Money Making Opportunities (25th Update)



Looking for an money making opportunities, below are two of the opportunities you can take part.

Blogdistributor.com
Blog Distributor is another site that pays you to write about companies products and services on your blog. It works pretty much the same like other pay per blog post websites except they have a faster payment procedure. Blog Distributor pays you once a week via PayPal for the approved posts you posted on your blog. Your blog must be 90 days old or longer and have at least 20 blog entries posted to join Blog Distributor.

Howcast.com
HowCast publishes all kinds of informative how-to videos to help people to do something. If you are an expert at an topic or know how to get something done, you can participate in Howcast Directors Program and create your own how-to web videos for publication on Howcast.com. You'll earn $50 for every accepted video. As soon as your video reaches 40,000 view, you will be qualified to share ad revenue with Howcast. Visit here to find out how to get started uploading videos on Howcast.com.




How to Create Good Content for Your Blog



Many people who run an online business today have started to use blogs to market their businesses and increase their websites visitors. They attract target audience by providing content and articles that are related to the interests of site visitors. This can prove to be an effective way to establish good relationship with your potential customers and increase your website exposure and business profit if you know how to write good blog content.

First of all, you must be passionate on the topic you are writing and be able to maintain interest in the topic for long term. If you spend time writing content on a topic that you have little or no interest on it, you could easily get bored and frustrated on what you are writing and eventually quitting in blog marketing. However, if you choose to write about a subject you are interested, then readers will see how devoted you are to the subject yourself and gradually they will also pick up some of that passion themselves.

You should also think of writing about something around you that you care about because you will have to keep your blog updated with fresh content on an on-going basis. New information and content should be posted frequently in order to attract your visitors and readers come back for more. You will also need to maintain the content quality of the topic you are writing to keep your reader base growing. Always spend some time doing research on your topic to make sure your ideas stay current, helpful and interesting.

When you have decided on the topic of your blog, start writing and create a schedule as to how often and when you will publish articles and content on your blog. It is a good idea but not necessary to try and post something once a day. It doesn’t have to be a full length article every time, but even a comment on another blog post, which you can give a link to, will help to keep you current. It will take some time and hard work to get your blog going, but once you are on the right route, maintaining the blog will become easier and easier.

Eventually, no matter how passionate you are in the topic, there will come a day that you just are not feeling the passion or you are out of ideas, making you not able to write new content. There are several solutions for that. There are methods you can use to help create new content for your blog if you are in these situations.

First of all, visit other blogs in your niche to see what they are writing. Many times you can write a post that is actually in response to something another blogger wrote on their blog. You can do this as long as you add a link back to the other person's blog.

You can also visit forums and browse the topics that related to your blog. Reading the conversations in these forums, you may find new content ideas. Looking at questions and answers posted by the forums members will help you gain deeper knowledge on the topic and enable you to write more good content for your blog.

If you still need more resources and ideas for creating blog content, try also reading at article directories such Article Dashboard and Ezine Articles. A lot of new content are published on these two article directories every day, I'm sure you will get some new content ideas reading in these sites.




Make Some Extra Money by Distributing Affiliate X Factor Report



This is a new report that many people want to spread it on the Internet because for every people you refer to xfactoraffiliate.com and sign up to download a copy of free Affiliate X Factor Report, you will be paid $1. And if those people who refered by you recommend others to sign up, you'll will be paid another $0.50 for each sign up.

This new report is written by Andrew Fox. He is a Clickbank super affiliate that makes a fortune from affiliate marketing. In his report, you'll find out exactly how he makes this much money from marketing Clickbank info products. Andrew has also included three exact sales email copies he sent out last year that made over $10,000 of affiliate sales. You can refer to the content of these emails and pick up some good ideas for writing emails copies that sell.

Sign up now to get a copy of this report at:

http://xfactoraffiliate.com

After signing up, you will also find access to a step-by-step video showing you how to make money giving away the Affiliate X Factor report.




Set Up a Drop Shipping Business to Make Money Online



I have been writing about drop shipping several time in this blog but all the previous drop shipping articles haven't really cover the topic about how to start a online business using drop ship wholesale companies. So I write this article today to talk about this topic.

This article will not cover the basic info of drop shipping and how it works. If you are not familiar with drop shipping and want to get an understanding of drop shipping, here are several articles that can help you:

Make Money on eBay - Guide to Finding a Drop Shipper
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Drop Ship Wholesalers for Your Online Business

Now, let’s go straight to the meat.

To start a drop shipping business, you'll need to have a few pieces of basic equipment which include a computer, a printer, a telephone and a quality internet access.

Setting up a drop shipping business is different from other businesses start-up. You don't need to spend a big amount of money to get your drop shipping started since you are not required to invest money to purchase stock of your products.

There will be several steps you need to take to get your drop shipping business up and running. Here's How:

1) Create an online store or shop. There are many online shop builder programs available on the Internet; Yahoo! Site Builder is one of the programs you can use to build your online shopping mall or e-commerce site for selling your products.

Alternatively, you may choose to sell your products using eBay auction site instead of building an online shopping store. This is a simpler way of starting your business and you'll save web building and hosting cost.

2) Find a drop ship wholesale company that can supply the products you have decided to sell. You may check out the list of drop ship wholesale companies I created in my previous post to find one that match your business need. Or you may pay a fee to Worldwidebrands.com to get access to its huge drop ship directory that contains hundred of drop ship wholesale companies details.

When you find a drop ship supplier that fits your business, make sure you do research and investigation to see whether it is a reliable supplier before signing up to deal with them.

3) Once you have decided the drop ship company that you want to deal with, you may proceed to open an account with them.

4) Now, it is time to build up your online store or e-commerce site. You will be adding products images and descriptions provided by your drop ship company into your store. Alternatively, You may choose to create the products images and descriptions yourself, this will consume some of your time but it is worth it because it will distinguish you from other sellers who use the same drop shipper.

5) Set up a system on your site so that you know when an order has been placed for a particular product, and so payment can be taken.

6) Send the details of the customer order directly to your drop ship wholesaler. Once they saw the order, they will then bill you at the wholesale price that you both have agreed earlier. You pay the drop ship supplier bill and they will package the product and arrange to ship it to the customer on your name. In most cases, the drop ship supplier will provide labels which refer to the business or website where the order has come from.

As you can see above, setting up a drop ship business is not difficult, and if you done everything correctly, it should not be an expensive project.

However drop shipping does have a few of downsides you have to deal with. The main one is that you have no control over the inventory management so there is no guarantee that the products that send to your customers are always in perfect condition.

You have no idea of your stock availability. Problems will come when an order has placed by your customer but you later find that it is out of stock in your drop ship supplier's warehouse. Also you have no control over product shipping as it is completely handled by your supplier. So you won’t be able to offer fast delivery service.

However, if you are really interested to making money online with a drop shipping business, you should not let these barriers stopping you from venturing into drop shipping. With proper planning and good communication between you and your drop ship supplier, you can keep these potential problems down to minimum.




