Real Truths About Making Money Online

Most Will Not Make It

OK the first thing I want to share with you is that most people (about 97%) who start an internet business will fail. However, this has to do more with the person than it does with actually making money online. I say that as Affiliate/Network/MLM Marketing are proven effective established methods, of earning a legitimate income online, so there is no doubt the system works.

Some Will Make It

Did you notice that 3% do not fail, but actually succeed in creating a business that gives them the lives they wanted? Well, you can be a part of that 3% if you want to be, and if you do what is necessary to succeed. You do not have to do it overnight, or even set yourself a deadline if you do not want to, but a little done each day, well... that equals success.

Why People Don't Succeed?

I need to say this "ANYBODY" and I mean "ANYBODY" can; with a little bit of training and the ability to follow simple instructions have everything they ever dreamed of, or wished for with an Online Business. Sadly, though most will fail or give up. Why? Many different reasons I guess.

Most people have an "I WANT IT NOW" attitude, which is a "GUARANTEE" to "FAILURE" online.

Others fail because of things like, The path and process they choose to follow, their financial situation, a person's education, their desire to better themselves, fear of stepping out of their comfort zone, online so-called "Gurus" that are only after as much money as they can squeeze out of newcomers (known colloquially as newbies) bad advice, etc., and literally hundreds of other reasons.

I Believe - the Main Reason Is Two-Fold!

The first is a lack of faith

In a person's own ability to learn which confounds me no end? We all "learnt to learn" to some degree, at school, (Even those of us that dropped out) so what is stopping us from learning new skills and habits as adults? Especially if it is going to lead to everything, we ever dreamed of having or being.

I find it bizarre how people will learn new skills for a job (Just over Broke), but will not learn a few new skills, for the chance to have everything they ever wanted?

The Second is, "Information Overload"

In the Affiliate/Network/MLM marketing world this, is not just an expression. The sheer amount of information on the internet, about the various ways to make money online is huge, massive.

Consider that there are at least 100 different ways to make money online, and then consider the various methods and ways of doing those 100 different ways, not to mention the learning curves of those individual ways.

To complicate matters further, it is not just the information, on the various methods used to make money online, but also every little step involved in the numerous various processes, that come with each different method.

In addition, guess what?

All this information is freely available on the internet - Yep; you can get it all for absolutely nothing...

Excellent; you might say, this sound promising; until you realize that no one tells you "where" or in "what" order, or in what individual process, and what particular place, you use that piece of information.

As I explained previously, combine that with the fact that there "ARE" literally hundreds of ways to make money online and thousands of individual processes to follow, for each particular way, and you end up with Information Overload.

Oh; and as an added bonus, it usually only happens, after you have already spent hundreds of dollars, and wasted countless hours signing up to, and trying out the "Next best thing" always looking for that shortcut to riches. Only to discover that:

"There Isn't One" - That is where most people's heads explode and they give up in frustration. Nevertheless, you do not have to!

Anyone really can earn good money, with Affiliate/Network/MLM marketing - very, very good money in fact, but you will have to do some work for it, that is just the way it is I am afraid.

Moreover, think about this, for a second!

You only have to do this work

"Once"

To be paid, for years to come

OK you say, but I have never even considered this kind of thing before, let alone try to do it;

Well even that's not an issue now days.

Now days with the rise of technology, you do not need to have many technical skills, you do not need to harass your friends, you do not need to spend years trying to sell stuff to people who do not want it; and, in some cases you get to keep 100% of your commissions, you do not even have to share that anymore.

The thing is, a person doesn't have to know what they are doing, they can have no idea about how and what to do when it comes to Affiliate/Network/MLM marketing, and still end up becoming successful

If they can watch a video, and follow simple instructions, then that's not even a problem now days - Seriously it's not. All any person needs is the guts to make the decision to have a go and stick it out

Take care everyone.

We will talk again soon.

CJ (Chris)

Now everyone knows that we all make "choices" in our lives on a day to day basis, that's a given, and we know that some choices we make are good and that others are... well... not so good:)

And to find the Real truths about making money online is nigh on impossible!

To that end, I have put together a compilation of information all with the goal of educating people on what it takes to start and build a successful online business

If you want to, you can check this out at my blog http://www.contemporarymlm.com/ anytime you wish!

I sincerely wish you all the success in the world no matter what decision you make!

Till next time, Take Care... CJ:)

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Online Marketing Solutions That Turn Customers Into Repeat Customers

Getting new customers is one of your goals business. But what about after you get that new customer? What's next? Forget about them and go after the next new customer?

And then the next?

Now of course you need to keep a steady stream of new business flowing through the doors, but if you do not have a plan to keep your existing customers then your business is nothing more than a revolving door. And when the day comes - a slow down in your industry, a new trend, a fad, or even a complete shift in the industry - that leaves you with little or no new business (it can and does happen), what are you going to do?

Go ask your existing or past customers for help?

Ask them to buy your stuff again, your other products, or help you launch a completely new product? Why would they help you? A person they bought from once and never heard from again.

They have no allegiance to you.

Even if you never experience a slow down, or worse, the destruction of the market you're in now, you still need to make sure you don't forget about your existing (and past) customers. They should be a part of your overall business plan. They should account for part (potentially a large part) of your revenue.

Not sure where to start?

Well, here are the 3 big things you must do to ensure your business continues to serve them (your existing and past customers)... some of the least used (among small business owners), but most lucrative online marketing solutions...

#1: Build a relationship with them. Saying thanks as they hand their credit card over to you is not the beginning of a relationship. It's a business transaction. Relationships last for more than a few minutes. And all relationships worth having (for both parties) involve more than one meeting. They require time to develop. They involve two-way communication. They involve trust.

For you to build a relationship with your new customers, you need to do all those things. The best way to start that new relationship is to ask for their information so you can stay in touch.

#2: Get their contact information. Asking for simple contact information is easy. And most people are happy to hand it over to you. There's no need to ask them to complete a full profile. A simple name and email address will do. Perhaps a phone number, too. More than that (mailing address, birthday, etc.) may be useful to build a relationship, but those details can be obtained later as your relationship grows.

Now, at least, you have a way to stay in touch.

#3: Stay in constant communication. With a name and email address you can start the relationship. Send an email the day of their first purchase. Say "Thank you!" Tell them a little more about you and your business. Tell them what they can expect from you and your business over the next few months. Keep it brief about you - make it about them. No one likes new friends who only care about themselves. Then on a very regular basis, monthly (at least), weekly (ideally), or even more often send them an email. Again, make sure it's about them - how they can achieve something great, learn something new, and solve another problem they may have. Include relevant and useful information and every once and awhile share something about you so they know your business is more than business --

It's a business run by people that are likeable, trustworthy, and interesting.

Do these things and when your customers (and past customers) need or want something you offer... they'll think you, not your competition.

Edward Bordi is a marketing consultant. He works with small businesses by uncovering problem areas and identifying untapped opportunities. Through careful analysis, he develops and then implements a custom and comprehensive marketing plan - that is focused on dramatically increasing profits. Edward studied marketing at the prestigious Wharton business school, and is certified as an Independent Marketing Advisor (IMA) by one the top online marketing companies in the world, DotComSecrets.

Visit Edward's company website, 1EASYPLAN, to learn more online marketing solutions

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Keep On Coaching, But Differently

Making a living out of coaching is not always easy. Even though you love your profession, you struggle to make yourself visible in the industry, you try every technique or strategy you learnt in coaching school, but that still doesn't help you get the revenue, the lifestyle and the satisfaction you have always wanted.

You have a client here and there, no regular income, you cannot find the resources to promote yourself and to find success. You become frustrated and start to doubt your decision about becoming a coach.

If you find yourself in this situation, it is time to change the way you coach. It doesn't mean you have to invent new ways, you just need to transform the existing way of doing business. It means using all your natural skills, talents and assets and develop new, effective techniques to finally step into the spotlight.

There are a few things you can do to change the way you coach, which will help you develop a successful coaching business. These techniques do not take a lot of time to implement or a lot of money for marketing campaigns. All it takes is your desire to succeed and a change in your beliefs, in your approach towards coaching.

1. Target a market
Targeting has turned out to be one of the main reasons why many coaches do not succeed in this industry. If you decide to target a specific market, it doesn't mean that you limit your options, that you will get less clients. It just means that you must identify the problems that particular market has and find the solutions to those problems. More than that, you must let this clientele know you are there and you have the solutions to their problem. Make your potential clients see you are the one they need and you won't even have to find them, they will come to you.

