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Reporter vs Expert - Why Most Bloggers Are Stuck Reporting

2010-04-16T14:34:00.003+01:00

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it's hard for reporters to become experts, but it's easy for experts to report).
If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I'll be frank; you want to be the expert.
Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven't established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it's easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.
Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There's nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it's a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don't Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a guru (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it's next to impossible to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it's fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It's a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let's face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven't spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people's work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It's okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it's fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there's. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don't regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don't do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don't leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of�well fear.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven't much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from scratch, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it's okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that's all most experts really are.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

To get more information about Blog Mastermind Click this link

14 Ways To Get Your Site Visitors Email Address

2010-04-16T13:19:00.006+01:00

There are so many people who are missing out of the opportinity of a life time.
What did they do?
The question is, what did they not do.
They allow traffic to their sites go untapped.
This alone is the nemesis to many newbie marketers.
The is the well known secret to many great internet marketers.
They ask for the visitors email.
I have had some student say they are getting very little results, well I suggest improvise. There are many ways you can do this.
Here are some 14 surefire ways you can go about this, and if properly done can be of immerse value to you and your business for life
Enjoy.
1. Ask visitors to subscribe to your e-zine. It's a good idea to also give them a freebie when they subscribe.
2. Have them sign-up to get access to download a free ebook. The subject of the ebook should be related to your target audience.
3. Give your visitors a free membership inside your member's only web site. Have them sign-up to receive a user name and password. .
4. Hold a free contest or sweepstakes at your web site. Ask them to give you their contact information to enter.
5. Offer your visitors free consulting via e-mail. Have them fill out a web form to e-mail you with their questions.
6. Hold an interactive poll on your web site. Ask your visitors to e-mail you their vote or opinion.
7. Ask your visitors to sign-up for a chance to get a web site award. Have them e-mail you their contact and web site information.
8. Have visitors fill out a survey on your web site. Give them a free gift as an incentive to complete the form.
9. Offer a free online service from your web site. Have visitors fill out their contact information to sign-up to the free service.
10. Ask visitors to sign your guest book. Tell them they will get a free gift in return.
11. Offer a free affiliate program for your visitors. They will have to sign-up in order to receive marketing materials and commissions.
12. Allow visitors to submit a free classified ad on your web site. Require them to give a valid e-mail address in order to post an ad.
13. Give people who visit your web site a free course sent via autoresponder. Just ask them to fill out their contact information to receive the free
course.
14. Offer your visitors free software to download. Have them sign-up to get an access code to unlock the software.
Hope you see how this can be a pecking and easy stuff! Go implement.
Meanwhile you can have this Ebook for more detail.
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How to Make Money online? Then Don’t Listen to The Gurus.

2010-02-19T16:41:00.004+01:00

I know this post will raise some eyebrows and I may receive some knocks for this, but what I really care about know is the truth and helping fellow internet marketers who has been struggling online from time to time only to be fleeced by the so called gurus who main duty is to hype sell and sell and recycle the same methods with different names.
At first all I did was to listen and follow the gurus. I bought a lot of materials and tried all I could but no way. I did all I was told. But I found out some of the gurus advice though ok was too advanced for a beginner like me. The gurus love to complicate simple process; they give simplicity another name by using vocabularies just to advertise their expertise in their field. This I don’t argue is good, but my friend I am not making money online.
Who is this post targeted at?
First of all, if you've struggled with getting your online business up and running and things are getting tough by the day and “information overload” please take this post and the advice I will be sharing with you at heart you have just started online and you don’t want to waste too much time drifting to nothingness, I have observed that the gurus sell us the wrong roadmaps so that we can continue to feed them fat from our ignorance and frustration, so we always come back to them for the latest fad. Whereas all along nothing new is happening just another form of the basic principles.
As the day and night remains winter and summer will never cease, the sun will always rise from the east, nothing new.

I learnt that the gurus are regular people who have learned the basics and perfected them. But instead of advising you to follow the basics they compounded it. The gurus make you believe you can make six figure dollars in a year! Worse still in a month! Then you are fire up and get the e-book, software and CDs, after trying for some time you realise it’s a dream. Yes a long term dream, what the guru didn’t say is that there is a process and the process takes time.

Forget making six figures in a month even in a year if you want to be successful online. Aim at the stars but forget hitting it in your first effort. What makes you a millionaire is not the million dollars you have in your account, but the person you become while making the millions. If you pass through a process to your millions you can replicate that process at any time. And that is the idea.
It's not the first $100,000 - it's the first $1. It's not a 10,000 mail list. It's a list that grows one PERSON at a time, day in and day out. It is a process that works, it produces result, and it’s been tested over time.

The big problem I have with the gurus is that their solutions for making money online can only be use by fellow gurus like them; this completely makes sense as they are now living the guru lives. They have the list, they have the money for testing, resources to outsource and can even have JVs before lunches and get most of these e-books for free to try it first and endorse, they are easily accepted into Cpa networks unlike the regular guy, who is 99% trying to make a dime online.

As the economy condition of the world is facing great challenges many are having a second look at the online business.
Don’t get me wrong the gurus have and will always help to advance the frontiers of internet marketing. What I am advocating in this post is that as a newbie or a struggler what you need is not the so called advance tactics but the first success practical steps not following the guru’s ways of marketing, looking at the basics and following after them.

Instead of copying the gurus, there are basic system that are incremental and don’t change, they are not sexy and flashy as the gurus portray but they work every day.
These are systems that work for REGULAR people. People who want to make money online, but don't want to spend years and years trying to become a guru.
You don't need to work harder. You need to work SMARTER.
Create a SIMPLE system. Then build on it slowly. There's no such thing as "get rich quick". But with the internet, there IS such a thing as "get rich relatively quick..."

Just focus on starting with 1 subscriber and building it a bit each day. And it
will amaze you how quickly your income will grow once you go back to the basics and keep things SIMPLE.
Albert Einstein the greatest scientist of the 20th century defined Insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The bottom-line is: how bad do you want to change your life? Are you willing to try something different, even if it's not sexy and doesn't promise overnight riches?
I think the writing is on the wall. If you're like most people I've spoken to, you've probably been trying to build an online business for many months (and in some cases, years) with almost NOTHING to show for your efforts...

But all that can change right now! Just follow the basics!

So that brings me to the question in your mind, what are the basics?
Good question.
Here they are:
1. Squeeze Page – A must have. Build the list.
2. Free Gift – Give value to your list and others
3. Build relationship – bond with your list and be involve with them
4. Thank You Page-Appreciate them and create more value for them using OTO especially $1- $5 bills
5. Free Traffic Generation- get traffic easily and learn how to convert them to sales.
6. Taking action- Daily take action on your business is the trick.
7. Mentorship- Go for mentorship with someone who is really got time for you.

That is it? Yes.
Simple but deadly effective. This is all the gurus are selling with different languages, tools and brand names.

I advise you don’t spend any dime online any more for e-books (especially a newer version of a product) except you start seeing results. Only invest in mentorship, your tools for business enhancement and be expectant always. Stop your ears from the noise out there and concentrate on your work-building your online business and in months to come you could easily say like the great musician R. Kelly ‘the storm is over now….’
Follow it and you won’t be wrong.

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This MARKETER makes 759.46 per day Without Selling Anything...

2010-02-14T23:00:00.004+01:00

Hi,
I don't have much to say now as I am working on a new material that
will benefit my readers alot. But I saw something of interest to
me and thought it wise to share it with you.

It seems impossible but there's a method to getting paid
hundreds and even thousands a day...

...without selling a single thing.

It's called the *Clickbank Affiliate Loophole* and you
can see what it is here:

The clickbankaffiliate loophole

There are raving testimonies about this product and they are real.
See if you can benefit from it.
I advise you get to the site before you say any word of disbelieve.
And if you are like me you should quickly take your copy before they
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Here is the link again:

The clickbankaffiliate loophole

Go see for yourself.

later dude.

How to Make Your Subscribers Stick to You for Life

2010-02-08T16:30:00.003+01:00

Some years ago when I was a bit younger there is this uncle of mine who always likes coming to our house for dinner. He would sneak in with the pretension that he wanted to watch the news at our place, the exact time he knows we would be having dinner. At first his was a welcome development but as time went on we noticed that he was becoming more of a nuisance to us than a needed company. So we planned to put an end to his uncanny act!

Guess what we did?

We simply changed our dinner time to an earlier time and when he came and found that there was no more room for his wiles. He got the message and stopped bothering us!
Why did I tell this story? Correlation.

Yes some marketers wonder why their list is going down instead of increasing due to some subscribers de-listing from their list. This is obvious for the same reason we stopped my Uncle from coming to our house for dinner. This to many is a big problem which I will try to address in this post.

What makes subscribers stick to a list for years without thinking of delisting? Coincidence, carefree attitude of the list owner or chance? I hope you know none of this gives the right answer to this question.

I totally subscribed to the fact that the conscious effort of the list owner to create a lasting relationship with his list eventually creates a bond between them that is mutually beneficial to both parties.

I sincerely believe to be always welcome any where you need to be a value adder, a carrier of good news and a great motivator. These qualities will endear you to the minds of your subscribers and they will long to read your mails and take action on whatever advice you give.

Delisting from your list will never occur to them.
I recently had to unsubscribe from many list just for breaking these simple rules of Email marketing-giving your list value time after time.
Here are the reasons I unsubscribe from some list over the weekend and I noticed there are some list I could not click on the unsubscribed link in their mails.
Why?
These people have done 90-95% of the reasons mention below.
I also noticed some of them are ‘gurus’ and some though not gurus where playing by the rules. So it don’t really matter who you are if you can play by the rules your subscribers will still stick with you.

Now here are the reasons I de-listed from some list over the weekend:

• They were no more creating value for me. Too much hype and promotion stuff.
• Some of them have not positioned themselves in my mind as someone who is serious or an expert that knows what they are doing.
• They were not consistent in their mailing. Some last sent me a mail 3months ago!
• Did not build a relationship with me. Did not make a effort to connect with me.
• Were not sending good stuffs, only sent junks or poor materials or recycle news on the net.
• Not try to be caring and did not really show signs to help or assist in any form
• Be truthful and be simple. Show some mastering, expertise to display at what you do
• Seems to be promoting old stuff and methods not relevant in today marketing techniques.
• Not seeking out great JV partnership, which builds your reputation online
• Video marketing is very persuasive I easily bond with marketers who use it to communicate with me.
• I stayed subscribed with those who asked me to email them at any time and when I did they replied my email.
• I kept those who consistently sent me their own e-books either for free or for a fee.
• I kept those who are recognised as gurus in the niches I am operating in and they have proved it.
• Those whose main job of sending me mails was centre on promotion, I discarded them.
• I kept those who are teachers/ trainers, this you can easily tell through their blogs or emails

So I kept those who I knew are a continuous value adder to me. And if you want your list to do the same to you find a way to implement the above for your list. Working on your list from time to time has a long term rewards, believe me.

As the saying goes good radiance to bad rub…..

Have fun and share around.

46 Things a Great Headline Will Do for You

2010-02-03T09:56:00.004+01:00

A great headline could do so many things for you if you will take the time to write it. A great headline does not just come by; you need to invest time and attention to it. The headline is the only part of your copy or content that your readers has to see if they come across your way through any print media, so its like your PR image maker. So I will advice you invest in it. Here are some 46 things your headline will do for you. These are not by any means exhaustive.

1. Your headlines are attention grabbers for your content
2. They increase traffic to your site
3. You can become an expert for copywriting
4. Helps you gain followers and subscribers
5. They reveal the benefits of your product
6. They provoke your readers to taking action
7. It can summarize your content such that the reader knows what to expect
8. Reveals your promise to the readers
9. It’s a key element in making your marketing a success
10. Reveals what people loves, what their passion is all about at the moment
11. It can reveal the present trend in a particular niche
12. Help you to use space, time and effort
13. It can be use to create a trend
14. Can be a great link to an affiliate page
15. Can help you make more cash easily
16. You can talk to a large crowd of people who may not read your content
17. A good headline will reveal a testimony for you
18. It helps to show what others think about you, your product etc
19. People are attracted to stability, use your headlines to create one for them
20. Headline can be a call to action for the readers to do something
21. Your headline can help in making your readers want to interact with you
22. It can reveal your intentions as a writer
23. It can be a pointer to a particular direction for your readers
24. Can deter your readers from opening the page or arouse curiosity
25. Can help to announce an exciting news or something of high interest to your readers
26. It helps to reveal who you are targeting-your audience
27. Your headlines can create credibility for you
28. Help you present an irresistible offer
29. It can be use to pre-qualify your readers, so eliminating those who will may not benefit from your content
30. Can present you as an authority in your field
31. Can caused an implied effect that can lead to a caused-effect relationship
32. Leads to high search engine indexing, and SEO rankings
33. Can make your readers to like you and increase your likeability in your niche
34. Tells the language of your audience
35. Place you in the minds of your readers who may forget your content but not the headline.
36. Reveals the keywords the writer is targeting
37. As an expert in headlines copy, you can create lots of products from it
38. Helps the writer to think on its content and remain focus
39. Helps you as a writer to write quickly, as it serves as a source of ideas
40. Create an appeal to vanity, opinions, emotions etc
41. Can create a dream, fantasy with your headlines
42. Can create a social proof for the writer
43. It will help you in understanding human nature better
44. Can be use as a brand to propagate your marketing campaigns
45. They can be repeated and reuse all over again
46. A great headline sells like hot cake.

