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Sharing the Cake

2009-07-10T09:34:00.000-07:00

There are so many programs on the internet to join and so many promises are made. We spend hundreds to thousands of dollars to try and get into a program or get information on so-called “guru marketing” and yet we are still nowhere. I have been walking this path for a solid 2 years.
What do we get from these gurus? Nothing! The programs they offer are just another way to make some more money for them. They receive bucket loads of money daily and we still have nothing.
In my search I tried to find somebody or a group of people who really care and want to help others to be successful without being afraid that they will make less money. A person or people that will not do unto others what they will not do unto themselves.
I am glad to say that I have found a group that wants everybody to be successful without worrying about their slice of the cake. These people know that sharing the cake makes them even more successful.
The link below will take you to this information. No, it is not a get rich quick scheme, but it will start you of on a road to a much better life. Newbies to the internet, stop being conned out of your money. Start making some!
Please read the free report that you are going to receive before you do anything else. Keep well and God bless.
When you are making money, remember, there are people out there wasting their time and money on greedy “gurus”, make them see the light.
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STEP THREE: Concentrate on Building Relationships with Your Prospects

2009-05-26T08:33:00.000-07:00

To fully develop an online business, you need to maximize your relationships with people. Although your goal in your internet business may be to set it up on auto-pilot, you have to remember at all times that you are dealing with real people. Credibility online is a major issue because there are many fly-by-night get-rich-quick operators on the internet.

To help you develop this credibility with your prospects, your overall strategy has to include such tools as ezines, message boards, chats, conference calls, dealer programs, etc. Many people keep asking exactly why does it seem ezines are popping up everywhere...it is simply because they work. They help you to develop the relationships you need with your prospects. You are able to contact your prospects over and over again providing them with good useful information.

The same thing is true of the message boards. Once you have worked them up to a certain level of traffic, the same people will keep coming back day after day learning from you and the other experts you may have brought to your board.
Use your imagination and develop other free services such as these to help you develop your web site and relationships online. How about doing JV's with other businesses? How about running a monthly conference call on your subject? Your business online is only limited by your imagination!

STEP TWO: Develop A Unique Aspect to Your Business...Your USP

2009-05-26T08:30:00.000-07:00

Your business cannot just be a me-too business online. You need to develop some type of uniqueness to it...something that sets you apart from all of the rest of your competition online. You need to create a "Unique Selling Position" which makes you stand out from the crowd online.

For example, everyone is selling books online. How did Amazon.com become the most well known bookstore on the interne? They developed a USP which basically states, "The World's Largest Bookstore" which is exactly what they are. They have stated in one phrase exactly what makes them unique from the rest of the bookstores in the world.

How can you develop your own USP? You probably aren't going to own the largest selection of anything in your business since most of us have started out bootstrapping at home or in our small business. Let me give you a simple little formula you can use which will help you immensely in the creation of a USP for your business.

To find your USP, pull out a blank sheet of paper. At the top of the paper, write "You know how most __________..." Then, halfway down the page, write "Well, What I do is..."

I want you to write how most of the businesses in your market are in the first section. Then, I want you to write what sets you apart from them. Avoid using words such as quality or better service, because those types of things don't really mean anything UNLESS you are more specific in your description. This may take you a while to do. You probably will have to study your competition online for a while. Give yourself a few days to think it over. Then, write it down.

Next, I want you to boil down that entire sheet of paper to a single phrase or sentence. This takes some work. Write it out in a sentence or phrase as many times as you need to until you get just the right words. Again, if this takes you a few days, let it. Think about it when you are driving, eating, etc. Mull it over. Then, once you have just the right wording, that is your NEW USP which you will use to separate you from all of the competition.

Use it on your signature file online...use it on your website...use it in your ad copy. Let it become a guiding force to your online business that sets you apart and defines you as the person to deal with in this area.

STEP ONE: Create Your Overall Theme to Your Online Business

2009-05-26T08:25:00.000-07:00

You can't develop a business around a single product. Even if you are promoting a single product upfront, it is not the product that people want. They want the BENEFITS they receive out of the product. When designing your site, think about an "Ultimate Benefit" to build your site around.

I first heard the phrase "The Ultimate Benefit" through Dr. Jeffrey Lant and it has stuck with me ever since. It is that ever abiding "WANT" or "GOALS" that your prospects have with them continually. Ultimate Benefits are things such as: more money, weight loss, online success, being sexually attractive, self-defense, etc.

Ultimate benefits are what your prospects are really seeking after. So, don't base your business just on products. Base your business on this Ultimate Benefit. This will be the theme that binds everything else you do at your site together. It is what you want your site to become known for. It is why people will return to your site over and over again forever.

What is it that your prospects ultimately want?
More Money
Better Health
Weight Loss
etc.

Once you have defined your "Ultimate Benefit," that's where the products can come in. You will want to provide multiple products that all fall under the same Ultimate Benefit. This will help you to create "Multiple Streams of Income" all generated from one web site.