2. Become an expert in an area
Whenever people have a problem or want to achieve something, they want to turn to a specialist for help. This is the moment when you can become the expert your target clientele needs. The more you coach on specific problems, the more clients you will get. Your expertise and your success stories will make people want to work with you, because they know from others that you can help them succeed as well. Let's admit it, you cannot coach everyone on everything, so why not specialize in one area and promote yourself on the market as such.

3. Create a clear message
No matter what strategies you use to promote yourself, you must always deliver a consistent message about yourself and your work. Your message is your business card and must tell your clients about who you are and what you can offer. You need a clear message to make people come to you. Your clients feel understood when you understand them, you know their problems, their desires or their fears. It also helps you develop a better relationship with them, you can connect with them much more easily.

If you want to do something else in coaching, to improve your business, you don't have to completely change everything. Even though you implement new strategies or techniques, you must always use your pre-existing assets, your natural skills. Use what is good about yourself and your work and then make the changes you want to get more clients and increase your revenue.

Then you will see that you don't have to struggle to find your clients, because you have already found the secret to make clients come to you and pay for your expertise.

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How To Start A New Online Information Business

Online entrepreneurs have a lot of questions when they want to start an online business. I will try to answer those questions for you, so you will avoid frustration and confusion most entrepreneurs face when they start their businesses.

You have to make some important decisions. Decide what business model you will use. Is it gonna be a blog, affiliate marketing, information products, software, web services or consulting maybe. Choose only one model that works the best for you. You will achieve that by testing your market.

If you are an absolute beginner, I recommend you start an affiliate marketing business. You promote someone else`s product and it is cheap to start. You will learn marketing and creating content. You will discover what types of products people like in your market and which products are best sellers. You won`t have to deal with a product creation, costumer support or refunds.

When you get results in your affiliate marketing business, then you can move into creating your own product for that market. You tested the market, you know what your audience like, now is the time to build a long-term online business. Invest your affiliate marketing profits into your own new brand. With the knowledge that you get from affiliate marketing it is easier for you to create a product, because you understand the competition and what type of promotion methods work for you.

Every online business is unique so you want to be in a big market. Competition is good. If you have a problem with researching your market, I suggest you stick to the three big markets or three mega niches, as internet marketers are calling them.

Those are:

Health and fitness niche.Money and business niche.Relationships and dating.

You can find a lot of sub niches in these three mega niches. You can get very specific and it is based on what your costumers want.

How do you know what your costumers want? You will get that answer by testing. If you don`t test your product first, you will lose money.

The biggest mistake you can make is to do everything yourself. You will get burned out and overwhelmed. It is very important that you outsource certain tasks. Write down your strengths, weaknesses, likes and dislikes in your business. Outsource dislikes and weaknesses so you will have more time for new money making ideas. Time is the most important resource you have.

One last thing. Don't be afraid to fail. It's good to fail fast, because then you will learn what went wrong. You will improve and get better at what you do. All successful entrepreneurs had failed at some point of their life.

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Tips For Getting More Unique Website Hits

If your goals for your online business is to get more traffic, how will go about getting them? You see there's a difference between targeted traffic, and just hits. If you're trying to impress your colleagues with your high traffic site, but no one is buying anything, what's the point of having a website?

I can easily take a website that is getting 10 hits a day and within 48 hours immediately have it getting 100-200 hits per day, consistently. But my method of doing this wouldn't consist on having targeted traffic. It would be traffic from some people who "may" buy your product... but in all seriousness, you probably won't get any sales.

So what's your point on getting traffic to your website? There are a lot of things that you can do to get traffic, but when it comes to targeted traffic, this is where the dilemma begins. To get targeted traffic immediately, I suggest you start off with the PPC route. PPC stands for pay per click advertising, and the biggest player in this field is Google AdWords.

If you can successfully sign up for an account, you should get started right away adding keywords to your account, so that you can start getting targeted search engine traffic right away. You will get charged every time someone clicks on your ad in the search results, but if your cost per click (CPC) is small, I wouldn't worry about losing money on advertising. You'll more than likely recoup your investment in a short period of time.

Another way to get free targeted traffic is with YouTube. YouTube is the number 3 ranked website in the world in terms of traffic. With a fact like this, you can be sure to get alot of traffic from this marketing medium by itself. But if you want to really make YouTube work for you, you have to go professional.

If you're not camera shy, you should invest in a digital camera, and use it to gain the spotlight on YouTube. Make 10-minute videos about topics in your niche, and present yourself nicely. Youtube videos like this will always out pull videos that just have words on them. But they both work... you just have to decide which option is right for you.

Another awesome way to get more free traffic is with email newsletters. You can build up your email list and have your subscribers visit your site on a daily or weekly basis. Not only will this increase your website traffic, but you'll be getting high quality visitors who might actually buy something from you.

If you want to build your list, include your email newsletter sign up box on every page of your website. Or to really get the ball moving, create a "squeeze page" where the initial purpose of your home webpage is to get people to sign up to your list. Soon you'll have a great number of people subscribing to your list, and you will eventually make money from these people the more you email to them on a daily or weekly basis.

So getting traffic doesn't have to be complicated. I suggest you start off with your favorite ways to get traffic, and do these techniques everyday. You'll see faster results if you work on your business everyday like this - and eventually you'll see recurring traffic coming in on a daily basis.

Take this lesson and use it to boost your website's profitability starting immediately.

Good luck with using these tips to get more traffic to your website.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Randall Magwood is one of the most respected and highly-regarded online marketing experts on the internet. He currently has a free book about internet marketing that helps small business owners market their business online successfully. To learn more and to download this free book, simply visit his website here: http://www.internetmarketing-rules.com/

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Work From Home Typing - Job Tips

If you are looking to start your own home based business and you have some skills at creating simple content for the web, then you may be looking for work from home typing jobs that are interesting to you. There are a lot of opportunities around that you can use to utilize your skills. If you have a computer and an internet connection, you can turn those skills into an income stream for yourself.

There are several opportunities like data entry or manuscript encoders that have been around a long time and can be of some interest to you, but I would like to focus on work from home typing jobs that are related to affiliate marketing or network marketing opportunities. Having the ability to create simple articles or blog posts that focus potential customers to a particular topic is a great skill to have. People are looking every day to find someone who can generate content to either display on their blogs or be used as back links to their main website. Content that is created for these purposes need to be smart, witty and clever to attract the attention of people who are searching the internet for particular topics. Lets cover some more skills that may be useful for starting your own home based business as a writer or typist.

Knowledgeable About Many Topics
You should have the ability to research and write competent articles about a particular topic as you develop your skills as a work from home typing professional. No one wants to read an article that does not make sense. Some basic knowledge about the topic you are writing about will be the most important thing that will help you create useful content and get you a job as a freelance writer or assist you in creating your own affiliate marketing website.

Strong English Skills
You need to be fluent in the language you are writing in. If you are trying to work from home typing articles for English based websites you should be able to put together coherent sentences that make sense. There is nothing worse that reading an article or post that seems out of sorts and is something you can tell is written by someone who does not understand the basics of putting together simple sentences or phrases.

Desire and Willingness
If you have the desire to succeed, there are hundreds of opportunities out there waiting for you. To become a work from home typing professional can be easy. Your willingness to expand your writing skills and learn about different topics is key. You need to be dedicated to your craft and the ability to generate multiple streams of income can be developed fairly easy.

If you have the desire to start a work from home typing career and you have the skills to write compelling articles, look into becoming an affiliate marketing professional. The opportunity to make a lot of money online is waiting for you.

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Affiliate Marketing Truths

The Truth About Affiliate Marketing

We have been told about the magic of Affiliate Marketing and how easy it is to achieve success. Do you believe it? Well I am here to tell you, Don't!

The truth is that the FORMULA is easy. In practice, it takes a few things to get to the point where you can say to your boss, "Thank you very much for giving me this job, but I am moving on. Give the opportunity to someone else." At this point you will have made it to the point where you can maintain a steady income to replace your salary and begin to be really successful in your new career. Remember that word. 'Career'

The successful Online Marketer treats his business as a career. Like so many other careers - medicine, engineering, plumbing, carpentry, you get the picture, what all these careers have in common is the fact that you have to acquire the skills. To do that you have to spend time learning the intricacies of the profession. In many of these it can take years to be proficient enough to start selling your acquired skill. While you are learning you do not jump from plumbing to carpentry because you are not satisfied with your progress. You stick with it until you become proficient in it. You need to put effort, time and focus in each before moving on to another, if you so desire. The same goes for online marketing.

You may be bombarded by offers in your inbox that promise riches tomorrow, or that very afternoon. Unless you already have the skills and tools to take advantage of that offer, you will be hopelessly frustrated because that's not going to happen. The person making those offers is just you in the future. You will be doing the same thing. But first you have to know what you are doing and what you are getting into. You need knowledge. Get that first.

