ONLINE BUSINESS SECRETS EXPOSED

5 Simple Ways To Earn Online

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:32:00 +0000

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Some people think that working online from home requires high level skills and a lot of investment capacity. While professionals can take up high skill jobs online, others can take simple and easy methods to earn online. There are plenty of opportunities on the Internet.

1. Participating in Surveys: Several top companies contract agencies to do marketing research and simple survey work on behalf of them and pay money for that. These companies need to plan and introduce products according to peoples' tastes and needs. You may join in one of these survey companies. Most surveys are free to join. Each survey roughly takes about 20 minutes. In the case of special longer surveys you shall be paid more. Once you join, you will keep receiving mails about available survey opportunities. It is up to you to participate or not depending on your time. You may earn from a couple of dollars or much more depending on the survey. You can do a search for these survey companies on the Internet.

Drawbacks: Generally, the survey opportunities given to you are very less and therefore you end up making meager income at the end of the month. This kind of work is suitable for any one with plenty of time. Some companies make you take the surveys and don't pay on some pretext or other. There are several fraudulent companies operating in this field. Continue participation in surveys only if it is regular and rewarding. Drop a company quickly if you are not comfortable with it. There are some survey companies which collect joining fee upfront and then give you these opportunities. Since joining is usually free there is no financial risk.

2. Data Entry job work: You may undertake to enter data for companies in their database forms. You will need to be a good typist. They will ask you to type certain documents, forms, etc. in a particular form of the company. The more forms you type out the more you earn. Sometimes, schools and colleges need these work done during admission time.

Drawbacks: Your typing speed and accuracy need to be good. Money will be deducted or unpaid for too many errors in data entry. Here too there are numerous fraudulent companies cheating vulnerable people. Avoid paying any joining fee. Most companies collect the money and no work is given to you. Sometimes, they even tell that you can "fill up simple forms", write small advertisements for them and you stand to earn unlimited money. These companies are outright frauds. Actually, they are asking you to start Google's AdWords campaigns, which is a high-skilled business by itself. It requires high level skills, knowledge and investment. Instead of getting paid, you will end up losing money on failed campaigns. Avoid such companies.

3. Freelance assignments: If you have any type of skills - proofreading, editing, writing, web designing, photography, etc. = there are plenty of opportunities on the web. Freelance.com, elance.com are good places to register and bid your rate when s suitable project is available to you. If you do a good job, usually the person who hired your services will hire you again and again. And you stand to earn a full time income working part time from home. There is no sign up fee. Frauds are much less here.

Drawbacks: You have to be committed to your work. If you don't deliver what you promised you not only stand to lose future assignments and even may lose money for the work done. What I understand is that about 40 per cent of people - mainly from Asian countries - are not paid at all. Study different employers and choose one who appeals to you. Drop employers who are excessively stingy. Also drop employers who demand too many "sample articles" for free. Start your own free blog or website where you can showcase your writing talents. Let them refer to it for your writing samples.

4. eBay Marketing: It is one of the simplest works to do. It requires no investment. Just look around in your house. Select some of those old sell-able items. Visit ebay.com and sign up for an account. It is free. Just browse through the site and all its various sections. There are various tutorials available inside to learn how to sell. Go through them. Once you have understood the fundamentals, start listing one of your items to sell. Follow the instructions. When a buyer buys your product, you will be immediately informed. He sends you the payment first. So get the item ready with a neat and safe packaging to the address you received. Send the package as quickly as possible. So you have made a sale. Repeat this process for sometime with other items. Then gradually start selling new items at your own competitive price. You will soon find out where to buy items at wholesale price and sell them at your own retail price. Learn advanced methods. And there you are as a great eBay seller.

Drawbacks: There are practically no drawbacks. You are getting paid first. Then you are expected to send the material. You need to be very prompt in executing orders in order to win customers. There is some careful solid work involved like packaging, executing orders promptly.

5. Affiliate Marketing: This requires a little higher level of skills. Since it is easy any one can learn it. Plenty of free learning resources on affiliate marketing are available on the web. So do not buy any new book on that. In this business, you sign up as an affiliate (partner or associate) with a merchant of your choice. Clickbank.com is the best place to start with to find good affiliate programs. You should learn how to promote a product through free and paid methods. Once you make a sale, you get the commission which may go beyond 75 percent of the product value.

Drawbacks: There are practically no drawbacks. If you work you earn. You will earn passive income for the work done earlier for once. However, if you plan to spend on advertisements then you have to be more careful.

Profit Lance system can help you get started with affiliate marketing quickly even if you are a newbie. Just investigate and find out what it offers.

5 Simple Ways to Earn Online
By Jothi Jeganathan

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Know Demands of Internet Marketing Business

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:23:00 +0000

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Know Demands of Internet Marketing Business
By Jothi Jeganathan

Aspiring Internet marketers are not exactly sure what it takes to be a marketer on the Net. They would like to know what tasks the Internet marketer performs every day and what he is supposed to know.

Here is what a typical productive Internet marketer does. This is not about an advanced marketer does who is well-established, has his own office and staff and outsources a lot of work.

1. He gets up late in the morning. He also spends a good part of the night working.

2. Although different marketers have different priorities, everybody is tempted to check their mail first. All marketers receive hundreds of email.

3. Since he is on the list of several marketers, he gets a huge volume of mail and he has to read them selectively and quickly. So one has to be really fast in filtering the useless.