What mail order or internet company do you know of that only has one product? There aren't any really successful ones. Even the sites which seem only to have one main product still have dozens of different profit streams which all originate from the main product. Your mission online is to help people reach their ultimate goals, and that cannot be done with just one product. It takes a variety of products to accomplish this goal.

One warning I do want to mention here though is that your site will be more successful if you have one LEAD product. By testing both multiple product sites and sites which focus on one lead product, I have found that the lead product sites will outsell the multiple product sites by a long shot in most cases.

So, the absolute best set-up is to focus on a main product, and then have many different backends or supporting products which will help your customers to further their goals. This type of system is often referred to as a marketing funnel. You may be selling a book about Ad Copy on your site, but you will also have consultations, seminars, audio tapes, and ad writing services which all support your theme.

If you are selling web sites as a primary lead product, you could also sell books on internet marketing, web design services, CGI programming, etc. If your theme is weight loss, your primary product may be a nutritional product. You could also sell weight loss and exercise books. A newsletter could be started. You could also do personal one-on-one consultations for specific individuals.

You also don't need to come up with all of these products yourself. Many of them can be found through Joint Ventures with other companies which have products you know your customers want.

Building Your Own Online Community

2009-05-26T08:18:00.000-07:00

Too many people have just bought some web space, put up a sales letter for this or that product, and sat back waiting for millions to come in. I am going to tell you right up front in this course....that tactic won't work, ever!
If you want to succeed online, you have to put together a strategy for your website. Whether you call it a strategy, a theme, a world center, or an online community, it doesn't matter. It is still the same thing. You have to build a site that has a central focus on a specific WANT that your prospects have. Then, you find products which follow along the theme.
Free bonuses are then added to your site. Following the theme you developed, you could create a report on it, start a message board, or run an ezine. Some type of software program could be added to your site which helps people in this theme. If search engines were your theme, you could have a software program on your site which submits web sites to the search engines and visitors could use it for free. I have a sample of this type of program on my site at http://www.bizpromo.com/sesubmit/submit.html
So, the three keys to creating income from ANY web site and ANY theme are:
1. Have a lead product that people WANT.
2. Have freebies at your site that follow the theme.
3. Have multiple backend or supporting products for the theme.

I know some people who are brilliant strategists about online marketing who achieve amazing success even though their actual tactical skills are only so-so. They hire out the web site design, the search engine registrations, the linking campaigns, and the copywriting. As a matter of fact, one of these brilliant minds once mentioned to me that, "The concept is greater than the copy."

In other words, the right marketing strategy can overcome slight problems in the copywriting or even the carrying out of the plans. Even the best copywriting on the planet won't make a success out of a poor business strategy or concept.

No contractor would ever consider starting work on a project without having a detailed blueprint already done and in their hands. It also doesn't matter how good they are at following the blueprints if the blueprints are all wrong. For many people, their internet businesses are in this exact state. They have many of the internet tactics ready, but they have yet to develop a powerful strategy to empower the whole process.

So exactly how do you choose the strategy for your Internet Marketing Empire? Below you will find a three step process in helping you develop your overall strategy. I don't want to over-complicate the process by any means, but I do want to help you create ideas through this. Your actual day to day internet marketing tactics will then flow out of your overall marketing strategy.

THE BEST WAY TO PRODUCE A LIFESTYLE YOU ENJOY IS BY DOING WHAT YOU LOVE!

2009-05-26T08:13:00.001-07:00

Take off the blinders...Take off the limitations. What do you love doing? What are your hobbies? What is it that you think about every time you get a spare moment?

That is the BUSINESS for you to be in...Don't tell me it can't be done. I will just tell you to figure out how to do it.

Let's go back to Barbara...What should she be doing? How about being a pet sitter, dog walker, pet day care, pet groomer, or dog trainer? She could write books on pet training, animal grooming, etc. That could be an information business. It could be a service business. Don't put limitations on yourself or others.

Don't tell me it can't be done! On TV, I just heard about a DOG BAKERY which only sells gourmet dog treats. They have over a million in sales and 20,000 mail order clients besides what they have in their little shop. If you love it, you will find a way once you make up your mind!

For many of you reading this, you may be in the wrong business. You are making money (Or you aren't making money it doesn't matter), but you just aren't happy. Well, now you have it. Somebody was finally willing to tell you the truth of the matter.

Find your LOVE and you will find success. Yes, it will be hard starting out. It is in any business you get started in. If your business is also your passion and your hobby though, YOU WILL make it through and won't quit when it gets hard, because you LOVE it.

Take my quick test below and let me know how it turns out for you...
1) Do You Dread Getting Out of Bed Every Morning?
2) Do you constantly wish you could obtain freedom in your life somehow?
3) Have you tried a home business before and failed?
4) Do you wonder if there is any purpose to your life?
5) Do you wish you could spend more time at your hobby than at your job?