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How to Convert Your Content to Cash

2010-02-02T12:57:00.002+01:00

At times new comers to the internet marketing business struggle to make a living online, it becomes a thing that most becomes desperate and others frustrated. Especially if using the content marketing avenue.
Many ask how I convert my content to cash.
Well the answer lies within the writer.

You need to find a way to get to the heart of your readers and let them like you and trust you. Show them that you are after their interest; if that is settled you easily make sales from them. Remember if they are not buying from you they are buying from someone else.
I will try to give some suggestions on how to convert your content to cash.

1. Reward your Readers Always
This seems obvious but not practised. Each time they receive an email from you let them be glad they did. Let they rush to open your mails or click to the sites you are referring them to. Why will they do this?
You reward them always. You surprise them.

You can do this by:
a. By solving a need that they might have presently
b. By entertaining them
c. By giving them suggestions to carry out that will increase their confidence
d. By granting them access to you
e. By making cookies for them- giving them what they really need and want

If this is done consistently it will create a bond between you and your readers and many will like to subscribe to you. And follow your tweets and leads.

2. Show your self as a friend and an expert
People don’t love expert who are not friendly. They believe they are pompous and they hardly learn from them. That is why you probably didn’t like your Math teacher, he knew the subject quite alright but he was not friendly. He was imposing; he didn’t let you learn at your pace he was using the school’s calendar. Well he may be right because he has a lot of ground to cover.
But in real life if you need to make impact you need to first be a friend. Show some understanding to your readers. Empathise with them and admit weakness if there is a place for one that will encourage them to aspire to continue. Don’t give them you are too dumb attitude.

Never claim to be a guru let them call you by that. Let them know where your loyalty lies- the money or their progress.
When people see they are making progress from your advice they will stand to be counted when you suggest an e-book or software that will help them the more. We buy things from those we know and trust.

3. Tell first and Sell later
This principle is the secret of great marketers. They tell you a lovely story first and when they see you are hooked they smartly introduced their product to you and before long you have purchased from them and keep ordering for more.
Don’t try to sell in your first mails, keep your sales skills at bay!
First create a relationship. Tell stories that will lead to your final product introduction. Do a romance with your readers; court them with words of confidence and interest. Point them to great materials and sites. Easily tell them to ask you questions and do try to answers promptly.
Then as you introduce your product tell them the benefits they stand to gain. Tell them how the product has helped you and others you know. Be truthful. Never, ever promote what you don’t trust! form here you can make sales easily. See how phillip mansour uses this to make sales in Banner ad Blueprint.
Give a clear call to action. Tell them what to do. Here is where I see many lose it. They never tell their client what to do next. I noticed people love to follow. They love to be told what to do. So tell them where to click. Tell them what to buy, tell them the guarantees involved in buying that product, and assure them that you will personally give them the money back if the product doesn’t do what it claims to do. You need to be savvy but don’t over sell. Readers hate it when all you do is to sell.
Use your content to build this kind of relationship, and then you can confidently ask for the sale.
Never be afraid to ask when you have the relationship. As someone wisely said you cannot make a withdrawal where you haven made a deposit!

So here you are. What are you going to do with this information?
Apply it or let it slip by? I suggest you make out a plan to see how you implement this promptly then you will likely make your online story a successful one, for knowledge not applied quickly slips away.
Go see if you can build great relationships from your list today.

Happy list building.

The Most Important Thing in Online Business.

2010-01-29T13:31:00.003+01:00

There are many arguments on what is most important to do in Internet marketing. Many ramblings and suggestions flying everywhere on the net. To me, what is important is important as the person who is doing the task . What I believe most IM don’t do is to prioritize their efforts.

• Having a great
• squeeze page
• a great sales copy
• a powerful product
• great content blog
• swift marketing

All these are very important in their own way
What many Newbie don’t do is to know what to do at each moment and do it very well.
That leads me to the most important thing in IM.

FOCUS.

Yes you heard me right.
Focusing on a thing per time will bring you great success as you are able to channel all your energies at a given direction and this has a way in producing great result.
Stop trying to do everything at the same time.
Stop pursuing different niches all at once, it will dissipate your energy and break your will to be effective.

So how can you be focus?

• Outline your tasks.
• Prioritize them according to your intended goals.
• plan on paper all you will need to accomplish this task; contacts,
resources, find a way to make sure all is set to help you accomplish this
task.
• Place a time tag on each task and commit to follow through.
• Find a way to measure your progress to ascertain how you are doing.
• Be accountable to someone or a group of people. I will advise you join a
mastermind group, if you can.
• If you are losing focus, find something to encourage yourself with.
• List the rewards you and those that might benefit if you accomplish this
task.
• Look ahead towards the rewards if you accomplished this task.

Then…

Give yourself a pat on the back if you did accomplish the task.
Then repeat the same process for the next task.

Oh, you may be saying this don’t just work for me.

Why?

It could be that you are getting distracted. This is very common if you want to do something worthwhile.
I suggest you don’t whine and give up, if many lazy people I know are doing this, you could fare better.
Let’s see if I could help with some suggestions. Ok let’s see what we have here.
Hmmmmm….

How to avoid distractions
-shut out all unplanned activities, be mean about this!
-go to a place where you are likely not to be distracted
-put off that TV!
-set a timeline to every task you attempt with details
-have some liquid around you for proper memory alertness. This will sure help, trust me.

So there you go. Go ahead and set a task to accomplish this week.
Follow this plan, you will be shocked how much you have accomplish at the end of the day.
Remember take on a task that you can finished in a reasonable time for that task. Don’t take on more than you can chew per time. This can be frustrating and energy sapping.
Enough of talking lets go take some action. Later dude.

Take care.

How to Get Ideas for Niche Topics

2009-11-06T10:32:00.000+01:00

When I decide it’s time to look for a new profitable niche, here’s how I get ideas…I watch TV!

#1: Watch the News!

Turn on your local news channel and CNN and keep your eyes and ears open. Focus on ALL the stories, not just the news items — pay attention to sports (especially controversies), health features, entertainment news, technology and gadgets, human interest…everything!

If you can find some twist or angle in the media that can be tied in with a niche you’re interested in, you can be pretty sure there will be traffic to that niche and readers for your articles!

Also remember that “news” doesn’t have to mean just the headlines of the hour. The results of product tests or research, new product announcements, new techniques, new research results, offbeat or crazy new ideas — all these can be labeled “news.”

You can also use Google’s New Alerts service to get fast news links based on keywords.

Go to http://www.google.com/alerts to sign up.

#2: Watch the Talk Shows

All those funny, weird, interesting or controversial talk show hosts who spin opinions on everything under the sun are a great source of ideas. All Oprah has to do is mention a product or a topic on her show and millions of people are searching for it!

Trust me, watch Oprah’s recommendations and guest names. The search volumes on those skyrocket the day of — and the day after — they appear on the show.

#3: Watch “Niche News” Shows

You can get a lot of great ideas from those entertainment and celebrity news shows, financial news reports, business news segments, and technology news shows. Remember that you’re looking for a way to take something “newsy” and tie it in with your niche.

#4: Watch Infomercials!

It’s 2:00 a.m. and you can’t sleep? Do some niche research by watching infomercials! If a product developer is paying to promote their gadget, weight loss system, self-help system, etc. on TV, then there’s a very good chance of it being a good niche.

And sometimes the products on infomercials have an affiliate program, which is great. You can then write articles that are direct reviews of the product. These types of review articles usually have the highest conversions.

As you watch TV, start making a flat list of ideas, like this:

-Acne
-Wrinkle removal
-Skin care
-Botox
-Scar treatments

So go out there and find some profitable niches for yourself. I will discuss how to get to the front page of goggle next time.

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Great Books for Bloggers & Serious Business Owners 2

2009-09-30T10:41:00.001+01:00

Hi,
I recently came across some great books, which will be helpful for a bloggers. If you are serious about making a living through blog business, you should have at least one of these, having 2-3 will be the best. Make your choice and apply the great lessons contains.

Here are the books.

Blogging Books

Blog Marketing
Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers
The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right
Blogwild!: A Guide for Small Business Blogging
Blogging for Business: Everything You Need to Know and Why You Should Care
Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))
Money For Content and Your Clicks For Free: Turning Web Sites, Blogs, and Podcasts Into Cash

I will add some more. Just come by and get quality materials here.

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Great Books for Bloggers and Serious Business Owners

2009-09-25T12:56:00.005+01:00

Great books are the separating factor between winners and losers. And to be successful on the net you need to make good investment on great books, they stretch your imagination and produce unparallel ideas source that cannot be gotten elsewhere.

The following post is a list of books that would be helpful for bloggers - particularly those wishing to make a business from their blogging activities, also for serious business people out there.
These are great collections that will help you a great deal in accelerating your blog or other website success.
The topics in the list are quite wide and cover a range of topics including marketing, creative thinking, web development, other business topics as well as a few blog specific books. They are in categories -All books are linked to Amazon.

BUSINESS BOOKS
The Art of War: The oldest military treatise in the world
Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
Power of An Hour: Business and Life Mastery in One Hour A Week
An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths

I will be adding more great books from time to time.

Do check them out as they are great resources for inspiration.

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Marketing on the Fringe--The Web Site Traffic Solution You've Been Searching For

2009-09-25T11:35:00.003+01:00

Web site traffic is the life's blood of any online business. If you get no traffic you will get no sales and your business will soon be in the tank. Getting a steady stream of targeted traffic is a challenge that some of the most experienced online entrepreneurs continues to struggle with but take heart. You are about to learn about an exciting, new traffic course that will shatter all of your out-dated ideas about traffic generation.

The Marketing on the Fringe System has been designed and tested by Bill McRea, who has been successfully marketing online for over ten years now. Bill has proven that these traffic building methods have worked for him as he developed his Internet business and formidable reputation in the Internet marketing industry. He now wants to make this vital information available to you because he is tired of watching people struggle and waste a lot of time on out-dated traffic techniques that no longer cut it.

Using a wide assortment of Internet tools including, blogs, Squidoo lenses, video sharing sites and more, Marketing on the Fringe includes comprehensive video tutorials that will take you step-by-step through the process of developing easy to implement, automated traffic generating machines. Additionally, the eBooks and audio guides are full of actionable information that you can put to use immediately to start attracting visitors to your site who are looking for what you have to offer.
Get the Step by step system here.
A rather unique aspect of this course is that Bill will not only reveal how you can succeed today using this specific set of tools and strategies, but he shares inside information about who you should be keeping an eye on, and where you should be looking in order to stay up-to-date on industry trends.

Since solid SEO practices simply cannot be ignored, it will be covered in this course, but the greater emphasis will be on imparting an integrated approach to generating traffic, which you can then duplicate over and over for all of your web sites and blogs.

You've been searching for a comprehensive web site traffic solution, and now you have found one. Once you have your automated traffic machines set up you will soon be channeling multiple streams of traffic to your sites with no more burning the midnight oil at your computer.
One of the benefits of learning from a true SEO 'ninja' like Bill McRea is that he knows all of the tricks and tactics, but he will show you how to wield them legitimately in order to gain an unfair advantage over your competitors. Make use of these cutting-edge techniques to catapult your site to the top of the search engine rankings long before they get hold of them.

Remember, the more traffic you get the more money you make. It's just that simple. Once you have solved your traffic dilemma for good, your time and energy will be freed up to develop more products and provide more services for your valued customers. Learn from a master of traffic generation how to kiss costly PPC campaigns good-bye and develop your own free traffic

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The 7 traffic Secrets of Million-dollars Affiliates

2009-09-22T21:45:00.002+01:00

If you want to learn about the 7 traffic secrets of million dollar affiliates then read this article all the way to the end.
In this article, I'll cover how they optimize for search engines, do joint venture marketing, and they understanding of the market.
After this article, you should be able to they earn 6 figures yearly as an affiliate and do this easily. 1. They optimize for search engines
This is the number one traffic secrets of million dollar affiliates. They love the search engines. They couldn't even survive without optimizing their sites and contents for search engines.

2. They do popularity linking,
Through popularity linking they get lots of back-links and tons of page rank for their sites. They exchange links which different site, especially sites with high traffic and value content.

3. They write targeted keyword articles
This is quite obvious. These articles bring in lots of traffic for them for years to come. 4. They do joint venture marketing
Million dollar affiliate knows how to do joint venture marketing. they do this to help them quickly leverage on the other peoples list to achieve and earn 6 figures yearly as an affiliate and they do this easily.

They join affiliate networks as a merchant.

They build various lists of subscribers and buyers.

Understanding the market is a huge part of getting the 7 traffic secrets of million dollar affiliates. They create values first as an authority.
They also outsource part of their traffic generation.