TheSecondTier.com - The Affiliate Training Center



When I first visited Thesecondtier.com, I thought it was an affiliate program that only offers some basic affiliate marketing tools and training for affiliates to promote its products. But when I took a closer look at what exactly is Thesecondtier.com offering, actually it was not just another affiliate program that offers limited help.

Thesecondtier.com is a free affiliate program founded by Russell Brunson with an affiliate training center containing complete video tutorials of how to make money online with affiliate programs. It is a great place for you to learn everything about affiliate marketing and get your first affiliate marketing business started on the Internet. You may sign up for this no cost training at:

http://www.thesecondtier.com

As a member of Thesecondtier.com, you will also get access to a weekly live teleconference training session with the affiliate manager of Thesecondtier. During the training session, you can ask any questions you have about making money with affiliate programs.

This is the first time I see an affiliate program that is focusing totally on training. If you just started diving into affiliate marketing, consider joining Thesecondtier.com as it will give you the right direction on marketing affiliate programs to earn money online.




Make Money Online by Blogging - Latest Opportunities



Here are the home based blogging opportunities I come across lately:

Tech and Custom Cars Bloggers

4 blogging positions were opened in a new tech site covering topics like computers, gadgets, electronics and stuff. And 2 positions were available in a custom car blog. You don't need to be an expert in any of the topics to apply for these positions, but you must be passionate about the topic you are writing.

For more info, you may send an email to alex_zerozero@yahoo.com.

Blogger and Market Researcher
WireSpring is looking for a talented individual to conduct web-based market research and write for their highly-visible industry blogs and newsletters. The subjects needed to be written are digital signage, interactive kiosks and retail media. WireSpring will provide free resources to help the selected blogger learns about these subjects.

The pay rate is $10/hour. Job requirements are you must already is a blogger, good writing and communication skills, have interest in advertising......

Full details about this paid position can be found here.

Environment and Green Car Bloggers
A network of established sites is seeking people to post 4-6 blog entries per week. The pay rate is $5CND per blog entry. There are three websites to choose:

  1. Environmental Website - Discusss about environment, alternative energy and other green news
  2. Green Car News - Green transportation, alternative fuels etc.
  3. Gadget Website - Focus on new cool gadgets for daily lives.
All posts will be submitted in Wordpress with a corresponding picture. If you are interested, visit performancing.com/blogger-jobs to read the steps you need to take to apply for a blogging position.




14 Strategies to Make Your Resell Rights Business More Profitable - Part 1



Resell rights products are products that grant the rights to the purchasers to resale them on the Internet and keep 100% of the profit made from sales. Resell rights products generally are info products such as e-books, reports, software and so on. It makes starting an info product business easier.

Most resell rights info products come with a ready-made sale website, once you have bought them, you can immediately upload every things to your hosting account to starting selling info products on the net.

Resell rights can only get your online business up and running fast and easy but, to make your resell rights products business a success, there are many resell rights strategies needed to be learned. Below are 14 strategies to help you out in order to make a lucrative income from selling resell rights info products:

1. Read the product's license so that you understand fully how you can use the product for your business. If you don’t know something, just send an email to ask the original product creator .

2. You'll get a sales page or sales website along with the resell rights product you are buying. Change and customize the sales page before publishing it on the Internet so that your sales page don't look like anyone else’s.

3. Add bonuses to the resell product you are selling. Make sure the bonus products are related to - but not in competition with the resell product. Giving bonuses will encourage your potential buyers place an order.

4. Build an opt-in email list. Maintaining a list is an excellence way to establish good relationship with your potential customers and getting them to buy your product. You may offer free gifts or free courses through website to encourage visitors to opt-in your list to get your free offers.

5. Use article marketing to promote your resell rights business. Try to write as many articles related your business as possible and submit them to well known articled directories like Ezinearticles.com, Goarticles.com and Searchwarp.com. If you can't write articles, you may find a freelancer writer in Digital Forum - Content Section to help you out. Don't pay more than $10 per article.

6. Run a Google AdWords advertising campaign for your product to see whether it generate sales for you. Check your competitors ads to see what profitable keywords they are using and target your AdWords ads on their keywords. Finding the profitable keywords of your competitors are quite difficult, but a free PPC tool called Hexatrack could help you out.

Also try to look for keywords that are related to your product but not yet discovered by your competitors. These keywords may send you low traffic but, since they are not popularly used by search engines users, the PPC cost you need to pay will be much cheaper compared to those highly popular profitable keywords.

7. Get testimonials for your sales website. The original product creator may have provided you testimonials but you want your sale page to be unique so that it is different from everyone else’s. You can invite some people to test your products and write a testimonial for you.




14 Strategies to Make Your Resell Rights Business More Profitable - Part 2



8. Once your sale website has been set up, bookmark it on social websites. You can join OnlyWire.com. And join the bookmarking sites that OnlyWire works with. Then add the OnlyWire icon to your toolbar. Click that icon, type in the related keywords, and press the submit button. This could drive a good amount of free traffic to your sales page.

9. Market your product with a blog as well. Create a Wordpress or Blogger blog with the topics related to your niche. Post helpful information and content on the blog often to build up your blog readers base. Add links to your sale website on the sidebar of your blog. This is a way of getting your blog readers to your sale website and do business with you. Besides posting quality relevant content, you need to use most of the usual blog promotion techniques to grow your blog readers base.

10. Check the license agreement of your resell rights product to find out whether it can be sold on eBay. By paying a small fee listing your product on eBay auction, you possibly will get even more exposure and sales for your products. It is a good place that you can sell your products for long term.

11. Check to see where your competitors are advertising their products, and advertise your product somewhere else. The best way to outdo the competition is to avoid it altogether. Opt-in to ezines that have a proven track record. If your resell product isn't being advertised in that ezine, make sure that you purchase an ad space in that ezine. With so much technology at our fingertips, many people have forgotten about ezine marketing – even though it is still an effective Internet marketing method.

12. Take advantage of the holiday seasons of the year. There are niches receiving heavy traffic for a brief period of time during holiday seasons like Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, Halloween and year end. Resell products of those niches that will be hot during those times and you may earn a nice profit.

13. Track and analyzing everything. Track your ad campaigns. You need to know what is working, and what isn’t. This enables you to focus your time and effort on the things that work, and avoids you from wasting time with what does not. Keep on tracking and analyzing to get the best result.

14. Use videos to market your resell rights business. Create one or more how-to instructional videos relevant to your product or niche, make sure you mention your website and business details at the end of each video. Post your videos on Youtube and Metacafe. Some video viewers will come to your site once finish watching your video and this mean free potential customers send to your sale site.

With the above tips and strategies, you will find that you do better with your resell rights business. The tips and strategies may sound simple, but these are the things that many of the successful resellers do on a daily basis.




Free Resources Helpful to Make Money Online - 24 Feb 2008



A quick update on the free resources useful for earning money online.