4. Respond to emails from joint venture partners, customers and other partners.

5. Monitors existing sales campaigns and makes changes if needed.

6. Attends to his current projects in progress - building a new website, writing or outsourcing contents, finding a new domain name, setting up PPC campaigns, etc.

7. Prepares and plans strategies for each of his project

8. Notes down ideas for future potential projects

9. He enters all important dates, programs and other reminders in his calender

10. Maintains a To Do list and implements tasks according to priority.

11. He may take a survey among his customers to find out their exact problems and then proceeds to write or ghost-write a book on the subject

12. He carefully maintains his mailing list. He respects his customers. He sends them useful newsletters, ideas and recommendations every now and then on the topic of their interest.

13. He also sends to customers periodic gifts of value as a token of appreciation. It could be as small as a tiny ebook containing practical tips.

14. Every month he weeds out unprofitable projects and focuses his energy on existing profitable projects. He also keeps an eye for potential new projects.

15. When a project is new he tests it for various purposes. If the project proves to be unproductive, he drops it.

The list can go on and on depending on the productivity level of the marketer. Now if you are a newbie do you find these kind of tasks interesting? Would you be confident of taking up this kind of business? To succeed in any business you need to be systematic. All plans and strategies must be written down.

For a newbie, I suggest Profit Lance system to make a quick entry in to Internet Marketing field. You learn everything needed. No need to buy books. No information overload. You have ready made websites to promote from day one. And of course, the tips on doing this.

Discover how to create steady income online in small and easy steps. It is really easier than you think when you use an automated system. Why not visit http://makemoneywithprofitlalncesystem.blogspot.com for details and see for yourself? I reveal how the Profit Lance system can help you set up multiple income streams and help achieve your financial dreams.

From Free-Lance to Profit-Lance: New Way to Multiple Online Income

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:57:00 +0000

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From Free-Lance to Profit-Lance - New Way to Multiple Online Income
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jothi_Jeganathan]Jothi Jeganathan

Freelancing is a highly recommended method to earn online. How many of you have heard about "profit-lance" system to earn a good income online?

In Profit-lance system, you don't work for someone else in your free time and earn the contracted amount. You are your own boss. The difference here is you are making money online as profits as opposed to the fixed fees you get paid while freelancing. There is a great scope to earn good online income through multiple income channels.

Of course, you can start out as a freelancer as well as a profit-lancer at the same time. Once you make big profits, you automatically say good-bye to your low-income freelancing.

Okay, what's this profit-lance system? How much can one earn from it? How good is the online income? Can I do it? Perhaps, your mind is throwing questions at you.

Profit-lance system was developed by one Michael Andrews some two years ago with the idea of providing a reliable source of good online income for beginners. Its launch was very successful and Mike has been increasing the price every year by $10. That shows the demand for the system.

Profit-lance system is nothing but a membership website with one-time payment for joining and ongoing education on different ways of making good income online - including passive and active methods, These are proven methods customized for aspiring Internet marketers.

If you want to earn good income online, it is essential to grasp the fundamentals clearly and then proceed step by step diligently in a disciplined way. What normally happens is wanna-be Internet marketers keep on buying books after books on Internet marketing and end up not knowing where to start. Finally, they give up.

Profit-lance system eliminates such unnecessary information overload. After joining there is no need to spend further money on anything. Of course, spending on some important aspects does bring faster and better profits.

You go through the tutorials one by one. There are video tutorials and informative contents available. Moreover, there are also plenty of downloads for further reading.

You get ten ready-made websites in hot niches to promote. So practically, you can start your own online business from day one. So the hassles of learning how to create websites and upload them simply are not there. Learning website design would take some weeks to master. This is a great boon to the newbie.

You don't have to pay for hosting. Your only responsibility is to promote the ready-made websites given to you. The profit lance system gives you a choice of free methods as well as paid methods to promote your business. It all depends on the investment capability of the individual in the case of paid methods. It is no doubt possible to succeed using free methods alone.

To earn passive income, the membership has weekly downloads of ready-made Adsense websites which you are expected to host yourself.

Anyone who has the interest, determination and commitment can quickly succeed in making money online working only a few hours per day. Are you ready to take your first step to earn good income online?

You can certainly make good money online with small and easy steps. Why not visit this Website now and see for yourself? I reveal how best to take advantage of the Profit Lance system for a quick start to making money.

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What Is Trackback in Blogging?

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:55:00 +0000

The word 'Trackback' may sound too technical. You can understand this only by actually doing this at least once. I recently read a blog post on the very subject. This blog dedicated to bloggers explains what is trackback.

Trackback is basically linking of another blog within a blog just as I am doing it now.

However, trackback has no use if the other blog uses "no follow" system (to avoid spammers). The idea is the other blog's visitors may visit your page if they find it interesting. If trackback is accepted by the other blogger a short trackback link will appear on its comments section.

I have never used it before. That's why I am re-directing you there.

How To Start Online Business Quickly At No Cost

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:59:00 +0000

The question,"How to start an onlline business quickly and at no cost" may shock some. The answer that a business, that too an online business, can be started without investment is a bit difficult to digest for a total newbie to Internet marketing.

As you know the Internet is itself is an information goldmine. Everybody is competing to give you the right information for free. The web email is free. You can share,store your personal text, photos, music,video and other files on the Internet for free. Do you think they are all offering something for free and getting nothing in return?

A good number of people do respond to advertisements, recommendations that the site gives out. That not only support their running expenditures and they even make a profit. Some of them in thousands per day. Often, the website owner himself may have his own product to sell or he may be selling affiliate products (products recommended for a commission). That's how the ordinary man makes money on the Internet.

