Some of the common questions are. “Well, how do I make a website and how do I make money off it?” The answer is pretty simple. You can follow this step by step tutorial on how you can create your very own free online website with free web providers like Blogger, or with your own hosting provider, to make money online. Okay, lets get started.
1. Choose Your Hosting Provider
Here, I’ll list a couple of free well known hosting providers, which allows you to create your very website completely free using a sub-domain of course. If you want to register your very own domain, I recommend registering one from GoDaddy because they are the cheapest. You can look for promo codes to make domain registration even cheaper for the first year as well from the Digital Point Forums. If you want your very own free co.cc domain instead, register for one here completely free.
These are all great free hosting providers that will provide you all the essential disk space you need to easily start your very own website and be able to display advertisements to make money. That, we will learn later on. Free hosting sites are great practice dummies before starting your very own serious website.
If you want to consider paid hosting for your serious site, some great starter hosts that will completely fit all your needs in terms of dealing with web disk space and bandwidth are listed here. You should consider paid hosting if you are serious about managing and making money off your own website because there a lot of things that come into play, such as, stability, brand, and etc. Also, it is pretty cool to say to your friends that this your very own personal website that you are managing to make money off.
Blogger Users Don’t Have to Read This
Some great free online blog platforms are Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla. I have not tried any others web platform such as ZenCart, simply because I only own a blog. If you were wondering, this blog runs under the blog platform Wordpress. The plugins that come along with it, are simply awesome.
2. Choose a Web Template
Choosing a web template can be rather hard. When deciding which best fits your website, you must already have an idea of what you want your website to be about, because if you made a site dedicated to candy, and your blog template says batman, would that really make sense to you?
These are all free sources that give away free templates for you to use for the respective blog platforms, free of charge.
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3. Building Your Website
After setting up your website with your hosting provider or after signing up with one of the free hosting providers, you can now simply add content to your website. None the less, content is the most important key to building up a reputable website that can both provide users the information they are looking for, and at the same time make you money. Without content, your site is of no value to anyone but your self. Be sure that the topic you are writing about isn’t too board nor narrow, and is somewhat of your interest in writing about it. Adding some great functionality, such as widgets and tools to your websites are great in terms of adding more value to your website. The more complete your site looks, the more valuable it becomes.
Once you have added some valuable content to your website, move on to the next step. Make sure it is of it’s highest quality because your content will determine whether or not visitors will come back or not.
4. Start Promoting Your Website
4th step is promoting your website. Without readers, your site is like a dark alley. You must have some activity to engage readers to come and read your stuff, and hopefully come back again if it is good. There are many methods of getting readers, or in webmaster language, web traffic. I’ll list a few great sources to get some great online traffic.
- Social Networks
- Forums
- Commenting
- Search Engines (Information in the Google SEO category)
- Friends
Also, never fall for those traffic exchanges or sites that say they will give your site free traffic. Most of the time the traffic is of little worth and the exchanges is just a time waster
5. Now, Monetize Your Website
This is where the money comes rolling in. Once you have somewhat built up a large community of readers, there are many ways to making money online off them indirectly where both the readers and the writers both are happy, and mutually benefit from each other. Readers get valuable information. Writers get a bit of income.
- Through banner advertisements, like I have. (PPC)
- Through affiliate links. (-)
- Through sales. (PPS)
- Through impressions. (CPM)
- Through networks.
- Through leads. (CPA)
These are all great sources to making passive income with your website. A great list of publisher programs that you can enroll your site into, to maximize it’s earnings and make the most money online are listed here. Although it says, these are alternatives to Google Adsense, try Google Adsense simply because it is one of the best sources of income for our website. If that doesn’t work, simply hop onto another network and decide which is the better network to promote for your website. All websites have different methods that work best for their own particular website. You just have to find out which works best for your site on your own to maximize it’s true potential income to make money.
Web creation is today’s buzz. Almost everyone wants to have their own personal website with their own personal domain, but how exactly do you register a domain name? Domain registration is one of the most easiest and not to say, one of the most cheapest services you will ever buy for your web needs. Domain registration shouldn’t be looked as a complicated process, it is rather an easy process really.
Picking a Domain Registrar
Domain registration… The first step would be to look for the most cheapest domain registrar and in most cases, it is GoDaddy. With GoDaddy, prices range from sometimes $10.69/yr for domain registration, to sometimes $2.19. I recommend searching up the latest coupons before purchasing any domains from any domain registrar. Registering your domain with any domain seller is fine, however, most of the time webmasters are picky in terms of who their registrars are, simply because of security and the pricing. Here are a few reputable domain registrars that most webmasters trust.
Registering your first couple of domains on any of these providers is a great choice. They provide great support and on top of that, affordable pricing.
Picking the Perfect Domain Name
Before fully registering a domain name, you must fully understand and decide what you want your domain to be called. This shouldn’t be a hasty step as picking a domain name will be the image of your website. In terms of picking out your domain name, remember that having a memorable domain name is the best in the long run. I like to lay it out in a table like this.
