By Carol Hansen

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have probably heard of Twitter. It is a rocking hot social networking site that seems to be to be used by almost everyone today. It’s on the news, on the radio and on the minds of thousands of people everywhere, every single day.

There are many different types of people on Twitter. But, most of these people are on Twitter for a single reason. They want people to know about them. They want to connect with people. Lots of people.

Did you know that there are Twitter Rules for marketing and business success in what you do. I am a marketer and have been for many years. In the last few years my business has been expanding by leaps and bounds, because of social media and the internet. But, there are rules that all marketers must follow if they are going to have success in the marketplace, especially online.

Here are the 7 Simple Rules to Success on Twitter:

1) The Rule of Visibility on Twitter.

You absolutely MUST be visible on Twitter if you are going to get your message out to the masses. You must spend time on Twitter and get to know people. You must put yourself together a “Twitter Blueprint” and then work that bluprint every day. How many hours a day are you going to be seen on Twitter? How many people are you going to follow this week? How many times are you going to Tweet this week? How many direct replies will you make? All of these things make you “visible” on Twitter. Be seen and be heard. Be there on a daily basis.

2) The Rule of a Powerful Twitter Profile.

Why would people want to get to know you on Twitter? One of the first things they will check out is your Twitter profile. What does it say, or better yet, what does it do? Does it make people curious and want to get to know you? Does it make them smile? Does it make them think? Does it make them see that you have value for their life and perhaps can help change it?
Powerful Twitter profiles are NOT based on what is said in your profile, but on what your profile DOES. Does it direct them to DO something? Does it tell them you are a person they really need to get to know? Put yourself OUT THERE and tell the world why they need you as a friend, and get them to take some action towards YOU.

3) The Rule of Twittering.

You MUST use Twitter to market or to share your message. Many people regard Twitter as a communication utility much like an email. It is not! Twitter is a method for you to build – MESSAGE BY MESSAGE – FOLLOW BY FOLLOW – PHOTO BY PHOTO – VIDEO BY VIDEO – your brand on Twitter. Every time something happens with you, Twitter about it. Don’t just look at Twitter, get your messages out there and be seen. Answer the messages on Twitter. Thank people for sharing their Tweet with you. This will show up on their Twitter and even more people will see you. This will set you apart from most people on Twitter. Twitter is basically a billboard of what you and your friends are doing on Twitter. So use it often and use it wisely. Don’t forget that everyone is watching what you say.

4) The Rule of Twitter Networking.

You are part of a Twitter and you have access to that huge network of people to become their friend and business partner. You can live anywhere and have access to this huge audience. There are literally thousands of people on Twitter that you could potentially meet and then get to know and connect with. You can find local Twitterers as well. You will find that Twitter is a gold mine of people to connect with and build trust with. This may lead to business down the road. So go Twitter now!

5) The Rule of Twitter Direct Messages.

This can be an overlooked and rarely talked about Twitter tool. Direct messages are part of your “Twitter System.” Go to Direct Messages in your sidebar. This is a list of people who are thinking about you, talking about you, including you and connecting with you. This is a goldmine of people that have proven that they are behind you and willing to make you a part of their Twitter experience. Pay attention to your Twitter messages. Thank them for their thoughts and let them know you appreciate it. Reply back to them whenever possible. The Direct Messages are gold and can be a prospecting Vault of valuable leads. Make sure you stay connected to them.

6) The Rule of Twitter Pictures and Videos.

Sharing photos and videos on Twitter is HOT. People love photos and videos. The Tweets with photos and videos are the most looked at and watched Tweets on Twitter. Make some videos and upload them. Upload some photographs. Not only will they be seen, but they will also be Re-Tweeted many times. This means that you can pick out Tweets you like and share them with others. Now isn’t that cool? It is called exposure! It allows you to post a photo or video that you like and then it sends it out for all of Twitter to see. It shares the image that you want and allows everyone to see a glimse into your personal life. It helps people see you as a real person and not just a website, so share some of your personal life on Twitter. Find interesting photos and videos of others and send them out as well. People love to look at pictures and watch videos. Use this to your advantage.It will build exposure for you.

7) The Rule of Twitter Search.

When you do a Twitter search, it is going to bring you a list of people who have a lot in common with you. Just go to search.Twitter.com and type in what you are searching for. You’ll find a lot of other Twitterers who are Tweeting about what interests you. You can build a list in your own area of expertise and then you can send Twitter direct messages to them. Make sure they are messages of value and interest. Show them that you are an expert in this field. This gives you huge exposure. Whatever you do, like posting a message, uploading a video or photo, writing and publishing an article, or just commenting on another person’s message on the Twitter, it will show up on Twitter. Be seen, and be seen often if you are trying to brand yourself on Twitter.

You need to establish relationships and build a community to market to. But, if you are going to market on Twitter, then you need to at least get a blueprint of how and when to do it. The 7 Rules of Twitter hopefully gave you some ideas in your social media marketing. Please let me know what you think and what ideas you have.

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From Carol Hansen – From My Kitchen Table – Bizness Wizard.

There are many ways of building a website, some of which are far more difficult and complex than others.

While at some point in the future you will want to move on from having a very basic site, that is the way you should start, because by doing so, you can keep the site creation process as simple as possible.

Keeping it simple…

In this situation, simple means quick and that in turn means that you can channel your efforts into promoting your business, which as I have already pointed out is the key to your success. Here is what you do…

Visit Squidoo and sign up for a new account. Squidoo is a very simple, modular site building program that is a big favorite of Google. Using Squidoo, the mini-site that you are about to create is known as a ‘lens’.

When you first log into your dashboard, you need to search for the button that will allow you to create a lens:

This action will bring you to the first step of the lens creation process. The screen will look something like this. As this lens is going to focus on autism, which should be the subject:

On the next page, you want to do your own thing (it gives you a far greater degree of control) so check the appropriate choice and go to the next stage:

On this next page, you have to choose a title for your lens. It will automatically use the ‘my lens is about’ information from the first page, but you should change this to reflect one of the primary keyword phrases that you found earlier using Word Tracker, in this case ‘services for teenagers with autism’:

On the next page, including three more key phrases that are appropriate to your subject, insert the captcha code and that is the lens ready to go:

That is it – the lens creation process is completed. All you now need to do is to populate your lens with content, the information that the targeted visitors who you bring to your website are going to be interested in reading and watching.

In the next screenshot, you can see what the lens creation page looks like. On the left hand side, you will note the main text area under the heading ‘Introduction, Contents and Discovery Tool’. This is where you are going to publish the information with which you are going to promote the autism related product that you discovered earlier at ClickBank.

The way you are going to do this is to write a review of the product itself, which you will then add to this area of the site before publishing. The reason that you do this is that this particular module of the site always appears at the top of the page, which is where you want your review to be every time a new visitor comes to your site.

Consequently, all of the other modules that you can add to your site (which highlighted in the right-hand side column) should be placed underneath this main product review:

In terms of the modules that you should add to your site, I have indicated the modules that I would use with a red check mark. By doing so, you can ensure that your site offers your visitors something of a multimedia experience, with video, information from eBay and Wikipedia, and so on.

Note that below the list of ‘quick start’ modules, there is a link to ‘Browse all modules’. Take a look here as well, because there are many more modules that you can add to your site in order to make it more attractive and informative.

Because you have added a ‘Guestbook’ module, you are offering any visitor who comes to your site the opportunity of leaving their comments. The more comments you have, the more popular your lens will become within the Squidoo community, and that equates to more visitors.

In other words, you have built a site that targeted visitors will find interesting, and that is the key to making sure that they stick around, read what you have to say, and hopefully follow your link from the product review to the sales page of the autism product you are promoting. When they do so, if they buy, you get paid.

You will also note that I have added the ‘Text with BIG picture’ module. This is something you should do (you can use the plain text module if you want) because having nothing more than your review on your site looks a little ‘spammy’ and unprofessional. If however you have additional text modules, this means that you can additional articles about your subject matter to your site, once again enhancing the experience of the visitor.