Yes, the Internet is a very technical thing. Modern technology makes it much easier to handle technological aspects with ease without consulting any one.

So now I am going to give away a secret. How to start an online business quickly at no cost.

Start a blog!

Blogging doesn't cost you a dime (unless you want to host your own blog on a hired server). Blogging does not require technical skills.Many top companies, including Google, offers you free blogging opportunities. The only requisite is you should be able communicate your ideas in writing clearly without much grammar and spelling errors. You are NOT expected to be a great writer. In fact, that may be a hindrance sometimes.

Select a topic for your blog - your hobby or something where you have good knowledge, interest and enthusiasm. Remember, go for blogging only if you can keep blogging at least twice a week. If you start and give up in the middle then the whole exercise will be a waste of time. In blogging you give away your basic information for free to others' benefit. When the reader understands the basics, give him the advanced part through your own e-book or an affiliate product. Recommend an affilliate product. Since the reader understands you, he will buy from your affiliate link.

See to it that not every post in your blog has a product sales link. There should be several posts without any sales pitch. No one wants to read a sales message. If they liked your blog, they are likey to buy what you recommend. So everything depends on how well you are writing and maintaining a good relationship with your readers.

Watch out for more information in my blog category.

Cloak Your Affiliate Link Through This Free Method

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:06:00 +0000

When you join as an affiliate for a product, you get a product-specific link to use in your promotions. Cloaking of your affiliate link is essential. For one thing, your long and ugly URL (your affiliate product website address) will get shortened and look neat and clean. Secondly, your link cannot be misused by any one with hacking knowledge. If somebody sees your URL they can easily change into their own affiliate link and benefit thus depriving you of the sale commission.

There are several free and paid software programs which can cloak the link. I have found an easy and quick way to do this online.

Visit http://www.TinyURL.com. Enter your affiliate link in the box provided. Follow the instructions. Within seconds, your shortened affiliate link will be there. No one will know your Clickbank ID now.

Copy and paste this URL for your affiliate link. Your affiliate link is intact inside because of the "cloaking". So your tiny and tidy link is now ready.

This service is absolutely free. If you like,you may consider contributing some donation at a later stage when you start making substantial affiliate income.

Advantages of Affiliate Marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:12:00 +0000

Want to know the advantages of affiliate marketing as compared to other types of marketing? Actually, they are very plain to see. After reading about affiliate marketing,there will always be fence-sitters. This post may help them decide to take up affiliate marketing. I shall put the major advantages here:

No-cost or low-cost to start up
Choice of too many affiliate products to sell
Several reliable third-party affiliate program managing companies also available
Both free and paid promotion methods available on the Net
Opportunity to receive weekly/monthly checks
Can be done from your home
Your own flexible working hours
Get a lot of free time to spend with family or friends
You like and enjoy the money flow
Opportunity to give jobs to others
Enjoy life by traveling
Unlimited scope to expand business for more income

There could be more. I have mentioned only the basic few. So wouldn't you like to explore this blog further and find out which affiliate program is best for you.

If you like, you may join as a sub-affiliate for me in one good program where I have joined. You will receive the full commission what you will get even if you don't join under me. So there is no difference between a sub-affiliate and affiliate when it comes to comes to commissions. And you have another advantage - when you join this particular affiliate program as my sub-affiliate you get a chance to recruit other sub-affiliates (like I am doing) under you. Okay, what's the deal? Every time your sub-affiliate makes a sale you TOO earn a small commission. Yes, you earn without doing anything. Such programs are very few.

Why not consider joining right away? When you join, the owner of the program provides you with all the necessary information and tips how to promote your chosen product. The owner of this program is a very reputed Internet marketer. Even if you don't want to join now, at least go and check this out now. There is no fee to join or promote. The commission rate is also quite high. I am sure you will like this program.

To find out more information about this program and sign up please click on the banner below.

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~~~H A P P Y ~ N E W ~ Y E A R ~~~

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:03:00 +0000

Review of ProfitLance System

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:01:00 +0000

"Review of Profitlance"

The ProfitLance System has repeatedly received rave reviews from users. I wanted to check it out myself before writing a review. After using the system for more than two full months, I am convinced that this is THE system for aspiring Internet marketers.

What is Profitlance?

Profitlance is a system created by Mike. It is essentially an Internet marketing coaching system for newbies along with practical tools to make money online. Normally, Internet marketing teaching involves selling an ebook and forget the user afterwards.

What happens? The user only has bits and pieces of information. He does not know where to start with. Soon he ends up buying more and more ebooks and finally suffers from information overload. This results in inaction. The aspiring marketer may decide to quit as he finds it difficult to cope with. This vacuum is addressed by Profitlance system.

The Profitlance system keeps the newbie Internet marketer in mind and delivers just the needed information. So there is really no need to buy further ebooks until they succeed in using the system. This clears the information overload and resulting negative effects.

How Profitlance System Works?

1. It provides all basic information needed to start online business working from home
2. It provides real sample websites which are hosted at the company's expense on the user's name
3. It also provides adsense websites every single week which the user may host whenever he is ready
4. It even provides landing page creating software on its site which is a very valuable feature

With all the needed information and how-to-implement text and video tutorials, it is very difficult for any one to go wrong. When using Profitlance system, you need not look for another source elsewhere. You have got an all-in-one-place learning and implementing center.I have not come across any similar system which provides value for money.

Any disadvantage?

