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.
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Money's to tight to Mention 2
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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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
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
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
Friday, January 30, 2009
Wow! So Easy.
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.
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.
American Dollars for non Americans
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
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
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