Archive for June, 2008

by Simon Whincop

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…

Having read countless articles, sought endless expert advice and heard numerous success stories of how people have built unimaginable wealth on the Internet using the power of opt-in lists, you finally decide to have one of your own. Presuming you know everything there is to know about opt-in lists you follow all the advice to the Tee. And you fail to make even a single dime.

In fact, you’re leaking money, fast. A bit here whan you hired writers to help out with your articles, a bit there on advertising, and an even larger chunk on the latest can’t-possibly-fail traffic generating scam. Perhaps your list even got quite big. But only a tiny percentage actually converts to sales.

Which ever way you look at it, you’ve failed to make a profit, and after a few months of desperately peering at your statistics and sales figures, you come to the conclusion that your dreams of Internet wealthbuilding are over.

You ask yourself what could possibly have gone wrong. You wonder why others have succeeded where you have failed. You begin to think you were too hasty, diving straight in like that. You begin to doubt the validity of your product, or worse, your own ability.

Have similar thoughts ever crossed your mind?

All is not lost, however - don’t forget that just because you emailed people on your list does not mean they’ll buy instantly. As an Internet marketer, you need a bit of patience!

If you’ve already started an opt-in list and think you failed, or even if you’re just starting out, here are three quick and easy steps that you should try and follow:

1) Make sure your product or service is one that people really want.

And learn all about your product. Many people forget this vital element of their affiliate business. Do they really think their subscribers are going to buy something they haven’t bothered to learn about themselves? Not very likely. Your knowledge and belief about your product, or lack of it, is transferred onto your customers. Time spent researching your product thoroughly is time spent wisely.

2) Join forums. Providing expert advice and recommendations will build an aura of trust around you. You could then build a base around other forum users, inviting them to join your opt-in list. Friends make good customers. Placing a link to your site on your forum posts will enable them to see what your business is all about. They’ll begin to believe in you and your products. Writing and submitting articles and posting blogs will further increase your credibility as well as building more potential subscribers and customers.

3) Make friends with other opt-in list users (forums are an invaluable tool here, too). Let them mentor you - someone who has already launched a successful opt-in list will be able to tell you what to do and what not to do, They can steer you clear of potential pitfalls and mistakes to avoid, because they have gone through it themselves. Experience is the best teacher, and there is nothing better than learning from the mistakes of others!

It takes great preparation and effort to build a profitable opt-in list - it doesn’t happen overnight. Opt-in lists have to be built from scratch and, once built, take some maintenance. Always keep yours organized and manageable. But use it to Keep your subscribers happy and they’ll be willing to buy from you time and time again. Build Your list, and you are on the road to building Internet wealth!

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by John Wallen

If your just hanging around this summer and don’t have much in the way of plans, you should take a little time and checkout this opportunity on the internet that I can’t belief I’ve done so well with. Summer is time for fun, but if your hanging out staying cool, you should take a look at this.

There’s a business that could easily make you very wealthy and show you a skill that could make the rest of the summers a blast! Get going now and you could be growing a business that would change all your summers forever, cause you’ll be able to afford to go anywhere you want.

I am very serious about making huge sums of money from the comfort and privacy of my own home. I have learned the skills of using the internet to create a financial freedom I never thought possible. And there’s no reason you can’t be doing the exact same thing I’m doing and succeed.

This could be a special time in your life, when you take that first step and take control of your destiny, creating the life you always dreamed of instead of settling for mediocrity. Not to brag, but I started dead broke and turned a small sum of money into making thousands every month.

This home based business is so incredible, I am still amazed cause I’ve never seen a wealth creating system that works so well and I have never seen anything like this in my five years of marketing on the web. This would be the opportunity for anyone wanting to make big money.

You simply have got to check this out for yourself. I want you to see for yourself the ultimate business opportunity on the World Wide Web. I want to be able to show you how to cash in with the greatest wealth making breakthrough I have ever discovered marketing on the internet.

This is so complete it’s unbelievable and the best thing, you won’t have to worry about making websites or creating marketing materials or anything else. That is done for you already, all you have to do is take advantage of getting paid big money with direct deposit to your account.

I am not joking, you will not have to wait to get paid. All the money you will be making gets put directly into your bank account. This will not cost you a dime to take a serious look at, a great business opportunity that has the ability to create a lot of money for you, take a look, don’t wait!

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by Ethan Hunter

While this business has been around for over 70 years, it is still widely unknown among many businesses and many consumers. If you are looking to become a mystery shopper, you will find the process relatively simple and easy to get started. The most important thing to take into consideration is to choose the most reputable company that is known for their client service and their overall shopper program.