If you answered "YES" to any of those questions, you have some thinking ahead of you. If you answered "YES" to all of them, you better do something in a hurry.

Choose An Online Business

2009-05-26T07:56:00.001-07:00

If you have ever wanted to own your own profitable, low maintenance business, but just couldn't seem to figure out how to start one from scratch, then this product was created for you. We have come up with 101 of the best Internet Marketing Ideas, Tips, and Suggestions and put them all together in this one package...Read through this electronic book...Study it...Pick out businesses you could create online for high profits.
This product isn't just for beginners. We are also including ideas which you can use even if you already have a very successful business or web site. We are going to include profit models you can learn from. Every web site owner should find ways of bringing in multiple streams of income into their business...Use the ideas you find in here to do just that: create multiple streams of income from every web site you own or are involved with.
Throughout this course, we have added little golden nuggets of Internet profits and information that will work in any business. So make sure to read through every section...even the ones who don't focus on businesses that you consider especially interesting to you. One of the ideas in that section just may be the key to doubling or tripling the profits of your business.
NOTE: Make sure to connect to the internet when reading through this course, as all links (Denoted by Blue Text) are Active and do connect to specific web sites for more information or tools.
The key to being successful in your own business is to pick a business that you will really enjoy doing. If you hate doing something no matter how much potential it has for profit, then you just won’t be able to dedicate yourself to it enough to be successful in your business. Besides, who would want to spend the rest of their life doing something they hate.
That is what we are trying to get away from. We now live in the Internet Age and there are tens of thousands of opportunities waiting for you out there. The key is to pick the one you will love doing...no matter how silly or weird it may sound at first.
Your friends may tell you are crazy for having this Internet dream. They might even make fun of your “weird” idea, but you will be the one laughing when you have a full-time Internet income coming in from what you love...and they are stuck at their go-nowhere 9 to 5 job for the rest of their lives.
Let me tell you a story...

In Indiana, there lives a woman who works 8 hour days 6 days a week at a local computer company. We will call her "Barbara" for the sake of this article.

Barbara dreads getting up in the morning. She dreads getting ready for work. She dreads driving to work. She dreads clocking in. She absolutely hates her job.

She has a degree in computer science, but she can barely stand the sight of a computer anymore. Everything in her miserable life has become a drudgery to her. She can barely stand herself. The most important thing to her is that wonderful clock that chimes 5 p.m. when it is time for her to go home.

She rushes to her car...Drives as fast as the law allows home...and then immediately rushes into her house as fast as she can to the noise of overexcited door greeters. Both them and her have waited all day for this moment. Now, she can relax.

She sits down on the couch...collects up her pets (2 dogs and a cat) and gives each of them the attention she knows that they crave. She turns on "Animal Planet" on the television set and sits back breathing a sigh of relief that she lived through another day.

Every day this same process occurs. Sometimes she makes a stop by the library and gets a collection of books on "Dog Care" and on "Dog Training." On her day off (that wonderful day), her and her dogs go and spend the entire day at the local park. All of them wait all week for that wonderful event.

Because of the drudgery of her job and the desire she has to be constantly free from it, she decided to check into starting her own home business. Her friends sell Avon. As a matter of fact, one of them even makes enough money to do it full-time.

Barbara envies this woman...She gets up and works when she wants at her own business which she loves. She always seems to have a spring in her step and a smile on her face.

Then, one day her friend invites Barbara to join her. Excitement overflows inside of Barbara...She will be able to be in control of her own destiny. She can be in business for herself.

Barbara jumps at the chance...besides it is only $25 she says to herself..."What do I have to lose?" She is absolutely on fire with this new possibility...She can work for herself and make her own life.

She quickly begins to do everything her sponsor told her to do...She makes up lists of contacts. She begins contacting them all one by one. She does everything neccessary to get started as fast as possible.

Barbara begins making a little money...(It always starts out small in your own home business), but something is missing. She stills has her job...She has her new home business and is beginning to make a little income doing it...BUT she has even less time than before to do the things she loves.

Her day off came and went...She had meetings to attend in her new business. Her dogs stayed home staring longingly at their leashes wondering what was wrong. Barbara is making more money now, but is no more free time than ever before.

Now, after the excitement of her new business has worn off, that telephone is getting pretty heavy to use. It is getting pretty tiring to come home from work every day and have to work this second job...even though it is hers.

One day, her sponsor quits and she has no one to help her stay motivated anymore. That was the final straw. She can't do it any more. She goes back to the old routine feeling guilty that she "failed" in her home business venture.

Later on down the road, this same process occurs. She joins another home business "opportunity" only to later give up and quit because she just can't take it anymore. Dozens of times this happens. Every time she feels more guilty that she just doesn't have what it takes to make it in her own home business.

Every time this occurs she ends up exhausted on her couch. The funny thing is that the answer to her problem has been right under her nose all of the time. It happens to be staring up at her lovingly right this moment holding it's leash.

