Saturday, November 28, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
10 Factors When Choosing An Online Business
Lots of people are interested in home businesses to make a little extra cash, to help pay the monthly bills, or to create financial freedom and security. Either way, an internet business can help you.
There are some good ones, but unfortunately, there are a lot of "scams" - so be sure to do your homework. The trick is to find a good one; don't waste time or money chasing empty promises or pipe dreams.
I used the following questionnaire to find my internet marketing business - a similar process should work for you as well.
1. Legal?
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Be sure to do your homework first. If you have questions, check with the Better Business Bureau.
2. Sought After Product?
Would you buy this product? Would your friends or family members? A lot of home businesses go after small markets that may not be large enough to make you any real money. Is the market for this product already saturated? Room for your product?
What we want is a large, hungry, market that will buy from us now; and buy additional products later as well.
3. Generous Profits?
Is there a big enough profit to be made by selling this product to make it worthwhile? Expenses will eat away at your profit margin - be sure to consider them. After all, there will be a number of start-up and ongoing expenses to consider.
4. Reasonable Competition?
It's very difficult to sell a product – even a very good product, if there are tons of other people giving it away (or selling it for far less than we are)?
Similarly, it is very difficult to make a sale if you can't even get your potential customer's attention.
5. Realistic Commissions?
Can you make a profit without an army of customers? Is that realistic?
Is the proposed commission reasonable? Will you get paid fairly for your contribution?
6. Automated?
Personally, I'm looking for a business opportunity that doesn't require very much of my own time and effort. I want to remove myself from the success equation.
The best home businesses I've seen have systems and processes that will work for you 7x24x365 – whether you're spending the day at the beach with your kids, laid up in the hospital, or sailing around the world.
7. Targeted Visitors?
Do something every day to increase the quality and volume of targeted traffic to your business. For online businesses, the key is targeted traffic.
Will your up line help send you quality traffic?
8. Sponsor Training?
Seek out training from your upline. You could muddle along on your own, but such an approach is more likely to fail than succeed.
So, another key is to make sure that your sponsor provides adequate training.
9. Available Technical Support?
Computers are necessary for today's businesses. For online businesses, that computer will likely be yours.
For internet marketing businesses, a lot of the technical support will be needed up-front, getting your system set up before you can even start doing the business. You'll need good technical support.
10. Customer / Sales Closing Support?
Regardless of the product you sell, there may be problems, returns, changes, upgrades, etc. involved. You'll also need adequate back-office support.
Look for businesses that also include customer and sales support. Opportunities that provide sales support score high with me.
Winners act; losers don't.
Evaluate the opportunity against this checklist. Don't wait, act now to secure your future.
CPA Or Affiliate Marketing: Your Choice
If you're new to online marketing, a lot of the terms on the internet can become confusing. For one thing, how is CPA (cost per action) different from affiliate marketing? Many people don't understand that there are significant contrasts. To understand them, we need to take a look at CPA marketing or affiliate marketing in more detail.
The biggest difference comes down to what the money goes towards. Affiliate marketing is more traditional - sellers end up buying the actual sales for their products. But with CPA, they're buying different actions - things like free trial offers or getting people to sign up with their e-mail addresses or zip codes.
You will find that there are some things that are shared between these two options - the affiliates themselves, for example. The good thing with CPA is that while you still get hits, you also let people get to know you before they buy, and they'll be more willing to invest in more when they eventually do so.
Many people working as affiliates like this because they don't have to ensure a sale - that will be left to whomever they're working with. All they need to do is get customers interested and tell them where to go. Once they've provided an audience for their client, they have nothing left to do.
Don't believe that you won't run into any problems, however. It's probably going to be a bit harder and require more of your attention if you want to get started this way. If you are an affiliate marketer yourself, you really need to make sure you understand what you're promoting and to be able to show that clearly.
This in mind, though, if you can devote yourself to the practice, you'll find there's a lot to gain from CPA. Make sure you research it fully before agreeing to anything and become familiar enough that you can do the work well and bring in the kind of profits you're looking for.
Tip: Check out this in-depth Zero Friction Marketing Review and discover the truth about the latest CPA Marketing product and how to get an unique Zero Friction Marketing Bonus.
The Most Important Part of Internet Marketing
When you hear the term "internet marketing", what do you think of?
For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs. All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet marketing is much simpler.
