book - Media Buying Secrets Revealed
Generating traffic is a very common topic in Internet marketing. You may have read and learned enough traffic generating-techniques. But I think you may want to read Media Buying Secrets Revealed e-book as it provides traffic content that usually cannot be found on other resources sites. This e-book covers topics like how to get targeted traffic with media buying, using CPA network and other less known but useful traffic methods.

5x Profit Report
This report focuses on optimizing and improving online business performance. The author of this report shares with you his 10 most powerful ways of getting more customers and make more sales.

4 Steps to Making Money with Clickbank Affiliate Products Using Bum Marketing Method - Part 2

2009-01-17T07:23:00.003-08:00

In case you haven't read part 1 of this article, please visit here.

Step 3 - Write your keywords optimized articles
Now is the time to write your articles. You have found several quality products; you know they will convert if you market them right, so there is nothing stopping you from making a nice income except your willingness to write many articles. If you are good in writing, writing 30 articles for each product isn’t a problem to you. But if you are not able to write that amount articles in short period of time, you may follow what many other bum marketers did which is outsource your article writing work to others. Here’s a forum that you can find freelance writers:

Forums.digitalpoint.com - Content Creation

Many people offering article writing services in the forum for as little as $5 to $8 per article. To keep your cost down, I would suggest you pay not more than $6 per article. Here is a tip when hiring writers: Never pay upfront. Pay only when the articles are ready. Write the articles fast. Give them an action plan to use, top it off with an interesting author bio/resource box and you will probably generate sales.

Step 4 - Build your landing pages and submit your articles
Travis explains everything about landing pages in his free bum marketing method course, but what I've found to work even better then a simple pre-sell page or an opt-in page is to add content around the landing page. That way, visitors land on a page where they have relevant content to read before you go into a hard sell.

For example, you would want to send your article readers to a page of your site. This page would be a mini pre-sell page like Travis teaches doing in his bum marketing course. But instead of just having one page your visitors can click on and either sign up to your free opt-in list or click straight over to your affiliate sale site, on the left or right side of the page, you may include links to other relevant articles that your readers may be interested to read.

With this way, you are likely to make the most money from your bum marketing campaigns, but getting visitors to opt-in to a list is equally crucial, because you can always promote your product to them later by a sending email promotion.

This makes your website look like a resource or information site. Possible this will please your visitors. Visitors are more likely to click through the links you have when you have a website loaded with relevant content and information, not just a blaring sales page. Remember, with time everything gets old.

This is pre-selling at its best. Many people would not give their name and email address immediately just to obtain more information, so give your content and resources to them free frequently, and they will eventually want to give you their email address. There is already too much junk mail out there, so more and more people want something tangible immediately. They do not want you to bombard them with crap, so just don’t do it. Do as I say and make money the right way. Once you have created your landing page, submit your articles to Ezinearticles.com, Goarticles.com and other large traffic article directories.

When you have written more than one hundred articles and submitted them for publication on the large article directories, wait for several weeks to see result. If you find that certain products are doing really good, then put more focuses on these products by writing more keywords optimized articles for these products and publish them on article directories to generate steady sales and commission.

4 Steps to Making Money with Clickbank Affiliate Products Using Bum Marketing Method - Part 1

2009-01-17T07:23:00.001-08:00

Bum marketing is very similar to article marketing. It is actually a variation of article marketing. Bum Marketing is really an Internet marketing method for anyone who wants to sell their own product or affiliate product on the Internet; or wants to get targeted visitors for a website, whether it is a squeeze page designed to get opt-in subscribers, a content based AdSense site, or a website containing a lot of affiliate ads.

Here’s a few sentences to describe how bum marketing works: You research and write keywords rich articles related to your niche, product, affiliate program or website; submit them to large traffic article directories and sites, let the search engines index them and send visitors to your article pages, then generate affiliate sales, get lead and opt-in subscribers or earn money from selling your own products.

Below is a step-by-step plan to applying bum marketing for promoting your Clickbank affiliate product and generate Clickbank affiliate commission.