Conclusion: the 7 traffic secrets above are very simple and use greatly by million dollars affiliates. You can also tap into this great secret and make you 6 figures income yearly.

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How to Earn More Money from Home with Affiliate Programs

2009-09-19T06:23:00.000+01:00

Ever wanted to learn about how to earn more money from home with affiliate programs? Then sit back and relax, because you're in the right place.
In fact, I'll be telling you about earning money with affiliate programs which is real and big, how to make money as an affiliate, and how can also receive commission base on sales as high as 50% and above. Once I've gone through everything you should be able to earn additional income from home by joining affiliate programs.
Earning money with affiliate programs is real and big is essential to multiple source of income. To start with, you need to find a company that has valuable product and services to sell. Then go research a niche and join high converting products. Both starting with a company that has valuable product and services to sell and research a niche can make us some money as an affiliate.
Earning additional income from home by joining affiliate programs is catching on fast. To do this better display adverts on your site, refer visitors to the company and they pay you per lead is also good. Both displaying adverts on your site and referring visitors to the company are great payment strategies.
Also you can receive commission base on sales as high as 50% and above. Please dont chose any program that is non-converting and choosing both low and high priced affiliate programs are important and some of these programs are high converting.

In Conclusion, how to earn more money from home with affiliate programs is possible just apply the tips shared in these articles and you will be ok.
So now get out there and start earning additional income from home today by joining affiliate programs..

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My challenge: Can you Define your Online Marketing Success?

2009-09-15T10:53:00.001+01:00

Success is a relative term for all men. What is success to some is not to another.
If you don’t define this parameter you may be following the wrong things online.
The internet is like a big ocean; so many things to follow and you got to choose what you want else you will be drifting far from success.

What do you think will be your online success point?
For some it’s making dollars (major point for many)
A beautiful website?
Lots of traffic daily?
Fulfillment in adding value to others
A great renowned blogger?
Launching your own product?
Creating your first video and pasting on Youtube?
Making a consistent sales of 5 figures monthly
Having your own forum?
Making your first $5000 online?
Ability to design your own web sites without outsourcing them?
Creating your first software? etc

Whatever it is, I advise you to define it now. And share it with whoever cares to listen.
If you do this singular factor well, it can stand you out in the crowded online world. It will become a brand name for you, which in itself create authority for you in that area.

Also I will also advise that you give your success point a time line for it to propel you to work hard. Tell people this is what I want to do in 3/6/9/12 months time, it creates what we call lifting power( power to do), as others will be reminding you and watching out for this success point and it can become your logo online e.g. if we call the name Ewen Chia, SAW comes to mind. (Secret Affiliate Weapon).
After you achieve this, create another in that same direction until you become a master in that field.

To succeed and grow fast in this crowded business, you need to;
Become a master at something! And know a bit of others.

Here is my next success point,
I want to rank #1 or #2 for 7 of my sites in Google and Yahoo search engines in 3 very profitable niches in the next 90 days.
Tall order? Hmm... Yet achievable.
I am on my way there; just a matter of time.

My challenge to you is do you have a defining success point? If yes be bold to share it here and see the wonders it will proper in you to become effective in your efforts.
If this is your first time here, go ahead and tell us what you will go out and do in the next 7days e.g. open a free website like blogger or wordpress, etc.

In life, until you define it, you can’t get it. It is the law of Essence,
Super affiliates use this all the time.
So what is yours?
Go ahead and Share it here.

Have fun in your efforts,

Discover The Secret To Website Flipping!

2009-09-12T05:58:00.003+01:00

Hey Friend,
If this video is gone before you get there I'm sorrybut I had to try and get you a chance to see it sinceyou are a loyal reader...
watch this video now and claim your benefit
The video is about website flipping and it may besomething you never heard of before but average people are quietly making $500 - $700 per saledoing this.

just like real estate except without all the bigexpenses, complicated laws, and licensing stuff.
Since it's digital you can get started for less then$50 and Justin Brooke (guy in the video) teachesyou how to turn that into as much as $5,000 in30 days or less.

There are over 33 different products talking aboutthis method and every 7 days over $250,000 in websitesales is exchanged in the marketplaces. In fact it'sthe only make money online system I've ever seenwhere there are actually overnight success stories.
Justin & his wife have flipped over $100,000 worthof their own websites and are the foremost expertson this business model.

Go watch their video now before it's gone...watch this video now and claim your dollars

You'll Learn How To:
- Build & Sell Blogs For Hundreds Of Dollars Every DayEven If They Have No Traffic Or Income
- Build & Sell Membership Sites For Over $3,000 EvenIf They Have Very Little Subscribers In Them
- Use Already Made Websites With Products AlreadyCreated So You Can Flip Websites Without Ever HavingTo Learn How To Build A Website!!!

This is a proven business model that has just gone unnoticedby most people because of "gurus" with other agenda's.
If you want to have the best holiday season of your life...
If you want to replace your job and work from home...
If you want to take long vacations...

Then go watch Justin's video now before it's too late...
This is red Hot now as people are claiming theirs

Best Wishes,
Dan Ohis

7 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog

2009-09-11T18:54:00.001+01:00

by Anik Singal

You’ve put a lot of work into your blog, spending time updating and enhancing it every day. Unfortunately, without a steady stream of traffic, its all for not. Use these seven tips to get more traffic to your blog.

1) Do your SEO and keyword research homework. Make sure the HTML of your site is search engine friendly. Here’s a basic search engine optimization checklist:
• Do your post titles have appropriate keywords?
• Do your anchor links have keywords in them? Using “here” as a link is a missed opportunity.
• Does your domain name include a primary keyword?

2) Submit your site to the 1st and 2nd tier engines like Google, Yahoo, Dmoz, MSN and Looksmart, and to the blog directories. Here’s a short list of sites that offer free blog listings:

Blog Search http://www.blog-search.com/blogclicker-submission.html

Technorati http://www.technorati.com/

Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/

Blogdex http://blogdex.net/

Blogwise http://www.blogwise.com/

WeBlogALot http://www.weblogalot.com/

Globe of Blogs http://www.globeofblogs.com/

BlogHop http://www.bloghop.com/

Blogarama http://www.blogarama.com/

3) Ping like you mean it. This is a way for you to raise your hand to the blog trackers when you’ve posted new content. You can do it site by site at places like Technorati, or go to Ping-o-matic (http://pingomatic.com/) and mass-ping your blog to over 20 sites. Make sure your blog is set up to ping the appropriate sites every time you publish a post.

4) Feed your RSS. Make sure your blog has one and that it’s working. An RSS feed is a bit of XML that allows your blog to push content to RSS readers. That way people don’t have to visit your site to get your latest insights – they just open their RSS reader and read the news. If your blog is at Blogger.com, don’t worry about an RSS feed – its already been created for you. If you’re not at Blogger.com and your current blog doesn’t have RSS functionality, visit Feedcraft.com and sign up for their free service that will set up an RSS feed from any website (blog or not).

5) Swap links. Make a list of relevant sites you’d love to link to your blog. Write them a short friendly note and offer to let them use a few of your posts as content on their site in exchange for a link back to your site. Also, link to their sites from within one of your posts. Be sure to offer to exchange links in the links section of your blog. Most blog software programs offer this. There are also sites that special in helping bloggers swap links. Web Log Empire (http://www.weblogempire.com/) is a large one. If you’re willing to pay for a link to your site, check out Text-Link-Ads (http://www.text-link-ads.com/)

6) Be part of the blogging community. Go to other blog sites you admire. Contribute to their blogs in ways that add real value. Write good, thoughtful comments that are content rich. Give away what you know. Do it a lot – at least 3 posts a week. Over time you’ll become recognized as someone who has something worthwhile to say. As your reputation grows, people will seek out your blog. This is not an overnight process, but by paying your dues and building an audience you are positioning yourself to become a star. Additionally, if your site doesn’t have the functionality for visitors to add comments, Haloscan (http://www.haloscan.com/) is a free service that will let them do so. It also allows for “trackbacking”, which is a way to manage pings.

7) Write your blog! Put everything you’ve got into it. Make it great! Post as frequently as you can. The search engines will note frequent postings. A blog that has a new post every day is obviously more active – and important – than a blog that was set up in 2003, has 4 posts, and has been dead since 2004. To really make your blog get noticed you’ll need to post at least 2-3 times a week.

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This Post is by Anik Singal, an extremely successful
young internet entrepreneur and affiliate marketing consultant.
Anik has developed his own affiliate marketing system
that helped him earn over $10,466 in 60 days. Enroll in his
free course today... http://Affiliateclassroom.com

Here are 7 Reasons Why You Probably Suck at Making Money with Your Site

2009-09-10T15:52:00.003+01:00

Reason 1: You don't take action.
If you're like most people, you spend all your time on stuff that's NOT IMPORTANT, and never focus on the things that will IMMEDIATELY MAKE YOU MONEY.
You're too busy procrastinating, coming up with excuses, or watching "American Idol" reruns while eating your frozen TV dinners.
It's sad, really.
One of the reasons few internet marketers are very rich and you're not
is because they don't put up with any crap. They take
action and get things done, before cruising
around in their Ferrari. But most affiliates don’t do enough before relaxing to enjoy their crumbs!

Reason 2: You don't understand marketing.
You can make millions of dollars online without ever "selling" anything. But you still need to understand certain principles of marketing. You need to understand the secrets for getting people to reach into their wallets, take out
their money, and hand it over to you.
If you don't learn this skill, you'll be cutting out coupons and shopping at
Wal-Mart for the rest of your life. For websites that have made millions of dollars online they've always used simple marketing approach. Their marketing systems works like crazy EVERY SINGLE TIME. And it's very easy to use. You must find a marketing system that works.

Reason 3: You don't have the resources.
There's an old saying that "It takes money to make money." Well not totally true, because when it comes to getting rich online, that saying is complete Gag. You don't need inventory, you don't need expensive overhead, and you don't need an office. Because all you're really doing is selling "air". Hope is what you are selling.
But even though you don't need money to make it, you do need certain "resources". You need to know WHERE TO GO and WHO TO USE for your various business needs.
For example, do you know where to go to instantly
get incoming links with high page ranks? Do you know which pay-per-click websites (besides Google and Yahoo) you can use to get qualified visitors for cheap?
Do you know which software to use to automate your business?

It takes awhile to figure this stuff out... unless you can find someone who has ALREADY figured it out. And that someone can be a coach/mentor who you need to pay to get Access to these resources, which will cause the desire change you desire,
Do you do this?

Reason 4: This is your first time.
Have you ever made more than a million dollars with one website? Or with all your sites and blog put together?
I didn't think so.
What they say is true: The first million is always the hardest to make. But when you make it first time, it’s become so easy to make millions. But it is doable as many serious internet marketers are doing this. Although just probably 2% of the them,

Reason 5: You buy into Crap!
Ever seen those "mega" how-to courses with all the shiny DVDs, workbooks, audio CDs, and all that other crap?
It's all junk!
Don't waste your time with it. Making money online isn't so hard that you need to listen to some boring marketer ramble on about it for 50 hours.
Wouldn't you rather be able to sit down, quickly get all the strategies and techniques you need, and then start making money IMMEDIATELY?
That's what I thought.
And that's why you need to select the content you read.
Don’t waste your time with anything that won't quickly increase your bottom line. Period. Invest in quality products. I agree they are hard to find, do your due diligence and you will find them in the marketplace. I will be recommending some for your delight.
See below for some cool products.

Reason 6: You don't know the shortcuts.
The nice thing about the Internet is there are
so many SHORTCUTS you can use to make money. For
instance, here are some of the tricks you'll
learn with these product links below:

# How to make money from your FREE website.

# How to make a killing even if you have no
website, and no clue how to make one.

# How to use Google Adwords to advertise your
free website.

# How to use Google Adsense to make even more
money from your free website.

# How to build your own list of email subscribers
and how to send them other offers that earn you
money automatically.

# How to be # 1 ranking website in Google
for years, for competitive terms such as “bad credit”

# How to create your own e-book in just 2 days
with ZERO costs, and how to sell it online.

# How to get affiliates to promote your e-book.
# How to use Cpa networks to promote your products

# How to create your own eBay Power-seller business.

# Examples of websites
that have made millions that you can copy and paste.

Once you learn this stuff, making money online is about as difficult as taking a test with the answer key in front of you. Of course, I'm sure you'll still find a way to screw it up. Please prove me wrong!

Reason 7: You don't listen to good advice.
Millions of dollars online yearly is possible. Do the right thing and get into the club. Until you spend some dollars you are likely not to take your online business very serious. All humans are the same. See what you do when your money is involved!

Don't believe me?
Well that is why I said you don’t listen to good advice. If you think someone else can do a better job of showing you how to make money on the Internet,
then I suggest you put down the crack pipe. And listen to me.

So quit being among the 90% that are just struggling to made a dime online and go get any of these products now. You will thank me later.

I can think of a dozen more reasons why you probably don’t make money with your site/blog, but frankly I'm tired.