If you have the time, knowledge and inclination, it is best if you can write these articles yourself. However, there is nothing to stop you using other people’s articles from a major article directory site like EzineArticles as your content materials.

Visit the site and search for articles about your chosen subject:

Find some articles that you would like to republish on your own site, and look for the ‘Ezine Publisher’ link to the right of the article title:

From here, you can download the article and then republish it on your lens in its entirety, including (most importantly) the original author details and link. You could do this with as many articles as you want, so this would be a very quick and easy way of populating your site with content if you don’t have the time or the inclination to write your own materials.

If the only reason that you are not going to write your own materials is because you do not know the subject or topic particularly well, all you need to do is read a few EzineArticles articles and then rewrite them in your own words. The articles text is copyrighted, but the ideas and concepts behind them are not.

Write your review…

Although it is possible that you would be able to write a more accurate and informative review if you were to buy a product that you are promoting yourself, it is not absolutely necessary to do so. There are two ways that you can collect sufficient information to create your own review.

First, go through the ClickBank sales page and note down all of the major benefits. Remember that potential customers are only interested in what the product can do for them, so they want to know about benefits, not features. Generally speaking, you can usually find enough information on the sales page to write a reasonably good product review without doing anything else.

However, you might also want to search to see whether anybody else has already written a review, because that will make your job considerably easier. You do this by searching Google for ‘product name + review’ (or ‘reviews’), so if you are promoting a product called ABC123, your search would be for ‘ABC123 review’.

Between the sales page and other people’s reviews, you should have enough materials to write your own. Don’t make your review too gushingly complimentary about the product – add a couple of negatives to make the review appear more objective and unbiased.

However, in the final analysis, you should recommend it. When you do, make sure that you include a clear call to action (i.e. at the end of the review article, make sure that you tell your visitor that the product is highly recommended and that they must get their own copy), and tell them to click your link which must also be included.

Incidentally, you should not make it too obvious that your link goes to a product that you are promoting as an affiliate – something as innocuous as this would work far more effectively:

The HTML code that you would need to create a link like this (using a standard ClickBank style ‘hoplink’ which you should replace with your own) would be coded in this way:

<a href="http://yourCBnickname.aut1sm.hop.clickbank.net/"><b>HERE</b></a>

Copy and paste this code at the bottom of your review page, add content from EzineArticles to several text units, add a few videos and materials on eBay, and the site should be fully ready to go.

However, don’t stop there. Come back every couple of days and add a new article (preferably one that you have written yourself), use the RSS feed module to keep your lens regularly updated and generally keep the site growing.

Google in particular loves Squidoo lenses, especially those where there is a regular supply of fresh, new (and ideally unique) content that you add, so keep Google happy and they will send traffic to your site. However, this is not enough traffic to make your business successful.

Consequently, traffic is the next (and perhaps most important) aspect of building your business.

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By Melvin Perry

Pay per click marketing is one of the simplest and fastest ways of sending targeted traffic to any website.

Whether you are trying to send visitors to your own website, sell a product online, or build an opt in email list, pay per click marketing has been a guaranteed way to see instant traffic results.

But there is one major problem with pay per click search engine marketing that many individuals have. This problem has been a recurring problem for the past 5 years and it’s getting worse every minute of the day. This problem involves the over excessive cost and non-profitability that occurs when marketing through pay per click search engines.

Many marketers deplete their income extremely fast when marketing online through pay per click engines. They set up a pay per click campaign, and within 24 hours , all of their money is drained with no sales, and no leads gained at all. After having this occur, the marketer ends up giving up on pay per click internet marketing and establishes in his heart that pay per click advertising is the most unprofitable form of advertising on the web today.

This scenario occurs every single day and many marketers give up on marketing their websites because of these tragic results. I was one of these individuals. I spent countless dollars on paid advertising solutions like pay per click search engines and I set up in my heart that I was never going to pay for advertising again. If you lost over $500 in one day from a paid advertising method like pay per click marketing, you will feel the same way! I was determined to find other alternatives for marketing online.

But I decided to read a lot of information from other marketers who were having great success online marketing via pay per click search engines. I tried to extract as much information as I can from them on how to market online using ppcs. I kept enquiring and enquiring about their tactics until I came up with a few key concepts that will help anyone immediately profit using pay per click engines!

These key concepts have nothing to do with the pay per click search engine themselves. As a matter of fact, don’t even think about the various ppc engines on the web today. Your major concern right now is to make money using this form of advertising. And the only way you can do this now is by discovering highly profitable and hidden keyword phrases that will generate income for months to come.

Here is what I learned:

1. Find Hidden Keywords With High Search Volume and Low Competition:

This is one of the most important keys to profiting using PPC engines. Your goal should be to find keywords with a high search demand, but with a small amount of internet advertisers marketing with that keyword.

Why?

Because the smaller the competition, the lesser your bid will be for that particular keyword. For example, if you are using google adwords to market your site, and you notice that there are only 7 advertisers marketing for a particular keyword, then you can bid for the lowest amount of .05 per click while at the same time being on the first page! You will have the opportunity to send a lot of traffic to your site and at the same time, increase the return on your investment (ROI). It is a beautiful feeling when you can find these types of keyword gems. I just recently discovered a keyword that gets over 1,500 searches a day and the number one bid is only .06 with 3 competing websites only!! I used the tool below to do this:

[http://www.free-traffic-generation.com/adwordiser]

2. Generate Hundreds Of These Hidden Keyword Gems:

The next key is to find as many of these hidden keywords as you can. If you can find at least 500 hidden keywords to market your business with, you’ll find great success with pay per click marketing. And I am very serious when I say this. There are a lot of hidden niches and keywords that you can use to instantly send thousands of visitors daily to your website. As soon as you find these keywords, you can do a number of things to guarantee profits. One thing that I always do is set up a niche specific lead capture page that includes google adsense on it. (Ha!! I can’t believe I just gave you one of my most valuable secrets for earning income online! Well, take note of this, and use it to your advantage!)

Well, you’ve just discovered the 2 most important keys for being successful with pay per click marketing. I highly suggest that you take into account these two keys if you expect to generate a nice supply of targeted, yet cheap and profitable traffic. But I have to warn you about something. Discovering these keyword gems can take a lot of time. If you have a lot of time to spend, then go and do all of the research yourself. If you do not have a lot of time, then I highly recommend that you pick up this resource that will help you to instantly find these profitable keywords. If you need to check out this resource, go to:

[http://www.free-traffic-generation.com/adwordiser]

Melvin Perry is an internet entrepreneur whose been marketing online since mid 2002. During his marketing journey online, he has created various ways of sending tons of targeted traffic to websites.

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People are far more likely to be willing to pay for information that they really need than for information that they merely want. Hence, it is important to differentiate between the two different groups and their requirements.

A simple example will illustrate this point perfectly…

If someone keeps a dog as a pet and they want to train it to do tricks, or they want to learn how to groom it properly, then they probably fall into the category of people who have ‘wants’. If, however, the dog incessantly howls throughout the night so that they never get a wink of sleep, they have a real ‘need’. They might want to teach the dog to behave properly, but from their own point of view, they have a need to do so for their own health, welfare and sanity!

It has to be something that people need or want…

You are going to set up a business that supplies information to people, and in order to make money by supplying information, it has to be something that they need or want.

Note the order that those two words are presented in, need and want.

People who have genuine needs are the people most likely to spend money to try to find a solution to the problem that they have. Moreover, they are likely to be willing to continue to spend until they find that solution.

As an example, if someone suffers chronic back pain, they will buy products that give them information about how to get rid of their pain. If a particular product they buy does the trick, they will no longer keep buying products of this nature, but if it doesn’t, they will.

Hence, the first step to setting up your business is finding the kind of things that people need and are searching for on the internet.

