Make Money Being Online
By Karen | June 17, 2008
Do you remember the beginning days of the Internet and email? Back then it was fun and exciting to have new messages. Remember “you’ve got mail”?
Things have sure changed since then. Just today in my inbox I received about 300 emails. I would guess that no less than half were about enlarging a body part that I don’t even have. Another quarter of them were about buying drugs in Canada, getting a college degree in a matter of days, some porno films that I can pick up for free, and then perhaps a few about some bank accounts that I must have acquired somehow at some banks I have never heard of. I just need to put in all my information to verify and then they will know how they can take advantage of me. Easy. Not legal, not ethical, but they must be making money.
I suspect that they must all be making money, the body part enlargers, the pharmacies, the college diploma mills, they must all be making money or why would they be so persistent in sending out all those emails?
The Internet has been a boon for entrepreneurs. There are millions of ways to make money online and most don’t even involve spam. Most are legal and most are ethical. Think about it. The world is your market.
My husband and I have worked exclusively in Internet marketing for the past 7 years. It can be done. If you are looking for an opportunity, if you want to make some extra money, if you want to work from home, put your name and email in over there at the side. You’ll get our exclusive “ewealthcode” that will give you some great tips and you just might find a way to “make money being online”!
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Work At Home Jobs & No Regrets
By Karen | June 11, 2008
Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832
Twenty years ago I had a very regular job. You know the kind. Get to work at 7:45, break at 10:15, 45 minutes for lunch at 12:00, another break at 2:15 and off at 4:30. I had all the “stuff” that comes with a regular job but I was missing that ‘satisfaction” part. I wanted to create my own life, make my own way, work when and how I wanted, and be my own boss.
So I left. Twenty years later I have no regrets. Sure, the self-employment thing hasn’t always been easy. There have been ups and there have been downs. I’ve lived through abundant times and I’ve lived through lean times.
But I still have no regrets.
Right before I left my “traditional job” I was talking to an older gentleman that worked with me. He was getting close to retirement age and he had worked there for I’m guessing 30 years or more. He told me that he envied me that I was leaving and going out on my own. He said that he wished he would have dared do that when he was younger. He said that he regretted never trying to do the things that he had thought of doing and now he felt like he was “too old”. His story touched me.
I knew that I would rather try and fail than never try at all.
If you try and fail you can always try again (and again and again if necessary) but if you never try at all you may look back with regrets and say …..
“I wish I could have…”
One thing I’ve learned in life is that it is never the things that you try to do that you regret, even if you fail but rather the things that you regret are the things you never try at all.
You have a perfect opportunity right now to make your own way (and a ton of money, too) on the Internet.
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Your Business Can Be My Internet Business
By Karen | May 21, 2008
Many people dream of getting out of the rat race, of creating abundance and freedom and really having the life of their dreams. Many people long for the freedom that having their own business and creating their own life will bring them.
But how many actually do it?
There are a millions of excuses, millions of reasons why this won’t work, or they can’t try that, just as there are millions of people who dream of getting more out of life.
Are you the type who goes for your dreams or are you the type who is content to sit on the sidelines of life?
We live in one of the most abundant times in all of history. There is more opportunities to make money and live your dreams than ever before. You can choose to believe that or not. The believing or not is your choice but the fact of the matter is that there are more millionaires in the world today than ever before. We have information and resources literally at our fingertips. We can create whatever we want in our lives as everything we need is out there. We just need to step up and start using what is available for us.
There are many people out there that are making a great living by marketing on the Internet. The Internet offers us opportunities that we never seen in the past. Many Internet marketers started way back at the beginning. They learned the new rules and they learned what it takes, they learned about the massive and quick changes that are just a part of the new medium and most importantly for their own dreams of success, they learned to make money.
But what if you don’t have that knowledge yet? Is there a chance for you?
Well, the fact of the matter is that there is a wonderful opportunity for people who are willing to take a chance on life, to learn and work and actually take responsibility for creating the life of their dreams. If you are ready to grab hold of the dreams that you have, there is a wonderful opportunity for you out there right now. It’s called “My Internet Business” and it offers a real turnkey system that can teach you how you can market on the Internet and create your own life of freedom, abundance and prosperity.
It was launched in early April 2008 and it was started by Darren Gaudry, the man who was the brains behind the massively successful “Passport to Wealth”. It is set up on a different system than Passport to Wealth and it may appeal to a different mindset than Passport to Wealth. While Passport is a true 2 up system, My Internet Business is set up on a two tier Multi level marketing plan. In other words, you help others succeed and you are rewarded in return.
If you dream of a better life, of creating abundance and freedom, if you still dream of creating the life that you know in your heart can be yours, My Internet Business may be the opportunity for you.
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Your Advertising Plan
By kevinlynch3 | May 8, 2008
Advertising is a huge market - and there’s a dizzying array of ways you can post adverts. So instead of discussing all of them, we’re going to outline and explain some of the best ways to advertise as a beginner.
By and large the single easiest way you’ll ever find to advertise your site is PPC.
Pay per click is a means of advertising on sites, leveraging a network, to spread your links to sites that ‘match’ the keywords that the sites are using.
This matching is done automatically by the search engines - and takes all of the hard work out of reaching niches you may have overlooked.
This works well, because they are easy to set up, and instead of paying a huge amount for possibly no return, you are charged each time someone clicks on your advertisement and visits your website, and not a cent more. Its completely targeted, as long as you’ve set up your ads correctly, and allows people to ‘pre-qualify’ themselves to your offer.
PPC search engines and networks.