Ten Thousand Dollar Auction Secrets
eBay powerseller, John Thornhill is one of the successful eBay sellers who make a fortune by selling info products on eBay. You can find out how he make so much money from just selling info products on eBay and learn his money making techniques by reading his eBay report available for download at Tenthousanddollarauction.com/secrets.

Powerfullistbuilding.com
The site is for marketers who looking to make money online by building an email list. You'll find free guide and strategies to building a profitable list from scratch and tips that will save you a lot of time and effort in list building. To have these free list building information send to you, all you have to do is subscribe at Powerfullistbuilding.com.

The Maven Matrix Manifesto e-book
When you can control and dominate the niche market of your e-business, you will get massive amounts of free publicity for your business and website; and your target prospects will always look for you for advice, help and products recommendation. All this mean huge profits to you. But the question is what you need to do in order to dominate a niche. The e-book 'The Maven Matrix Manifesto' created by two big name Internet marketing experts, Rich Schefren & Jay Abraham is going to teach you exactly the steps you need to take to become the dominant authority in your market niche.




Are you Overcoming Your Obstacles of Making Money Online



When it comes to building an Internet business to make money on the web, most people will face some obstacles. Some of the biggest obstacles that most people face are:

  • Information overload
  • Getting things done
  • Not knowing the answers
  • Being held accountable
  • Technical hurdles
Do you encounter any of the above obstacles when trying to get your online business to generate income for you? I think you probably face at least one of the above obstacles. So how to overcome them? Keith Wellman's new report 'Commence Your Million Dollar March' has the answers. Inside the report, you'll discover how to overcome your potential major obstacles and achieve success online.

This new report is free to access, you may get a copy of it by going to:
http://www.themilliondollarmarch.com.

When you download this report, you will also be given access to a free revolutionary tool that you can use to create sale website, squeeze pages and editing your website without technical Knowledge to help you get over technical hurdles.




How to Build Your Email List with Give Away Event



List building is critical for the success of an online business. Whether you are selling your own products or other people products (affiliate product) on the Internet, building a email list would mean building a loyal customers base that will often do business with you.

Most people who run business online realize the importance of list building and using numerous advertising campaigns to grow their list. One of the low cost and powerful marketing methods for list building that was started to use in the last couple of years has become hot recently. This list building method is recognized as "Give Away Event”.

How Give Away Event Works?
Give away events are generally used for the Internet marketing and online business niches. One person started a give away event and invites other Internet marketers to become his/her joint venture (JV) partners. Each participating partner will contribute one or more gifts to the event. The gift may be a free e-book, a report, a membership access, a tool, software, or a set of website templates. All the gifts are products related to Internet marketing.

The participating partners create a Lead Capture Page or a squeeze page to give his/her gift in exchange for the subscriber’s email address. In other words, in order for a visitor to download a free gift, he/she must first opt in and subscribe to your mailing list.

The result: The give away event will attract many visitors and most of the visitors will sign up to download the free products they are interested. And every partner gets the change to build their list.

How to Use Give Away Event to Build Your List?
You can set up your own give away event, upload your gifts, then invite JV partners to submit their gifts and finally promote your event to get visitors to download the gifts inside your event.

You'll get the email addresses of all the visitors who join your event since visitors have to first register to become a member of your event before they can see what products they can obtain free. And you will want to direct them to a one-time offer page before sending them to their member area. This is a sale technique most people use to boost their sales and profit. A successful give away event can crank out more than 10k of profit after the end of the event.

However, running your own event will cost you quit a lot of money. You need to pay few hundred dollars to set up a give away membership site so that people can visit your event and sign up to get the gifts they like.

You need to spend time finding your JV partners. If you are new in Internet marketing, then this will be a tough task to you. But if you have been in the Internet marketing industry for some years, getting JV partners will be easier as other marketers may have heard about your name. They will trust you and interested to join your event.

If setting up a give away event is too expensive and tough to you then you may go for the free option, which is becoming a participating partner of one or more give away events.

Participating in a give away program is pretty simple. All you need to do is find a give away event; register to become a contributor and you will be then taken to your member area to upload your gifts and other necessary details. Once the event goes live, visitors will join your mailing list to get your gifts.

You will not be able to find a give away program that hasn't gone live by yourself. What you can do is let the give way event JV partner invitation email come to you by joining a number of existing Internet marketing marketers mail lists. Whenever there is a give away event started, some of these Internet marketers will be informed and they will then send the event details to you too so that you can participate in the new event also.




American Idol - The Aftermath



If you have just joined us I have been demonstrating how you can take a brand new blogspot blog and make money quickly by creating short term niche blogs. You can catch up by reading American Idol - Season Seven and Asia'h Epperson. Todays post will look at the results of the two blogs I have used to demonstrate my techniques as well as discuss some more adsense tips in relation to these sites.

The two blogs are Asia'h Epperson and Amy Davis.

The 12 women finalists appeared wednesday night so let's take a look at the traffic stats for our two examples and see how they faired after the show.

Asia'h Epperson





Adsense Earnings






Amy Davis





Adsense Earnings

None.

What can be learned from these stats?

I haven't created blogs for all 24 contestants but I have targeted them all one way or another with either new blogs or using some of my older existing blogs that cater to this niche. The results vary from decent to crappy at this stage of the competition and the two blogs I have shown you fall into the "just alright" and "crappy" categories.

The Asia'h blog had an okay bump after the show and is still getting traffic today - not huge traffic but enough to work with as far as monetization goes. The Amy Davis blog isn't getting much for traffic at all and hasn't generated a single click yet.

Using all of my sites as a barometer, Asia'h is the fifth most popular Idol. Amy sits near the bottom of the pack along with, Joanne Borgella, Garrett Haley, Colton Berry and Chikezie Eze.

Note: I wrote everything above before the elimination last night - I didn't finish the post as I figured I would wait and see who got sent home. Needless to say, I wasn't surprised to see who was eliminated - 4 of the 5 with the worst search results.

It's now Friday morning and you can see that Asia'h is still pulling in a steady stream of visitors.



There is a slight problem with the Asia'h blog though - in spite of the traffic I have only received 2 clicks since Thursday morning. The reason has to do with her name. The Adsense bot keeps changing the ads on the blog - one minute I get related American Idol ads and the next I get ads for everything from Asian Airlines to a fertilizer spreader. My attempts to fix this have been stymied and here s why..

A Tale of Two Bots

The main Google Bot is responsible for catagorizing my blog and ranking it in the serp's. I have targeted the keyword "Asia'h Epperson" and the bot has me ranking number two in the serp's for this term. see below...



This is good as the only site that outranks me is American Idol's own website. The problem is that to achieve this I have had to use Asia'h's name in all the prominent locations - URL, page title, post titles, H tags etc. The downside is that the Adsense bot uses these same markers to determine the ads it gives me and because her name is Asia'h the bot keeps thinking that it must be a misspelling of the largest landmass on Earth and I keep getting "Asia" related ads. To fix this I need to change all the markers to "American Idol" keywords but by doing so I risk losing my position with the main Google bot. If I eliminate the keyword "Asia'h" I will get relevant ads for the show but I may lose my ranking for "Asia'h" in the process - most annoying.