This is not to say that you cannot sell information that people want, because you can. However, it is far easier to sell information that people need, and in the early days, you want to make things as easy as possible.

Now, you may be wondering what kind of information you might supply to people, and how are you going to ‘package’ this information in a way that will make money for you. The answer is simple. You aren’t, because other people have already done the hard work for you.

People go online each and every day to find information about an almost unbelievably wide and diverse range of topics and subject matter. In effect, no matter what kind of information is available, there are people looking for it, and although most of the time they want that information for free, it is good enough, then they might be willing to pay for it.

Consequently, in most areas where the net is a popular information search tool, there are lots of products available for sale already. However, almost none of these products is doing anything more than scratching the surface of their intended target market. As a result, there are thousands of companies and individuals who are willing to pay other would-be online entrepreneurs commission to promote their products or services, which is where you come in.

You do not have to source the information that you’re going to supply to your prospects. You do not have to worry about spending countless hours researching your subject, weeks compiling the results of your research into a product, or building a fancy website. You just need to find a suitable market to promote into, and then find a product that matches the requirements of that market.

This is the first practical lesson!

You must always establish that there is a demand for any product that you are either going to promote on behalf of someone else, or even create yourself (a little further down the line) before you ever consider getting involved.

However, the majority of ‘newbie’ marketers do things completely the other way around. They find a product to promote or (far, far worse), they spend weeks or months creating their own product without first trying to establish whether there is a demand. Not surprisingly, most of the time this approach is a recipe for failure, and clearly it is therefore something you should never even contemplate doing.

You must always establish demand before finding or creating a suitable product – no exceptions – always!

You know that you need to establish demand, but you do not know what products other people have available that might satisfy that demand. For this reason, in these early stages, you need to create a shortlist of perhaps half a dozen areas of demand in which it might be profitable to work if there are suitable products available. The next stage is to establish how you do this.

Your initial market research…

Before setting off on your market research journey, it might make sense to take stock of your own situation, and what you already know. By doing so, you might be surprised how easy it is to come up with some ideas about the kind of information that people need.

For example, we have already mentioned people with back pain. Extend this idea, and you come up with people who are suffering from arthritis, people looking for information about gout diets, people with irritable bowel syndrome and so on. None of these conditions is particularly life-threatening, but every one of them is a painful blight on the individual sufferer’s life.

How about people who are suffering financial problems (debt is one of the few growth industries at the moment!)? Would a person whose house is just about to be taken from them qualify as someone who has a desperate need? I think that you could safely say that they would qualify.

I am not for a moment suggesting that you ‘prey’ on these poor unfortunates – you should only work with what you’re comfortable with, and you must be very confident that the information you provide to these people is of value and will help them.

All you are doing at this stage is listing down ideas, and if you are not personally comfortable with any idea you come up with, don’t go with it. Ideas are not in short supply, so just keep researching until you find something with which you are comfortable.

• The World’s population is getting (much) fatter at an alarming rate. Do you think that people who are seriously overweight have a psychological or emotional pain caused by their seeming inability to do anything about solving their weight problem? Once again, the answer can only be in the affirmative.
• Think about people who have just separated from their partner. If you could provide them with information that helped them to get that person to come back to them (assuming that that is what they wanted), it is a foregone conclusion that it wouldn’t be that difficult to find a hungry market.
• What about people who don’t have a partner but want one? Online dating is definitely a market where people who have a real need are to be found!
• Do parents ever have problems with their teenage children? Of course they do – all the time! They need help, so here is another one to add to your list.

After you have brainstormed for a while, you will probably already have a list of potential markets to consider. Let’s expand that list a little further by looking at some of the online resources that allow you to discover the kind of information that people are looking for.

Yahoo! Answers

Yahoo! Answers is the internet’s #1 question and answer website, a place where any Yahoo! member can post a question about almost any topic under the sun and have that question answered by other Yahoo! members.

The site is completely free to use, and is available to any registered Yahoo! member. The quality of most of the answers that you will find on the site is questionable at best, but the important thing for you is that you can use this site to discover what kind of information people are looking for.

There are several different ways to use the site to establish the kind of things that people need to know. One option is to scroll a little way down the homepage and to switch the ‘Answer Questions’ window to show the most ‘Popular’ questions:

Alternatively, there is a list of categories down the left-hand side of the page, and there are several of these categories (and sub-categories) where an educated guess would indicate that people need information rather more than want it. An example would be the ‘Health’ category, but others such as ‘Education’ and ‘Family & Relationships’ can sometimes turn up some very interesting ideas:

The ‘Personal Finance’ subcategory of the ‘Business & Finance’ category throws up quite a few questions that would give you an indication of the kind of information that people are desperately seeking:

43 Things

43Things is a site where people list the things that they want to achieve, their objectives and desires. Consequently, it is another good site for discovering what members of the site need or want.

On the homepage, you will see the ‘Need Inspiration’ tag cloud, within which the entries that are largest and in bold are the most popular categories in which objectives are listed.

People are concerned about ‘Money and wealth’ (more so now than ever before), so you could dive straight into this particular category, or start with the ‘Popular goals’ link:

Generally speaking, in order to obtain a generic overview before trying to narrow things down, I would use the ‘Popular goals’ link:

‘Lose weight’ is always a popular subject, but I would imagine that very few people would think that ‘stop procrastinating’ would be such a major concern.

‘Get a tattoo’ might also be worth listing, because while it represents more of a ‘want’ than a ‘need’, it is still a massively popular topic. Wanting to ‘Fall in love’ and ‘Be happy’ would both be important features of a stable relationship, hinting that relationships are another pain area.

There are one or two extra topics from the ‘Money and wealth’ category that would be worth adding to the list as well:

MySpace Groups

MySpace is one of the most popular social networking sites on the internet, a place where millions of individuals come together to discuss their interests, hobbies and desires. Within the site, many hundreds of like-minded people have got together to form Groups that focus on their particular area of interest, and so by investigating which groups are the most popular, you can once again get a fairly clear idea of the kind of information that is in demand:

On the group’s homepage, there is a comprehensive list of ‘Groups by Category’.

By now, you should be getting a fairly good idea of the categories that you should be investigating to establish the kind of information people are looking for. However, there is one other consideration which I have not mentioned previously, and this is the fact that even some extremely popular categories are not really worth looking at, because there is no money to be made.

For example, while there are a huge number of MySpace ‘Entertainment’ groups, there is generally little or no money to be made in this particular area as far as online marketers are concerned. You will see how to assess this a little later, but take it from me that this is not a moneymaking category.

The money making categories to focus on are (once again) ‘Health, Wellness, Fitness’ as well as ‘Business & Entrepreneurs’, ‘Computers & Internet’, ‘Money & Investing’ as well as ‘Pets & Animals’. All of these are categories where you will find needy people, as opposed to those in other categories who simply have ‘wants’.

A little way down the ‘Health’ category groups list, you have people who have come together to focus on autism, natural cures and yoga. While the latter is probably more of a ‘want’, ‘autism’ is a definite need (particularly for parents of autistic children), and for those who are dedicated to living a natural lifestyle, using ‘natural cures’ is probably also a ‘need’ subject:

Yahoo! Directory

The Yahoo! Directory is a listing of websites that have been submitted by their owners to Yahoo! for listing in that directory. The most important thing to understand about this directory is that a website that is submitted to it is not automatically accepted.

Websites are only accepted if they meet Yahoo! quality standards, meaning that the directory presents a snapshot of the highest quality sites on the net. Webmasters will only go to the trouble of creating a high-quality site if there is money to be made by doing so (almost all sites are monetized in some way), and that indicates a thriving market.

Choosing from the category listing on the left-hand side of the page, and again using the ‘Health’ category as an example:

By clicking on the main link, you will get a complete list of every health-related sub-category:

Look through those that interest you and you will again find many interesting subcategories that you had probably never thought of before.

