For More Article Visit :: http://www.thearticleinsiders.com/
5 Steps to Making Money With Affiliate Products
November 20, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Then I discovered affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is where you simply promote another person’s product and they pay you a commission. Of course I studied that too, and saw that there are cons to affiliate marketing. Sometimes you don’t get paid your commissions. And you don’t have as much control over your sales page as with your own site.
But, I looked at the pros, too. These affiliate products already have sales pages (boy, my first sales page was a disaster), they have been tested to convert, and you don’t have to do any of the backend work like customer service and deal with PayPal or credit cards.
So I decided to test several different affiliate programs, sending them all traffic, and seeing which ones converted and sold and then paid me. And I am making money with affiliate programs. Case closed.
So how do I do it?
1) I set up a website that offers a free ebook (which is loaded with affiliate links) and an Ecourse that is mailed everyday. On the web site I put a web form that collects the visitors name and email address and sends it to my autoresponder (step 2).
2) I set up an autoresponder and wrote a series of letters that teaches people how to make money online–in plain English, and simply, easy-to-follow steps.
3) In the letters I recommend a series of products that will help them learn the skills to become successful online.
4) When my subscribers purchase products from my ebook or my series of Ecourse lessons, I receive a commission.
5) I write articles just like this one, post them on sites just like the one you are reading this from, and watch the traffic come in.
As simple as it may sound, that is precisely what I do. I know that you can duplicate what I do, and if you do, you will make money.
Web Site Traffic Promotion.7 Terrific Traffic Ideas That Dont Include Seo Jvs And The Expensive Ppc
November 12, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Traffic? Have you been banging your head against the wall trying to come up with ways to increase your website traffic without emptying your bank account?. Yes we know that PPC can lose you thousands of dollars, unless you are on of the lucky few who posses the Undercoverprofit membership or google adwords miracle.Plus SEO is very expensive and time consuming unless of course you have search great yet very expensive tools like SEO ELITE.
Then the JV, oh that intimidating process of contacting the gurus to JV with you , then coupled with rejection letters. I guess you have experienced it if you have stayed online for some length of time.
So what do you do when in such a dilemma? Yet you need loads of traffic to make money online?
Remember, we are talking about targeted traffic. Laser targeted, highly motivated customers ready to whip out their wallets and input their credit cards. You are searching for El Dorado. You know it’s there. You’ve read that others have found it. There is a path and it starts here.
Below are five diverse methods that you start to use to drive targeted customers to your site with the knowledge you gain here.
1. Join the world and start a blog! Blogging is the craze of this internet generation. A blog is online diary that can be easily updated. Your readers can even leave comments or answer polls. By just setting one up you create another link into your site. People love blogs and love to read what others have to say. By creating a blog on a subject related to your website you already have targeted visitors who won’t hesitate to click onto your website if they want to learn more information.
Setting one up is extremely easy and most blog websites are free. I recommend trying out Blogger.com as it’s operated by Google. Also, by setting up a blog on Blogger.com you can almost guarantee you’ll be picked up by Google spiders quicker than if you manually submitted your website to them. Although there are great advantages to posting to a Blogger site you always want to have a blog hosted on your own site. Blogger will take down sites and sometimes for no apparent reason. You can lose all your data and traffic in seconds. Apart from blogger, I have personnally used wordpress successfully. The first time I opened up my word press blog, I made two sales that day. And these were highly priced items. The unfortunate thing is that I got this blog deleted or removed by word press for reasons I did not even know.
I cannot access it now. May be it is my computer. it was located at http://www.softerdreams.wordpress.com If it is still there, you can send me an email to tell me.
2- Have you seen the next thing to bloging? I do not know what to call it, but it is called a lense. You simply open up a lense,and post any message relating to your topic or business. Provided you update it every day, people will visit this lense even from places you never expected. At your lens, you only post little information about your product or website and then point the reader to your product webpage. In other words, a lens is just a starting point for surfers, not the finishing point. So your offer is the finishing point.
Lenses rank really highly in google, often #1 for non-competitive search terms, and tags help your lens come up for SPECIFIC search terms.
What you have to keep in mind is your probable visitor’s mind before he/she finds your lense. What might a person new to your subject search for? Might they type a QUESTION into google?
For example, someone might type: Vitamin booster? If you had this as a tag on your vitamin booster lens then you would probably come up quite high!
Do you have a lens about camera memory cards? Maybe this would be a good tag: what memory cards work with cameraX. Not everybody is going to search google for that, but those who do will probably find you.