- 1 Worded domains, Best
- 2 Worded domains, Awesome
- 3 Worded domains, Mediocre
- 4 Worded domains, Long
Don’t let this table dictate your overall decision, however, it is a great reference for those who are unsure. Catchy domain names are most often more remembered. This is a marketing technique that will forever be powerful.
How to Register a Domain Name
The process of registering a domain name is a simple process of picking out the perfect domain, then purchasing it. Here are a few video presentations that I found off YouTube that can prove to be beneficial on how to register a domain name step-by-step.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYbSIG_87QU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhQ06S5vwLE
Linking the Web Host to the Domain
After you have finished checking out your domain, your next step is to link your brand new domain to your web host’s name servers. If you don’t have an affordable web host, then that means you won’t have a website, however, we can solve that. Here are 5 Ideal Web Hosts That I Recommend.
In my case, if you did a who.is search for my domain, my name servers are from Fivebean. Your objective is to do the same and link your domain to your web host by changing your default name servers to your web host’s, so you can get started in building your website with your brand new domain. If you don’t know what your web host’s name servers are, simply contact them, then adjust your default ones. Once you have adjusted your domain’s name servers, in a couple of hours, your web host will pick up the domain and you should see that you can now use the domain name that you just purchased.
Keyword research is very important in terms of picking out which keywords best suits your site’s theme as well as which will show longer lasting results. In most cases, webmasters try to find low competitive keywords that are easy to rank for and have a high search volume with tools like the Google keyword suggester, however, there are some common mistakes webmasters are making in terms of keyword researching.
The 5 Keyword Research Mistakes
- The first mistake when people are using the Google keyword suggester tool, purposely made for Adwords, is that when they find the right specific keyword, they leave the option on ‘broad.’ The more accurate way to see the search volume for a phrase is to change ‘broad’ to ‘exact.’ I see too many webmasters repeat this mistake and rank for a keyword that they think is gold, but to later find out it is worth almost nothing.
- The second is that people simply don’t research with multiple tools. Although Google’s tool is the most accurate of them all, no tool is 100% accurate. It is best to compare results with other keyword tools like the one from Wordtracker to guarantee your hitting a keyword that is actually worth trying to rank for.
- When looking at how competitive a keyword is, you should put the keyword in quotes, like this. (“Keyword you want to rank for”) Then, you should put the keyword in Google’s search engine with the allintitle: command, to give you an idea of how much competition you have to dealt with beforehand.
- People are not realizing that tools it self cannot determine everything accurately. One can and should use common sense as well. Anticipate what people would search up, and try to rank for that keyword if it is uncompetitive.
- Competing for a really competitive one word keyword. Unless your Microsoft or some big multimillion company, you won’t see results for a high tier keyword like “money” anytime soon. Long tail keywords are the way to go and are easier to rank for. Some long tail keywords even out shine single word keywords in terms of search volume.
Google SEO has always been an on-going battle for many webmasters, luckily, Google is taking action. For the most part, Google’s major concern are the users doing the searching, where quality and relevance is all that matters to Google – reason why Google’s algorithm was invented, to get rid of spam and rank high quality sites on top. Google’s ideal goal is to serve users the best relevant results and in order to do so, this involves Geo-targeting, looking at web surf behaviors, and much more. In other words, Google is looking at a lot more factors now more than ever to rank a site. There was once a time where getting a simple link from a trusted source was enough to rank universally for any good keyword, nowadays, it is a lot more complex. Google is now taking into consideration bounce rates, search behaviors, time on site before a surfer leaves, and many more factors to rank a certain site. They are really trying to push webmasters to create better quality content that is engaging for users. It has been noted that back when search engine optimization was still very young, there were only around 128 factors in deciding a site’s rankings, nowadays, the tides have changed and we are now looking at above 200. As you may know, Google doesn’t like to reveal much information on how they rank sites, however one thing still stands clear, is that Google wants to push high quality sites up and low quality sites down. If you take into consideration in adding quality content to your website that has some of these engaging components like pictures, videos, and audio and much more, you are looking at the right path. Quality search is the future and in order to stay in the game of SEO, one must adapt.
Here is a video from 2008 with Matt Cutts talking about the future of Google Search and how webmasters should adapt to the new factors being presented in their ranking algorithm.
It seems that Google is now having another eye on web analytics and now not just on links on determining search engine rankings.
Another video from Bruce Clay at PubCon in 2008 regarding what he anticipates about the future of Google rankings. If you don’t know much about Bruce Clay, you can read more about him here.
In essence, we are now looking at a new field of “optimizing” for the search engine Google. Now, it isn’t just looking at building links to rank higher or JUST on-page optimization, there are many other factors as well that determines a site’s rankings. The more Google becomes more sophisticated, the more factors we are going to be looking at as webmasters. Google is really trying to clean up it’s mess on really trying to eliminate low quality sites that just clog up the search engine results and they are willing to look deep down at web analytics in order to push spam.