At its core, internet marketing is about these things:
* Understanding the target market to which the product/service/cause you’re marketing will appeal
* Determining exactly how your target market interacts with the internet
* Positioning your content on the internet to attract the attention of your target market
* Collecting information about your target market (also known as "leads") for follow-up and conversion into sales
* Design of offers or incentives to induce the desired actions from your leads
Since there is insufficient space in this article to give all of these topics adequate attention, let’s focus on just one specific topic with the realm of internet marketing: Email Marketing.
My best payoff has always come by focusing on permission-based email marketing. Permission-based email marketing refers to the practice of collecting information (including email addresses) from website visitors and communicating with them via e-mail with their direct consent. The "permission" aspect of permission-based email marketing is what separates legitimate email marketers from the spammers that everyone despises.
My love of email marketing is strong for one reason: It works very well. Email marketing has been much like a never-ending goldmine: It enables us to produce income on demand simply by sending a good offer to our list. When you have thousands of loyal subscribers - as we do - and you put a strong and compatible offer in front of them, income becomes nearly automatic.
However, the key to successful email marketing is the development of a legitimate trust relationship with your subscribers. If you opt to send your subscribers a request for purchases every single day, they will likely tire of your badgering and cease reading your emails altogether.
Alternatively, if you take the time to provide good content to your readers on a regular and frequent basis, you’ll discover that your readers take all of your emails far more seriously, and as a result your emails will be opened, read and acted upon with greater frequency. Essentially, email marketing is really an exercise in trust.
While there are many more aspects to internet marketing than just permission-based email marketing, email has definitely been the cornerstone on which our business is built.
A Great Business Model - Try Commission Blueprint 2
It is a good business, home web marketing promotion. Or at least it can be. You might be persuaded to think that in todays rough business times, its an awful time to start a new business, home web marketing promotion or not. One example is Commission Blueprint 2.0
The truth is the one thing you should learn from this recession is that a job is not security. Theres an old joke that job is an acronym for just over broke, and while thats not completely true, it does illustrate a point we should likely all learn.
The business you toil for is not your friend. They arent. The people could be, perhaps even your boss, but to the business youre nothing but a collection of numbers. They will not pay you one cent more than they believe is critical to keep you, and they definitely wont hesitate to get rid of you if youre too expensive.
There probably was a point when you could get a job somewhere and as long as you did at least the minimum, you were assured a job till you died or retired, and probably a nice gold watch if it was retirement. No gold coffins, as far as I know.
Those days are gone. In the new economy, even doing to perfection is not enough to guarantee that you're going to have a job tomorrow. A job isn't security. But the ability to understand how to make cash, thats security. That's a business - Commission Blueprint 2.0. Home online marketing promotion might be one of the finest ways to guarantee your future.
What do I mean when I talk about this new business? Home online marketing promotion is where you set up shop teaching businesses and individual the simple way to use the internet to build their business and make money. This is the key to business in the future and prosperity today. Its having the knowledge to help others.
Any business can use the internet to help build their purchaser base and improve relations with existing purchasers, but few of them know it. There are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of ways to do it. You might create a portal that permits companies to combine their web presence. Or you could set up an autoresponder service that allows them to supply buyers special deals to keep them coming back. There are a nearly infinite range of options available for you to use.
The better part is, you dont actually have to learn how to do these things. You need to know that they exist, and you want to know how to find the people that will set up these sorts of things. Your business is information, knowing how to put the right people together to get the job done. Thats the great thing about the web and Commission Blueprint 2, you will find whatever you need, you only need to know that you can.
There are other things you can try, other jobs available, and they may work. But I cant think of any other that only needs the willingness to go out and find people. Everybody's got a job, but anybody can start a business. Home online marketing promotion might just be the business for you.
Further reading Review of Commission Blueprint 2
Explode Your PPL Blastoff Home Business
Many have asked me how I have managed to turn things around so quickly. I was able to go from complete financial disaster to success in a mere six month period. What I want to share with you is the power of one single little word that changed my life. Now PPL Blastoff was not the business I was promoting at the time, but this principal applies to any business.
There is nothing super special about the word – in fact, you will probably be disappointed – but truly understanding it will make all the difference in the world. The real power comes not from the word itself, but in how you are able to internalize it and change your entire self-limiting belief systems in an instant.
Many of you will dismiss what I am saying – that’s fine, just move on because this isn’t for you – but for those that do listen, your life may be transformed. It starts with humility. To read what I am saying and internalize it, to understand how I went from nothing to six figures in six months, well, you have to be humble enough to “listen”. Print it out. Internalize the real power of what I’m about to tell you and allow it to transform your mindset in the snap of a finger. Whether you are promoting Blastoff PPL or any other product (MLM or not), you have to grasp this concept.