Her problem has been that she works a job she hates. She wants a way out and others are promising her a solution that just isn't suited to her. They make money doing it because they love it. She makes a little at it and quits because she can't stand that JOB either.

For them, it is a way of life and a passion. For her, it is just another JOB, yet with less starting salary. Her passion is for her pets, but she spends time trying to work up passion for other people's desires.

I will let you off the hook and tell you...Barbara's problem is that she is trying the WRONG home business for her. She should be starting a business where her passion is at. Instead, she just tries to imitate others who have completely different desires.

I wonder if that is your problem? If you can't wait to get off your job and get out to the golf course, but you are trying to sell health products, it won't work. If you only want to garden all of the time, but sell make-up, you are dead in the water before you ever start.

Money's to tight to Mention 3

2009-02-15T08:03:00.000-08:00

Words
Please start with: Bring in the Money 1.
When you talk internet marketing you are talking about words. Go to any search engine and try to put in a picture. You were not very successful, were you?
As I am busy typing this, the song: “Words, don’t come easy to me”, comes to mind. Don’t crucify me if it is not the name of the song and just a line in it. I’m human, we all may mistakes.
Search engines need words to track other websites. We call it keywords. This is one of the reasons why a niche is important. The keywords will all direct you to the specific product. If you type the word fruit in the search engine you will get grapes, peaches, oranges, lemons, watermelons, figs, et cetera. Type in summer fruits and you won’t find oranges in your list. Then type in grapes and you will get the different variants of grapes, not watermelons. Can you see how important words are?
While researching your niche, you will have to type in different words or phrases into your search engines to be able to see if there is a demand for your product, like it is or in some other form. Say people need websites; do they go for websites where they just need to put in the finishing touches or do the most of them want to start from scratch. You will need different words and/or phrases for the one or the other.
Before we go any further I will have to choose your niche now. If you have not, stop. This is very important because you need to try out the process practically; why waste time if you can try it out on your actual niche.
Search engines will give you results but if you want to know how many times people used a specific word or phrase for a month you need some other program that would give you a more accurate picture. Two programs come to mind. These services allow us to enter keywords to see the greater picture. You will know exactly how many times the word or phrase has been used in search engines for a specific month. You will also get related words or phrases and its results.
1. Overture: This service is free. If you don’t have many to spend now, go for it. The problem is, with the searches done by humans, it will also give you searches done by computers and algorithms. It can complicate things a bit, because we are interested in searches done by humans only. For a start it should be okay; but when you’ve made some money, use the other service to refine your keywords.
2. Wordtracker: This is a subscription service. You will only get results of searches done by humans. This is what we’re looking for. The more times the people entered the specific word or phrase in a search, the better for you. After you have signed up and logged in:
a. Click keyword universe
b. Enter your keywords in the text area on your left. Think of your niche. In this case it will be websites or whatever you have chosen.
c. Refine your search. A whole list of words related to websites will appear. What is the actual product that you are marketing? Find it and click on it. Keep on refining until you get to your specific niche with the specific keywords fitting.
d. Although I said it is good if people have entered a specific word or phrase more, this is the time to narrow it down. Would you want to compete in a niche with one million clicks a month or one thousand. With a thousand you’ve got a better change of getting your website ranked higher.
e. Built a list with up to ten keywords.
I’ve got to run. Next time we are going to talk about spiders, links and ranks.
See you and God bless.

Steven D, South Africa
PS. There are also some other places where you can get websites. Click here or here to check them out.

Finally, a way out.

2009-02-15T07:59:00.000-08:00

When you’ve been out of a job for several years you kinda get desperate and you would try anything just to be able to put bread on your table. Believe me, it is the most difficult thing in the world not to know where the next meal will be coming from.
Yes, I do believe that God is my Provider and He has not let me down thus far. Every time I thought that tonight we’re going to sleep hungry He would come through for us as a family. Sometimes I would ask myself why do I have to be so dependant on Him. He would answer that it is the only way that I’m going to keep the faith so that I can be a testimony for Him.
When you don’t have money to buy clothes, food or pay your bills you don’t want to be a witness for any one. Yet, when you think about the miraculous ways in which He provided and still is, for you, you just have to be a witness. Some people just don’t understand that at all.
I know that there will be people out there who reads this and say: “Just another one of those mad so-called Christians that wants to shove their believes down our throats”. Believe me, if I had a choice, I would just let you be, but with Him in my corner I can’t. just have to tell you, even when this was not the reason why I started this article.
The reason why I started this article was to talk about my struggles to get to a place where I did not have to worry about the next bread. Yes, He provided for me but I still had to get to a place where I did not want to worry. About two years back I stumbled upon the term affiliates on the internet. When I started to read more I told myself, god is finally going to take me out of my financial woes.
Was I wrong. Everybody made it sound so easy, just click here, then there and whallah, the money is on its way to your bank account. Nobody was honest enough to tell you that you need a credit card to access certain items. Everybody would say you don’t need a product or money to start an affiliate business.
They were and are right, that is if you just want to sign up as an affiliate. You would only find out later that you need a website to market those things. When somebody does not know the internet and is desperate to make some money you just jump in and try to pick up more information later.
With no food in your home you want to see a check by the first payday that comes around for the company your are an affiliate for. Yes, you are so desperate that you are stupid. Where did you ever hear that you can make money without investing money.
For two years I tried to find a way to make money without any success. I had no program running because there just was no money. Without a regular income your first priority is to see to your family’s immediate needs. Things just got worse as time went by. I got to a point where only a miracle could carry my family, and it happened day after day.
Last year I downloaded quit a few free e-books because my dream was to market e-books. I just kept on downloading them without reading any.
Then, in January of this year I opened one of the books and started to read. My miracle has arrived; actually it arrived last year some time already. I started to read the book with disbelieve but had a few campaigns running before I got to the end. Listen hear, I did not have to pay a cent except for my internet connection. The only other investment that I had to make was lots of time. I’m still busy even as I write this article.
The skill to write articles did not come naturally to me and my home language is not English, but know that God has given the miracle into my hands I’m going to work and work until I have refine it. Today it is not about how good my writing is; it is about getting the word out.
There is a way out. God bless you.