And what connection does these 2008 interviews regarding Google search have on us today?
If you haven’t noticed, Google has most recently pushed it’s new caffeine update search results in one of Google’s data center. You can bet that they have been testing some of the factors mentioned in the videos and have incorporated some in their algorithm. I wouldn’t even be surprised if they incorporated social buzz from sites like Twitter, Digg, and Mixx, as one of their factors in their algorithm. Google officially plans on slowly pushing the FULL caffeine search results to their live search results after the holidays. This is just another step further into advance search and Google is willing to take webmasters and users all the way.
Ranking for the search engines is a huge topic because it is universally the best place to get organic traffic, traffic that is targeted as well as being valuable. The reason why search engine traffic is such a great source to get new visitors is because it delivers constant streams of targeted traffic that you can monetize easily. How the traffic is targeted is because since search engines like Google allow users to type what ever query they want, chances are, if someone searches up how to make money, they are looking for just that. You can think of the search engines as a funnel and what comes out of the funnel, is direct targeted visitors who are interested in whatever relates to their query.
If you are just beginning Google SEO, you probably hear a lot of webmasters say start with a long tail keyword. What is a long tail keyword? A long tail keyword is more lengthier search query that is generally easier to rank for than the general broader keywords. For example, if you wanted to rank for Make Money Online, it is generally better to start with How to Make Money Online because not only is it easier to rank for the longer one, it is more directed and targeted than the broader keyword Make Money Online. This definitely means that if you rank for a longer tail keyword, the visitors are generally of more quality and are more specific of what they are interested in. As for the broad keyword, Make Money Online, it may be harder to depict.
Also, another bonus to ranking for longer tail keywords is that since they generally have much lower competition, meaning less competing sites that want to also rank for that keyword, you are more likely to see traffic sooner than lets say trying to rank for Make Money Online. Because it could take months, even years but as for longer tail ones, it could just be weeks or even days to see results.
There are many bonuses to targeting the long tail keyword. Generally because it takes less time to get actual results with long tail keywords than the broad keywords, you are most likely to feel at ease and see progress. As for the ranking for the broad keyword, progression may be slow and the competition may be stiff because remember there are only 10 search results on the front page of Google. And if you are trying to rank for a general keyword like money, there could be weeks without any improvement in the search results because it is that competitive!
In no means do I mean that you should target only long tail keywords. After you have conquered a few long tail keywords and you think your website has become more of an authority in the search engines and you are seeing that you out rank most posts you write about, you can then trail off to ranking for the more competitive terms. In my eyes, it is all about consistency and trust to gain authority in the search engines. Stick to what you do best and commit. Regardless of what most experienced webmasters say, I see a lot of new webmasters fall for the same mistake over and over trying to rank for a broad keyword that would take months, even years to rank for.
An overview is to take it easy with broad keywords and target long tail keywords until you believe that you may have a chance. The first keyword MoolaDays tried to rank for was Ways to Make Money Online, then we jumped to Make Money Online and other relatively hard, money related keywords. One thing I can say is that once you have taken down a longer tail keyword, it becomes much easier to rank for a broad keyword. Take it step-by-step because you will not only see results faster, it is a good practice overall for your mind (a lot of webmasters give up or go crazy when they take the opposite direction going broad to long). It just takes patience as well as commitment to succeed in ranking for these terms. A lot of people overlook these values.
How to Effectively Market With Email Marketing
Building a email list in any form of business, is a must simply because it is a new found method to getting repeated visits and possibly even sales. Email marketing, allows users to become consistent readers or in other words subscribers. The main purpose of email marketing and building a list of interested readers is so you can communicate and entice readers to do the action you are leading to. Whether it be purchasing one of your products, or visiting a certain website, building a subscriber based newsletter is essentially beneficial for any form of business. You don’t want customers to take a look at your website and go, you want to incorporate methods to better increase your conversions. And with the help of email marketing, you will learn exactly why building a newsletter is beneficial for both you and the customers.
The purpose of email marketing
Essentially why email marketing is mandatory for any form of business is because it pulls in relatively new customers become repeating buyers. There are few areas where email marketing covers, which you can benefit tremendously just from incorporating a certain form of email marketing:
- Personalization: We know that emails are for personal uses. Ever acquiring an email from someone, generally is always taken to a personal level. Email marketing utilizes this feeling and can be used for your benefit.
- Quick Communication: In addition to personalization, email marketing makes it very easy for customers to get up-to-date information relatively easily. This quality not only helps to increase sales, it will keep loyal customers happy as well.
- Builds Relationships: Nowadays, with the technology available to marketers, it is possible for marketers to bring email marketing to a personal level and incorporate dynamic names within their email. This will not only increase your overall presence with your customers, it will make them feel more secure the longer you stay intact with your customers in your newsletter. Which means, possibly more sales, sign-ups, and possibly new visitors from referrals.