We have been taught from an early age that things have to happen slowly, that slower is better (ever heard the story of the Tortoise and the Hare?), but I’m here to tell you that the exact opposite is true. You truly can transform yourself in a very short time period if you are willing to question some of your long held beliefs, discard some of the limiting ones, and embrace your own commitment to success.
You see the biggest changes we can make come from within. Those changes involve redefining your fundamental belief systems and those changes can transform you in an instant, removing decades of self-imposed limitations. When it happens for you it will be as if you have been seeing in black and white all of your life and someone instantaneously shows you how to see in color for the first time. Suddenly limitations and fears just begin to melt away.
The word that I want you to redefine is the word “decide”. Doesn’t seem so special, right? But there is something that you must understand. If you research the word to its original roots, the word decide literally translates “to cut off from all other possibilities”. Now, I want you to stop and go back and re-read that about 10 times. Think of the power that comes from a true understanding of that one little word. Think about just how much different your life could be form this day forward if you were to just totally embrace this one little word. If you didn’t stop right now and go back and reread and ponder this a bit, then you will likely just dismiss this article and get nothing out of it.
“To cut off from all other possibilities”. Can you imange what might happen if you simply decided to treat your home business like a real business rather than just your hobby? How would that make a difference for you? What could happen if you simply decided that NOW was your time to change? What if you decided that you were no longer going to allow fear, complacency and procrastination to dominate your life? What if you decided to make today the first day of a new level of truly living your life rather than merely going through the motions? PPL Blastoff doesn’t have to be your decision, maybe it is another program you wish to promote, but one way or another you must “decide” to move forward with massive action and resolve.
The day can come for you too, but you must decide that you desire more out of life and take action. It is my hope for you that you will be able to embrace this simple little word and DECIDE to make a difference in your life as well.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Earn Some Extra Cash by Taking Part in Surveys
Would you like to know how you can earn easy additional money for hardly any effort? In this article I write about a method my family has recently heard about which has helped us to pay some of those unwanted bills. This is by taking part in different surveys for a range of companies who are looking to find out more about their customers or potential customers. You may think just like I did that this would hardly be worth your time or effort, however you may be surprised when you realise you much these companies are willing to pay.
Just before I continue I would like to make it clear that this is by no way my line of business; I am in fact involved in various projects to do with various industries including web promotion, DVD duplication service and offering a stuttering therapy course.
A couple of days ago my step-daughters best friend was at our house to play and to to eat her evening meal. They are both twelve years of age and have known each other since primary school. This friend also stopped at our house for her evening meal and while at the dining table, eating her food, she started up quite an interesting conversation. She asked my step-daughter if she would be interested in joining her to take part in a survey which would be about the subject of childrens banking.
I started to ask this girl, who is called Emma, what would be involved. Emma replied that a lady would be going round to her house on Saturday morning and would be asking her a series of questions about banking, for example who she banks with and how much money she attempts to save as a twelve year old. She continued that the meeting would last around an hour and a half for which she would be paid £20. If she then also kept a form of diary for a week, she would then receive another £10.
My step-daughter suddenly became very interested and asked me whether she would be able to go as well, I told her that she could.
Emma then told our family that she regularly took part in these surveys and had been introduced to the idea by a friend of her mothers. She stated that on average she made around £100 a month from taking part and completing these surveys, not bad for a twelve year old. I joked by asking her whether I could also go around on the Saturday. Emma replied that this survey was only aimed at schoolchildren but that her parents also regularly took part in other surveys and that she would let me know when the next one was going to take place.
The Saturday arrived and I took my step-daughter to Emma's house. I was a little bored, to say the least, and therefore decided to talk to her parents whilst awaiting the meeting to finish. Her parents then told me about their own experiences of completing different surveys and stated that even though it is not a massive amount of money that it is a lot for what you have to do. They also stated that it also helps them to pay some of their household bills each month.
Global Verge Buzzirk Review – Does Buzzirk Have What it Takes To Work For You?
So Buzzirk Mobile is pushing hard to take over the face of mobile and internet communications by including:
1) Phone
2) No Texting Limitations
3) No Limit to Long Distance Calls
4) Being able to use the SAME service for broadband Internet on your Computer
No no credit checks, contracts, cell phone and Internet broadband services, which provide endless {voice and data, data and voice}. But there is more? The speed is supposed to top what is currently on the networks today!
Intriguing to think that customers will be able to use voice, text, and web services without logging their monthly mins and all offered at 1 inexpensive.