Another problem is that the people searching for Asia'h aren't looking for "Photos", "Pics" or "Celebrity" stuff in their keywords - notice the terms people used to find Amy Davis - few though they were I could zone in on what they were after just by looking at the search query keywords they used. In Asia'h's case the people are simply looking for general info as they are only using her name in the searches. This makes it hard to monetize the site - if people are looking for something in particular you can optimize your content to get the Adsense Bot to give you ads related to it.

The most popular contestant is a guy - and the people searching for him are quite interested in his "photos", "does he have a girl friend", his "birthday", his "myspace page" etc. The point being you can learn a lot by what keywords are used to find your site and then optimize your monetization accordingly. I have no doubt that the people searching for the "GUY" are a young girls - my own 6 year old daughter has mentioned how "cute" he is several times... lol. I know this contestants audience and need to find ads that young girls will click on - something I readily admit I have had problems with in the past. If any of my female readers can suggest what 12 year old girls would be interested in please let me know. I am after all just a "Guy" and am clueless to the inner workings of half the planets population in spite of living with three of them...

Ok, some quick pointers.

All my sites combined have produced just over $100 in Adsense revenue in the last two days - Asia'h's blog started out well but has crashed and burned re: Adsense as mentioned above. None of the contestants are pulling in great numbers - nothing even close to what Antonella Barba, Kelly Pickler, Sanjiya Malakar or Chris Daughtry did in past years but the season is still young and anything can happen.

I have received approx. 6500 visitors in two days to all my "American Idol" related sites. $100 sucks for this amount of traffic. My Kelly Pickler site still makes $20 - $30 a day and it only gets about 200 visitors daily.

So far I have shown you how to get quick, free traffic from Google. The Asia'h blog is not making money yet although it does point out the advantage of using Blogger - I spent maybe an hour total creating it and adding content - it was free - it allowed me to get the perfect URL asiahepperson.blogspot dot com - it has made $26 for the effort and I have 600 or so people visiting it all in 12 days. How many of your 12 day old sites have 600 visitors - remember I have not submitted this to any social networks. 80% of the visitors are from search engines - 20% are from other sites linking in.

BTW - I have mentioned the importance of trying to get the perfect URL in the past. Aside from it helping you get Top Spot in the serp's when all other factor's are equal between two sites, it also has some "Link Capturing" benefits. In this case my URL has led people to assume the site is either Asia'h's own blog or that it is an official fan blog. Check out this radio station - http://www.kissin925.com/pages/694105.php Kissin925 dot com - website (I don't want tolink to it or the jig will be up if they read this) or better yet the LA Times Link to my Blog Pretty cool I think for a free, 12 day old blog. Okay - that sounds like braggin' - I'm not, pure horseshit luck is all but still pretty cool. Oh - having a link optimized for my keyword from the LA Times does wonders for my keyword authority - did you notice I now outrank youtube dot com in the search listings? I was ranked just below them until the LA Times link. Pretty damn cool...

Note: I hope you are getting my point with these lessons. Everything I have shown you with this short term blog can be done in any niche with any blog at any time. If any of you doubt my system of making money online just think of what I have just done with this 12 day old blog - I can't fake the results - you can check the serp's yourselves. I have a handful of links, how many does youtube have? It all comes down to SEO. I outrank youtube because I have the most keyword authority - not PR - not quality content - not because my blog is prettier or is reader friendly - or is popular with Digg and the social crowd. I attack every niche the same as this but in the case of long term blogs I write much better content.

This post will be enormous if I don't stop now. I will pick up with Adsense and other ways to monetize these blogs in the next post. What I have to show you won't just apply to these kinds of blogs but for everyone that has a niche blog already set up. In fact a friend has a blog that is in the "entertainment" niche like American Idol and since he has asked me what I would do with his site to make money I thought I would use it as an example. You can see Mike's new blog "PoP Critics" or "A Mike Life" - a Movie Review blog by clicking the link. I will show you what I would do with his sites and how to turn a buck on the traffic I am getting from Asia'h's blog.

Cheers

Griz




I'm Sure You Want Massive Traffic if You Make Money with Internet Marketing



If you can get your article or blog post feature on the biggest social bookmarking site Digg.com, then you can expect to receive a massive flow of traffic to your website or blog and probably your online revenue will increase substantially during the time your article feature on Digg.

Most of the articles and blog posts that get a feature on digg homepage are very interesting and in good quality. So you must have a good one if you want to get first page on Digg.com. But this is not the case for a guy named Dean Hunt. He recently used a technique called buzz marketing to get one of his standard and boring articles featured on homepage of Digg within 24 hours, and he received over 40,000 unique visitors.

He has kindly written a series of reports and case studies on how he did it. If you want to learn his buzz and creativity tricks and techniques for driving massive traffic with articles, then you may go to http://www.webtrafficorgasm.com/abase.html to get all his reports.




How to Design Your Website for Marketing Affiliate Programs



If you want to start making money online with affiliate marketing then you need to have a website. This is the main marketing tool you must have to start your affiliate marketing business. You don't have to add a lot of eye-catching graphics to your website, but it must contain useful content; look simple and professional.

There are three things you need to do to build an affiliate marketing website. Buy a domain name for your site, choose a hosting service and design your website to upload to your hosting server. You can choose any domain name you like but it will be better if you can get a easy-to-remember domain name and the name is relevant to your website topic or your affiliate products.

While choosing a hosting service or company to publish your website, look for reliability. Hosting companies will store all your files and to keep your website online every moment. One of the well known and reliable hosting company you can try is Godaddy.com.

How should your money making website be designed and built?

Hire a Web Designer
You can go to a freelance marketplace website like RentACoder.com or guru.com to find a freelance web designer to build a site for you. Tell the designer what you need and how you want your site look like (for affiliate marketing, you will want your site look professional and clean) and the designer will create a website according to your preference. Simply list your web design project/work with a clear description about your project on a freelance marketplace and you will see quit a lot of designers enter their bids to obtain your web design project. Check the portfolio, experience, rating and service charge of each web designer. Select the one which you think he/she is best for your work. Once your website is ready, you may pay the web designer using the payment method agreed earlier.

Use a Free Website Template
If you want to keep your web building cost down, you can download some free web templates from websites that are offering free templates. Select the template that you like, add in your own content to the template and upload it on your server to publish your website on the Internet. This way, you don't need to pay for a design service.

Use Web Building Tools
Another option is to use site builder tools like “dreamweaver” and “frontpage” to design a website yourself.