Steven D, South Africa

Money's to tight to Mention 2

2009-02-13T11:12:00.000-08:00

Do not Procratinate
With the article: “Bring in the Money 1”, I kind of put the horse before the cart. The reason was to wet your appetite. If you have not read it please read it first by clicking on the link above.
I ended of that article by saying that there are other things that you would need before you can start a business.
1. Do you feel the fire in your belly to start a business, not just any old business but one that can give you an extra income that is sizable. A business that can become a full time business if you so wish? A let me try attitude might not get you very far. That kind of attitude will make you to give up too easily. The desire to make something of your financial situation must be strong or otherwise you must tell yourself that this is just going to be a hobby. Nothing wrong with hobbies, but I don’t think the drive is the same as when you want to be successful.
2. What are your goals? Write them down and visualize them coming to life. Set a date when you would want to achieve it. Put it up against a wall if possible. You need to see it often.
3. Set up mini milestones on your way to achieve this goal.
4. Write a monetary value down that is achievable and write it in your diary or some other place where you can see it. The best place would be where your goals are. You would need this money to achieve your goals.
5. Write down mini monetary values to your mini milestones.
6. What are you prepared to give to be able to reach your goals? Dreaming won’t get you there. You will need self-discipline, energy, and time. But, and a big but, you will always need your family and friends. Do not sacrifice them for money. Money without family and friends can be very cold and lonely. If I had to choose between a. having lots of money and no family and friends or b. being poor but happy with my friends and family; I will choose the latter.
7. What needs to be done today, do it. Tomorrow will bring its own challenges and you mite not be able to cope with it. Soon you will find yourself a week behind schedule. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
8. Do you have a clear plan or are you just going to see what tomorrow brings? This is very dangerous. If you don’t know what exactly you are going to do you are going to waste time trying to figure it all out. When your plan is at hand you will at least have the time to find resources if you don’t know how to do a certain task. If you know nothing about the business you are going to venture in, plan to find out what it is all about in the next few days, then you can work out the rest of your plan.

What else do you need?
1. Set up a business account. Your bank will be able to advice you.
2. Do I need to say a computer with internet connection? Your local library computer won’t do it for you. If you don’t have a computer and a close family member can’t help you out, save up and buy one.
3. Now you need to get that website.
4. Collect or write content for your site.
5. Set your site up.
6. Patience. You won’t start up the business and tomorrow your bank account will be healthy.
7. Be persistent. This might be an unfamiliar field but with time you will know exactly what you are doing. Read up on jargon.
8. Helpless with a computer, don’t be scared. As an older man I had to overcome mine. Now my wife, who encouraged me, now fights me.
9. Please, don’t put up a site that would keep potential buyers from clicking on your links. If they start to admire your pretty pictures they might forget to move on to the site of the product you promote. Your site needs to make money or are you going to enter it into a Miss Beautiful Website competition?

Set up your site and start your affiliate research now or just click here to promote websites.
See you later. God bless you.

Steven D, South Africa
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Money's to tight to Mention 1