It is true that you can make money in a short time, but that is a concept of earn while you learn. If you acquire the basic skills you may be able to do that and with a system or a type of curriculum that takes you along that path, that is entirely possible.

I would just like to warn you about information overload. This is a condition that exists for people who jump from one opportunity to another without giving each the attention it deserves. Just as in school when you are studying a particular subject you focus on that course material, in the same way you need to focus on learning the techniques in an orderly fashion that avoids skipping from one tutorial to another. Can you be successful? Is it easy to learn? Does it take time, focus and studying? The answer is a resounding 'Yes'!

All you have to do is find a tutor or course with a track record of success that you trust and follow the instructions step by step and you will have success. In much the same way as you did in school. Then with that knowledge you can use your own ideas to improve on what you have learned. Just like any other profession or career.

If you're looking for a simple, proven and predictable online income generating system, http://reachforsuccessonline.com/.

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Market Sites Should Be Helping Businesses Through the Tough Economy Times

With the current economy at a low point and many out of work, businesses are finding it tough to make any profit and many are struggling to attract new customers.

The Internet has allowed some businesses to grow through websites, social networking sites and blogging. However with so many competing to reach the same customers it makes it just as tough as it would to find potential customers through a high street shop. That's where market sites can help.

Market sites have become like directory sites but help provide further services: 'Where would you currently be without sites like "Compare The Market, Money Supermarket, Travel Supermarket" amongst so many other's?' but even the internet seems to be evolving to adapt to the current economic climate with many more sites popping up to provide different services to individuals and businesses. The Government should be supporting such sites as many businesses and companies currently need all the help they can get to increase their publicity and services to customers. Such sites can help businesses promote themselves, help to find potential customers, list services to meet the exact customers needs, along with different ways of advertising that the internet keeps surprising us with, such sites and new innovation helps to attract new customers.

So many people are now 'web or surf shoppers' and with the decline of some retail and traditional methods of shopping and looking for services failing, the Internet and global web is maybe the place to be and the government and businesses and support centre's should be focusing on boosting the economy through different methods and the internet could be a big key.

In 2005 there were only a handful of market sites, and a lot of directories. The problem with directories is that the majority will not drive any traffic to businesses, as they do not offer much flexibility. Currently market sites on the other hand offer much more than that.

The market site place has grown substantially with the likes of fiverr.com being one of the leaders. However, they have grown to annoy a lot of customers with the majority of their listed services being silly nonsense ones, and nasty blogs about their poor handling and ethos. Other similar sites like GigBux and GigMe5 offer the same thing, so that leaves a big gap needing to be filled - reliable market site's that offer quality services to customers and offer more potential than comparison sites. Also many of these sites are American based so that leaves the UK market rather dry. These sites do not help professional businesses like plumbers, builders or web designers as customers are likely to be overwhelmed by the amount of silly services on offer. Therefore we should be looking for new sites that can help the UK economy.

There are so many recruiter sites in the UK advertising jobs but very few advertising business and services. One company looking to fill these gaps is BlueGig, which is a market place launching in April 2012. According to the owner the site is aimed at creating a community platform beacon for businesses and professional freelancers for interaction of selling and buying services (known as gigs). It's serious quality services that are needed and hopefully such sites and more sites like this will help to provide competition and encourage businesses and service providers to use the Internet more to promote services. New business and service market sites could encourage the current gap to be filled and help to possibly start new innovation into the start of new sites and ways of attempting to not only help evolve the ever expanding internet but to also try to help the UK business scene in the current economic state.

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How to Create a Landing Page That Attracts Visitors and Keeps Them Interested in Your Services

With the number of webpages exceeding the millions, it has become increasingly difficult to create websites that appeal and build relationships with potential customers. Landing pages need to grab the attention of the browsing visitor within seconds or else they will simply move on.

This article looks at ways you can create a landing page that retains the interest of your visitor so that they will be compelled to complete your call-to-action.

Successful landing pages fulfil the following criteria:

They are highly tailored to the target visitorThey make it obvious what is being offered to the visitorThey make it clear to the visitor why they should be interested in what's on offerThe visitor is gently led to follow clear and simple calls- to-action

Understanding the needs, wants and mind-set of your target market is vital to the creation of a compelling website. Your copy, layout and offering must all strike a chord in your visitor. With so many distractions on their time, if they can't immediately see the point of staying, your visitor will move on somewhere else.

Help your reader by keeping the page layout succinct and easy to read. Over-complicated pages make it harder for the visitor to see what's on offer and understand what's relevant to their interests. Think about what they are looking for and don't clutter up your page with irrelevant information.

In design terms, keep in mind that the eye is naturally drawn to the left hand side of a page so move your important information to this side and keep graphics to the right. Break information up into smaller relevant paragraphs so that readers don't have to read large blocks of text. Use colour judiciously to add impact, not to distract - avoid text colour and page background colours which make your content hard to read.

Present clear signposts to show you're catering to these needs or interests and so persuade your visitor to stay and find out more. Use language and conventions that they are familiar with to help them access the material that they want or need. Internet users are notoriously impatient and will treat complicated layouts as barriers to information. Rather than overcome these barriers, they'll just leave your site and are unlikely to return.

Use call to action buttons that catch your reader's attention and which makes it effortless to take the next step. Whether it's a "contact me", "connect with me", "subscribe to my newsletter", make it straightforward for your visitor to take action. To make it as painless as possible for your visitors to reach you offer an online contact form that's easy to fill in and send, add all your social media links, email addresses and so on.

Remember the saying pictures speak a thousand words - with only seconds to keep your visitor from leaving your site use your images to grab attention. Take time to choose images which get to the heart of what you are and which illustrate the value, ethics, and services that you are offering.

Don't overload each page with too many images or complex graphics which will make your pages slower to download. Again, with so many distractions to divert the viewer, you don't want them leaving in frustration or impatience.

Make sure your website is consistent with your brand image - keep it professional and in keeping with the expectations of your target audience. Whatever sector you are looking to attract, keep your site colours, images, and layouts appropriate.

If your visitors have come to your site without any prior knowledge of who you are and what you do, they won't feel any commitment to stay. You can help them form an opinion about you by offering them "social proof" through testimonials, reviews, and references. Make it straightforward for them to see what you do and how you can help them. You can your clients and customers' good experiences to enhance your reputation.

Finally, rather than depending on people to visit your landing page by chance, aim to drive qualified traffic there through your marketing and promotion. By clicking through to your landing page, these visitors are acting on an interest you've already stimulated.

As a result, arriving at your landing page will be a continuation of a dialogue started in your marketing. Having creating landing pages which follow the principles outlined in this article, you will have improved the likelihood of these visitors staying to take up the call to actions that you've presented them.

Sumi Olson (author of the Amazon five-star rated, "How to Manage Your Social Media Marketing in 30 Minutes A Day"), is an author, diamond-rated article writer, speaker & consultant on social media, content creation strategies, and business development.

With 25 years' experience in book publishing, business development, online selling, sales & marketing, Sumi's committed to helping you reduce overwhelm and turn insights into implementation. An inspiring and enthusiastic speaker, accessible writer and trainer, Sumi can give you the tools and knowledge you need.

With a young family of her own, she's passionate about helping people create a great work-life balance through so that they can spend more time on the things that matter in life. Connect on Twitter (@sumiolson), LinkedIn http://uk.linkedin.com/in/sumiolson or visit http://www.learningbusinessskills.com/ and sign up to her free fortnightly knowledge & know-how newsletter.

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Part Time Weekend Jobs Vs Online Marketing?

At one point in my life, I actually did consider looking for a weekend job to help support my family. I ultimately decided against it because the money that I would make on a part time basis did not come close to the value that I placed on spending real time with my family.

Working the weekend jobs did not meet my simple criteria:

- Would I be able to spend as much time as possible watching my children grow up?

- Would working weekend jobs grow into something more where I would develop an additional skill set and ultimately become more marketable?

- Was the money that I would make with these weekend jobs really worth my time?

- Would I be able to leverage my time or would I be working simply dollars for hours?

With a growing family a mortgage, retirement, & funding our kids education were and continue to be our highest priorities dollars wise. When I decided to find a way to make additional income, I weighted the pros & cons of starting an internet marketing business. Some of the questions that I asked myself included:

- What type of initial investment would I need in order to be successful?

Most internet marketers start out very simply with a few tools; wordpress blog, hosting account, autoresponder, and some basic sweat equity. As you make money, you can add additional tools but these are the basic tools to start and will cost you a few hundred dollars for the year.

- When could I find time to work my business?