Step 1 - Find Several Products to Market and Promote
You will have to look for several quality products to promote. One of the good places to find products to promote is Clickbank. To find out which products are good in quality and successful in Clickbank. You need to conduct some research. You may look at the gravity ratio of the products provided by Clickbank, high gravity of a product would simply mean it has attracted a lot of affiliates to promote it and indicate that it may be a good product. You should also ask the seller or merchant about the conversion rate of the product. A product with conversion rate of 4% is reasonably good. It means that for every 100 potential customers to the website, 4 of them will make a purchase.

When it comes to sale commission sharing ratio, you should pick products that offer at least 50-60% commission. This is to make sure you earn enough for your time, marketing efforts and costs.

Choosing affiliate programs that offer residual income is a great idea for earning steady income for long term using bum marketing method. There are still not many bum marketers taking advantage of promoting residual income affiliate programs that pay every month.

Here is how these programs work. You promote a product one time. A customer purchases the product. Every time they come back to purchase another, you earn more money. Promote a product once and are paid for as long as that customer stays as a customer. For example. If you promote a paid membership website and make a sale, you will earn that same amount of sale commission every month for as long as that customer stays as a paid member of the site.

Residual income affiliate programs have pretty good earning potential in the future. If you want a list of some good affiliate programs that offer residual income opportunities, check out this site:
http://www.lifetimecommissions.com

Step 2 - Find at least 20 keywords for each product
If you can find more keywords, even better, but begin with 20 first to find out if the product will be worth it. You don’t want to spend a hard time writing 50 articles to promote a product but later then discover that the product is hard to convert into sales.

You may start off by writing 30 articles to promote a specific product. If you make no or very little sales, then you should look for another product. The great thing about bum marketing is it's a useful and free method to test whether the products sell well. If a product converts well into sales, then there is nothing stopping you from advertising with PPC programs like Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing.

To continue reading part 2 of this article, please visit here.

Upcoming Tele-Training Important to Your Success in Your Online Money Making Venture

2009-01-17T07:22:00.006-08:00

Two big name Internet marketing experts, Rich Schefren and Jay Abraham are conducting a free tele-training giving important information and proven techniques that you can apply to your e-business to vastly increase your online income and turn it into a success.

Here are some of the topics they will talk about:

Getting joint venture partners to generate sales for you in any marketplace for any product, even if you're not a big name.

The 34 powerful business building strategies.

How to increase your advertising effectiveness massively.

Understanding, acknowledging and articulating the pain customers, clients, and bosses feel to create a bond of trust.

Finding start-Up capital

Rich has not mentioned exactly when the tele-training will be held in his invitation page. If you want to know when this tele-training will be happening and attend the training, you need to go to the tele-training invitation page to fill out your contact details and they will reserve your spot and send you the call time.

Get a Free Money Making Website from Rich Jerk

2009-01-17T07:22:00.005-08:00

The Internet Millionaire who names himself Rich Jerk is currently giving away a free website to anyone and showing you how to use the Rich Jerk website to make money online. The Rich Jerk will also provide free telephone and email support to help you get you first money making site up and running.

How it works:

Step 1 - Choose a free domain name you like for your website.

Step 2 - Sign up a hosting account with MidPhase to publish your website. The hosting account fee is $9.95 per month but one free domain name will be included.

Step 3 - Once you have your domain name and hosting account set up, you site will be up on the Internet. It is time to access your admin area to add money making programs such as Clickbank Affiliate programs and Google AdSense to your site. It is not difficult to add affiliate and Adsense ads because there is not HTML code editing involved and a step-by-step website tutorial will be provided by Rich Jerk.

Learn more about Rich Jerk money making website here.

How to Use Yahoo to Find a Profitable Niche Market

2009-01-17T07:22:00.003-08:00

About three weeks ago, I posted a blog entries here titled 'How to Use Google to Find a Profitable Niche Market'. The post explained how to use several free tools provided by Google to identify a profitable niche.

