4 Proven Steps to Choosing A Work at Home Opportunity That Works
By: Sean Whitlock
Like most of us, you are probably looking for a way to become financially independent and be your own boss, the barrier that most face is knowing where to start! Well just about anyone can make loads of money working at home, but to be truly successful you must learn to work smarter and not harder. Isn’t that the reason you doing it? If you’re not working smart, you will always be working hard!
When you are starting an online business, the first thing you must do is research. There are all kinds of predators out there looking to make a shady buck, you know wolves in sheep clothing, and I too have been scammed a few times. Some companies promise thousands per month. This is true as I have seen the evidence, but it requires dedication.
Step One: Do something you love
If you love something its easy to dedicate your time and energy towards it. Just think of your favorite hobby, favorite sport, time usually stands still while they occupy it. The same should be applied to any online opportunity you are pursuing. Working at home should not feel like work it should feel like home. This step is the cornerstone to any successful business online or not.
Step Two: Commit, Commit, Commit
A common reason people fail is from lack of commitment. You must maintain your will and be devoted to what you are embarking upon, otherwise you are opening the door for failure. There will be roadblocks, and if you are not committed to steering around them you may want to turn back. Don’t quit, commit, commit, commit!!!
Step Three: Manage your time effectively
Working at home can be both exciting and scarey at the same time. One thing to remember is to set aside time each day for it. Be sure to set goals for yourself. When setting goal it is important you know what you’re capable of. Try to set deadlines you know you can reach. When you get comfortable and confident at reaching these goals it’s time to challenge yourself a bit more, but gradually increase it, don’t try it all at once.
Step Four: Proper planning
Planning is truly an important step in the process. A plan is your own personal roadmap to success. If you get sidetracked or lost along the way you can always consult your map to get on course again. Write down every detail and expense no matter how small. You’ll thank me at tax time.
If you follow the correct path you will be soon smooth sailing and loving every minute of it.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Learn Affiliate Marketing
Learn Affiliate Marketing - The Biggest Mistake Made By Affiliate Marketers
By Chris Coger
Learning affiliate marketing is one of the most profitable means to start your own business online. The ease of joining marketplace like ClickBank or Commission Junction make it very attractive for more people to jump on the bandwagon. I have seen many aspiring affiliate marketers promoting their wares without the faintest idea what they are doing. The biggest mistake marketers made is to send traffic directly to the merchants' websites without collecting their visitors' names and email addresses.
Do you know how many opportunities you are losing if you do not build a list?
Imagine spending the time and money on pay-per-clicks or optimizing your website to attract traffic to your web page and not able to control the outcome after sending to your merchant's website...
You have to be aware that not all merchants are good in selling and converting your leads into sales. They may have a good product but their weak copy may just hurt the response. Never make that mistake... targeted leads are your goldmine! You need to own your list and turn on your money-making "ATM machine" whenever you choose to. The smart marketer builds a simple squeeze page to collect the name and primary email addresses. You can easily set up a squeeze page with a html editor like FrontPage and an autoresponder like Aweber or 1shoppingcart.
Many marketers fear that by showing a squeeze page, your visitors may just lose interest and leave the webpage. For me, I think it is perfectly alright.
Here is my take: If you are not able to give a compelling reason for your visitors to part with their names and email addresses, what make you think that you will be able to get them to part with their money? The squeeze page is probably the most important process to determine the success of your internet venture. To get extra mileage, you should start a swipe file and learn how to build high-converting squeeze pages for your niche.
Spend the time to look for irresistible 'ethical bribes' and put them in your squeeze page so that your visitors will gladly give you your personal details. The gift can be in a form of a free report, a mini e-course or a MP3 recording that are related to their interests. This is just the beginning of your relationship with your subscribers. For a start, you have to give them good free content to win their trust.