So you have to think foward.Will anyone in your target audience type a QUESTION into google? What might they type? Think of some examples, and add them as tags!
You can start up your own lens at Squidoo in only five minutes and it is free. Plus check out my own make money online lens here (Feel free to contact me when you experience any dificult in setting up your lens
3. Make forums related to your niche, your daily destination. There are people talking about your niche on any number of forums and groups. Join several and provide accurate content rich answers to their questions. Be seen as a helper, someone who is truly interested in the topic and the people. Do not spam. Do not advertise but place your site in your signature line. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at the number of good customers you’ll receive. If people are motivated enough to join a forum or group to discuss their issue then they most likely are motivated to find good information. The other advantage is that your will also gain a lot of knowledge from the experts in your niche. All the gurus in your niche usually hang out in forums. So if you need to rub shoulders with them, it is good you go there.
*Important though * Remember you also have to give the impression of an expert in your niche when answering questions. So you should not openly ask questions. Be the contributor. But if you need so of your questions answered, what I usually do is identify the epert and PM him /her. That way, your inefficiencies are not known by the public.
3.Bum Market to get targeted traffic. Well,bum marketing is a very wide topic that has recently taken trend. It so wide that I cannot discuss it in this volume. But briefly, bum marketing is article marketing to earn money.What you do is to do research on keywords, I recommend keyword elite. Then you identify the key words with little competition ( not above 15000) but some good searches performed on it in a recent month. Then you go to click bank, choose a product related to that topic, write and article about it. Then in your resource box on the article, you include a link to that product. You then submit your article to three recommended article directories which google loves so much. These article directories are Ezinearticles.com, Goartcles.com and searchwarp.com
With a few weeks, your article will show up on google for a term related to your topic. But you have to make sure that the title of the article contains the keyword or key phrase you are targeting. That is the only SEO you will need with bum marketing.Bum marketing gets traffic to your website simply by riding on the back of the already established higly trafficed sites. Watch out for my next ezine where I will completely disect bum marketing.
4. Viral marketing has a mystique about it. The first site that accidentally took real advantage of this method was Interview With God. The owner of the site published a public domain poem on the net just a couple of months before 9/11. His site was ?discovered’ by many people who took solace from the poetry and began sending the site to all of their friends. The rest was history. The essence of viral marketing is sharing information with people you know. There are several avenues open to you and even more if you use your imagination. You can take advantage of social networking sites and social bookmarking sites where you can share your information with all of your new ?friends’. Tell a friend scripts on your site can encourage your current visitors to tell their friends. You’ll find that people will tell their friends if your site is funny, touching or if you offer incentive. Another technique is to offer free information through ebooks with links back to your site.
5-Article marketing. This is different from the bum marketing method I have talked about above. With bum marketing, you are basically tarketing low competitive keyword. But here I mean geting traffic for even those highly competitive keywords such as mine which is Make money only and internet marketing. Article marketing has been a topic of conversation for several years now. People seem to attempt this particular avenue and get discouraged easily. Although this type of marketing will economically generate targeted customers it is a time consuming job. The best technique to use is to post at least three to four articles per week to two or three of the top article directories. It’s not necessary to post to 300 directories, just the ones with high page ranks like ezinearticles.com. These article postings do three things. You have back links from a site with a high page rank; you have access to publishers and your content will be found on organic searches based on the keywords and phrases you enter when you post to the directory.
6. Do you have expert knowledge on a particular subject that relates to your website and business? You not only can share that knowledge in groups and forums but also by using answer sites through Yahoo Answers or eHow.com. In these arenas people post questions and others post answers. People who read the answers rate them. Your site gets traffic when people perceive that you are giving high quality answers.
MySpace.com Traffic
7. Using MySpace.com to advertise your website has become a new way to increase your traffic. This site is mainly a “people meeting” site but you can list your website and create friendships with thousands of people in a very short time.
You simply need to mention your website URL when you send a message to the community bulletin board. This can create a tremendous flood of traffic to your website as there are over 35,000,000 subscribers to MySpace.com.
You have the knowledge to drive traffic to your site. This may not be the flood of traffic that dreams are made of but they are targeted customers, the most important kind of traffic. As your skill using these techniques improves so will the number of buying customers visiting your site. And isn’t that the point? By spending a little time and using some creativity, promoting your website doesn’t have to drain your bank account. Take some time to check out these opportunities and you’ll find yourself with a steady stream of website traffic in no time.