Besides Google, Yahoo is another popular search engine that can help you to research and find a good niche market. Like Google, Yahoo provides a number of good tools you can use to find profitable niche markets.

The Yahoo directory is where you will find a list of all the categories Yahoo has to offer. You can click on a topic and narrow your scope until you find websites that provide information and resources.

Other tools helpful for your niche market research are:

Yahoo Search Marketing
Yahoo search marketing used to be called Yahoo Overture, but changed its name when Yahoo decided to add services to those advertising on Yahoo search engine results. If you want to use the tools provided by Yahoo search marketing, you will have to open a free account by visiting .

With your account, you will be able to research the popularity of the topics on your list, the average bid on keywords by other businesses, and which markets keywords are used most often. If you have a bunch of very broad topics on your list, you can break them down by creating a list of keywords that best describes the topic.

Begin your search by entering in keywords to see how popular they are by those surfing the Internet.

Keywords that have been searched more than 50,000 times in one month may be too popular to be considered a niche market. On the other hand, keywords that have been searched less than 10,000 times in a month may not have enough interest to be profitable. You should try to find keywords that have been searched between 10,000 and 50,000 times in one month. This means that there is enough interest in the niche and there may be little competition.

Once you have narrowed your topics, visit Google and use their bid tools to see if the results are similar.

Yahoo Buzz
Yahoo buzz is a great place to find ideas for niche by getting a better idea about what people are searching for online. Similar to Google Zeitgeist, you will be given a list of hot topics that can be turned into keywords for your research. Visit http://buzz.yahoo.com for more information.

After narrowing down your list and finding a few niche groups that look promising, it's time to begin putting your product together. Since the majority of those who earn an income sell information in the form of an eBook, or special report, your product will probably be digitally based. This means it can be downloaded directly from your site to the user's computer after they pay for it.

Because niche markets have a limited life span, you will need to act quickly in putting together your materials so you can sell them before the trend wears off or competition becomes too fierce. But if you are unsure as to which products to offer, the following websites can help you find products that appeal to your niche group.

Money Making Opportunities (24th Update)

2009-01-17T07:22:00.001-08:00

This week, I came across another two money making opportunities:

Mahalo.com
Mahalo Greenhouse is a human-powered search engine where the search results is provided by humans. You can become a Mahalo Greenhouse guide and get paid for creating search results pages. Mahalo Greenhouse has plenty of search terms in different categories that need people to create a search result page. For instance, in the 'Vehicles' category, one of the search terms is 'Ford Escape Hybrid'. You may build a search result (SR) page and include relevant resources and websites in you SR page to help users who search for Ford Escape Hybrid.

Interested to help Mahalo in building the greatest human-powered search engine? Apply to become a Mahalo Greenhouse guide here.

Ansmart.com
New questions on different topics are posted on Ansmart frequently. If you can provide quality answers to these questions, you will be rewarded. It works pretty simple. The questioner sets a price and post a question. You provide a sample answer. If the questioner like you sample answer, he/she will ask you to submit a complete answer and you will be paid according to the pre-determine price. Go to http://www.ansmart.com to find out more about Ansmart .

Make Money Online with PepperJam Network

2009-01-17T07:21:00.008-08:00

PepperJam Network is the newest cost per action (CPA) affiliate network. It was launched on 15th Jan 2008. Just like other CPA affiliate networks (Commission Junction, Azoogads, etc), PepperJam Network has many affiliate programs in different niche markets. So you can find and choose the most appropriate affiliate programs to join and market it through your website to earn affiliate commission.

I was impressed with the creative and useful tools and technology provided by PepperJam network to help affiliates succeed in affiliate marketing. Affiliates can actually communicate with their merchants in real time via live chat. This facility hasn't been found in any other affiliate networks. Also, they have an advanced tracking and report system; and a knowledge vault containing tools and educational materials for affiliates to achieve better affiliate marketing results.

Since PepperJam Network offers excellent affiliate support, assistant and resources, if you want to make money with CPA affiliate program, PepperJam Network is one of the good options you should consider.