Characteristics of a good website:

Professional, Simple and Clean
Your website is created for affiliate marketing business, so it must have a professional looking. It should not be loaded with too many colorful graphics and lots of flashy banners. Simplicity is best. Try to use light colors and your website will look clean. Make a nice header to display your website name and theme. The site navigation must be simple to avoid confusion. Visitors should have no problem when searching for a specific page or information; otherwise they will not come back to your website.

Provide Search Facility
Add a search box on every page of your website. This will be a great help for the people who want to find a specific sub-topic or information on your website.

Add a Signup Form to Build Your Mailing List
You should add a simple signup form on your website to get your visitors contact information. To entice your visitors join your email list, you may offer free e-books, reports and gifts. Building a mailing list is very beneficial for marketing your affiliate business.

Your own website is the key requirement for making money online with affiliate marketing. The overall look and feel of your website should be interactive and the site should has useful content and information that your targeted visitors are searching for.




Make Money with Affiliate Marketing Got Easier with This New Free Tool



I recently came across a great new tool for affiliates and Internet marketers. The tool is called Hexatrack, it allows you to do two important things in par-per-click ad campaigns for promoting your affiliate programs.

The first thing is the automated competition analyzer. It will let you know whether there is any money made by affiliates in the niche market you are interested. Simply enter a seed keyword related to your niche and the tool will figure out whether your niche is profitable by spying and analyzing your niche competitors advertisements and keywords.

The second one is the automated profit analyzer. This is a cool feature of the tool. It tells you specifically which keywords of your niche lead to conversion and sales. So It will save you a great deal of time and work on trial and error to figure out which keywords are generating sales as the tool will tell you which keywords have been used by other affiliates to generate affiliate sales.

You can get a free trial of this tool at http://www.hexatrack.com.

Don't forget to watch the video tutorial before you start trying it to make more money from affiliate marketing.




The Pros and Cons of Publishing an Ezine to Earn Money Online



Publishing an ezine is one of the low cost ways to make money on the Internet. Ezine also known as electronic magazine or electronic newsletter.

The process of making money with an ezine is you first market your ezine subscription offers through your website to get people to subscribe your ezine. Then you write and design for each issue of your ezine and send out to your subscribers on a periodical basis. When you have built a good amount of ezine subscribers (i.e. more than 1,000 subscribers), you may start selling ad space on your ezine to prospective advertisers.

Besides selling ad space, you may think about using your ezine to market your affiliate programs to generate affiliate commission. You can occasionally email your subscribers to recommend an affiliate product or service that is related to your subscribers interest. You can also include your affiliate links or banner ads that are relevant to the articles published on your ezine. When reading your ezine, some of your readers may click on your affiliate link or ad to your affiliated merchant site and possibly make a purchase.

Publishing an own ezine has a number of advantages. If the pros of ezine publishing impress you, then starting a paperless magazine may be an ideal business for you to profit on the Internet.

Pros of ezine publishing

1) Ezine publishing is an easy-to-set up and low cost online business. You don't need to hire employees and purchase any expensive equipment and printing machine to get your online magazine business up and running.

2) Since heavy machines are not necessary for publishing an ezine, you can run your ezine business from the comfort of your home. The most important thing you need is an auto responder such as GetResponse.com and aWeber.com that has a broadcast feature equipped with.

3) Low start-up and maintenance costs for ezine publishing mean greater profit margin for your business. You will see profit as long as your ezine is generating advertising revenue.

4) Most importantly, you get to build your own personal media and spread your marketing influence, making you more valuable to those online marketers who sell products and services. And thus you may be contacted by some of these online marketers with a joint venture proposal presented to you that will be beneficial to your business profit.

However, like any other types of businesses, publishing an online magazine does have a few of drawbacks, despite of the several benefits that ezine publishing can offer to you.

Cons of ezine publishing

1) Content creation problem. One of the biggest challenges you'll face when you just started your ezine publishing business is creating unique and quality content for your ezine. If you don't possess good writing skill, write content can be tiresome and when you are out of content idea, often your publishing schedule will be threatening you.

However, there is a solution to content creation problem. If creating content on an on-going basis is too heavy to you, you may outsource your content creation work to one or more freelance writers. Some of the good places you can find writers are guru.com, elance,com and Digital Forum.

2) Growing your ezine subscribers isn't an easy task. It takes a great deal of time and work to build up your ezine subscriber base. One fast and effortless way to get ezine subscribers is by advertising your ezine publishing service on PPC search engines like Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing. But doing so could drive your cost up substantially.

There are several free Internet marketing methods you can use to increase your subscribers but you have to go through a learning curve before you can master these methods to use them effectively.

Final words
Ezine publishing can be a very lucrative Internet business. But like any other businesses, you need to spend a lot of time to work on your ezine publishing business in order to see good result. Before you really decide to start an ezine, it is advised that you first weight the above advantages against the drawbacks of publishing an ezine to find out whether ezine publishing business is right for you.




Asia'h Epperson



Make Money with American Idol - Part Two

Last week I started rolling out my Celebrity blogs for another season of American Idol. I also created several new blogs optimized for the final 24 contestants to make it through the Hollywood auditions. I showed you two of these blogs - Asia'h Epperson and Amy Davis so that you could see exactly how I set them up and now I want to show you what has happened since then.

I am trying to teach my readers how to properly optimize their blogs for the search engines in order to obtain traffic and then how to monetize the site once the traffic begins showing up. These two new blogs are meant to be short term money makers but could be long term if I chose to make them that way. I haven't as I simply want to cash in on the burst traffic that American Idol produces each season. The only real difference between short term and long term is that I would hold off monetizing a long term blog until it was firmly established on Google and the content on these short term sites can best be described as crap. A long term blog requires good original content with the hopes of becoming an authority blog in the niche selected.

It has been a week since I created the Asia'h Epperson and Amy Davis blogs.

The screenshots below tell the tale of what has happened as far as traffic to them is concerned. (Click on all images to enlarge them)



This screenshot (above) lists a number of my blogs in my statcounter account. The highlighted blogs show that Asia'h has received 786 page views since last week and Amy Davis has received 231 page views. I left in a few of last years Antonella Barba blogs so you could see that even they are starting to get a dribble of traffic again since American Idol is back on air. I have blacked out several sites that I am working again this year but you can see the kind of traffic that can be had from this. Antonella Ipod Photos? What's that about? I was using Antonella to draw traffic for iPod sales as well as dozens of other products and of course Adsense.

I have mentioned in the past that I create dozens of blogs for this niche and combined they can make a lot of money in a short period of time.

Now let's take a closer look at the kind of traffic Asia'h and Amy have been getting since last week.



The stats above show Asia'h Epperson's traffic. The table below shows what search queries were used on the search engines to find the blog. I should point out that Yahoo indexed me immediately and most of the traffic you see came from Yahoo. Google did not index me until yesterday - at 8:45 in the morning to be precise. The statcounter page below tells me this and it also shows me what search terms (keywords) are being used to find the blog. This is important as it tells me what terms I should be optimizing my future posts for in order to rank high in the serp's. Past experience has told me that the bulk of my visitors are going to be teenage boys - and what are teenage boys interested in... Photos! If I showed you all the keyword stats you would see that most of the keyword searches have contained the Idol's name along with "Pics", "Photos", "Gallery", "Myspace", "Joplin MO", "Father Killed", American Idol" and so on. I have of course sprinkled these terms in my posts which has led me to rank well for them.

