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What makes people buy? Understanding the psychology of the online shopping process

2014-02-18T00:04:00.000-08:00

February 17, 2014 by Guest Blogger

Helping shoppers go from browsing to buying is the name of the game in ecommerce. But it’s not as easy as it looks. Did you know?

57% of shoppers abandon a site if they have to wait more than three seconds for something to load.
85% of shoppers read online reviews before using local businesses.
41% abandon an online shopping cart because of hidden charges.

Find out more on this excellent infographic courtesy of Vouchercloud

courtesy http://www.marketingdonut.co.uk

30 Traffic Generation Tips for a Content Marketer

2013-05-29T02:53:00.000-07:00

Published | By Michael Chibuzor

Targeted traffic is the key

Driving people to your offer is the fundamental key to look out for if you’re a website owner and a writer. Bear in mind that you don’t necessarily need traffic, but TARGETED traffic.

In other words, the people who should visit your website and blog MUST be interested in what you’re writing about – to a large extent.

I don’t want to waste your precious time. I’ve divided these 30 traffic generation tips for content marketers into 5 sections. Read each stage quietly and go implement the tips therein:

Know your market

Mind you, this is different from keyword research.

Many business owners and bloggers experience challenges at driving targeted traffic to their websites because they don’t know who lives in their market. How you found out how their ages, sex, lifestyle, income range, education etc. looks like?

A market is a place where you meet your ideal customers. At first, they will not come to you because you’re still a stranger to their environment. You’ve to look for them and bring them to your website.

1. Follow hot trends – What is happening right now in the blogosphere and the world at large have a strong impact in your market.
Aha, the changes may not directly affect you, but it’ll affect your ideal customers. And they’re the ones you’re serving. Always keep yourself updated on hot trends.

2. Subscribe to industry newsletter – The reason why you should subscribe to 3 – 5 industry newsletters is so that you can get current information on products, services, trends, events and research works. You need this to improve your content and consequently drive more traffic.

3. Use Google analytics – Google has provided more than an analytics tool here. With this, you can identify the location of your most active readers. The type of content people read the most and how long they stay while reading them. Get to know the best keywords that are bringing in organic traffic so that you can focus more on those.

4. Find and join in the discussions – Don’t spam forums and facebook walls, get involved in the discussion and learn what your ideal customers are concerned about.

5. Study the popular posts on niche-specific blogs – If a particular post is popular, don’t think it’s an accident. Study it carefully and use the idea to create yours.

Drip feed rich content

You can use a content delivery system to drip feed your content or simply schedule it using the WordPress CMS.

There is no shortcut to building a high-traffic website and blog than paying attention to valuable content.

I know that so many people who don’t understand the importance of this would frown at it. Aside Google and their rigorous updates, your target audience is desperately yearning for rich, dynamic and exclusive content.

You can’t afford to stick to generic articles, blog posts and other forms of content and expect to drive traffic in this competitive era.

Don’t be deceived by any fake software that promises to send you avalanche of free quality traffic without any effort on your part. That’s hype and it doesn’t work in the real world.

Remember, you’ve to drip feed the content you write gradually but consistently. Don’t try to add 5 articles or blog posts to your blog every day – ideally, schedule one post to be published daily or one post per week.

This way, you can concentrate on promoting the content via other blogs, directories, press release distributions etc.

To produce rich content consistently, do these 5 things:

6. Listen more than you talk – If you can listen more than you talk, you’ll be a better writer and win the hearts of your target audience. Because you have listened and now, you are TRULY capable of solving their problems.

7. Set a goal that you MUST write content daily – the more you write the more better you’ll become. Yes baby!

8. Craft strong and catchy headlines – The headline is the most important part of your content. Make it good because Google will fall in love with it, when people start clicking on it.

9. Be personal – connect emotionally with readers. Tell a story to captivate your audience and get them fully involved. Ask open-ended questions and give welcome comments.

10. Call to action – tell readers what to do next. Ask them to read more or subscribe to your list so that you can send them better and fresher information.
If you’ve a product, don’t be stupid or shy – ask them to buy now. I’m sure you don’t want to go broke?

Speed up your blog

What else can you do for your readers if not to save their precious time? A website or blog that loads like a snail isn’t going to drive targeted traffic, no matter the amount of rich and quality content you’ve published on it.

You really MUST work on your blog’s speed. Google would always weight a fast loading web page higher than the one that makes waiting mandatory.

Few months ago, I decided to improve on my blog’s loading speed and to my utmost surprise, Google began to send me more targeted traffic, even when I didn’t update my blog as I used to.

So what can you do to speed up your blog right now?

11. Delete unused plugins – you don’t really need them, if they’re not activated.

12. Reduce images sizes and resolution – to convey your message in pictures, what your target audience needs is relevant and clear picture, not a LARGE one.

13. Use Cascading style sheets (CSS) to format your html – Just try and control your tables and color on a style sheet, instead of choking your hypertext markup language (html).

14. Optimize your database – The major reason why you should delete unused plugins and themes is because they’re going into your database and causing disorders on load-time. Delete spam comments and revision posts as well. Keep your wordpress database clean and safe.

15. Use a credible hosting provider – I recommend outstandingsetup.com (not aff link) because that’s what I’ve been using since 2012 to manage this blog and I’ve no regrets whatsoever. Hostgator and Bluehost are good too.

Optimize for Alexa search queries

I experimented with Alexa in February this year and significantly increased the traffic to my blog. The truth is that Alexa, a web monitoring site has a lot of traffic potentials for you if you can use it the right way.

You’ll start by checking your Alexa rankings in your own country and afterwards, you’ll be able to check the search queries to see what potential customers and readers are using to find your pages.

The beauty of Alexa is that the search queries are real-time and you may not find it using Google keywords tool – which is good news because it helps you stay off the radar and rank faster than your competitors.

Yes, the search query you’ll extract from Alexa is hot keywords and long-tail keywords. Once you get those, optimize your content for those terms, get social signal and enjoy the free website traffic. Here are the 5 steps you must take:

16. Visit alexa.com

17. Type your website URL (e.g. contentmarketingup.com)

18. Click on “Get Details”

19. Scroll down to the right and look at the bottom right hand side of the screen. You’ll find “high impact search queries for your website.”

20. Focus on those search queries – one by one, use it on your article headline, start the first paragraph with it and make sure you naturally include other search queries in the list on your content.

But don’t ever stuff keywords for any reason. Be natural because Google isn’t out to destroy your website’s ranking, but to support your business.

Friendly networking

When I started blogging, networking was my saving grace. I didn’t have enough money to push crazy advertising – so I stuck with guest blogging.
With guest blogging, I was able to meet with top bloggers and industry leaders including John Chow, Zac Johnson, Peng Joon etc.
But one thing I’ve discovered is that networking all by itself can’t produce great results.
It must be friendly and gradual. If you’re connecting with top people just to get them to send you free traffic and promote your product, you’ll be heading for failure.
Instead, get to know them and what they like most. Almost all of them would appreciate a retweet on their tweet or comment on their latest post. Don’t be too busy with your own website promotion or writing and neglect networking.
Truth be told, if you can focus on friendly networking, there is no height that you can’t get to.

How do you network?

21. Understand that you can’t succeed online – all by yourself

22. Don’t try to network with every expert – start with 3 power-users first

23. Search for your primary keyword (e.g. content marketing) on Google.

Identify the top 10 results from Google and use those as your starting point for networking.

Truth is, if those web pages can rank higher than yours, it means that you need to learn a lot about effective SEO and link building from them.

Remember, one of the core reasons why you should network is to learn new tips and tricks that can help your own business.

24. Embed a slideshare presentation from an expert on your post and let them know about it.

The expert would feel honored and share your entire content with his 10,000+ email subscribers and twitter followers. This is real traffic cowboy!