2009-02-13T11:08:00.000-08:00

Affiliates
During the eighties (or seventies maybe), there was a song that I loved very much. The name of the song is: “Money’s to tight to mention.” There is also a specific verse in that song: “Don’t talk about money, money. Don’t talk about money, money. Don’t talk about money, money, money, money, money.”
I can’t remember the artist but I used to think that she is probably a millionaire and she doesn’t want to talk about money. If she can’t, who can? I was still very young and thought when an artist say or sing about something that they really experienced it. Now I know that although some did, most of them are just singing to bring in the money.
In the light of today’s economic climate, so many people lose their jobs and are frightened to mention money. The word becomes a swear word if you’re without it. Bills to pay, groceries to buy, school fees, petrol (or gasoline for the Americans- why do you always have to be different), clothing, and ….. and ….. The list came be too long when there is no money.
When you do get some; who do I pay and who will have to wait till next time? What can I buy and what is not a priority? Do we eat out or shall we eat at home? Cinema or Television, what shall we watch?
The best bet would be to start some kind of business that is sustainable and not to expensive to get of the ground. Some online businesses are relatively cheap to set up. Try affiliate programs as a starting point.
What is an affiliate program? A lot of companies make use of affiliate programs to sell their products online. Affiliates are you and me that promote somebody else’s product online and receive commissions of up to 60% from some of the companies.
When you type in the term affiliates, you will be bombarded with literally thousands of affiliate programs. Do you think that it is stupid to ask somebody else to promote your product and give him or her such a big cut of the money? No, not at all. By having hundred more sites to promote their product plus there own site, they start to make serious money. They can surely start to talk about money.
Think about it, you decide what you want to promote, don’t have to buy it but can make some good money promoting it. Remember, I said good money, not millions.
What do you want to promote? It is entirely up to you. Start with something that you are familiar about or something you like and can talk about. To stick to a certain product is called a niche. You will see the term niche marketing a lot.
To try and jump into a wider market right away would be foolish. You can always diversify later, when you’ve got the knowledge and you have to spend less time on your first niche. Then you can start another niche.
A very good niche to start with would be websites built by professionals. The websites of this specific company are really the best of the best. Any one that is starting a business and does not have a website should try them. Do you need a site? This company will give you one of the best affiliate programs with life long commissions and ongoing training.
You say that you don’t know much about websites? They will train you and take you step by step with your affiliate program.
Well you can still opt for another product if you don’t want to do websites. As I said, there are thousands out there. If you do choose another product, please check out the following:
a. Can the merchant capable of converting your leads into sales? Look at the site. Is it easy to use? Do they persuade you to buy? The ordering process must be relatively easy.
b. Look at their commission structure and compare it to other companies into the same niche.
c. Are they well known?
d. The affiliate sign up page must easy and without legal terms you don’t understand.
This is just to make you think. Start by getting your website ready
Before your business can get of the ground there are certain prerequisites. What are the things you would need to start your own business?
I will go into it with my next article. Sign up to my RSS feed and you will be notified as soon as it is available. Please leave your comments.
God bless you and your business. Till next time.

Steven D, South Africa

Wow! So Easy.

2009-01-30T14:05:00.000-08:00

Well, there are times in our lives that we know we should have given more attention at school. I was one of those who passed every year but achieved no grades to brag about.
Although I passed my senior exam I had to make a special application to be allowed to attend university part time. Did one semester, trying to attain a B-degree in administration. Industrial psychology 101 was okay but Public Administration was really and truly not for lazy guys.
Understand me, to sit down and work is one thing (I can spend hours working on a computer) but to study is entirely another.
I used all the excuses in and out of the book not to finish my studies; 1990 was a time of turmoil in South Africa, so I had a great excuse why I could not complete my studies. Furthermore, I had no car of my own. A married man needs to spend more time with his family, plus, plus, plus. The real reason, I could not study.
Today people will give you a manual for each and everything. Are manuals difficult to understand or are they difficult to understand?
When my friend told me about online trading, one of the reasons that I took so long to jump in was the fact that I thought, not another difficult manual. He tried to convince me that it is the easiest thing he did in a long time and I thought, yeh right. Although I knew that he did not know anything about trading, I knew that he loves reading.
Eventually, when I tried Forex trading, I could kick myself. It is so easy, if you can master reading, you can trade on Forex. No other system is as easy. Let me put it like this, if you can’t read, and your 10 year old can master reading in English, you can trade online.
Jump in today, click here, you will not regret it in a million years. The only regret you will have is that you did not believe me.
Forex is definitely the way to go. Please post your comments to my blog.

Steven D, South Africa.

Born to be poor! Maybe not.

2009-01-30T14:02:00.000-08:00

Yes, with my luck I started to think that I was doomed to die poor. I’m 47 and believe me; I’ve tried so many schemes in my lifetime that I stopped counting. At a younger age I had my fair share of pyramid schemes. I never lost a lot of money but losing money- who can afford it?
Then the internet arrived with all its promises. I thought that learnt my lesson (no, lessons is the correct word). So many offers to make money easily and quickly. Buy this e-book or order that program. Try this affiliate program or send 10 000 emails. More than 50% of my hard drive is filled with e-books and programs to drive traffic to a website.
The only people that made real money were those who sold the e-books and made the promises. So, understand me, when a friend of mine came to me with yet another way to make easy money, I, not to hurt his feelings, listened without real interest. Can you blame me? The only thing I remembered was trading and something about Forex.
Well, he is not stupid and could see that I was just sparing his feelings. Three months later he came to me again but this time he did not say a word. He just put all the evidence on the table for me to read, printouts from the computer and his bank account to show me his gains.
This time he really got my attention. He started to tell me about trading on the internet. I stopped him in disbelieve because, like me, he was not supposed to know anything about trading.
Are you involved in dirty dealings? Please promise me that you will immediately stop, before it’s too late. I got so nerves that I started to sweat.
He started to laugh and told me about Forex and how you don’t have to know anything about trading. Forex will take you by the hand and lead you so to speak.
Once bitten twice shy, that was me after all the failures of many years. It took me another 3 months and more prove before I made my move.
Today, I can kick myself for waiting so long. Please, don’t make the same mistake; you will lose out on a lot of money. Act today and click here. I would like to hear from you again. Go to my blog and leave your comments.
Steven D, South Africa