1. No frequent updates to the site
2. The author doesn't maintain relationship with participants through newsletters and extra tips
3. The support system is not easy to access.

Despite the minor weak points, I feel the Profitlance system provides total value for money. Though it is a life-time membership, you pay a one-time measly payment of $77. According to Mike, he plans to increase it shortly because of the demand.

Best of all, the system relieves you from information overload. Just stick to the system and don't look at other ebooks. I am not saying ignore other things. To avoid information overload and make quick money, focus on the methods and tools the system provides initially.Once you succeed in making money, you will be in a position to learn how to make websites leisurely or even hire some one to do it. Then you can buy more and more ebooks and learn further advanced aspects about Internet marketing of information products or others.

This is ideal panacea for newbie Internet marketers who are caught up in a dilemma where to start or how to start. The system, unlike ebooks, provide all the information, tips besides giving you websites in your name to run your own business. However, the tools provided should be taken as a learning process. You must graduate to setting up you own websites later on along the principles and models the system provides.

The system is definitely value for money. If you are an aspiring Internet marketer with no knowledge or you are an Internet marketer struggling with website creation and blocks, then this system is a practical remedy. Go and get it before the price increases.

Get the ProfitLance System now.

3 Affiliate Link Mistakes That Can Cost Affiliate Marketers Dearly...

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:49:00 +0000

New affiliate marketers tend to handle things haphazardly. Not that they don't have the knowledge but because they get carried away by the pressures of the day. In their eagerness to promote products, they neglect or are ignorant of important mistakes that can cost them heavily.

1. Not cloaking affiliate link: It is important to cloak the affiliate link using link cloaking software. It is available on the Net, both free and paid versions. Alternately, you may use URL shrinking services such as www.TinyURL.com. When you enter your original affiliate link URL you will get an entirely different output which is small, neat and clean. However, when the visitor clicks on the link they will be taken to your affiliate link website. A naked unprotected link is vulnerable to misuse sometimes. Imagine the money lost even if it is only for 10 percent of abuse.

2. Not checking the working of the link: The simple act of checking can save you tons of money. It is possible there is a spelling mistake, or the full link was not copied and pasted properly. Such habitual precautionary measures can avoid you losses.

3. Using the wrong affiliate link: Newbie affiliates blindly sign up for several affiliate programs and sometimes forget to use right link. This means the link takes them to the wrong landing page of another affiliate program. Which means loss of visitor.

2 Ways To Overcome Information Overload

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:20:00 +0000

Affiliates, especially newcomers, often struggle the whole day to cope up with the amount of information they have by way of emails, ebooks, training manuals, etc. Is there a way to overcome this kind of depressing situation? Well, it all comes to proper time management and improving productivity skills.

First off, affiliates need to recognize that most of their so-called work is unnecessary. Before you argue with me, let me explain why. You may think going through all your emails is an absolute must. I beg to differ.

If you are working alone without any staff or personal assistants, then you need to prioritize things. Realize that reading emails is not going to give you money. Your objective is to earn money online. Not going through tons of information. Decide whether your aim is to earn money working from your home or to gather information forever.

Some tips: Start your work day by starting with the toughest work at hand. You need to plan your work. It is a good idea to plan the work for next day on a sheet of paper at night and then go to sleep. Begin the day with most important work at hand. focus on it, finish it. Between two different works, take a break by reading your mails.

Always be bold enough to unsubscribe to your mails that you find not much useful to you. Or, at least, use the filter function in your email client to separate unnecessary files into a separate folder which you may go through in your free time or when you are bored.

Prioritization of work and attending to only very important filtered emails is the way to success.

I shall write more about time management and productivity in later date.

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:03:00 +0000

Guest Article

Free 13-Point Copy Inspection
Makes Your Website Sell Like Crazy …

"Success is neither magical or mysterious.
Success is the natural consequence of
consistently applying basic fundamentals."
– Jim Rohn

Dear Web Business Builder,

A veteran pilot would never dream of taking off without going over his or her pre-flight check list. And neither should you before driving traffic to your sales page.

So in today’s issue of Web Marketing Advisor it’s back to basics, and a handy little checklist of copywriting essentials.

I invite you to print this page … grab a cup of what pleases ya … and work your way through the money pages on your most important campaigns …

1 – Is Your Headline Supported On These Four Pillars?

Does it arouse relevant curiosity? Does it make a simple, easily understood, ultra compelling promise? Does it trigger the dominant motivating emotion you’ve identified in your research? Does it imply proof of promise?

Big secret: Your headline is the ad for your web page, NOT necessarily the ad for your product. Give people a reason to read other than to find out whether they may want to buy your product. Promise them great things if they’ll just STOP and consume your web page.

With this in mind, I normally write 25 headlines before I begin the body of the page. Then I’ll pick half a dozen or so that I think will work and test them. The best of the rest, I use as subheads sprinkled throughout the page to propel readership, and draw skimmers and skippers back into the copy as they move down the page.

2 – Does Your Headline Have The Look?

I most often find that headlines work best when they are centered on the page presenting a balanced appearance in terms of the shape they create. Sometimes encasing them in quotation marks can also serve to grab more attention.

Brevity is desirable. If there are words you can remove from your headline without weakening it, remove them. Where you break lines is also important …

You want maximum impact and momentum when your prospect collides with your headline. Anything that can enhance immediate comprehension will help your conversion.

Each line of your main headline should contain a kernel of thought.

Right way:

Grow Up To 1436% Richer
In A World Gone Mad!