Guide to Creating Your Own Quality Video Product that Sells

2009-01-17T07:21:00.007-08:00

Video is a powerful Internet marketing tool. Many Internet marketers have started to use it to promote their online business and products in year 2007. It will continue to grow and will soon become one of the biggest Internet marketing tools.

There are many reasons why web video is so powerful. Here are some of them:

1. You will get a better respond from your target audience as they can see and hear an actual person speaking or giving them information, compared to the traditional Internet textual information where they have to read to get the info.

2. People can see your facial expression and body language, so if you made some joke in your video, they will enjoy watching your video.

3. It is an effective way to connect with your audience on an intimate level. It lets you demonstrate your products, services or website more clearly compared to using written words.

4. It you are teaching or showing people how to do something with video, you audience will understand better and learn faster since they can watch every step of doing the thing. So the ‘how to’ video products usually sell well than the ‘how to’ e-book.

For many people today, the video product is easily the better option compared to the more conventional options available but why most of the Internet marketers still choose to create e-book instead of video product? The answer is, creating a quality video seems to be a complicated process. However, if you have the right knowledge on how to get started, then this shouldn't be the case.

Now let’s take a look at the important steps you need to go through in order to create a quality video product.

1. Choose a topic. Just like starting an AdSense site or blog to make money online, you need to first select a topic or subject. In this case, try to choose a topic or subject you are familiar with.

2. Decide a specific aspect of the topic that you want to talk about in your video. Remember, it has to be both engaging and helpful to your target audience. It will be more better if your video is entertaining besides helpful and engaging.

3. Take some time to think about how you will discuss this part of the topic then write an outline so that you know clearly how you will present your information.

4. Conduct any necessary research in order to make sure that you have everything at hand.

5. If you are creating a video on a topic involving a certain niches, then get yourself a digital camcorder so that you can record the appropriate material. Once you have recorded your video, it is time to edit your video. You need to decide whether you want to can add audio and sound to your video during the editing process.

6. To edit your video, you'll need a video editing software program. There are many video editing software programs available for sale, but if you are using Windows XP, you may use the free movie maker program that comes with Windows XP.

7. If you decide to offer your video product as a download to your customers, then you'll have to convert the file into a .wmv format in order to compress its size.

8. But if you don't want to offer your video product in a downloadable format, then you will need to burn it on to a CD or DVD and prepare to ship this CD or DVD to your customers. You need to decide whether you will pay for the shipping or charge the shipping cost to your customer.

9. Once all the steps above have been done, it is time to market your video online and offline to generate sales and make money.

Learn How PLR and MRR Products can Help You Make Money Online

2009-01-17T07:21:00.005-08:00

Private Label Rights products (PLR) and Master Resale Rights (MRR) products let you start a profitable online business quickly as these products come with the right allowing you to immediately resell the products to others and keep 100% of profit.

PLR and MRR businesses are hot nowadays. There have been plenty of people jumped in to these businesses and hope to make a fortune from PLR and MRR. But many of them fail because they don't know the right ways to use PLR and MRR to make money online.

PLR and MRR can be lucrative online businesses. But you cannot enter into this industry without first obtaining the necessary knowledge and strategies. David Cheyne has written a new free e-book that covers some important topics about PLR and MRR. The e-book will give you the information you need to profit with PLR and MRR and show you how to build your own digital product store with PLR and MRR.

Here is the link to sign up and download David Cheyne's new e-book 'The War is on! PLR vs MRR':

http://www.resellergoodies.com/index.php

I would suggest you read this e-book if you want to start building a successful PLR or MRR online business.

15 Tips to Help You Succeed in Email Marketing - Part 2

2009-01-17T07:21:00.003-08:00

7. Your email will look more interesting and professional if you use HTML. However, A lot of email clients either don’t accept HTML email, or the email subscribers have set their client to refuse HTML. So for best result, it is best to stick with plain text.

8. Make thing simple to avoid confusing your audience. In each email, there should only be one of two actions to take. First, they can take the action that you desire, and second, they can close the email and take no action at all. Those should be the only two options.