Now that you know the benefits of maintaining an email list of loyal customers, it is time to take action and put email marketing to use. To incorporate email marketing, I tremendously recommend one of the following methods:
- FeedBurner – If you operate a blog or only want to maintain a newsletter for the purpose of only releasing web updates, FeedBurner is simply the ultimate solution (best of all, it is free). Otherwise, if you plan on sending weekly messages, I recommend a different solution listed below.
- Aweber – Aweber is probably the leading email marketing solution which most marketers rely on due to their impeccable easy to use interface as well as their fast reliable servers which you can trust. Their prices are fairly decent and I believe about 80% of marketers I have seen, use Aweber for their email marketing campaigns.
- MailChimp – MailChimp is a relatively new solution which I see a fairly large number of marketers use for their email marketing campaigns. Although it is one of the newer solutions nowadays, I’ve heard that they do not disappoint when it comes to delivery.
After you have found a provider, your next step is to learn the very basic fundamentals on how to write a good clear subject line which subscribers in your newsletter will undoubtedly check on what you have to say. Knowing how to entice subscribers to click on your email with a good subject line is crucial to really making email marketing work. If no one opens your email, all your effort goes down the drain. That is why it is very important to know how to lure readers to click on newly released emails through tested techniques. Here are some methods I recommend you using in your email marketing campaign, if ever.
Incorporate the three benefits that I have listed above (relationships, personalization, and communication) and use it for your advantage by writing enticing subject lines. Here are some examples of subject lines you can study in your email campaign.
- Make Money Online Today – Bad
- Make Money Online Today By Reading This – Better
- Read This Report on How to Make Money Online Today – Fair
- Hi [Name], Read Our Report on How to Make Money Online Today – Great
- Hi [Name], Did You Receive our Report on How to Make Money Online Today? – Best
As you can see, there is a difference between each subject line and as it transitions, it becomes more attractive. The hardest part besides building up a list for your newsletter, is trying to make readers open up your email. With good practice and good usage of using personalization to your advantage, you can almost guarantee that the majority of your readers will open up your email.
You are not only limited to using personalization and using questions for your advantage, there are many other effective strategies to make a subject line clear and attractive to readers.
- Use scarcity for your advantage (ex. 10 Free Reports for Next 10 Customers).
- Leave readers hanging with the subject line, don’t give it all away (ex. Today I am going to reveal my secret money making method).
- Offer incentives or start a special promotion.
- Use big well known reputable names within your subject line.
- Preach about your success (ex. I made $3,000 this month from Internet Marketing and how you can too!).
- Don’t have to be literate and only capitalize important words or phrases within your subject line.
- Relate your matter to certain recent big events.
- Talk about your personal life or experiences.
- Use numbers as well as symbols when necessary.
And the list can go on and on. There are many ways to effectively market with email marketing and once you have a good subject line, your subscribers are practically sold. A great technique I have found to be very useful for me is to become a subscriber for a well known Internet “guru”, which utilizes email marketing and study their methods. Uncover how they cleverly sell their products and determine how quick, or slow their process is and use that knowledge for your self. Chances are, the so called “gurus” have already tested their methods and tweaked their methods hundreds of times to increase conversions. If you study their methods, you don’t have to go through the same process, except skip to the most effective methods because that is what is being openly presented when you become a subscriber. Utilize email marketing for your business ventures and most of all, study how your competitors as well as well known gurus, go about making profits from their list and what techniques or creative ideas they incorporate to increase their sales.
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Cash In on The Information Wave
This article is intended to teach you step by step how to get started and more importantly, make money with ebook marketing. We will teach you how to start making money with ebooks. Please leave us comments, questions, or success stories so that we can improve this guide.
An ebook, as defined by Wikipedia, is "an electronic (or digital) equivalent of a conventional printed book." As the internet becomes more and more popular, so to does the transmission of digital information such as ebooks. Naturally, most of us want to find a way to profit from this new trend. If you are one of these people who are looking to make money with ebooks, you have come to the right place.
Understanding and mastering these six areas of an eBay auction are absolutely essential to maximize the success and profitability of your auctions.
There are three basic ways to make money with ebooks. Writing your own ebooks, selling someone else's ebooks, or both.
Writing Your Own ebook - First, let's take a look at writing your own ebooks. It's not all that difficult and if you have ever written an essay for a school assignment you have all the prerequisites already. You don't have to be an expert on your ebook subject, although it helps, as most information can be found online and in your local library. You don't even have to be a good writer as most word processors have grammar and spell checking tools.
So, once you decide that you want to write your own ebook, you need to find a "niche" market or subject to write about. The more specific you make your ebook, the better it will sell.
Your next step is to complete an outline and table of contents. Having an outline will help you organize your thoughts and ensure that your new ebook flows well and keeps the reader focused. Once your initial outline is done (you can modify it as you go) you need to start your research. Get a pen and paper and spend several hours researching web sites related to each and every chapter of your ebook. Taking notes with a pen and paper will help ensure that you do not run into plagiarism issues. Be sure to spend a few hours in your local library as well. Research is one of the most important steps, even if you consider yourself an expert on your topic.