American Dollars for non Americans

2009-01-30T13:59:00.000-08:00

The economy…….. Don’t you even start. I don’t know much about markets. Why does the oil price go up or down? Why is the price of gold $870 an ounce today and $908 tomorrow? Why will it be $700 by next Wednesday?
Please don’t ask me.
The only thing I know is that when the oil price goes up, I will pay more for food, transport (public or my own), clothes, interest rates goes up.
In my country, South Africa, I know that those things does not come down with the oil price except maybe for the interest rates. Okay, your private transport costs will also come down with the oil prices but not public transport.
While I’m busy typing this the news is on TV. One of the things that caught my attention is that the IMF says that the economic growth will only be 0.5% this year. Another thing is that 51 000 000 (yes, I wanted to write it out, 51 million) jobs will be lost this year according to a UN Agency.
Will you be one of those losing their jobs this year? People just returned to work after the Christmas holidays and already people are talking about retrenchments. I believe that this is happening world wide.
Recession is the word that crops up everywhere. From the United States of America to Japan, South Africa to Hong Kong, everyone is having difficult financial times. Banks need help, what about me, who’s money is supposed to be save in the bank?
Job security is something of the past. Some companies even sacrifices experienced people to save money.
Some countries will struggle to return to “normal” after all of this is over. Shame, if your president’s name is Mugabe, you have no hope at all. 94% of the Zimbabweans are jobless at the moment.
So why would you want to earn American Dollars? Most countries’ currencies, South Africa is definitely one of them, are linked to the American Dollar. The one thing that I’ve noticed is that whenever there is a crisis, our Rand will weaken against the American Dollar. Therefore it makes sense to me to try and get some dollars.
Now it is not that easy at all to get hold of dollars. The systems to use in trading are all too complex, or so I thought, until I tried Forex trading. Now I just know I don’t have to know much about economics. All that I need to know is that my money is growing steadily, and that I’m getting into some American Dollars.
Forex really made it easy for me.
NS Post your comments to my blog please.
Steven D, South Africa

Five Easy Steps to Posting Your First eBay Auction

2008-10-02T14:34:00.000-07:00

3.5 Step 5: Collect payment and post it.
eBay will sent your buyer emails guiding them through the process of sending you
payment for the item. Make sure you have the money before you send anything.
Once you've got the payment, all you need to do is pack the item for posting
(make sure to use some bubble wrap), take the buyer's address from the
confirmation email eBay sent you, and write it on the parcel. Put some stamps on,
post it, and you're done!

Five Easy Steps to Posting Your First eBay Auction

2008-10-02T14:32:00.001-07:00

3.4 Step 4: Wait for it to sell.
This is just a matter of sitting back and letting eBay do its thing - buyers will find
your item and leave bids on it. Some bidders might email you with questions
about the item, and you should do your best to answer these questions as quickly
as you can.
** Remember that if your item doesn't sell then you can list it again for free. **

Five Easy Steps to Posting Your First eBay Auction

2008-10-02T14:32:00.000-07:00

Five Easy Steps to Posting Your First eBay Auction

2008-10-02T14:26:00.000-07:00

3.3 Step 3: Submit your item.
Click 'Sell', and you're on your way to listing your item.
The first thing you need to do is choose a category - it's best to just type in what
the item is and let eBay choose for you. Next, write a title and description.
Include key words you think people will search for in the title box, and all the
information you have about the item in the description box.
Now set a starting price. $0.01 is the best starting price, as it draws people in to
bid who otherwise wouldn't, and items will almost never finish at such a low
price. The next thing to set is the duration of the auction: 3, 5, 7 or 10 days. This
is up to you: longer sales will usually get more bids, but will also seem to drag on
forever. If you've taken a picture, add it now - items with pictures always sell for
more. Finally, tick the payment methods you will accept (just PayPal is best for
now), and where you will post to (limit yourself to your own country to begin
with). Submit and you're done!