9. Links will be included in your email body, so make sure the link you added in your email message is clickable. In most cases, the receivers will see a clickable link if you typed in a URL in your plain text email message.

10. Many people use web based email. You should too, for testing purposes. Test your email in different browsers, including Internet Explorer, FireFox, Netscape, and Opera. All of these browsers are free, and you can test them with any free email account.

11. You email message shouldn't be a direct sales offer as people don't like to be sold to. Make sure that the verbiage you are using is not a hard sales pitch.

12. You will want your propects to like and trust you. So make sure not all of your emails are designed to generate a sale. Try to send them valueable info that help them out solving their problems and refer them to free and useful resources, as opposed to always referring them to products that they must buy.

13. You want your readers to feel like they are your friends. In some of your emails, you should refer to real personal details about your life. This can be anything from referring to something cute your kid did to an interesting, somehow related, conversation you had with your wife. Mention your family members by name.

14. Avoid abbreviations, including ‘cyber terminology.’ While such things are fine in personal email to your friends, it really isn’t appropriate if you hope to build a personal relationship with prospects. Some people have no idea what those abbreviations mean.

15. Pay attention to how other people’s sales emails affect you. Open your email client, download your mail, and record your thoughts regarding what you were thinking or feeling as you read each sales email. This is a really enlightening exercise.

Email marketing is a world of its own, and the concepts that work and do not work are changing continuously as users become more knowledgeable. Be sure that you keep up with the latest email marketing techniques and strategies, and be willing to test new things. But, when you do test new things, only send the ‘test’ email to part of your list – not the whole list – to see how it works out.

15 Tips to Help You Succeed in Email Marketing - Part 1

2009-01-17T07:21:00.001-08:00

Whether your online business is selling your own developed products or marketing affiliate products to earn sales commission, you have to work hard to connect with your potential customers or target prospects. One of the fastest and cheapest ways to communicate with your potential customers on the Internet is through email.

You can gather your potential customers email addresses by offering something free on your website to entice your potential customers to sign up your offer and give you their email addresses.

Once you got their email addresses, you will start connecting with them often to build up a good relationship and make your propects be familiar with you. This will build up trust and credibility within your email subscribers. And when you have done that, you can expect to make some sales every time you send out a sale email to them.

Writting effective and successful email does require skill and knowledge.You need to know exactly how to write that email that will get people to open and read and get your prospects to take the action that you want them to take. Knowing when to send it also matters.

Below are 15 tips to help you out with your sales emails:

1. Many research have been conducted to find out the best day to send email and the result showed that Tuesdays and Thursdays are the best days.

2. The word 'testing' is important in email marketing. You should always test your email before sending it. First, use a spell checker, then a spam checker, and finally, email it to yourself before you send it to anyone else.

3. Use targeted marketing methods when growing your email list to ensure that those who opt-in to your email list are your target prospect. It is worthless to send email to people who have no interest on what you offer or on your website topic.

4. Research found that people read a message approximately seven times before they will purchase something. So Don’t just recommend your product once – recommend it a few times.

5. Never send out more than one email per day. Depending on what audience you have, you may want to set to send email once or twice per week. At the same time, you don’t want your audience to forget about you. So never let more than a week pass by without connecting your audience.

6. You may send out old offers to your new email subscribers, as long as the messages that you write are not ‘time specific.’ This will allow you to keep profiting from your old emails over and over again, as long as they are still related. Make sure that you keep those old emails clean, and remove sales emails for products that are no longer selling.

Free Video Tutorial that will Cut Your Learning Curve for Making Money Online

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The Internet marketing millionaire, Derek Gehl has put up a video yesterday called Reality 101. This video is 30 minutes long. In this 30 minutes video, Derek will show you the exact steps you need to take to build a real money-making online business. He will straight to the points explaining to you exactly how to build a online business with minimum initial capital and maximum results.

The link to access this video is here:

http://www.marketingtips.com/reality-101/t/846189

I'm sure you will understanding better of what you really need to do to start a successful online business that makes real money after watching this video.