You could have the best Affiliate Marketing tools.Also Check out My make money online scams Reviews And Make money online lens on squidoo
Top 5 iPhone Apps for Productivity
November 10, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Apple’s App Store downloads surpassed 2 billion in just over a year, at an astonishing rate of 6.6 million downloads per day. With more than 85,000 apps available, iPhone and iPod users are at no loss for options. The iPhone can be as useful as you need it to be, and the potential that it has is amplified even more with the right apps. The App Genius has made it easier to find some undiscovered apps, and undoubtedly added to the rapid increase in downloads. From personal use to strictly business, the iPhone or iPod can deliver results quicker than you can say, “There’s an app for that.” For many, business is done solely on the iPhone, from entering credit card information (there’s an app for that!) to communicating with clients worldwide. Apps can go beyond these functions, helping to save time (and money) with just a few taps of a finger. In this week’s top five, we’re looking beyond the basics to find some of the best apps for productivity.
1. Evernote (Free)
One of the most popular productivity apps, Evernote helps you stay organized with an easy-to-use interface and features that many other productivity apps don’t have. When you write a new note, the app tracks your location, allowing you to go back to the note to see where you wrote it (great for on-the-go travelers); you can assign notes to different locations as well. The app allows users to store travel itineraries, maps and travel documents, reminders, photos and voice memos, all through one app. Evernote also lets you search your notes, so you don’t have to remember when or where you first created it. Evernote is actually a desktop program (PC and Mac compatible), so you can sync notes from your regular computer to your iPhone, and vice versa.
2. Personal Assistant (Free)
Just like the name says, this amazingly free app lets users track online spending, investments, travel and more – all from your phone. Users can set up multiple accounts for credit cards to track balances, investment portfolios with up-to-date changes, airline miles accounts, cell phone minute tracking, and even manage a Netflix queue. Twitter and Gmail can also be integrated into Personal Assistant, meaning you may never really need to exit the app. You can even access your account directly from the app, and manage accounts no matter how far from home you may be. Those concerned with security will be happy to know that if your phone is stolen or lost, you can easily disable the mobile connection from the app’s main Web site, Pageonce.
3. Toodledo ($2.99)
Toodledo goes beyond a pen and paper to give you a powerful and easy-to-use tool for making to-do lists that might otherwise get lost in the shuffle. Manage multiple lists according to you’re their priority level, set alerts when due dates or events get closer, and seamlessly integrate your lists with Toodledo.com. Toodledo also has a collaboration feature, where you can allow others access to a certain list to add or edit additional items. The app boasts a customization feature to make your productivity experience unique to you, so it can be as simple or complex as you need. Toodledo also imports tasks and notes from compatible task management platforms such as Outlook and iCal, or other online to-do list managers.
4. Dropbox (2G Free, Premium service extra)
Have you ever come home from the office, and suddenly remembered a file you forgot to send to yourself or someone else? Have you ever been stranded when a file goes missing or becomes corrupt without a backup file to work from? Chances are, you’ve been in this situation at least once before. Dropbox helps to remedy this, by instantly syncing your important documents to your iPhone and any computer you assign it to. Instead of being backed up on a hard drive, Dropbox utilizes…
To read more about top iPhone apps, please go to Sparxoo, a digital marketing, branding and business development blog.
Sparxoo is a business blog that inspires breakthrough by tomorrow’s leaders. We are a strategy consulting firm with a pulse on marketing, branding, and development.
How Much Money Do You Need to Start a Business?
November 7, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
A question I get asked frequently is how much money is required to start a business. It’s probably on e of the toughest questions to answer because there are so many variables involved. My usual answer is that it takes anywhere from a couple hundred dollars to several million. Why such a wide margin? Well if you are interested in opening a manufacturing plant such as a solar manufacturing company, it’s going to take millions of dollars. On the other hand, if you are planning to open a pool cleaning service it might only take a few hundred. Let’s take a look at some of the variables of starting a business.
Technology
- Obviously if your business is going to be online you will have technology requirements that where you will either need expertise or money to outsource. But even if your business is primarily offline, you will need to have some online presence via a website or blog. Let’s assume you sell products or services and need a 5 to 10 page website in the beginning. Here are the costs involved:
- Website development will be anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 and maybe more. It just depends on what you need. One thing to keep in mind, however is that if you have some time, you can buy some really cheap, good looking templates and create the site yourself. It just takes time and a lot of patience during the learning process. If you can get by with creating a blog, the process using WordPress is extremely easy and they have tons of plugins you can add for additional functionality. Make sure you explore this option to see if you can use the technology.
