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Friday, May 29, 2009

Are you Interested in Earning more from your Websites?

Would you be interested in joining a free discussion group where authors of money making websites actually shared their websites? How many times have you heard gurus show screen captures of sky high earnings, but they never share the websites. Each guru claims he needs to protect the niche market from competition, but often it is because the guru is not sharing the whole truth (or maybe is making it up).

Imagine if the discussion group required every member to share their website url and earnings. Members could share and copy marketing ideas by looking directly at what is working.

You would be required to provide the website url and earnings from a website making at least $500 a month. This limit would keep the group small and limit members to those with online success.

The format may be that of a privately accessible blog, where each member has a page detailing their website and earnings. Each member could participate in an open discussion by emailing posts to a specific email address.

Please comment on this blog entry or email me if you would like to join such a group.

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Monday, January 05, 2009

"In The Beginning" Internet Marketing At Home

Author: Robert Hemken Jr

A lot of us need to raise our income but second jobs won't work because of the usual restraints on our time. Work, family and many other responsibilities literally devour us. Incessant increases in living cost wipe out our bank accounts, forcing many of us to live from paycheck to paycheck.

Internet marketing can be a answer to this dilemma. Anyone can learn to make a little extra income online. Under these circumstances the convenience of being able to work at home, anytime you want, is very attractive. Many people are already making additional money online. Some are making a full time income. You can too! With the right motivation combined with proper guidance you will see results sooner than you think.

"Were do I start?" you ask. That is the purpose of this article. Proven methods that bring results. No hype here. Internet Marketing is hard work but can be very rewarding. We encourage you to give it a try. Work at your own pace a little each day and you will see results.

When first starting out, an easy way to expose yourself to the IM (internet marketing) world is to sign up for other marketer's newsletters and free offers. Your in box will start being a source of info to help you get your head wrapped around what IM is all about. Sort your mail or coordinate it in a way that works for you so you can come back to these at a later date for review and ideas.

I personally set up a filter for each newsletter so they skipped my inbox and were directly sorted into folders. This saves a lot of time and allows you to determine what is worth reading and what is just sales pitch and hype.

A dependable Internet Marketer will offer you tips and ideas of value so after saving a group of his news letters you will see an overall pattern of value or worthlessness. Once you determine this you can choose if you will stay subscribed or not.

Down the road if you ever decide to produce your own opt in mailing list for your own IM business these files will be valuable to you. You will have in front of you examples of quality newsletters, tips and offers to model your own list building campaigns after.

A word of caution: Don't be taken in by every offer that comes along. Proceed cautiously and give yourself some time to sort things out. Remember, if a "deal" sounds to good to be true it probably is. As you study and take note you will be able to discern what is genuine value. There are multiple paths to IM success and this process helps you to determine what is right for you.

IM is hard work and there are no "get rich quick" strategies that actually work. Say away from these scams or you will be robbed of your hard earned money and worse, your valuable time. Pursue your IM education a little each day an you will defiantly see progress

About the Author:
Robert E Hemken Jr Hey,I earn extra money at home with my computer. If you would like to join me check this out! Make Money Online | Marketing at Home

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-articles/in-the-beginning-internet-marketing-at-home-707996.html

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Monday, November 17, 2008

The Lazy Marketers Guide to Internet Traffic

You are Kneau Reeves. This is a hostage situation. You need traffic, lots of traffic. What do you do, hot shot? What do you do?

There are several methods for generating traffic to your website, and this post is about knocking them down. Let's examine the drawbacks to all the tools in your internet marketers handbag. And then I'll tell you the lazy marketers way to internet traffic.

Organic Search Results
Organic traffic is the holy grail of internet marketing. If you go looking for it, be sure to bring a shrubbery. You need time to build organic traffic. Anyone saying they get good traffic from organic search two weeks after launching a website is probably targeting a long tail keyword that no one is looking for.

Backlinks
Backlinks are the key to Googles organic search results. So get out there and spam every forum, blog or directory you can to get those backlinks. There are even websites telling you to use PAD submission software to spam. After a couple of weeks you wind up pretty unfulfilled.

Social Media
Sounds easy right? All you gotta do is quit your day job, get a divorce, lose your friends and hang out at Twitter building new virtual friends. Did you ever wonder why the top posts that are supposed to have such great content usually stink? The guys that rule the top of the social media sites belong to social media cliques where it's quid pro quo (you digg my post and I'll digg yours). Social media websites even tell you flat out that's how it works. And worse, they squash websites that offer to digg you in exchange for cash. I totally understand why this is banned, but isn't it hypocritical to ban diggs for cash but encourage and reward begging for diggs from your virtual friends?

