Free Resources Helpful for Making Money Online - September 01 2007

The Ultimate Graphics Giveaway
Stephanie Mulac and Reed Floren has created a new giveaway event with hundreds of downloadable sales page & mini site graphics, headers, blog & website templates and clipart you can use to customize your website or blog. This giveaway event is free to join.

5 Keys To A Successful Short Report Business
The above title is a PDF report explaining how to make money online by creating and promoting short reports in high demand niches. This report can be downloaded at http://www.shortreportprofits.com/5keys.html.

How to Make Money Online by Writing Articles - Part 1

Internet marketing revolves around content. With the lack of one-to-one approach in the virtual marketing arena, internet solely depends on creating magic through words that attract people. The need for articles is enormous. Websites are filled with content.

If you wonder why articles are so important. Articles are one way of ensuring your website climbs up the search engines. The reason is because people search for information on search engines. The websites that have more useful content are the ones that are at the top of the search engines like Google. The reason why search engines concentrate and appreciate good content is because they want to provide what people are looking for.

Where do articles come from?
Articles don’t just appear by themselves out of nowhere. The websites looking for articles have to either write the articles themselves or they will have to buy them. The problem is that most website owners may not have the skill to write articles in a way that attracts the reader or even if they have the skill, may not find the time. That’s when they look at freelance writers for articles.

That is precisely the reason why article writing for pay is a great way of making money online. Having said that, it would help to know how one could go about doing that. There are several paths you can choose from. The first one and the easiest is to write articles for the article submission sites.

Article submission sites
There are several article submission sites, which accept articles and pay for them. One is Associated Content, that pays your for the articles they buy from you. Then there is Constant Content that pays you when your articles are sold. The amount that one gets paid varies anywhere between $3 to $200 per article. It is pretty obvious that the articles that pay higher amount are more in depth, informative, and longer.

Contacting top websites
The second way is a little more time consuming when compared to the first. You will need to contact the website owners directly and offer to write unique content specifically for them. Many website owners would love to hire a freelance writer for their articles, even if it costs more, because they want unique content. You can concentrate on the gurus on the internet and if you land yourself one contract and do a good job, then the word of mouth is enough to land you lots of projects.

How to Make Money Online by Writing Articles - Part 2

Own Freelance website
There is another way of selling your articles and making money. This one certainly consumes a lot more time but is the most lucrative. Setting up your own website and advertising your freelance services. This way, you will not have to look for work; people will be coming to you for articles. Of course, you will need to promote your website. But that is a small price to pay, for what you are going to gain.

Get your own domain and set up a website. You need to keep some samples of your work on the website. People want articles of various lengths. You can have about 2 or 3 articles of different lengths, may be 150 words, 350 words, and 500 words. Next thing that needs to be done is the sales letter, selling yourself. Yes, not your website, but you. You need to let people know through your sales letter that they are hiring a writer; it’s almost like having a writer on staff.

Now, with that done, where do you find clients and where do you promote your website?

There are numerous places to find clients for this sort of work. Some of the better places are warriorforum.com, forums.digitalpoint.com/, sitepoint.com/marketplace/. Here you can sell your article writing services to the highest bidder. You can also have your website link in your signature.

Monthly membership site
This is an innovative idea to sell your services. PLR monthly membership sites are well-known, but here instead of PLR content, you are going to be selling your services and you are not going around looking for clients. Suppose you are into writing ebooks, you can have a membership site, where you give away 2 ebooks a month to each member for their exclusive use. You can have just a few people as members and charge around $200 or $300 per month. Many people wouldn’t mind paying this kind of money if they are going to get their money’s worth. You will just have to see how many you can write in a month and have members accordingly.

Content website
Find a great topic or niche, write about 10 articles, get a domain name that is related to the topic, get hosting, get some free website template. Sell these sites in a matter of hours and you can earn quite a bit from them.

Clickbank products
This is a novel idea and one, which is certain to work well. You will have to set up a website where you will sell articles in batches, approximately 35 articles in a batch. These articles will be on a particular Clickbank product. The reason for doing this is because there are always people looking to sell Clickbank products. They would want articles to promote the product. You will be providing a specialized service for Clickbank products. In fact, you can incorporate this option in your writing website if you have one or you can have a separate website only for this. As long as you price them reasonably, you will have lots of work.

Article writing can be a great money earner and one can start making money within a few hours or few days. If you have a passion for writing or even if you are confident that you have good English and grammar skills, it is smart to consider article writing as one ways to make money fast.

Improve Your online Sales Using Eben's Landing Page Tactics

Eben Pagan and Andy Jenkins were on a tele-seminar for 90 minutes few days ago discussing about landing pages techniques. The tele-seminar was recorded and ready for download at http://www.stompernet.com.

These guys covered a lot of ground in that hour and a half, like:

- Landing page size
- Font size and color
- Headline development - size, color, and placement
- Proper number of bullets
- Button copy
- Squeeze techniques
- Tweaking, TESTING, tweaking, TESTING (you get the idea)
- And a whole lot more. . .

You'll learn a bunch of landing page techniques and tactics listening to this recording. Apply what you learn to improve your e-commerce website, and may be you can substantially increase your sale conversion rate and make more money online.

Find Profitable Keywords for Your Online Business

Keyword Country 5 (KC2) has recently launched in beta stage. It is a free keyword research tool you can use to find unlimited number of profitable keywords and traffic attracting keywords from any niche.

http://www.keywordcountry.com/beta/

For AdSense and affiliate marketers, they can use KC5 to find profitable keywords and generate more niche ideas helpful for them to create their niche sites and blogs to make money online with AdSense and affiliate programs.

And for search engine optimizers, it lets them research what are the highly popular keywords they can target to and find semantically related keywords to include to their content pages for the purpose of gaining more search engine traffic.

Get Paid to Blog at TenFootSquare.com Travel Blog Network

Ryan Caldwell's network of TenFootSquare.com travel blogs has 10 travel blogging positions open at present. TenFootSquare.com is looking for people who love to travel or already have experience in traveling and blogging to fill their positions.

Monthly Compensation
1. US$100 for 20 travel posts for the first month.
2. After the first month, each hired blogger will be paid US$150 for 20 travel posts and 2 travel resource posts per month.
2. Bonus $25/m extra after every quarter, up to at least 4 quarters.

Hiring Process
You'll need to send your application to TenFootSquare.com and then go through a training provided by TenFootSquare.com pro-blogger Raj Dash before you are accepted. Here's are the steps:

1. Send an email to Raj Dash at rdash001@yahoo.ca with your details (Full name, email address, any travel knowledge, travel blogging experience, or blogging experience, along with a few relevant URLs, if any).
2. Then sign up at training site Travel.BloggingTrainer.com with your real name and personal details.
3. Start blogging about travel at the training site for a week on your own, with comments/ suggestions from TenFootSquare's pro-bloggers.
4. Raj will decide whether your qualify for the job.

TenFootSquare.com plans to recruit a travel blogger each month. If you apply but don’t get hired, you can always try again.

Make Money with Paid Membership Site: How to Get Members (Part 1)

Paid membership sites are gold and can give a monthly guaranteed income. They are very easy to set up and just take a few hours of your time. Membership sites can be set up in various niches and in different price ranges. Imagine waking up in the morning and seeing a pile of cash in your Paypal account, without actually doing anything that day or even that week.

Today, people understand the importance of good content and they have no issue with paying to access a good membership site that provides that information. Getting members to a membership site begins with looking for a good niche for the site. It all depends on your target market.

Hot market
Selecting a hot market is the key to getting people. The first thing that needs to be done is research to find out what is selling. The best place to look for the top selling hot products is www.clickbank.com. Clickbank is the leading seller of ebooks and that would be a perfect place to find a niche market. Another place to get some ideas of great niches is www.43things.com and also www.amazon.com. Go to these places and see what is most popular and you should get several ideas. Getting members starts here, finding the right niche.

This is basically the initial research that needs to be done in order to attract people. Here we will not be going into how to create a paid membership site. Once you found your niche and have created a membership site, how do you get people to know that you have a site that you want them to join?