Some marketers advocate to start selling in their first welcome messages. I beg to differ. Trust has to be earned. You need to send them valuable information to establish yourself as an authority in your niche market. I will only start to talk about my affiliate product in my third email to them. I will approach the subject as a product review and give my personal recommendations. This is like sharing some good information with a friend.
By the time I send my leads to the merchant's page, they are already pre-sold. Your subscribers are likely to seriously consider your recommendations and your chances of a sales will be greatly enhanced. Just by following this simple strategy, you will be ahead of many affiliate marketers who are still trying to figure out how to make this business model a success.
Chris Coger a.k.a The Ninja Marketer earns a comfortable income online and helps many affiliate marketers to accelerate their income online.
By Chris Coger
Learning affiliate marketing is one of the most profitable means to start your own business online. The ease of joining marketplace like ClickBank or Commission Junction make it very attractive for more people to jump on the bandwagon. I have seen many aspiring affiliate marketers promoting their wares without the faintest idea what they are doing. The biggest mistake marketers made is to send traffic directly to the merchants' websites without collecting their visitors' names and email addresses.
Do you know how many opportunities you are losing if you do not build a list?
Imagine spending the time and money on pay-per-clicks or optimizing your website to attract traffic to your web page and not able to control the outcome after sending to your merchant's website...
You have to be aware that not all merchants are good in selling and converting your leads into sales. They may have a good product but their weak copy may just hurt the response. Never make that mistake... targeted leads are your goldmine! You need to own your list and turn on your money-making "ATM machine" whenever you choose to. The smart marketer builds a simple squeeze page to collect the name and primary email addresses. You can easily set up a squeeze page with a html editor like FrontPage and an autoresponder like Aweber or 1shoppingcart.
Many marketers fear that by showing a squeeze page, your visitors may just lose interest and leave the webpage. For me, I think it is perfectly alright.
Here is my take: If you are not able to give a compelling reason for your visitors to part with their names and email addresses, what make you think that you will be able to get them to part with their money? The squeeze page is probably the most important process to determine the success of your internet venture. To get extra mileage, you should start a swipe file and learn how to build high-converting squeeze pages for your niche.
Spend the time to look for irresistible 'ethical bribes' and put them in your squeeze page so that your visitors will gladly give you your personal details. The gift can be in a form of a free report, a mini e-course or a MP3 recording that are related to their interests. This is just the beginning of your relationship with your subscribers. For a start, you have to give them good free content to win their trust.
Some marketers advocate to start selling in their first welcome messages. I beg to differ. Trust has to be earned. You need to send them valuable information to establish yourself as an authority in your niche market. I will only start to talk about my affiliate product in my third email to them. I will approach the subject as a product review and give my personal recommendations. This is like sharing some good information with a friend.
By the time I send my leads to the merchant's page, they are already pre-sold. Your subscribers are likely to seriously consider your recommendations and your chances of a sales will be greatly enhanced. Just by following this simple strategy, you will be ahead of many affiliate marketers who are still trying to figure out how to make this business model a success.
Chris Coger a.k.a The Ninja Marketer earns a comfortable income online and helps many affiliate marketers to accelerate their income online.
How To Build A Super Successful Internet Business
How to Build a Super Successful Internet Business
By Jo Mark
Many people struggle financially online. But, with a little hard work and perseverance, you can build a super successful Internet business.
How is this possible? Developing and creating your own product is one of the primary keys to real success in the Internet marketing business. All of the super successful marketers insist that you need your own product. I've read many articles that told of marketers who struggled financially until they finally developed their own product.
Why is it so important to have your own product? You are not at the mercy of some unknown merchant. You determine the price for your products. You can set up a system so that you do not have to wait several weeks to get your checks.
However, the number one reason that you should develop you own product is that you can build your own affiliate network. That is the number one key to success! It is how almost all of the super successful Internet marketers became successful.
In fact, recruiting others to sell a product is how most ultra successful businesses operate, regardless of their field (or niche). Toyota doesn't sell their cars one at a time to individual buyers; they have a legion of independent dealerships that sell for them. Exxon doesn't sell gasoline to the buying public, they leave that to thousands of independent gas stations.
