Over 800 people attended the online video marketing webinar with Michael Koenigs hosted by Joel Comm on Monday. The webinar has given a lot of information and tips on how to quickly make videos that generate traffic and revenue for your website.

You may have missed this webinar. But fortunately, the whole session of the webinar has been recorded and is now available for free access at http://www.trafficgeyser.com/joelcomm. I'm sure you are excited on these recording as you will learn how to use video to boost your website traffic and revenue.

I know many of you who use Blogspot blogs to make money online aren't satisfied with your current blog templates provided by Bloggers. I recently found a site providing professional blog templates free for blogspot bloggers.

http://www.jackbook.com

Most of the templates in the site are converted from Wordpress templates. The colour, layout and design of these templates are interesting and interactive. I think you will like them.

123rf.com hosts photos uploaded by people around the world and help sell their photos. The process of selling your photo and images in 123rf.com is pretty simple:

Step 1 : Sign up with 123RF to be a member of 123RF.
Step 2 : Upload Your Photos. Log in. Next, click on Upload Image to submit your photos and 123RF will sell the photos for you.
Step 3 : Keep submitting photos to earn more!

How much you can earn?
123rf pays you 50% of the nett proceeds from each of your photo downloaded or sold. Besides that you'll earn $0.36 per subscription download.

There are also other ways to make money with 123RF. Here's how:

Refer customers
You can help promote 123RF online and send customers to 123RF. For every purchase made by customers referred by you, You will receive 15% of the purchase price.

Refer photographers
When you refer your photographer friends or colleges to join 123RF, 123RF will pay you when someone purchases the photos of the photographers referred by you. You'll receive 10% of the price for each of their photo sold or downloaded.

Since there are tons of people already involved in affiliate marketing, it is no wonder that the competition of affiliate industry is getting fierce. To survive and make a consistent income from affiliate marketing, you have to try and outdo other affiliates and think of ways to be able to attain this.

These affiliates have learned so many techniques and tips in order to best plan their marketing strategies for their program to work effectively so that more affiliate commission will be earned.

What better way to wow your prospects and customers than to record and publish top notch, full motion and streaming screen-captured videos. Nothing like feeling your hard work getting paid by having your customers jumping up excitedly in great anticipation to buy your product right there and then.

Camtasia videos
This is Camtasia in action. It is a proven fact; giving your customers something they can actually see can boost your online sales instantly.

Anyone can create stunning videos, from multimedia tutorials and step-by-step presentations available online. The process is like having your customers seated next to you and looking at your desktop, as you show them the things they need to see and hear. All this done step by step.

How does Camtasia works actually?
1. It can record your desktop activity in a single click. No need to have to save and compile all your files because it is recorded right there and then.

2. Can easily convert your videos into web pages. Once converted you can have your customers visiting that certain page. Videos are easier to understand and take in unlike reading texts which oftentimes is a trying thing to do.

3. Upload your pages. Publish them through blogs, RSS feed and podcasts. You may want your Camtasis videos to get around and reach out to other people that may be potential customers in the future. Nothing like being visible in many sites and pages to advertise yourself and get your message through.

Other things you can do with your affiliate program using Camtasia

• You can create stunning multimedia presentations that are proven to increase sales because all the senses are engaged. This also has the tendency to reduce skepticism among hard-to-please customers.
• Reduce refunds and other customer issues by demonstrating visually how to use your product and how to do it properly. Complaints will also be minimized because all the facts and the presentation are there for the customers to just see and hear about.
• Promote affiliate products and services using visual presentations. This is an effective way of redirecting your viewers straight to your affiliate website after they are finished with the video. Make the most of the presentation by putting your site location in the end and make them go there directly if they want more information.
• Minimize miscommunication with your customers. Instantly showing them what you want they wanted in the first place is making them understand clearly the essence of your affiliate program. The good thing about multimedia is, nothing much can go wrong. It is there already.

These are just some of the things you can do with Camtasia that can be very helpful in your chosen affiliate program.