25. Identify the weakness of a particular pro blogger and use your strength to fill that need. For instance, if an expert doesn’t know how to design e-covers, volunteer to help for free but ask them to give you credit.

Or, you could help them out with content writing and let them focus on marketing. You’ll laugh louder, attract better traffic and improve your online brand.

Focused SEO

I love doing SEO because it can bring consistent traffic, leads and sales. I still have a lot of my web pages ranking highly in Google top 10 since 2011.

If you implement focused SEO on your website and blogs, your content will take a U-turn from the typical “fillers” to “valuable” piece and no matter what Google Panda and Penguin throws at your content, it’ll stand unshakable.

The common advice is that you should write for people, isn’t it?

Well, this advice might sound so cool, but there is a problem with it.

Sure, Google spider is just a piece of script that crawls, indexes and ranks content pages when all ranking factors have been considered. But if you fail to implement core SEO concepts, the people you’re writing for will not find you.

SEO is not guest blogging. It’s not keyword research. It’s not link building and it’s not twitter and facebook marketing. All these activities are channels and ways by which you get your search engine optimization to kick off.

If you want to rank your content pages high in Google, this is the best way to do SEO:

26. Research your market and get to know what’s happening. Spend quality time listening to your target audience especially on forums and social media groups.

You’re not trying to research keywords yet, but you’re getting acquainted with the terms, logic and questions used in your market.

27. Keyword brainstorm – With the ideas you’ll extract from the market, use it to brainstorm keyword ideas. If you were in the shoes of ‘that’ ideal customer, what keyword would you search for in Google, in other to get your desired results?

Now, instead of searching for that keyword in Google search engine, simply plug it into the keyword tool and hit “search.” You’ll be amazed by the number of low-competition key phrases at your disposal.

28. Write to express, not impress: In order to get SEO right, and dominate Google homepage, you must eliminate every hype or gimmick.

You mustn’t write articles and posts to impress readers and the target audience.

Instead, focus on expressing your views on a particular topic. If your content message seems too good to be true – then it isn’t. And this can make you lose trust in the long run.

And when you’re writing content to express what you know, you’ll not be intimidated or limited. You’ll not be compelled to squeeze in keywords here and there.

It’ll appear naturally because you’re writing from your heart, your wealth of knowledge and passion for the subject matter.

This type of content will captivate readers. They would share the content on twitter, stumble upon, Google+, Facebook and other social media portals.

As this continues, your social signal is widening and Google spider will have no other choice than to open the floodgates of traffic for your website.

29. Build authority and relevant links – if the website or blog you want to link from isn’t in your niche and you desire to get a link there, then use a generic anchor text (e.g. click here, visit now etc). Branded anchor texts are powerful these days, since the last penguin update.

But as much as you can, only build backlinks from websites that discuss the same subject and topic like you do. It doesn’t have to be exactly, but to a large extent, sticking to your niche would produce higher and quicker rankings in Google.

30. Create social signals – Your blog is the first social media network to be created. So begin your signaling from there.

Then move to other blogs and create social impact. Write exclusive guest posts and submit to authority blogs that have strong social influence.

If you can get your guest post published in an A-list blog which usually gets 100 – 450 twitter tweets and facebook likes on every latest post, then such SEO value would be transferred to your anchor link, down to your content page URL and your rankings would improve significantly.

After all the traffic what next?

Getting targeted traffic to your website is good and desirable, but there is more to this.

If you fail to convert such traffic into customers and build a real rapport with them, you’ve wasted your time and marketing prowess.

Create a simple funnel that would lead free targeted visitors into your sales chamber – where you can relate with them one-on-one. Where you can persuade and profit.

Have you tried using any of the above means to drive quality traffic to your website? Please drop me a valuable comment right below. See you at the top!

via http://contentmarketingup.com/traffic-generation-tips/

Top 10 Proven Online Business Ideas

2013-05-19T11:51:00.000-07:00

Posted In Business Strategies, General, Make Money Online

Online Business ideas

Are there any Online Business Ideas I can actually make money from?

Of course there are. But to be honest, you are the only one who can answer if you can.

Thousands of people run successful online businesses. The issue is that not everyone will make money online. Finding the right online business ideas suitable for you to make money takes time to learn, and most people give it up within a few months time.

Way too many people think that online business ideas are some sort of a magic plug in, simply for them to “plug” into!

There is a huge demand for information on Online Business Ideas.

More than 300,000 “Internet Home Business” related searches every month are made on the internet, showcasing the huge demand for information on Online Business Ideas. Unfortunately, this also means that there are a lot of bad information and a lot of preying on the group of people trying to find the information.

I’ve stumble upon a few people who have fallen for these scams. Once I connected with a guy who had been taught a model of “Money Making” Online Business Ideas, all he did was promote this so called “Money Making” model seminar. When I asked him if he was making any money online?

His answer was no, as if, actually making any money on the internet was beside the point…Not my type of guy

Online Business Ideas Vs. Your Job

Almost every person I talk to asks me, when can I quit my job and work from home? The most important piece of advice when you plan to start your online home business is: Don’t expect to replace your regular job’s income for the next coming 6-8 month!

This said, I will add that service-based business have a faster potential of bringing in revenue. But will still take some time before replacing your salary.

You need to decide if you are willing to put in the days, weeks, and months to really learn the industry, if you are, then here is where you start:

Online Home -Based Business: Startup Rules

Stay away from anything that even sounds like a “get rich quick scheme or “Model” promising instant results. THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS

Any program or model only works as much as you can customize it and make it your own unique business. Note that techniques working for one niche don’t necessarily mean it will work for another. (Give it some thought)

Knowing or at least willing to learn some SEO (Search Engine Optimization), basic html. Social media marketing, traditional marketing & sales are a must. Don’t be intimidated, your willingness and a supportive mentor will get you far. (Some of the things you’d be better off outsourcing)

Be strong and specialize in a niche. Make sure to know your audience and serve them, not yourself.

You need to figure out your strengths and which business model you will follow. You need to take a closer look at different marketing blueprints to get you kick started. You need to start setting the foundations to build a solid Online Business.

Go through the following list and pick out the ones you have at least some experience. You won’t have all the preferred skills, but don’t let that stop you! We’ve already agreed that your willingness to learn will get you far.

Top 10 Proven Online Business Ideas

Online Business Idea #1 – Affiliate Marketing

Becoming an affiliate means to promote other’s products and services .When a sale is made, you get a commission. (You can become an affiliate for free)

Preferred skillls

PPC (Pay Per Click marketing), Attraction marketing copywriting, online marketing

Online Business Idea #2 – Blogging

Your own website filled with your own promoting content such as, articles, reviews etc. You can also integrate advertising or affiliate marketing on your blog to earn money.

Preferred skills

Attraction Marketing Copywriting, social networking, affiliate marketing, online marketing

Online Business Idea #3 – eBay & Auction Selling

You sell or resell products (Used goods, buy and resell wholesale goods, use drop-shipping) on a online marketplace like Ebay, Craigslist or Amazon Auctions .

Preferred skills

Sales copywriting, Merchandising, customer service

Online Business Idea #4 – E-Commerce

You sell products or a technology-based service on your own website.

Preferred skills

All of the above

Online Business Idea #5 – Arts & Crafts

Creating and manufacturing your own line of products, selling them online.

Preferred skills

Creativity, sales, e-commerce

Online Business Idea #6 – Internet Research

Researching the internet, assigned by corporations, law firms and other small businesses.

Preferred skills

Organizational Librarian-style research skills, customer service

Online Business Idea #7 – Freelance Services

Offer your professional services as a freelancer such as article writing, spinning, copywriting, design, photography, illustration, and programming. Prices according to prior agreements.

Preferred skills

Sales, customer service, industry trade-specific knowledge

Online Business Idea #8 – Recruiting

Search for the right candidate for a specific position. The assigning company pays a fee when a hire is made.