Those selling for Toyota, Exxon, and others represent their affiliate network. These mega-companies get thousands of others to sell their product and keep a percentage of each sale for themselves. By doing this, they have amassed huge fortunes amounting to billions of dollars.
I'm not saying that you will earn billions with your affiliate program. But, if your Internet business is struggling, an affiliate program is something you should consider. It could make the difference between just getting by and making a very nice living.
But before you can establish an affiliate program, you need your own product. Developing an ebook is an excellent product to start with. Ebooks are well received by the public, they sell very well, depending of course on the subject matter, and they are fairly easy to put together.
Using an affiliate network to sell your product is fastest way to achieve success. So get busy. Spend sometime on developing your own product.
Then, in a year or two, when you send out a newsletter to your army of affiliates, you can refer to that time long ago, when you too struggled financially...
By Jo Mark
Many people struggle financially online. But, with a little hard work and perseverance, you can build a super successful Internet business.
How is this possible? Developing and creating your own product is one of the primary keys to real success in the Internet marketing business. All of the super successful marketers insist that you need your own product. I've read many articles that told of marketers who struggled financially until they finally developed their own product.
Why is it so important to have your own product? You are not at the mercy of some unknown merchant. You determine the price for your products. You can set up a system so that you do not have to wait several weeks to get your checks.
However, the number one reason that you should develop you own product is that you can build your own affiliate network. That is the number one key to success! It is how almost all of the super successful Internet marketers became successful.
In fact, recruiting others to sell a product is how most ultra successful businesses operate, regardless of their field (or niche). Toyota doesn't sell their cars one at a time to individual buyers; they have a legion of independent dealerships that sell for them. Exxon doesn't sell gasoline to the buying public, they leave that to thousands of independent gas stations.
Those selling for Toyota, Exxon, and others represent their affiliate network. These mega-companies get thousands of others to sell their product and keep a percentage of each sale for themselves. By doing this, they have amassed huge fortunes amounting to billions of dollars.
I'm not saying that you will earn billions with your affiliate program. But, if your Internet business is struggling, an affiliate program is something you should consider. It could make the difference between just getting by and making a very nice living.
But before you can establish an affiliate program, you need your own product. Developing an ebook is an excellent product to start with. Ebooks are well received by the public, they sell very well, depending of course on the subject matter, and they are fairly easy to put together.
Using an affiliate network to sell your product is fastest way to achieve success. So get busy. Spend sometime on developing your own product.
Then, in a year or two, when you send out a newsletter to your army of affiliates, you can refer to that time long ago, when you too struggled financially...
5 Proven Steps To Success
Internet Marketing Strategy - Five Proven Steps That Will Help You Achieve Success
By Joe Stewart
It seems as though every person that is new to internet marketing is trying to find that one solid strategy for success, and this is with good reason. No one wants to fail, yet it seems that not many people are really interested in working very hard to make their internet business work either.
For some odd reason a lot of people are under the impression that they're going to upload a website and the traffic will instantly show up at their door. Let me tell you right now that if these are your thoughts then you're in for a huge setback.
A wise man once described the internet as an ocean beach that was as far as you could see either way and that somewhere on that beach was your website, one single grain of sand turned upside down.
If you're looking for a good internet marketing strategy, I'm going to do you a favor and give you five that are proven to work. Whether you decide to use them or not is totally up to you, but I highly recommend that you do.
#1. Find a market that is already being serviced to start out with. If you have a product to sell then make sure that people are looking for it regularly and that other people are already selling stuff to that market. Competition is a good thing, as long as it's not too much. It means that people are already buying what you have to offer.
#2. Build a website that is customer oriented. Think about what you would want to know if you were searching for your product. Offer excellent information on every page of your website. Add new, relevant content on a regular basis. Once per week on the same day is best. This will bring the search engine spiders back on a regular basis and your customers and prospects too. By doing this you'll establish yourself as an expert in your market and people will visit your website again and again.
