Archive for December, 2009

A Quick Way To Earn Money Online

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

If you have been interested in learning how to start a work at home Internet business for any length of time, then you probably have a fair idea how Internet Marketing works.
You can sell you’re own product or service and pay affiliates to promote you’re online business for you. Or you can become an affiliate yourself and earn a commission by promoting other people’s products.
What I want to show you in this blog post are three of the most common methods of making money online.

After reading it you should have a clearer understanding of what course of action you need to take to get you’re own business up and running.

What are the three main methods that are on everyone’s lips?

1.Affiliate Marketing: (A personal favourite of mine) in theory, this is very easy, all you have to do is send traffic to the web site that you joined as an affiliate, and earn a commission every time somebody buys a product or service via you’re affiliate link.

2.Product Creation: Have you got you’re own product and service ready to sell online? If not, you can follow the route that most people take, which is to create you’re own digital product such as an ebook, software, or a membership site.

3.Resell Rights: “talk about saving you time,” you get a pre written salesletter,graphics, and a download page.  All you have to do is purchase the rights to whatever product you are interested in selling.

These are three great ways for you to start making money online, but I suppose the question you really want answered is…

What is the best method if you’re just starting out?

“DRUM ROLL please,”

The answer is all THREE!

Why limited yourself to just creating products, selling resell rights, and promoting other people’s products.
What you really need is a plan that will make you a fair amount of cash quickly. But not forgetting that you’re ultimate goal is to develop you’re simple idea into a fully fledged business that will earn you a size-able yearly income.

As much as I would love you to start you’re business empire with Affiliate Marketing. I realize that this method might be just a tad to slow for you, because it will take you TIME to generate the sort of traffic that you need to earn a full time income.

To speed up the process, you could consider paying for you’re traffic, but unless you know what you’re doing it will be very expensive.

Here’s the master plan to making quick cash that you can inject back into you’re business and watch it grow.

1.Grab yourself a couple of low cost resell rights products ($10 – $30). It would be even better for you if you could obtain PRIVATE LABEL RIGHTS because it will allow you to modify the content and add your own affiliate links.

2.As you are a relative newcomer,It would be advisable to consider paying you’re affiliates 100% commission to promote your product or service for you. This will encourage them to send vast amounts of traffic to you’re web site and build your list.

3.Once you’ve established who the buyers are on your list, focus you’re efforts on selling them high quality affiliate products that you truly believe will help you’re subscribers succeed.

4.If you have taken the above 3 steps, then you should be “SMOKING HOT” and ready to implement the final stage. Take a chunk of you’re profits and re-invest it for exclusive rights, you can charge more for exclusive rights to quality products.

Another option is to create your own product and brand yourself as an expert, which will gain you the respect and trust of you’re customers.
You can easily expand on this business model by adding an opt-in box, squeeze page, etc. Not forgetting of course, the almost now obligatory up-sell, down-sell or one time offer.

Marketing techniques and strategies come and go, but you’re main objective should always be the same. Surrender you’re short term profits, and get your customers to build you’re list.

This will allow you to continuously make money on the back end. Once you have set this system into motion, it becomes almost impossible to stop and you will truly have a 24hrs a day 7 days a week work at home Internet business. That will keep churning out cash like clockwork.

Affiliate Marketing Scams And You

Monday, December 21st, 2009

 

One of the first things that you have to overcome if you want to succeed in Affiliate Marketing, is the fear of being scammed. You have to beleive that it works, and in time it will eventually free you from you’re current financial situation.

I’m not trying to scare you 

 but I just want to give you some idea of the determination you must possess if you want to run you’re own  profitable online business.

If you truly beleive, then you have won 90% of the battle and the other 10% that you need to learn won’t worry you at all.

Just in case you were wondering, I have been scammed before.

So I do know that horrible feeling that grips you in you’re gut when you realize what has just happened. “I know that I felt like a proper MUG and I was very “ANGRY” My initial reaction was to scream to myself that

“Affiliate Marketing is a scam”

 

Eventually I did calm down and I just put it down to one bad experience. What’s important for you to remember is…

 ”At no point did I consider giving up”

 

In Affiliate Marketing there is always a chance of you being scammed. I’m sure you’ve heard of the now infamous Ponzi Scam or Pyramid Scam.