I thought about this and the best time that I could work this business in the beginning was at night after my kids went down. It's usually after 10 at night and I work a few hours. Of course I had to get up early the next day and go to work but it was worth it because I was slowly building an asset and growing my skillset.

- Would I be able to leverage my time after working this internet marketing business hard for a few years?

Yes. After working your internet marketing business part time for a few years and growing your skills, you can begin to earn money on autopilot where you work hard initially but reap the rewards in terms on money for months going forward.

- Are other people successful in this line of business?

Yes. There are a ton of people that are quite successful online and are making healthy living marketing products & services online.

- Would creating an internet marketing business be more valuable in the long run compared to working weekend jobs?

Definitely! Working weekend jobs will give you simple a paycheck but working an internet marketing business online will provide you with an additional skillset and ongoing passive income based on your hard work in the beginning.

- Would I be able to spend more time with my family?

Yes sir! Working an online business will eventually provide you leverage where you can earn income passively, residually, and real time. Leveraging your efforts just makes sense in this ever changing economy.

Really, the name of the game is spending time with your friends and family - not sitting in traffic all day and hating a job. It's about freedom and living life to the fullest.

Now that I have gone thru some of the questions that you need to ask if you were looking for weekend jobs, you might we wondering what internet marketing really is.

Well, let me give you just a few examples that real people make money with each & every day with internet marketing (I don't see many breaking the bank working the weekend jobs):

Network Marketing - you can start a network marketing business and focus on marketing your products & services online. The initial investment for many network marketing businesses is $500 or less so to start your own business is very reasonable. You can easily recoup your initial investment within the 1st month.
Amazon Affiliate Marketer - you can become an affiliate with amazon.com and market their products & services. Very simply, you create mini-web sites where you talk about products (like a product review) and then include a link to Amazon. You can make roughly 4%-8% off of the sale price. Many people create websites online and promote these products and make a full time income.
Clickbank Affiliate Marketer - when you become an affiliate (its free) with Clickbank, you have access to hundreds of products that you can promote online and earn a commission. For most products today, you can earn easily between 50% - 75% of the sale price of the product. Products are digital in nature so the customer will get the product immediately (e-books, video, audio).

Hopefully this helps and points you in the right direction (hint: away from the weekend jobs...)

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Is Starting a Membership Website For You?

Are you sick and tired of the job you have? Do you have miles and miles to commute to your job at today's gas prices? Wouldn't it be great to be able to give your boss "Notice"? These are some of the reasons why more and more entrepreneurs today are looking forward to becoming independent. Let us then talk about the advantages of starting and building your own reliable, residual income home based business.

If you take the plunge and opt to incorporate a membership website for whatever home-based business you are running at the moment, there are a number of benefits that you will be able to enjoy.

For starters, there will almost certainly be an increase in revenue for you. And even if you are already generating a sizable online income, chances are that you will soon find that monthly membership fees that folks pay to access your website will quickly overtake everything else and become the highest revenue earner for you. Imagine doing what you are already doing to maintain your website and then receiving revenue for your efforts. Let's say that only 5 percent of the visitors you receive monthly sign up to pay you $10 every month. Even a low traffic website that receives only 50 unique visitors a day will end up with $750 per month in revenue.

Surprisingly, you will also have a chance to increase traffic. Paid membership websites with a free basic level initial access will find that traffic steadily grows, as word of mouth spreads rapidly about your paid membership website, many people will want to get some information on it and quickly end up on your website. You will be shocked to realize that you attract even more traffic than you did when you were giving away everything for free on your website.

Because your members pay to access your website, receiving frequent email messages and communications from you is not the same thing as when you do not have a paid website. It will not annoy them quite as quickly because every bit of information coming from you is greatly valued. This opens the door to all kinds of opportunities to generate even more revenue from your online business. For instance, any special offers you may have for your clients will tend to be valued and will therefore get a much better response than in any other situation.

Also, a lot of the emails and communications that you send out to your clients can be automated using tools like auto responders. This will enable you to have a very profitable business that does not need too much of your time, since a lot of the process involved can be automated so that you need to put in very minimal work.

There is also no doubt that having a membership website tends to strengthen your brand all over the World Wide Web making it much more recognizable and valued. This is applicable to those who are already experienced in Internet Marketing.

However, for those who are intending to start their home-based business and are therefore novices, I strongly recommend that you join a reputable and experienced Internet Marketing Membership Website before hand, so that you may follow in the footsteps of an experienced mentor who has already traveled that road before you and paid the costly price of mistakes so that you do not fall victim to wasting your time and losing your hard earned money in the process.

All in all, because there are many advantages to having a membership website as part of your online home based business set up, it is well worth looking into.

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Is a Facebook Page Applicable for B2B Businesses?

In times when Internet is almost on the same level as food on the hierarchy of human needs Social Media and Inbound Marketing are becoming the essential tools for businesses to get found and engage with their target audience. More and more companies are using their social network profiles to promote their brands and services. This strategy earned well deserved respect among small and B2C businesses. But does it work for B2B enterprises as well?

There are couple of Online Marketing tools that businesses are productively using to build brand awareness, acquire sales leads and increase unique visitors rate. One of them is to set a Facebook Business Page. Profiles such as Intrepid Travel, Demandware and Easy Lunch Boxes with hundreds and thousands of fans are examples of successfully implemented Facebook campaigns. It clearly works for businesses focused on attracting masses of common customers. The question is should B2B entities bother with setting up a Facebook Business Page?

According to Alexa.com, Facebook is holding a second spot on the list of the most popular sites in the world right behind Google, and according to ComScore, it's the most popular social network on the web. With more than 750 millions of users it is the largest online congregation with continuous growth. Half of the US Facebook users are in 25 to 64 years old demographic segment. To get an access to this big and qualified of an audience is already a great reason to create a Facebook Business Page.

It also very easy to do and free of charge. The Page could be created based on a personal or a business account by following simple prompts. In fact one of the reasons why Facebook became so popular are their user-friendly interface and easy to follow instructions. Just remember to capture business' name as a username because in search it works just like an Internet domain name.

Here is one more reason to get a Facebook Page. Above being a communication device this social network is one of the biggest content accumulators on the web which serves businesses as a free platform to create and distribute information that eventually will become a business lead. Through quality content Facebook works for any entity including B2B businesses.

Before jumping into fast-stream of social media marketing think about why key-decision business people would want to connect with your company? What message and image an entity wants to create to attract and engage those kind of people? In other words what information is needed and thus could be provided? Facebook Page can help businesses to create brand awareness and establish themselves as experts in their field which is a very valuable asset in building trust and reliance base.

Couple words about promotion. If a Page is created based on a personal profile people tend to send invitations to their friends to join the fan base. These tactics might not be a good idea for a B2B enterprise because:
People don't like to mix business with friendshipProducts or services don't apply to their needsFacebook user can only "Like" up to 500 pagesIt's simply annoying

What works is adding the Facebook Page web address to business card, email signature box or printed marketing materials distributed among potential clients; embedding widgets to the company's website along with using Facebook Apps and Ads; sharing the information about Business Page with email and Ezine Article subscribers and linking it with Twitter account; creating Facebook landing page gate to allure and engage visiting people substantially converting them into fans and content consumers.

Every business is unique and there is really no optimal remedy for each and every one of them but through perseverance and intelligent approach to modern technologies and communication vehicles Facebook Business Page can work for B2B businesses as a digital and social media marketing machine.

About the Author:
Yuliya Karnaukh is an Online Marketing Specialist at Astound Commerce, Inc. She spent twelve years engagingly studying fascinating art of Online Marketing and is happy to share her knowledge with fellow Marketing professionals and anyone, who's willing to spare their time and mind reading her articles.
http://www.astoundcommerce.com/ is a preferred Demandware Certified E-commerce Solutions Provider for top-brand online retailers.

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Letterhead Printing and Other Online Printing Jobs, the Good and the Benefits

When you carefully consider the current economic climate at present, you will evidently notice that it's much harder to find suitable businesses that willfully offer skillfully balance affordable rates with premium quality services. Needless to say, online printing isn't immune to this typical situation and you will find only a handful of companies that are strictly able to pull of such marketing stunts, and these types of companies are guaranteed in return with longevity in their chosen field. As a responsible consumer, your duty is to discover an online printing firm that meets your specific criteria and won't compromise you. This can be achieved either by consulting experts related to this particular area, obtaining sincere recommendations from friends and colleagues who've dabbled with such services previously, or by checking companies online (preferably close to your home or place of business). Carefully scrutinize them to see if they can be relied upon and are able to catch up with complicated details as well as impending deadlines. It would also be wise if you could have a productive meeting with them well before you choose to retain their services, maybe for your letterhead printing needs.