Note that you are looking for sub-categories here – trying to compete in a broad, generic market at the levels we have been considering previously is not going to work, simply because the competition is too tough. For example, if you were trying to drive people to a ‘Health’ focused website, there are quite a lot of other web pages that feature this single word:

Hence, you have to be looking for a small ‘piece’ or slice of the overall health market where you would have a reasonable chance of making an impression. Such a ‘piece’ of a large market is usually known as a market niche.

As examples, we have already seen that ‘autism’ and ‘natural cures’ represent subcategories of the health market. It would make for more sense to investigate these in greater detail, rather than chasing a massive target that you have no chance of hitting.

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Most people continue living from paycheck to paycheck and get trapped in this cycle without realizing it.

The moment you get your salary you can go on spending it, and by the end of the day you get flabbergasted, not knowing where the money went.

This leads to borrowing and incurring interest rates, where you end up paying for something you could have lived without. Scenarios like this one is a good reason why you need to learn how to budget your money.

Keep your cash flow intact by planning your budget! Living on a budget can seem like a daunting task considering the rising prices of commodities nowadays (assessing where your money goes every month will help keep you in good financial health).

For example, you may not know this but concentrating on smaller purchases instead of big ones can actually help you turn the tide in terms of your financial situation.

You should leave no stone unturned when listing down all your expenses and income so as to have a clear view of how you can manage your everyday finances. This way you can easily pinpoint items that you can live without but continue to splurge on, and occasional borrowing.

Goals in Planning Your Budget

Restricting unnecessary expenses is just one part of the equation. In truth budgeting requires so much more, from identifying all sources of your income to scouring for cheaper items to make ends meet.

Aside from these you want to make sure you have some money set aside in case of emergency situations such as a natural calamity or hospitalization. Knowing which fraction of your salary goes to which household costs can be beneficial when trying to appropriate a working budget for you and your family.

Learning how to prioritize can also make improvements on your lifestyle (you don’t need to become a miser just to achieve your budgeting goals).

As long as you avoid being indulgent and wasteful then you’re assured that your money will go a long way. In the end what’s important is the ability to affirm living within a specific budget and being able to save enough for a rainy day.

How to Start Planning Your Budget

Effective budgeting comes from meticulously monitoring the cash flow. A reliable budgeting strategy allows one to constantly operate on any given budget while slowly increasing your savings.

A raise in living standards may not necessarily mean turning out to with immense wealth, but to ensure a fallback plan in case that cash flow stops. Listed below are a few pointers on effective budgeting:

1. Evaluate your income and compute how much you really earn

List down all possible sources, whether it be a stable corporate job or freelance work you get from time to time. Irregular income should be included, such as temporary gigs or project based employment (any way that you get cash is considered as an income source, so include bank interests or revenue from existing home businesses).

This is where all the money comes from, and you should know your financial capability before you start spending.

2. Keep a keen eye on all of your spending

List down each expense and when you spent it so you would know the rate of occurrence. Regular expenditures include your monthly bills like the rent or mortgage, groceries, electricity and water, telephone and cable, as well as transportation costs.

Budget Your Money

Add up what you spend for entertainment or leisure, that occasional trip to the mall, gift shopping, toll fees when driving, even that spare change you give to charity.

When you have recorded how you used up every penny, you can now pin down any unnecessary spending and figure out how much you can save (this helps you know which items you can remove).

For example you can choose to cut back on cigarettes since not only will it be great for your health, it will also save you money. Or you can trim down expenses by unsubscribing from that monthly magazine subscription.

You can also isolate smaller items that end up bloating your budget because of the frequency of purchase. Tally your items and know just the exact amount you need to keep your household in order.

When you remove everything else except your regular household bills and expenses, you’ll be surprised at how big an amount you can put aside as your bank savings.

3. Eradicate all accumulated debt

When you find out that you can save money from needless spending, you can use this to finish paying off all existing loans and credit card debt. Swapping one card for another with better interest rates can also help you pay it off in full.

Continue this until you have cleared your balance.

4. Analyze the amount you can save regularly

Open a separate bank account where you can stash the extra money and do not use this except for emergency situations. Make sure that in this bank account money only goes in, never out.

After years of frugal living you can check just how much you’ve made in your nest egg and feel satisfied about yourself.

Tips to Budget Your Money Effectively

There’s always a risk off overspending and going beyond your budget at any given time, but it helps that you heed several guidelines when spending wisely. These include hunting for lower prices, the best deals, and discounts to help you save costs.

You can also use budgeting tools which can be as simple as a notepad, a spreadsheet or bookkeeping software that tracks all your earnings and expenditures.

Be aware that you can still encounter spending way too much than expected, but refer to it as a learning experience.

Setting up a personal financial plan is just the first step. Maintaining that monthly budget is the real test of how it can work towards your advantage or disadvantage.

It’s important to remember the need for retirement funds so you don’t have to worry much about money when you’re no longer capable of being part of the active workforce. You can only achieve this through proper budget allocation for every necessity.

There are a core set of skills and tools that you need to be successful as an internet marketer. Make sure you use or at least learn about every single one here, but ideally in the end you want to leverage all these tools and skills to get the most out or your marketing efforts. Let’s look at each in turn:

Writing

There I said it, you’re going to have to do some writing. But don’t let that scare you, I’ve had to create official reports before at my old job and THAT was scary writing, but writing on the internet is so much easier.

On the internet you just write as you would speak, you don’t need to worry about using the biggest words you can to impress your boss, you don’t need to worry about proper grammar (I’m not too sure if that was good grammar or not!) and punctuation – which makes writing so much more fun!

Let’s face it though, in a day to day job you have to talk, you talk to your colleagues, on the phone, to your boss, to clients etc. Now on the internet you don’t have that, the medium to talk is by writing, so that replaces the talking you do in a normal environment.

If you are not a very good at typing then probably the best investment you can make is in Dragon Naturally Speaking 10, which is speech recognition software that types what you say. It is so much easier (and faster) to just talk away and let the computer types it up for you!

If you don’t get that then at least look up some tips online to help increase your typing speed and accuracy, a good start might be here: www.wikihow.com/Type. Even when you are earning enough money to pay someone to write things you find boring like maybe articles, then you are still going to need to write emails etc so it pays to learn how to type faster now!

Website / Hosting

When you start off then you might be able to get away with using web 2.0 properties like I am about to discuss in the next part, but in the end you are going to need your own website.

This may be a company website, it definitely makes you look more professional to have your own company website for when people look up who you are, but more importantly then your ‘money sites’ should be your own.

It takes a lot of work to get your sites to where they are ranking nicely for keywords and if you are using another site like squidoo.com to get that ranking then if they decide to close your account or change something… you’re dead in the water! A central website should be your main aim, something you can nurture and build which will stay as a money making asset with you as your business grows.

Another huge benefit is that you can split test different elements of the page, testing is what separates those who earn pennies from those who earn millions.

Even just a very simple tweak can result in huge gains from the same traffic – but if you don’t own the site it is very hard to test things properly. You are also limited to using their layout and their styles etc which again could affect your conversion rates.

Getting your own site up and running is relatively easy, if you know nothing about html then there are plenty of tutorials out there that you can learn from, or you can install a Wordpress blog and that allows you to update your site without editing any html!

Hosting can be purchased from Hostgator at just $4.95 a month! A domain from Namecheap / Godaddy will set you back just under $10 a year for a .com, that is all you need to pay to have a site up and running!

As soon as you can try and make your own website (if you haven’t already), take the accelerated learning route and just throw yourself into it! Web 2.0 Sites. I know I have just been talking about the benefits of having your own site, but leveraging web 2.0 sites can be the smart way to get extra traffic both to your own site, or directly to your offers.

So what is a web 2.0 site? Well there are lots of different definitions, but I like to think of them as sites where the users can generate content themselves and/or comment on content and interact with other users while there. What this means is that you can generate your own content on them to market to people on these sites.