Five Easy Steps to Posting Your First eBay Auction

2008-08-31T10:23:00.000-07:00

3.2 Step 2: Decide what to sell.
For your first little experiment with eBay, it doesn't really matter what you sell.
Take a look around the room you're in - I'm sure there's something in there that
you're not all that attached to and could put in the post. Small books and CDs are
ideal first

3. Five Easy Steps to Posting Your First eBay Auction

2008-08-31T10:20:00.000-07:00

It's surprisingly simple to get started posting your very first auction on eBay.
Here's what you need to do.
3.1 Step 1: Open an eBay seller's account.
If you've bought things on eBay, then you already have an account - just log in
with it and click 'Sell' in the toolbar at the top of the page, then click 'Create a
seller's account'. If you've never used eBay before, then you'll need to open an
account first using the 'register' link underneath the toolbar, and then click 'Sell'
and 'Create a seller's account'. The eBay site will then guide you through the
process. For security, this may involve giving card details and bank information.

2. What You Need to Know Before Getting Started

2008-08-29T12:39:00.000-07:00

2. What You Need to Know Before Getting Started
So you've decided that you want to get started as a seller on eBay. There are a few things that you really need to know before you go and throw yourself in at the deep end.
What to Sell
First off, you need to know what it is you're going to sell: what's your specialty? You'll do far better on eBay if you become a great source for certain kind of products, as people who are interested in those products will come back to you again and again. You won't get any loyalty or real reputation if you just sell rubbish at random.
When you think about what to sell, there are a few things to consider. The most important of these is to always sell what you know. If you try to sell something that you just don't know anything about then you'll never write a good description and sell it for a good price.
You might think you're not especially interested in anything, but if you think about what kind of things you usually buy and which websites you go to most often, I'm sure you'll discover some kind of interest. If all else fails mention it to your friends and family: they'll almost certainly say "Oh, well why don't you sell…" and you'll slap your forehead.
Out of the things you know enough about, you should then consider which things you could actually get for a good enough price to resell, and how suitable they would be for posting. If you can think of something of that you're knowledgeable about and it's small and light enough for postage to be relatively cheap, then that's great!
Don't worry if you think the thing you're selling is too obscure - it isn't. There's a market for almost everything on eBay, even things that wouldn't sell once in a year if you stocked them in a shop. You'll probably do even better if you fill a niche than if you sell something common.
Tax and Legal Matters
If you earn enough money, you should be aware that you're going to have to start paying tax - this won't be done for you. If you decide to sell on eBay on a full-time basis, you should probably register as a business.
Prepare Yourself
There are going to be ups and downs when you sell on eBay. Don't pack it in if something goes a little wrong in your first few sales: the sellers who are successful on eBay are the ones who enjoy it, and stick at it whatever happens. Anyone can sell on eBay, if they believe in themselves - and if you do decide it's not for you, and then the start-up costs are so low that you won't really have lost anything. If you're ready to start selling, then the next thing you need to know is the different auction types, so you can decide which ones you will use to sell your items.

1. Welcome to eBay and Tons of Income

2008-08-29T12:34:00.000-07:00

Welcome to eBay and tons of income
If you've ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make - it isn't unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay. Next time you're on eBay, take a look at how many Power Sellers there are: you'll find quite a few. Now consider that every single one of one of them must be making at least $1,000 per month, as that's eBay's requirement for becoming a Power Seller.
• Silver Power Sellers make at least $3,000 each month,
• Gold Power Sellers make more than $10,000,
• Platinum Power sellers make more than $25,000, and
• Titanium Power Sellers make at least a whopping $150,000 in sales every month!
The fact that these people exist gives you come idea of the income possibilities here. Most of them never set out to even set up a business on eBay - they simply started selling a few things, and then kept going. There are plenty of people whose full-time job is selling things on eBay, and some of them have been doing it for years now.
Can you imagine that? Once they've bought the stock, everything else is pretty much pure profit for these people - they don't need to pay for any business premises, staff, or anything else. There are multi-million pound businesses making less in actual profit than eBay Power Sellers do.
Even if you don't want to quit your job and really go for it, you can still use eBay to make a significant second income. You can pack up orders during the week and take them down to the post office for delivery each Saturday. There are few other things you could be doing with your spare time that have anywhere near that kind of earning potential.
What's more, eBay doesn't care who you are, where you live, or what you look like: some Power Sellers are very old, or very young. Some live out in the middle of nowhere where selling on eBay is one of the few alternatives to farming or being very poor. eBay tears down the barriers to earning that the real world constantly puts up. There's no job interview and no commuting involved - if you can post things, you can do it.
Put it this way: if you know where to get something reasonably cheaply that you could sell, then you can sell it on eBay - and since you can always get discounts for bulk at wholesale, that's not exactly difficult. Buy a job lot of something in demand cheaply, sells it on eBay, and you're making money already, with no setup costs.
If you want to dip your toe in the water before you commit to actually buying anything, then you can just sell things that you've got lying around in the house. Search through that cupboard of stuff you never use, and you'll probably find you've got a few hundred dollars' worth of stuff lying around in there! This is the power of eBay: there is always someone who wants what you're selling, whatever it might be, and since they've come looking for you, you don't even need to do anything to get them to buy it.
So you want to get started on eBay? Well, that's great! There are only a few little things you need to learn to get started.