Affiliate programs
Finding some super affiliates that are looking for great affiliate programs to promote, is a wonderful way of promoting your membership site.

There are several paid membership sites that allow you to do joint ventures and look for joint venture partners. There are paid and free forums and sites where you will find such people. There are affiliate program directories through which you can find good affiliates, for example, http://lifetimecommissions.com. You don’t have to price it very high to attract top affiliates. Just ensuring that the sales page converts well will get it going and you can pay anywhere between $5 to $20 to your affiliates, depending on what you are charging for membership. If you have a few top affiliates promoting your membership site, you can see membership swell and earning you fat money month after month.

To read Part 2 of this article, please click here.

Make Money with Paid Membership Site: How to Get Members (Part 2)

If you have not read part 1 of this article, please click here.

Trial membership
Another smart way of going about this is offering a trial membership for the first month and bill the members from the second month onwards at your normal price. This is a fantastic way of ensuring you get lots of members. Once they are in and you make sure you provide great content, they will want to stay. This in fact gives you enough motivation to give people something of value and that is what a good membership site is all about. Most of the time what happens is that people will even forget that they have signed up for a free membership and they will get billed the beginning of the second month. This is fine and you don’t need to lose sleep over it as long as you are providing good and honest information.

I am not even remotely suggesting that you should cheat people. All I am saying is that people do know that they are going to be billed the next month, when they sign up for the free trial and you don’t have to baby them. Never get people to join your membership site without making it clear to them that they will be billed automatically the beginning of the second month. Also, if someone asks to stop the free trial before the month is out, make sure you do that immediately. In fact, even if they wish to get out on the 29th day, make sure you don’t bill them.

To get more people to join your free membership trial, you can approach people who are selling products of the same niche as you and ask them to offer your free trial membership as a bonus when they buy their product. So, when people purchase their products, in the download area, they are given a link to your membership site. This is simple and works beautifully.

Forums
Check out all the forums in your niche and become a member and make sure you are well known, by offering good advice and making informative posts. With every post, you can advertise your signature line, which contains the link to your paid membership site. If the advice you are offering is free and of value, this may attract some super affiliates, product owners, or some members. Give people top valuable info, stick with them, and you will have a following and a loyal base of readers in no time at all.

Affordable membership
Making your membership site is affordable to people is crucial. This enables you to get as many members as you want. A membership site can prove to be lucrative, when the number of members is high. The idea of the membership site is to get as many people as possible and then once you have a loyal subscriber base, you can get going with a high cost paid membership site, as you already have people you will be marketing it to. A low membership will ensure that people will stay on after the initial trial period.

Letting others sell the site
I know, this sounds odd but makes a lot of sense in the long run. You will let others sell the membership slots for you and they keep the money. This is a perfect way of generating huge amounts of traffic and loads of members. It is easy to find about 20 top marketers to market your paid membership site. They will do all the promotion and you get the members, and they take the money. You must be wondering how you are benefiting. Backend is the word. You sell ebooks at reasonable rates for your members, apart from what you are giving them free, and you would make more than the membership money over and over again.

The above ways of getting traffic to your new paid membership site are sure to help your subscription base grow and yield the desired profits. Paid membership sites are regular income earners and a great way to make big bucks. The keyword here is the quality of the content you provide. Get going with your membership site using these techniques and watch your subscribers grow month after month.

Free Resources Helpful for Making Money Online - August 26 2007

Toolbox4success.net
The site offers a free way of eliminating 95% of ebay questions from buyers, saving valuable time and increasing sales to people who sell products on ebay. The site also provides a pdf step by step guide and a walk through video to help ebay business owners to set up this improvement.

Report - The Seven Traffic Myths
Jason Dolman has recently prepared a 33 pages PDF report containing some important information of getting traffic. If you make money with AdSense, affiliate programs or niche marketing, this report is helpful for you to increase your traffic and make more money online. To download this report, just right click the above link and save.

E-Book - Residual Income Success Secrets
Eleven-year internet marketing veteran Willie Crawford explains how to generate residual income using affiliate and network marketing tactics and products in an e-book titled "Residual Income Success Secrets". This e-book is free to download and come with unrestricted private label rights.

What Is A Joint Venture – How Can It Help Increase Online Profit (Part 1)

We hear people saying, “I need to get into a joint venture!” When asked what it is exactly they expect from a joint venture, they say something like, “I have a great product and I am looking for a Guru to promote it.” This shows that most people have no clue what a joint venture is.

What is a joint venture
A joint venture or JV is a partnership where two or more people join together to help each other towards achieving a common goal. It is the combination of talents and resources that will make things work and the profits or risks are shared equally or as agreed upon.

This type of marketing helps leverage the assets and resources of both partners to be beneficial to both of them. Both will promote a common product or service or each other’s products or services, to their customers.

Joint ventures are successful if the group of people both partners are targeting belongs to the same niche.

Joint venture contract
Joint ventures require a written contract to be signed by both parties, to avoid any problems. Both the partners need to plan what exactly they are going to do and why they are joining forces. This will be included in the contract, so that one cannot say, “this is not what we agreed upon,” at a later stage.

All this is fine and needs to be done after a JV partner is found. But how does one find a partner.

Increasing visibility
The whole process of joint ventures works with mutual trust. It is no big secret that people prefer dealing with someone they know and trust. What happens to a newbie, who knows nobody? Getting known on the internet is important. This can be achieved in several ways. Attending seminars and getting to know other marketers is a great way. Many REAL friendships are formed at these seminars. Keeping in touch with people and doing a joint venture when you need is the way to go.

Most people in the internet marketing arena, who have reached great heights, would have been in a joint venture at some point or another. It is surely possible to earn money on the internet without joint ventures, but a JV paves the way to faster growth. Joint ventures can be very profitable and beneficial when done the correct way.

Increasing the opt-in list
Benefits of a joint venture are numerous. The main benefit being doubling the number of potential customers in no time. As a result of a joint venture, even if only a few of the new visitors subscribe to your mailing list, it means that the size of your email list increases without any effort and the partner’s market has been tapped. With this list, you can make unlimited profits. It is common for people to experience an increase of thousands of subscribers within a few minutes of landing a good JV deal.

If you are new and only have a small list, you can go about this by offering your potential JV partner a free ebook, that he can give away free to his subscribers and in return he allows you access to his huge list of subscribers. This is beneficial to both parties. He gets a free ebook and you get a whole list of subscribers. Don’t forget to add that ‘promotional link’ of yours in the ebook.

To read part 2 of this article, please click here.

Start Making Money on ebay Using Derek's eBay Success System

I've just heard about an exciting opportunity that I had to share with you right away. It involves the website eBay.com, and requires a bit of work on your part.

However, the payoff for you could be lucrative.

Let me explain...

I just received a message from Derek Gehl of the Internet Marketing Center, who had some pretty amazing news...

He told me that for the first time ever, he's convinced his elite team of eBay PowerSellers to let him put their proven success system down on paper, so anyone can use it to achieve life-changing income on eBay.

(This is the same system his eBay experts are using to teach their students how to build their own successful eBay businesses. Many of these students are making a full-time income on eBay -- within a matter of weeks!)

Anyway, here's where the 'opportunity' part comes in...

See, because this is the first time he's released this system to the general public, he needs more people who can "testify" that his system actually works.

If making a lot of money is something that interests you, I'd like to invite you to check out a "review copy" of his new eBay profit system and give it a try!

And because he's so certain you're going to achieve incredible success with this system, he's willing to let you test-drive it absolutely risk free for a full 30 days -- for only 99 cents!

Derek is banking on the fact that you'll be up and running and making big profits on eBay in the next month or so, and will write him a nice "testimonial" that he can put up on his web page when he rolls out his full launch of this system to the public.

If not, no big deal... Just send it back and it won't have cost you anything.

Sound interesting? You can take part by going to:

eBay Wealth System

What Is A Joint Venture – How Can It Help Increase Online Profit (Part 2)

If you have not yet read part 1 of this article, please click here.

Access to profitable products
You can gain immediate access to more profitable products that can in turn be sold to your list of subscribers. More products leads to more subscribers, which in turn leads to more sales.