How to Use Web Video to Get Targeted Traffic

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Most webmasters and bloggers have one similar goal which is to drive as much traffic as possible to their website and blog. But, the question is, how to drive the most traffic? With tons of how-to traffic e-books and courses available on the Internet, claiming that they have the "secret" and "strategy" to get traffic; it is not easy for a webmaster to pick the right way to generate traffic.

While some of these e-books actually have good information and content on driving traffic to your website, there is one technique that has proven itself in the last few years as being one of the powerful ways to attract targeted visitors, and potential buyers. This traffic-generation technique is called web video marketing. It is a powerful technique to building a high-profile website that is visited by thousands of people daily.

Web video is an effective way to show your target audience information, and tell them about your various websites, products or services. When it comes to creating a web video to market your website and products, there are several keys you need to follow. Following these tips, probably you will be able to create a successful video marketing campaign, and enjoy the benefit of video marketing which is getting massive exposure for your website and online business.

The most crucial key to applying web video for website marketing and promotion, is to make videos that are interesting, entertaining and above all else, informative. Viewers will find your videos based on what they are about. If you are selling a how-to e-book about weight loss, one of the effective ways to get your audience is to create short videos on how to reduce weight. This will give your audience a chance to see how informative your video is and also how you can help them solve their problems.

Possibly, when you upload a web video that answers a question, the viewers may also visit your site to search for other answers to their various questions. This is a great way to build loyalty with the potential buyers, as well as giving them an actual reason to buy your product or service.

Once you have made some videos related to your website topic or online business, you will then need to publish these videos on the Internet so that people can watch them. So where should you post or publish you web videos? There are about hundreds of web video sharing sites that allow you to upload and publish your own video on their server. However, the key is to find the video site that gains massive traffic everyday. It's no doubt that YouTube is the biggest and most popular video site on the web.

And by uploading your video, along with relevant keywords, on YouTube, you will soon gain a flow of targeted traffic to your site. And, since there are a lot of video sites on the web besides Youtube, you will want to post your video on these video sites as well to get more exposure. You may post your video by hand to these sites, but it is time consuming. To make your video submission easier and faster, you can use a submission service like Traffic Geyser to do the job for you. The Traffic Geyser system will submit your video to all of the major video sharing websites, thus increasing your traffic greatly.

Free Resources Helpful to Make Money Online - 15 Feb 2008

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It is time again to post some links to useful resources, hope that they really help you.

Smallreportsfortune.com
Jimmy D.Brown has create a new report revealing how a 37-year old Arkansas man makes more than $20,000 every month by selling only small reports on the Internet. The new report lays out the whole process of making money online by creating and selling tiny reports in step-by-step format so that you can follow and profit the same way. You can get a copy of this free report at Smallreportsfortune.com.

Squeezepagecashmachine.com
Would you like to have some advice on optimizing your squeeze page? Squeezepagecashmachine.com has a 5-day Squeeze Page course you can sign up immediately. You will pick up tips and ideas on how to put up a squeeze page that will increase your opt-in subscribers and leads after reading the content of the course.

Nichemarketing2.com
The site is a place to learn about making money online with niche marketing 2.0. The site owner, Patric Chan has prepared a series of videos explaining what niche marketing 2.0 is, how to make money with it and how it can bring your online business to next level.

Starting An Internet Business To Profit Online: 4 Common Mistakes To Avoid (Part 2)

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In case you haven't read this part of this article, please click here

Buying Tools And Products That Didn’t Help
When you just get into the Internet marketing world, You will find yourself bombarded by people who claim that they know exactly how to make your business a success, and they will charge you for price of $XX.XX.

They only Interested earn your money. They might know something but probably the information and resources the sell to you can be found free elsewhere on the Internet. So be cautious on what you purchase and how you spend your money for your business growth. Otherwise, you will find yourself in serious debt problem that is hard to get out of it. This has happened to a lot people. If you are not careful on your online business spending, this can easily happen to you. So don’t just buy anything and everything. Take the time to do research and visit forums to find out whether a product is really helpful and useful before spending your money to buy it.