Note that the main purpose of using Camtasia is to boost the income that is generated from your affiliate program. Although it can be used for entertainment and enjoyment purposes.

Try to focus on the goal that you have set upon yourself to and achieve that with the use of the things that may be quite a lot of help in increasing your earnings.

Niche Content Packages supplies content to people who need quality articles and content to maintain and grow their websites, blogs, newsletters or e-zines. Content buyers and members are always expecting good quality of work from Niche Content Packages. To satisfy the buyers and members expectations, Niche Content Packages is looking continuously for accomplished and skilled writers who are able to satisfy the demands of their members and buyers from all over the world.

You may open a writer account with Niche Content Providers and starting writing and submitting original content on any topic or submit content based on the members' requests. When someone purchase your content, you'll earn money. Niche Content Providers only accept writers from United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand at the moment.

You may think that selling expensive items is very different from selling inexpensive items on eBay. But the fact is there are not much different. No matter what item you are selling, it all comes down to how you market and promote the item. But this doesn’t mean that you must search around the Internet posting ads here and there. when selling on eBay, the marketing part is all handled by eBay. You just need set up your auction to list your product and ebay will send targeted buyers to your auction.

Set the lowest selling price for your high price item
To sell your expensive item on ebay, you must first know the lowest price you are willing to accept for your item. You can follow this three simple steps to determine the lowest price of your item:

1. Have your high priced item evaluated to determine what the actual market value is.
2. Next, look for similar items from past auctions at eBay to find out how much those items sold for.
3. Finally, determine what the value of the item is to you. With this information, you should be able to determine the lowest amount you are willing to sell the item for.

Use the reserve price feature of ebay to attract potential buyers
Once you have determined the lowest price, you can starting setting your reserve price in your auction (On eBay, the reserve price is the lowest price that you are willing to sell for your item). And then set your opening bid price no more than $50 – no matter how high your reserve price is. This is an ebay marketing tactic. It will be difficult to catch the attention of targeted buyers to an auction for an item selling for hundreds or thousands of dollars. But setting your opening bid less than $50 will make getting targeted prospects to view your auction a lot more easier. With the reserve price feature, you don’t have to sell the item to the buyer with the highest bid if the highest bid price hasn't reach your reserve price unless you choose to do so at the close of the auction. This method of price setting resembles marketing tactic applied by offline businesses that are simply designed to ‘get customers in the door.’

Item description and details
The item description for your listing is very important. so you should spend some time to work out a good description. Try to use words that really describe your item well. Provide as many details as possible, including details that prove the authenticity of collectible items. Include pictures of the item as well. Be honest to your potential buyers. If the item has marks or scratches, tell them and make sure that the pictures convey this as well. Provide packing and shipping details. Also let potential buyers know that shipping insurance must be purchased as well in case the item is damaged once it leaves your possession.

Offer an escrow service
The majority of eBay buyers feel more comfortable using an escrow service when purchasing expensive items. so you can offer this as an option in your auction and let your buyers know that they have to pay extra if they want to use the service. This protects both parties from fraud, and it makes many buyers more secure to pay to obtain the item. eBay always struggle to secure the transactions between buyers and sellers, so they have partnered with an escrow service that is commonly used for high price items.

If you like to learn about about dropshipping and Internet marketing, these resources are great for you.

Dropship Facts - E-book
Bob Hamilton's e-book 'Dropship Facts' is written to help people to begin their journey to a profitable eBay business using drop ship wholesalers. Bob will share the information you need to know when selling on e-bay using drop shippers as your product source.

Cashflow Marketing Newsletter
Internet marketing is so important to online businesses and e-commence website. You need to learn different types of online marketing methods and strategies to bring targeted prospect to your e-commerce site to make profit. And Cashflow Marketing newsletter is the Internet marketing newsletter you can subscribe free to learn the different types of marketing methods (low cost and no cost methods) to drive targeted prospect to your website.