- Domain name fee. This will be around $10 for a year.
- Hosting fee. This is a monthly fee and will be around $15 per month.
- Merchant services fees. If you accept credit cards for your products or services then you have to have a merchant services account. Look for companies that don’t require an upfront fee in the beginning. The monthly fee will be around 2.5% of your total sales.
- Shopping cart fees. If you have products or services that people can buy online, then you will need a shopping cart. You can get free shopping cart systems but in many cases they will have limited functionality. A good pay shopping cart system will cost you about $100 per month.
Business Licenses
Depending on how you structure your business the cost of setting up your business structure and getting your licenses is inexpensive. You can create an LLC for less than one hundred dollars. Your Federal and State tax ID’s are also really inexpensive, usually under $20.
Marketing
Marketing can range from zero dollar marketing tactics, such as free classifieds to very expensive advertising such as Television. Marketing is one area, in the initial stages of your business where you can substitute money for time and energy. For example, you can easily produce a video market it free on your website or videocast directories. The major expense will be your time and energy in creating the video. This includes all of your ads. It’s easy to let a graphics design person create all of your content for you, but will be very expensive in the long run.
Marketing is one area where you need to do some research to find the best tactics and strategies. Overall, if you are on a shoestring budget, you can initially do it for free regardless of whether you operate an offline or online business. If you want to produce all of your ads yourself, you may want to invest in a desktop publishing program such as Microsoft Publisher as a tool to help you create your ads. These applications cost anywhere from $75 to $500. On the other hand, you could always get by initially with PowerPoint to create your ads.
Training
You may want to consider ordering some training materials to help you along in the areas where you are weak. You can expect to pay anywhere from $10 to a couple hundred dollars for some great introductory training.
Insurance
In a lot of cases you don’t need to order business insurance. I definitely recommend insurance in cases where the public can get injured from your product or service. The cost of insurance is dependent on your industry. I owned a sports bar once where I had to pay $24,000 per year in property and casualty insurance. I know of some surgeons that pay up to $100,000 per year in malpractice insurance. Those industries are more of the extreme examples because of the liability involved, but you need to do some research for your industry.
Fixed Overhead
If at all possible, in the early stages of your business work out of your home so you can avoid making big monthly payments for your lease and utilities. There is enough going on in the early stages of your business than to deal with the worry of making these payments. If your business requires leased retail or office space, you usually are required to come up with first and last month lease payment as well as a security deposit. You will also be required to pay a utility deposit to your electric and gas companies. You will definitely be required to carry a minimum amount of property insurance as well. You can see that it starts getting expensive fast and if you’re in the start up phase, it’s a lot of added pressure – that is, of course, you are well financed.
Development of Your Product or Service
Don’t forget to count the money required to develop or buy your initial product or services. Obviously this is different based on the type of business you go into so you would need to do some research to find out.
Overall, these are the primary cost factors to consider when starting your business. Again, if you are a do-it-yourself person then you can start a lot of different businesses for a few hundred dollars. If you prefer to outsource these tasks, then you will spend somewhere in the thousands to start your business.
David Mickelson is a leading advocate for entrepreneurs and small business owners. He is currently the managing director of Business Field Manual, LLC. In his latest book Entrepreneur Field Manual will show you everything you need to know on how to start a business. You will see how and when to create your sales process, branding strategy, marketing tactics, sales conversion strategies, business structure, idea validation, and more, from the beginning to launch.
Maximizing Your 140 Characters on Twitter
October 27, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Are you Twittering yet? Those new to Twitter might not really ‘get’ what it this social marketing tool is at first but as soon as you find some people to follow and get people following you, you’re going to see the potential. Micro blogging is mini blogging and it can pack a wallop of a punch in terms of social networking and marketing because of the potential for followers who could pay attention to every thing you have to say! Woo people with credit cards in their hand and you are golden!
What’s interesting is how many people on the microblogging platform are being sold something constantly and don’t even realize it because they’re just participating in an online discussion. Those discussions lead to links being clicked on and buzz being spread and ultimately, to people making money!
If you want to make money online and think you don’t have time for a tool with 140 characters and a lot of idle chit chat, you’re leaving money on the table! Look at Twitter and see all the potential.