Article Marketing
That's sooo 2004 dude. Article marketing websites are now the spam of the spam. It's the fastest way to disappear inside a pile of crap since Windows Vista.

The Lazy Marketers Guide to Internet Traffic
I am an American. It's my right to have whatever I want, as soon as I want it. I have been conditioned through television and advertising to have no more than a 30 second attention span and to crave instant gratification. I am used to spending massive amounts of money, and I'm prepared to go to into debt to have the next IPod, IPhone and IWhatever. You too? Then the obvious solution is PPC advertising. Google Adwords delivers traffic today with no (or very few) questions asked. All you have to do is pay for it.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

10 Free Alternatives to Expensive Software

In order to run a business online or be a successful internet marketer, there are a few tools you're going to need. The cost for brand name software tools are often too expensive, especially when every dollar counts. Fortunately, there are alternatives to the big software names. Not only are these alternatives capable of filling your needs, but they are a also free.

FTP Utilities
Everyone needs an FTP program right? FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. It's an add-on for your Firefox browser. It starts as a new tab within your Firefox browser and you FTP right from your browser.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684

AutoMailer
Marketers need to manage their email lists. Rather than pay a monthly fee to a service like aweber.com, here is a free (GNU license) PHP script you can install. poMMo is versatile Mass Mailing software. Add a mailing list to your website, or organize stand alone mailings. Unique features such as the ability to mail subsets of your subscribers set it apart from alternatives.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pommo/

Antivirus Software
You really can't afford to work online without some virus protection. ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 and Vista. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge.
http://www.clamwin.com/

ZIP Utility
You absolutely needed a ZIP utility to work online. 7-Zip is open source ZIP utility software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.
http://www.7-zip.org/

Spreadsheet and Word Processing
You'll always use Spreadsheets and Word Processors. OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It's a replacement application for Microsoft Office, and can even use Microsoft Office files.
http://www.openoffice.org/

Adobe PDF generator
The Adobe PDF format is everywhere online. PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Video Capture Utility
Do you need to create a video? These days more and more tutorials are in video format. Jing is free program that lets you record video of what you do, or what you see. The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.
http://www.jingproject.com/

Graphics Editor
Would you like an alternative to the very expensive PhotoShop? Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
http://www.getpaint.net/

Photo Editor
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
http://www.gimp.org/

Encryption
Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
http://www.truecrypt.org/

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Why some businesses fail

Internet Marketing is not easy. You may find it hard to get an internet business up and going. Here are some reasons why internet businesses fail.

1. No one wants your product.
You should really concentrate on a market and audience, not a product. When you find a market of consumers who have a need, and you can fill that need for them, you are on your way to success. Rather than selling, you are just standing in front of the traffic and letting it come to you.

Take a note from Bert Ingley who makes well over six figures a year selling Madden Football information online. Bert himself will tell you he visited Madden Football sites, chatted with players, and posted in forums long before he had a product. He came with his product AFTER he learned what the people in his market wanted and needed.

Could you do the same? How much to you know about your potential customers? Google you own keywords. Visit related websites, even your competition and see what people are saying. Post on forums. Chat with people. Answer email questions. The more you know about your potential customers, the better you'll be able to market to them.

2. Talking about features, not benefits.
You probably concentrate on features of your product or service in every other aspect of business. You are probably adding features to product as the market demands or standards change. Many of your thoughts may be feature oriented.

In marketing, you never want to talk about features. Instead, you need to talk about what the feature will mean to the customer. Will it save them time? Will it make their task or life easier? Will it save them money? These types of things are benefits. In your marketing, you want to talk about benefits, not features.

3. Trying to do it all yourself.
Many times you may try to do it all yourself. You may not want to relinquish control or spend the money on outsourcing.

But, back to Bert Ingley again, he hired a professional writer very early on. Sure Bert new his product and his market. However he also knew that others were more knowledgeable and also better writers. Bert outsourced the writing and he concentrated on the marketing.

4. Not being patient.
Internet marketing is not easy. It doesn't happen overnight. It takes time to write articles, build an email list and split test messages.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

10 Free Alternatives to Expensive Software

In order to run a business online or be a successful internet marketer, there are a few tools you're going to need. Brand name software tools are often too expensive, especially when every dollar counts. Fortunately, there are alternatives to the big software names. Not only are these alternatives capable of filling your needs, but they are also free.

FTP Utilities
Everyone needs an FTP program right? FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox that provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. It's an add-on for your Firefox browser. It starts as a new tab within your Firefox browser and you FTP right from your browser.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684