The new Internet marketer can spend a lot of time and effort attempting to get an established Internet marketer to joint venture with him and, since he has such a wonderfully unique product he can’t understand why there isn’t a line forming to get in on his deal. The reason is simple. He hasn’t yet established any credibility for himself.

The lack of credibility is the downfall of so many new Internet marketers because they simply do not understand the importance of doing the ground work necessary to establish their credibility before they attempt to engage the help of more experienced and well established Internet marketers by doing joint ventures with them.

Credibility isn’t just important. it is vital in the world of Internet marketing. The very nature of the Internet precludes blind trust. We can’t see or touch others. We can’t read body language or facial expressions. The only way we have to judge the credibility of others is by what they say about themselves, what others say about them, and how valid and, yes, CREDIBLE the information is that they publish on their websites or post to blogs and forums.

The top Internet marketers (those guys and gals that you want to get to joint venture with you) are extremely busy people. They have not been sitting around anticipating the day that you and your idea would land on their doorstep. They all have starting times and quitting time is when they can’t go one more step or answer one more question until they can grab a few hours of sleep.

That really is the way that the top Internet marketers work...those who do not work like that are not the top Internet marketers. They have a phone stuck to one ear and another call on their speakerphone at all times. Their inboxes are flooded with joint venture offers as the song says... once a day... everyday... all day long.

In order for a new marketer to get the attention of one of these top Internet marketers, they must not only have a great product and a great package of commissions and incentives to offer, they must have some credibility themselves or their offer won’t make it past the first cut.

A new marketer is sometimes inclined to think that because he or she has been blessed with a truck load of charm and the ability to sell iceboxes to Eskimos that they are practically guaranteed success in the world of Internet marketing... .not so... not so at all! Everybody only gets to type words on the World Wide Web. Charm, an engaging smile, a firm handshake, an honest face mean less than nothing in Internet marketing. Those attributes might make you your mama’s little darling and the apple of your daddy’s eye but they aren’t worth squat on the net.

Credibility is all that really matters when you get right down to the nitty-gritty of Internet marketing. Without credibility, the new Internet marketer will quickly turn into the failed Internet marketer.

FacebookObserver.com, one of the fastest growing Facebook blogs which focus on the marketing and business aspects of Facebook is currently in the process of expanding the blog to cover more topic areas like Facebook applications, Facebook development tips, tricks, how-to's, and other general topics. And they are welcoming anyone who has good knowledge in Facebook to become a paid blogger of FacebookObserver.com.

If Facebook is your favorite topic. Here's your change to express it out to the public and earn money for the knowledge you give away. To join FacebookObserver.com, You must first send your appliaction to editor(at)facebookobserver dot com.

Where do you start if you want to be an Internet marketer? Tough question, huh? There are lots of ways to begin your way on the bumpy journey. Just make sure you are aware that it will be a bumpy ride.

First things first: do a lot of research. Find out what kind of thing appeals to you most. It could be affiliate programs, Google AdSense or maybe you like the idea of selling other peoples products for a commission etc.

There are a ton of options, and 1000 times more hype. This is why it’s so important to do as much research as you can before starting out. Sure, you can go the long way round, which is how a lot of us start out, but that’s even more of a bumpy ride...hehehe

Ok, so let’s say you’ve decided on where you want to start. You don’t have a product of your own, so you decide to sell other peoples information products, just as an example. Don’t make the mistake that so many people do, by trying to sell something you haven’t personally tested.

Put it this way: Who would YOU prefer to buy from? Someone who knows absolutely nothing about the product they’re selling? Or someone who has had firsthand experience with the product they’re selling? You know it’s person number 2, right?

So test the product first. Learn everything there is to know about it. If people can trust you to give an honest opinion, they’ll be back for more. Great way of getting contacts AND repeat customers.

Never ever use hype when you’re promoting any programs. Believe me, it doesn’t work in reality. People get disappointed if they don’t get what they’ve been promised within the timeframe it’s been promised.

Be honest in your promotional efforts. Tell people what’s worked, and what hasn’t worked for you. If people ask how much you’ve made over how long a period of time, tell them. Let them know that online marketing is NOT the easiest thing on earth.