The power lies in the fact that these sites are usually very powerful in the search engines, they have a lot of links coming into them, they are huge and constantly being updated, so the search engines rank their pages well. This means that you have to do a lot less work to rank well in Google with those than you would with your own site (often a lot less!).

Make these a part of your marketing arsenal by targeting low competition phrases to get traffic to the page and through your links, and you can also use them to give you valuable links to your websites.

Each site is different and allows you to use it in a different way, here are some of the most popular sites and a brief description of what they can be used for:

• www.blogger.com – create your own blog
• www.scribd.com – submit digital documents which it then publishes for you
• www.ezinearticles.com – submit your own articles
• www.youtube.com – submit your own videos
• www.zimbio.com – submit your own articles
• www.squidoo.com – create your own page (lens) on the site
• www.buzzle.com – submit your own articles
• www.hubpages.com – submit your own articles
• www.revver.com – submit your own videos
• www.searchwarp.com – submit your own articles

Blogs

As mentioned before then if you don’t have any html experience then you may be better off going for a blog rather than a static website, but in certain circumstances then a blog will be much better even if you can make html websites.

Google has a love affair with the only blog platform you should consider – Wordpress, because of the way the blog is laid out and the way it archives posts etc. This means that often (not always) a blog ranks better than a website.

You do however lose some of the flexibility to have the page looking exactly as you want it. With a normal website you can quickly edit your page in an html editor and see the results, with the blog then you have to edit the template code on the server and then go back and change it if the results were not as expected.

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What you lose in flexibility there though, you gain with the ability to add in plug-ins to your blog which can easily provide the ability to do lots of different tasks.

Want to have a sitemap generated and update every time you make a post? No problem.

You want people to be able to bookmark your post at social bookmarking sites with just one click? Done.

You can probably do all of the extra stuff the plug-ins can do yourself on a static site, but it would need a whole load of scripts etc adding to your site and a lot of sleepless nights trying to get it all to work properly.

Autoresponder

The mighty Autoresponder, working tirelessly behind the scenes to deliver all your emails automatically when someone signs up to your list!

Autoresponders send a prefilled series of emails to your prospects/customers for you which are personalized with certain details like their name etc, you can also send broadcasts out to everyone on your list whenever you need to make an announcement.

Lots of people, especially offline businesses are amazed when they find out about autoresponders, and they are a fantastic tool. Most people on your list don’t know about them either, I regularly get emails back from people thanking me for taking the time to email them some useful info…

Building a list is one of those chores you know you should do, but you never get around to it. Sure thinking up new stuff to email them every few weeks can be a pain, but it can really pay dividends on your bottom line.

Imagine being able to send out one email over the weekend and pull in thousands of dollars! I know that seems like hype straight out of a salesletter, but it’s true; if you have a big enough list and a good product you can do exactly that. I have heard the figure being bounced around that you make the equivalent of around $1 per subscriber per month!

All you have to do is load up a set of emails to contact your subscribers every week (or more if you want), just touch base with them, give them some news or some useful information, then after say 2 emails of content and news you can push a product and make some money!

You can actually host your own autoresponders, but when your webhost finds your computer sending a lot of email they freak out about spam! Here are the three main autoresponders you can get which won’t suffer with that problem: www.getresponse.com, www.aweber.com & www.icontact.com

Now we’re getting to the part where you make money rather than spending it! If you are selling anything online then you need someone to process payments for you, once you have a big enough business then you can have your own merchant account through a bank to process payments, but in the meantime you need someone to do it for you.

A payment processor is just that, they process the payment for you and pay you; in return they take a cut of every transaction. It is a great setup as you don’t need to worry about anything but keeping your refunds low and getting people to your site! (if you have a high refund rate you may get into trouble as your product is low quality or your offer does not match the product you are selling).

There are certain products like gambling/mlm schemes/get-rich-quick schemes/etc. which the processors will not take, but most other things should be ok. To sign up typically you just fill out your details to apply and they review your details and give you a decision in a few days.

Here are some popular payment processors you can choose from:

• www.clickbank.com (digital goods only)
• www.paypal.com
• www.paydotcom.com
• www.2checkout.com
• www.nochex.com

I think ClickBank deserves a particular mention, if you product is digital, like a digital book, a subscription to a website etc, then they will happily process payments for you, but they can also help you to sell more!

They have a built in marketplace where anybody with a ClickBank account can become an affiliate and help you to sell your product. That means if you have a salesletter that converts well you could get some of the top affiliates driving traffic to your site and you only pay them when it results in a sale!

Now onto affiliate networks, these are networks like ClickBank that pay you every time you refer someone to a site that buys a product. Typically you get between 5 – 10% of the sale, but at places like Clickbank where there is no physical inventory for the merchant to store then you can get as high as 75% of the sale!

All of the sales are tracked by the network, you are given special links and you get people to click through those links to go to the site, the sale is then tracked to your account ID and you are allocated a part of the sale automatically.

Here is a list of affiliate networks to get you started:

• www.cj.com
• www.clickbank.com
• www.linkshare.com
• www.affiliatewindow.com
• www.shareasale.com
• www.linkconnector.com

…and you can go here: AssociatePrograms – Affiliate network List for a whole load more!

Some networks have strict rules about how much traffic you need to be getting before you apply and what websites you can advertise with etc, but others just automatically let you in. Go through and apply to about 10 and you should be accepted by a good number to allow you to get going.

Relationships

Whoops, what is this doing here? No seriously, the relationships you form while you are online can be some of the most profitable things you have. If you have a good relationship with someone then that opens the door to assistance, to joint ventures together, to brainstorming together, all sorts of great stuff.

Lives have changed just through the power of the relationships they had with influential people in the world of online marketing. Know someone with a popular site? Ask them how they made it so popular and start one yourself in a different market!

Every action you take and every conversation you have with people is branding yourself. Are you someone who can be trusted? Are you always picking holes in other people’s ideas and projects? Or are you supportive and give good ideas? What is your customer service like? All these things will get noticed and may open or close doors to you.

Always give 100% to every email you send, every contact you have and try to form the best relationships you can every time you meet someone, you never know what it may lead to.

There are lots of different ways that you can send visitors to your webpage. Should you choose to use them, some of these strategies involve spending money (paid advertising in other words), and others would be free in monetary terms (they cost you time instead).

It all comes down to visitors…

While using paid advertising is undoubtedly the quickest way of bringing visitors to your site, it can also work out to be an extremely expensive business. For this reason, I would strongly recommend that at this stage, you use only free advertising and promotional resources.

Learn about paid advertising, but in the meantime, let’s start driving visitors to your Squidoo lens using only free promotional resources.

Before we do, there is one final thing to mention. The more effort you put into promoting your business, the more results (i.e. money) you will get out. Remembering that this is your business – be prepared to use every spare minute you have to promote it.

Find a forum…

Forums are websites where like-minded individuals come together to discuss, debate and generally shoot the breeze about their common interests. Consequently, no matter what market niche you are operating in, if you can find a forum or notice-board site that is focused on the same thing your recently developed site is focused on, then you have immediately found a group of people who are interested in what you have to say.

The first and perhaps most effective way of finding forums in your niche is to search Google using a search term something like ‘your subject + forum(s)’. The beauty of using this strategy is that because the Google search engine naturally sorts everything in order of popularity, you would know that any forum site that appeared in the number one Google slot is automatically the most popular forum in your niche.

Even if you think it unlikely that there will be a forum in your market niche; the chances are that there are many more than you imagine:

Just a simple Google search of this nature will turn up many sites where you can get involved with other people who are concerned about the problem around which you have just created your site:

Every member of any relevant forum or notice-boards site that you can find is a potential customer for your business, but do not be tempted to dive straight into the deep end. You should take your time breaking yourself into the forum gently, reading and learning from other people before getting involved.

Nevertheless, you should start to get involved as quickly as you can, because this is how you start building a status and reputation in your niche. At the same time however, understand that within any forum community, there are members who have little knowledge, and there are members who are experts.