Global Verge and their ad campaign:
Buzzirk Global Verge offers cutting-edge technology that delivers a whole new kind of mobile experience. One that's not limited or typical of what you normally find in the wireless industry. Buzzirk Global Verge offers features never seen until now, services and plans that are unequaled in the industry.
So with the push to expand the business and using network marketing should be the key to this company's success. So every home business owner looking at this biz opp in terms of the product is just salivating. There hasn't been something like this to rock the network marketing world for some time.
So why are your business senses tingling then? Why isn't everyone all over this? Instead of trying to build a business around a product offering, a savvy network marketer will look deeper the possible income disclosure (what distributors actually make), business policies and procedures (P&P), and compensation plan.
The veteran marketer will dig a bit deeper into this opportunity and notice that there is a critical issue that can't be avoided.
How are business owners going to sell this business online and why would someone buy from them versus another distributor?
Not knowing HOW to position yourself from other reps is the destruction of your business online. Spamming your business replicated website and wishing people will join it is a hard way to build. Strangers run from being sold to regardless if the company is a deal of a lifetime.
Global Verge does NOT solve this issue and will discourage many reps. Business owners will question if the product really is worth selling when the product already has established itself to thousands already. So the business training is lacking in marketing this business online.
Educating yourself on HOW to promote Global Verge is just as important to a rep as if this product is right for a customer. Learning to attract your leads vs. chase them down is essential to explosive growth.
MLMLeadSystemPro Review - More Than Just Fluff Or MLM Gold?
Starting from the top
MLMLeadSystemPro is a attraction marketing system which was designed from scratch by a trio of marketing specialists gurus Norbert Orlewicz, Brian Fanale, and Todd Schlomer.
Self Branding marketing systems are for mainly to resolve two critical issues for direct marketers.
1) Creating Generic "Fresh" Prospects
2) Creating Daily Cash to Maintain Everyday Marketing
Laser Targeted Lead Generation:
The means of producing potential distributors isn't so hard after getting some good marketing training. The problem comes when producing those potential distributors actually cost money or time. Explosive lead generation comes from spending big bucks and if 90-95% of the people leads you generate do NOT join your primary network marketing business then the cost to conversion will be too expensive to continue.
Many will just work around the price of paid prospect generation and only use the free methods of prospect generation. The practice takes a significant amount of time. Think I'm pulling your chain? Look around at all of the other social sites posting messaged they don't even know "Have a Great Day".
Everyone knows the only reason this happens:
To build a rapport. Is this an automated and quick way to building your business? Heck no. If you have hours on end sure. Software solutions prior made this automated but now facebook/myspace are getting keen and are blocking abusive people. Watch out!
Then here comes the change: MLM Lead System Pro
Affiliate Marketing:
Many network marketers online make a good living just with affiliate marketing. Nothing is bad with affiliate marketing. Using Affiliate Marketing lends you to instant cash flow. The only draw back is that there is no long term cash. All the work is to cash in on today's return and NOT for long term residual income.
So what is the best way to take affiliate marketing to the next level?
Network Marketing + Affiliate Marketing
That is all it is? What is all the hype about this?
MLM Lead System Pro is a fully customizable and fully branded marketing system that teaches affiliate marketing combined with network marketing. This system mentors so well that almost ANYONE can make it large.
Why did I just say almost ANYONE? Well, it won't work for the lethargic. No one wants a lethargic staff member and more so a lethargic downline member in your downline.
So why is this marketing system so all the rage?
One Word: Repeatability
Start attracting hungry network marketers who want to run away from the old methods of hundred names lists and cold calling everybody and you got an explosive organization.
MLMLeadSystemPro is the real deal. The system will educate you to generate prospects from day 1 and also earn you instant affiliate checks to support your day to day marketing campaigns.
The cure to network marketers from losing interest in there own network marketing is simply: Show them the CASH to sustain their business and attract leads daily.
The Benefits Of Having Your Own Home Based Business
The unemployment rates in Western countries are going through the roof with companies laying off staff as they struggle to cope with the current financial turmoil. Losing your job or being made redundant is rarely a happy event however when it becomes a reality there is only one way that we should be thinking; in a positive manner. I know that this is easier said than done however feeling sorry for ourselves will not help the situation.
I was made redundant from a financial services corporation when I was aged twenty-two. Due to my age I was not in reality too bothered about the whole situation. I decided to think positively about the situation; in reality I did not even like the job that I was in, I found it rather boring. It has always been my goal to run my own business and this was a great opportunity for me to do this. Being made redundant turned out to be a blessing in disguise; I would probably have left the company within a few months in any case but this way they were actually paying me a redundancy package to leave!