Note: I have mentioned writing long rambling posts full of related keywords and this is the reason why. If you only concentrate on one or two keywords in each post you will only get traffic for those terms. The more keywords you sprinkle your posts with the more stuff you have to get indexed with.

Keyword Traffic for Asia'h Epperson



Referral Traffic for Asia'h Epperson




Asia'H Epperson Ranks 6th on Yahoo



Asia Epperson Ranks 5th in Google. (Notice the misspelled Asia - there will be lot's of searches with her name spelled incorrectly so it doesn't hurt to rank for it as well.)



Now the Amy Davis blog stats shown below tell a different story. It did not get indexed by Google until Feb 16 at 9:57 am. Yahoo has not sent any traffic so it either hasn't indexed it or it's so far back that nobody has found it yet. I don't care about Yahoo so I won't pursue ranking on it. (Requires Meta Tags and a few other tweaks but doing so can have an adverse effect on Google rankings - Google will send far more traffic so I will stick with them.)

Amy Davis' Traffic Stats.



The traffic shown in the chart above is almost all referral traffic from other sites. Google only began sending search traffic two days ago. The stats below outline the keyword traffic from Google and the Referral traffic.

Google Traffic for Amy Davis Below - notice the keywords used to find the blog.



Referral Traffic for Amy Davis Below - notice that Technorati has been sending traffic. I have received as much traffic from Technorati in past years as Google. (Note: Blogger Labels are Technorati Tags - Wordpress Tags also serve as Technorati Tags.)



A few pointers before I discuss monetization.

Below is a screenshot of the Technorati account I set up for Asia'h. You will notice that I currently have 8 backlinks pointing at the new blog. This is how to get indexed. Do not submit your blogs to Google - you will sit in limbo for ages. The best way to get indexed quickly is to point some links to your new site from an established site that Google crawls regularly. Note: Technorati only lists links from blogs - not websites. I have more links that aren't shown here. One comes from a Radio station website in Asia'h's hometown of Joplin MO. They incorrectly linked to my blog thinking it is Asia'h's own blog - hehe - how did they get that idea? (See screenshot below Technorati listing)



Of these 8 links on Technorati I am responsible for 7 of them and my new friend Christopher Hedges was kind enough to provide the last one. As a reward for a job well done I will give him a link back using another American Idol finalist that he is targeting - Joanne Borgella.

If you are interested all the Technorati links are from PR3 and PR4 sites and they all use the keyword "Asia'h Epperson" (the links are in bold on Technorati) in the anchor text of the link. This is imortant as that is the term I want to rank well in the serp's. Should I drop in rankings I will muster up some more links like these and also target some of the other keywords that have shown up in the searches. Most notably "Asia'h Epperson Photo Gallery", "Asia'h Epperson Photos", "Asia Epperson Pics" etc. As I said - past experience has told me that these will be the terms most of the teenage boys will be looking for.

The Radio Station Link Below.



Monetization for American Idol

When I created the blogs I did not ad any form of monetization to them. Wait until you are indexed before doing this. Once the traffic started showing up I added Adsense to the Asia'h blog. Needless to say - the Adsense bot gave me nothing but crap as the blog was optimized for Asia'h Epperson only and there are no ads tailored to such a term. No problem. I then went back and edited the original blog and posts. I added a number of keywords for the benefit of the Adsense bot in order for it to give me ads that I know will produce clicks. I added terms like "American Idol", Models", "photos", "Celebrity Gossip" and so on. These terms do have existing ads and by using the keywords in the Blog description and in the posts I was able to get Google to send me the right kind of ads. This can be done with any site at any time. If your Adsense ads suck on your pages just keep re-editing using various terms until you get the ads that produce. (Remember that all of you who get crappy paying ads.)

Note: I am still getting some crappy ads mixed in with the good ads and this is simply because I have yet to add enough content to the site to satisfy the Adsense bot - it is still not exactly positive as to what the site is about. I have not yet monetized the Amy Davis site but will later today.

I always start out with Adsense but will add other monetization as things progress - I need to get a feel for who the searchers are and what they are looking for first.

You will notice in the traffic stats that there were far more searches done on the two days following the airing of last weeks American Idol. You may not think that the little traffic I received means much but I am very optimistic. Asia'h has only received about 5 minutes of air time so far on the show - basically her interview regarding her dad's death and her short audition song. We have not seen her sing anything else. Amy Davis has had no air time at all yet save for a two second clip naming her as a top 24 finalist. Given this lack of exposure I am quite impressed with the number of searches I have seen so far. I assure you that after the shows air this week I will see a surge in visitors. I will of course let you know how that turns out.

Ok - that's enough for today. If you have questions fire away and remember there are 24 contestants at the moment that can be targeted as well as the show "American Idol" itself.

ps.For those waiting for my post on Adsense tips I will be doing it soon but note that I just gave you a few above.

Cheers,

Griz

Tuesday Update

American Idol will air later tonight so I thought I would show you a before and after snapshot of what happens with the Asia'h site. Since posting yesterday I have seen a steady increase in visitors via Google as seen in the chart below...



I have also got my first few Adsense clicks - between $0.35 and $0.70 per click which is decent for this market. Terrible click thru rate though which is why this only pays off with really high traffic bursts. We will see in the morning...




This Wednesday Tele-Training: How To Make Money Online With Community Site



The social networking expert, Mike Filsaime and his co-partner, Mark Braunstein will be talking about creating residual income using online community sites in their free tele-class this Wednesday. And they are inviting anyone to join their tele-class. The exact time and date of the tele-training are Feb 20th, 2008, 9.00PM EST.

Mike and Mark will be giving away a lot of great content and here are some of the topics they will cover:

  • Apply Web 2.0 to online communities.
  • Membership sites myth.
  • Building your online community using social networking concepts.
  • How to monetize your community to to create passive and residual income streams.
  • And much more......
The tele-class is free but to attend you need to register. If you are interested to participate in this tele-class, simply go to http://vtribes.com/call to fill out the register form and you will be able to listen to this tele-class at your home on this Wednesday.




Starting An Internet Business To Profit Online: 4 Common Mistakes To Avoid (Part 1)



There are several mistakes that most of the people make when they just begin to build their internet marketing business to make money online. You just need to remember that you can make them one time, then learn from them and never make the same mistake again. Below are a few of the common mistakes that you will more than likely make when you start building your online business.

Not Spending Time To Educate Yourself
This is one the biggest mistakes that so many people make. When you first launch your online business, most probably you are in the dark about how to get it to generate income for you. Some people spend a hard time doing trial and error to figure out how to get their business to make money without any help. That is ok if that is what you want to do but it will take you a long time to achieve success.