I think I'll go get a massage... all that typing sure was hard work.

Here are the links, Go get them:
1. Recommendation 1. Click Here
2. Recommendation 2. Click Here
3. Recommendation 3. Click Here

See you soon.
Dan Ohis.

Product Review: Traffic Python

2009-09-09T15:24:00.002+01:00

Traffic Python is a new site that says it guarantees more web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost. More importantly, it promises higher CONVERSIONS--signups and sales. So I decided to put it to the test...

My first impression was the site looks professional and clean, with an attractive look and feel. It is easy to read and understand. Joining the site was easy and painless--they do offer 2 upgrade options but they are not required to gain the benefits.

The Members Area is very well laid out and intuitive--I could figure out what to do after only a few minutes and was able to get up and running in less than 5 minutes. Inside the site, you create links and ads--the links you simply enter any URL links you use into the generator and it transforms them into "Traffic Python" links. You create ads for anything you want to promote using the Traffic Python Ad Generator, which is very easy to use. You can create as many links and as many ads as you like. And they are organized in a logical way--links are displayed in the order you create them but also your 5 most recent links appear on the main page for quick reference. Also, since the link generator is the tool you'll use most, it is also right at the top of the main page when you login. Very smart!

After you've created at least 1 link and 1 ad you can start to generate traffic. Just use and promote the new Traffic Python link instead of the original source link you had. Every time the Traffic Python link is clicked, the page loads followed by a small ad window in the lower right corner. It displays 3 ads PLUS an image with your affiliate link that goes back to Traffic Python. So if anyone clicks the Traffic Python image they see the site, and if they signup they become your referral. It's a great viral feature because you can build referrals without even trying to just by using the site.

Now every time the ad window displays (your Traffic Python links get clicked) you earn credits that get YOUR ad displayed in the ad windows when other members' links get clicked. So the more clicks, the more times your ads get displayed.

And this works virally--meaning as you make referrals into Traffic Python (either by promoting it or just using it and visitors click the Traffic Python image on the ad window to join) you also earn ad credits on THEIR link clicks. And this works up to 5 levels deep. So you can create a massive amount of free ad views and web traffic by referring others to Traffic Python also.

I didn't get to test the full effect of a big downline yet (I just got the tool) but I can tell you the rest of the site works exactly as stated--my links got clicked, I earned credits, and my ads got displayed. Traffic Python even tracked my results so I know how many clicks and how many ad displays. That was an impressive unadvertised extra feature.

There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all--downline emailing. You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Traffic Python really shines. They took time to make the emailing often enough that it's valuable as a user, but no so often that it's a burden to your downline. But the best part about this feature (and actually the credit earning too) is that it tells you exactly how long until you can mail again. Now THAT's cool.

Overall I have to say I am impressed with Traffic Python. It is simple yet powerful, and delivers on its promises. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to increase traffic and advertising.

See it and join here:

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10 Ways to Sell Your Products Faster

2009-09-05T06:07:00.002+01:00

1. Give people a deadline to order. Tell people if they order by Jan 28, 2000 they will get a discount or free bonuses. This will create urgency so they don't put off buying.

2. Offer people a money back guarantee. The longer the guarantee the more effective it will be. It could be a 30 day, 60 day, 1 year, or lifetime guarantee.

3. Offer a free on-site repair service for products you sell. This is convenient for people because they won't have to send it away for repair and they won't have
to be without the product for a long period of time.

4. Publish testimonials on your ad copy. They will give your business credibility and you'll gain peoples trust. It's important to include the person’s full name
and location with the testimonial.

5. Give people free bonuses when they order your product or service. The free bonuses could be books, jewelry, reports, newsletters, etc.

6. Allow people to make money reselling the product or service.
Tell people they can join your affiliate program, if they order. You could pay them per sale, per click, per referral, etc.

7. Offer free 24 hour help with all products you sell.
Allow customers to ask you questions by e-mail, by toll free phone, by free fax, etc.

8. Provide free shipping with all orders. If you can't
afford it, you could offer free shipping on orders over a specific dollar amount.

9. Give away a free sample of your product. You will gain people's trust when you allow them to try out a free sample of your product. If they like it they won't
hesitate buying it.

10. Offer a buy one get one free deal. If you sell more than one product this type of deal works great. People will feel they are getting more for their money
and order quicker.

Quote of the Day:

"I am still learning." – Michelangelo

Enjoy ,

Dan Ohis

10 Twitters Tips for Small Business owners!

2009-09-05T05:58:00.002+01:00

Most people especially business owners don’t see the need for social media, even twitter. I too felt the same way some time ago, until recently.
Twitter is a social media where sharing, learning. Socialization and listening occurs. These are places where you follow people and you also been followed. To me it’s the place where you create your authority you become the ‘leader’ while others follows religiously.

These sites can be a great source of free traffic for business owners. Many still are lost in the twitters game; hence they stay far away, and most are frustrated as their initial dreams are all dashed. To see lots of result one needs to be patience and follow a lot of people.

Here are some 10 tips that could help in your tweeting,
1.Know the purpose of twitter. Don’t miss this. It a place to connect , learn,
listen and get inform

2. Be friendly and show some respect. Return compliments and give same.

3. Define your goals for coming to tweet.

4.Try following known faces and major people which will be suggested
automatically for you. This is a great way to catch up with what is going on and in the process you learn. These people usually has great followership

5.To talk to someone simply send a message @ the person from your homepage, it can be general or personal message. It they respond continue the thread.

6.Don’t be offended if at first no one is following you which is rare though if you follow others

7. Use your personal photo or your company logo or some very good pictures of your activity and let it be your contact point. People love to connect with the people they are dealing with.

8. Always follow others and you will be followed.

9. Using twitter search you can find those who are talking about you or your
business so that you can maximize the opportunity for you and business.

10. Never you tweet to sales page or squeeze page that will be detrimental to your twitter success.

So if you want to grow your business using social media power, There are places you can get help and please do, it will pay you 100x more.

Enjoy.

Social Media Marketing; 4 Vitals Steps to Success

2009-09-05T05:54:00.001+01:00

Social media is catching on very fast on the web and loads of people are beginning to see the marketing power contained in these social sites. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Delicious etc are getting tons of traffic daily. Majority of this people are into business but still fails to make the most out of this sites as promotional tools.

I have many techniques I use to promote products and gets lots of free traffic daily to my sites, but here are the 4 major areas I consider very important to your success online with social media.

The 4 Social Media tips for success

1. Be someone people can trust.
This is not common today, most people are not trustworthy and so if you present your self as one it will go along way to build your credibility. Be a friend; remove all form of dishonesty from you. Spread friendship to variety of people even to those below you. Be nice and generous. Connect with those you are following. Use personal names to sign up. Using dummy names and wield names don’t really come across well to many business people. Don’t be seen as anonymous

1. Have a plan and a goal;
Be strategic in your tweets and those groups you follow. Don’t just sign up for any group. Know hat you are following as it will help you develop fast. Don’t just follow people for selfish reason; always ask yourself what your goals are in participating, It will help your focus and friendliness on the community. You can make a lot out of social sites if you do it right.

2.Ask great questions
Feel free to ask question as this will lead to the answers as you should be willing to learn. Ask open ended questions which are specific and will involve deep and intelligent discussion and answers. Don’t ask mindless questions.

3. When given a referral follow it right away.
It’s a new opportunity, don’t blow it away. Don’t kill the interest of the referral treat the action with proper decorum and respect. Acting fast will help a lot.

These four categories are very major in social media success.

Enjoy.

Dan Ohis.

10 Sure-Fire Phrases That Will Increase Your Traffic

2009-09-05T05:45:00.002+01:00

1 "Bookmark This Web Site Now"
Tell your visitors to a good reason to bookmark your site. For example tell them you add new content everyday.bookmark your web site. They may see your web site listed in their bookmarks and visit again. You should
also give then
2 "Subscribe to Our Free E-zine"
Tell your visitors to subscribe to your e-zine. When they subscribe you'll
capture their e-mail address. Every time they read your e-zine, it will remind them to return to your site.

3. "Participate On Our Discussion Board"
Ask your visitors to participate on your online discussion board. By participating they will meet other people. By meeting other people, they will revisit your web site
on a regular basis to stay in contact with them.

4. "Sign Our Guestbook"
Ask your visitors to sign your guest book. When people sign your guestbook you may
get valuable feedback or constructive criticism on how to improve your web site. This may help you increase traffic to your web site.

5. "Use Our Free Content on Your Site or In Your E-zine"
Allow your visitors to use your articles on their own web site or in their e-zine. Just ask them to include your resource box. This will spread your
advertising all over the internet.

6. "Refer This/Our Web Site To A Friend"
Ask your visitors to refer your web site to a friend(s). They may know someone that would benefit from visiting your web site.

7. "Fill Out Our Online Survey"
Ask visitors to fill out your online survey or questionnaire. You could use it
to get valuable feedback on ways to improve your web site to increase traffic.

8. "Enter Our Contests"
Ask your visitors to enter your online contest or sweepstakes. People love to win stuff, and they will visit your web site to try.

9. "Give Away Our Freebie To Your Visitors"
Allow your visitors to give away your online freebies to people that visit your web site. Include your ad on the freebie and those freebies will multiply your traffic.

10 "Join Our Affiliate Program"
Allow your visitors to make money selling your products or services. This
will increase your traffic because they will link to your web site.

Quote of the Day:

"You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they
may be consecrated at the altar of daily life." -- MacRina Wiederkehr

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10 Sure-Fire Phrases That Will Increase Your Traffic

2009-09-05T05:39:00.002+01:00

1 "Bookmark This Web Site Now" Tell your visitors to
bookmark your web site. They may see your web site
listed in their bookmarks and visit again. You should
also give then a good reason to bookmark your site.
For example tell them you add new content everyday.

2 "Subscribe to Our Free E-zine" Tell your visitors to
subscribe to your e-zine. When they subscribe you'll
capture their e-mail address. Every time they read
your e-zine, it will remind them to return to your site.

3. "Participate On Our Discussion Board" Ask your
visitors to participate on your online discussion board.
By participating they will meet other people. By
meeting other people, they will revisit your web site
on a regular basis to stay in contact with them.

4. "Sign Our Guestbook" Ask your visitors to sign your
guest book. When people sign your guestbook you may
get valuable feedback or constructive criticism on how
to improve your web site. This may help you increase
traffic to your web site.

5. "Use Our Free Content on Your Site or In Your
E-zine" Allow your visitors to use your articles on
their own web site or in their e-zine. Just ask them to
include your resource box. This will spread your
advertising all over the internet.

6. "Refer This/Our Web Site To A Friend" Ask your
visitors to refer your web site to a friend(s). They may
know someone that would benefit from visiting your
web site.

7. "Fill Out Our Online Survey" Ask visitors to fill out
your online survey or questionnaire. You could use it
to get valuable feedback on ways to improve your web
site to increase traffic.

8. "Enter Our Contests" Ask your visitors to enter your
online contest or sweepstakes. People love to win stuff,
and they will visit your web site to try.

9. "Give Away Our Freebie To Your Visitors" Allow
your visitors to give away your online freebies to people
that visit your web site. Include your ad on the freebie
and those freebies will multiply your traffic.

10 "Join Our Affiliate Program" Allow your visitors to
make money selling your products or services. This
will increase your traffic because they will link to your
web site.

Quote of the Day:

"You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles,
the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they
may be consecrated at the altar of daily life." -- MacRina
Wiederkehr

Enjoy.

8 Quick Domain Naming Tricks And Tips!

2009-08-29T05:03:00.001+01:00

Choosing a domain name is one of the foremost business decisions you will have to make in your quest for having your own website on the net.

What really makes a domain name stick, special and memorable?
Is it the naming or the people behind the name, what really is in a name?
I have discovered 7 easy tricks for making your domain name stick.

1. Let your domain name be easy to remember.
Let it be very simple. Add prefix or numbers to make use of the already taken names.

2. Let it contain your primary keywords. This will help for traffic generation and people can easily get to find your site when they search for that product in search engines.

3. Let your name suggest your type of product and business.
Here if you cannot use your primary keyword as part of your domain name, then use the product or service in your domain name such that it will be easy to describe your business from your name. This help to build identity.

4. Registers extensions other than .Com
Almost all words in .com are taken. But .net is fast catching up. If you build your site with SEO ranking rules, then you stand a chance to rank well.
Hostgator is a great hosting service you can use, or Hostazar, any is ok.

5. Create a strong trademark through that name. trademarks are of great value to any business. They are unique to you and describe your business and stands longer in the mind of your readers.

6. Avoid using dashes in your domain names as this often will be hard to remember and most of your visitors would have type in your domain name without the dash and your traffic will be going to your competitor.

7. Choose a domain name with meaning; let your domain name speak for it self.

8. Use a name free of legal issues. There are laws which forbid using brand names owned by others as part of your domain name. e.g. www.Ipodsbynokia.com could be available but if used, Nokia management could file a lawsuit which could lead to waste of time and recourses.