Once your research is completed, you are ready to begin writing. Use your outline to keep your efforts organized and on topic. Start with a rough draft and then get your friends and family to proof read it. Never do your one proof reading and editing!
Once your ebook is written, ad some nice graphics and a cover page. Compile the ebook into an ebook format (I suggest pdf) and you are finished. You should not have a unique and original ebook that you can sell.
Selling Someone Else's ebooks - Many of us don't have the "author" bug in us and the prospect of writing our own ebook reminds us of visiting the dentist. Do not fear, there are literally thousands of authors out there that need help selling there ebooks.
Selling ebooks is just another off-shoot of affiliate marketing. Sign up with an number of affiliate programs and sell the ebooks you want using your own website, email lists, or even word of mouth. Many people make their living selling ebooks using affiliate programs. You can read more about making money with affiliate marketing here.
Writing and Selling Your One ebook - This is actually a lot harder that people think. Most of us are good at writing or marketing, very few of us are good at both. However, if you feel you can handle both roles you can make even more money.
Use the section above to write your own ebook. Read out affiliate marketing section to better understand how affiliates work. Then, sign up as an advertiser with any number of affiliate programs.
As an advertiser, you tell the affiliate networks what price you want your new ebook sold for and what commission you want to offer your affiliates. In addition, you will want to make your own landing pages for your ebook so that your affiliates can send new customers to your ebook. You can read more about making a website here.
Obviously, this guide is designed to provide you with the basics to get started. Please let us know if you would like any additional information added or feel free to leave a comment below. We truly want to ensure that you make money with ebooks.
The 3 Most Common Mistakes
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Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning some money online. This program gives everybody a chance to make a profit through the Internet. Since these affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement and pays a commission on a regular basis, more an more people are now willing in this business.
However, like all businesses, there are lots of pitfalls in the affiliate marketing business. Committing some of the most common mistakes will cost the marketers a large portion taken from the profit they are making everyday. That is why it is better to avoid them than be regretful in the end.
Mistake number 1: Choosing the wrong affiliate.
Many people want to earn from affiliate marketing as fast as possible. In their rush to be part of one, they tend to choose a bandwagon product. This is the kind of products that the program thinks is "hot". They choose the product that is in demand without actually considering if the product appeals to them. This is not a very wise move obviously.
Instead of jumping on the bandwagon, try top choose a product in which you are truly interested in. For any endeavor to succeed, you should take some time to plan and figure out your actions. Pick a product that appeals to you. Then do some research about that product to see if they are in demand. Promoting a product you are more passionate about is easier than promoting one for the sake of the earnings only.
Mistake number 2: Joining too many affiliate programs.
Since affiliate programs are very easy to join, you might be tempted to join multiples of affiliate programs to try and maximize the earnings you will be getting. Besides you may think that there is nothing wrong and nothing to lose by being part of many affiliate programs.True, that is a great way to have multiple sources of income. However, joining multiple programs and attempting to promote them all at the same time will prevent you from concentrating on each one of them.
The result? The maximum potential of your affiliate program is not realized and the income generated will not exactly be as huge as you were thinking initially it would. The best way to get excellent result is by joining just one program that pays a 40% commission at least. Then give it your best effort by promoting your products enthusiastically. As soon as you see that it is already making a reasonable profit, then maybe you can now join another affiliate program.
The technique is to do it slowly but surely. There is really no need to rush into things, especially with affiliate marketing. With the way things are going, the future is looking real bright and it seems affiliate marketing will be staying for a long time too.
Mistake number 3: Not buying the product or using the service.
As an affiliate, you main purpose is to effectively and convincingly promote a product or service and to find customers. For you to achieve this purpose, you must be able to relay to the customers that certain product and service. It is therefore difficult for you to do this when you yourself have not tried these things out. Thus, you will fail to promote and recommend them convincingly. You will also fail to create a desire in your customers to avail any of what you are offering.
Try the product or service personally first before you sign up as an affiliate to see if it is really delivering what it promises. If you have done so, then you are one of the credible and living testaments aware of its advantages and disadvantages. Your customers will then feel the sincerity and truthfulness in you and this will trigger them to try them out for themselves.
Many affiliate marketers makes these mistakes and are paying dearly for their actions. To not fall into the same situation they have been in, try to do everything to avoid making the same mistakes.
Time is the key. Take the time to analyze your marketing strategy and check if you are in the right track. If done properly, you will be able to maximize your affiliate marketing program and earn higher profits.
You should now understand what affiliate programs are, how they work and completed our tutorial articles. If you do not meet the above criteria, we strongly suggest you read out affiliate networks information pages. You can find more related article on the lower part of this page.
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A Step by Step Guide
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Creating a web site is crucial to your home business success and your efforts to make money online, regardless of what home business method you decide to go with. In fact, aside from determination and will, your own website(s) is the single most important factor to your success.