An endorsement can be done of the partner’s products, to your own subscriber list. If you have a good reputation with your subscribers, they will think that you are endorsing it only because you consider it a good product. This way you have new products to sell to your list without incurring the expenditure of spending money on creating a new product.

Saving time
When in a joint venture partnership, the workload is shared by both partners equally, depending on the skill set of each person. One may be good in graphics, while the other may be a great marketer. Everything gets done faster and better. This gives both parties more time to concentrate on improving this business to earn more profits.

New product creation
With the combined knowledge of both parties, you can create products like ebooks and videos etc. The creation of a new product that is sold to the huge customer base from both sides is a total plus point and when you advertise that it is a joint venture product, it creates a sense of importance for the product and that makes people buy it more than they would a product created by a single person.

Credibility factor
Being in a joint venture with a well-known partner has its own benefits. If your partner has the trust of his subscribers, you can rest assured that goodwill will help your business too.

Affiliate joint venture
This is another type of joint venture where you affiliates are your partners. This works wonders for digital products. Where the digital products are concerned, the split will be more than 50%. If you have a digital product, you may give 70% to your affiliates. Giving more than 50% will bring better quality affiliates and will provide more motivation to them. In some cases, you may even offer 100% commission to the partners. This will make them promote your product heavily and although, you may not make commission, it will help create a huge subscriber list. In internet marketing, the bigger the list, the more the profits.

Combined efforts
There is more money to be made from a joint venture because of the combined efforts. Yes, it is true that profits are going to be shared equally, but then the profits are going to be much more than a single person doing it all, the reason being that advertising is done by both parties and thus more people are going to be reached, and that will surely result in more sales.

Thus joint ventures can prove to be an extremely profitable way of skyrocketing online sales and boost your profits. Know the person well before getting into a joint venture. That is the reason I said, making friendships or checking out the reputation of a person is an important practice, and one that needs to be fulfilled before entering into any sort of an agreement.

Fixya.com - Earn Cash Online by Providing Tech Support

Fixya is a website founded by an entrepreneur to provide free technical support, help and user guides for gadgets and electronic products to buyers. Fixya has a group of paid experts providing live support via chat to customers. If you have knowledge and experience in technical support, you can apply to become Fixya expert and earn cash by solving premium problems and providing live support via chat.

Premium Assistance Plan
You'll earn up to $5 for each solution provided by you to solve a premium problem. Here's the pay rate:

• Up to 50 "Solved" Premium Solutions - $3.00 per solution
• 51-100 "Solved" Premium Solutions - $4.00 per solution
• 101 or more "Solved" Premium Solutions - $5.00 per solution
  

You must meet the following conditions in order to answer premium problems and make money.

1. Be a Registered Expert on FixYa.
2. Provide at least 30 solutions.
3. Earn an average rating of 75%.

Live Support Via Chat
You'll set your rate of providing live chat supports to users and share 60% commission from each successful paid chat session you provide, while FixYa will incur all payment processing and chat handling fees.

Registrations to become an expert of Fixya are opened to people around the world.

The Pros and Cons of Selling on eBay

Are you interested in becoming an eBay seller? If you are, you are definitely not alone, as eBay has become a relatively quick and easy way to make money online. Each day, a large number of individuals use eBay to make extra money from home and a few lucky ones are even able to make enough money to support themselves or their families. Before you jump on the eBay selling bandwagon, you are advised to take a few minutes and examine the pros and cons of selling on eBay.

One of the many pros, or plus sides, to selling on eBay is the fact that is it is relatively easy to do. Once you create an eBay account, you can start listing items that you have in your possession for sale right away. When doing so, it is also easy to do. eBay has a step-by-step process for listing items for sale, in traditional auction formats or buy it now formats. In fact, eBay also has a program that lets you compile your auctions, with pictures and descriptions, when you aren’t even connected to the internet. As soon as you connect to the internet, you can begin to upload your listings and have them start right away.

Another one of the many pros to selling on eBay is that just about anyone can do it. You don’t have to have big fancy, expensive items to sell on eBay. In fact, a large number of those selling on eBay are just selling items that are taking up space in their homes; items they don’t want anymore. If you are interesting in becoming an eBay seller, but you aren’t sure as to how much you can depend on eBay for income, you may want to think about testing the waters. You can do this by listing the items have you have around your home for sale. Items that tend to sell relatively well are lots, or groups, of toys and infant clothing.

While there are a number of pros, or plus sides, to selling on eBay, there are also a number of cons, or downsides, to doing so as well. One of the biggest cons or downsides to selling on eBay is the competition. As it was previously mentioned, a large number of internet users have started using eBay to make extra money or even make a living. This is what leads to multiple auction listings for the exact same items. While this is nice for the eBay buyers, it can hurt you as a seller. When the supplier is higher than the demand, you may not make as much money off of your items as you had originally hoped to, if they even sell at all.

Another downside to selling on eBay is the fees associated with doing so. In recent years, eBay has redone their fee structure, often to raise their fees. Although these fees are still considered relatively low, they could put a damper on your profits, which alone are sometimes hard to come by. Of course, there are ways that you can the most out of eBay fees. For instance, if you have a “hot seller,” you could start your auction out at a low price, as the fees are less for doing so; however, you are taking a gamble, as you never have any guarantees as for how much your items will sell for. Perhaps, the unknown is one of the biggest downsides to selling on eBay; you never really know if you are going to make money or even if you will end up losing money.

As you likely already know, the decision as to whether or not you want to become an eBay seller is yours to make, but, when making your decision, you are advised to keep the above mentioned points in mind. With a relatively equal amount of pros and cons, you may be wondering what your best option is. For more accurate information, you may want to think about testing the eBay seller waters, as you are able to sell whenever you want, with no minimum auction requirements.

Website Creation Tips - How To Create A Mini Site To Sell A Product

If you want to sell digital products on the internet such as ebooks and software you need to create a specific type of website called a mini site which is by far the most effective way of generating sales and converting visitors into customers.

The most simple form of mini site consists of only two pages which are the sales letter and the download page, but you can also add some additional pages such as a contact page so that people can contact you for support or an affiliate page so that people can find out how to promote your product.

Before you set up your mini site you will first need to use your HTML editor to create a template which you can use for each page. All you need to do is create a new page with one column and three rows and align it in the center. This will be the template that you will use for each page of your mini site.

The first row is used for inserting the header graphic of your product and the third row is used for inserting the footer graphic of your product. The middle row is where you enter the text for your sales letter and you can insert new tables if you want to align parts of the text in the center of the page such as bullet points.

There are different types of browser and settings that people use for surfing the internet and this will effect how your page is displayed when they visit your website. If you create pages that are too wide it will mean that some visitors will have to scroll left or right to view all of the text which can be frustrating and will result in lower conversion rates.

Because of this the best width for each page of your mini site is 600 pixels wide as this will ensure that the whole page will be displayed no matter which type of browser or settings visitors use to view your website. Another reason is that most graphic designers create header and footer images that are 600 pixels wide.

After you have created the sales letter for your product you just need to insert your order links at the bottom of the page and make sure that customers are directed to the download page after they have paid. The most popular merchants that allow you to accept orders are PayPal and 2Checkout but if you want a built in affiliate program without having to install any scripts you should use ClickBank.

As well as mini sites you can also use the template you have created for other pages on your website such as squeeze pages if you want to start a newsletter and build your own opt in list. After you have created your website its just a case of sending traffic to it and testing and tracking the results so that you can make some modifications in order to improve your conversion rates.


This article was written by Simon Akers who is the editor of the Marketing Oasis newsletter, a free internet marketing ezine packed with tips to help you succeed and increase your profits: http://www.MarketingOasis.com

451Press.com - Paid Blogging Opportunities

451Press.com is one of the largest blog networks. They are always looking for writers to contribute to their growing network of blogs which cover a wide range of subjects and topics. If you're passionate about a topic, you may think about writing for 451press's blogs.