#3. Build a mailing list. Offer something valuable in exchange for an email address. Don't insult their intelligence by offering some regurgitated garbage. Pay $50.00 or so and have someone write you a good 20 page report. Turn it into a pdf and give it away to new subscribers.
#4. Add a blog to your website and make entries regularly. I encourage you to show your personality in your blog posts. This will enable you to build a following of like minded individuals. Encourage relevant posts by others and freely interact with them. Do your best to keep it clean and professional though.
#5. Always be doing things to generate new traffic. Never, ever rest on your laurels! You'll be building your business until you sell it or die. Learn pay per click advertising and use it. Learn SEO and build every page with it in mind. Write articles and submit them to directories every week! Not just a few either, but 20,30,40 per week! If you don't have time then outsource it. Write viral reports with your website address in it and your affiliate links and give them away for free. People will love the info and pass it around freely. You'll be getting visitors and sales for months or even years from these.
Bottom line - taking action to build your business every single day is the best internet marketing strategy you could ever have. Treat it like a business, water the plant every day and it will grow.
By Joe Stewart
It seems as though every person that is new to internet marketing is trying to find that one solid strategy for success, and this is with good reason. No one wants to fail, yet it seems that not many people are really interested in working very hard to make their internet business work either.
For some odd reason a lot of people are under the impression that they're going to upload a website and the traffic will instantly show up at their door. Let me tell you right now that if these are your thoughts then you're in for a huge setback.
A wise man once described the internet as an ocean beach that was as far as you could see either way and that somewhere on that beach was your website, one single grain of sand turned upside down.
If you're looking for a good internet marketing strategy, I'm going to do you a favor and give you five that are proven to work. Whether you decide to use them or not is totally up to you, but I highly recommend that you do.
#1. Find a market that is already being serviced to start out with. If you have a product to sell then make sure that people are looking for it regularly and that other people are already selling stuff to that market. Competition is a good thing, as long as it's not too much. It means that people are already buying what you have to offer.
#2. Build a website that is customer oriented. Think about what you would want to know if you were searching for your product. Offer excellent information on every page of your website. Add new, relevant content on a regular basis. Once per week on the same day is best. This will bring the search engine spiders back on a regular basis and your customers and prospects too. By doing this you'll establish yourself as an expert in your market and people will visit your website again and again.
#3. Build a mailing list. Offer something valuable in exchange for an email address. Don't insult their intelligence by offering some regurgitated garbage. Pay $50.00 or so and have someone write you a good 20 page report. Turn it into a pdf and give it away to new subscribers.
#4. Add a blog to your website and make entries regularly. I encourage you to show your personality in your blog posts. This will enable you to build a following of like minded individuals. Encourage relevant posts by others and freely interact with them. Do your best to keep it clean and professional though.
#5. Always be doing things to generate new traffic. Never, ever rest on your laurels! You'll be building your business until you sell it or die. Learn pay per click advertising and use it. Learn SEO and build every page with it in mind. Write articles and submit them to directories every week! Not just a few either, but 20,30,40 per week! If you don't have time then outsource it. Write viral reports with your website address in it and your affiliate links and give them away for free. People will love the info and pass it around freely. You'll be getting visitors and sales for months or even years from these.
Bottom line - taking action to build your business every single day is the best internet marketing strategy you could ever have. Treat it like a business, water the plant every day and it will grow.
How To Build Multiple Streams Of Income
How To Build Multiple Streams of Income
By Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian
Every infopreneur starting out with high hopes and rosy dreams plans to set up multiple streams of income. Sadly, though, it doesn't happen. Either the infopreneur struggles to set one up, and forgets about the concept. Or figures it was so hard to create one of them, it would be too hard to set up multiple streams of income.