Every single domain name is different. But some are with a difference. You can achieve this if you implement this little tips and tricks.
You can check here for great Hosting services.

Dan Ohis

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7 Great Ways to Making Your Blog a Successful Business

2009-08-29T03:25:00.006+01:00

Looking at your blog what is your online objective? are you pursuing direct advertising? Or affiliate programs promotions is your aim of generating some income?
You could also do product reviews but whatever you do make your blogs a source of income for you and your family. To make the above target, I realized you need to treat your blog as a business.

Let’s look at 7 ways you can treat your blog as a business,

1. Have a purpose for your blog
No enterprise succeeds without a proper laid down goal or purpose. You must be in it for a passionate reason or you will fade off. Set up your blog with a vision, it will direct all your activities. It will create an extra energy for you to continue with direction, focus and others will come to identify you with these great compasses for you blog.

2. Do systemic planning
Have a layout of what you want to achieve and place goals in each flash point of your blog history. These will help to measure your progress on this systemic business model. Know which model you want to pursue. What product are you going to promote? Which alliances do you need, do you want to build a list through your blog you need to plan all these and implement as your blog continue to grow.

3. Organised everything
Planning usually lead to great organization, so they say. But I’ve come to see that its not entirely true. You may know how to plan and still be a failure in organizing those plans into fulfilling your main objectives. You must organize your contents, your archives, your list, your setup must have s a network plan, such that your visitors will easily be led to do something on your blog. This creates professionalism and boost confidence for your potential investors.

4. Build trust and creditability
You must be consistent in posting high content that will give your readers a trust level towards your blog. You must be perceived as an icon in this niche in which you are blogging. Learn to under promise and over deliver as you promote various products. Never recommend crap to your readers. You also owe it to your readers to warn them of any scams out there. These things build loyalty, trust and credibility for you, and your blog rating increases.

5. Brand your blog
Millions of blog pops up daily on the net. To stand out you need to brand your blog. Cut out an edge for yourself create a logo, a unique domain name for your site, let this be use in all your emails, business cards, letter-heads paper etc. this create an image in the mind of your reader, this leads to greater confidence in you.

6. Have a business mindset
Mindset is the creator of our realities. Love what you do, but also make money from what you do. Business is excellence at display. So you must be professional in every of your effort. Continue to take takes that will lead to your blog success. Be a dreamer and a believer of your dreams. Never renege on what you can do. When you fail recapture your purpose and forge ahead.

7. Create a system
Develop a system of growth for your blog. Have a clear cut process of automation. Let every thing run on auto pilot without your interference. Your processes, your lead generations, monetization, email delivery, administration, content generation should meet some minimal standards, let all products and services from you adhere to these laid them standards and procedures.

There is a great ebook by Robb Sutton called Ramped Reviews that will help you as a blogger to take advantage of your blog for business purpose.
Go check it out here.

Dan Ohis.

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10 First Steps For New Bloggers

2009-08-29T03:20:00.000+01:00

Running looks easy but it starts from crawling. Every child under 12months desire to be able to rum around the house as easily as the daddy. So he makes effort to achieve this goal. As he tries he falls down and realizes that walking is not as easy as he thought. But he makes conscious effort to stand up first before walking then running. It all takes time and sometime, years!

Many bloggers start blogging these days with the dream of making millions of dollars and millions of readers.
While this is possible, there is nothing wrong with dreaming big, the reality is that it takes time and lot of work to build these kinds of blogs.

I suggest for new bloggers spending time thinking about first steps than the big dreams for their blogs.

Here is a list of 10 first steps type of goals that I recommend;
This might be a good place to begin for the first month. Then you take it up from there.

1. publish at least 15 post
2. get your first link from another website or blog
3. build your readership to more than 30
4. getting your first comment from someone you don’t know
5. hit s level of 30 RSS subscribers
6. getting your blog index by Google
7. submit at least 30 post in 10 various articles ezines
8. get your blog earning $2 a week
9. Have someone tweet about your blog
10 . First guest post on another blog

So there you go, let see how this simple baby goals motivate you to great things. If you motivate yourself well enough you might also have the courage for the right transformation needed to transform ypu from a small blog to a bigger blog.

You will succeed.

Dan ohis.

What Do You Do As A New Affiliate?

2009-08-29T03:18:00.001+01:00

If you’re just starting out in affiliate marketing I recommend you do a couple of things -

First focus on refining your niche and learning about your audience’s needs and wants
Once you know the most painful problems or the strongest desires of the people you connect with, focus your list building and content strategy on meeting that need

As you build your influence, find products that help deal with the same problems and motivations you’ve learned your audience has, and test some different promotions to see what sells

Focus your affiliate marketing efforts on fewer products and deeper promotions – by that I mean try and become a dominant affiliate for just one or two products by doing repeat promotions and testing different formats (reviews, email marketing, pod-cast interviews, etc) and then use that as a point of leverage to open doors to affiliates to promote your product, once you create one to sell

Always have your audience’s needs as a first priority, so put relationships before profits and don’t be afraid to say no (don’t be greedy for money, be greedy for helping people and you will make more money)

Cluster around those who are making progress in their affiliate business and have some of the as mentors. Have a participatory spirit as this will help you out on launching your product in the future.

Each success as an affiliate will help you take a step up the ladder to more success. Don’t forget as an affiliate marketer you need to work on your ground roots marketing too so you have a constant stream of new subscribers joining your lists. Successful affiliate marketing is not just performing well during launch time and attracting new partners for your own launch, it’s about building a business that delivers value to a target market who in return pay attention to you when you do affiliate promotions.

If you have any questions about affiliate marketing please feel free to leave comment replies and I’ll do my best to respond.

Dan Ohis.

How to Avoid Poor Quality Post.

2009-08-29T03:15:00.001+01:00

Writing great content for your blog will boost up traffic and credibility among your readers. Building value in your content has a high reward and could also be very daunting for most people.
I will try to help in some little way on how to avoid posting poor contents.

Here are some few tips
-Do a research on the subject matter before you publish? Find addition material to further clarify your subject. This is very easy as virtually all topics have quality information on the net.

-Listen to news and read magazines and specialize reports related to your niche. Check for upcoming events, and write on such.

-You can also write on on-going events or trends in your niche. You can create a high follower-ship from this as you x-ray the various aspect of your niche trend

-Write a how-to post which solve a lot of people problems and this will be seen as an authority for your niche

-Create a series for your post on your blog. This are very lovely strategies as people love to come back to continue the series.

-Break down long articles into smaller ones which are more on targeted topics.

Hope you practice these and make your post more meaningful and enjoyable.

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7 Great Blogging Strategies You Can Adopt

2009-08-29T02:33:00.002+01:00

There are simple things you could do on a weekday and weekend to improve the overall goal of your blog to be more successful and readers coming back to enjoy more real content.
Here are some strategies to implement;

1. Post valuable content daily
Post great contents on weekdays and less newsy content on weekends. Traffic is more during the week, so people are more in a business mode. Do post serious post on weekdays.

2. Respond to comments
Don’t put off till weekend to respond to comments or emails sent to you by your readers. This is very important as very crucial information might be sought from you from your readers.

3. Post on other blogs and forums
Yes, this is a great strategy to drive traffic to your blog. As you could also get back links from there. Let any post you do be valuable and portray you as an authority in this area. Always leave your signature.

4. Blog more
Use the weekday to do more blogging and weekend for less blogging. Also you could find research materials to work on to increase your blog activities.

5. Ask engaging questions
On weekdays, the mindset of readers are business like, so take advantage of that to create an interactive atmosphere that requires feedback from your readers by asking engaging questions, ask for comments and raise the game of your blog

6. Increase your blog stickiness
Visitors and members tend to drop on a blog if not directed to do something. So I advise you focus on creating participatory activities. Post controversial topics once in a while and give people the space to explore, learn and connect together. This is very helpful and increases your rating amongst your readers.

7. Build your list and increase your loyal readers
Your list and RSS subscribers are every important to your blog success. Give out freebies to increase your list. Send emails to you existing list on helpful tips, and bond with your readers.

Above all if we all do the right things and are primarily focus we could achieve more.

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Who Wants to be The Next Super Affiliate 3?

2009-08-22T05:09:00.004+01:00

Sometimes it takes time to hit a record success, but willingness to pay the price is the key. If you don’t want o do these things I suggest you stop and go read another article. But if you are tired of the bottom life of the kindergarten affiliate, then read on, its only a matter of time what you behold frequently you eventually become.

Here are more 6 super affiliate stuffs:

1. They create products and promote other peoples product
This is one hallmark of a great affiliate. This singular act makes them trustworthy and

respected in the market place. They roll out value content, which define the whole affiliate world for a period of time before the next product comes again from one of them. It is a turn by turn thing. They pass the baton when they have hook the market with their product and help the next super affiliate to promote his own. They are always working for one another success. It is a great principle.

2. Top affiliates lead their prospect
When you get to a super affiliate site the difference is clear. They lead you to take action. Fancy is not the aim of the site, so you don’t get most of that. They know what they want and tailor their sites to reflect that. Their conversion rates are very high because they lead their prospects. They use a lot of pre-sells, graphics to show you what they want you to do. They place videos in there to tell you what they expect. They give you bonus and tell you to come back for more. They state clearly what they expect from you, they don’t lets you start guessing what to do when you come to them. They are in charge and commandeering. They are bold and ask for commitment from you, and you do it willingly why? He is the master of the game.
If you lead your prospect you will see same result.

3. They go after their lead tenaciously
They don’t drop leads. They are aggressive in their marketing drive. They follow on until a lead is converted to a buyer, and then you buy more and then some more and they convert you to their affiliate or joint partners. What a system! They can do anything; give anything just to keep a relationship alive. They have their leads in mind!

4. Top affiliates are great story tellers
They tell stories with ease. They connect these stories with the product they are promoting with great admiration. Their mails are emotional and they close each sale logically. They are titles wizards, as their title urges you to click on their mails. Can you do this? Yes you can.

5. They know when to change their tactics
Like every other affiliate they too fail. But they are great learners. They adapt to their new environment and take advantage of it to get top information that will, be useful for their marketing purpose. They know when a qualified lead is more important than profit. They can give out a $97 material for $1 just to get as many people as possible into their sales funnel. They are masters in creating ‘buzz’. They are master tacticians!

6. They never say never,
They are strong believers in anything they do. They go the extra miles. When they fall, they stand up and pick up the lesson learnt. And turn it into a product! They cut their losses and move on to something better and bigger. They are great dreamers. Hence they love vacations, where they get bigger better dreams for their lives and business. They see very downturn as a bend not necessary an end.

Sincerely I believe you too can be a super affiliate. All you need is to get the right access and environment. Yes you can.

later,

Dan ohis.

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Who Wants to be The Next Super Affiliate 2 ?

2009-08-22T05:02:00.003+01:00

Packaging and branding is the hallmark of the Top affiliates. When they release a product, it is so certain they will be sold out before long. Hence people beg them to promote their products. Their names sell.
Who else wants to be a super affiliate?
Here are 5 more mindset and systems you need to work yourself into this exclusive club:

1. You must have a network that works!
Super-stars marketers have a high power team that they leverage on most of the time. They are not lone rangers. They work in companies of their type. They link to each other and recommend one another’s product. They have a win-win mentality to business. They are willing to share their profit 50%, 75% and even 100% with a partner for a list or to build a brand. They have great joint venture structure in place and they never let down. Go and do this and become like them.

2. They receive, but after giving value
They are great value builders. You must have been impressed by the quality of content you received from a super affiliate? That is the stuff they deal with. It is a secret system they use and it works. You too must start using it if you want to be among the less than 5% top affiliates. They invest time, effort and money to create value for you before they start to sell to you. They are first generous before they make a demand from you to buy from them. Givers truly don’t lack.

3. They are creative thinkers
They are not crowd followers they create their own paths. They observe the crowd in the market place and then create a product for them to buy. They are god-fathers of the affiliate world. Anything they touch becomes ‘hot’. They combine offline tactics with online business. They are always looking for ways to improvise. They listen to the crowd and get ideas from them. They can spot a great idea from a distant and use it to the maximum. They are way up above the market. Learn these secrets and you are on your way to the top.

4. Super affiliates are marketing kingpins
All super affiliate I know are great in marketing. More than 75% of them admitted they had to learn this skill, so you too can learn this skill. It makes a whole lot of difference. Get all the help you can. Through training, attending online and offline conferences, reading specialized materials, pay to be coached by a top marketer. These things have their place in affiliate business.

5. They are willing to learn the hard things
What the lazy affiliate runs from, they are willing to subject themselves to learning it. They are willing to give it all it takes to demystify a thing to their advantage. They love to conquer and learn what they have to learn until they are masters in that subject. They sometimes fail but they always persist. What another overlook they pursue with great tenacity.

If you can put half of these systems in place and channel some of your energies to working these mindsets, you are a sure bet for the top.

later,

Dan Ohis.

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Who Wants to be The Next Super Affiliate?