Requirement

• Knowledgeable and passionate on the topic you write.
• Strong writing skill with unique voice.
• Creative
• Reliable

How much you can earn
As a blogger of 451press.com, you task is to write unique content for the blog you are handling. 451press will take care of promotion and generating advertising revenue for your blog. They will provide the support you need to succeed. You'll get paid 40% on all the advertising revenue generated by your blog.

To know more about 451press's blogging opportunities or apply as a 451press's writer, please click here.

The Facts Of Making Money Online

By studying on how other people making money online and asking some questions, you will likely to think that you can make money online too.

Some people would tell you that making money online is as easy as turning on your computer or as simple as turning on a TV. They might not say it like that, but they'll tell you something like "This is the only program you will never need." Or, "We'll give you everything you need to make money at home." They never tell you up front how much time it's going to take, how much money or how much knowledge. These things are all items you need to know before you start to try making money online.

It's not to say that programs that make these types of claims aren't good or even great, but you should know what you're getting into. The first thing you should understand about making money online is that it's never going to make you rich overnight. It can make you rich, and you can make money overnight, but the odds of you getting rich overnight are about equal to you getting sent to prison for fraud, embezzlement or the like. Knowing this right off the bat is going to put you in a better mind set than most people who try to start a business online.

People make money online with all kinds of different items from physical goods that are delivered to the customers to information and services. There are ebooks, works of art or writings, affiliate products and the like. If you do a little research on work at home opportunities, you might find a lot of ideas that you never even thought of. Some of the most common ideas are network marketing programs or selling items on ebay. In fact, many people try one or all of these things and think, that's it, I can't make money online.

But there really are so many other ways to do it. If you wanted to take some classes, you could learn how to design web pages or create small programs that automate tasks for other internet entrepreneurs. You could write articles for ezine publishers for pay. You can even design the graphics for company logos, letter heads and other templates.

While you may be desperate for cash, desperation is not going to change these facts. If you need a large amount of cash overnight, look somewhere else. But you can start earning income quickly with affiliate programs. Look for programs that pay via PayPal so you can get quick access to your money.

You don't have to have one source of income, or even one type of income. You may make some money from affiliate marketing, you may make some money taking surveys, selling items on ebay or programs that give you residual income. Just remember that making money online can be done in many many ways, but it all takes time and effort to really bring in the revenue.

Make Money Online With Niche Marketing - Part 1

Niche marketing is one of the most powerful marketing forms existent on the internet today. To be able to take advantage of it, it is important to understand what niche marketing is.

Niche is nothing but people who are interested in the same thing. Some may be interested in Golf while some others in Fly-fishing. Here Golf and Fly-fishing are niches. Niche marketing is a conception of getting involved in an area of marketing that interests you and making money from it. It also means targeting and attracting those groups of people that belong to your niche and making money selling them products. The idea is to find a niche that isn’t too populated. It takes a great deal of research to be able to find the market that has a lot of demand and yet less competition.

Finding a niche
First thing that needs to be done is finding a product. Before deciding upon a product or service that interests you, a ton of research needs to be done. There are so many niches on the internet, that it is certainly no mean task to find a good niche. So, picking a niche with little competition is the hardest part, but once you find it, things get easier.

Keyword research
After finding a niche, you will have to do some research and come up with keywords for that niche. There are several tools that suggest good keywords and keyword phrases. Not only the keywords, they also give you the number of searches made for that keyword and also the competition. Suppose your niche is “Golf”. Type in Golf in the keyword column and these tools will bring back several keywords for Golf, like “Golf Balls” and “Golf clubs” etc. Choose what exactly you are going to target. Never target a wide niche like Golf, always target sub niches like “Golf Balls”. Look for keywords that are in demand and have less competition. The reason for not wanting to target wide niches is because of the heavy competition and if you are new, you may not even stand a chance against the big wigs up there. Anyway, why would you want to take the difficult route when there is an easy way out?

Keyword rich domain
Once you settle on the niche, next step is to check if there is a keyword rich domain name available. Many people don’t think this is important, but having a domain with your keywords helps in the search engine ranking, thus sending heavy traffic your way, resulting in more sales, and finally our goal of more money.

Content site creation
You will then need to tackle this ‘Golf balls’ niche you have chosen. You will have to have a website. Nowadays, with all the free templates out there, creating a website is no big deal. But if you must, outsource the creation of website. Once the website is ready, since niche marketing is based on content, you will have to add content to your site. Write or outsource the work, but have at least ten articles written on the niche. Use the keywords in the articles.

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Next comes the monetization of your website.

Monetization of the website
There are several ways this can be done. You can take the adsense route, go with the affiliate products, use PLR products, or create your own product.

Adsense: You can add adsense blobs to your website and earn a little money, but the money adsense brings in isn’t really much and not worth it in my opinion, if you are looking at the bigger picture.

Affiliate products: Having affiliate products related to your niche on your website is a great way of making money. Go to Clickbank and you will find many products. Look for the ones related to Golf balls, either Golf ball sets or ebooks on the latest golf balls or old ones. I suggest ebooks as they sell better, being digital in nature. Check for the products that are popular and pay at least 50% commission. Try and get more than two products and have them on your website. Another option is to buy PLR products and sell them on your website. You don’t have to write your own ebooks. Having said that, although it is not essential, there is nothing that can match your own product.

Submitting the website
Although, this point does not need to be mentioned, you need to submit your website to the search engines once it is ready.

Website promotion
The crucial thing to any marketing is advertising. Having the greatest site on earth is not going to help one bit, if there is no promotional plan. How will people know that your site even exists or that you have this product up for sale?

There are several methods of advertising. This in itself is another topic for research. There is Adwords or article marketing, and many other ways. If you have no experience with Adwords, stay away from it in the beginning until you learn the pros and cons of Adwords, and until after you have made some money on your website using free methods like article marketing. You need to spend money for Adwords and if you are not experienced, you may end up losing a lot of money. You wouldn’t want that in the beginning.

Write articles and submit them to article directories, like ezine articles and go articles, and make sure you give a link back to your website in the bio box of your article. Submit at least one per week. This way you will have many articles rotating and this increases the chance of attracting more traffic.

You can also join forums and make sensible posts with your link in the signature line. Don’t do blatant advertising in the forums, that will only attract negativity and some forums may even ban you. The main thing about forums is building trust and in the long run this form of advertising works wonders.

This is all there is to the ‘niche marketing’ giant that has been making the rounds on the internet, with its tentacles spread in all corners and scaring the people that don’t know anything about it. Now it is time for you to tackle it. Go on and make money!

3 Easy Ways to Make Money Online at Home with Your Home Based Internet Marketing Business

Just like there are no magic weight loss cures or easy ways to make money online from home without a great deal of effort, there is no one simple solution to guarantee home based internet marketing business success. However, the home based internet marketing business is not overly complicated and many business owners can enjoy at least some degree of home based internet marketing business success with only limited knowledge about the industry. This article will discuss some of the simplest & best home based internet marketing business strategies business owners can implement to promote their home based internet marketing business online. There are many easy ways to make money online from home.


However, I am going to give you great & proven success easy ways to make money online at home. You'll discover 3 easy ways to make money online at home with your home based internet marketing business below:


Participation in industry related message boards is one of the easy ways to make money at home a business owner can use the Internet as a promotional tool. Message boards are websites which provide a forum for Internet users who share a common interest to share information related to this subject or just socialize. Business owners may opt to join message boards which closely relate to their industry or the products or services they offer. This is important because doing this gives the business owners access to a group of Internet users who fall into the target audience for his products or services. It also gives the business owner the real home based business opportunity to promote his own website. Many message boards allow users to place a link to their own website in their signature. Business owners who do this and also contribute useful commentary on the message boards may attract potential customers via the link they place in their signature.


Additionally, some message boards may even allow users to post links in the body of the message. This gives the business owner the real home based business opportunity to offer his link in response to questions and comments when doing so is relevant and offers something of value to the online conversation. However, care should be taken to carefully review the terms of service and all guidelines on the message board before posting links to ensure this is not a violation of the policies of the message board. Failure to adhere to message board policies may result in removal from the message board or the posts being viewed as spam by other users.