 

Millions of people all over the world have lost their life savings on these type of schemes. Unfortunately the bad publicity that followed has made people wary of anything that sounds like a Ponzi scheme and Affiliate Marketing or MLM (Multi Level Marketing) falls into this category.

When you also take into consideration the sheer amount of “GET RICH QUICK SCAMS” type of websites that there are online. You can easily see how you can become a victim.

I will let you into a little secret, I have had more than one bad experience online since I’ve been involved in Affiliate Marketing.

 I have purchased products that have turned out to be useless and I have purchased products that have promised me life time upgrades and then have suddenly disappeared without any explaination given to me.

As a matter of fact just before writing this post, I was dissatisfied with a product that I had just purchased but never received, This problem has since been resolved.

The point that I am making to you is that…

 

Affiliate Marketing can be quite daunting (especially when you’re first starting out)

You just don’t know who’s advice to follow but, essentially the majority of people involved in it really do want you to succeed and are generally trustworthy.

Having bad experiences, being ripped off or scammed just goes with the territory I’m afraid. If you are genuinely concerned about any of these potential problems then my advice to you would be to stay well clear of Affiliate Marketing.

You can minimise the risk of a scam happening to you by doing the standard things like checking for contact details of the person who’s web site you’ve just visited,and by keeping all of your receipts from every purchase that you make online.

If you make a purchase through Paypal or Clickbank you will usually see the contact details of the person you’ve just brought from, and you are,  in most cases protected by a minimum 30 day money back guarantee.so there really is nothing for you to worry about.

Statistically  the chances of you being scammed online are  probably lower than 10% out 0f 100  ”I don’t know about you but I will take those odds all day long”

Why can’t your Website make any sales?

Monday, December 14th, 2009

 

If the above headline describes you then I am sorry for rubbing salt into you’re already very painful wounds. But, looking on the brighter side of things at least you will now learn why you’re web site is not converting visitors into “BUYERS”

 I don’t know you personally, so it would be wrong of me to say that the reason why you’re not making any sales from you’re website is because of you  not doing blah blah blah correctly.    

Instead, I am going to tell you the one thing that is guaranteed to convert visitors to you’re web site into devoted buyers who will keep on buying from you for years to come.

 

What I’m about to reveal to you is no big secret, and yet most webmasters are still blind to this obvious fact.

That to get more people to buy from you, you’re web site must have excellent “SALES COPY”  

 

In other words you must either learn how to become a great sales copy writer or pay someone a lot of money to write great sales copy for you.

 

You’re sales letter is the difference between you making zilch dollars per month or tens of thousands of dollars.

I should also add that a powerful sales message delivered by video or audio will achieve the same or even better results.

I have seen a lot of crappy website online selling anything and everything from “FAKE VOMIT” to “DOGGY HAIR PIECES” that I’m sure would look far better on their original owners.

I’ve also seen a lot of low maintenance no fancy graphics websites that get very little traffic, but are still making daily sales.

 And Finally, at the top end of the spectrum, I’ve seen the so called “BIG DOGS” websites.

That people spend thousands of dollars per month on getting “TRAFFIC” and they usually have top quality products to sell to you.

 But, believe it or not these web sites are the ones that struggle the most when it comes to making a sale.

So you can clearly see that having a great product or service and thousands of visitors coming to you’re website everyday is not enough without a great “SALES LETTER

“Here’s another way of looking at it.”  

If you have a web site that gets only 10 visitors a day, and it has great sales copy. targeted traffic, and a good look and feel about it.

You’re web site will still have a conversion rate of 1 or 2%.

 Now I don’t know what you plan to sell on you’re website, but let’s assume that you’re product cost just 10 dollars.

10 visitors a day x days in month = 30  Conversion Rate of 2% = 2 Sales a day   Product cost $10 each 2 sales a day = 20 x 30 = $600 in Total sales per month.

Math’s has never been one of my favourite subjects. But you can see, from my example how much better your profit margins will be with the help of a kick ass salesletter.  

Compare that 2% conversion rate with “Joe BLoGS” who gets a 1000 visit per day to his website, spends all of his time and money on expensive advertising and still can’t make a cent.

All because he fails to realize that he has a crappy sales page.

I do hope you are not one of those people who gets 1000 of visitors per day to their website with little or “WORSE” no conversions at all.

This is a terrible situation for you to be in . But at least you now know the reason why you can’t make any sales.