Your goal as a mystery shopper is simple - you are there to ultimately improve the company. As a mystery shopper you undertake assignments which will ask you to evaluate certain aspects of a business. You could be trying to see how friendly the staff are, how they deal with a complaint for example, or you could be evaluating how easy it is to find a particular product. Once you have gone into a business and done your evaluation, you will then have to fill out a form to record your findings. Once you have sent that to the company which hired you, they will analyze the findings and provide a plan to the business owner on how they can improve.

Although the mystery shopper performs that same type of job, the jobs themselves vary dramatically. For instance, if you were to become a mystery shopper with a number of companies, you could end up performing a restaurant, oil change, apartment, and clothing store shop in a single week. The type of assignment the mystery shopper does is dependent on the industry for which the shop is being completed.

The way in which you get rewarded for your mystery shopper work will vary from company to company. Usually if you work for companies in the hospitality industry, you will be reimbursed to a certain amount. Other companies will offer you a flat fee. So you will need to look into this before you sign up. It is also possible for a mystery shopper to be reimbursed and paid a small fee too, however these companies are quite rare.

In order to become a mystery shopper you will need to have a few certain qualities. These include being honest, being able to keep information confidential and you will also need integrity. Usually transportation is also required and you should speak English unless otherwise stated. As a mystery shopper you may also be required to have your own equipment such as a digital camera and a cell phone. However some companies will provide you with these if they are needed.

The last key set of skills that a mystery shopper should possess would be strong communication along with strong listening skills so that you can engage in dialogue with the people within the business that you are shopping. To compliment your communication ability, the ability to be professional can also play an important role when you are performing the role of a mystery shopper.

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by Joseph Then

Have you read about this recently; you can succeed just by joining an online MLM program. I bet you haven’t. However, if you have, have you ever wondered how? Well, the secret to this is by using guaranteed sign ups. Too good to be true? I don’t think so. You should trust me on this.

Just by a simple search using Google or even Yahoo!, you can see that there are many companies providing guaranteed sign up services. If I were you, I would be wondering if they are legitimate.

I can help you. Here are 3 guidelines that can help you out to weed away those that are out to take your money without results:

1) Guaranteed sign ups should be expensive - Sounds a little surprising right? It is true. If a sign up costs you only $0.50 - $0.80, be on your guard. How could it be possible that sign up be so cheap? A simple thought process would answer that: If the company decides to make $0.40 profit out of every sign up sent to you, that means that their cost of sign up is only $0.10 - $0.40. That is totally illogical right? $0.10 per sign up???

Medical and insurance leads are already at $3 - $5 per lead (and that is NOT even sign up), how can your sign up be at just a few cents? I’m sure you are smarter to know about that.

A typical price should be at least $1.20 - $1.50 per sign up. Remember: Quality is #1!

2) The second thing you should remember is that sign up should never be worldwide. Take an example: If you buy a hundred worldwide sign ups, you will get a hundred of them from Chile, Iran, China, Argentina, and Malaysia and so on. I am not trying to be insulting but I don’t think you would want to get them for your business. You should remember that you should always demand for sign ups from USA, UK or Australia.

3) The last thing you should remember is that the sign up you buy should have good customer feedback. Some companies offer you things that are too good to be true. But to ensure that they are true, you should check out the feedback given by others. One of the best ways to see if the company is legitimate i by looking at the testimonials given by others.

So, why don’t you start looking for a company the company that provides you with the sign ups you want based on the three pointers given above?

Buy a small package, track and test it out.

Assume that you have 50 sign ups ordered and you get only one sign up who wants to upgrade to paid membership, is that a good result?

Well, I think so. This is because if you do the math you will find that it is actually a two percent conversion. This is considered a market average. However, this depends on your program and how convincing you are.

So here’s my sharing. Now let your quest begin… Look for a guaranteed sign ups company!

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by Joseph Then

There are many ways to make money online. Many of the money-making techniques take money to make money. This means that you need to begin with money if you hope to make any money. However, there are several free ways to make money online. Let’s take a look at four of them right now.

1. Offering Your Services

One of the easiest ways to make money online is to offer your services. What can you do online? Well, simple; you can simply offer services such as creating web pages, writing, designing and many more. I am sure you will be able to find a lot of people out there who are willing to pay for the service(s) you are offering. You should trust me on this.

There are several sites which require you to bid on projects but the best suggestion I can give you is that you should go to a forum, write down your services and simply put your email or contact number for clients to get to you. One note of advice; you should do a couple of projects for dirt cheap price and gradually increase the price. This way, you can get more references.

2. Affiliate and Set-Up a Free Blog

There are many places you can sign-up with to become an affiliate. Clickbank is probably one of the best and easiest to sign-up with. Become an affiliate for a couple products and then set-up a couple free blogs to promote the products. Just write a new blog three or four times a week and include the affiliate link on the blog. Also remember to Digg your blog and write articles with links back to your blog.