My researches show that social networking or message board sites are the most popular and fastest growing for internet entrepreneurs. Normally those entrepreneurs use those social networking sites as their alternative easy ways to make money online.


Another simple, but effective, home based internet marketing business strategy is to hire a consulting firm with search engine optimization (SEO) experience to assist you in achieving high search engine rankings. While the concept of SEO can be rather complex and understanding the most effective strategies and how to properly implement them may take years of experience as well as continual education, the ability to hire a qualified SEO firm is as simple as knowing how to interview candidates and select the most qualified one. Handling your own SEO efforts can be rather difficult but hiring another firm to take care of this for you is not only easy but it can have a significant impact on your website traffic because high search engine rankings typically translate to improved web traffic. This is because Internet users trust search engines to serve the most relevant websites first and typically only visit the best ranking websites when they search for a particular term.


Personally, building a quality website with high ranking in search engines is one of the most cost effective easy ways to make money online. All you have to do with your SEO and websites is to take your action seriously and time to climb up the ranking in search engine. Once your website is on the top of search engine's results, you are in a good position to make money at home easy.


Similarly another simple way to enjoy home based internet marketing business success is to hire a consulting firm to plan and execute your home based internet marketing business strategy. Just like SEO, home based internet marketing business is essentially a full time job. Business owners may have a great deal of difficulty trying to run their business and organize their home based internet marketing business. Outsourcing this work eases the burden on the business manager and will likely produce more favorable results.


Final thoughts, participating in message boards and optimizing your website are the most powerful & easy ways to make money online. Those will grow your home based internet marketing business easily. You'll make money at home easy if you take the above workable ways into action seriously.


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Private Label Rights (PLR) Articles for your Adsense Site

Very informative article that explains how to obtain quality content for your blog or website. I would recommend this article to all bloggers, webmasters and site owners.

PLR articles are private label rights articles and are a very useful way to add search engine friendly content to your website. If you are building a large Google Adsense website to make some money, then you need many articles that are search engine optimized with keywords. It is very lengthy and monotonous to try to write these articles yourself. In addition, the more articles you have that are optimized, the better results you will have from your Adsense website.


There are businesses such as elance that you can hire a writer to specifically write your articles for you, but that too can take time and is not necessarily as easy as it sounds. Is there another practical way to obtain quality content without hiring a writer?


A Practical Way to Obtain Quality Content


Yes, there are websites that provide well-written articles that have been properly researched and are sold as private label rights articles. These websites are membership sites and can enable you to obtain hundreds of PLR articles for a very reasonable price--in some cases as low as 15 cents each. It is a better option than getting 'free' articles, which are likely posted on thousands of websites across the Internet, and are not unique to your website at all.


If obtaining PLR articles is the way you want to go, one of the keys to using this content is to rewrite them. In the long run, this is going to afford you the best results. You will want to fine-tune the articles with keywords to help the search engines find your website. PLR articles are not written with keyword density in mind, but it is easy enough to change them to be SEO keyword optimized.


By rewriting and tweaking the articles, it will mean that the articles are now exceptionally unique to your website. You can add the keywords that you want to concentrate on and give it your personality and even change the tone of the article.


You can take a simple approach and leave the article intact, writing only an introduction and conclusion--but this does not give you keyword savvy, quality or unique articles for your Google Adsense website. You can also use RSS feeds to add content to your pages, but again, this does not afford you unique or quality SEO articles. The more unique and keyword savvy your website articles are--the better results you will have long term.


It sounds like a lot of work to rewrite an article, but it is much easier to rework an already produced article than it is to write one from scratch. You can rewrite some, or the entire article, simply using it as inspiration for your own unique article.


Whichever method you choose to create content for your website using PLR articles, you will likely be quite pleased with the outcome. There are many PLR article membership websites, and many of the best ones are sold out, but you can put your name down on a waiting list. There are a variety of websites which are still taking members--search for this service today and you will be well on your way to increasing your Google Adsense in no time.

Who Else Wants To Make Money With Adsense

Fact number 1: Kids in high school are making thousands of dollars every month with Adsense.

Fact number 2: Housewives, retirees, mom and dads, who are just staying at home and have never made a dime on the internet have created full-time incomes by simply placing Adsense ads on their web site or blog.

These are just some of the "super Adsense earners". You may have already heard about their story for they are among the few who are on their way to making millions worth of cash just by promoting Adsense sites.

Anyone, any age and gender can become money generating Adsense publishers as long as they what it takes. How does one go about this Internet advertising?

Writing articles for Adsense is the way to do it. Using the right keywords in your articles and having Google ads on a certain site has become the most profitable way of marketing that anybody can get into. No experience and level of education needed. If you are not using this strategy, or may not be aware of it in the first place, chances are you may be losing thousands of dollars worth of extra income and still do not know it yet.

This is one of the many reasons why writing original quality content articles is now the latest in marketing buzz. Content and links. When combined together becomes a really powerful tool to a successful web site and richer individuals. Many internet marketing professionals are already aware of the value of an original quality content and how using keywords can drive targeted traffic into their sites from the search engines.

So why don't all these web site owners write and submit their own articles if that is what is important?

The simple and understandable answer is that it takes time to write articles, submit them and get targeted traffic to their websites. That is why they get the services of those who can spares sometime to write the articles that would cater to their site purpose but still turn out as a good quality and unique piece of work.

To get into the Adsense marketing business and start earning some good cash, ask yourself. Did you enjoy writing when you were in school? If you answer yes to this question, you already have an initial advantage over most internet marketing business owners that wants to make money online and doing it at home.

With the boom in the Adsense market comes the need for sites to want fresh, quality and original keyword rich content. This way, web site owners can have a steady supply of articles with the proper keywords that they relate to their site contents. The result of this is seen in the sites page rank when indexed by the search engines. Which, in turn, gets moreAdsense ads to show above, below or next to the article on their website with targeted traffic.

What do people have to do?

Write quality and original content, keyword or phrase rich articles with links to your website in the resource box. Then build a website or web page with targeted keyword or phrase rich original content for the targeted traffic that originates from the articles you wrote. Finally, you will have a Google Adsense ads that are targeted to your keyword or phrase rich original content site where visitors will get to visit when they come looking for information.

A win-win situation if you think more about it. A favor for persons looking for quality content and information. For the persons writing the original content articles. And the person with the quality original content rich website. Of course, the search engines and its advertisers are getting targeted traffic and sales but so what? As long as you are getting something in your favor, it does not really matter what the others are getting for themselves.

So who else wants to start earning money with Adsense. You. Everyone. Anybody. Internet marketing has many opportunities wide open for this people. Writing articles and using Adsense for your kind of internet marketing strategy is one sure way of getting a piece of that action and cash.

Better not be left behind the many making millions already.

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How To Make Money With Your Web Site

Very interesting article that explains in plain words how to earn money with your website. I think this article will be useful to everyone who want to start making money online.


Profiting a web site is always a hot topic for web site owner. As business model of Internet keeps on changing, a lot of opportunity have occurred for us to make money from. And below are the 6 most practical ways for you to profit your web site

Selling Advertisement

Selling advertisement for your web site is a classic ways to profit a website. Usually, it's hard to find the advertisers unless your web site is very famous with a lot of traffic. Now as the growing of the PPC (pay for click) advertising network, you will only need to work with them and put some advertisement source code into your web site. Those advertisement network will be responsible for finding the advertiser and put the advertisement to your web site. You will be paid each time your audiences have clicked the advertisement.

Right now, this method is still the most common business model for most of the web sites, and the most famous PPC advertising network are Google Adsense and Yahoo Advertising Network.

Selling Products or Service

This kind of web site is also referred as e-Commerce web site, where web site owners sell the product or service online. The typical web site for this type is Amazon.com, but definitely, you have no need to create a so big one. You can build an e-Commerce web site and sell the products (or service) you produce or those you believe you can provide better price to your audiences. Be warned: Doing it right is harder than it looks.

Affiliate Products from Other Web Site

Affiliating product have become an important ways to profit a web site. Compared with other method, this is somehow new. By putting a link in your web site which will points to another web site (usually it's an e-Commerce web site), if your audience make a purchase on that web site, you will be paid with some amount of money as referral bonus.