Preferred skills

networking, relationship building, profiling and Sales

Online Business Idea #9 – Consulting

Selling your niche specialized industry know how to entrepreneurs, investors, corporations or other businesses.

Preferred skills

Industry Trade-specific knowledge, sales, customer service

Online Business Idea #10 – VA (Virtual Assistant)

Sell your administrative services and business to other business owners requiring your services.

Preferred skills

Administrative skills, Customer service, organization

Gina Ghafari

“When One Teaches, Two Learn”

via http://influxentrepreneur.com/blog/online-business-ideas/

A Smart Tip To Build A Profitable Blog

2013-04-09T05:04:00.001-07:00

written by Michael Chibuzor on March 27, 2013

“You don’t launch a profitable blog, you build it.”

I can’t remember where I first read that line, but I think it’s the best tip you can live by this New Year.

Small business owners, mid-size and multinational companies have learnt that blogging is powerful, and so, everyone is eager to compete with you, by starting a blog.

But don’t despair; you’ve YOUR OWN WORLD, and no amount of competition can snatch them away from you, if that’s your decision.

Before I share with you the “smart” way to build a profitable blog, I need you to settle this:

Your blog is not for everyone

Yes, this is powerful and unless you respect this fact, it can be difficult to actually build a thriving audience. Your blog is not for everyone. Got it?

Consequently, your content is not for every reader out there. I was making a terrible mistake in the past with my blog posts – I was writing to attract free traffic no matter where it comes from.

It’s funny because I got an avalanche of free traffic, but conversion rate was poor. For instance, one faithful day, 2057 persons visited my blog, but only 3 persons joined my list. Ouch, please don’t laugh at me…

I know why this happened. I was desperately looking for free traffic but didn’t approach it well.

No matter the quality of your content, some readers will never like it. You shouldn’t beat yourself to death just because some persons hate your writing.

Those readers aren’t in your world. You’ve got to settle this ‘truth’ in your heart, then scale through from there.

Now, what’s the tip to help you build a profitable blog?

“Influence” targeted readers

How do you know who your ideal reader is? This can be difficult to determine actually, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

Here’s the rule of thumb, if a person clicked your headline, read your article, commented or sent you a feedback, subscribed, shared your content or purchased from you, then he or she is your ideal reader.

Your blog needs this kind of readers. You can’t trick these people or confuse them with marketing jargons just to squeeze their hard earned money out.

They can see through the transparent wall of your content. The words you use. They’re fast runners, too.

Also, if they refer the right person to your blog, then they’re targeted as well. If you desire to build a profitable blog, start influencing ideal readers. See, you may not need thousands of them at first, but keep at it.

Even if you get 50 active blog readers who share and leave a comment, nurture that relationship and they’d naturally become your evangelists, telling others about you & your blog. BTW: Do you want to build quality links to your website? See 17 Link Building Strategies.

How to influence like a pro

You don’t need to be a professional to influence people. Good news, huh?

In fact, beginners are very good at this because they could feel the pains of others better, unlike pro bloggers who now lives in luxury apartments and drive the latest Ferrari 458 Italia.

Want success? Take it one step at a time. Influence people by delivering on what you promised, then go the extra mile to over-deliver.

For instance, if your article promised to reveal “10 Ways to Build a Brand,” why not share 12 ways? The extra two would act as a Bonus, and at the same time, increase the trust level readers have for you.

It’s like getting a lifetime discount when you go shopping? How would you feel if Wal-Mart can do that for you?

As copywriters always say, “Under promise, but over deliver!” If you can abide by this friendly rule, the quality of your content would increase.

Your customer service would become the envy of competitors and from nowhere, more money would start to flow into your bank account.

When there is “influence” it’s a lot easier to build your email list, monetize and gain media traction.

What do you say?

What do people say about your blog and content? Is there a good testimony yet? Don’t worry, as little as “thank you for this post” is, it could lead to a significant growth for your blog.

But you must make up your mind to influence people through valuable content. Be consistent.

Your content may not be 100% exceptional or angelic, but if it’s practicable and could help readers achieve a specific, vital goal, you’re on track to building a profitable blog.

Could you please leave an “influential” comment below? I can’t wait to reply you. See you there!

NOTE: If you need quality content to grow your blog and business, I’m open for hire at this time. See my service page.

via johnchow.com

Five Reasons Why People Can’t Make Money Online

2013-04-07T10:44:00.001-07:00

1 – Quitting Too Soon

I know a number of people who have made the effort to start something online. Then at the first hurdle they stumble, fall and walk away.

And that hurdle is different for everyone. It could be that they didn’t know how to create a web page or set up their autoresponder.

People don’t fail because they don’t know how to do something. They fail because they don’t figure out another way of getting that job done.

I’m not a technical guy. I don’t enjoy writing code or doing any form of programming. And don’t get me started on creating graphics. I don’t know how to do these things. But I’ve never let it stop me from moving forward.

For everything you can’t do, there will be a talented individual who can.

This should never be a reason to give up on your dream of making money online. There are plenty of places you can go to find the right people to complete tasks professionally and efficiently for you.

2 – Picking The Wrong Niche

Now there’s no such thing as a right or wrong niche. What I mean is that the niche you pick has to be right for you.

So many people get into this business and go for the biggest, most lucrative niche out there. But they have zero knowledge about it and absolutely no interest in it whatsoever.

As much as we talk about creating a passive income and living the dot com dream, the truth of the matter is you have to put in a lot of work before you reach that point.

If you’re not doing something you are passionate about, your time online is going to be painful and difficult.

3 – Thinking It Will Be Fast and Easy

It takes months to reach a stable income from online endeavors. Many people fail to realize that. Nearly every day I’ll receive an email from someone asking “How do I make money online?” What possible answer do these kinds of people expect from a question like that?

A one word answer that will solve all their problems?

I’m afraid it doesn’t work that way. I earn $40,000 a month from my blog. But it still took me two years to reach that point. And it was during that time that I made mistakes, lost money, kept learning and continued to improve.

It was a bumpy ride. But I never quit. Every failure was a lesson that made me better.

Many people go out and buy a ton of products and expect to be making money overnight because of that purchase.

Making money online is neither easy nor fast, however it can be fun. I’ve always said that it’s not the destination but the journey that matters. Realize that you have to be consistent and committed. And most importantly, don’t give up.

4 – No Planning

A lot of people rush into Internet marketing without an action plan. They have all these ideas that they want to implement but no system to follow.

So some do everything all at once and their business becomes one big mess. They aren’t able to focus their efforts properly, so in the end nothing is fully executed. Others do things in sequences that just don’t make sense. And they lose out on so much potential cash because of it.

You must plan your schedule ahead for the coming weeks and months. Figure out what your short term and long term plans are. Then write down all the steps you’ll be taking to achieve them.

The key to making money online successfully is to follow a proven system.

5 – Information Overload

With so much stuff available on the Internet, it’s tough to know where to start. Information is abundant, both free and paid. In truth, everything you need to know about making money online is online.

For a lot of people who are interested in earning an income from home, they take one look at the millions of websites, countless tips and tricks, products and programs and software, and they just get completely overwhelmed.

And here’s what happens.

They suffer from information overload.

Now I don’t blame these people for getting lost and feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information out there. But this is the worst excuse to not being able to make money online.

Imagine that you needed to drive to a certain location but didn’t know the way. So you asked friends and checked your GPS. And you received multiple routes from different sources. Instead of logically going through the answers, trusting the most reliable source, looking for someone who had been there before who could help you, you give up and stay home.

It’s the same concept with making money online. Yes, there are a lot of products out there that promise riches and websites that promote different techniques and strategies. It’s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.

But there are also reliable sources of information from guys like me who have been around for ages and seen it all. If you’re still looking for a system that will get you proven results using time and tested methods, you could give my new program, IM John a whirl.