The truth is the first step is hardest, and things get easier as you go along. Why? Because you will begin applying leverage to what you've already done, and that way you can easily create multiple streams of income.
I'll try and explain this better with a short case study.
Write an Ebook
As the first step of being an infopreneur, let's say you decide to write an ebook. It is work. It takes time. It needs planning and discipline. But sooner or later, you get it done.
Now you have the cornerstone of your multiple streams of income - if you plan and structure it correctly.
Create an Audio Book
You can either read out the book (or portions of it) and record it on tape or CD. If you prefer to outsource it, have a professional do it for you. You have not only created a new product, you open up another stream of income.
While your ebook would sell from a website for ebooks, or an online store, your audio version could be used as a premium subscription podcast, a tape set or CD collection to be sold in a store offline, or a package to be sold through catalogs or direct mail.
Tailor Your Book For Niches
Let's say your ebook was about the 10 rules of success. Think about how you can tailor this content for various niche markets.
Can your book become "The 10 Rules For Sales Success", suitable for beginner sales people? Or "The 10 Rules For Business Success", adapted for small business owners? Or "The 10 Rules For Investing Success" that's customized for financial markets?
Are you beginning to see how you're building multiple streams of income?
Create a Syndicated News Column
Rip out a chapter of your ebook. Rewrite it in the form of a newsy article or story. Send it to magazines and newspapers with a proposal letter to syndicate your content to their column on a weekly or monthly basis.
If they accept your proposal, you just turned your ebook content into a freelance journalist income stream.
Launch a Public Speaking Career
If you like, you could turn this ebook into a lucrative public speaking career, building one more pillar in your multiple streams of income strategy.
Send a sample of your ebook to talk show hosts, and mention you are available for interviews or speaking engagements. If the topic of your ebook fits their interests and you have a nice 'angle', you could be flooded with offers.
Be a Consultant
If your ebook is about investing, or relationships, or specialized topics like intellectual property law or small business advertising, you could set yourself up as a consultant - and create one more of your multiple streams of income.
Hope this got your mind buzzing with ideas. And these are multiple streams of income directly related to your infopreneur activities. Expand your horizon, and look at what you can do with the income you generate.
By investing it into various options (stocks, real estate, or term deposits) or using it to buy businesses or franchises, you'll understand the real power of leverage you are tapping into as an infopreneur. Go out and start building your own multiple streams of income.
By Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian
Every infopreneur starting out with high hopes and rosy dreams plans to set up multiple streams of income. Sadly, though, it doesn't happen. Either the infopreneur struggles to set one up, and forgets about the concept. Or figures it was so hard to create one of them, it would be too hard to set up multiple streams of income.
The truth is the first step is hardest, and things get easier as you go along. Why? Because you will begin applying leverage to what you've already done, and that way you can easily create multiple streams of income.
I'll try and explain this better with a short case study.
Write an Ebook
As the first step of being an infopreneur, let's say you decide to write an ebook. It is work. It takes time. It needs planning and discipline. But sooner or later, you get it done.
Now you have the cornerstone of your multiple streams of income - if you plan and structure it correctly.
Create an Audio Book
You can either read out the book (or portions of it) and record it on tape or CD. If you prefer to outsource it, have a professional do it for you. You have not only created a new product, you open up another stream of income.
While your ebook would sell from a website for ebooks, or an online store, your audio version could be used as a premium subscription podcast, a tape set or CD collection to be sold in a store offline, or a package to be sold through catalogs or direct mail.
Tailor Your Book For Niches
Let's say your ebook was about the 10 rules of success. Think about how you can tailor this content for various niche markets.
Can your book become "The 10 Rules For Sales Success", suitable for beginner sales people? Or "The 10 Rules For Business Success", adapted for small business owners? Or "The 10 Rules For Investing Success" that's customized for financial markets?
Are you beginning to see how you're building multiple streams of income?