3. Unleash Web2.0 Power

Social networking sites is another great way to make money through affiliate sales. You can be an active member and create one or more pages on social sites such as MySpace, FaceBook, Squidoo, Xanga, and FacePaint. You can also use your social networking site(s) in conjunction with a free blog. Also, you can use article marketing to help direct traffic to your social networking sites.

4. Create Your Own Product

Well, you can create something and call it your own. By doing this you can earn money. How? Well, you can simply sell it online. You can promote your self made product on networking sites and you are on your way to making more money. However, if you are intending to do this, you may need some money to start up your ‘business’.

So, go ahead. You should use what you have learnt here and earn big bucks. Earning big bucks online is not impossible of you start now. You are never too late.

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by Ethan Hunter

If you have little to no idea of what a mystery shopper program is then you have come to the right place! Mystery shopping has been around for years, yet so many people still have no idea what it actually is. By learning more about the mystery shopper program you can then decide whether it is something that your company could benefit from. It is possible that working with a good mystery shopping company could help you to improve your business. So why not read on to find out more?

Each mystery shopper program will vary in how they operate, yet most serve the same common goal of providing their client with valuable information in an attempt to improve their business model. The information that is obtained in a mystery shopping program is provided to the client for them to analyze, so that they can make modifications within the business structure or processes.

For instance, if you are the owner of a restaurant but find that customers are dwindling and profit declining, you need to know why. Using a shopper from a mystery shopper program, you will find out exactly the areas of the restaurant that are failing. This could be poor food presentation, improper lighting inside and outside the restaurant, poor service, problems with cleanliness, or even over pricing

A mystery shopper program offers a business an un-biased opinion to the business which is more valuable in some cases than from an actual customer. The report that is provided to the client will detail the specific experiences that were observed. The businesses that hired the mystery shopping are looking to evaluate and to improve their processes.

One of the reasons that many businesses fail is that they are not providing solid customer service. It is important for a business to understand the customer’s needs when designing the business program and staff training.

Another advantage to using a mystery shopper program is that you get a fairly detailed report back. Often business owners are surprised by the results that they get but it really helps them to make any improvements that they may not have been aware of. So taking part in a mystery shopper program is definitely worthwhile if you are a business owner. If you haven’t thought about it before then why not find out more today?

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by Pete Marks

Ever wonder how to find that photography job that pays the best. You may have submitted your portfolio and resume to dozens of prospects without out any good results or offers. If your like most and have researched all the job boards and classified ads without an offer you may have a few options left if you want to have a career in photography.

Have you ever wondered how to sell photos online. If your a freelance photographer you could work at home and submit photos online this would be an excellent business opportunity. If you are familiar with photo sites then submitting photos should be easy. Some forum sites and photo contest sites have sections that offer photo critiques of you photographs.

Photography affects every aspect of our life we see it on, TV, in the news papers, magazines and just about any other print or advertising media. A career in photography is a natural solution to some people. If you can take the best pictures of nature, animals, people, plants or landscapes and people comment on them the a career in photography may be for you.

The Internet has a huge need for freelance photographers and pictures. Many web masters or web designers need stock photographs. Selling stock photos on line has become a business opportunity that many freelance photographers could not pass up. This is just one of many methods to sell your photos online.

You ever wonder how to make money selling your photos online? What if you could earn a second income or have a primary income as a freelance photographer! Photography is an art and trying to find ways to sell pics can be difficult.

If you want to learn how to sell photos online all that is required is a standard digital camera to make money possibly residual income. To take great pictures an expensive top of the line digital camera is not required it is more about knowing the secrets, techniques and certain tips of the trade.

What you want to know when you sell your photos online is how to make the most money and get paid. The advantage to selling your photos for cash is you get to be your own boss and work your own hours. You can learn the step by step techniques to making money online selling your photos and earning residual income.

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by Jeff Deveau

Have you spent spent hours searching online affiliate programs or how a newbie can make real money online?

After failing with many online survey companies and submitting hundreds of entries to “online lotteries”, I had almost come to the conclusion that in order to work from home via the internet with a decent income you have to be in IT or just have great “tech” skills.

Subscribing to some of these “get rich quick” ideas is like buying knock-off Nike shoes from a street vendor. Their sales pitch was great and the shoes look perfect but after you try them on and walk around a little, you notice they aren’t made very well and you’ve gotten something that has little or no value. It’s no wonder people are giving up trying to find online employment after being frustrated with online scams and rip-offs.

The Internet is full of websites that offer ways to ‘make money filling out surveys’ or ‘data entry positions’. Many of them require LOTS of work for little money. People are now getting more involved in Internet Marketing and promoting digital products, services and many other items.

While Affiliate marketing has been very successful, you will likely find yourself wondering where to start or what products to sell? To achieve success at Affiliate marketing, you need to pick one idea or concept and devote yourself to it. Getting sidetracked half way through or giving up after a few attempts is the leading cause of failure with affiliate marketing.