In order to affiliate product, you can join the affiliate network which have collected a lot of vendors for you and will consolidate all your earning into one check. Want to know where are those affiliate networks, please refer to Best Affiliate Network Review.

Offer Paid Content

The content in Internet is usually free. But if your content is unique and valuable, you can charge money for online access to them. You also can choose to charge the fee to access part of your web site and put the rest as free. The strategy is quite flexible, and it depends on how comfortable you feel about the content of your web site.

Build a Saas (Software as a Service), and Sell it Online

Saas is treated as next generation application. Instead of licensing software on a permanent basic, user will rent to use the software online. And you, as service provider, will response for the whole infrastructure and maintain the application. Saas application will be more and more popular online.

Do Email Marketing

Besides waiting for people to visit your web site, you can send email to them to advertise your product. Just lay off spam, you need to make sure that a customer wants your email before you send it. You can put an newsletter subscribe function in your web site to collect the email.

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Get a Free Money Making Website from Jason James

Jason James has just started a new program to let anyone interested to make money online setup a free e-commerce website instantly.

Getting a website from Jason's Program is pretty simple. You first fill in a form in http://www.jasonjameswebsites.com, a fully automated website pluged-in with products will be created for you and then you can start promoting your websites to generate sales and make money online. Also Jason has prepared a simple step-by-step guide to help you get potential customers to your website.

How To Increase Your Affiliate Marketing Pay Checks With Product Recommendations

In affiliate marketing, there are many ways in which you can add to your pay check. Most of the techniques and tactics can be learned easily, they are not rocket science. No need to go anywhere and any further. They are available online, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

One of the best ways of increase affiliate marketing commission is through the use of product recommendations. Many marketers know that this is one of the most effective ways to promote their favorite product.

If the customers or visitors trust you enough, then they will definitely trust your recommendations. Be very careful in using this approach, though. If you start promoting everything by recommendation, your credibility will actually wear thin. This is seen especially when recommendations are seemingly exaggerated and without much merit.

Do not be afraid to mention things that you do not like about a given product or service. Rather than lose any points for you, this will make your recommendation more realistic and will tend to increase your credibility.

Just stick to handful of products and promote them often. That's the most effective way to use product recommendations.

Furthermore, if your visitors are really interested in what you are offering, they will be more than delighted to learn what is good about the product, what is not so good, and how the product will benefit them.

When you are recommending a certain product, there are some things to remember on how to make it work effectively and for your advantage.

Sound like the true and leading expert in your field.

Remember this simple equation: Price resistance diminishes in direct proportion to trust. If your visitors feel and believe that you are an expert in your niche, they are more inclined to making that purchase. On the other hand, if you are not exuding any confidence and self-assurance in endorsing your products, they will probably feel that same way and will go in search of another product or service which is more believable.

How do you establish this aura of expertise? By offering unique and new solutions they would not get anywhere else. Show proof that what you are promoting works as promised. Display prominent testimonials and endorsements from respected and known personalities, in related fields of course.

Avoid hype at all costs. It is better to sound low key and confident, than to scream and seek attention. Besides, you would not want to sound unprofessional and have that thinking stick to your potential customers and clients, now would you? Best to appear cool and self-assured at the same time.

And remember; prospects are not stupid. They are actually turning to experts and may already know the things that you know. If you back up your claims with hard facts and data, they would gladly put down hundreds, or even thousands worth of money to your promotions. But if you don't, they are smart enough to try and look at your competitors and what they are offering.

While recommending a product, it is also important that you give out promotional freebies. People are already familiar with the concept of offering freebies to promoting your won products. But very few people do this to promote affiliate products. Try to offer freebies that can promote or even have some information about your products or services.
Before you add recommendations to you product, it is given that you should try and test the product and support. Do not run the risk of promoting junk products and services. Just think how long it took you to build credibility and trust among your visitors. All that will take to destroy it is one big mistake on your part.

If you are planning to offer products or services when you promote an affiliate product, make sure it's complementary. Don't offer an irrelevant freebie.

If possible, have recommendations of products that you have 100% confidence in. Test the product support before you begin to ensure that the people you are referring it to would not be left high and dry when a problem suddenly arouse.

Have a look at your affiliate market and look at the strategies you are using. You may not be focusing on the recommendations that your products need to have. You plan of action is sometimes not the only thing that is making your program works.

Try product recommendation and be among those few who have proven its worth.

Oh yes, now videos are the in-thing... So don't hesitate to use videos in your product recommendations.

Author of this article is Dassana Jayalath. Dassana is the editor of InternetBizIQ newsletter. Visit http://www.internetbiziq.com/ad4-affiliate-marketing-articles.html for more valuable information on how to increase your affiliate marketing commissions.

Article About Affiliate Directories

I have just stumbled upon this interesting article about Affiliate directories. I think article is very informative and I would recommend it to everyone who want to make money with affiliate programs.

Directories fuel affiliate marketing. While some companies choose to keep their affiliate network separate from other products, the directories that connect affiliates with merchants are driving the world of affiliate marketing.

Part of this is due to the simple fact that directories make the process much easier for the affiliate. The marketplace in each affiliate directory categorizes affiliate products according to niche or product type, putting many possibilities at the fingertips of each affiliate. Because a merchant desires to have the greatest possible number of affiliates, the only logical decision is to list a product in a directory, as that is where the most affiliates are.

In order to stand out in an affiliate directory, merchants must be willing to provide the highest commission and have the best converting product. This competition ultimately results in better circumstances for the affiliates. Because commissions and conversions increase as the result of competition, more affiliates are drawn into the directories, prompting more merchants to list their products there.

The largest affiliate network, Clickbank, consists of only digital products. Because there is no overhead to producing digital products, and because they cost very little to duplicate, merchants are able to offer very high commissions to their affiliates. Instant scalability, the phenomenon that digital products cost almost nothing to reproduce, allows merchants to pay high commissions while still turning a profit, and it is a main reason why Clickbank has become the standard in affiliate marketing.

Clickbank organizes the products in its marketplace according to gravity. Although a combination of unknown elements determines gravity, it is the most attractive stat to affiliates, because the products with the highest gravity are often the best converting.

However, there are indeed plenty of affiliate directories for affiliates of physical products as well. Commission Junction and LinkShare are among the most popular hub for affiliates for household corporations. Although commissions are often lower for these types of transactions, there is often less of a need to "sell" a product. This is due to the fact that name brand products usually have a rapport with the potential buyers, while consumers of digital products need to be "sold" before purchasing.

Affiliate directories have many categories, which tend to satisfy every affiliate marketer. A search in any directory will bring many results, allowing a marketer to target any niche with one or several products. This not only gives marketers the ability to market multiple products, but it allows one to instantly compare the products available according to the percentage of the payout, the dollar amount paid on a sale, and even the conversion rates of a given product.

Affiliate directories are partly responsible for the boom of affiliate marketing in the last several years. By giving affiliates the opportunity to market many high paying programs, directories continue to be at the center of affiliate marketing.

Author of this article is Ryan Moran

Shawn Wants to Tell You How to Make a Fortune Selling Information Online

Few days ago Shawn Casey presented in a web seminar to teach people how to make money online by selling information products. The whole session of the presentation has recorded by Shawn's crew and you can now get access to this recording at http://www.internetpromoservices.com/webreplay3 and listen to what Shawn says about making money with information product.

Here's what you'll learn from the recording:

• Why "building a better mousetrap" is a formula for failure when it comes to creating a product...
• Why you shouldn't look for smart guys making money online - look for BLITHERING MORONS who are making money online...
• How you can make more money as a "gatekeeper" of your own profitable list than you can ever make through direct sales...
• And more.....

Tips for Creating Great Video Products to Make Money Online

The online video marketing has been growing steadily in the last few years. If you want to create or develop a great video product to sell and profit online, try these tips.

I find that videos that show how to solve a problem are more successful than video products that try to impress people only. You don’t need to too concentrate on trying to be looking good. Be natural, be yourself, and show people how you solved a problem in your own life. Then help your viewers by giving tips for applying these lessons to their lives.