If you would not classify yourself as an expert, take a little time watching what happens in the forum so that you can work out who the experts are.

Once you are confident of your knowledge and your ability, start to get actively involved. When people pose questions that you can answer, do so. When you have questions, comments or suggestions of your own, start your own thread, because this will elicit responses and reactions from other members.

Becoming an active participant in the forums has two advantages, one clear while the other is perhaps less so…

Many forum sites allow you to create what is called a signature file, which is a short text description of and/or advertisement for your business (but do not make it a blatant plug, because that will not be accepted by most forums).

If you can use a signature file (I would recommend that you check before joining any particular forum site), this allows you to attach a short ‘info-ad’ to every posting that you make on that forum. Your promotional message is in front of other forum members every time you participate.

Perhaps even more importantly, however, participating in a forum allows you to establish your expert status. The importance of this should not be underestimated. If people believe that you are an expert (however accurate that assessment may be), they will follow what you say, and act upon your advice. Remembering that other forum members are superbly well targeted prospects for your business, this is an ideal situation to put yourself in.

So, find as many forum sites in your own niche as you can (also check Big-boards.com and forum showcase), and pick no more than half a dozen which are active and will allow you to add a signature file, before beginning to get involved as soon as possible. It is unlikely that you will see any immediate benefits, but it is equally likely that it should not take very long before the results start to become apparent.

Social sites for traffic and links…

Over the past couple of years, social bookmarking sites have become amongst the most popular sites on the net. Growing out of the original idea that it would be helpful if people could store their bookmarks from their computer externally so that they could access them from anywhere, social bookmarking sites are now hugely popular and represent extremely active communities.

The idea behind the social bookmarking site is very simple. When you find some content – it does not matter what kind of content is – it could be a video, and article, a news story or whatever – that you think is worth reading, you bookmark it to the social site of which you are a member.

However, when you add this bookmark, it is public, so that other members of the site can see it. You also have the ability to recommend it to other site members whom you suspect will enjoy it, from past experience.

If someone you pass this information on to in this way does indeed enjoy the content, then they might pass it on to someone else, and so the link is passed round, and everyone who enjoys it will ‘vote it up’.

If something you have published on your lens is of sufficient quality to become hugely popular, then it may well end up on the homepage of the site. If this is a leading social site, then you can expect to see a deluge of visitors thousands strong within 24-48 hours.

Although this traffic is going to be temporary, if you can only retain a small proportion of votes visitors as ‘regulars’, you have just given your business a significant boost.

Even if you do not manage to land on the homepage in this way, every piece of content that you successfully add to a social bookmarking site will create a link from that site to yours.

This is extremely important, because Google pays a great deal of attention to links when they are trying to assess how valuable your site is for search engine ranking purposes. The more important your site appears to be (judged by links), the better the search engine ranking of your site will be.

The only disadvantage of promoting your lens by submitting it to the major social bookmarking sites is that it is a time-consuming and somewhat tedious task.

It makes sense to take advantage of the free social bookmarking submission service offered by OnlyWire, that will submit your site details to 27 of the major social bookmarking sites. All that you have to do is log in to OnlyWire every time you add new information to your lens so that you can send details of your new post every time you make one.

This may send direct visitors to your site or it may not. Even if it doesn’t, however, it will be instrumental in ensuring that your lens will attain a high search results ranking, and that in itself guarantees additional traffic.

Articles marketing

Writing articles is a terrific way of generating a long-term flow of traffic to your site. It is also an easy way of promoting your business, and does not cost you anything.

The first thing that you need to do is write an article of 350 to 450 words, using a couple of keyword phrases from your list as the central ‘core’ of that article. Look for one keyword phrase that you would consider to be a primary keyword (i.e. one that Word Tracker indicates to be enjoying more than 30-40 searches a day) and one minor keyword phrase which only enjoys 10+ daily searches.

Use your primary keyword phrase in the title of your article and three or four times in the body text, with the secondary keyword phrase used once or twice as a maximum in the body text. Create a short summary of your article (two to three sentences is fine) and a list of keywords for that article.

Finally (and most importantly), write a short description or biography of what you do, focusing in particular on why anyone who reads your article should visit your site (because this article is going to be published externally).

In the description, include a couple of hyperlinks to your lens. The first of these hyperlinks can be the URL of the site, with the second link being the primary keyword phrase on which your article is focused. This is known as anchor text, and again, by using anchor text in this way, you’re helping the search engines by telling them exactly what your article is about.

After you have created a suitable description, it is ready for uploading to half a dozen of the major article directory sites, places where people can go to read articles submitted by regular internet users about almost any topic under the sun.

Many article directories are extremely popular, with the ones listed below being arguably the most popular.

What is inarguable is that the most popular article directory is EzineArticles, and they will only publish unique article materials.

Consequently, after you have opened a free account with each of these directory sites, you should upload your article to EzineArticles first and wait until they have published it. Once they have done so, only then should you submit the article to the rest of the directories in this list:

• http://ezinearticles.com/
• http://www.articlecity.com/article_submission.shtml
• http://www.ideamarketers.com/
• http://www.articledashboard.com/
• http://searchwarp.com/
• http://goarticles.com/index.html

Incidentally, if you would like to know more about using articles to market your business and to leverage this particular promotional method, go to: elite article marketing tools.

It’s persistence that counts…

All of the free traffic generation strategies highlighted in this section of the report work extremely well, and continue to work for many thousands of new marketers as you read this.

However, if you do not see a sudden deluge of visitors arriving on your site the very first day you launch (use Google analytics to check), do not be too dispirited or downhearted. It does not mean that you have failed or that you have done anything wrong, because in some market niches, the fact is that it simply takes time.

Persistence is the key to success. Even if you’re not seeing the visitor numbers that you expected, keep creating new videos, writing new articles and never forget to submit details of what you have done to the social bookmarking sites every time you create any new materials.

The fact is, the more links and articles you have published, the more traffic you will eventually see. If you keep contributing to the forums in your market, you will become better known, and people will begin to trust your knowledge and experience more and more every day.

Do not allow yourself to go into this wearing blinkers. You are not going to become a millionaire overnight, because building any business takes time, effort, determination and (yes, that word again) persistence.

Also, understand that this is not an exhaustive list of every free traffic generation method available. While using these strategies, you should therefore be on the lookout for other ways of promoting your business that will not cost you any money, because there are plenty of them out there.

Conclusion

Building a successful online business is within the grasp and capability of ANYONE, irrespective of their educational background, past business experience or even the amount of money they have available to sink into it.

However, building a business of this nature is a step-by-step process, and it is not one that you can hurry along. Everything needs to be done in a logical progressive manner, and as long as you follow what you have read in this manual in the order that the information has been presented to you, this is exactly what you will be doing.

Remember that it is all about finding a market where people need information, establishing that there is money in that market, and then finding a product that matches people’s requirements.

After that, build a simple website that features your ‘take’ on the product you are promoting, and then finally, start sending as many visitors as you possibly can to that webpage. All the time, keep reading, keep educating yourself and look for ways that you can improve your business.

However, do not allow yourself to be distracted by what you read. There are thousands of successful internet marketing entrepreneurs, and every one of them has their own view of what kind of business is the most profitable. It is therefore easy to get distracted, to race off to try another different type of business even before you have given the business that you have already established a decent chance to succeed.

Once you have set up your business as highlighted in this report, focus on it and do not allow yourself to be distracted. Have a plan that is related to this business only, and stick to it. Rather than charging off in a completely different business direction because someone has suggested that that is where the money is, focus all of your efforts on making sure that you keep improving your own business, because that is how you increase your income.

Keep all of this in the forefront of your mind, keep pushing more and more promotional materials out there into the marketplace, and you will achieve everything that you want to achieve.

As I suggested right at the beginning, there is no secret or magic key to online success.