By now you've probably more or less picked an ideal company to represent your online printing needs like letterhead printing, so what will your next move be? Have a talk with the company's representative regarding your advertising plans and exactly how it may fit in with the artwork expected to be done. You may either initialize all the designs by yourself or otherwise let company professionals handle the specific details of the project. Request samples of the work before you make a definite decision concerning the outcome. Ask for the project's costs beforehand which will differ depending on specific variations such as quantity, type of paper used, total time period spent on the project, how the project is expected to be delivered along with other miscellaneous details. Reviewing all of these can prevent any complications that may arise and ensure that you'll be retaining their services long after the current business is done.

If you're still unsure as to how to proceed with your potential project, most of these companies will provide you with design templates that you can freely vote on for your printing business cards needs. Just be sure that the company you've chosen won't scam you and be able to meet your organization's standards-failing to do so will result in funds being wasted and unsatisfactory work (that could have been amended) flushed down the drain due to irresponsibility from both parties. Of course, if you plan to hire them on more than one occasion, you won't have any problem contacting the company you've opted for since they have a constant online presence and additionally have remarkable representatives that can vouch for you for you in your time of need.

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Online Marketing: The Most Effective Ways Used to Generate Revenue

Every website owner wants to appear on top of the search results page in major search engines, right? If they want to join the race towards online visibility, they need to have strategies or game plan. Marketing techniques such as search engine optimization, web development, social media marketing, pay-per-click management and print design are currently the best ways towards driving greater number of traffic to one's website.

Search Engine Optimization

The optimization of a website is the surest way of driving traffic and getting higher ranking from major search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo. It is for this reason that advanced techniques in search engine optimization like keyword research, link building, content creation, analyzing and optimizing a website and other techniques should be done in order to make a website stand out from the rest.

Web Design

In web development methods, designs that are imaginative, user-friendly and functional are supposed to be created. One can make use of the Content Management Systems (CMS) that allows him to have full control of the website's content. Special features of CMS may include search engine optimization plug-ins, user management, E-Commerce functionality, text editing, forms, sub-page creation, image editing, banner management and other third-party integrations.

Print Design

In order that the online presence and exposure of a website are best, one needs creative and imaginative design gurus to do them for him. Branding packages which include logo, business card, quotation, receipt, letterhead and invoice designs, creating brochures, leaflet, flyers and posters that can captivate every customer's curiosity should also be taken into major consideration.

Social Media Marketing

With the proliferation of social networking sites today, one can make use of sites such as Facebook or Twitter to enhance the visibility of his products and services to millions of internet users. Effective strategies that include setting up social media accounts, designing them to stand out from the default Facebook pages/Twitter pages, setting up competitions and giveaways, driving traffic to a page using Facebook advertising, engaging fans by asking questions, carrying out polls, quizzes and lucky draws and measuring what worked and what didn't can surely help one drive traffic to his site in just a few hours.

Pay-per-click Management

If one wants his product to have increased visibility in major search engines by paying advertisements, what he needs is pay-per-click management. He will get more visitors using PPC management strategies. Staff that were trained by the original Google Ad Words team can optimize and remove inefficient advertising campaigns, track and monitor results, find new markets one may not have thought of, discover new customers that competitors haven't found yet, control what people think of a business and boost sales are provided by companies that offer pay-per-click management.

William Lee is a marketing executive from a large multinational corporation in Malaysia. He shows great interest in online marketing by sharing his tips on how he manages his markets online.

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Build Your Own Online Business Empire - Here Are 2 Easy Ways To Start Right Now

The Internet has opened a vast avenue of opportunities for the enterprising and the innovative individual. Hundreds or maybe thousands of people starting online businesses every month.

While the business community is waking up to the true benefits of taking their business online, consumers also have started trusting the web a lot more. You only have to take a look at the volume of business done by companies like Amazon or eBay to understand the true power of internet.

For an aspiring entrepreneur, the main attraction is the fact that the set up costs for an online business are negligible when compared to that of an offline one.

Everyday, a huge number of people search the internet using keywords like "make money online" and "home based business".

What stops most people from succeeding in their online business is not lack of information, but lack of direction.

In fact, there is a huge amount of information available out there to help any aspiring internet marketer succeed. And yet, it is precisely this information overload that confuses most of the new marketers and ultimately leads to their failure.

There are literally hundreds of ways in which you can make money online.

When you are starting a new business, you need to pick the option that suits your style and condition out of the hundreds of options available out there. Next, you need highly focused massive action and a bit of perseverance in order to succeed.

Here are a couple of easy ways for anyone to start their own online business with very little initial investment. What's more, you can implement some of these ideas in less than 24 hours.

1. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Programs are agreements set up by business service/ product owners with various other marketers (known as affiliates). The affiliates promote the merchant's products and in turn, are paid a certain percentage of each sale generated through their affiliate link.

The best thing about affiliate marketing is that it hardly costs you anything to get started, assuming you already have an internet connection.

You also don't have to worry about customer service, refunds..etc as you don't own the product.

Once you sign up for an affiliate program and generate your affiliate link, all you have to do is to focus on getting people to buy the product by clicking your link. For this purpose you can use anything from your free blog, your own website or even a simple email sent to a lot of people with you affiliate link in it.

2. Creating Information Products

If you don't want to sell somebody else's products, you can create your own information products. It's not as hard as it seems initially.

You can start by writing your own simple "how-to" ebooks or reports. If you know enough about any particular topic, start writing about it.

Remember to keep it simple and straight forward - the key is to identify a particular problem and then provide a solution for it. For example, if you are an aquarium enthusiast, you could write a small ebook on "How to build and maintain your own aquarium".

If you run out of ideas, you can always turn to the internet. You will find thousands of articles and blogs on almost any topic under the sun. Please ensure that you don't copy from these sources. Use them for your research and come up with your own ebooks. You can then sell them on your own websites or sell them through sites like ClickBank.com.

If you are enterprising enough, you can then upgrade your products and sell them for much higher profits. For example, You can create an audiobook by reading your ebook aloud and recording it. You can then break it down into parts and sell it as an audio course.

You can also convert your ebook into PowerPoint slides, convert them into videos, add some audio to it and sell it as a video course for a huge profit. You can even create a recurring income by selling these courses in parts on membership sites.

The possibilities are endless. All you need is a little bit of creativity and the ability to follow through with your ideas.

It's possible to make huge amounts of money on the internet if you have the right knowledge and the right attitude.

Go ahead. Make your fortune.

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Internet Marketing Blunders To Avoid

When I first got started out in internet marketing, I had no clue as to what to do. I was a TRUE beginner and in my early career of internet marketing, I did a lot of things wrong, and even angered a few people. Since then my knowledge of internet marketing has evolved like a super-advanced alien race, and I understand the internet marketing world much better than I did before. I even have clients now asking for my advice.

But I made a lot of mistakes early on - mistakes that you don't have to go through. In today's lesson, I'm going to share with you some of the mistakes that I have made in my early internet marketing career, and how you can avoid these mistakes so you can have a straight path to profitability. Here's the first thing that you will want to avoid.

1) Forum spamming

This is a BIG no-no. Other forum members will think of you as an idiot, and your account (and even IP address) will be banned. Once you've found a good forum to enter into, you want to become a person who is distilling alot of helpful information to others. The more high quality your information is, the more people will view you as an expert in your niche. Plus, you will get alot more sales if you continue to post on the forum each and every day.

Here's something else that you will want to avoid:

2) Chat room spamming

When I was college, I didn't know anything about internet marketing. So I used the only medium that knew well that had alot of members in it (and also alot of girls)... chat rooms. I remember one night going into an AOL chat room, and just plastering my website address in huge letters all over the chat room.

I had people posting mean and hurtful things to me on there, and within 2 minutes, someone did a DNS Lookup on my website, and posted my mailing address in the chat room. I was so embarrassed and scared. I immediately got of the chat room and it was the last time EVER that I used a chat room. Here's something else to avoid:

3) Not having more than 1 traffic source

If you put all your eggs in one basket, what will you do when the basket falls and all of the eggs get cracked open? You will lose your entire business virtually overnight. To avoid this, seek out other marketing strategies that can bring you sales immediately. You have a whole arsenal of them available to you.

You have YouTube marketing, article marketing, social marketing, pay per click advertising, blog commenting, and so much more strategies. With these kind of strategies, it's easy to pick of few and work on those few each and every day. Internet marketing takes a lot of work, and those people who say they only spend 2 hours a week on their business all while making $6,000 a month... my guess is that they're heavy in using advertising.