When researching campaigns, many people feel they need to run many campaigns at the same time. This causes them to spread themselves too thin and often they will be too worn out to continue before seeing a profit. With the Internet full of fierce competition, it’s advisable to focus on one niche market at a time than to be a “Jack of all trades”

If you’re a newbie looking to join a trusted and successful Affiliate marketing website, they’re out there and you just need to look around. It’s best to find one that requires a membership as many of the free sites attract spammers who prey on people looking to make a living online. I registered for more than 25 free sites before learning that the sites you pay member fees for, ultimately have the best value.

If you do happen to fall for a scam, learn from your experience. It’s always the people that continue to move forward that end up being successful.

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by Rosie Cottis

Learning how to make money from a work at home business is not difficult. Yet the sad truth is that the majority of people quit before they have hardly started. Why? Because they do not follow these simple golden rules.

First, do not buy into any kind of business opportunity that suggests that you will make $1000 or any other large sum overnight or without any work. Unfortunately, this is never true. There are no guarantees of income in anything that we do, and nobody is going to give you money for nothing.

Second, be sure to choose your money making method according to the skills and experience that you have. We are all individuals and a method that suits one person will not suit another.

For example, if you want to make money from an online business then you will need to learn how to set up simple websites or blogs. This is easy to learn so it does not matter if you cannot do this right now, but in that case you should look for a system that either covers this or points you to a way to learn these basic skills.

Third, keep your expenses as low as you can. An online business is never entirely without cost but it can be run much more cheaply than an offline business. The minimum you will need is web hosting and a domain, and these are not expensive.

The problem that many people fall into is that they start paying out for a lot of different money making ideas and do not see any of them through. They may have picked a good system right away, but instead of doing what it says they either read it like a magazine and put it aside, or start off with high hopes but then quit before they are even half way through because it has not ‘worked’ fast enough. Then they do the same thing over again with the next system that they find.

This quickly becomes expensive and these people will quit before they have a chance to succeed. Then they complain that money making schemes don’t work. This is like buying a car, sitting in it for a couple of hours with the key in your pocket, saying it doesn’t work, buying another car, and another, and then complaining that all cars are a scam because none of them took you to Las Vegas.

In fact, all you need is to buy one good system, and do what it says. That means following every step.

Let’s just repeat: pick ONE good system that will not require much investment, and do ALL that it says. Soon you should be making a little money, and then more and more.

There is a maze of information online but if you focus in this way you can steadily grow your income until it beats your expenses. Continue, and you should find that you now know exactly how to make money from a work at home business.

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by Rosie Cottis

In this Renegade Network Marketer review, Ann Sieg’s controversial ebook is exposed so that you can see if and how it can benefit you.

What is the greatest problem for most new MLMers in the crucial first three months of their business? I’ll tell you - it’s cashflow. There’s always too much money going out and not enough coming in.

Many people are drawn into a business opportunity by seeing examples of fabulous wealth but when they sign up, they quickly find out that building a successful business takes time. Around 90% of new recruits will drop out in the first 3 months and it is usually because they have not yet covered their start up costs.

You need some cash to start off in most network marketing companies, even if you are working from home with minimal overheads. The set up costs may include a joining fee, supplies, stationery etc. Then there are the ongoing monthly costs: autoshipping or membership, plus your phone calls, gasoline etc. In the first 3 months, you are still learning the business and may not recruit many if any of your prospects. Because of this, most new distributors who are ‘following the plan’ find they are hundreds or thousands of dollars in the red.

Ann Sieg’s system set out in ‘The Renegade Network Marketer’ shows you how to build income on the front end while you are settling into your business. She holds nothing back as she exposes tired old network marketing myths which many uplines are still repeating to their new recruits today - are you guilty of this yourself?

What are these myths? ‘There’s no selling’ … ‘Everybody is your prospect’ … ‘Use the warm market’ … ‘You need more motivation’ … and lots more!

I started reading the ebook with some doubts even though deep down I knew that what I have been told about how to operate in network marketing is often very out of date. I thought this might be another case of MLM bashing which makes me uncomfortable. However, Ann takes a very positive attitude, exposing the old but replacing it with her own tried and true methods that have brought her huge success in network marketing after a very shaky start.

‘The Renegade Network Marketer’ is sharp and concise. Ann never beats about the bush and even shows how it is possible to make money in network marketing without sponsoring anyone into your main business. She saves the best for last, outlining a clear blueprint for success in the final chapters. On the practical side, you get free membership in the Renegade System where you can put what you have read into practice right away.

Some old style MLMers are probably offended by ‘The Renegade Network Marketer’. Well, maybe they are doing fine without it. But most people are not. If the old way is not working for you and you are ready for a change, take a look. Just click on the link in the next paragraph to take the next step from this Renegade Network Marketer review.

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