With the advancement in web programming, you can easily create a working web site using many of the free web site generators or software. We will explain how to get started building your web site in a minute. First, let's review some of the benefits of having your own web site.
One of the biggest hurdles a home business company has is reputation and trust. Why should anyone trust you with their money, especially when there are much bigger more reputable companies around. With online shopping, internet users can easily go to websites like Walmart.com and buy almost anything they could possibly need. Having a professional looking web site is one way that you can combat the "big guys". A web site is your chance to talk to the customer without the customer feeling pressured.
On a side note, did you know that over 95% of all Internet users use the internet to search information only? Your web site should be designed to educate the customer on your product or business. Tell them everything they could possible want to know in an informative and non-pushy manner and you will not only fulfil their need of more information but, you will also gain some credibility in the customers eyes. If they see you as an expert in your field or product, they will be more likely to buy from you.
In addition to creating a "professional" impression of your home business, a web site allows you to generate extra income with little to no effort. Affiliate marketing is a good example of how any business can make extra cash just by having a web site.
Let's look at an example. Bob Shoemaker in PA started his own business as a personal finance consultant. He traveled around to his friends, families and referrals assisting with debt management and retirement planning. He built a web site so that his potential clients could get more information after his sales pitch (if they were still uncertain). His potential clients would use the business card he gave them, log on to his web site and further educate themselves about personal finance. Why should they use his services? What other options could the look into? What about credit card debt? Bob was able to answer all of these questions and more without pressuring the client. Even if the potential client did not hire Bob as their finance consultant, Bob knew they were still in the market for something.
The fact that they were visiting his web site proved their interests in personal finance. He then added affiliate links on his site that linked to credit card and debt consolidation companies. By including these affiliates, Bob was able to get up to $20.00 per client that signed up with each one of his affiliates links. If Bob ended up losing a potential client (they did not want his services) at least he was able to make some money of the person. In the end, Bob was earning half of his income from personal consulting and the other half from his affiliate campaign.
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Way back in the mid 1970s, when the term 'paperless office' was first coined, many of us truly believed that it was not only a possibility but inevitability. As personal computers became ever more widespread, and the internet faster and more connected, that idea took on greater currency but even with the increasing popularity of the ebook we still live in a very paper-full environment and our offices are yet to become paperless. But perhaps the soothsayers were just a little too pre emptive in their declaration and it's not the case that they were wrong. Little in technology goes according to plan and people, in general, are a conservative bunch. People like their books, their newspapers, their magazine stands and paper flyers - the death of paperwork may not be upon us yet, although that may only be because habits change slowly. But habits are changing.
Whether you are surfing websites or ebay, the presence of ebooks on the internet lately can't be ignored. Where there used to be a few simple formats, such as the widespread PDF, there are now a wide range of ebook technologies and means of viewing them - you no longer need a computer to read an ebook but can do so on your PDA, your mobile phone, or a number of other devices. With the advent of the PDA and internet surfing mobile phone, it is now possible to read ebooks in almost any environment and on an ever increasing range of devices; as digital ink and digital paper develop, the traditional paper and ink book might yet be in its last dying days.
What this means is that the market for ebooks is expanding and developing; more people are getting access to them through mobile devices and, therefore, more people are reading them and accessing them. Whereas in the early days ebooks were seen as of low or patchy value, and 'throw away', they are more and more being seen as a credible alternative to the paper format. And in a world of 'all-in-one' and 'on-the-go' gadgets, such laptops, mobile phones, portable organizers, ipods, mp3 players, and DVD players - the ebook is a far more portable format, among devices, than is a paper book and is gradually becoming 'cool' among the geeks as adverts for the next new PDA show people reading classical texts on them. Everyone else will soon follow.
The most popular ebook format remains the PDF. There is more competition now, from other formats, but the PDF has been around longest and has the widest circulation so it's certainly here to stay for the time being. The PDF is a file format originally created by the software company Adobe Systems and was designed to provide a standardized format for distributing, storing and editing publishable documents. At the time of its inception one of the main difficulties in the computer environment was the variety of hardware and software formats which made exchanging and sharing files a severe difficulty due to a range of incompatibility issues. The PDF file format was created as a solution to this problem, back in the early 1990s, and was presented as a device independent and display independent document format; over time it has become more and more versatile and accessible by more and more devices.
When first distributed, the Adobe PDF creation tools and the software necessary to read them cost money; so their use was restricted to professional environments, especially among print and publishing. But when the Adobe Reader tool became free to download and use, the PDF quickly became the de facto ebook format. More recent versions of the format allow click able hyperlinks within the text as well as a specialized Adobe reader for PDA technologies which allows for reflowable text in small devices.
Ever since the PDF format became an 'open standard', not only is there free distribution and easy availability of the Adobe reader, but a variety of PDF creation tools can be found at cheaper prices than Adobe's own, and even free. All Adobe products support the creation of PDF documents, but so do many third party products such as PDFCreator, OpenOffice, Mac OSX and FOP. PDFOnline is a website which will turn your documents into PDFs free in seconds.