Let’s face it, if you want to make good money with online marketing, you Have to treat it as a business, not as a hobby, and yes, it does demand a lot of hard work and self-discipline. But taking all these things into consideration, you'll be able to work your butt off and have something to show for it.

Would you like to know how video can help generate traffic and revenue (sales revenue, affiliate and AdSense commission) for your website?

Joel Comm is inviting people to meet with a video marketing expert, Michael Koenigs in a webinar. The webinar will be hosted by Joel Comm and held on:

Date: Monday, September 24th, 2007
Time: 5:00 pm PST / 7:00 pm CST / 8:00 pm EST
Duration: 50 Minutes
Via: Phone and Webinar

Register now to attend this free webinar.

During this 50-minute webinar, Mike will show you:

• How you can make a video using a phone and photo only.
• The key components every video must have to generate traffic and revenue.
• The top places a video should be placed to generate massive traffic for any web site
• A case study - How a marketer drive massive amount of traffic and earn over $11,400 per month with video marketing.
• And dozens of tips and tools.....

Ahmad Bilal is working on a new blogging project and looking for bloggers to participate in the project. He need bloggers to write for his 3 blogs. All blogs are related to soccer. Soccer is a highly popular topic. For soccer fans, this is a great opportunity to write about things they love and make money online.

A brief details about the blogging opportunities, more can be found here.

• You must be good in English and have good knowledge about football.
• When you apply, you need to send 2 writing samples and mention the position you're applying for and your motivation to apply for this gig.
• Application must be sent to ahmed(at)soccerlens.com.
• Some blog marketing skills are required. Training will be provided if you don't know about blog marketing.
• Payment at the end of each month, not 'start of next month'.

Google yesterday introduced gadget ads to AdSense publishers in their AdSense blog. Google said that these gadget ads are designed to be more interactive and engaging to web visitors.

As Google Gadget ads are too new, you will not see them appear in AdSense publishers blogs and websites yet. But you can see how they look like at Google AdSense Blog and Google Gadget Ads Center. Here are an example of Google Gadget ads:


As you can see the above Nissan gadget ad is so different from the traditional online ads that contain only catchy title and description. The gadget ads intends to provide helpful details (traffic details for an area) to the targeted visitors, making the gadget ad useful and attractive to visitors. so the launch of Gadget ads may be able to help AdSense publishers to improve their AdSense performance.

Setting up Google Gadget ads on your blog or website is pretty easy. All you have to do is opt in to image ads, use one of the image ad formats and you are ready to display Gadget ads. However Google can't guarantee that gadget ads will show on your site even though you have opted in to image ads.

Are you relying on PPC advertising programs (Google AdWords and etc) to get web traffic and generate website revenue? I just came across a new tool called NitroPPC that can help you manage and set up your PPC advertising campaigns easier and faster; and possibly produce greater return on investment (ROI). If your main web traffic source is from PPC advertisng, I think you would want to test drive this new tool.

NitroPPC is free to sign up and try.

DealDotCom has officially lauched today. It is a place for people to find Internet marketing products at low prices. And unlike other Internet marketing products malls which display and sell a wide vareity of products, DealDotcom only offers one product per day and the product of the day will be featured at the top of the home page until the next product takes over the place. This is a creative idea of the owners to make their site fun and mistery.

So How to Make Money in DealDotCom?

There are two ways to make money with DealDotCom:

1) Become affiliate of DealDotCom
Their affiliate program works just like other affiliate programs. First you join DealDotCom and they will give you a special affiliate link. You will be using the affiliate link promoting DealDotcom online. If someone clicks you affiliate link to join DealDotcom and later the person purchases an item in DealDotComm, you'll earn a portion of the sales price.

2) Market your products or services through DealDotCom
Do you have a quality product or services related to Internet marketing/online business? If you have one, you can submit it to DealDotCom for review and possible inclusion on DealDotCom. When your product is accepted, DealDotComm will sell your product for you by featuring it on their home page.