Wrong way:

Grow Up To 1436% Richer In
A World Gone Mad!

3 - Is Your Opening Provocative?

Does it trip the reader, interrupting the internal turbulence of the day? Does it cut through the noise and enter the conversation your prospect has been having with himself about the area of concern you want to help him with?

Each line of your work must serve to ’sell’ the reader on continued reading, especially at the beginning. Again curiosity, emotion, and relevant promise rule the day. If you can just get him to read those first couple of hundred words you’re on your way …

4 - Are You FAB Balanced?

Does your web page paint a picture of your prospect’s future life as a result of his purchase … and the emotional pay off it represents? Does it pledge the realization of positive feelings, and/or the relief of negative ones? Those are the true benefits of your product.

But it’s equally important to show how those outcomes are achieved with concise descriptions of the features and advantages that will deliver them.

If you want more sales, strike a balance between benefits (what your product does for your prospect, both physically and emotionally), advantages (how it’s better than other alternatives), and features (what it is).

5 - Are You Triggering The Buying Emotion?

Are you demonstrating your personal belief in what you are selling? Will your message quicken the reader’s pulse?

While you may want to put your reader in pain momentarily, the bulk of your page should be upbeat, positive, and full of inspired energy. Is there a sense of WOW to it?

Human beings are hardwired for empathy. They will bond with you if you display empathy for them. And they with naturally empathize with you as well, vibrating sympathetically with the emotions you display.

Confident excitement is the buying emotion. And it’s triggered by YOUR enthusiasm.

6 - Is Your Body Copy Highly Readable?

Remember simple is best. Keep sentences short. Use a plain 10-point to 12-point font. Paragraphs no more than a few lines. Words that are comfortable, familiar, and specific to the audience you are targeting. Inject subheads to break up text.

Highlight important points.

Avoid presenting naked facts and arguments wherever possible. Weave them into the context of a story. Explain what they mean to your reader.

7 - Do You Have High YOU density?

Remember to use the words YOU, YOUR, and extensions thereof to the hilt. Your reader is auto translating to ME and MINE.

But don’t take this wisdom too literally …

It’s perfectly fine to tell stories in the first or third person. Naturally there will be a preponderance of the words “I” or “he” or” she” in such stories. That’s OK, as long as your reader can relate strongly to the story’s hero, projecting him or herself into that person’s shoes. In many situations, this is, in fact, the best way to tell your sales story.

“We” is also not always a dirty word in sales copy …

It is dirty when the copy is all about the seller, as in, “We believe the only thing that never goes out of style is service. We’ve been providing great service in the Gotham City area for over 50 years.”

That’s a bad use of “we”. But when you use this word to symbolize a group that unites the buyer and the seller in a common cause, opinion, or belief, as in, “We investors are fed up!” it’s one of the most powerful pronouns you can use.

The key is to keep the reader squarely in the action at all times.

8 - Are you speaking intimately?

Can you get a strong sense of personality when you review your web page after being away from it for a while? Visualize yourself writing a personal letter to a friend, someone you care about deeply.

Never write to a crowd. Build relationships one at a time.

9 - Are you inspiring the reader’s imagination?

The sub-conscious mind has difficulty distinguishing between vividly painted word pictures and reality. Daydreams enchant. And emotions flow in their wake.

When you have emotion, you have desire. When you have desire, you have suggestibility. When you have suggestibility, you can direct action.

Spark your reader’s creative imagination by associating the promise of what you’re selling to things he’s already familiar with.

10 - Do you offer proof?

Specific testimonials, success stories, case studies and other examples of social proof are essential.

Describing the mechanism that makes your product work — proof of process — is equally important.

An outrageous, ballsy guarantee is another form of proof. It proves your product does what you say it does. How else could you offer such a guarantee and stay in business? A really good one creates the perception that risk is not just removed. It’s actually reversed!

Use visual proofs wherever possible. Show physical products in action. Show before and after pictures for intangibles. Seeing is believing.

11 - Is your offer irresistible?

People are greedy. And they like to procrastinate. Are you piling on reasons to act now — additional bonuses, discounts, etc. — that may not be available if your prospects return to your web page at a later date?

Are you using the power of comparison — showing how your product delivers the same results as alternatives costing much more … while comparing its price to trivial items?

12 – Do you close like this?

Don’t pussyfoot around when it comes time to ask for the sale. If you believe in your product, and you stand behind it (as evidenced by your brass balls guarantee), then for heaven’s sake don’t be shy about telling people how to get it.

Tell your prospects explicitly what to do, and they’ll do it. Big tip: When you close, use future tense language that assumes the sale. For example: “When your electric nose hair trimmer arrives, here’s all you do …”

And don’t forget that some people will be ready to buy sooner, some later. So ask for the order multiple times. As soon as the basic story is out (usually about half way down the page) I start asking for the order, again and again and again.

13 - And finally, do you use this P.S. trick?

For some reason, the P.S. at the bottom of the page gets read a lot. Make it stop your reader in his tracks, like a deer in the headlights!

Associate positive outcomes with taking the desired action, and negative ones with delay or inaction. (You may even want to plant a bomb for the sneaky Petes who scroll down to the P.S. without reading your web page. Simply insert a curiosity-inducing sentence such as: “The horrible things I told you about in this letter could easily happen to you.”)

Finally, restate your guarantee and ask for the sale one last time.

So there you have it, my baker’s dozen. Use ‘em with finesse on all of your sales pages, and watch your business grow!

Until next time, Good Selling!