There are plenty of resources and places on the Internet that you can start your education and learn what you need to know. You can go to a resource site to sign up online business courses or get an internet marketing guide, e-book; visit forums, read articles posted on articles directories, blog entries or anything else that related to online business and internet marketing. One of the effective methods to learn is to look for a online forum that has a lot people who have experience and already achieved success in Internet marketing. One great forum for this is:

http://www.warriorforum.com


However you need to be aware that, all forums can become time traps. Stay focused, get in, search for the right info and get out. A quick an easy way to search the information needed for your business in this particular forum is here:

http://www.robertplank.com/warriors/search.php

Warrior Forum is a large and popular forum that has a lot of internet marketing experts participate in various discussions relevant to Internet marketing and e-businesses. They are friendly and willing to help you with any aspects that you have problem in. You can start new threads to ask them questions, ask their advice on where you can learn what you need to, or find out what resources they would suggest to help you along the way. You need to take the time to educate yourself on every area of internet marketing in order to succeed in your online business. There is no if, ands or buts about it. This is a must if you want to be a successful Internet entrepreneur that make a living from the Internet.

Those who have achieved online success have done what you are intending to do now, so they are the best ones to get help and advice from. You will find that most of these successful online marketers are willing to help you get to where they are. You just have to ask for their help and advice. They will inform you that education on all areas of internet marketing is a must for everyone trying to start and grow their online business. Too many people become impatient and think that they can do it all by themselves without any help. They are usually the ones that end up quitting. Don’t make the same mistake that they do. Learn what you need to.

As you read above, asking for help is very important for business of any kind to succeed, not just online marketing businesses. You need to be able to tell people know that you are lost and don’t know how to proceed next.

There are many Internet marketers would love to give you helps.

To continue reading part 2 of this article, please click here.




Starting An Internet Business To Profit Online: 4 Common Mistakes To Avoid (Part 2)



In case you haven't read this part of this article, please click here

Buying Tools And Products That Didn’t Help

When you just get into the Internet marketing world, You will find yourself bombarded by people who claim that they know exactly how to make your business a success, and they will charge you for price of $XX.XX.

They only Interested earn your money. They might know something but probably the information and resources the sell to you can be found free elsewhere on the Internet. So be cautious on what you purchase and how you spend your money for your business growth. Otherwise, you will find yourself in serious debt problem that is hard to get out of it. This has happened to a lot people. If you are not careful on your online business spending, this can easily happen to you. So don’t just buy anything and everything. Take the time to do research and visit forums to find out whether a product is really helpful and useful before spending your money to buy it.

Once you have as much information as you can about something, then you can make a wise decision on whether it is worth your time and money.

If You Rush It, You May Wreck It
When you start an internet marketing business you have to know immediately that it will take time for your business to begin seeing any kind of results. There will be a learning curve you need to go through When you first start your e-business.

This is just a fact that you need to accept and deal with. You don’t want to just barrel your way through anything until you know how to do it, especially on the internet. This is very important because if you try and do things too fast and you don’t see the results that you want, it is very easy to become discouraged and start feeling like nothing you do is ever going to work for you to achieve success.

This is not true but there are too many people who never take the time to slow down and do things one step at a time. Building your business is just like learning to walk, you have to do it one step at a time or you will end up falling down and failing every time you try. So remember that it will take time and lots of patience to get to where you want your business to be. The faster you realize that, the faster you can move on and start doing the little steps one at a time to make your business successful.

Focus Focus Focus!
When you are trying to build a business it is very important that you keep yourself focused. There are so many things on the internet that will keep you distracted for a whole day if you let them.

You have to ignore everything and do whatever needs to be done that day. When you can’t stay focused you will never be able to achieve success of any kind. You may have to train yourself on how to do this but it can be done.

Don’t check your email except in the morning before you start working and again at night when everything is done.

Don’t start reading emails or looking at product sales letters that people want you to buy. You have to do the work that needs to be done for that day before you start letting yourself do things that won’t help build your business.

This is something that a lot of people have a hard time with because it is so easy to let yourself become distracted. You need to learn to resist this and keep yourself focused on what you are doing. These are all common mistakes that too many people make when they start an internet marketing business.




Insurance Portal



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All we want in our life is our and our children's feature must be safe. insurance will make you stop worrying about these problems. Insurance won't make us stop feeling alone, it won't provide the warmth of family and it is not someone you can hang out with. Insurance is here to protect you from all the worst things that could possibly happen to you.

I know a website that is ez-insuranceportal.com. This is an insurance portal that covers most major lines of insurance. You will find various types of insurances like Auto Insurance, Life Insurance, Health Insurance, Home Insurance. You can have big discounts and have big savings on Auto Insurance, Home Insurance.

This site provides all types insurance quotes like Auto Insurance,Life Insurance, Home Insurance Health insurance etc.

Visit ez-insuranceportal.com for more details.

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Win $50 by Paypal



Another blogging contest is held by Blogetition is live in the blogsphere. Here you can win $50 via paypal. This contest will end on 29th February.

To enter this contest here are the rules by Blogetition

There are several ways to enter - each of these ways will entitle you a certain amount of credits. Each credit = one entry.

To get more info about this contest visit Blogetition.




Win a free Domain, 2 year Hosting, a popular wordpress theme for your blog.



The blogspot bloggers or any blogger can win a free domain, 2 year hosting and a popular wordpress theme to make your dream true.

Bloggingmix.com has started a contest in which you can win a 2-Year Hosting Service at SiteGround.com, a Domain Name of your choice to go with your new blog (subject to availability), and a Block Magazine Wordpress Theme designed by Wordpress Rockstar Adii.

He will also help you to get familiar with wordpress. He will help you move your blog from Blogger to Wordpress, help you set up Wordpress and the necessary plug-ins, and help you install your Block Magazine Wordpress theme for the first month.

To get eligible for this contest you just need to

  • Subscribe to Blogging Mix. Subscription must be verified. (5 Points)
  • Review and link to this contest. (10 Points)
  • Review and link to Blogging Mix. (10 Points)
  • StumbleUpon this contest with a short review. (7 Points)
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To improve your probability of winning, you can earn more credits. One credit equals one entry.

To get more info and to join this contest visit Bloggingmix.

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Get cheap car insurance



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Vehicle is one of the essential part of our day-to-day life. Vehicle helps us to transport anything to anywhere. As much as it is helpful, it is risky too for both life and money. When an accident happens, it likely to cost money or life or both. By doing vehicle insurance we can save our money.

The car insurance may be a confusing task for some people out there. Everybody wants the type of company which give more benefits. So they starts to find various auto insurance quotes after buying a new vehicle.

I found a website carinsurancerates.com which gives you a free online insurance quotes to choose cheap car insurance as well as educates you to the auto insurance world. Giving all type of information about auto insurance, so you can make a better decision to choose a right car insurance.