Follow what you read in this step-by-step guide, put it into practice every day, and your new online business will be successful.

First you need to realize that you need to sell and market either products or services (it doesn’t have to be yours).

A product may be an eBook or a software script and a service would be something like copywriting.

The market or niche you are going after needs things. They want things!

They want products or services – or both. In other words, whatever idea you have for a product or service most likely is already being offered.

But: Is it in demand?

Are people already buying “your idea” from other businesses? Are they buying it a lot? And what prices are they paying for it? First you need an idea for a product or service. Then, you need to know how that idea is already doing for others (supply) and if they are buying the heck out of it or not (demand).

One of the best things you can do is think up services for your niche. Tons of people are so consumed with earning passive income, striking it rich and being lazy… you can swoop right in and make six figures providing a valuable service.

Your commitment to do that (trade time for money) will set you apart from 95% of the people who want to make six figures online. You will have a very distinct advantage! All you have to do is “think”… Can you think?

Think up a service that is in demand, and supply it. Compete with other services on your niche and make it better. If you grasp what I am saying here, then you may be well on your way to six figures. One online service can provide you with the cash you are searching for.

Remember: when everyone wants to sell eBooks online, the ones who write the eBooks for other marketers are always swamped with business.

How to Make Money Online

How to Make Six-Figures Online

The difference between most who make six figures and those who don’t is how serious people are. The more serious you are, the more you will work and make things happen. If you are serious about making six figures from home, then you will not have any problem exchanging time for money.

I’d rather work 16 hours each day from home, seven days a week, than work a 40 hour job. But… that’s just me… and I make six figures in my pajamas.

As far as passive income goes, I’ve got plenty to reveal on that too. However, the same lessons apply there too. It takes work. And, it takes having the right attitude, mindset and work ethic. Basically, here’s what you need to know to create passive income. Here is your million dollar formula:

Find a market where people are already spending money on specific types of products

• For this you can go to places such as Amazon and eBay. See what people are buying and what they’re interested in.
• Then go to WordTracker.com, get a membership and run keyword lists. Narrow down and find some keywords that have high searches in your niche, but low results. These are called Long Tail keywords and are easy to rank for in the search engines with articles other forms of content marketing.

Create your own product and compete

• Product creation doesn’t need to be a multi-million dollar ordeal
• Take any subject matter, create an outline and record yourself talking about the topic. Then have it transcribed (very inexpensive). You can then sell the audio’s and/or the transcription
• … Take that one step easier and interview an expert on the subject matter and record the interview. You can do it over the phone by using a free conference call recording line that will pump out an mp3 file. You can find one here www.thebasementventures.com. Most experts will be happy to help you out for two reasons: ego and exposure. They get their name out as the expert (and can mention their website) and they get a feeling of importance… which is ultimately what everyone is looking for anyway.

You will need:

1. A compelling Salesletter (or squeeze page)
2. A valuable product that is worth much more than the asking price
3. An Auto-responder account to grab prospects and customers
4. Targeted traffic

How is that going to result in riches?

Sadly, most people treat this business as a spare time thing. That is why forums are so popular. People go there and slowly, slowly learn how to do things. The best thing to do is just start launching stuff – even if that stuff sucks and is terrible.

People would be better off just closing their eyes and picking a niche, then write a product in an hour, then write the Salespage in an hour, slap a PayPal button on it and start driving PPC traffic at it… then improving it each day…

However, most people never even get that far!

So, I say to you, right here and right now, if you want to make six figures, get to work! Start doing instead of talking. Start working instead of playing. Start thinking… Start planning… Start getting serious…

By Izrul Fizal

In this modern age, it seems that everybody is looking for a way to make money quick. Whether you are a lawyer, doctor, engineer, architect or even a student is trying to dig out their brain out to make money quick.

What drives people to make money quick and some go insane about it? Well it seems nowadays, life is pretty much tougher that the old days.

The cost of living is getting higher and higher but the money we obtain monthly remains the same. Everybody has no other choice but to find a quick way to start making money.

Some might try a real estate business which can provide you with a lot of money in the future. The sad thing is you can only get the money after 5 or 10 years later. If you have the patience to wait that long, you can start doing it because the benefits are quite huge.

The other good way to make money quick is joining an online business. There are many types of online business you can do such as selling e-books, soft-wares, joining affiliate programs or any membership site, etc. This is huge advantage for anyone to make money quick on the Internet. The only thing you need to do is find a market that has a high demand and most important thing of all, you love doing it.

When you succeed, the money will flow into your bank account so quickly that you have no time to spend it all. You can start living your dreams and take a long vacation with your family. The best part is when you make money quick that you fired your own boss.

It does sound good, is not it? The truth is far harder to reach than you can possible imagine. You still have to do a lot of work to promote your business. There is no such thing as a free lunch here. You need to treat your online business same as doing business on the offline world. Meaning, you have to sacrifice your time, leisure, family and even your favorite prime time movie.

Don’t worry though, since all this hard work will pay off and it happens only during the beginning. Once you start making money, everything will be automatically after that. You can start another type of online business and making another profit.

If you already think you want to make money quick, why not start an online business. I’m not saying you might make 5 or 6 figures income overnight, but if you really want to make money quick, there is no other business can give you that.

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Getting the attention of people to buy a certain product is challenging. There were times in the past when telemarketing was at times more of a nuisance rather a convenience to people.

The same goes for sales people who would go house to house and show a product and were simply turned down.

Now as people have approached the digital age, there is a faster way of doing it as that is through hyper responsive opt. This is basically creating a mailing list and sending the information to people which will contribute to sales.

A person can do it in the office or at home and it can only be done if one is serious about making money online. This can work for people who want to do it full time or for those who just want some extra cash and do it part time.

Here are some benefits and features of using hyper responsive opt-in list

1. With a click of the mouse, the product a person wants to sell can get to the customer in lightning speed. Surveys have shown that the average person will only buy a product only after being exposed to the ad or the message after 7 times. By establishing a customer base via the internet, one no longer has to search for new ones that much but rely on the existing clientele to further spread the word and increase sales.
2. Some people will not immediately buy the product that is offered but by keeping the names in the mailing list, it is possible that when a product of interest is on hand, the person will then buy.
3. When a site has been made, it can be used to bring in additional revenue as new people who want to join the business can be charged for advertising.
4. This can also be used to propose joint ventures with other people making the business grow further.

Building a Hyper Responsive Opt-in Llist

Here is the step by the step process of hyper responsive opts

STEP 1: The first thing to do is to determine what customers need. It should be a product or a service that should provide a solution of some kind that will improve the quality of life either at home or at work.

Marketing a product especially new ones takes time and money to establish itself. Profit is not made in the first sale but occurs when the customer decides to buy again or through repeat sales.

STEP 2: The next is to do the proper research. If the business is done with a group of people or a single proprietorship, it is best to brainstorm for the best possible brand or product name. It should be catchy and will easily be remembered. Given that there are probably others who have been in the business longer, it is best to think of other names just in case it can no longer be used.

STEP 3: A product of good quality should be sold at a decent price. Sometimes, the product one makes is already available in the market. To be competitive, one must figure out a way to convince people as to why this product is better than the other leading brands. What features does it have that the competitor doesn’t? What makes it unique and what service can it give as well?

STEP 4: Just like a normal business, you must acquire the right equipment and machines for the job. These could be merchandise that is either physical or electronic and an online ordering system. To be successful, you should be sure that the goods that a customer will order can be delivered on time. If there are any problems, a customer support staff or system should be ready to cater to that.

Any business big or small must maximize marketing to get the message across. Online business is just one of the new ways of making money. It is up to you to find that need and take advantage of it. All it takes is a list of people you can contact without being accused of spamming. Soon, your product will get the attention of the right people and sales should start coming in.

You should now have a list of potential ideas around which you could build your first online business.