Daniel Levis
Editor, The Web Marketing Advisor
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Why Many Affiliate Marketers Fail

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:03:00 +0000

Yes, you might have heard stories of affiliate marketers giving up. Even if you don't know a thing about affiliate marketing success rates, let me reveal you certain things which you must know.

Like any business endeavor Internet Marketing too requires business skills and the right mind-set that go with it.

Some one with lots of money to invest and people to help may end up failing in spite of his resources. On the other hand another affiliate with no money or borrowed money may succeed fantastically in a short time despite lack of money.

The difference is the right mind set. Right mind set cannot be bought for money. It has to be cultivated.

Right mind set goes beyond positive thinking. It requires mental guts, intuition, faith in one's ability to succeed and things like that.

Usually rich people who suddenly lose money and become bankcrupt for some reason often climb back to their previous state or even exceed their previous state of wealth. On the other hand, a poverty-loaded mind, even if given a million dollars, is likely to lose the money in no time. There are living proofs for this. Many gamblers or jackpot winners have never even retained what they gained after a few years.

Hence the importance of right mind set. This includes faith oneself, discipline, love for mankind, willingness to learn and unlearn things and so on.

So decide for yourself whether you are willing to learn and practice what you know.

FOLLOW THIS BLOG...

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:07:00 +0000

You can now "FOLLOW" this blog. Blogger has made it possible to allow people to follow a blog either -publicly (everyone knows) or anonymously (no one knows). Really, that's a cool feature.

By "following" my blog you are showing your appreciation to the author of the blog.

Look at the top of the side-bar on your right-hand side. There is a "Follow This Blog" link. You can cancel following any time you wish.

So go ahead and do it now.

I have been off from my blog lately because of unexpected illness and will soon return to active sharing of secrets of Internet marketing for you.

Beware of This Facebook Virus

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:58:00 +0000

I came across a warning article in popular technology magazine how an email link purportedly leading to a YouTube video can harm your computer. I just thought all Internet marketers should be aware of this kind of happenings. We are all used to receiving and clicking on YouTube video links. Read on...

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What is the Difference between Affiliate Marketing and Internet Marketing?

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:51:00 +0000

Some newbies have asked me how affiliate marketing is different from Internet marketing. Well, affiliate marketing is definitely Internet marketing but it is a specialized branch. There are several ways of Internet marketing - affiliate marketing, niche marketing, Ebay marketing are the most popular and profitable and easy ones. You can have an online store, you can trade websites or domain names and make money.

You can enter affiliate marketing without a website or any investment.

In affiliate marketing, you are purely dealing with other peoples' products. You may own a website to promote your affiliate products. You make your money only through commissions on sales made. If your sales campaign flops, your money and efforts go waste.

In Internet marketing, you promote your own products through your own websites. First off, you do market research to find out the profitability and demand for your proposed product (probably an information product such as an ebook). Then you write, edit and publish the book. You create a powerful sales letter for each of your product. You spend money on ads and other ways to promote your products. You track all the links and ads that are bringing revenues. You identify the profitable sources and discard or modify less-profitable or loss-making products. You also recruit other affiliates to sell your products. Imagine you are selling your own product and your own affiliates are also promoting your products. You pay them only commissions on sale. So there is no expense involved. Imagine getting the full money for your product (compare it to affiliate marketing where you get possibly 50 percent of the sales amount). You can not only double the amount but much more!

However, the responsibilities of the Internet marketer are high. He needs investment. He cannot do all the work himself if he wanted to focus on marketing. So he outsources market research, writing, updating, Copy-writing, website management, etc. He has to host his websites. In return for his work he gets rewarded with profits.

Now you know what the affiliate marketer does as compared to what the Internet marketer does. My advice is once you are successful in affiliate marketing hire people to create a product for you. Once the product is done, you can sign up with Clickbank for a merchant account paying just $49. Clickbank will manage your sales as well as the sales of your affiliates.

How to Find an Affiliate Program For Any Niche in 2 Minutes

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:12:00 +0000

How to Find an Affiliate Program For Any Niche in 2 Minutes
Copyright © 2006 Anik Singal
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There is a great trend lately of marketers finally moving
to niche markets and not just focusing on selling to the
“make money” industry. This is an excellent move and one
that will prove to be very profitable for you. However, a
problem that many affiliates are hitting is that they don’t
know how to find good niche affiliate programs.

If there isn’t a program in ClickBank, most affiliates are
lost! Also, since ClickBank doesn’t allow us to search
their database, it’s too hard to find anything there.

Well, here is a quick and easy way to find any and all of
the best and most profitable affiliate program for any
niche you desire.

To find affiliate programs from now on you will use Google
to help you. Google is a great tool to use because?

1. It’s free
2. Any site that comes up on the top results is likely
reputable and has been around
3. You get thousands of results you can search through
4. You can make your search very specific

Alright, let’s discuss in steps, how to Google to find
affiliate programs.

1. Go over to http://www.Google.com

2.Type “[Your Niche Title] + affiliate” This is the step
that a lot of people can get confused in so let’s clear it
right now. Example: If I am searching for an affiliate
program on dog health, I will type this phrase into Google
= “dog health + affiliate”

3. Now the results that I get, all the pages that have the
term “dog health” and the term “affiliate” will show up.

4. Next open a program like Excel or just take out a piece
of paper.

5. Go through the results in Google and keep noting down
the different programs that come up.

6. Once you have 10 programs listed, go back and research
each of them to find the most profitable one.

Try this strategy on search engines like Yahoo as well. You
will get different results and combined between Yahoo and
Google, there is no way that you won’t find a good
affiliate program.