Don’t let a fear of getting lost stop you from leaving the house.

via johnchow.com

A Hustler's Bible - By Gayton McKenzie

2013-03-11T11:09:00.000-07:00

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), sixteenth president of the United States

Ten years ago, in 2003, Gayton McKenzie was released from maximum-security prison in Bloemfontein after a long jail term. Like most ex-convicts he had no money and very big dreams. Unlike most ex-convicts he went on to become South Africa’s most highly paid motivational speaker, a bestselling co-author of an autobiography, a successful businessman and a mining consultant earning millions.

He did this despite only having matric and a violent criminal record. To many, what he achieved should have been impossible.

But hustlers succeed not because of anything. They succeed despite everything.

The McKenzie story is unique, but there are so many universal truths behind it that a book like this will speak to anyone who has ever been serious about following a seemingly impossible dream.

Download The E-Book HERE

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2013-01-08T10:52:00.001-08:00

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2013-01-06T06:40:00.001-08:00

SECRET TO BEATING ROULETTE WHEEL REVEALED

2013-01-04T05:33:00.000-08:00

A way to beat the roulette was kept under wraps for decades -- until now.
Roulette seems random because of the way the ball bounces around before it comes to rest. The casino's "house" has an advantage of just a percentage point or two, and that's all that's necessary to come out ahead. And, the complex and chaotic bouncing of the ball is what makes roulette a very difficult game to cheat.
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Until the 1970s, when a man named Doyne Farmer came up with a way to beat the wheel. He used an early computer to do the number crunching -- a pretty notable feat then, since portable laptops wouldn't become common for another twenty years. But he didn't publish his findings because he didn't want to encourage cheating at casinos.
Now Michael Small, a mathematician at the University of Western Austrailia, and Chi Kong Tse, an electronic engineer from Hong Kong Plytechnic University, have developed their own algorithm for beating roulette. They submitted a paper to the journal Chaos. Farmer decided that there was no reason to keep quiet anymore.
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So how did they do it? It turns out that you don't have to follow the bouncing ball exactly. Both methods are based on the motion of the ball as it leaves the dealer's hand and rolls around the side of the wheel. Those motions are actually quite predictable. It's also possible to track how many times the wheel has spun and what part of it the ball is likely to hit when it first rolls onto it.
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At that point, the ball bounces around the wheel, but even then it's possible to guess the region where the ball will land. Small and Tse used the physics of friciton to predict the half of the wheel a ball would land in 13 out of 22 times. That may not sound good, but it means that they were above the 50 percent mark -- enough to make a profit. Usually, a European roulette wheel is set to return -2.7 percent, but Small and Tse got up to 18 percent. A gambler willing to play a lot of rounds would profit.
Farmer's algorithm was similar, except instead of measuring the friction on the ball to determine where it would drop onto the wheel, he used air resistance.
Tse and Small note that this kind of "cheating" is probably detectable, since the only way to make it work would be with a smartphone camera watching the wheel or some kind of overhead system, which would be a bit conspicuous to say the least.
Another way the casino could catch you is via the betting patterns. Gambling author (and fellow Discovery News blogger)Scott Tharler noted that if a person bets in a certain way and keeps winning, it becomes pretty clear that there's something going on. A dealer can also throw off the roulette wheel algorithm by altering the way he or she releases the ball onto the wheel. Casinos are good at spotting that kind of thing, and people have been trying to cheat every game for decades. "The casinos are still there," Tharler said.

Extra Income Through Affiliate Marketing

2012-08-21T23:25:00.002-07:00

Affiliate Marketing is the fastest growing industry on the Internet today. Extra Income made through this channel runs into billions of dollars yearly. Many people get involved in it without a solid plan for success. Indeed, many want to earn extra income using affiliate marketing, albeit without a real base plan, which is the most important reason for most being unsuccessful at it. Do you really look at any earning without understanding or planning the future of any business, be it at work or at earning extra income?

Don not be under any misconceptions, though affiliate marketing is an easy and entertaining way to earn extra income, it is serious work, and just like any other job that requires effort, perseverance, and above all, a clear line of sight and plan of action from start to finish line.

Small things like setting up your home office properly, getting up to date on know-how, setting achievable goals, making people connections, and investment in your business will ensure that you are one-up on your competition, and also make sure that you firmly stand over them.

Home Office Setup

The most important step to take before becoming an affiliate marketer is to set up your base – little home office you’ve always wanted.

You can find many resources on the internet about ergonomic design. Ergonomic because anyone intending to spend a major amount of time working on their computers need space which promotes good posture at the same time takes care of safety issues involving their office workspace.

Learning the Trade

Nobody gets into work untrained. Even when you applied for your first job, you had made sure that you are qualified and can do justice to it. Putting in a nutshell, no one hires you for giving you a free extra income without basic training.

What you need then, is to get some training on how to become a professional affiliate marketer. You can start by finding another one and check what they can do to help you. There are many professional affiliate marketers already earning a substantial extra income, who would be willing to teach you by passing o their knowledge so that you can augment the extra income they are already earning. The internet also offers a lot of resources and conference time tables which you can attend to learn.

The secret is to become a student of your own business; you will get to learn something new day after day. Now you are ready to begin by setting some realistic goals for yourself.

Goals

The major problem that plagues most affiliate marketers is that they tend to set themselves unrealistic goals by being over confident about their skills and plans. This results in becoming disenchanted very quickly due to non attainment of goals. Being realistic removes a lot of pain in this context. For example a goal of $5,000 a month realistically attainable, but a first time affiliate marketer is not likely to attain it when starting up

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10 Blogging Tips For an Irresistible List Post

2012-07-18T07:23:00.002-07:00

The articles divided into points, in other words the list posts, have a great success among readers in the blogosphere, because they are easy to read, they avoid unnecessary chatter and they are rich of information.

Writing a list post, means to organize content in a structure that is particularly suited to the web, but this does not mean that you can simply number some stuff and just publish it, in order to get retweets, comments or academics kisses.

You must remember this : Quality above all!

Here you find 10 blogging tips that you should follow in order to write a great List Post.

1 . Publish Useful Resources

You should take a moment to emphasize in your article the fundamental concept, in other words what you are writing about.

Before think to write about a specific topic, just ask yourself : “Has someone already published a list of the resources listed in my article? Can I give to the readers something useful ?

Try to be innovative in your writing, and avoid what has been said already 1,000 times.

I know that in the blogging niche, this is something not easy at all, but if someone ask you the difference between your list and the one already published by other bloggers, the answer should be very clear.

And above all you should write something really useful. See what I mean :

How to Write an Article in Less than One Hour : 10 Useful Tips

2 . Do Not Complicate: Simplify

The list posts go viral on the web. They respond to the needs of those who have little time available and allow your readers to quickly identify what interests them.

For this reason the list posts are easier to read, in relation to other articles.

You should select the most interesting information for ordering a weighted list. Nothing must be left to chance!

3 . Do Not Overdo the Points

Publishing a list with 150 points makes always a certain effect, but you should think if all these points are really necessary to your article.

Remember that people in internet are lazy and too many points may bore them.

There is not a particular right number of points for your post, each list needs its space to be explained.

I have written a list with 102 points, but actually this is a resume of Blogging Tips and What I Have Learned, so I guess if it is really worth, you can list many points.

Just try to identify and develop your idea, therefore write the points that you think are useful to explain your concept.

4 . Create Sections

If you are writing a list with many articulated concepts, in order to improve readability, try to divide the points into thematic sections with a title, a bit of an introduction text and a picture.

Also using bold or italics really helps sometimes.

5 . Focus on the Images

When you are working on list posts, you may forget completely about images.This happens sometimes.

But you should remember that you need to include in every article at least one image, as this really helps the viewing of the whole post in the eyes of your reader.

6 . Work on Your Headline

The soul of every article is enclosed in its headline. This is the same for a list post. The article headline is your business card in the SERP, in social media and all around the web.