I used this money to set up my own small business. I was going to run one-to-one stuttering therapy courses to help people to achieve fluency. I am a person who has managed to successfully overcome a stutter and I therefore felt that I had something to offer.
Working from home has many benefits as I have found to my own benefit. These include being your own boss and therefore not having to answer to other people. Choosing your own hours, choosing the amount of hours you work and the amount of holidays that you have. As an example instead of working nine to five and having to spend a further two hours travelling through the rush hour traffic, this is no longer an issue. This travel time is basically time wasted. I personally like to work late at night, where possible, as this is when I am able to concentrate to my maximum.
What I love the most about working from home is the ability to now attend all of the important days/events in my children's lives. For example attending their school sports days, the christmas play, parents evenings, the visits to the dentists. People who are "employed" have to miss a number of these events due to a lack of holiday time or a lack of flexibility at their work.
I now have partnerships in other business ventures including one offering a DVD duplication service and one offering an article submission service.
Setting up my own home based business has been the best thing that I have ever done and I would recommend other people to do the same.
Back links for beginners
The key objective of any web site should be to attract visitors and before you build your web site you should have an understanding of how you are going to attract visitors. It doesn’t matter what content you intend to put on your web pages there can only be one reason for a web pages existence and that is to get people to visit it. You should devote your energies to getting the search engines to direct as many visitors as possible to your web pages. The search engines generate targeted traffic and the great news is its costs you nothing.
Search engine incomes are directly related to the number of relevant results they present to their users. The number one goal of every search engine is to attract users and increase loyalty and this can only be done by delivering what the searchers are looking for in a relevant and timely fashion. The more often the searchers return the greater the search engines fortunes. The challenges are the exactly the same for you and your website.Acquire users and keep them coming back.
So what should you do?. There are two paths to achieving this and the good news is you can if you have the money do both. You can create and publish great content and persuade other web site owners to link to it or you can advertise on the search engines using PPC (Pay Per Click).
As far as all of the search engines are concerned nothing exists on the internet without a keyword or a key phrase. The whole user experience starts with a keyword or key phrase being entered into the search engine to tell it what the user is looking for. The search engine performs a look up on its enormous indexes to fetch a list of web pages that contain instances of the keyword and returns them in a predefined order of relevance. Search engines use relevance and authority to decide what pages get returned and presented to the searcher.
Relevance is determined by the occurrence of keywords in the web page content and authority is largely derived from back links from other web pages. The order of the list of results displayed by a search engine are conducive with the authority and volume of the back links to each page.
Back links are the most important factor in optimising your pages for the search engines.
Back links have two important properties their ability to influence your page ranking and their ability to bring traffic to your site from places on the Internet. Browsers who discover and click on back links containing keywords associated with their interests will be directed to your web pages. This text in the back link is known as ‘anchor text’ and this too is taken into consideration by the search engines. Some back links have more value than others.
Back links from web pages that contain content related to your web page have an impact on the authority of your web page.The higher the authority of the web page ‘sending’ the back link the more authority is likely to received by your web pages.
How To Make Big Money Online
With the fall out from the current recession hitting hard many people are turning to the internet in a quest to make some additional money. You can earn “big” money online – you just need to know how!
There are of course many ways to earn money via the internet. In the past experienced webmasters talked about finding a niche market and to then sell products such as e-books to this audience. This is something that used to work extremely well. In a way it still does even today however it seems like there are less and less niche markets to choose from. You can still make money out of selling e-books or audio books and a great many people do.
You can also earn “easy money” by signing up to the Google adsense program. The amount of money that you make will be determined by the amount of traffic that visit the site (you can increase this level of traffic via web promotion)and the click through rate.
It is all about gaining confidence with a particular system. Once you have learnt all of the "ins and outs" of what it requires to make the money making scheme work then the world is your oyster - let the good times roll!
Another more common way to make money online and what that is becoming ever more popular is to find an online money making scheme. You have to be quite careful with this as there are many scams out there.
Whichever online money making scheme you decide to go for there is one thing that is for sure - you will need to work hard if it is to become a success. From my own personal experience hard work does pay off however when it comes to making money via the internet.
If you do your homework you will be able to find a “make money online scheme” that not only works but that is right for you. You never know this time next year you could be a millionaire.
Steve Hill is involved with many projects including enabling people to obtain lower business overheads as well as with many online businesses.