The three main search engines - yahoo, MSN and Google - each have their own PPC search engine. Whilst each is separate, and reaches different groups - Google’s advertiser network is, by far, one of the largest in existence.
But before choosing Google, you might want to investigate the others - there is no harm in splitting your PPC budget and choosing a primary PPC search engine and then using another one as your secondary PPC is a very savvy way of using your budget and ensuring you’re using it in a wide array of places.
PPC search engines are almost completely hands off once you’ve set them up - you don’t need to work on them every day, and once you’ve set everything up you can basically leave it alone - its not something that NEEDS work to keep it ticking over.
The downside to this is its easy to forget to tweak it - and while you’ll probably want to leave well alone, you need to monitor what your account is doing - and make sure its worth your investment.
Choosing your PPC venue
One of the biggest PPC based decisions you’ll probably make is whether to go with Google, Yahoo, or MSN for your pay per click campaigns. Each network has its plusses and minuses, depending on who you talk to. And best of all, once you’ve explored one PPC venue, you’ll know your way around most all of them.
Ultimately, your choice won’t even be based on niche, as its pretty fair to say that every search engine will reach every niche at some point. So you should base your choice on the general costs involved - creating an account with each and seeing where your budget would be cheapest overall works well for most people.
Choosing your budget.
Budgeting for PPC is actually really easy. You set your monthly ’spend’ and then start looking at how those keywords
Pay per click - or Cost per Click budgets are simply calculated by the amount per click something costs, multiplied by the amount of clicks that you’ve had on your account. So by setting a budget you’ll be able to dictate the amount of clicks you’re going to get with ease - and estimate, roughly how much traffic you’ll get.
As for deciding on your budget - when starting out, its important to remember that you’re probably going to be investing into your budget and may not make your money back. Though there are lots of systems out there that claim you can generate traffic via low paying keywords and use the higher paying ones on your own page, its important to remember that this takes a fair amount of skill and though you should always look for ways to lower your PPC budget, whilst generating the same amount of traffic, you should always err on the side of caution.
Google is a hugely successful corporation, that doesn’t just own search engines, but for the sake of the e book, we’re going to focus on Adwords.
Choosing keywords
Remember your first worksheet? You wrote some keywords down in there (with any luck!) and these keywords are ideal for the basis of your PPC campaign. You should also brainstorm more keywords, and write them down - keywords are great for all manner of things from articles to blogs.
The primary word in your Adwords campaign SHOULD, without a doubt, be your primary keyword from your site. You can build your campaigns around one of your five primary keywords, and build several campaigns that you can activate and deactivate based on your budget and performance. Remember to generate keywords using the keyword suggestion tool - that way, you’re getting a broad canvassing around all of the subjects and secondary keywords relating to your project.
Your keyword should also appear in your headline. That way, people know exactly what you’re offering - there’s no exception to this, and it will increase your click through chances considerably. You shouldn’t ‘waste’ words either - refine your message, cut the superfluous words and ensure that you’re writing strong, solid adverts by removing anything that is considered ‘descriptive’.
Words like ‘fabulous’, ‘amazing’ and other similar adjectives will waste space, and should only be used IF you need padding.
You should probably try to focus your ads on selling - using them for squeeze pages may attract extra sign ups, but if you’ve got a very limited budget, you’ll want to focus on making money back from your click throughs.
You can design your campaign based on your competitors ads - to find them, search for your keywords and see what pops up. You’ll be able to evaluate your competition too at this point, and see what they are doing and see what you can do to duplicate their success.
PPC advertising is a cross between art and science and many companies and sites exist to make sure you’re doing the right thing, and help you to do so. They may charge, or you might be able to read up for free, but PPC campaigns are something that you should consider as learning over the same amount of time as SEO. You’ll always want to keep honing your skills.
Adsense arbitrage versus paying for it all
The actual act of Adense arbitrage is simple. Find low paying keywords in your niche - and convert that traffic to your site, which, in turn you ‘flip’ into paying traffic. In theory, its easy - you can either use a lower cost PPC network to convert the traffic to your site and then either set it up so they can click on more PPC ads - or to sell to them via affiliate links or direct from you.
In practice understanding what clicks will ‘flip’ and which will ‘flop’ is a very hard thing to do. So paying for your adsense clicks is by far the easiest way to handle your campaign.
Flipping is also causing problems for accounts, and there are many unethical marketers trying to take advantage of people looking for ways to make money from adsense. And those people teaching adsense arbitrage are slowly finding that Google will squeeze them back out of the market - but the methodology behind it is solid.
If you are buying traffic anyway, there’s no harm in also running Adwords campaigns on your site to ‘recoup’. You just have to be aware that unless you’re really lucky you’ll probably find that you’re only recouping some of the money you invest, and should NOT rely on Arbitrage to create your advertising income.
Arbitrage, of course, isn’t as simple as finding low paying click areas, and ‘flipping’ them into higher paying sites - you’ve got to know how to play the ‘weaker’ or at least, considered weaker, areas of your sites niche and make sure that it feeds into a higher paying area, without cheating.
Your site would, of course, need to cover both the lower paid end of the spectrum, and the higher paid, to ensure that you’re completely ‘white hat’ in your search engine dealings, and finally, you have to keep an eye on the rules that Google, and other sites impose – sooner or later they will probably change this loop-hole, and of course, until then, others will probably start using it too, pushing up your ‘minimum’ bid per click.
In short, though adsense arbitrage and click flipping looks good on paper, it takes a lot of work and may actually end up costing you more money than other, cheaper means of traffic generation.
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