It is difficult to have a second chance, if your headline is not good enough to catch your visitor’s attention, he will not continue reading your post.

A tip: use the numbers in your title, as they really help to understand the content of your article.

7 . Use a Good Format

The points of your list should be easily recognizable and widely spaced, while the header of the paragraphs should follow a consistent basis that brings all the titles in that section to have the same importance.

To be clear : the titles of the paragraphs should be

with similar appearance, the same goes for subtitles

and so on. These are simple but fundamental rules that you need to follow, also for SEO reasons.
If you want to know more, be sure to read these 20 SEO Tips for Beginner Bloggers.

8 . Watch the Number of Points

It may happen that you have 10 points in your headline, then in your content you miss one.

Be sure to proofread your article, and be sure to include in your list post all the points you had in your mind.

Reading again (and again if needed) your content, before publishing it, does not cost you anything.

9 . Choose Between Points and Paragraphs

When you create a list post, you have 2 solutions: the bulleted lists (ordered list in your WP Dashboard – use Alt + Shift + O) and paragraphs.

In the first case there is a real bullet list marked with small icons (or numbers) , in the second you create manually the paragraphs with titles and numbers.

So the question is which option you should use. Just thing about how many points you have to list and how much you can write about each one, and you will have your answer.

10 . Do Not Forget the Call to Action

Occasionally you may find articles that has huge list well written, but without any call to action.

In my opinion, you should include an invitation for your reader. It may simply be a question.

Perhaps there is no need to write anything more, but do not complain if users do not comment, for instance.

At the end of my articles there are always a call to action for invite the readers to comment and leave their own experience.

You can also ask your readers to subscribe to your RSS Feeds, if they liked what they have read.

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What about you, do you like the Posts Lists? Are you using them in your blog?

by Erik Emanuelli | posted: July 2, 2012 nopassiveincome.com

Top 5 Computing Affiliate Marketing Programs

2012-07-18T06:59:00.004-07:00

OneNetworkDirect – Specializes in the software and digital marketplace. They deliver the largest selection of digital products available online, including the prominent brand titles. As an affiliate, you can earn up to 70% commissions paid every month and with a minimum payment threshold of $25.

Dell – Is one of the trusted companies worldwide. They have been in business for more than 20 years now, delivering quality electronics and other digital products to homes and offices.

Hewlett Packard – Also one of the trusted companies worldwide. Their brand is so renowned in the electronics and digital industry. As an affiliate, you can earn up to 5% commissions on every sale and pay every month.

CircuitCity – A very known brand in America with history dating back to 1949. They have a lot of products selection of consumer electronics, digital products and all accessories that goes with it. As an affiliate, you can earn up to 4% commissions in their products and get paid bi-weekly once you reach their minimum threshold of $50.

Apple – Also another giant brand in the computer industry, as an affiliate you can earn up to 2% on every sale of their product and they pay their affiliate every month.

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Top 5 Best Dating Affiliate Marketing Programs

2012-07-18T06:55:00.001-07:00

EasyDate – One of the largest dating site in the UK, and renown in the dating industry and the online marketing industry. As an affiliate, you can earn up to 90% commissions. They pay their affiliates every month and with a minimum threshold of $150.

EasyFlirt – A popular dating affiliate program that is helping singles around the world to find love. As an affiliate, you can earn up to 55% commissions and they payout every month once you reach the minimum threshold of $150.

FriendFinder – They have been in the online dating industry since 1996 and their popularity continues to grow. As an affiliate, you can earn up to 20% commissions and they pay bi-weekly, as long as the payment threshold reaches $50 or more.

Chemistry – Is a premium dating site offered by match.com, helping people who are searching for the special someone online. As an affiliate, you can earn 100% commissions on first time subscription and other monthly bonuses and commissions.

Spark – Another great dating site with a very nice affiliate program. As an affiliate, you can earn up to 75% commissions on first time subscriptions. They pay every month, as long as the payment threshold of $100 is reached.

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3 Weird Things You MUST Do To Have A Successful Online Business

2012-06-21T07:17:00.000-07:00

Ok so here they are. Ready?

1. Digging Where The X is

I go to a lot of these “entrepreneur meetup” kind of events where people with all kinds of businesses and business ideas go to chat and be around “like minded people”. And at them I hear about all kinds of ideas for new products and new businesses that these passionate people are trying to share with the world…

Many of which are just horrible.

I’ll be listening to a guy talk about his business idea and having this internal dialogue…

“Yep… ok… I can tell that you’re really passionate about this designer air freshener… But you realize NO ONE wants this right?”

“Oh no I get that it’s really creative… I can see you’ve put a lot of thought into the combination of scents… But you get that NO ONE else cares … right?”

It’s a problem and the problem comes from the mistaken idea that business is about YOU. It’s not.

Forget your interests. Forget your hobbies. Forget the creative little ideas that would solve your problems.

Having a successful business is about solving OTHER PEOPLE’S problems… not your own.

You find a group of people with a clear, stated problem, and the already existing desire and the means to solve it… and you can build a business. (In that sentence there’s a checklist for niche research in case you missed it… In fact that might be the best sentence I’ve ever written… justsayin’)

If it so happens that you are already a part of that group, then that’s a bonus. It shouldn’t be a prerequisite.

You dig where the X is. That’s all you do.

You go to where there is money already being made, and you start there. The more money is being made there the better, and the less other diggers there are the better… but that’s what you do.

You put up camp there, and you keep digging until you uncover your gold. Which brings me nicely to…

2. Stupid Persistence

If you hadn’t realized it already, let me clarify for you: If you’re starting a business, you’re going to fail. A lot. You’re going to fail more often than you succeed. No matter who you are or what business you’re in. And that’s for a successful business. If you’re succeeding, you’re going to be failing more. Wrap your head around that.

The person who makes it in this game is the one who employs what I call “Stupid Persistence”.

It’s the person who tries again when there’s no good reason to believe that trying again will work.

If you’re starting a business, you have to behave in a way that’s irresponsible to behave in, in any other area or time of your life.

You’ve gotta be willing to mess it up 10 times in a row, and say “Yep, the NEXT ONE is it!”.

And that’s stupid! That’s not logical. That’s not what a rational person, learning from their experience would do. But it’s what you must do.

Because – and not everyone in business likes to admit this – there’s an element of luck involved with every attempt. Your taking actions but always, there are influencing factors that are out of your control. And the only way you overcome the effect of those factors is by having more attempts than anyone else… (stay with me even if that sounded weird…)

It’s like flipping a coin. On your first attempt you can flip a head or a tail. You can win or lose. But if you just keep flipping that coin, probability suggests that sooner or later you’re going to get some heads.

In the same way, the factors out of your control will fall against you sometimes in business… but they’ll fall with you sometimes too. And if you flip that coin enough, eventually you’ll overcome the effect of chance. Your hard work will line up with the factors out of your control falling in your favor, and you’ll get the outcome you want.

(Of course there’s a whole discussion to be had here about not persisting with the same thing over and over… learning from your mistakes, making better attempts each time, and being able to flip the coin in a way that makes it more likely to turn up heads… but I hope that’s self evident, and I hope the above point is clear enough without it.)

So persist, damn it! Persist when your family thinks it’s dumb, when your friends think it’s dumb… persist when even YOU think it’s dumb! Persist because it’s all you can do. Persist because there is no other way.

3. Imbalance

A lot of people who starting out building an online business have all these romantic ideas about living the dream and having a “4 hour work week”.

They dream of a low stress lifestyle, with balance, with time to do the things they love… about “passive income” and holidays, and freedom and…

STOP RIGHT THERE…

Those things are great. They’re amazing in fact. They’re what we should all be seeking.

But you don’t get to live them NOW. Not yet. No no no.