Create a Syndicated News Column
Rip out a chapter of your ebook. Rewrite it in the form of a newsy article or story. Send it to magazines and newspapers with a proposal letter to syndicate your content to their column on a weekly or monthly basis.
If they accept your proposal, you just turned your ebook content into a freelance journalist income stream.
Launch a Public Speaking Career
If you like, you could turn this ebook into a lucrative public speaking career, building one more pillar in your multiple streams of income strategy.
Send a sample of your ebook to talk show hosts, and mention you are available for interviews or speaking engagements. If the topic of your ebook fits their interests and you have a nice 'angle', you could be flooded with offers.
Be a Consultant
If your ebook is about investing, or relationships, or specialized topics like intellectual property law or small business advertising, you could set yourself up as a consultant - and create one more of your multiple streams of income.
Hope this got your mind buzzing with ideas. And these are multiple streams of income directly related to your infopreneur activities. Expand your horizon, and look at what you can do with the income you generate.
By investing it into various options (stocks, real estate, or term deposits) or using it to buy businesses or franchises, you'll understand the real power of leverage you are tapping into as an infopreneur. Go out and start building your own multiple streams of income.
Making Money From Selling Advertising Space
Making Money From Selling Advertising Space
By Peter T. Rosenblum
If you would observe the company that delivers the daily paper to your doorstep for a business case study, you will come to learn that the newspaper publisher hires reporters, writers and other important staff to create the contents and deliver the papers to their readers.
In addition to the above mention, the publisher has to invest regularly in heavy duty machineries and tons of papers in printing tons of newspapers on a daily basis.
And in order to ensure that the newspapers are delivered on time, the publisher appoints agents at every part of the covered territory.
So, how does the newspaper company make money? It is obvious that selling a copy of the papers at less than a dollar would not even be able to even fund the operations.
The answer? Selling advertising spaces! You have definitely seen lots of advertisements in the newspaper. The publisher simply sells advertising space in the papers to advertisers who want to leverage their advertising efforts on the paper's high readership.
On the same analogy, you can make money the exact way from your newsletter: simply by selling advertising space to prospective advertisers!
If your mailing list size exceeds 1,000 (5,000 is recommended) subscribers and beyond, you can start selling advertising space for say, $10.00 per sponsor ad.
In this manner, you turn every issue you send out to your subscribers into a profit-pulling device. And since there is virtually no end to the stream of advertisers as products, services and businesses are cropping every single day in every industry imaginable, so are your money making opportunities.
Peter has an extensive knowledge of Internet Marketing and loves to write about it. He manges many campaigns on different levels as his articles states.
By Peter T. Rosenblum
If you would observe the company that delivers the daily paper to your doorstep for a business case study, you will come to learn that the newspaper publisher hires reporters, writers and other important staff to create the contents and deliver the papers to their readers.
In addition to the above mention, the publisher has to invest regularly in heavy duty machineries and tons of papers in printing tons of newspapers on a daily basis.
And in order to ensure that the newspapers are delivered on time, the publisher appoints agents at every part of the covered territory.
So, how does the newspaper company make money? It is obvious that selling a copy of the papers at less than a dollar would not even be able to even fund the operations.
The answer? Selling advertising spaces! You have definitely seen lots of advertisements in the newspaper. The publisher simply sells advertising space in the papers to advertisers who want to leverage their advertising efforts on the paper's high readership.
On the same analogy, you can make money the exact way from your newsletter: simply by selling advertising space to prospective advertisers!
If your mailing list size exceeds 1,000 (5,000 is recommended) subscribers and beyond, you can start selling advertising space for say, $10.00 per sponsor ad.
In this manner, you turn every issue you send out to your subscribers into a profit-pulling device. And since there is virtually no end to the stream of advertisers as products, services and businesses are cropping every single day in every industry imaginable, so are your money making opportunities.
Peter has an extensive knowledge of Internet Marketing and loves to write about it. He manges many campaigns on different levels as his articles states.
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