2009-08-22T04:43:00.002+01:00

Super affiliates are the five-star generals of the online business. The rule the nonline world with dexterity and make things happens in cyber-globe! On the other hand there exists a massive crowd of ‘kindergarten affiliates’ struggling all through the internet trying to pick the crumbs from the tables of the super affiliates. This elite class is open ended but hard to get into. However to cross over to become a super affiliate one need not get another set of products or another set of affiliate tool, all you need to is to tweak your mindset and systems.

To be a super affiliate you need to develop the following systems and mindsets

#1. Have a plan and work your plan
Do you have a business model? If you got one, great. Get it to work. Work at it daily. Test it, rework it, take note of any success you find, record and repeat. Super affiliates do this all the time. They follow simple plans and systems. They give their plans time to work. No success is born in 24hrs it takes time.

#2. Get organized and have a business mentality
Yes, you must have your tools and product organized. Know your stuff. This business involves a lot of tools and a lot of links, accounts and accounting to do. You must see that all these are done regularly and in an orderly manner to track your business progress. Work it as a project, work on a schedule and make sure you are on top of the business. These things top affiliates do daily.

#3. Test , Test and Test
The ‘big guns’ of this business are test freaks. They test everything. They analyze and do split- testing, before they come to conclusion. They tweak all methods and checks for patterns, timing, seasons, and statistics are their best friends. They work with all kinds of tools; ratios, numbers, figures say a lot to them.

#4. Top affiliate are strategist
To them making money is serious business not a hobby. They can spend millions of dollars for a qualify lead. Why? They value and calculate the life value of a customer more than anything. They think strategically. While baby affiliate are going for the ‘now money’ they plan for the ‘forever money’ they constantly tweak their site, promotions, products, price, methods and other stats with long time benefit in view. This makes colossal impact on their returns.

#5. They are automated fanatics
True. In other not to burn out you need automation. Here the ‘gurus’ as they are often called are the masters. Their process is flawless. Their opt-in page is leading, their payment process, their systems are working. Product delivery are all automated, they make money without an effort after injecting the first effort. They do this from day one.

The bottom-line here is crossing to become a super affiliate you need to develop this strategic thinking. And you will see yourself rise to the upper class of super affiliate.

To your success,

Dan Ohis.

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5 Ways To Find Out If Your Buyers Really Want To Buy.

2009-08-22T04:32:00.003+01:00

Once you have found a hot niche market, you need to try and find out if there is sufficient buyers’ interest within that niche, which are willing and able to buy.

Here are the 4 steps I recommend;

#1. Check their Demographics
This is very important. As the sex, ages, location, and status of the people in that niche matters a lot. Most people will be interested but only for free tips and downloads and not really having the ability to make a purchase.

#2. Check their interest level
At this stage you really want to see what people are saying about this market. Do need to see comments and testimonials to assure you that you are right on path. Go research this out.

#3. Check on forums and chat rooms.
Are people looking for this information or what you did with the Google keywords were just a flick. Test to see. Watch what people are saying here. To check if they are willing to pay, post a comment as if you got this product but the merchant was asking for xxxx price and you could not buy you felt it should be free, ask what they think?
Comment here will reveal a lot to you.

#4. Google the product name
If you see a lot of adverts on the side bar at least 7 you should think it a good niche to try out. If more than 15 very affirmative as these people are not paying good money for advert for the fun of it.
Please this is very important as good competition is very good for market promotion and sales.

#5. Can you get this product for free?
Yes if you can get this for free elsewhere, then I recommend you tweak it or re-create it. Make it more original or make it stand out from the others with additional information. You can also input videos and other ways to create more value in the eye of the customer.

Applying these checks will surely save you time, effort and money.

take care,

Dan Ohis.

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Your Affiliate Marketing is Dead without these Big 6!

2009-08-22T04:24:00.003+01:00

The idea of making money and creating mega wealth is sweeping across the minds of all, and I admit that is a great quest and worthy of pursuit. But my greatest worry is the lazy approach most affiliate are going about this. No tools, lack of right knowledge, training, and mentorship.
I will try in this article to arm you with the necessary tools and training you need to succeed.
Here are the Big 6 essentials Tools I advocate for success

1. Have a positive energy
To succeed as an affiliate you need to exude a lot of positivism. Create the aura of ‘I can’ attitude. You need to see beyond your initial startup pains. See beyond the painful efforts you need to put in at first before you make any sales. Never entertain a negative thought. Keep your focus clear with high expectations.

2. Submit yourself to training
Every trade has its tricks and secrets. Affiliate marketing is no different. If you release yourself for those in the industry who has made great fortune from this business you stand a quick chance of making your own success story on time.

3. You must learn to invest.
Yes. Most new affiliate fails at this point. They quickly run out the door to try their hands on this lucrative business as describe to them by the gurus, without first investing in knowledge, training, effort, time, money etc. no one ever said it will be an easy ride. It is a business, it has its challenges. To see some real dollars in your account, what you invest in will go along way.

4. You must stay focus and disciplined
Have a plan and stick by it. You must be willing to achieved daily goals, e.g. article submission daily, posting in forums, and email marketing. You got to stay resolute to be a winner in this game.

5. Stay motivated.
Motivation is the key in this business. Motivated people go the extra mile. They push for more result, they never quit even when nothing is working. You need a lot of motivation to make it here as an affiliate.

6. You must be willing to take action daily
Most affiliates are always in the habit of reading, downloading and surfing the net for the latest information. You must take daily action on your site if you want to see sales. Plan a 2-5 daily things to do on your site, promotion and product.

Finally, doing these important steps will surely make you fool proof against failure in this business.

later friend,

Dan Ohis.

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How to Pull-In Massive Traffic in 24hrs!

2009-08-22T03:40:00.002+01:00

Massive traffic can easily convert to sales if they are targeted. This you can get in 24hrs!
Some sites are heavy with content while others are lean with content. Whichever method you adopt this steps will still work for you.

My recommended massive traffic pulleys are

Video Marketing
This currently works wonders for attracting traffic for my sites. All you to do is create a video of about 2-3mins long and with your link on it and post it to various social sites like Facebook, Squidoo, etc. Then sit to see massive traffic come in.

Forum Marketing
Register in highly targeted forums in your niche and post helpful contents for people to benefit from. Also help solve people’s problems and then leave your signature file in there. Do not scam and never ask people to see your site for more details, without saying it they will come, if what you are giving out is great stuff.

Affiliate Programs
This is one of the best ways to pull in massive traffic if you are a product owner.
This way you get more leads than you can ever cope for. It is very inexpensive as you only pay for the sales not just the leads. To make your affiliate more successful you need to provide them with tools for success.

Use Ezine ads
This is a great way to get fast qualified traffic to your site. Write a great copy and place them on ezines. These places already have targeted willing audience. The publishers have good relationship with his subscribers in which you are tapping into for a low fee; also you get creditability as a bonus.

CPA marketing
This is the current market buzz. You need to tap into its powers, as CPAs will get you traffic in less then 12hrs! Yes, they are very good in this. And not just traffic, good sale at that same time is very possible. Work with one and get connected to them.

There you go. Go implement any of these and get great traffic to your site in 24hrs!

later!

Dan Ohis.

Exploring The Massive Traffic Freeway

2009-08-19T04:12:00.000+01:00

Hi,
In real estate they say the 3 most important words are location, location, and location. Sure, for internet marketing business, I dare say the 3 most important words are Traffic, Traffic, and traffic.
Let’s examine this freeway called Massive traffic freeway.
It is estimated that more than 1-billion people get online daily and that is about 30billion repeat visits every month! That is massive.
We need to get some slice of that traffic. How? Let dive into this post and see what we can do to benefit from this statistic.
Just having a beautiful website or blog is not enough, even with the best of content if you have no traffic, you will be like a beautiful woman with no suitors! If you are into monetizing your site/blog then without traffic you will be broke and frustrated.
Massive traffic strategies are a must if you will ever make any impression on the Net. To do this you need to convert these hordes of people strolling daily into this massive freeway!
Divert their attention to your site or blog and then you are in for some surprises as some of them could be very loyal to your blog, especially if you got valuable content.
There are 7 strategic places you need to position your blog to get a big bite of this traffic.
They are:
The Interception of traffic
A Toll-Gate keeper
A Cop directing traffic
At a bend giving alternative to the main stream
Accidental traffic
Seasonal traffic
Forced traffic

I will be explaining these traffic methods in a series, and how you need to position your blog to get all this traffic even if you are using a free blog like blogger or wordpress.
First, let get some thins straight;

1. Determine your audience
Before we delved into these strategies, you must first determine your audience, you cannot get all these people to your site, just a tiny % is enough. People go online for various reasons, so first determine your audience.

2. What are the demographics of your audience?
You need to know their age range, their likes and dislikes, are they more of women, men, old or young. Are they students or workers of a particular segment of the economy, location? You need to know this first so as to know where to direct your energies.

3. Is your niche seasonal or runs through the year?
Why do you need to determine this? This is very important, as it helps you to know how to position your blog for massive conversion. In traffic generation, timing and seasons matters a lot.

4. Where do your prospects normally hang out?
Do they have a forum they gather round week in and week out?
Is there a hot product they are clustery about?
What do they do at their spare time?

5. Forecast their taste and trend
You may be wondering how do you do this. Easy find those who around you in that niche and asked them. All humans are ideally the same, only the intensity of our behaviors differs. You can also go to forums and ask them, they will tell you.

6. What questions are they asking?
Find out the questions on their lips. Find out what they are talking about; find out what they are commenting about in other blogs and niches.

7. What are other blogs/authors writing about?
You need to know, what the current news is all about in your niche so you can take advantage of this and divert the traffic to your blog.

8. Find out what the “gurus” or the established names in your niche are promoting
The gurus are not called that that for fun. They are the masters of your niche. They’ve seen it all and have mastered the game. Go to their sites and copy what they are doing and repeat on yours.

Good. If you can genuinely get answers to these questions then I will say 50% of the deal is done. One of the keys of creating massive traffic to your site is knowing how to find the customer who are looking for you. Most people get online daily without a destination that is they literally drive out of their parks into this traffic freeway without s destination and if you can attract them with what you have to offer, then you can make them come by and see what you got.
Some of the methods I will be sharing I have used to drive hordes of people to my various sites. One particular site attracted more than 30,000 unique visitors after just 7 days of going live!

Traffic won’t naturally come to you even if you do great search engine optimization, the truth is the search engines are changing the rules of the games often that you stand a slim chance, but there are other subtle ways to corner this traffic market. So we need to find a way to go bring the traffic to your site.
In the coming weeks I will show you the sure fire ways to do this for free and other with few dollars.
The knowledge of the massive traffic freeway will help you position your site for maximum benefit. I call it the Bee-way!

Places to find your prospect
Where do you think you prospect live online?
Your prospect can be found in the following places:

Chat-rooms
Forums
They read specialized magazines an d newsletters
They joined online clubs and organizations
They network online and participate in online seminars (webinars)
They frequent specialized site
They trade links with suppliers
They advertise width some particular search engines
They go to online stores
They listen to particular news channel
They are interested in some particular sport
They use some particular services as their email carrier

The key here is being market proactive and implementing the strategies I will be showing you in the following weeks.
Let’s take a break now. Don’t miss my next post on this. It will be hot and revealing.

To your success,

Dan Ohis.

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Here’s My 9 Checklist for Writing a Killer Article Title!

2009-08-19T02:47:00.004+01:00

Hi,

After several years of testing out all kinds of articles, I have to tell you that the #1 factor for getting article views is the title. Always!
Your traffic is determined by your title!

1. Write your title as if it’s a mini-headline. That means a powerful message, with no excess words or fluff.

2. What’s in it for your reader? If the title states a benefit for the reader, that’s perfect.

3. Keep it short. People skim online; they don’t read carefully. A short title that gets to the point can be grasped with just a glance.

4. Study the titles of “Most Viewed” articles in your niche. Look for patterns, key words, or terms, and model your titles after the most popular articles.

5. Look at the articles in your niche. Which titles do YOU like the best? Which ones grab your eye immediately?

6. Use lists and numbers. My personal favorite titles always seem to contain a number or a list. For example, “6 Ways to Kick Your Junk Food Habit Today” or “3 Stock Investment Nightmares You Must Avoid.”

7. Hot tip! Try a negative title. I’ve found that a warning or other negative message can get a lot more views. So tell people what NOT to do in the title, like this: “6 Things You Must Not Eat if You’re On a Diet” or “3 Things You Should Never Say to a Car Salesman.”

8. Take weak titles and pump them up. For example… Here’s what I’d consider a weak title: “Preparing Yourself to Win Every Time.” To make it stronger, I’d first add a number and a list:

“3 Ways to Guarantee You’ll Win Every Time.”
To make it even stronger, I’d make it more specific:
“3 Ways to Guarantee You’ll Win Your Next Argument”
And maybe I’d even add the negative element to test it out:
“3 Things NOT to Say if You Want to Win an Argument”

9. If you can get your keyword into the title, great; but if not, don’t sweat it. Keywords are necessary if you want your articles to help you with SEO. In fact, if SEO is your primary purpose, you should start your title with the keyword. EzineArticles.com has very good Google PageRank, and its articles often get good search engine placement. So a good 3+ word keyphrase in your title can help get your article ranked well in the search engines. But I have found that for marketing and sales purposes — for getting those page views, click-throughs, and sales — putting your keyword first don’t always work very well. So it’s a trade off. In my experiments, I’ve found that I usually get less short-term views with a keyword in the title. But I will get more views, longer term, from the SEO value of the keyword with search engine rankings (that’s if I do all the other work for proper SEO).