Although DealdotCom has just opened it door but the site has successful gained certain level of exposure thanks to a number of Internet marketers and bloggers spreading the word during the pre-launch stage of DealDotCom. so if you can get your product features at the home page now, most probably you'll experience a boost on your sales.

When you think in terms of low ticket products or services, you are talking about items that usually carry no more than a $27.00 price tag. The most common average range for a low ticket item would be in the $5.00 to $9.95 range.

There are many of online and brick and mortar businesses that consider low ticket items to be the bread and butter of the business, the way that you keep the lights on every month.

Of course, in order for those low ticket items to keep a steady flow of basic revenue, there is the need to promote your offerings and entice new clients to give them a try. Here are a few ideas that may help you promote your low ticket offerings to fresh faces.

Special Reports
Special reports are relatively easy to produce and extremely cost effective to have available. The content can be used in a direct mail piece that can be reproduced cheaply.

The special report can be posted online, with a unique URL that can then be distributed far and wide by both manual and electronic means. The result is an effective promotional tool that has a very lost cost to create and has the potential to yield big returns in a very short time.

A special report is going to essentially focus on two things: first, this is a product or service that has is being successfully used by hundreds of thousands of people right this very minute.

Second, this product or service can make a big impact in the quality of your life and work. Once you have it, you will not understand how you ever got along without it.

These types of special report promotions are meant to spotlight all the positive attributes of your offering. You want to talk about the great performance, the low maintenance, and of course the low price.

One thing that can help dress up a special report is charts and relevant graphics. Most people are visual in the way they relate to the world, so using a simple chart to illustrate a point, or inserting some other type of visual that is related to the subject matter will help to enhance and hold the attention of the reader.

Testimonials from current clients also are a big part of a successful special report. If at all possible, vary the industry types that are represented in your testimonials.

Short Audio Sessions
Have you ever listened to those short audio clips that are on many web sites? They often are informative and can spur people to look more closely at a product or service.

Short audio sessions are not anything new. For decades, businesses have employed fifteen-second audio sessions to promote their products while callers were on hold, waiting to speak with a customer service rep.

To a degree, a short audio session makes the sales process via the Internet a little more personal, as the prospect hears a human voice. That alone makes the session an appealing way to reach a certain part of the populace.

Of course, a successful short audio session is going to be to the point and informative. It will give the prospect enough to ensure he or she will progress to the next level and seriously consider the offering, rather than simply scanning some text and moving on to another web site.

Settle on the subject for the session, make is crisp, clear, and easy to understand. Then shut up before you get too wordy.

Trial Membership Offers
Everybody wants to get a bargain, but there are those that will sit on the fence forever before making a decision. A trial membership offer can be just what you need to get them to commit.

There are several things that are very attractive to a prospect. Among them are:

There is no long-term commitment. If I don’t like what I see during the trial period, I simply move on.

I don’t have to pay full price. Most trial offers will be at a discount, so very little revenue is invested.

The trial offer gives me the chance to test drive and show the offering to other people who would be using it. I can find out up front if they see any advantages to using this new offering

This gives me the chance to think of questions that should be answered before a commitment is made. I may think of something while in the trial period that I would not think of during a simple demonstration.

If you offer a trial membership, make sure you provided specific terms, as well as a way for the prospect to convert the trial membership into a full membership at any time during the trial.

Trial Software Offers
If software is involved in your product or service offering, you may also want to provide a demonstration version of the software that is good for a limited amount of time. Think in terms of some of the free electronic trail games you can download.

Many of them will allow the player to access and start a new game session for a specific number of times before the software becomes inoperative and they player will have to purchase the full version in order to continue.

Trial software should be representative of what the full version does, but you want to make sure that the software cannot be reconfigured to get around the limited time usage.

This is not a difficult task for anyone who develops software; all you will need to do is provide the perimeters of the trial time and you are all set.

As with the trial membership offers, you want your prospect to be able to upgrade from trial to permanent software at any point during the trial time, so make sure you include that in your package as well.