CarInsuranceRates.com is providing instant car insurance quotes since 1997. This site has lots of articles on auto insurance like "The Top Ten Hardest Cars to get Insured" "10 Easiest Cars to Get Insured" "10 Most Stolen Cars" "How Can I Get Discount Car Insurance and Cheap Auto Insurance?" "Ultimate Guide to Cheap Car Insurance" and lot more.

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Free Resources Helpful to Make Money Online - 15 Feb 2008



It is time again to post some links to useful resources, hope that they really help you.

Smallreportsfortune.com
Jimmy D.Brown has create a new report revealing how a 37-year old Arkansas man makes more than $20,000 every month by selling only small reports on the Internet. The new report lays out the whole process of making money online by creating and selling tiny reports in step-by-step format so that you can follow and profit the same way. You can get a copy of this free report at Smallreportsfortune.com.

Squeezepagecashmachine.com
Would you like to have some advice on optimizing your squeeze page? Squeezepagecashmachine.com has a 5-day Squeeze Page course you can sign up immediately. You will pick up tips and ideas on how to put up a squeeze page that will increase your opt-in subscribers and leads after reading the content of the course.

Nichemarketing2.com
The site is a place to learn about making money online with niche marketing 2.0. The site owner, Patric Chan has prepared a series of videos explaining what niche marketing 2.0 is, how to make money with it and how it can bring your online business to next level.




How to Use Web Video to Get Targeted Traffic



Most webmasters and bloggers have one similar goal which is to drive as much traffic as possible to their website and blog. But, the question is, how to drive the most traffic? With tons of how-to traffic e-books and courses available on the Internet, claiming that they have the "secret" and "strategy" to get traffic; it is not easy for a webmaster to pick the right way to generate traffic.

While some of these e-books actually have good information and content on driving traffic to your website, there is one technique that has proven itself in the last few years as being one of the powerful ways to attract targeted visitors, and potential buyers. This traffic-generation technique is called web video marketing. It is a powerful technique to building a high-profile website that is visited by thousands of people daily.

Web video is an effective way to show your target audience information, and tell them about your various websites, products or services. When it comes to creating a web video to market your website and products, there are several keys you need to follow. Following these tips, probably you will be able to create a successful video marketing campaign, and enjoy the benefit of video marketing which is getting massive exposure for your website and online business.

The most crucial key to applying web video for website marketing and promotion, is to make videos that are interesting, entertaining and above all else, informative. Viewers will find your videos based on what they are about. If you are selling a how-to e-book about weight loss, one of the effective ways to get your audience is to create short videos on how to reduce weight. This will give your audience a chance to see how informative your video is and also how you can help them solve their problems.

Possibly, when you upload a web video that answers a question, the viewers may also visit your site to search for other answers to their various questions. This is a great way to build loyalty with the potential buyers, as well as giving them an actual reason to buy your product or service.

Once you have made some videos related to your website topic or online business, you will then need to publish these videos on the Internet so that people can watch them. So where should you post or publish you web videos? There are about hundreds of web video sharing sites that allow you to upload and publish your own video on their server. However, the key is to find the video site that gains massive traffic everyday. It's no doubt that YouTube is the biggest and most popular video site on the web.

And by uploading your video, along with relevant keywords, on YouTube, you will soon gain a flow of targeted traffic to your site. And, since there are a lot of video sites on the web besides Youtube, you will want to post your video on these video sites as well to get more exposure. You may post your video by hand to these sites, but it is time consuming. To make your video submission easier and faster, you can use a submission service like Traffic Geyser to do the job for you. The Traffic Geyser system will submit your video to all of the major video sharing websites, thus increasing your traffic greatly.




Get the guide for Credit Cards



Credit Cards is the most secure and convenient way to make transaction over the internet. People may confuse searching and taking the credit card of their need. But don't worry, peoples who don't have that much information about credit cards and want to see offers on various credit cards just head over to www.yourcreditnetwork.com this website is specialized on informing consumers about credit card offers, how to use credit wisely, and occasionally posts humorous insights into the wacky world of credit.

This website helps you getting informed about different credit card offers from different credit card issuers like American Express, Bank of America, Capital One, Chase, Discover etc.

It also provides different Credit Card features like

• Low Interest Credit Cards
• Instant Approval Cards
• Bad Credit Credit Cards
• Rewards Credit Cards
• Cash Back Credit Cards
• Student Credit Cards
• Business Credit Cards
• Balance Transfer Cards
• Hotel/Airline Credit Cards
• Prepaid Credit Cards

So, head over to www.yourcreditnetwork.com and find the card of your choice which suits your needs and guess what, you can instantly apply for the card you like online.




Free Video Tutorial that will Cut Your Learning Curve for Making Money Online



The Internet marketing millionaire, Derek Gehl has put up a video yesterday called Reality 101. This video is 30 minutes long. In this 30 minutes video, Derek will show you the exact steps you need to take to build a real money-making online business. He will straight to the points explaining to you exactly how to build a online business with minimum initial capital and maximum results.

The link to access this video is here:

http://www.marketingtips.com/reality-101/t/846189


I'm sure you will understanding better of what you really need to do to start a successful online business that makes real money after watching this video.




15 Tips to Help You Succeed in Email Marketing - Part 1



Whether your online business is selling your own developed products or marketing affiliate products to earn sales commission, you have to work hard to connect with your potential customers or target prospects. One of the fastest and cheapest ways to communicate with your potential customers on the Internet is through email.

You can gather your potential customers email addresses by offering something free on your website to entice your potential customers to sign up your offer and give you their email addresses.

Once you got their email addresses, you will start connecting with them often to build up a good relationship and make your propects be familiar with you. This will build up trust and credibility within your email subscribers. And when you have done that, you can expect to make some sales every time you send out a sale email to them.

Writting effective and successful email does require skill and knowledge.You need to know exactly how to write that email that will get people to open and read and get your prospects to take the action that you want them to take. Knowing when to send it also matters.

Below are 15 tips to help you out with your sales emails:

1. Many research have been conducted to find out the best day to send email and the result showed that Tuesdays and Thursdays are the best days.

2. The word 'testing' is important in email marketing. You should always test your email before sending it. First, use a spell checker, then a spam checker, and finally, email it to yourself before you send it to anyone else.

3. Use targeted marketing methods when growing your email list to ensure that those who opt-in to your email list are your target prospect. It is worthless to send email to people who have no interest on what you offer or on your website topic.

4. Research found that people read a message approximately seven times before they will purchase something. So Don’t just recommend your product once – recommend it a few times.

5. Never send out more than one email per day. Depending on what audience you have, you may want to set to send email once or twice per week. At the same time, you don’t want your audience to forget about you. So never let more than a week pass by without connecting your audience.

6. You may send out old offers to your new email subscribers, as long as the messages that you write are not ‘time specific.’ This will allow you to keep profiting from your old emails over and over again, as long as they are still related. Make sure that you keep those old emails clean, and remove sales emails for products that are no longer selling.