I can’t stress enough the importance of your article titles — they will literally make or break your marketing efforts!
So please, take some time to study the titles of the most popular articles in your niche. And pay special attention to authors who are doing list-based articles.

Till you succeed,

Dan Ohis.

“Get Rich Quick Scams Revealed”

2009-08-18T19:52:00.004+01:00

Read this special article before you consider joining or paying for a “Get Rich Quick” program.

Dear Friend,
…. Wouldn’t it be nice to make a bundle of money quickly, minimal effort working at home with your pajamas? Of course it would. I for one would love to have money flowing into my bank account, working only a few hours a week from home so I would spend more time with my kids and family without any boss looking over my shoulders.

Whether its real estate investing, selling ads, stocks market investing, internet affiliate marketing, or something else, we’ve all seen the fantastic claims people make about making tons of money, AND how they can show you how to do the same thing. I can tell you right now that 99% of these people are total frauds. You may have even fallen prey to one of these scams artist, selling you their latest “get rich quick” program. Me too. I’ve bought so many of these programs that I can’t recall how many. I don’t know why, but I tend to find the good in people I was sold by the marketing schemes time and time again, even after been scammed by another.

Finally, after so many disappointments, I got FED UP. I decided to get to the bottom of this fascination we all have with get rich quick programs, and find out if there really were any LEGITIMATE programs for making money.

I literally contacted the administrator of every get rich quick website I could find, posing as an investor; I managed to convince the owners that I was seriously interested in purchasing their entirely websites and business. That way, once the dollars signs flashed in their heads, they would give me free access to their member’s areas to review what I would be “buying”. Well, I was disgusted with 99% of what I found. Many of the owners actually boasted about how many people bought their useless programs. I repeatedly found:

Outdated information
Non- working links
Links leading to other sites that asked for more money
No help section
No real email support
No refunds

I quickly realized that these so-called Get Rich Quick program were totally useless. And the owners knew it, yet they were laughing all the way to the bank! Needless to say, I didn’t respond when they asked if I was still interested in buying their websites. Surprisingly, while sifting through all of the scam artist’s websites, I was able to locate a couple of individuals that actually ran legitimate programs.

The owners were every day people like you and me that found a way to make extra money working from home on their computers. Their membership areas were very impressive, with a good amount of quality information on how to make $100-$200 per day on your computer doing very little work. I even chatted with a few of the customers in several online forums, and they verified that they were making extra money through the sites. It was like I found a few diamonds in the rough. But don’t take my word for it, you can visit the 5 sites I found below. See what you think.

They do charge a minimal fee for access to their program, which is to be expected for any legitimate company that actually has people on their payroll who are dedicated to helping you get started. What a friendly group of people! Anyway, if you do decide you are interested in any of the product/programs below, I advise you join quickly, as the owners have informed me that they are getting so many new members by word of mouth referrals, that they will be closing off membership completely in the next few days.(by the way you didn’t hear this from me!) They don’t have a large enough staff to accommodate many more people, and they are dedicated to providing excellent service to each person.
Well, my search for legitimate Get Rich Quick programs has come to an end. I have to say I was thoroughly disappointed with most of what I found and I strongly advised that you do not take chances joining any programs or products other than the ones listed below!
Whatever you do, I wish you a healthy, successful year for you and yours.

All the best.

Here are the links to the 4 programs/products we do recommend:

http://tinyurl.com/qkk5za

http://tinyurl.com/m9ej8r

http://tinyurl.com/qfxs5p

http://tinyurl.com/qgts9n

Let me know how you re benefiting from these programs!

Take care!

Dan Ohis.

8 Internet SCAMS To Watch Out For...

2009-08-15T16:10:00.005+01:00

Dear Friend,

Chances are, you've fallen for some of the online SCAM artists out there who promised to help you make money, but are really just out to screw you.

After all, how can you tell the fakes, frauds, and crooks from the legit people who can really help you?

This is actually pretty easy. I will be covering some of the flash point to watch out for in this post. Stay with me.

Now you have to know what to look for to see if some "guru" is legit or not.

So here's a checklist you can use to tell if someone who wants to teach you how to make money is for real... or a goof.

1. Do they show you proof?

Do they provide proof of the money they make?If not, then chances are they're fakers.On their site, let them show you actual checks and accounts with their names, which clearly give you an idea of how much money they make. Or you can ask/call/ email them for a proof anyone who DOESN'T do this is trying to hide something.

2.Do they rely on hype?

I can spot a con artist a mile away, because they're always saying "You MUST get this!"And using every lame marketing technique they've read about to convince you to buy something.

Real marketers don't need to rely on hype, because they know how to get people to WANT to buy their stuff.

The real deals offer actual VALUE, instead of hype. In fact, if you look at some merchant website, they don't even CARE if people buy their course. Infact, sometimes they tell them NOT to.

What kind of a scammer would tell you not to buy his fake-A$$ product?

3. Their marketing is everywhere.

People who make actual money are everywhere.You can find their ads on websites, their sites in the search engines, and their content is all over the place.

Scammers don't like to market their material.They just want to hop in, make a quick buck,and hop out.If you look at REAL businesses, you'll see that their ads run everywhere - internet, TV, radio, cpa networks etc.

Scammers can't afford to give their business wide exposure, because they'll be found out if too many people see what they're up to.

4. No customer support?

Scammers and frauds don't care about their customers. They don't answer technical issues, or customer satisfaction issues.Great product owners handsomely pay a group of highly skilled people to offer their customers unlimited support.

If your queries for help are going unanswered,it's a good chance you're being duped.

5. Refusal to give refunds?

If you see someone say "You're not allowed to ask for a refund," chances are they are a FRAUD.
They are selling you crap, worthless goods! Advice? RUN!!

Whether they hide it in their privacy policy,or state it in their sales material, that is a CLEAR sign they want to take your money and run!

Seriously read private policy content before you buy things online it will help you to see some red flags!

Great product owner are sometimes rich, and don't care about your few dollars. If you're unhappy, they’ll give you a refund no problem but they may never have to deal with you anymore, which is understandable.

6. Their products just don't work

This is probably the easiest way to spot a fake. If you use their material and it doesn't do what they say it will.
Please don’t be scared, RETURN IT! And ask for a refund.

So many so-called "gurus" churn out crap that doesn't work.

Only few online courses WORKS! And I know just few of them.

7. Google the product or the name of the site
This really saved me from getting scammed more than once!
I almost filled in my details on a particular offer, then in a flash I decided to check it out on Google, and I found tons of people who made the mistake and were complaining about this particular merchant as a fake!
I was saved.

8. Go check this out on various forum.
Every good product out there mostly have a forum talking about it.
Check them out.

Watch was others are saying about this product and make up your mind.

Hope you heed these rules, don’t get scammed, it’s not funny!

To your success,

Dan Ohis.

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Why Do People Go Online? 7 Major Reasons Discovered!

2009-08-15T14:24:00.005+01:00

Dear Friend,
People get online for various reasons? Why do you get online? For business,
fun or to look for information. Generally the reasons people get online can be classified
under 7 broad categories.

· Learn
· Have Fun
· Socialize
· Express Themselves
· Advocate
· Do business
· Shop
From the latest survey released by Rfintentindex, the other they are listed above is the order they are found why people go online. The results cut across demographics and gives details of percentage per category.

Let’s take them one after the other and see if we can take advantage of this huge information and create a product for these niches for profit making.

1. Learn
Interestingly people get on line to learn (get information)

Under this we have
· Self Education 96%
· Research 89%
· Keep Informed 79%

This sector is huge potential as it shows the hunger in the hearts of people to get knowledge. This we can take advantage of by promoting educational institutions and providing content to assist researchers in their quest for knowledge.

Self education is a great potential as more and more people are getting associated with the internet distance learning. Here is a need that is still growing by the day.
Men are more reported by the survey to go online to get information on news than women. The youth are more on getting education in this sector.

2. Have Fun
Loads of people get online just to have fun! This is a total shocker for me.

Under this category we have:
· Pass Time 100%
· Be Entertained 82%
· Escape Reality 66%

For Pass Time which rank highest in all, it shows everybody goes online sometimes when they have nothing to engage them, so it your joy to see if you can attract this set of people to your site and get them to read your content and probably buy something from you. Men go online to be entertained more than women, while both youth and seniors are going online to have fun! This reveals a huge market potential.

3. Socialize
Surely most people these days want to connect with their friends, family members, business associates or make friends online.

Here are the subcategories;
· Connect 92%
· Share 86%
· Discuss 76%
· Be part of a community 72%

The social places like Facebook, Squidoo, Twitters, etc has helped in connecting people so much that everyday loads of people go online for this. Forum marketing is also picking up 72% and 76%.
Women do this more than men as they are natural in expressing themselves .Youth also are for socializing. We can take advantage here to sign on to these places and make friends, and help people with thoughtful advice and content and them place your links to your sites and see if we can redirect these crowds to your pages. This is best viral tool if you care to know.

4 Express Yourself
· Opine 62%
· Entertain Others 48%
· Emote 44%
· Be Creative 42%
Surprisingly this category comes 4th ahead of doing business. People love to express themselves and they go online to do this. Although the percentage is still low but there is huge market here as you find customize product for these people to engage them with and probably entertain them, the music category and sport are in these section. It shows our artiste are still not doing much online, we as internet marketers can take this market and turn gold out of it, by creating a place for this category of people. Women are more in the expression game and youths are also doing a lot here.

5 Advocate
· Influence Others 56%
· Activate Support 52%
· Join a Cause 26%
Leadership is a sector that I love so much and it’s about influencing others and creating support or motivation, this sector is still growing. We can do more by creating leadership and motivating sites and create offers for this people. But bad examples is the bane of this category, as most leaders don’t come online to do their leading, instead they are so busy offline, bloggers can use this media to reach their fan club and connect to them and see if we can help to be better than they are now. Great niche, if you ask me.

6. Do Business
· Work 69%
· Manage finances 30%
· Sell 19%
I know most Internet marketers will be shocked at this result. Well me too. I was expecting this to be probably the number one reason or two reason people go online, but we are wrong, we only think so because most times that is why we go online. The also shocking news here is that only 19% goes online to sell things, it shows there are more buyers than seller, huge market!
Most people who go online is because of work related issues,
Men are more into this than women. I think women should begin to also show interest here because they are better communicators than men and can easily sell. Finances are a sore part in people’s lives and then most people are careful not to involve their resources online. The scam thing I think is still affecting this sector. Let’s see how it goes in the next couple of months!

7. Shop

The niche subcategories are;
· Purchase 33%
· Compare 28%

Both men and women do this but women are more in this sector. 33% do their purchase online. I think that is great news for marketers. It also shows the potential is growing. But the subtle niche there is the compare niche. It shows more people want to compare first before they buy. Here reviews site are going to capture this folks and them help them to make buying decisions, thereby making some money for themselves.

Finally, I think these are great areas we could position our sites or blog to reach this people and become an authority in that area and create value for them and then finally sell something to them.
Think about this post. There you go. The people have spoken what they want, it up to you to give them what they asked for.

Have a great time.

Dan Ohis.

PS: please leave your comments.

Rob Benwell Blogging-To-The-Bank-3; A Well Designed Product? I Disagree!

2009-08-14T04:41:00.007+01:00

Hi,
I have frantically searched for true ways to make money from blogs for many years my efforts were fruitless, until I laid my hands on this all-laid-out masterpiece by Rob Benwell. Yet at first I had my doubts!

Blogging to the Bank 3 works! Is what a friend screams after he makes his first sales in less than 12hrs of reading the book!

If you are one of those passionate bloggers who, has tried without any headway to monetize their blogs, you surely have seen that making money online is not funas was preached by others. But for a change in your online sojourn, go read this masterpiece. It changed blogging forever! Rob provided some new and old ways to make money out of your blog while still having fun.

Back in 2005, Rob was struggling to make any profit online. He had dropped out of college and he was getting deep into debt, trying all the techniques that the gurus were dishing out and going nowhere.He started using his own techniques and suddenly found himself swimming in cash by using simple blogs, and he shared those techniques with the world in a 2006 ebook called Blogging to the Bank. He then spoke at online marketing legend Yanik Silver's Underground Seminar and revealed even more of his underground strategies. Tons of people got rich from using these techniques (including me).

Rob has tweaked his strategies since then and this is where Blogging to the Bank 3 comes into play. It's full of great new techniques that work online right now! Everything is explained in plain language, no technical stuff that could scare you. I got hold of an advanced copy of the book for a much higher price than what it actually sells for and it has been worth every single cent! I got it in the afternoon and by the evening I was creating new profitable blogs. Within a couple of hours of them being active I had made a nice little profit.