Focus on action. Always think about action-about what you want your audience to do. Then build your video around that action. As the Roman statesman Cato said, "Find the message first and the words will follow."

Failure is the result of a lack of focus. To be effective-for people to remember your message-focus on a single power point and present it as truthfully and as entertainingly as you can, rather than presenting a series of topics in a single video product.

The power of structure
Keep this basic structure in mind as you create your video product:

• Start with a powerful, attention-grabbing lead. Clearly state your theme in the first minute.
• Use smooth transitions to link one segment to another.
• Use action verbs. Change verbs in passive voice to active verbs. Keep adjectives and adverbs to a minimum.
• Give viewers a few suggestions to help them apply what they've learned to their lives.
• Be yourself. Use short words and sentences. If you're stuck and you don't know what to say next, explain it the way you would to your best friend or spouse.
• Connect with your audience. Wrap everything in human terms-make it something your next-door neighbor can relate to.
• Finish with a satisfying conclusion that reemphasizes your theme.

When you have an idea for your video, you'll know it's the right one if you can answer "yes" to each of the following questions:

• Does this need to be done? Am I the right person to do it? Can I see the world from the point of view of my audience? Can I think their thoughts?
• Can the market I'm targeting understand my video? Can I express the idea better in half the time? Antoine de Saint-Exupery said, "Perfection is attained, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
• Does the idea hold together from start to finish? Does it move smoothly? Does the video make sense as a whole rather than just as the sum of its parts?
• Am I willing to say what I think is true, no matter what?

Now you're ready to create a great video product. As you create your video, keep this checklist handy at all times. It will let you know what elements in your video product need more work, and it will let you know when your video is ready to be distributed and sold on the Internet.

The AdSense Formula for Making Money

This article is must read for anyone who want to increase there adsense earning. I have find it a couple of days ago and want to share with visitors of my blog.

I often get asked what the secret is to making money with Google's AdSense program. This often comes from people who are dreaming of setting up websites chock full of high-paying keywords for particular niche subjects and then sitting back and watching the money roll in. "What's the magic formula?" they ask me. If they're non-technical, I point them straight to my first AdSense book, Make Easy Money with Google, and assure them that they'll learn everything they need from it. They may think it's hard, but it's not.
But what about the technical people? By this I mean the people who've already set up a blog or website, who have registered domain names, who are comfortable with basic Internet terminology and concepts. What is the "AdSense formula"?
The only AdSense formula that you need to know is this:
earnings = number of clicks * average price per click
This is what I call the Fundamental AdSense Formula because you can derive almost every AdSense "secret" directly or indirectly from this formula. Do you want to earn more with AdSense? You have two ways of doing it:
Increase the number of clicks, and/or Increase the average price per click
Your earnings will only go up if you do one or the other, and ideally both. It's an obvious formula, yes, but it's amazing how many people lose sight of it in their quest for increased AdSense earnings.

Increasing the Number of AdSense Clicks

Increasing the number of times the ads on your site or blog are clicked is the most obvious strategy. There are two general strategies you can follow:
Increase the traffic to the site, and/or Adjust the ads to make them more "clickable"
Getting traffic is hard and takes time, so don't look at it as a quick fix. The best way to get traffic is to provide useful, unique content and to rank highly in search engine rankings for keywords related to that content. In other words, use standard search engine optimization techniques. DO NOT "buy" traffic or use "link farms" or other dubious techniques. Other tips for getting traffic:

1.Publish articles, even free ones, with links back to your site.

2. Include a link to your site in the signature at the bottom of your emails or in any forum postings you make (if the forum allows it).

3.Participate in forums/groups related to the content of your site or blog. The key is to participate, not lurk, and don't just post messages promoting your site.

3.Add comments (relevant ones only, please) to other blogs, you can usually link back to yours. (This won't help your search engine rankings, but it may allow others who are reading those comments to find your own site.)

4.Syndicate your content (trivial if you have a blog) and make sure that the content is registered with syndication aggregators.

5.List your site in relevant directories.

Adjusting the ads is something you can do almost immediately:

1.Position the ads on the page in order to make them more noticeable. Google even publishes a helpful heat map for AdSense publishers.

2. Choose the best AdSense ad format that works for your site.

3.Change the ad colors either to make the ads blend in with your site or to make them stand out. Again, it varies depending on the site.

Whatever you do, DO NOT ENTICE VISITORS TO CLICK THE ADS. Google is very strict about this, see the AdSense program policies for the details.

Increasing the Average AdSense Price Per Click

Increasing the average price per click you receive from AdSense is the other strategy for increasing your overall AdSense earnings. You can do this by:

-Carefully targeting your content, and/or
-Filtering out and avoiding low-paying ads

Content targeting isn't just about creating relevant, unique content. It's also making sure that content is written to target the higher-paying keywords associated with a given topic. This means:

-Figuring out which keyword variations for that topic pay more. Often the more specialized variations and phrases pay more than the "generic" terms.

-Ensuring that the keyword density of the content favors the higher-paying keyword variations. See the Vioxx Lawsuits page for an example of well-targeted ads due to appropriate keyword density.

And to reduce the occurrence of lower-paying ads, consider these two strategies:

1.Use AdSense's competitive filter mechanism to screen out the ads that you don't want.
2.Show fewer ads on a page. The fewer ads you show, the more the higher-paying ads get displayed and clicked.

Many publishers also report that their earnings increase if they remove ads completely from pages with few or no clicks. Again, the "less is more" strategy favors the higher-paying ads.

There's No Magic

As you can see, there's no magic involved to increasing your AdSense earnings. The Fundamental AdSense Formula is easy to understand, but that doesn't mean it's easy to apply the formula. It takes time and effort to do it, just like most things.

Copyright 2005 by Eric Giguere. Permission is granted to reproduce the article in electronic newsletters or on websites provided that the complete article text is included, unchanged, and that neither the copyright declaration nor this license are removed.

Eric Giguere is the author of Uncommon AdSense, the must-have book for AdSense publishers, and the writer of the award-nominated Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense blog.

Free Resources Helpful for Making Money Online - August 15 2007

Discovery Cpanel
When you have launched an e-commerce website. You will be given access by your web host service provider to Cpanel for controlling and managing your website. There are a number of things you can do in your Cpanel to make your website perform better but it is quit complicated. The step-by-step video of Dicovery Cpanel will help you out on this.

Free PLR Content
PLRPro.com is a brand new membership site that supplies free PLR resources useful for online business growth to members every month. Here's what members of PLRPro.com will get every month:

* 2 niches a month with 20 articles in each niche
* Graphics
* Affiliate lists
* Full Keyword Research
* Access to the training you need to get started
* Articles translated into 8 languages

Untold Marketing Secrets
Jason James has recently created a new reports called 'Untold Marketing Secrets' available to download at http://www.untoldmarketingsecrets.com. The report contains some important information and tips related to Internet marketing you need to know to increase your online profit.

Internet Business Promotion: Email Marketing Tips and Strategies

Many people are of the opinion that we have reached the end of the road where email marketing is concerned. The reason for this is because of the issues with the delivery, spam filters etc. Certainly, marketing may not be as problem free as it was a few years ago, but it still works great if only you have a proper game plan and some tools.

Here are some strategies that will be helpful in your email marketing. There are various types of email campaigns. My sincere advice would be never to buy leads and send emails. Your ISP may even shut you down if spam is reported.

Strategy of One Shot
There are several FFA sites on the net today that allow ad posters to post their ads for free. In return for this, they will get one email from every FFA owner. The best solution is to own your own FFA page. They may cost around $10 per month. You will be able to email hundreds or even thousands of people in a single day. You are given only one shot, but if your email ad is good and you offer people a free report or something, you can get them to opt-in to your autoresponder and build a decent list.

Autoresponder series
Using an autoresponder series is one great way of setting up an email marketing campaign. But this is possible only if you have a way of leading people to your webpage with the autoresponder opt-in form. You can achieve this by either using the above-mentioned FFA method or by writing articles and submitting to directories. If you have a link in your signature, people will click on that and reach your opt-in page. Once that is done, keep sending them follow up messages selling them your product.