Once you have as much information as you can about something, then you can make a wise decision on whether it is worth your time and money.

If You Rush It, You May Wreck It
When you start an internet marketing business you have to know immediately that it will take time for your business to begin seeing any kind of results. There will be a learning curve you need to go through When you first start your e-business.

This is just a fact that you need to accept and deal with. You don’t want to just barrel your way through anything until you know how to do it, especially on the internet. This is very important because if you try and do things too fast and you don’t see the results that you want, it is very easy to become discouraged and start feeling like nothing you do is ever going to work for you to achieve success.

This is not true but there are too many people who never take the time to slow down and do things one step at a time. Building your business is just like learning to walk, you have to do it one step at a time or you will end up falling down and failing every time you try. So remember that it will take time and lots of patience to get to where you want your business to be. The faster you realize that, the faster you can move on and start doing the little steps one at a time to make your business successful.

Focus Focus Focus!
When you are trying to build a business it is very important that you keep yourself focused. There are so many things on the internet that will keep you distracted for a whole day if you let them.

You have to ignore everything and do whatever needs to be done that day. When you can’t stay focused you will never be able to achieve success of any kind. You may have to train yourself on how to do this but it can be done.

Don’t check your email except in the morning before you start working and again at night when everything is done.

Don’t start reading emails or looking at product sales letters that people want you to buy. You have to do the work that needs to be done for that day before you start letting yourself do things that won’t help build your business.

This is something that a lot of people have a hard time with because it is so easy to let yourself become distracted. You need to learn to resist this and keep yourself focused on what you are doing. These are all common mistakes that too many people make when they start an internet marketing business.

Starting An Internet Business To Profit Online: 4 Common Mistakes To Avoid (Part 1)

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There are several mistakes that most of the people make when they just begin to build their internet marketing business to make money online. You just need to remember that you can make them one time, then learn from them and never make the same mistake again. Below are a few of the common mistakes that you will more than likely make when you start building your online business.

Not Spending Time To Educate Yourself
This is one the biggest mistakes that so many people make. When you first launch your online business, most probably you are in the dark about how to get it to generate income for you. Some people spend a hard time doing trial and error to figure out how to get their business to make money without any help. That is ok if that is what you want to do but it will take you a long time to achieve success.

There are plenty of resources and places on the Internet that you can start your education and learn what you need to know. You can go to a resource site to sign up online business courses or get an internet marketing guide, e-book; visit forums, read articles posted on articles directories, blog entries or anything else that related to online business and internet marketing. One of the effective methods to learn is to look for a online forum that has a lot people who have experience and already achieved success in Internet marketing. One great forum for this is:

http://www.warriorforum.com

However you need to be aware that, all forums can become time traps. Stay focused, get in, search for the right info and get out. A quick an easy way to search the information needed for your business in this particular forum is here:

http://www.robertplank.com/warriors/search.php

Warrior Forum is a large and popular forum that has a lot of internet marketing experts participate in various discussions relevant to Internet marketing and e-businesses. They are friendly and willing to help you with any aspects that you have problem in. You can start new threads to ask them questions, ask their advice on where you can learn what you need to, or find out what resources they would suggest to help you along the way. You need to take the time to educate yourself on every area of internet marketing in order to succeed in your online business. There is no if, ands or buts about it. This is a must if you want to be a successful Internet entrepreneur that make a living from the Internet.

Those who have achieved online success have done what you are intending to do now, so they are the best ones to get help and advice from. You will find that most of these successful online marketers are willing to help you get to where they are. You just have to ask for their help and advice. They will inform you that education on all areas of internet marketing is a must for everyone trying to start and grow their online business. Too many people become impatient and think that they can do it all by themselves without any help. They are usually the ones that end up quitting. Don’t make the same mistake that they do. Learn what you need to.

As you read above, asking for help is very important for business of any kind to succeed, not just online marketing businesses. You need to be able to tell people know that you are lost and don’t know how to proceed next.