Follow and Be Followed
Twitter only works if you’re following people and they’re following you. If you’ve joined and done nothing with your profile, it’s not going to do anything for you. Follow and be followed. One doesn’t work well without the other. Unless you’re super famous, people won’t stay on your follower list unless they feel like you’re listening to them. If you’re an online guru with a lot of clout people might not really care if you’re on their list because they still want to know what you’re saying but if you’re going to use the tool, you need to be prepared to converse with the little people and avoid elitism. That’s not to say you have to follow every single person that clicks on your name, though. There’s a fair bit of Twitter spam going on so you’ll want to be a little bit choosy about whether you follow someone or not. And, that tells you right there what you shouldn’t use Twitter for. Spammers quickly get ignored with this tool.
Twitter Tools
Because Twitter is a pretty basic tool, there are a lot of advantages to using some of the free tools that exist to enhance the Twitter experience. There are dozens of tools that help you get Twitter doing what you want or help you mine the user base for information. Tools like Tweetdeck, Twhirl, TwitterFox, TweetBeep, Hashtags, Twittermail, Twitterly and more all have varying features and benefits that can help you maximize the earning potential.
Success from Reciprocity
Reciprocity is key to success on this social marketing tool. Because it’s a virtual water cooler environment, you need to be a positive contributor in order to gain benefits from it. After you find a group to follow and get some people to follow you, you need to converse, you need to provide value and you should establish yourself as a valuable person to follow. Then, people will do things like: click your URL, re-tweet your interesting tweets, tell others to follow you, write @before your username so their followers can see you might be worth following, social bookmarking your interesting tweets, digging your URLs and more. See how this tool can help you?
Are you interested in making http://www.thewebreviewer.com/articles/article/113/make-money-with-social-marketing.htm>money with Twitter? Learn more http://www.thewebreviewer.com/social-marketing-reviews.htm>social marketing potential and about making http://www.tru-social-guru.com>money with Twitter at Tru-Social-Guru and TheWebReviewer.
Generating More Website Traffic
October 24, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Whether your website is a personal blog or a business based site, every person with a site knows the most important aspect is to have traffic. Without visitors and traffic, the website becomes just wasted cyberspace. Many people struggle with the concept of how to generate more website traffic. The good news is there are a variety of ways to drive traffic to your site with little or no money invested. It is a simple matter of checking out what works and thinking creatively.
Consider getting involved with an affiliate program, if you haven’t already. Hosting another company’s products will send more visitors your way when they search for a specific item. This is also a good way to generate some income for yourself as well as receive more website traffic. The products draw visitors in, but hopefully, your amazing website will have them coming back for more. There are services out there that will take care of the majority of business for you. Some even allow you the instant ability to accept credit cards and run the affiliate program for you. This may be the best method for creating more website traffic.
Another highly result driven method for more website traffic is reciprocal linking. This practice is especially useful when your site is linked to similar content websites. For example, if you use your website to sell yoga equipment, linking to another site that focuses on yoga content and tips would be a mutually beneficial link. You get the sales and the other site gets more hits and more visitors reading and commenting. You will want to link with websites that are related to your products, but that are not in direct competition. Networking in this manner and reciprocal linking are excellent ways to generate more website traffic.
If you were blessed with adequate writing skills, then writing articles in your area of expertise is another way to get more website traffic. Writing a few articles a week and submitting them to other relevant websites has the potential of creating new interest in your website. Website content is a precious commodity and your articles have the potential of ending up on an unlimited amount of websites. How this benefits you is that in your byline you include a link back to your site along with the standard information about yourself. Be sure to set the link up to go directly to your sales page. If your homepage isn’t your sales page be careful to not make a new guest search your entire site for the products they want. This method of generating more website traffic is optimal because there is no cost to you and is free advertising.
A unique technique for getting more website exposure is to advertise locally. One way would be to have magnetic signs made with your website’s information on them. Have some extras made and maybe friends and family will help out with your advertising venture. The numbers of people who will see this information is astounding when you factor in vehicle traffic and the number of places you go in one week. The magnets won’t damage the finish of your car and you are taking advantage of a relatively low cost way to generate more website traffic. Add to that any outside help you receive and the Internet traffic from local sources may be just what your website needs.
Getting the attention and additional traffic your website needs doesn’t have to be the near impossible feat that it may seem like. A little bit of research and patience on your part paired with creativity can make your site the envy of its cyberbuddies.
Andy West is a freelance writer for Vertical Measures, an Internet Marketing Company that can help you generate more website traffic. For more information, visit http://www.verticalmeasures.com .
-
FOR SALE