If you’re getting started in business, trying to grow your revenue online, you don’t get to have freedom yet, or balance yet, or spare time, or a 4 hour work week of any kind. Not if you plan on actually making it.

If you haven’t reached your initial goals yet, it’s the time to employ extreme imbalance. It’s the time to do things you’ve never done before. It’s the time to make your life worse rather than better.

It’s a time to hurt yourself because you’re working so hard. It’s a time to give an unhealthy focus to your business, and sit at your computer with pizza and soft drink until your eyes are red and your brain is mush, and when you go away from it all you can see is the lines from that screen burned into your retina, and you can’t have a decent conversation with anyone because it’s all you think about and you’re just crazy with dedication until you’re a weird, disgusting specimen of a human being and…

Ok, I’ll stop there, but you get what I mean right?

I’m not necessarily recommending this but I’m telling you… and mark my words – that’s how it happens. That’s how it happened for me, and for pretty much everyone I know with a successful online business. You give it everything you have, and if you do it long enough, it gives you everything you want.

If that sounds terrible, you need only remember it’s temporary, and it’s for the greatest glory you could achieve… a life lived on your own terms.

Give up your freedom now for the ultimate freedom later. Get it?

Conclusion

I hope you’ve found inspiration here. Perhaps some clarity. I hope this post keeps you focused on what’s important for achieving your income goals this year.

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How To Become A Laptop Millionaire

2012-05-09T03:22:00.000-07:00

There are very few books that I recommend as a *MUST READ* for seasoned marketers and newbies.

The laptop Millionaire -How Anyone Can Escape the 9 to 5 and Make Money Online, by Mark Anastasi, has a inspirational story that really resonated with me.

It reminded me about the Pursuit of Happiness movie with Will Smith, except in the internet marketing world.

The author, much like myself, was never successful at working for the man at a 9-5 job. He felt under appreciated and eventually found himself out of a job, in debt during very hard times.

The internet was his saving grace. Armed with just his laptop, Mark was able to completely turn his life around to very quickly become a multimillionaire.

Unlike the movie the Pursuit of Happiness, the book does not stop there.

Mark continues to talk you through his journey on how he made money.

After joining a few forums and talking to a few guys he got some tips on generating revenue online.

He quickly started generating revenue, all from his laptop, with:

E-Books
SEO
You Tube
List-Building

These strategies are illustrated through case studies and success stories of more than 100 of his students from around the world and from all walks of life. I loved the personal stories about how people changed their lives by tapping into the Internet economy.

Now while you have heard this before I am sure from “guru’s” but, the techniques Mark walks you through, honestly, are more valuable than any “product” I have seen for sale for thousands of dollars… and he gives it away for 13 dollars.

But one of the most eye opening, gangster tips is how he leveraged CHEAP people to do 95% of the work for him. Really blew me away and changed my mindset on a few things.

BTW if you notice there are no affiliate links. I don’t want people to think I wrote this just to make a few g’s off of affiliate links. As I said above it’s a *MUST* read.

Get your copy here at your favorite spot ASAP:

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by JEREMY SCHOEMAKER shoemoney.com

What is the best affiliate programme?

2012-04-19T02:22:00.002-07:00

Want To Know What Is The Best Paying Affiliate Programme?

I see this question asked on many SEO forums. What is the best affiliate programme? Many people want to know what is the universal best paying affiliate programme out there. The one that will make them the most cash. Do you want to know what it is?

Many people want to know what is the single best affiliate programme out there. The one affiliate programme that they can make the most money out of. The top banana. The daddy of all affiliate programmes. The ‘big kahuna’. You really want to know, hmm?!

Well…Let’s answer the question of what is the best affiliate programme. Are you ready? Are you sitting comfortably?! OK…

THE Definitive Answer

The answer is that the best affiliate programme out there is the one that best meets your goals. This means that there is no single best affiliate programme out there. The best affiliate programme is the one that works best for you. Booo! What a cop out – that’s probably not the answer most of you wanted to hear!

But it’s true, there is no universal best affiliate programme. This is because each person and each sales strategy is different. All the different approaches will yield different results for the same affiliate programmes.

Some people do not care what product they sell as long as they make as much cash as possible. Others, usually with very reputable websites, want to make sure that they remain ethical, so maximising money is not everything. They know that with certain products they may make more money in the short term, but if their reputation takes a hit, they could lose out big time in the future.

There are also concerns about niche. A health and beauty website might do very well selling the latest weight loss product, but a finance site probably won’t. You have to know your visitors and what sort of things they are interested in. It doesn’t have to be in the exact same niche, but there must be some sort of interest if you want to sell a product. The type of people that frequent your site must be the type of people that would be interested in the product in question. Teen celebrity sites will probably have a tough time selling stocks and shares secrets. However a teeth whitening site may well do well selling weight loss products.

There are also concerns with HOW you plan on selling a product. Are you selling it on an established site, or are you selling it on a 1 page sales page via PPC (pay per click)? Traffic from a natural Google search will probably behave a little different from bought traffic. Regular visitors to a site will also likely behave differently. Regular visitors will hopefully have some loyalty to you, and will trust you more, which usually stimulates better sales results.

Checkpoints For A Good Affiliate Programme

The point is that every site is different, and so different affiliate programmes will work differently for different people. It’s all different! However there are many thousands of affiliate programmes out there and you can’t just randomly try them all. Luckily there are a number of things that you can check on to predict if an affiliate programme will work for you.

Find some sort of evidence that the product actually sells. Look for statistical proof on the site. If the product is on Clickbank, then make sure it has a least a little bit of a gravity score. This can be checked in the Clickbank Marketplace.
Is the product beneficial to people. Does it solve a common problem for example?
Will there be a wide enough interest in the product? Weight loss products have a huge interest for example, whereas walrus tooth cleaning products probably do not.
What methods are you using to sell? If you’re using PPC (pay per click) then you may need to sell higher priced products to recoup your costs.
Think about the income levels of your visitors. If you have a site about frugality for example then your visitors might not be willing or able to pay high prices for frivolous products. (However they may be willing to spend a little money on a product that helps them save or make money.) A site for investors might yield good sales for higher prices products.
Try and find a product that is a little unique. That way it will make your visitors sit up and take notice.
Look at the sales page. Is it user friendly and easy to make a purchase from? A nice big ‘buy now’ button for example. Some sales pages are complicated and cluttered and will simply not close many sales.
Does the sales page quickly tell the reader the benefits of buying the product. Most people will quickly click away if it does not.
Does the sales page look trustworthy. Are there genuine testimonials and is the person who created the product transparent, real and available. Buyers will want to know who they are buying from before they part with their hard earned cash. There are too many anonymous charlatans, and most people are aware of this.
Make sure they have multiple ways of paying for the product. Various credit cards and a Paypal option is good.
Look at cookie duration. Most people don’t buy immediately. If there are 90 day cookies, then the person you sent to the sales page can return up to 90 days later to buy, and you will still be credited with the sale.
Look for reviews of the product on other websites. A simple check in the search engines should reveal if there are any problems with the product. However beware of glowing reviews from other affiliates.
Buy the product and use it for yourself. If you feel you got ripped off, then try and get a refund. This is easy with Clickbank products. If you don’t manage to get a refund all is not lost. You can still provide your visitors with good information on why they should avoid this product. This can help you gain trust for other products that you do recommend.
Look at the very top sites in your niche for what products they are selling. For huge sites and blogs it is crucial that they sell good quality products that convert well. They have a big reputation to preserve, plus they stand to lose a lot of cash if they pick a poorly converting product. I know I’ve already said that products perform differently from different sites, but this does give you a good starting point on which to trial new products.

Final Thoughts

Basically you should treat a product like you are a buyer. Would you buy this product. If not, then it is likely that your visitors won’t either. Care about what you are trying to sell your visitors. If it is dodgy, then you might gain a reputation for selling dodgy products, and will struggle selling anything for a good deal of time.