For a product format as 'cool' and in demand as ebooks, which can be produced at such a low cost, those with imagination and drive can still build a profitable digital publishing empire. They are cheap to produce, easy to distribute and have no delivery costs attached either. With the new technologies clambering to accommodate them as yet another mobile activity ebooks will only get more popular. As a business person all you need to do is find a niche and get writing.
Finding More Money in Your Website
This page is intended to assist you in finding additional forms of revenue in your website, Please leave us comments, questions, or success stories so that we can improve this guide.
Owning your own business is a dream that most of us have entertained a least a few times in our lives. If you are one of the few that has actually started your business, you have my congratulations. The majority of home business ideas or concepts never get beyond the “wishful thinking” stage. Acting on your dreams and ideas is the first and most important step.
One of the biggest problems new home businesses face however is money. It makes sense then that money, or lack thereof, is the single most common reason for home business failures. If you have your own home business or are hoping to start one, it is imperative that you evaluate every potential income stream possible.
The first step in diversifying your business and also an important factor in any successful home business is the website. If you don’t have one, get one as it is unlikely you will get anywhere without one. Search the internet for free website templates if you are not skilled enough to build your own.
Once you have a professional looking website, you are ready to start diversifying. Let’s evaluate some of the ways you can earn money with your website, regardless of your product or business concept.
Affiliate Marketing is the process of placing ads and or links on your website that refer to other websites with similar products or content. You will get paid a commission any time a visitor to your site clicks and completes and action on your partner’s website. Some affiliate programs, such as those in the credit card industry, pay as much as $45.00 per qualified lead.
You can search for available affiliate programs using any of the search engines, or you can go through one of the affiliate marketing companies like Commission Junction or Lead Flash. Make sure your site is up and running prior to applying for an affiliate position or your request will most likely be denied.
One of the advantages of being an affiliate is that your partner company will supply you will all the advertising material and graphics you need.
Advertising
Another potentially unlimited income source is selling ad space on your web site. In the early stages of your website your best bet is to stay with packaged programs, such as Google’s Adsense or Kanoodle. There are dozens of companies offering this type of program so again search the internet for other options.
As your site grows in traffic (unique visitors per month) so does the value of ad space on your site. Eventually, you can earn up to $1,000 a month or so per ad. Again, the value of your as space is directly proportionate to your traffic so ensure that you are always finding ways to increase it.
Know eBay, Sell More
Making eBay a genuine business can be an extremely stressful job. If you want to be successful on eBay you must know your business from the inside out. The transition can be made easier with implementation of a few simple strategies:
Know the items you have in stock
Create a list of vendors that you purchase items from
Know the costs associated with your items
Keep in contact with your customers so that you establish repeat business. Continue giving them updates on items that you think they will be interested in purchasing - base this on the first purchase.
Establish exact numbers - buy at the right price, sell at the right markup, receive consistent profits
Utilize a software program to keep track of your inventory and cost sheets. Quick Books is a great resource.
Keep a file of your payment and shipping information. Mark the orders with the following: pending, paid, shipped or canceled
Use a Point-of-Sale software program to manage your business. Most include inventory, order, customer, promotions links. These can be quite expensive so choose wisely.
Knowing eBay
Knowing eBay and knowing your business are essential in creating a successful online business. If you implement the majority of the above, I can promise you that your business will begin to thrive. Be smart and be on top of your day-to-day work . . . you will see huge benefits if you do this.
This article is intended to teach you step by step how to get started and more importantly, make money with online auctions. We will teach you how to start a home based online auction business. Please leave us comments, questions, or success stories so that we can improve this guide.
Earning money from online auctions is one of the best ways to get started with your own home based business. It's one of the easiest home businesses to start, maintain, and earn a profit with. In fact almost anyone can do it, even teenagers! The concept is simple; buy a product cheap and sell it for a higher price. Think of it like having a neighborhood yards sale, you can sell old items that are just laying around the house or forgotten about in your attic. You can find unused items from your neighbors and friends, or buy a product online for cheap.
Does that mean that anyone can make money online? Well, yes in fact over $44.3 billion in gross merchandise has been sold through eBay last year alone. If you consider all of the other online auction sites like Half.com, uBid.com, ShopGoodWill.com etc. you can imagine why making money with online auctions has quickly become one of the most profitable business models available.
So, ask yourself this question; "How would you like to earn over $27,000 this year working from home"? Sounds pretty good right? O. K. now consider that $27,500 per year is only 0.001% of the $27.5 Billion sold through PayPal using eBay last year. While it's important to set realistic goals, be sure not to "sell" yourself short. Imagine making 0.01% of that $27.5 Billion. That equals $275,000 per year and that is only 0.01% of the online auction sales.