What if you don’t find any affiliate programs this way?

Then most likely an affiliate program for your niche does
not exist. A great way to make money now is to contact a
few of these websites and introduce the concept to them!
Perhaps help them set up an affiliate script and share in
profits! Actually, if there is no affiliate program in
that niche, you and that company can make BIG profits from
it!

There, now you have NO excuses not to find profitable
niches and build websites for them. You can now find a
profitable affiliate program for them all.

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Anik Singal is founder and CEO of Affiliate Classroom.
Anik developed his own affiliate system that helped him
earn over $10,000 in just 60 days working part time. If
you want to learn this unique method, click here for a
free e-course:

How Does Internet Marketing Work?

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:15:00 +0000

You may be wondering how exactly this thing works. There are so many ways of promoting your own or affiliate product. If you want to go the paid route, it is faster to make money provided that you get the technicalities right.

You can use Google Adwords (more about that in another blog later). You buy an ad space with Google Adwords. Your ad has a link to your product website. What you essentially do is to find out and enter the most profitable keywords related to your product in the right way. If you use common/popular keywords which everyone else is using then you are going to pay more for every click on that keyword-related advertisement. So you find less used (less competition) and cheaper keywords in order to minimise your ad expenses. If any one clicks on your ad you pay what Google has asked you to pay. This is only the basics just to give an idea.

You can also promote your site through other paid and free methods (to be discussed in a different category.

The other way is you have good quality website with relevant original contents. This content includes all the possible variations of keywords used in relation to your product. You also keep your affiliate links there. If your website is search engine optimized, then, when people search for your type of product in Google search engine your page will be shown on the first page or maybe the second page depending on your ranking. Of course, optimizing a website for search engine is not a one-day affair. It may be a forever thing due to ever-competing web pages.

The idea is you must make people visit your site again and again. Some will purchase from you. You reward them with bonus gifts so they are happy with your customer service.

The Best Way to Get People on Your LIst

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:03:00 +0000

Learn how ANYONE can Succeed Selling Online as an Affiliate.

How to choose a good affiliate program

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:32:00 +0000

If you have been with me for a while you may be wondering how to select a good affiliate program, or you may be just worried you might select a wrong program. Sure you need caution in choosing the best affiliate program. Not all affiliate programs are the same.

Some will be easy to promote because they give you all the necessary information, promotion tools for emails, websites, etc. They may even educate you with free books on marketing and promotion. You should choose such affiliate programs if you come across one. That way you will be saving a lot of time and you can spend the saved time in promoting another affiliate program and double your income.

To be a successful affiliate you will have to work at it on a daily basis. You have refine your methods of promotion until you start seeing results.

If you are interested in joining a good free affiliate program which provides you with all necessary affiliate skills, I would recommend this popular and successful program.

Sometimes, even the simple act of keeping a banner ad on your blog or website can make you money.

Take this free video course on ebay selling

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:47:00 +0000

If you are considering eBay to make money, I am going to direct you to a free video which explains the whole thing for you. You might have heard of Derek Gehl, a well-known successful business man and Internet marketing coach.

Derek's laid out the entire profitable system in a set of training videos that you can watch RIGHT NOW for FREE!

First, he's going to reveal the number one mistake that nearly EVERY new "eBayer" makes when they're getting started (it's a BIGGIE, and it can stop you COLD from ever making a PENNY)! This is something important before diving into ebay business.

After that, he explains his secret three-step formula for evaluating ANY item to determine if it'll be a HOT seller or not. He also reveals how to find hungry markets that are BEGGING to buy what you're selling.

There is a set of three-video series by looking at what's new and different at eBay, and explaining exactly how to take advantage of the recent changes to start profiting. It's also been tested and proven by his own elite group of eBay mentors, he assures.

So if you want to learn how to start making SERIOUS money online in the fastest time possible, without having to create your own website (or if you'd like to add an additional stream of income to an existing website), I highly recommend Derek's three FREE eBay training videos!

How to Know about the Profitability of Market

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:45:00 +0000

You may decide to take upon a niche that is close to your heart and start creating products or promoting products in that field. After all, everyone says you have to be after your 'passions'.

I do not accept this approach. It may be your passion. But don't you want to run it as a business and get profits? That's the whole reason behind why you are looking at Internet marketing as a business. If your intention is just to play along your passions, then be prepared to run the show as an experiment, run into losses in case the market happens to be not responsive.

In business, first thing is you must know whether what you are doing is profitable or not. It is possible to know whether your proposed business is likely to be profitable even before starting the business. That's why the emphasis on market research.

Fortunately, on the Internet most of the data are available for free for you to study. Take Google search. Just type your niche market name. Google will present you with milllions of results pages and will display the number of pages found on the Internet on your chosen word or phrase (technically called the 'keyword'.

Then go to Google External Keyword Tool. This page gives you several details at once - no of searches during the month, competition level, no of searches, etc. Just look at the screenshot below to get an idea.

Fig. Google Keyword Tool - a sample search

There you can type several keywords at once. Google will not only display the number of searches done for the exact word(s) you typed, but also the number of searches for the current month and the level of competition (in the form of a small bar).

This will give you an idea what is the level of demand for the keywords you typed in. This is not to be taken as accurate by any standards. However, they are fairly good indicators of market proditability.

When you first typed in Google search you found thousands of pages coming up with relevant content on that keyword. You may call it the supply scenario.