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Affiliate Marketing – A Great Potential Career?

2012-04-19T00:57:00.001-07:00

Good jobs are few and far between these days. Most jobs tend to pay too little, or demand too much. Many do both. This is because competition for jobs is fierce. Most people are raised with the mindset that they must find a job. With the basic laws of supply and demand, this means that the supply of labour is high, which means the price (pay) can be reduced. If you won’t do a job for the low going rate, someone else will – take it or leave it.

Since most people would never seriously consider setting up a business of their own, this puts entrepreneurs at a serious advantage. The supply of entrepreneurs is low, meaning if they are successful they can command higher earnings. This works the same with internet marketing. Interment marketers are definitely growing in numbers, but this has not yet reached its peak. Also the majority of internet marketers have little clue what they are doing. If you do it seriously, then you can eventually expect some serious results.

Affiliate marketing is a great alternative to traditional employment. You work for yourself, and you can work from home. All you need is a PC and a very small amount of cash to start. I’m talking way less than $100. There are ways of starting without even spending a penny.

Affiliate marketing is basically where you sell other peoples’ products online for a percentage commission. Usually (but not always) they are non-tangible digital goods, like e books, mp3s, software downloads etc. The beauty of this is that there are no hassles with buying, storing, posting and packaging goods. You don’t even need to spend any time processing sales. All sales are made automatically. You can even make a sale whilst in your sleep!

How Does It Work?

There are many ways to sell affiliate products online, but most people set up their own website or blog and sell from there. They provide valuable content to others, in order to attract visitors. Once you have some visitors then it is time to make some cash! You first join an affiliate programme. Once you have joined, you are usually provided with an affiliate link that is uniquely yours. You then put this on your site or blog. When someone clicks on this link, they are directed to a sales page for the particular product you have signed up to sell. If they make a purchase, you are automatically credited with a percentage commission for the sale.

Nearly all affiliate programmes are free to join. The only things you need to pay for are hosting your site or blog, but like I said earlier, there are other ways to sell for free. With a little persistence and some freely available information, you can make your own blog or website for nothing. If you have the resources, then you may wish to pay for a website or blog to be made for you – the choice is yours.

So you can literally have your own international business that you run from your home for way less than $100. It is like running a store, except you don’t have to pay for rent, electricity, wages etc. You can’t really lose. Plus the whole world is your potential customer.

Earning Potential

I will be totally honest with you that a lot of people don’t make much money affiliate marketing. They usually give up after a few weeks or months, before they have built up a successful foundation. It takes time to earn good money. It is not like a traditional job in that sense. When you first begin working you get paid. With affiliate marketing you usually have to work for several months for little or nothing whilst you build up your business and your knowledge. However if you just keep going, the money will eventually come.

The earning potential for an affiliate marketer is massive. There are plenty who make 6 and 7 figure incomes per year. Unlike a traditional job, there is no ceiling to your earnings. As you grow your business and your experience, your income is likely to continue to grow. With time and determination, there is no reason why you can’t join these high earners. After a while you can get yourself in a position where you are earning very good money for just a few hours of work per week.

Lifestyle

Once you have built up a good income from affiliate marketing, you can enjoy a great lifestyle. You can earn money on your own terms from the comfort of your own home. If you wish to take a day or two off, you can do so whenever you choose. If you want to go on a long holiday you can do. You can take a laptop and work from anywhere in the world as long as you have an internet connection. You can work yourself up to a point where you have little financial and time restrictions in your life.

Final Thoughts

Affiliate marketing is not for everyone. You need to be focussed, have self discipline, and have a will to succeed. You do not need to have all these qualities in abundance to begin with, but you must be willing to develop these qualities if you want to make it big in the future. If you want to make money online, then it can be done. Just keep going and work on both yourself and your business, and you WILL get there in the end.

by JONRHODESUK

Working Of E Commerce Explained In Simple Words

2012-04-16T00:46:00.000-07:00

You participate in e commerce, when you make purchases on eBay, Amazon.com or any online store. Downloading music from sites such as Napster or iTunes is also included under the purview of e commerce Those who are early in their IM careers can sometimes be hard to deal with if they are not willing to learn things on their own. We remember learning about, Street Smart Profits, and it took a while plus gaining first-hand experience before we really felt comfortable with it.

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B2B: E commerce was founded with B2B or business-to-business e commerce as its cornerstone. In the 1960s, information and files were being shared and transferred electronically by banks and other businesses. However, there wasn�t one standard way of conducting this business, as a result of which many businesses could not successfully transfer between each other. This limited the sharing of files and information between businesses. B2B e commerce really got going in the 80s with the application of reliable standardization that was universally accepted facilitating easy exchange of files.

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How to Get Your Dream Domain Name When It's Already Taken

2012-04-13T07:32:00.001-07:00

In the world of the Internet, your domain name means everything. Unfortunately all of the good and generic domain names are taken and getting your hands on any of these gems can cost you thousands, if not millions of dollars! One of the best ways to get your hands on a valuable domain name is through the use of expiring domain name services and auctions.

Two of my favorite domain expiration services are NameJet and Pool. I’ve been using these guys for years and have been able to secure some amazing domains names. Many of the domains I’ve secured through these networks are domains that I was just wishful thinking on and if they ever happened to expire and I could get my hands on them, I gladly would. Other domain names that I have been able to pick up are pure gems, such as my Pay Per Click blog with ended up costing several thousands of dollars just for the domain itself, but brings a massive amount of value, immediate brandability and “exact match” search ranking power with it.

As mentioned, my two favorite domain expiration services are NameJet and Pool, so I would recommend you sign up for a free account with both of these services. Once you are setup you can start browsing through their sites and looking over their featured domain names that are up for expiration and even place a future bid on domains that may become available in the future. It doesn’t matter if you are looking to secure your own “YourName.com” domain name, or picking some generic domain name that would never expire, you can make a “wishlist” of domain names and these networks will monitor as many domains as you like, and you won’t have to pay any fees until you actually win and secure a domain name.

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Expiring domain name services are awesome for grabbing valuable domain names that may soon expire, but what about when someone has a domain name you must have but they aren’t easy to contact or looking for a sale. Here are a few methods that may help you with a possible sale.

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A Few Powerful Twitter Marketing Techniques

2012-04-12T23:54:00.002-07:00

Twitter marketing is very popular for a reason; it is very effective. Every one has there own tactics to make Twitter work for you but it is better to use the entire network in every way possible. There are millions of Tweets a month on Twitter, so how do you get attention? Twitter marketing is more than just sending Tweets with affiliate links in it, the correct way is to position your name and brand in a way that gets more visitors and leads into your business. Twitter is a powerful tool that if utilized the right way can give you immense benefits. If there is one web 2.0 service that can really deliver great results today, then it has to be Twitter. Following are brief examples of techniques that will lead you in the right direction when running aTwitter marketing campaign.

Never be rude, never be harsh; Twitter is all about socializing so present yourself as a nice person. If you ever feel the need to vent any negative emotions; please find someplace else to release them. You will quickly lose followers if you act in an offensive manner. Plus you don’t want to offend people because news spreads fast on social networks. It makes no sense at all, to intentionally offend if your purpose is to persuade people to act on your suggestions. Offend people on purpose and you will quickly become a black sheep in the Twitter community.

Try to target your marketing to a predefined group so you will have a higher response rate. You will actually make more money by focusing on a smaller group. A targeted group of buyer is a lot more valuable than general information seekers. People will love you and your recommendations when they know you’re sure about what you want. By targeting a group you become a leading figure that they will grow to rely on. There is always a time and place to share your opinions, and Twitter is one where it helps to express it. You must be able to execute well and with skill when you decide to use any of the many approaches in your web business.

There are so many varied and highly unique methods to be found with online business, such as Freebie Jeebies for example. Another very good point is the huge variation in results that can be observed across the board with a lot of methods.

