December 17, 2008
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I make money online every day, whether I work or not. It was not always this way. I started out in 2003 online after years of success in the real world. I brought my business savvy and experience to the Internet and was able to succeed relatively easily. Most people don’t have my experience and because of that, they are unable to make even that first dollar. I will show you how to do it. Getting started only requires that you have the willingness to learn and apply what you have learned.
Let’s start with a simple method of income generation. There are many tasks involved in getting a website up and running. First there is the initial setup. Once the site is setup, you need to promote it and get visitors or you will not make any money. This is where you come in. Most promotional tasks are tedious and very time consuming. Web entrepreneurs are busy people. You can help them for a fee. You can promote their websites for a fee. You may be thinking that you don’t know how to promote a website, so how can you sell this service? That is simple. Let your client tell you what to do. Put up a classified advertisement on webmaster forums like DigitalPoint and SitePoint. Go to your favorite search engine and search for internet marketing forums, make money online forums and such. Post ads on each of these. Many will be free. You will set your fees according to ads that are like yours. Once you get some clients, you will be able to raise your fees if you offer good timely service.
Another way to make money online is to write articles and blog posts and ebooks. If you took the first tip I gave you to heart, then you already have a list of websites to post your ads to. Use this list and offer your blog posting and article writing services. Writing articles is really not all that difficult. You do some research on the topic you are given and simply put the information into your own words. Use a conversational tone just like you speak to your friends and family. Just make sure to omit any protestations of love in your articles unless you are writing about how to get your ex-girlfriend back. If you produce articles on time and of acceptable quality, you will have many repeat customers. Those same customers will come back to you over and over again.
Let’s say you really stink at writing. You can be an article writing broker. Here’s how this approach works. Most Internet marketers work on a quantity basis. What I am saying is that they need a lot of articles written in a timely fashion. Here’s where you can make some money. Go to DigitalPoint and find authors willing to work for $3/article. There are many who will. You will need around 10 authors. Tell them that you will have continuous work for them and get them on board. Next, offer article packs on the forums at 50 or 100 at a time for $4 or $5 each. You will be making money online without having to write a single article.
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TomG.
December 17, 2008
Internet Marketing
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When I talk about niches, I am talking about areas of interest. Examples include hobbies like stamp collecting, woodworking, sewing, model railroading, the list is endless. If you are building web sites for a living like I do, you need to select a niche that will bring in the bacon. Doing anything else is simply a waste of your time and energy.
So, how do I select a niche? I have so many ways of selecting niches, but let’s talk about one of my favorites. I go to the book store to do some of my niche selection. The book store is a rich place to mine topics of interest. They are all laid out for you in an easy to manage way. You may already be thinking about how I do it, but don’t jump the gun just yet! OK, here goes!
I head over to the magazine rack. It is always my first stop! Think about this for a moment. Do you see all those giant glossy publications? Do you think a publisher would spend their time and effort to print out over a hundred pages in glossy color if there was no money in it? Of course they wouldn’t! There are many favorites to choose from.
Let me start with fashion magazines. Women spend a lot of money on cosmetics and clothing. They also spend lots of time reading about how to attract the perfect mate. Already, I can see three broad topics and tons of focused niches here.
Don’t like fashion? OK, let’s talk sports. Men love sports. Some of my favorites include golfing, fishing, baseball, football, basketball, soccer and tennis. You can go anywhere from golf clubs to tennis shoes. Any one of those has specialties that can bring in the bucks. OK, I’ve given you some ideas that can take months to write about. Go out there and do it!
Niche selection is a vast topic and one crucial to your business. I take my 5 best niches and tell you exactly what they are. If you want to find out what my money niches, go here today: My Best Niches Exposed
December 16, 2008
Internet Marketing
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Many people are told that the way to riches on the Internet is by having a successful web site. That sounds great, but what should that successful web site be about? What should a person write about? These questions have answers but those answers depend on your goals, financial and otherwise.
Let’s take a moment to define the term niche. The term niche is often used in many ways not relevant to us. When Internet Marketers talk about niches, they are talking about tightly focused areas of interest. An example of a niche is fly fishing in South Dakota. The more specific the niche, the better your chance of ranking high in the search engine results for your niche. If your niche is too focused, you will have no visitors. You have to walk the line and it takes some practice to get it right.
So how do we find the perfect niche for our website? Well, it depends on the reason you are building your website. If you are sharing ideas on a hobby or area of interest of yours, you already know the topic. Simply write about your passion. Most professional Internet Marketers don’t use this approach when building money sites. Let’s assume that you are building a money site. How do we select a profit generating topic for our new web site?
Go where the money is! People spend a lot of money for certain things. Just think about it for a minute. You have friends and family. What are the biggest purchases they have made in their lives? Home and family, insurance, jewelry (engagement ring, wedding ring as examples), the list goes on and on. Just look around you and think of things that everyone buys. In no time, you will have more things to write about then time in a day! Good luck!
Niche selection is a vast topic and one crucial to your business. I take my 5 best niches and tell you exactly what they are. If you want to find out what my money niches are, go here today: My Best Niches Exposed!
December 3, 2008
Internet Marketing
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How can my website make money? Wow, I get this question so often that I thought I would post a simple answer here. If you are building niche websites or even hobby websites that rank well and get traffic, the most basic and easy way to make money is through Google Adsense. Google Adsense places advertisements on your website that are relevant to your site’s content. Every time someone clicks you get money.
Although it sounds easy, it is a little more involved than that. For instance, when I got started, nobody bothered to tell me that there were niches paying over $1/click! Nobody told me there were niches where $10/click is commonplace! I have a little fish hobby website that gets over 3,000 unique visitors each month. Guess what? Some of these clicks are below $0.01 and most are $0.03! Yikes! Go ahead and do the math. Suffice it to say that you need thousands of websites to make money with this set of keywords.
I noticed that the best way to make money with niche websites (this is my observation, YMMV) is to have your own product. If it is under $10, you can easily best any Adsense earnings. I also, incredibly enough, noticed that in some niches, a PayPal donate button will actually outperform Adsense AND affiliate ads! Strange but true.
Well, I hope this little post got your creative juices flowing. Ahh, that sounded bad, I mean I hope this pointed you in the right direction
TomG.