These 3 things are something that you will want to totally avoid if you want to make money right away in your online business. The more you focus on them and start putting them into action, the sooner you'll be able to get your hands on the profits that you deserve.

Good luck with using these tips to have success in your online business today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Randall Magwood is one of the most respected and highly-regarded online marketing experts on the internet. He currently has a free book about internet marketing that helps small business owners market their business online successfully. To learn more and to download this free book, simply visit his website here: http://www.internetmarketing-rules.com/

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How to Promote Your Business Website

Here are a few tips to help you effectively promote your business website and build your online brand.

Make Your Website People-Friendly

Your website's appearance matters. It's important that your business website reflects your business and your products and services. Choose your colors well when it comes to your web design. Make navigation in your website easy and user-friendly.

Make Your Website Search Engine Friendly

When it comes to online promotions, search engine optimization (SEO) is essential. The reason why it's important to optimize your website for search engines like Yahoo and Google is because online users find products and services through search engines.

For example, if people want to shop for a reliable web hosting service, they turn to search engines to find one. And people mostly visit websites found in the first two to three search engine results pages (SERPS) of Google and Yahoo. So if you want people to easily find your business website, optimize your website to rank well in search engines.

Article and Link Directory Submissions

Spread your website links online. The more links you have online, the more chances that people and search engines will find you.

To build more links, submit your link to well-respected directories like DMOZ, or smaller topic-specific directories. Write relevant articles with links to your website and submit them to article submission sites. Directory and article submissions are a good method to build lasting and natural links to your business website.

Create Compelling Web Content

Promote your business website by creating relevant and compelling content for your visitors. Give people what they want online -- information. Make your web content easy to understand. If you have an informative and readable website, visitors will stay longer on your site and more likely come back to read more.

Submit Press Releases

Press releases are great way to let the world know more about your business. As a company, you can write and publish PRs about your latest business expansion, the latest addition to your team, new or improved products/services, or just about anything you want to share with the world. Creating and submitting PRs to online PR sites can help generate quality traffic to your website.

Forum Commenting

Join forums and start posting comments. Forum posting is a great way to get closer to your target market and drive traffic to your website. Through forums, you can provide helpful information to people and at the same time direct them to your website. Make sure you include a working link and a tagline in your forum signature.

Take Care of the Basics

You should definitely promote your website and create a strong online presence to maximize the potential of your business. But if you want to make your online business work, remember to take care of the basics first.

Choose a good domain name and a good web hosting provider. Your domain name should be easy to remember and relevant to your business. Your hosting provider should be affordable, have good uptime, and offer excellent technical support.

Once you have the basics covered, you can successfully proceed with online marketing activities for your business website.

Promoting your business website can bring you a considerable increase in traffic. Make sure that your web space has enough bandwidth to handle the amount of new visitors you may get.

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Blog Commenting And Affiliate Marketing Revealed

If you want to get more unique visitors to your website, you have to implement a multitude of internet marketing strategies. You can't rely on one source of traffic alone. If the only thing that you're doing now is PPC, then you need to diversify your traffic flow. What will you do when all of your money is gone from all of the PPC advertising that you have been doing?

And not only is this true with PPC advertising, but it's also true for all other forms of advertising. It doesn't matter if you do forum advertising, high traffic website advertising, classified advertising, or even blog advertising. Once the money is gone, your traffic stops. So hopefully you're making PPC work for you in your online business.

There are alot of ways to get traffic to your website and today's lesson will show you just how to do it. These techniques are easy to do, and you should encounter no problems when doing them. In fact, let's look at one of the most popular ways to get free traffic on the internet.

1) Blog commenting

Alot of people say this strategy works like ghost busters. What you can to do is find a high traffic blog in your niche, and be an active participant when it comes to commenting on posts. Some blogs allow you to leave your website information at the end of your posts, but for most blogs, you fill out a form that has a section for your website information, and once you make the comment, your website will be hyperlinked whenever someone clicks on your profile name.

How many people will click on your profile name? Could be a lot, could be a little - it all depends on how much traffic the blog gets and if the information on the blog is simple and effective. Here's another way to get more unique hits to your website.

2) Affiliate marketing

This is an excellent strategy for getting more hits to your website. I love affiliate marketing because after a few sales, the cost of marketing the affiliate product will more than likely pay for itself. When it comes to affiliate marketing online, you have 3 choices:

1) Commission Junction
2) Clickbank
3) Paydotcom

All 3 of these affiliate networks are great ways to have your product promoted by thousands of affiliates. Not only that, but your website hits will increase also. If you want to get more visitors, this is one of the best ways to do it. Sure each site has it's rules, but play by the rules like everyone else does, and you'll make a name for yourself in your respected niche.

These tips for getting more unique hits are things that you can start doing now. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this thing out. Traffic is easy once you know what to do, and once you start to get alot of it, keep doing the techniques that is bring in more new traffic for you.

Use these tips to get as many unique visitors to your website as possible.

Good luck with using these ideas to boost your website traffic.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Randall Magwood is one of the most respected and highly-regarded online marketing experts on the internet. He currently has a free book about internet marketing that helps small business owners market their business online successfully. To learn more and to download this free book, simply visit his website here: http://www.internetmarketing-rules.com/

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5 Top Online Business Ideas That Create Millionaires Overnight

There are many ways to make money online. What are the top online business ideas that have made many a millionaire overnight?

The 5 top online business ideas are as follows:

First, create and sell your own digital product

This is one of the best ways to make money online. What you do is create your own product, and employ affiliates to sell the product for you. In this method, you have full control over the product. You get to decide on the quality, price and content of the product. But of course, this control comes with responsibilities. As the product owner, you are responsible for customer service, market research and development of the product.

Second, be an affiliate marketer

Unlike other top online business ideas, you can start right away with affiliate marketing by simply promoting other people's products. You need not worry about creating your own product, market research or customer service. The only setback is you do not have control over the product or a brand of your own. So, you would not be able to build your brand name.

Third, sell physical product

Selling physical product is one of the top online business ideas. Without me mentioning, am sure you already have an idea of what this is about. Exactly! eBay is one of the best examples where you can make millions selling physical products. If you don't mind the hassle of packaging, delivering and customer service, selling physical products can be a lucrative online business.

Forth, sign up for pay per click or pay per view programs

In this category, one of the most famous top online business ideas is Google AdSense. This is where you earn money from each click of the advertisements other advertisers place on your website. What you do is get a Google AdSense account. Place the account code given on your webpage. This is where other Google advertisers' ads will appear on your webpage. When someone visits your site and clicks on the advertisements placed on your webpage, you get paid. What you need is to get traffic to your website. But if you really want to make money with this method, you need massive traffic to your website.

Fifth and finally, sell membership programs

This is one of my favorite top online business ideas simply because it generates recurring income. A member who signs up will pay membership fees every month, week or year (depending on the rules set by you), until he/she terminates the membership. One time job, but you get to enjoy the fees repeatedly auto-pilot. What you need to do is to create the membership site, provide quality contents and information, and promote it to get members. Once there are members, you need to do very little from time to time to sustain the members. That's why it is one of my favorite top online business ideas.

These are the 5 top online business ideas which have made thousands an internet millionaire. Choose the one that suit you the best and start developing it! You'll make your 1st million in no time.

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Innovate Yourself As A Coach

The fast pace of life and the fast moving economy are forcing all of us to change just to be able to keep up. Clients are more and more demanding, the competition is fierce, and sometimes it seems like you need the best idea possible or a very aggressive strategy to make it in any business or any aspect of your life.

Unfortunately, coaches tend to forget that coaching is a wonderful opportunity to help many people bring about many positive changes in their everyday lives. Your coaching should bring you happiness, love, peace and serenity instead of fear, doubts, stress and frustration.

When you do not like what you do anymore, all you should do is go within yourself and find out why things are like this. You must rediscover the essence of your coaching, what motivated and inspired you to join this industry. In other words, you need to uncover your brilliance, and share it with your ideal clients.

It is not a very easy thing to do, but when you see that things are not working the way you planned, when you don't have enough clients and revenue, when you cannot promote yourself on the market and cannot share your knowledge and expertise with the world, then you must do something about it and change the way you perceive your coaching.

Always remember that what it takes to make it in this business is to be yourself. You don't have to copy another successful coach, you don't have to use techniques or approaches that do not suit you; all you have to do is use what is naturally yours. I'm sure you know by now what you are good at, what your skills and talents are, so bring them out and use them to define yourself as a unique coach. Yes, you are a unique coach because you are a unique individual, no one else has your assets and you cannot be like anyone else.

Use your heart, your mind and your talents to develop your own coaching business, to set up products and programmes which can actually be of help to your clients. Once you start on this new path, and once you understand what you must do for yourself and your clients, then the road to success will become clear.