By utilizing these and similar ideas, you can effectively increase your client base without investing a huge chunk of your profits into public relations endeavors.

Below are the programs that has nothing to do with Internet marketing. So, it is not about starting an e-business or selling product to make money.

Expotv.com
Have you heard about a site called softwarejudge.com that allows people to earn money by writing a review on a product and publishing on the site? Expotv.com is another products review site offering the same opportunity except instead of writing the review, you talk about the product in a short video and upload your video opinion to Expotv.com for cash.

Justanswer.com
If you have good knowledge or experience in certain fields, you may become an expert of Justanswer.com to provide advice to the huge customer base of Justanswer (3 million customer at the moment). You will earn money for all of your accepted answers to the questions asked by the customers. This can be a good way to earn some extra cash if you are good in a particular field.

There are a number of methods you can follow when searching information products to sell and profit online:

1. You come out with a product idea and turn your idea into the info products to sell (you can either create the info product yourself or hire a professional to do the job); or
2. You buy private label rights products created by others that allow you to change and edit the products to sell as your own; or
3. You can locate info products in the public domain and package them for resale; or
4. You can purchase resale or master resale rights of the info products that permit you resell the products online instantly.
5. Information sellers like to recruit affiliates to help them market their info products. You can join their affiliate programs and start promoting and selling their products.

When you just begin, one of your biggest obstacles will be to stay focused. For this reason, you will want to choose only one model and stick with it as closely as possible, at least in the beginning. Later on, you can try to combine different methods to increase your profit level.

As mention above, developing and publishing your own info products is one of the ways to make money on the net. And you can achieve this through items 1, 2 or 3 above. But, you may be able to make more money from your own info product by adding in components from item 4 or 5 above.

The foundations of creating an info product are figuring out a topic, research the topic to find out the demand level and then come out a product idea from the topic. How do you choose a topic? It is not difficult. First identify a hungry group of buyers and then find a topic that either solves a problem they have or benefits them in some ways.

Until you are certain that you have a HUNGRY group of buyers who have money and are interested in either solving a problem or who see a benefit in your product, don’t even consider moving forward with your info product.

If you have been making money with AdSense but still don't know much about the latest features of Google AdSense program like Referrals 2.0, Allowed Sites and Blogger in-line ads; and how these latest features can improve your AdSense performance. I suggest you sign up with Google to attend their upcoming webinar "What's New with AdSense" to be held on September 19th from 11:00-12:00pm PDT.

What's New with AdSense

You'll be listening to AdSense Support specialists explaining the new features of AdSense in the webinar. They will also provide a refresher on the top support issues every publisher should know.

Freelancing opportunities are everywhere, but before you get into freelancing industry, you need to know the benefits and the drawbacks of working for yourself on a per client basis.

A lot of people will tell you that setting foot outside of the office was the best thing they ever could have done while others will tell you that they could not wait for each of their freelance projects to be over because they simply could not stand the stress of their assignments.

In order to be a successful freelancer you really need to weigh all of the pros and cons and be absolutely sure that freelance career is suitable for you.

So, without further ado, here are some of the most common benefits and drawbacks you will face as a freelancer.

Benefits

• The moment you decide to become a freelancer, everyone you talk to will probably tell you how cool it is to be your own boss.
  

• You are in control of your work and nobody else (except for your clients) can tell you what to do. If you don’t want to work on Fridays – you don’t have to.

• Take any days off that you want, but make sure that you finish your projects by the deadline. By being your own boss, you really have the freedom to steer your life where you want it to go.

• You get to plan your own schedules, choose the projects that you find enjoyable, charge any rate you please, and be almost totally self sufficient – a major bonus of being a freelancer for many people looking to escape the daily grind.

• Another of the big benefits you will always hear people talking about when it comes to freelancing is that you can set your own dress code. If you find all of your freelance work online, who is to say that you don’t have to just hang around in your pajamas or underwear all day long?