So, how can you start making money with online auctions? Well, the first step is to realize that the only person that can make it happen is you. Once you are motivated to start making money with auctions, read as much information as you can. The more you know the more money you will make.
For the purpose of keeping the business concept simple, we will concentrate only on eBay (the largest online auction site). However, as you become more proficient in online auctions be sure to expand your arena and try some other online auctions as well.
What you will need to get started:
- A credit card, debit card, or other pre-paid card
- Computer and Internet Access
- Product - Buy low and sell high
- A few hours a day
- A quite work environment
If you are not familiar with eBay, now would be a good time to go look at their site. It's easy to understand even though at first glance in may appear a little cluttered. You can sell anything you can imagine here. For example, a couple from colorado recently sold real snow from the last snow storm. So, your imagination is your only limitation and remember that one person's junk is another person's treasure.
Obviously, getting the product at a low price and selling for a high price is the "meat and potatoes" of this business and is also the most complicated part. There are a number of wholesale warehouse that sell items for the specific purpose of allowing you to resell the products on online auctions. Often you can find items for sale with up to an 80% discount.
If all of this seems a little overwhelming, you might want to check out www.bidfuel.com. The site is designed to streamline the process of selling items on ebay and include an exclusive member warehouse and ebay auction wizard (it makes the auctions for you!) All you have to do is select which items to sell, and an auction template is made. The product is then directly shipped to your customer once they make a purchase. You don't have to manage any inventory either, it's all done for you. For a limited time bid fuel is offering free service and an ebay power user's bible. Be sure to check out bid fuel's online auction wizard here or you can read more about bid fuel and the other auction related sites here. Start your journey and make money with online auctions.
Turn Web Traffic To Cash
This article is intended to teach you step by step how to get started and more importantly, make money using affiliate marketing. We will teach you how to start a home based affiliate business. Please leave us comments, questions, or success stories so that we can improve this guide. You will find other affiliate related guides and articles on the lower section of this page.
What is affiliate marketing? "Affiliate Marketing" is a popular method of promoting web businesses in which you (the affiliate) are rewarded for every visitor, subscriber and/or customer provided through your efforts, much like the practice of paying finder's-fees for the introduction of new clients to a business. Compensation may be made based on a certain value for each visit (Pay per click), registrant (Pay per lead), or a commission for each customer or sale (Pay per Sale), or any combination of the three.
Affiliate Marketing is one of the best ways to make money online because there is little to no scamming or fraud. In fact, many home based affiliate business owners rely on affiliate marketing for their entire income.
First, let's take a look at the overall concept of Affiliate Marketing. The process starts when a company has a successful product to offer. The company will build a web site and offer that product to the consumer (or internet user). The next hurdle the company has to overcome is getting web traffic to their site. After all, they can have a kick-butt product but if nobody knows about it, they won't make a dime.
This is where you, the affiliate marketer comes into play. As an affiliate you will have or build a web site that generates traffic and then "refer" part of that traffic to a partner company. The program works well for both the company selling the product and the affiliate because both parties make money in the process and each helps the other become more successful.
For the purpose of this article and the goal of assisting you to make money with Affiliate Programs, we will only be looking at the Cost Per Lead (C.P.L.) commission structure. A C.P.L. program is advantageous because you simply need to convince your traffic to provide their information to your partner company.
Cost Per Lead:
A cost per lead affiliate program will pay for each person or "lead" that is referred to your partner's web site. A Lead is any personal information that a visitor submits to a company for the purpose of allowing the company to solicit their product or services.
Here is a rough example: Let's say that a company offering a "make money with affiliate marketing ebook" makes an average of $40.00 profit from each sale made on their web site. They know, based off of web site statistics and sales, that one in four customers will buy their product or "convert" as it is commonly referred to. They can then offer an affiliate a certain amount of money (we will use $16.00 for our example) for each person they refer to their web site that generates a lead.
So, if an affiliate gets 100 people each month to click on an ad and fill in their information on the company's web site they would make $1600.00. The company would have made $4,000 from the referrals and it will have only cost them the $1600.00. Again, both the company and the affiliate succeed in with this method because the company has extra sales it would not have had without the home based affiliate business and the affiliate gets paid for a product they do not manage or own.
Now, I don't know about you but as for myself, I don't mind having an extra $1600.00 each month from a website that maintains itself. Now, imagine having 10 web sites that all do the same thing for different affiliate programs.
Can anyone make money as an affiliate? Well, yes all you really need is determination and dedication. Use our building a web site guides and start making money with affiliate programs today.
Make Money Blogging 
As I'm sure you've heard, blogging is becoming the easiest way to money online. Do you have a topic you enjoy? Start a blog about it and not only will you be having fun talking and learning about a topic you enjoy, you can start earning some serious dollars! These guides below will take you by the hand and show you step by step how to create a blog, let people know about your blog, and how you can make money from Google and other top internet companies!
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Make Money Trading Currencies
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All currency trading is done the FOREX Market which stands for the 'Foreign Exchange Market'.
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