- Be aware of your assets - it may sound strange for a coach to do this, but how many of you have taken the time to rediscover yourselves, to actually know what lies inside you? Just because many skills and talents come naturally, you are not aware of them. Now it is time to become aware of what you have and let your brilliance shine.

- Believe in your clients, and therefore yourself - The first quality of a coach is to believe in their clients, so could a coach really believe in the success of their clients if they don't believe in it themselves? Your connection with your clients is essential, and they will instantly feel it when you lack confidence in yourself. When they have a problem, people turn to those who know what they can do and are sure about their success, so find the confidence in yourself so that your clients believe in you as well.

- Show your passion - you are a coach because you love coaching, because you have so much to give to others and you want to reach as many people as possible. So why keep all that to yourself? Bring your passion to light and let everyone see your drive. Your products, programmes, your sessions, your entire message must reveal your love for coaching. Your clients will want to work with you once they know you love your profession and that you get results because you want to help, not because you are money-oriented.

Maybe the best strategy to begin with when you change your approach to coaching is to be true to yourself, to rely on your special way of being yourself. Because when you are yourself, you instantly become uncopyable, as there is only one of you!

Let your true self shine through, show your strengths, your passions and your talents in everything you do, in every product you create, and soon you'll realise that your successful coaching business starts with? yourself.

If you are ready to claim your real Success Identity, get a FREE copy (book and audio) of the Unrevealed 3D Success Metamorphosis and discover how you can uncover your "uncopyable" Brilliance, claim your innovative spotlight and step into a your new success, visit her site coachingandsuccess.

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How To Get The Best From Daily Deals

Daily deals are the latest 'in' thing in internet shopping. Inboxes around the world get mails regarding a stream of attractive daily deals ranging from discount holiday bookings to unbelievable offers on clothes, toys and other products. The popularity of daily deals websites may be adjudged from the fact that Google recently offered to buy Groupon for a whopping $6 billion, and the offer was rejected!

Daily deals are undoubtedly attractive, but for the average customer, these can become a little confusing if not overwhelming. On the one hand, there are hundreds of service providers offering attractive discount deals, and on the other, there are so many attractive offers that it is hard to make up one's mind. Fortunately, some tools can help consumers get the best return for their money without wasting too much time on making the wise choice.

Understand the service clearly:

Choose a daily deals website that offers you the scoop on local deals. Most websites offer attractive deals from all over the US. Once you subscribe to their services, you begin to receive newsletters containing information about the latest deals on offer. Some service providers focus on certain products on certain days of the week. These websites may buy products in bulk and pass on their savings to consumers. Such service providers are useful in their own way. However, one has to wait until the right deal comes along. In addition to these, specialty websites focus primarily on special services like eating, outdoor activities and so on.

Understand how it works:

Different websites work differently, although most sites follow the same pattern. Typically, the consumer must sign up with the daily deals website to receive hot deals on offer. After signing up, daily deals will start arriving in the inbox with information about deals on a day to day offer. Since these are limited time deals, it is necessary to act immediately if you spot a deal that you want to take advantage of.

Many websites also allow you to refer your friends to the service, thereby enabling you to earn money each time they make a purchase! That is an attractive way of making easy money.

What's in it for them

Merchants are happy to offer deals through discount sites as these sites are an easy access point to some of the most attractive deals online. Thus, consumers may be sure of receiving some of the most attractive deals on a daily basis. No wonder people are flocking to daily deals websites. It's the surest way to make money while you shop!

If you are looking for attractive daily deals in Houston, check out gototowndeals.com. They offer some of the hottest deals in the Houston area with a large number of merchants offering their products and services through the website.

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Understanding The Financial World Is The First Step To Becoming A Millionaire

In order to generate monetary success, you need a solid financial education to guide you on your way. There are people all over the world who invested on their financial education, and soon or late, gained the financial success they deserved. If you look at the past statistics, you will notice that wealth is amongst the most educated households.

This only means that if you have the knowledge on how to do business, you will have an easier time to find financial success.

You need to understand that formal education is imperative for you to find financial success. The educational systems now in the US build a curriculum for their professors to follow. A curriculum is the back bone of an educational institution in teaching its students on how to be adept in certain fields.

If you look at the affluent and reputable names in finance, you will see something in common amongst their resumes. You will notice that they all went to Ivy League schools from Harvard to Yale to Cambridge. Though not all businessmen are graduates of such reputable educational institutions, you need to know that they only come in few.

Majority of successful people today who found success doing business are the ones who studied the financial world for years. These are the people who took a chance and a leap of faith, and reaped the rewards in the end. They relied on the things they learned from school and the things that they obtained from their mentors.

You need to understand that economies are complex structures. There are different types of economies in the different parts of the world. For example, China though ran by a Communist Party can be seen as a country running under a capitalist economic framework. If you are not aware of China's difference with the market economy of the west, you may simply fail in penetrating their market.

This is when educational institutions play a significant role. They make sure that their graduates know rules, not only to the economy present within the US or the western hemisphere. You may notice how graduates from Harvard and other Ivy League schools are exploring other countries with a totally different economic construct. This just goes to show that they could survive wherever they may be.

Another thing responsible for success in understanding the financial world is through the educational institutions' endless search for knowledge and innovation. Educational institutions are for funding researches, in order to develop better business approaches.
Through the latest papers, studies and thesis found mainly on the educational institutions' libraries, you will notice how their graduates evolved through out the years. With updated knowledge base, they quickly adapt to economic challenges stopping burdens like the economic recession on its track.

With adapted skills over the present economic times, they simply continue to generate positive results because of what their schools taught them. This means that they continue to earn large sums of money despite the perceived threats on the economy. If you come to think of it, all of these things would never be possible without the help of educational institutions.

Financial education is essential to understand how to maximize profits. Though there are challenges presented in today's economic situation, through the right tools, you could make the most out of these things. The bottom line is, you simply increase your chance of making money when you developed an understanding of the financial world.

To find out more information and take the first step to creating wealth, visit http://psumuletu-wealthcreation.blogspot.com/ Your Guidance to Success and Financial Freedom.

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Internet Money Making Tips To Help You Begin Your Own Business

Beginning your own business is very exciting, but it can also be very confusing. You need to be made aware of some internet money making tips that is going to make it simple for starting your own business.

If you follow these tips, then you will have your business going in no time and can begin earning an income from it immediately. Here are the tips that will have you earning money before you know it has happened.

1. Choose your perfect business idea - Too many people begin a business by choosing the first one they locate. This is not how you want to go about doing this.

The best way is to write out a list of you skills, hobbies and any other interests you have. This way you can begin your search in an area that you know you are going to enjoy building a business in.

2. Get yourself prepared - Before you can accomplish making an income at home, you have to find out how. After you have the business idea to start your business with, the next step is to begin building your knowledge of building a home business.

This is going to be started from day one of your business and will continue until the very last day you are in business. There is a lot of knowledge that needs to be gained and the more you learn the easier it is going to be to earn as big of an income as you choose to.

3. Market every single day starting from day one - This is the single most important task you will do every day. Marketing is the only way to let others know that you are in business for yourself.

Marketing is how you build traffic to your business and traffic is how you will make the money you want with your business. Start with one marketing method and slowly build on to your internet marketing strategy by adding other marketing methods to it, but start out slowly so you can really achieve your goal and not become overwhelmed with too much information at once.

Taking on too many methods before you are ready is how many people find themselves giving up. Information overload is a big reason many people fail with a business they begin, but taking things slow and one step at a time will prevent this from happening to you and will help you become successful and not another failed business.

These are the most vital internet money making tips that you need to remember and definitely use to begin your own business at home. Just be sure you use them starting right away so you can start making money right away and so your family can start to benefit from it in many ways.

Professional Internet marketer Mark Babcock helps average people make money on the internet and create extraordinary incomes from home. If you are looking for extra money ideas visit his website today so he can start helping you. http://www.cmbwealth.com/

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Getting Customers To "Sell" Themselves

Do you find it hard to attract new visitors to your sales website? With so many sites online these days, visitors have a massive array of Websites to choose from nowadays. Getting and keeping a steady flow of traffic to your Website can be somewhat of a daunting task.

Keep your chin up, because I am going to teach you some things that will help you in this area. To start with, keep your writing friendly, straight fourth, and simple. Make sure you do not stray from the topic.

People like to know that what they are looking at is going to help them some way. No matter what way this is: entertaining, teaching, playing, or whatever - keep it specific and mostly relevant - to keep from losing your audience.

If you are writing say; a Landing page for a specific product, know first that there are many competitors who would rather have them reading their page, instead of yours. What is my point here? Start by getting their attention.