One of the final pieces of the research jigsaw is to establish whether it is worth doing so by checking whether there is any money being spent in any individual marketplace. This is easy to do, and of course, costs nothing.

So, is there money being spent?

Take the phrase that is most appropriate to your subject (what is known in online marketing terms as a keyword or a keyword phrase) and run a standard Google search using that phrase.

For example, if you want to know whether people are spending money on products or services that are related to autism, you would run a standard search using this phrase:

On the Google search results page, you see advertising that is placed there by Google. The more advertising there is, the more that would indicate that it is a mark it where there is money to be made, because otherwise, there would be no sense in companies or individuals spending money on advertising.

The most expensive adverts are those shown at the top left hand side of the screen, and there can never be more than three. Down the right-hand side of the page, there can be a maximum of eight adverts.

In this particular example, you don’t have a perfect ‘full house’ because there are only two adverts at the top left hand side, but there are still nevertheless plenty of organizations and companies who are willing to spend money in this market.

Once you have established that there is money in the market, there is one final thing that you need to confirm. You need to know that should you choose to build a website based on this particular topic (autism), that there are enough people searching for information on the net to justify doing so.

Given that you have a list of potential site subject matter, if no-one were searching for the kind of information you are thinking of offering, you would move to the next potential subject on your list. However, assuming that there are enough people searching, the final thing to do is check the competition.

Can you attract visitors?

Checking whether there are enough people searching for information to justify building a site is extreme simple. Open up the free WordTracker keyword research tool and type in your primary key word or phrase:

This indicates that there are just short of 10,000 people every day searching for autism related information on the net. 10,000 searches every day is a very healthy number, but you need to compare that to the number of web pages that are already presenting appropriate information:

10,000 searches a day becomes less impressive when there are already 18.5 million web pages indexed by Google that provide autism related information.

In effect, there is no way you can compete at this level, so what you need to do is establish whether there is a level at which you can compete.

Go back to the WordTracker keyword chart and check each phrase in turn by running a standard Google search for each one. For example, this phrase enjoys 161 searches every day, which is a very reasonable number:

and by running a standard Google search, we can quickly establish that there are only 184 web pages that feature this page:

What you therefore have here is a term that is searched a reasonable number of times every day, but very few web pages that are presenting the appropriate information.

What this tells you is that if you use this particular phrase in your promotional materials and on your website, Google would very quickly find your webpage or your promotional materials, and as long as they liked your site, it should feature fairly high on the search results page.

Consequently, the next time someone is searching for information about the ‘physical characteristics of children with autism’, they would probably find your page featured in the search results and visit your site as a result.

I suggested that pulling visitors to your website is a crucial factor that will dictate how successful your business is. Finding low competition keyword phrases like this is one of the most effective ways of ensuring that you receive the site traffic you need in order to sell whatever product or service it is that you are promoting.

Run the same checking operation for every phrase produced by WordTracker, and note down those where there are more than 20 people looking to information of the day, and less than 30,000 competing Web pages.

By now, we have established that there are plenty of people looking for information about autism, and there are search terms that you can use to drive visitors to your website. The final thing you need to do is confirm that there is a suitable product available that you can promote into the autism market.

Sourcing a suitable product…

Finding a suitable product could not be easier. Visit Clickbank.com and sign up for a free account.

Having done this, you can immediately promote any of the 10,000 products that are offered through the site, without further application or approval. Click the ‘Marketplace’ icon and type in the primary term that you want to look for and hit the ‘Go’ button:

This action will produce a list of all the products that have been called up by the keyword you have used. It is then simply a question of choosing the product that you want to promote. If you are operating in a very competitive market, you will probably be offered dozens of different products to promote to your prospects.

When this happens, you should try to select a product that does not as yet have such a level of popularity that it is already too well known in the marketplace. You would do this by checking on the ‘grav’ (gravity) figure underneath the product details to the far right as highlighted:

You are looking for a gravity figure of less than 100 points, so all of the autism related products shown in the screenshot are acceptable. You can see that the commission payable (to the far left of the green text line) varies, but do not be tempted to promote a product simply because of the commission payable.

Check the sales page of each product shown (from the ‘view pitch page’ link) to find the sales page that looks best to you. To a certain extent, choosing the best product from the sales page is a matter of instinct and gut reaction, so if you find one of the sales pitches stands out for you, use it because if you like it, it is likely that your prospects will as well.

Time for another quick summary:

1. You have found a market niche where there are plenty of people with a real need looking for information
2. You have established that there are low competition keyword phrases that you can use to drive visitors to your site
3. You have found a suitable product to recommend to those visitors

It is finally time to start building your site…

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By Dean Wiltse

If you operate a website, press releases are useful, cost-effective ways of publicizing and promoting your website. Moreover, they can generate regular interest in and traffic to your site, at a fraction of the cost of traditional advertising.

Press releases are typically one page, engaging news stories announcing or promoting newsworthy events, written in a distinct, industry-accepted format. Press releases don’t cost much to create, but they do require some investment of your time and effort learning how to write them, where to submit them for publication, and more importantly, discerning what’s newsworthy enough to publicize.

You’ll find that they’re effective and low cost tools for announcing inaugurations and grand openings, workshops, shows, product debuts and other unique or out of the ordinary events. In some uses, they’re as effective as traditional advertising, but at a fraction of the cost. In addition, you might generate enough interest with the publication’s editor for him to seek an interview with you. Advertising can’t beat that.

However, press releases are also an effective method of generating continuous or regular interest in your website, particularly if you combine their use with interactive content attraction strategies on your site, such as on-line polls or online surveys.

For example, if you already use on-line polls to attract traffic on your website, you’re collecting a significant amount of quantitative data as a result, not to mention opinions and discussions arising from any forum discussions you’ve linked to your polls. This is a sure-fire topic for a press release. Start with well-formulated polls with strong response rates, regarding topics relevant to your site users and the target audiences of the publications, and then announce your results on a regular basis with press releases.

Use the releases to report on the on the quantitative data you’ve collected. Provide your opinions or feedback on their significance and use the results to back up them up, then mention any discussions generated on your forums resulting from the poll. Whenever possible, to take the opportunity to mention other features of your site as they relate to the topic of the press release.

Remember to keep these five quick tips in mind when using press releases to generate more website traffic:

1. Know your intent

You’re not writing an advertisement, you’re writing interesting stories for publication about your website’s events and interactive content. Your poll results and their implications are news. Your press releases should be engaging, but it’s not a fluff piece. Write them with substance.

2. Keep it relevant!

The releases must be appealing to your audience, beginning with the editors of the publications to which you’ve sent the release. You must first catch the eye of the reporters or editors who’ll first read the releases and make a decision about their newsworthiness. Beyond that, however, your releases must be relevant and interesting to potential users and visitors of your website. Clarify the benefits of reading your press releases-and visiting your website-for the editor and your target audience through the significance of your press release topics.

3. It’s news!

Make your points and include as many details as you can. Try to include quotes from participants in the polls or poll discussions that you’re publicizing, indicating their opinions, perceptions, and what it means to them. This allows the editors and the target audiences to relate to the news items more easily.

4. Learn the basics

Make sure you follow accepted formats, such as standard components of any press release. Be sure to use proper line spacing, spelling and grammar. Your headlines and content should be appealing but factual. Avoid “fluff” and hype and do your best to attract your readers with real value.

5. Develop a distribution list

Compile a solid list of publications that your target audience likely reads, to which you can distribute your releases. Pick your targets effectively, because their editors will also judge your press releases’ suitability for their publication as they read them. Over time, editors will learn that your press releases are newsworthy, and that will help you create a good reputation with them.

Press releases are a good way to promote your significant events on your site. Moreover, they can also increase your site’s traffic and interest in the public eye by using use them to draw attention to your interactive content, such as polls and poll-driven forum discussions.

Dean Wiltse is CEO of Search Engine Internet Marketing (SEIM, Inc.), a search marketing firm specializing in real estate, travel and politics.