Rob discusses the impact this release had on blogs (particularly Blogger blogs) and how this led to the creation of his five blogging commandments. The five blogging commandments are what Rob believes are essential for your blogs success and provide an overview of the whole ebook. Obviously, I the only shortcoming in this book is that advanced bloggers will get little from it as the ebook focuses on how bloggers can make great wealth. Rob's ebook by revealing them here but they do contain some good information to keep your visitors coming back and reading your blog. After this introduction Rob gets into the main body of his ebook.

Blogging to the Bank 3

Rob begins by discussing Market Research & Key phrase Lists. This is a very important stage as it ultimately determines what you will be blogging about. Rob emphasizes the importance of taking your time and discusses how you can find affiliate products using ClickBank. He also describes how to do some basic keyword research using a couple of free tools. Overall, I found this chapter to be a great introduction to affiliate marketing and in particular keyword research. Before reading the chapter I knew almost nothing about keyword research and whilst I'm still no expert I now know the basics of optimizing my blog and its pages.

Rob then moves on to discuss creating your blog. First, he outlines how to actually install your blog. Then he moves on to discuss the four options available to you when getting content for your blog. After this he outlines how to optimise, monetise and ping your blog. Overall, this section of Blogging to the Bank 2.0 contains a lot of good information. I was particularly impressed by Rob's use of screenshots and instructions to explain his ideas. I'm a big fan of screenshots and feel they really help beginners. The section on monetization was also a real help for me too. My main criticism of this section was that Rob does not explain how to automate the pinging of your blog. This is a relatively simple process but for some reason Rob ignores it.

Blogging to the Bank 3

If you have followed Rob's instructions up to this point you should have your blog ready to go. Logically, Rob goes on to outline how you can promote your blog and get some traffic. The topics he covers in this section include basic promotion techniques (including article syndication, forum marketing and link exchanges) and Web 2.0 techniques.
Web 2.0. is a phrase that describes the trend in web development towards creativity, collaboration and sharing between users (good examples of successful Web 2.0. websites are Facebook and YouTube).

Whilst the basic promotion techniques are good, I was very impressed with the Web 2.0. section. Before reading this chapter I had stuck primarily to article marketing but now I have my first Squidoo lens out there and I am getting a lot of extra traffic from social book- marking sites. My main criticism about this chapter is the section on DIGG (a social book-marking site). Whilst Rob did open my eyes to a very good resource he did not make it clear that DIGG will ban you if you just submit your own blog posts, which is what happened to me.

Rob finishes his ebook by discussing some advanced techniques including outsourcing the creation of your blogs, creating your own product in the market you are blogging for and even selling your blog. I have not tried any of the techniques in this section yet but I am planning on creating some of my own products to sell to my blog readers.

Overall I believe the book is worth it and great if you are serious of making good money this year.
Go see the site here Blogging to the Bank 3

Later!
Dan Ohis

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10 Steps To Make your first Sale With Zero Expenses In 7 Days!

2009-07-25T06:39:00.004+01:00

Hi,
Here is a simple plan to make you some money immediately with zero expenses, but however there’s the dirty 4 letter word everyone hates: WORK!
Well, I feel this work is fun. Or you could pay someone to do the job for you. Too bad!
Remember - it’s always the principle of Time or Money!
Before I begin, there are 3 extremely crucial principles that if applied, can make you A LOT more money…

1. Sell products that CONVERT (or you’ll waste traffic)
2. Sell stuff that SOLVE DESPERATE PROBLEMS (for fast cash)
3. Take action - consistently

Lets have a look at the plan!

Step 1: Find a profitable topic
Simplest way is to look at http://www.amazon.com/ or www.google.com/trends

Step 2: Find out what problems people have in relation to this topic
A desperate problem is best. Easy way is to go look at related forums.

Step 3: Find a suitable affiliate product that solve the problem AND convert well.
Simplest way is to go http://www.clickbank.com/ and look for the highest gravity productsin your related category. Join and get your affiliate link.

Step 4: Find at least 3 specific longtail keyphrases for the problem or product
Just use Google’s free keyword tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.
For example, “how can I stop smoking”

Step 5: Write (or outsource) 3 articles
Each article should be focused on each keyphrase. 300-400 word article is enough. Remember the articleis NOT a sales letter, it’s a presell, a teaser

Step 6: Submit articles to article directories
Start with http://www.ezinearticles.com/ first.

Step 7: Create a free keyword-rich blog (www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com) and post articles there
Do this after your articles are published on ezinearticles.com.
Link each article back to your articles on ezinearticles.com
You can say something like: Article originally published on xxxxxx

Step 8: Create a squidoo len and post articles there
Do this after your blog is set up.
Try to link each article back to your articles on ezinearticles.com
You can say something like: Article originally published on xxxxxx
Step 9: Go submit articles to the rest of the article directories
Link each article back to your articles on ezinearticles.com
You can say something like: Article originally published on xxxxxx
To make this really easy and effective, I suggest getting an account at SubmityourArticlebecause the service is top-notch and it works great.

Step 10: Social bookmark everything
And of course you can always scale this up, then rinse and repeat.

I know this looks simple but there’s a lot of insightful stuff in this strategy
Maybe I’ll create a more in-depth product on this if time permits, we’ll see.
So what are you waiting for? Go make some money! let me hear about your testimonies.

See yah!

Dan Ohis.

PS: please leave your comments

5 Tipsy Ways To Make Money From Your Blog

2009-07-20T15:03:00.001+01:00

Hi,
I want to give you a s great advise, go set up a blog and follow these strategies to make money from it. Set up 2-3 in any niche you are interested in, so that you can be motivated to ride up!

Now to today topic, here is 5 easy and tipsy ways you can make money from your blog.

For those of you who don’t know what a blog is? If I may ask , what the hell are you doing here!
You better pack that head of yours and sit up for some training. Anyway I will do something for you next time. You see for summary, a blog started out as an online diary, a way that ordinary people could express their thoughts online and establish their web presence. Some their dirty presence!
Some blogs have made people famous and some blogs have gotten people arrested. And other very rich, like me! Please don’t blame me, is no fault of mine. Just kidding.

Blogs have developed to be a weapon for mass sales tools and customers relations channel.it cab be on anything you want it to be; an online store, a magazine website, a salespage, a membership site or just a blog! This is largely thanks to the emergence of wordpress and the various plugins and templates that have been developed over the years. All of these improvements and new features make it easier for people like you and me to own our own blogs and profit from them.

lets look at 5 real down and TIPSY TACTICS that will make you money with your blog!

1. Monetization Method #1 - Google Adsense
This is the fastest way to generate some income from your site, but let me warn you up front, you’re not going to be rich with this, just some easy cash to pay your bills!Google adsense is a program ran by Google where you put some code on your site which allows Google to place content relevant ads on your site.

Every time a visitor clicks on one of those adverts you get a few cents. It has it rules and code of ethics you need to keep, but cool if you know what you are doing, can make some pretty cash here. this is a program you can sign up to very quickly at google.com. It doesn’t matter how much traffic you do or you don’t have, Google doesn’t care, as long as you have some where to put the ads, you can do Google Adsense. It won’t make you the kind of money you need to quit your job but its a start!

2. Monetization Method #2 - CPA Offers
CPA offers (or Cost Per Action) are another great way to monetize your blog. These are offers where you display an advert for a free trial, a survey or to fill in your details and you get paid per lead. You can be paid as much as $40 per lead! So this quite easy, since the lead don’t have to buy anything, if he buys you get more money, I love this method.

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These often convert very nicely because there is no selling involved.People are signing up for a freebie and the companies will pay you for that lead You choose many different size banners and adverts for CPA offers, so it makes it really easy to place these adverts on your blog! This can get you started, blogging-for-millions.

It is important to test your offers to see which one is converting higher than others so you can continue to increase profits on your blog empire! CPA offers are a very good additional stream of income as you can host them with Adsense adverts without any problems. You want to sign up and become an affiliate/publisher of several affiliate networks. I will post some affiliates companies wish are very reliable and profitable, just follow me.

3. Monetization Method #3 - Write Review Posts
I personally love this idea. There are hundreds and thousands of companies out there looking for bloggers to write about their products and websites. They are so desperate for bloggers to talk about them they have even started paying them to do it! And now there are websites that put companies and bloggers together so that bloggers can get paid for a post they make about a company.
Basically you add your blog profile to one of these sites and companies in your niche or market may contact you and ask you to write a blog post in exchange for a value of money. How much money you get paid depends on your Pagerank and how many visitors you get to your site etc. Some people make $40 a post while others make $6000 a post.

How much traffic you have to your blog that really counts here. Its easy money once you get into it. If you’re interested in getting into this then go check out reviewme.com and sign up with your blog.

Alternatively, there is another site (payperpost.com) which allows companies to state what they are looking for and what they will pay, and bloggers can take them up on their offers as long as their blog meets the criteria laid down by the company in the campaign description. In fact, there are a lot of sites around that allow for this kind of work, its just a case of using our god friend Google to find them!
Try and not over do it with review posts etc though, as again you’ll lose the trust and goodwill of your readership.

4. Monetization Method #5 - Affiliate Marketing
If you’ve got a loyal readership or if your blog is getting a reasonable amount of visitors then you might want to write a few posts recommending certain services and products and then provide a link to that product’s website. Of course the link you will provide will be a cleverly disguised affiliate link which will then allow you to make a commission on any purchases made by the visitors that visited that site through your link. You don’t want to make every post an advert though encouraging people to buy products. Make sure you give honest recommendations so as to maintain your integrity with your readership ad build trust. You might also want to try and build an email list using your blog so as you can email your subscribers from time to time with updates on your blogs and affiliate promotions.

5. Monetization Method #5 - Sell Advertising Space
This is one of the simplest and easy ones to do. Now before you can sell advertising space you want your blog to be getting a bit of traffic. You don’t need thousands of visitors a day, but the more visitors you have, the more you can charge for advertising. To start off with, I’d recommend joining a couple of forums like sitepoint.com and digitalpoint.com and looking through the “advertisers” section in the market place. There you can see what kinds of prices are being charged on websites with or without traffic. So for example, if a website with 20k visitors a day is selling a “text link ad” for $100 a month and your site only gets a thousand visitors a day, then for a similar ad, you should be charging less than $100 a month.

You get the idea.

Go to these marketplaces and see what advertising space is popular with people looking to advertise. Make sure you do your research and find a good price point. Once you have done that, post an offer to sell advertising space yourself. Remember to post your site’s stats up and be honest about your traffic numbers and where possible provide proof.

Make sure you don’t let advertisers pay for too many months in advance. The more traffic your site gets, the better Pagerank you receive, the more you can charge for advertising. Once you have mastered all this you can join various ad networks that can make the whole process easier, pay you on a performance basis or simply get you in front of a larger marketplace.
Some blogs make thousands of dollars a month with advertising in many different obscure niches. The best bit about this, it takes virtually no work to maintain to keep the money pouring into your Paypal and bank account!

So there are 5 of the most popular things you can do to make money with your blog. Some you can do today and see results with today, and some that take a little longer. If you’re a smart cookie, you’ll have noticed a trend in all of the methods I have mentioned. The more traffic your site has, the more money you can make. That really will be the key to your success. You can still make money with a little traffic, and ten invest that little bit of money into generating more traffic. Once you get that traffic you can start charging more and making more money and then suddenly you are in profit. It doesn’t happen overnight, it might take a month or two of work, but it is doable and people are doing it every day.
It doesn’t matter if your blog isn’t the best, keep it simple and get some damn content up on it! Worry about tweaking it and making it super cool later! Just build some backlinks and get some traffic to that thing!

So I hope this post has helped you out in figuring out what you want to do to make money from your blog. There are other ways you can profit from your blog, but these are some of the quickest, easiest and most basic ways of making with a blog. I wish you all the best, and as usual, if you’ve got any questions or anything to say about my post today, feel free to reach out, get in touch and leave a comment below.

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How To Make Money On The Internet?

2009-07-18T14:42:00.001+01:00

Hey friends,
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Making real money online is not a dream; it’s a business,

A REAL BUSINESS!

And as any business
You need to invest time, money, effort and be willing to learn.

There are various business models in making money from the internet but its not a “get rich scheme”, it involves some intelligent work.
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4 basic factors that can help you make money fast on the net…

1. Knowledge of the market, products and models you want to monetize
2. Set –up a guide, a plan of action based on your decision above to help you along the way
3. Have a system that works
4. Be focus on one thing at a time

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with this blog, I hope to achieve these objectives;

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To begin, first and foremost, a successful business starts from acquisition of the basic skills to profitably run a business. It’s only logical. For example, most stuff you need to learn from can be found just by a simple goggle search.
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I have been making money from the net for some long time now and with more than 17 highly profitable sites/blogs, I will tell you that this is easy if you put your mind to it, it is the easiest business you can ever think of, especially if you are lazy like me!

Making money online is EASY IF YOU KNOW……

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Have a successful day!

Dan Ohis
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