When you next typed in Google External Keyword Tool, you discovered how many people have searched for the same word(s) during the month. So now you know the demand scenario.

Almost always you will find supply far exceeding demand. The supply-demand ratio (supply divided by demand) should be ideally below 100.

If the supply is too much, then you face stiff competition which business more expenditures, more efforts and more time. And still, it is unlikely to be a profitable market for the late comers. Those with surplus money can pump in cash to succeed in any market.

So you know the secret of finding out how to find profitable markets. Use different keywords related to your proposed niche and find out one sub-niche where the supply is reasonably low and the demand reasonably high.

There are other short cut methods which we will explore further tomorrow.

Link Building Secrets for Internet Marketers

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:33:00 +0000

This article will be useful for advanced Internet marketers who own a website and are interested in link building.Every Internet marketer knows link building is an important aspect of Internet business. There is a right way and wrong way of doing this. Here is where most new website owners fail. Some think flooding their pages with a lot of links will get them a good ranking. Alas! If only they knew that can be disastrous to their websites...Well, I found an article with question & answers on the very subject which every Internet marketer will find helpful.This article reveals several new ideas and mistakes of web-masters who go on a link-building spree without any thought.

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How to Find A Profitable Online Business

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:45:00 +0000

Look before you plunge.

Once you have decided to give a try to Internet marketing, the first thing you need to do is to identify possible profitable on-line markets and products. By profitable, I mean you should be able to make a decent income from minimum work.

Here, I am going to talk about information product (such as e-books) marketing business which is the easiest and simplest of all.

If you end up doing a lot of work only to get a very small return (or nil return), then it is not worth it. You would have wasted a lot of time and money on a low-return or even negative-return business. Certainly, you would not want to do that.

So before plunging into an online information product business, you should ask yourself five major questions:

- Is there a large enough market for your proposed info product?
- How big is the competition?
- What are the existing products being sold in your chosen market?
- What is the demand and supply scenerio?
- What is the demand-supply ratio?

How do you find answers for all these questions? You must do market research for one or two days prior to launching your business. There are free tools available on the Internet to do this simple research. Even the first business you will be creating only on a test basis. Only after you find favorable results, you should proceed actively.

Internet business is not something you start this morning and start earning within minutes. It is possible to earn within minutes of setting up your business when you have a strong experience and knowledge in the field. If anyone claims otherwise do not believe it. There may be some stray exceptions. A newbie, however, will have to work at it heavily during initial years in order to establish a sustainable business.

Let us deal with them tomorrow.

How to Choose the Best Affiliate Program

noreply@blogger.com (Jo) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:09:00 +0000

It will not be correct to choose just about any online business blindly.The first step to creating a profitable online business is to choose the type of business you would really like to be involved in. Preferably, something you are passionate about.

Even though there are thousands of affilliate programs,not every one will be profitable. And not all of them may pay decent commissions.

Research

Research is the key. Remember when you promote other people's products - whether it is a good product or bad product - the work YOU will do to promote them will be same. But the profits will vary depending upon the demand for the product. So you must first check out whether the product has a good demand in your target market.

For example,there is a lot of people wanting to master golf. They will go out of their way to learn more about the game. It is a highly competitive market. On the other hand, there may be a great product with little demand in the market.

When you are starting out, start with a high demand product. This requires some reading and research. You can do all that from the comfort of your home on the Net.

While researching, keep in mind those areas which really interest you or appeal to you personally. Then it will be easy for you to take interest in it and study the market. Moreover, it is likely you already have some knowledge in it. Hobby products are a hot market in Internet World. People are willing to spend money where their hearts are.

Choose right affiliate program

While there are numerous affiliate programs available, many of them happen to be crap. Sometimes, the product may be good. But the merchant involved may not be honest or efficient or affiliate-friendly. So you have to choose your program with care. Some affiliate programs do not pay well or the conditions may be tough to meet practically. You have to explore and find out the fine print. Read their Terms & Conditions before joining.

Some offer commissions only if you make certain number of minimum sales by number or amount. Some may offer extremely low commissions as low as five percent! Of course, if the product value is very high that is understandable.

If the product is not a fast-moving one, then you should expect higher commission. If you sell digital products like ebooks your commission could range from 50 percent to 75 percent. There are some who offer 100 percent commission on your sales. In these cases, their ebooks
contain useful information and also their own links to other products. When people buy by clicking those links, their business expands.

There are several top quality affiliate programs that make your promotion efforts much easier. They train you how to promote their products. They provide anything from keywords to all promotional material like sample email letters, advertisement banners, graphics, etc. You save time in creating them. See if your merchant offers such help. When you are just starting out it is better to join such programs where you will get full technical and marketing guidance.

There are many. One such program I strongly recommend comes from a world-class Internet
marketer who is considered Number One in affiliate marketing. His front-end products are extremely cheap and of high quality. So it is easy to sell them. He offers good commissions and
marketing education through videos, free books and other tools. He even offers life-time support through more information and tools to affiliates at no cost. Most affiliate programs are free to join. However, I always recommend that you buy (if you can afford) or study the products you
want to sell deeply so that you know how to promote them. The program I recommend is absolutely free to join.

However, it is better to buy at least the front-end product which are always very cheap (usually $7 to $17). When you buy it, you will realize, it is so informative and useful that its value is practically priceless.To look at a popular product of his program click here.

When you are happy with a product, look for a link "affiliates". It is where you sign up as an affiliate and receive all promotional materials.