There are many Internet marketers would love to give you helps.

To continue reading part 2 of this article, please click here.

This Wednesday Tele-Training: How To Make Money Online With Community Site

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The social networking expert, Mike Filsaime and his co-partner, Mark Braunstein will be talking about creating residual income using online community sites in their free tele-class this Wednesday. And they are inviting anyone to join their tele-class. The exact time and date of the tele-training are Feb 20th, 2008, 9.00PM EST.

Mike and Mark will be giving away a lot of great content and here are some of the topics they will cover:

Apply Web 2.0 to online communities.
Membership sites myth.
Building your online community using social networking concepts.
How to monetize your community to to create passive and residual income streams.
And much more......

The tele-class is free but to attend you need to register. If you are interested to participate in this tele-class, simply go to http://vtribes.com/call to fill out the register form and you will be able to listen to this tele-class at your home on this Wednesday.

The Pros and Cons of Publishing an Ezine to Earn Money Online

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Publishing an ezine is one of the low cost ways to make money on the Internet. Ezine also known as electronic magazine or electronic newsletter.

The process of making money with an ezine is you first market your ezine subscription offers through your website to get people to subscribe your ezine. Then you write and design for each issue of your ezine and send out to your subscribers on a periodical basis. When you have built a good amount of ezine subscribers (i.e. more than 1,000 subscribers), you may start selling ad space on your ezine to prospective advertisers.

Besides selling ad space, you may think about using your ezine to market your affiliate programs to generate affiliate commission. You can occasionally email your subscribers to recommend an affiliate product or service that is related to your subscribers interest. You can also include your affiliate links or banner ads that are relevant to the articles published on your ezine. When reading your ezine, some of your readers may click on your affiliate link or ad to your affiliated merchant site and possibly make a purchase.

Publishing an own ezine has a number of advantages. If the pros of ezine publishing impress you, then starting a paperless magazine may be an ideal business for you to profit on the Internet.

Pros of ezine publishing

1) Ezine publishing is an easy-to-set up and low cost online business. You don't need to hire employees and purchase any expensive equipment and printing machine to get your online magazine business up and running.

2) Since heavy machines are not necessary for publishing an ezine, you can run your ezine business from the comfort of your home. The most important thing you need is an auto responder such as GetResponse.com and aWeber.com that has a broadcast feature equipped with.

3) Low start-up and maintenance costs for ezine publishing mean greater profit margin for your business. You will see profit as long as your ezine is generating advertising revenue.

4) Most importantly, you get to build your own personal media and spread your marketing influence, making you more valuable to those online marketers who sell products and services. And thus you may be contacted by some of these online marketers with a joint venture proposal presented to you that will be beneficial to your business profit.

However, like any other types of businesses, publishing an online magazine does have a few of drawbacks, despite of the several benefits that ezine publishing can offer to you.

Cons of ezine publishing

1) Content creation problem. One of the biggest challenges you'll face when you just started your ezine publishing business is creating unique and quality content for your ezine. If you don't possess good writing skill, write content can be tiresome and when you are out of content idea, often your publishing schedule will be threatening you.

However, there is a solution to content creation problem. If creating content on an on-going basis is too heavy to you, you may outsource your content creation work to one or more freelance writers. Some of the good places you can find writers are guru.com, elance,com and Digital Forum.

2) Growing your ezine subscribers isn't an easy task. It takes a great deal of time and work to build up your ezine subscriber base. One fast and effortless way to get ezine subscribers is by advertising your ezine publishing service on PPC search engines like Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing. But doing so could drive your cost up substantially.

There are several free Internet marketing methods you can use to increase your subscribers but you have to go through a learning curve before you can master these methods to use them effectively.

Final words
Ezine publishing can be a very lucrative Internet business. But like any other businesses, you need to spend a lot of time to work on your ezine publishing business in order to see good result. Before you really decide to start an ezine, it is advised that you first weight the above advantages against the drawbacks of publishing an ezine to find out whether ezine publishing business is right for you.