But we all know there are many who are impatient or lazy, and then they just do the bare minimum with any endeavor. You can look at the most basic type of campaign and is is apparent there is much more going on than meets the untrained eye.

All the greatest business people on the net who started small eventually realized how critical testing all those small parts are for getting the greatest conversions.

Unfortunately, Twitter is a tool that spammers like to take advantage of. Spamming Twitter is the fastest way to get banned, and why waste your time when you can make a hundred times more money by building real relationships. Methods like automating your tweets doesn’t quite make sense because they won’t flow correctly with the ongoing conversation. Instead, use Twitter to brand yourself as a trusted expert in your niche, not a spammy affiliate marketer. Why make things hard for yourself? Maybe one of the most straightforward approaches to getting the best from all you do is something very many people never do – simple testing. The possibilities are almost endless when you consider Wealthy Affiliate, and the degree to which you can optimize your business will probably blow you away if you do it. When you really think about it, that is just good common sense business, but we believe most people do not approach things like that.

But you see, when you have a set of circumstances such as failing to do adequate research, or not testing along with impatience, then you can easily see how volatile that is for the struggling web marketer. You will need to find a middle ground at least when you are in the early stages, and take action each day bit by bit. Article marketers can quickly perform testing for any number of reasons depending on how they approach it in the first place.

Remember there is no reason to over-engineer any kind of test, and remember that any type of marketing or advertising test on your sites need to include the appropriate tracking scripts. Obviously, some type of script that will record test results will be needed.

Overall, if you want to get the best out of Twitter marketing, you should be ready to put in the effort needed, choose the right side of the crowd, and be different than the others.

And soon you will realize that your followers are actually helping you grow your business. Very few methods existing in internet marketing can be applied to every single business out there because there is too much variety. There are a finite number of internet marketing methods, but each one has such a variety of applications that things begin to multiply very quickly. Sure, we all like to enjoy life and the fruits of our labor, but you should not let things get out of hand in that regard. Do not ever think that people do not get like that, and maybe you already know about your self and how you are in that kind of situation. Probably due to hype copywriting, but so many people fall for the lure to use any kind of approach like Carbon Copy Commissions, for example, and they want it to run on its own, etc. A successful business will keep you occupied and filled with a positive purpose for as long as you care to stay in the game.

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How To Make $1,000 a Day with Pinterest

2012-03-30T06:52:00.002-07:00

Yesterday, Zac Johnson posted a story about a Pinterest spammer who was making over $1,000 a day off the social networking site. While that isn’t a lot of money, the spammer (who goes by the name “Steve”) got big media coverage. He got so much coverage that heretracted the story and now says it was all a hoax.

Whether Steve’s story was a hoax or not doesn’t really matter. What matter is that it is possible to make a lot of money off Pinterest, and you don’t have to spam the network to do it. Here’s how.

The Pinterest Business Model

Pinterest is ideally suited for affiliate marketers. The network serves a mostly female audience that loves to shop. The way to make money off them is to post, or “pin”, items that would be of interest to these women and link those items with an affiliate link. This is why you see so many pins with items from Amazon.com. Ten times out of ten, that Amazon link will be an affiliate link.

Before you go blasting Pinterest with your Amazon links, you need to do a couple of things.

Cloak The Affiliate Links

If you’re going to post affiliate links to Pinterest, you must cloak the links. Pinterest uses a service call Skimlinks that scans their network for affiliate links, and then change those links to their affiliate ID!

You should cloak your link with a custom short URL. I wouldn’t recommend using a well known service like Bit.ly or Tiny URL. Chances are, Skimlinks have them in their database of links to skim. The best link cloaking service to use is LinkTrackr.

Not only does LinkTrackr allows you to monitor clicks and conversion, you can wrap the links around a custom short URL that will be outside the Skimlinks database. This ensure that your affiliate links won’t be changes to the Pinterest affilate ID, and you’ll get credit for the sale.

Host The Images On Your Server

You should host all the images you pin on your server. Pinterest links all the images back to their source. If you’re pinning items right from Amazon, clicking on the image will take a user to Amazon. Since you can’t link an image with your affiliate ID, it’s best to send the user to the site where you host the image and post the link there.

Don’t Spam

The Pinterest spammers use bots to automate the process of creating accounts and posting pins. I don’t recommend you do this. Like Facebook, Pinterest will get better at detecting and banning spam pins. You should take a long-term view if you want to make money off Pinterest. Spend an hour or so a day and post pins of stuff you love. Link those pins with a LinkTrackr link and keep building. In a month or so, you’ll have a Pinterest page with thousands of items all with affiliate links, and should make some decent coin from it.

Happy pinning!

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How to Effectively Build Backlinks for a New Website

2012-03-15T01:28:00.001-07:00

Obviously you must get as much traffic that is focused and targeted in your niche, and how you do that is your decision. Oh, there is a definite attraction to using SEO to rank on the first page right at the top so people can reap the rewards. However, the search engines use a system where they count the site’s incoming links as votes. A solid and effective campaign of backlinking is the order of the day and the foreseeable future. There is lots you can do for this, but only use the best methods such as what follows, now.

fast cash commissions review Backlinking from your own blogs created on no-cost blog sites has been popular for a long time. You can find quite a few blog sites for this, but if you need a prime example then WordPress.com will do nicely. Develop a blog with different content but still within your niche so your links are relevant. As time goes by, you’ll have a network of blogs where you are able to place your site’s links. Very many people use blog themes as a way to gain backlinks when they give the themes away for free. You know how incredibly popular blogs are and also themes that are good and free. That is all you have to do, and then you simply promote your free themes. Another cool way to get backlinks is with widgets. Think out of the box and focus on helping bloggers in some way, and if you don’t know how to code, just hire someone who can do it for you. You may have heard that link exchanging does not work anymore; that is just plain wrong on all accounts. If you want to have the best bang for your money, then remember that relevancy in your niche is important. Always investigate the potential link exchange partner because you never want to purposely link to a site that has bad reputation. If you do make a mistake, you will see it in the search engines, and then you just need to break it off with them. If you want to rank in Google or Bing, then you need to prepare for what you must do with backlinking. Everybody has to start at the same place, and so just figure out your campaign and get to work. Actually, you want backlinks from all sites that are in good standing regardless of traffic or PR. What you have just read is the very tip of the iceberg with backlinking, but do not try to do it all at once.

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Here's How To Make Money With Your Blog

2012-03-15T01:04:00.002-07:00

The following is a list of recommended ad network for you to apply to. They were chosen from an exhaustive list of over 130 ad networks. I have used all the following networks at one time or another and can highly recommend them. They provide good service and support and, most importantly, on time payments. All the networks have separate requirements. To give you the best shot at getting approved, I recommend the following tips.

Have at least a dozen posts on your blog before applying. Networks like to see blogs with lots of content. Do not apply if you don't have at least a dozen posts up because you'll be rejected.

Make it easy for the networks to confirm that you own the blog. The easiest way to do that is to apply with your own domain email address. In other words, use you@yourblog.com. If a network cannot confirm blog ownership, they will reject you. If you do not have your own domain name, then make sure you have the email you use listed on your blog's contact page. The biggest scam ad networks face is scammers applying with someone else's blog. The easier it is to confirm that you're the blog owner, the faster you'll get approved.

Apply for more than one network. Ideally, you should apply to all the networks listed here. Don't put all you eggs in one basket. The key to make money by blogging is to use as many revenue channels are possible while still preserving the user experience.

While you're waiting for approval, keep updating your blog. Many ad networks will visit your blog more than once and seeing a new post when they visit again is a good thing. Here's the list of ad networks I currently use on my blogs.

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Let me know if you need any help. Talk to you next week!

John Chow

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John Chow,Inc. 19-7060 Bridge Street, Richmond, BC V6Y 2S7, CANADA

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