Newsletter, ezine, or course
The most important thing that can be achieved through an email campaign is projecting yourself as an expert. Sending out newsletters or ezines is a great way of showing your expertise and gaining their trust. This helps in several ways. You can promote affiliate programs, your own products or services easily without blatant marketing. People will open your emails because you are providing them with useful information.

Subject lines
Email marketing works essentially by grabbing the attention of the reader with the written words. First thing that the reader will look at is the subject line. This should be attention grabbing. Even if your ad and email are great, if the subject is bad, people are not even going to read the email. The best way to understand what is interesting is by checking the emails you receive everyday. I am sure all of us have seen subjects that are so attractive that we are tempted to open the email.

Email ad
The main matter in the email should be extremely well structured. Start with an introduction, then write about the main product, and then conclude by calling to action. We see many emails where people go on and on endlessly and that irritates us that we don’t want anything to do with that person.

Branding
Creating a ‘brand’ of yourself is of utmost importance. Branding means making people identify you for what you stand for and creating images in their mind. Let me tell you, this is a golden tip, and would help you to concentrate on this. There are several times people pay more for certain products, it’s not only because the product is better than it’s competitors, it’s also because the sellers have created a great image of themselves in people’s minds that suggests trust and interest.

You can achieve this by letting your emails have a lighthearted touch, paying attention to the fonts and graphics. The tone of your email must be very friendly as if you only care about them and can also be humorous, depending on what you are promoting.

Best day and time for email campaign
Surprising but true. The success of your email campaign also depends on the day you send it out. Let me begin with giving you the worst days of the week that you should NOT send out your email campaigns. Saturday and Sunday. Statistics show that on those two days, emails hardly get opened. Back to the main question of when to send. The best day is said to be Tuesday, next comes Wednesday, and may be even Thursday.

Is there a best time too? Sure, there is. It should be either in the early morning or late evening. This is because people check their mails as soon as they get to work. Late evenings may be because people check again before leaving work or after getting back home. Makes sense right? Most people after dinner are either watching American Idol or spending family time together. Computer is not where they want to be.

Spam and Filters
Never ever send unsolicited email to anyone. This is the most important tip of email marketing. Send emails to people who have opted in through your autoresponder and want you to send them information.

Even if you do not have any intention of spamming people and send emails to only those that have opted-in, your emails may not be delivered due to spam filters used by most ISPs. Since these filters do not know if yours is a spam mail or not, they basically check the word you use in the subject line and in your emails. These filters make mistakes with words and brand yours as spam. There are several free sites that will check the email for spam and score it. If the score is below 2 is safest, and between 2 and 5 is borderline and above 5 is considered to be spam.

Do's and Don’ts When Making Money on eBay - Part 1

This world is full of jungles and I would say the biggest of them is eBay. eBay is probably the most famous auction giant than any other in the world. Everybody, young and old wants to sell and earn money here. However, you will be able to tackle this monster only if you understand how it works. We are not going to talk about what to sell as that in itself calls for a whole new article, we are going to talk about the dos and don’ts of eBay.

First, there are things you need to do before selling.

Creating your account at EBay and Paypal
The first thing that needs to be done is creating an account in eBay by registering on their site. You will then need to open an account with ‘Paypal’, if you don’t have one. Many people that buy on eBay prefer to pay by Paypal.

Digital camera
If you are planning on taking this seriously, you will need an excellent digital camera. This is required because you will be including pictures of your products along with the ads. Photos provide a confirmation to your buyer as to what you are selling and in what condition. Remember the old adage, ’Seeing is Believing”? There is no ‘if’, you will need a camera.

Next step is finding something to sell. Once that is done, you will have to set up an auction.

How to set up your first auction
Once you have decided on what you are going to sell, click ‘sell’ and you are on your way. Choosing a category for the item is important, but then eBay helps you with this too. You will need to type the item name and eBay will suggest which category it belongs to.

Writing the title and description for the item comes next. Including keywords in the title that people use to search is very important. The rest of the information about your product goes into the description. Then set a starting price. People will be more attracted to your product if the setting price of your product is 1 cent. You don’t have to worry on that front because most articles are sold at much higher. You may set up the duration of the bid, depending on the options given, because the longer the auction, the more bids you get.

Adding a picture is important, because products with pictures sell more. Select the payment method to ‘paypal’ since you already set it up. Submit and watch eBay do the magic. Some buyers may send emails with questions, make sure to answer them all. If for some reason your article doesn’t sell the first time, you don’t have to worry, eBay lets you list it again ‘free’ of charge. Once you find a winning bidder, eBay does all the work for you, like sending the buyer emails and guiding them to send you payment. Pack and send the item only after receiving the money. You will find the buyer’s address in the sale confirmation email sent by eBay.

To read part 2 of this article, please click here.

Do's and Don’ts When Making Money on eBay - Part 2

If you have not read part 1 of this article, please click here.

There are several ways of getting bidders to your auction.

Advertising and Ad Writing
Advertising is probably the most important aspect of marketing anything. In this respect, your ad should be captivating enough for people to want to buy your product. Let me give you some tips on writing great ads.

It is very simple to write a ..BAD ad. Most of the marketers do it anyway.
Here is an example of a bad ad – For Sale..Digital Camera..$200. Are you impressed by this? I sure am not. This certainly is not going to help if you want to make sales. You have to learn the art of writing ads that attract people. The headline is what makes or kills an ad. How about – Steal my digital camera for $$$$. I would surely be interested into looking at this one. Next comes the main ad itself. Basically, what I am trying to say is that your ad is the face of your product.

You will be shocked to know how many people end up making a mess of their campaigns on eBay. Not because they do everything wrong but because they don’t do things right.

Importance of Web Video
Another great way of attracting people and one that has proven to be successful, is adding an interactive video. They say that a picture is worth 1000 words, then imagine what a video can do. Create a video of your product and tell people about its special features. Give the basic details of where it was made and also make sure to point out any defects too. Viewers will appreciate honesty and it helps with the trust factor. Then it’s time to create a video player to put in your auction. You will find many that can be modified and used.

Market your presence
Contrary to the popular belief that people will come automatically, you will have to build a presence in order to have success on eBay. How do you build a presence? This is not done overnight, it takes a lot of sales with positive feedback to establish your presence. The key is to take your time and do things the right way and provide quality.

Here are things that you cannot afford to do if you are planning on having a long lasting profit making consistently growing eBay business.

Casual treatment
The reason most people fail is because they don’t treat EBay selling as a business and consider it as a hobby. For your information, eBay is one of the most important business giants that is there today. Treat it casually and your clients will treat you casually too and give you negative feedback, and negative feedback results in very few sales. People who buy generally go by the feedback of the seller.

Buying too much
Another one of the major mistakes made by people who are starting off as eBay sellers is they buy too much. That’s because they visualize making lots of money making a lot of sales. Do not day dream and be practical and realistic. Buy only as many as you feel you will be able to sell. Unless you are getting into selling in wholesale, remember you can always go back and buy some more.

EBay and fraud
Need I say that there are some people who adopt fraudulent methods just to get some sales and make quick money. Be extremely careful and do no entertain any such thoughts. If you are caught, not only will your account be deleted but you will also be banned for life. Honesty is what works with eBay.

Things you cannot sell
These are a few of the don’t sell items. I am providing this list so that you don’t put your foot in your mouth the first time on eBay.

o Bootlegs: Unwarranted movies of people, shot with your video camera of people.
o Copies: Copies of either computer software or PC games. Everything that’s sold should be original.
o Replicas: These are products that are made copying the original, like RayBan glasses and other brand replicas.
o No copyright: Copyright that has been stolen from others.
o Alcohol: Alcoholic beverages or alcohol.
o Smoking products: Cigarettes or tobacco products.
o Weapons: Weapons of destruction.
o Animal products: Products made out of animal skin.
o Tickets.
o Catalogues that contain listing of products.
o Prizes cannot be announced or given for anything.

Let me tell you, following the tips given above, you can make your eBay selling a success and eventually you will end up making great profits.