A great headline is a must. What makes a headline great? First, it has to be interesting enough to make them want to click the title to see what it is about. Secondly, (for a sales page) it must convey a benefit - something that will help them solve a problem, give them more information, or help them with a need.

Thirdly, the headline should draw their interest into the body copy of the page. For example: if you needed to sell someone a pair of running shoes, how would you write a headline that would grab their interest?

You would not simply title the page "running shoes," because there are tons of pages out there who are vying for that same visitor. How about something like "run faster," for a headline? Would that work?

Let's see... it does convey a direct benefit, it may just spark their interest. How about "run much faster."? Is that better? Well, it does make a promise (that is important) and as long as the product can deliver on the promise, it will work.

Okay; so you are staring at a page that begins with "run much faster," how can you begin writing a short paragraph that will make them want to know more, and read further into the copy? Here is a clue - use emotional triggers, and copy that will "hit some hot buttons," that are of a concern to the reader.

Something like; remember the last (100-yard dash) race you ran in high school? How did it feel to see both the right lane, as well as the left runner, leave you in the dust? Did you feel slightly embarrassed?

Once the copy has hit this stride, and made them consider a small problem, or event that happened to them - then - introduce the solution. You get it - your running shoes. Use powerful words that will make them pay attention.

Such as; "Never feel this way again. You will be the runner who is in front, having onlookers cheer you on, (notice benefit) while you blast past everyone else." (Benefit #2) This example shows how powerful, short, story-based copy can be used (very effectively) to sell a specific product or service.

No matter what your product or service is, using creative writing, you can write a great sales page by taking advantage of this method. Have a service to sell, instead of a product? No problem. Look at how your service has helped someone solve their problem.

Then use this strategy to create a short story for your sales page. Use a case-study sort of approach, except shorten the case study, and make it "come to life." Inject some vivid adverbs, and make use of power illustrations in the mind of the reader.

You can actually get some customers "chomping at the bit," so to speak, for your product or service, by using this problem/solution writing format. (Contained within a lively storyboard) It works.

Sales writers have been using this style of copy to sell products/services for decades, and even today - it remains the top choice of sales copy styles - because it actually outsells other types of sales copy. (By a 10 to 1 margin)

Why is this writing method the first choice among both the buyers and sellers? For sellers, it is because it simply works much better than other styles of sales writing. What about the buyers? It is simply because people love short stories. In addition, many buyers do not like to "be sold," but, they do not mind one bit "being sold," if they themselves; are the "seller."

Stephen Monday is a professional copywriter, Web Copy Specialist, whose copy writing site can be found at: http://www.aaawebcopyservices.com/

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Do Your Best In Coaching

Do your best and then just let it go. That's what many pundits in the personal development industry would tell you. You may think this doesn't apply to coaching, as it is a business where you must be focused on every detail, on every client and every problem you must solve.

Yes, it sounds easy, but for someone proactive, who is used to taking action and being in control, it's not something you can readily accept. But this is not about losing control, it is about doing the best you can for yourself, your business and your clients.

Think of all the times when you've struggled and were focused on money, on how to get it, on how to pay your bills and get a client here and there. Yes, the right word here is 'struggle'. Why struggle when you love your coaching, when you joined this industry because you wanted to reach as many people as possible? Your coaching shouldn't be a struggle, it should be fun, something you look forward to every day. And even if there are setbacks, you should know that your final goal is success and these are all lessons to be learnt on the way, to improve your work and your abilities as a coach.

Make the most of your road to success. Improve yourself, your abilities, your talents, create new and better products and programmes to help your clients. Be the coach you want to be and take a few steps to improve yourself and your coaching.

- Answer people's expectations
Better yet, answer your expectations. Be who you want to be, and then you will be the coach people need. Do your best everyday to learn new strategies, new concepts, to learn from your experiences and from your clients as well. They are the ones who can help you improve your business, once you know how you can help them. Show your clients you are willing and determined to
get things done.

- Show that you understand your clients
Empathy is what a good coach has. You can learn in time what your clients need or want. Whatever you do, make sure you show them you know how they feel and you also have the solution to their problem. Although they confide in you, they share with you their fears, their hopes and dreams, they still turn to you as an
expert, not as their friend.

- Show you have the solution to their problem
When they come to a specialist, people want solutions and results, not just a shoulder to cry on. That's why you must learn how to help them and you must also show them through all your work - products, programmes, sessions that you do have the solution to their problems.

- Prove you can help them
Facts speak for themselves, and people will hire the coach who has a very good success rate. Give your clients examples of other clients' success stories and even tell them about your own experiences. The power of example works every time, and your clients will be hooked by your own story, by the ups and downs you have experienced yourself.

Now it is time to do whatever you believe can help your clients and your business also, but do not get hung up on the results. Once you know you did the best you could possibly have done, then the results will come. The more you focus on a need, the more you will not get what you want. Your focus should be on your clients, your work and your successful, fulfilling life.

If you are ready to claim your real Success Identity, get a FREE copy (book and audio) of the Unrevealed 3D Success Metamorphosis and discover how you can uncover your "uncopyable" Brilliance, claim your innovative spotlight and step into a your new success, visit her site coachingandsuccess.

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How to Discover Online Marketing Solutions

The 4Cs of marketing are company, collaborator, competition, and customer.

One of the very first things you should do - even before creating your product, but at least before launching it to the public - is evaluating these 4Cs. Doing so can mean the difference between you becoming the new market leader or the new flop.

By leveraging your strengths...

By acknowledging your weakness...

By creating (or modifying) your product so it's exactly what your customers want...

By creating (or modifying) your product so that it's something that doesn't exist anywhere in the marketplace...

By working with people and organizations to get the word out - fast, is what you'll be doing IF you start with the 4Cs.

If not, you are working against yourself and the market to create and sell a product that is likely to be average (at best) and only if you're lucky, successful.

You can depend on luck, or you can do your research. Here's how:
Start with a blank sheet of paper.Make four columns.List Company, Competition, Customers, and Collaborator as the column headings.For each column, list as many things as you can about it. Hold nothing back. Whatever comes to mind put it down.

At the completion of this exercise you'll have sketch of your company, competition, collaborators, and customers - ideas, characteristics, and various things about you and your marketplace to explore further.

Somewhere in that list could be your next big breakthrough.
A big idea that acts as a springboard to a new product.An untapped source of leads.A vulnerability that needs fixing.You will discover online marketing solutions, offline solutions, product ideas, and more.

Here's how to get started...

In the Company column - List your strengths, weaknesses, culture, size, abilities, ethics, etc. The idea is to list everything about your company - everything. Anything that could be leveraged in a marketing campaign, that could be leveraged during product creation, advertising, employee communications, support. List affiliations, patents, and awards. List financial strength, and age of company. List anything that you could potentially use to improve your current position in the market, to create a better perception in the minds of your prospects, to become more attractive to collaborators (mutually beneficial partnerships with people and businesses).

In the Competition column - List all your top competitors. Study them. Find out their strengths and weaknesses. What segment of the market do they dominate? How do they dominate? How do they price, package, and support their products? Why do their customers go to them and not you? Where do they advertise? How do they advertise? Where don't they advertise? How big is their company? What's their culture? What's their marketing message, their position? The idea is to figure out everything you can about your competition, and how you can be different. The idea is to take advantage of the areas they're weak. The idea is to find a way to reach your goals and you cannot do that if you don't understand your competition.

In the Customers column - List the characteristics of your ideal customer. Who are they? Where do they hang out? What do they like? What do they hate? How old are they? Where do they live? How much do they make? How many of them are there? Why do they want a product like yours? What about your product is appealing to them? What about your product is unappealing? Get in the minds of your customers... ask them these questions if you don't know the answers. Create a survey. Send them an email. Organize a focus group. But get the answers. And then go build a product and company the better serves them.

In the Collaborators column - List all the people and companies that have access to/influence with your market. Then find a way to create a mutually beneficial relationship with them. They promote and you promote them. You do something for them and they'll do something for you. This one is all about finding more sources of leads, ways to generate more trust, and authority. If you can partner with a person or company or celebrity, then everyone that likes that person, company or celebrity now knows about you, too.

Edward Bordi is a marketing consultant. He works with small businesses by uncovering problem areas and identifying untapped opportunities. Through careful analysis, he develops and then implements a custom and comprehensive marketing plan - that is focused on dramatically increasing profits. Edward studied marketing at the prestigious Wharton business school, and is certified as an Independent Marketing Advisor (IMA) by one the top online marketing companies in the world, DotComSecrets.

Visit Edward's company website, 1EASYPLAN, to learn more online marketing solutions.

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