• No sense in getting all dressed up when you can just get out of bed, enjoy a nice cup of hot coffee, watch the news for a few minutes and then plop yourself down at your computer to start your workday.

• Freelancing gives you the ability to work in your own style and in total comfort no matter who or what you are doing work for.

• By working freelance you can also spend a lot more time with your family and friends.
  

• Because you do not have to go to work on a strict schedule, you can spend time with your children when they get home from school and with your friends and your spouse whenever they have off work.

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• The flexibility of having a freelance career is second to none and there is practically no other job in the world that gives you both the spare time and the financial freedom to do what you want to do when you want to do it.

• Finally, with freelancing you have a near limitless income potential. Because you work for yourself, you get to keep all of what you earn. Not a penny goes to anyone else (aside from the government in the form of taxes).

• All of the profits belong to you so you get to spend it how you please. Furthermore, because you work on a per project basis, you can accept as many projects as you want to earn as much money as you see fit.

• You are not salaried, so the more work you do, the more you get paid.

Drawbacks
As with anything in the world, there are drawbacks to becoming a freelancer in any field you choose. The predominant drawback is that you are not as financially stable as you are when you are working for someone else.

• You have to take care of all of your money management, you have to work on project after project if you want to have enough money to stay financially afloat, and you have to provide for your own healthcare.
  

• These three factors all add up to create a feeling of fiscal insecurity for many people, and because of the major financial risk involved, many people feel that freelancing is not for them.

• There is also heavy competition in the world of freelancing. The internet has been both a blessing and a curse to freelancers from around the world.

• On one hand it has opened the doors to make the world of freelancing much more accessible to anyone who has ever thought about setting out on their own and becoming their own boss.

• On the other hand though, the internet makes it very easy for freelancers to get in touch with potential clients and possibly steal jobs right out from under you.

• Because of the heavy competition as a result of the internet, you may have to start out with very low pay for each project you do as a novice freelancer.
  

• When your client list expands however, you will be able to make more in the long term.

Two links to free resources for you in this post. Hope they can help you.

JV Giveaway Guide - e-book
The purposes of running JV giveaway events are to build subscribers list and boost online sales. This e-book will explain how to start a JV giveway program that can help increase both your list subscribers and make more money from your online business.

AdamGinsberg.com
The Adam Ginsberg free Private Members Site at http://www.adamginsberg.com is teaching people to make money on ebay. The membership site contains loads of ebay selling tips, strategies and techniques where you learn and use them to build a successful ebay business.

Whether you’re just launching a new online business, or currently have one, it’s important that you continue to generate business growth by following five key points. When you focus on the growth of your online business or e-commerce website; your future profits, further expansion, and continued achievement are more secure.

The five key points you need to pay attention to and implement in your business so that you can ensure the further success of your business are:

• Build your customer database. Make sure that you use a variety of methods to build your customer database. The more leads that you have the more profits you’ll achieve.
• Research your target market. It’s important that you have a clear idea of who your target market is. Take the time to research who your competitors are for the products or services that you’re selling.
• Deliver what you promise. Don’t make false promises to your customers that you can’t follow through with. Promising certain products, services, or special deals to lure in people means that you have to follow through with the delivery so that you gain the trust and respect of your customers.
• Have a definite business plan and goals. Make sure that you have a solid business plan so that you know exactly what path you need to take to reach your goals and how long it will take you to get there.
• Advertise and reach your customers. You need to reach your customers so that they can see what products and services you have to offer. Advertising can take place on or off the Internet using newsletters, e-mail automation techniques, or by following leads that are provided by your existing customers.
  

By including the above five key points in your day to day business practices you’ll find that your online business continues to grow in its success.

Zubka is a unique job referral site which allows you to make money in two ways:

First, you can earn cash reward by recommending jobs in Zubka job board to your friends, family members and your network of contacts who then get hired.

And second you can invite your contacts (friends,colleagues and etc) to become Zubka referrers and every placement they ever make Zubka will pay you 5 per cent of the referral fee.

Is Zubka Worldwide?
Although anyone in the world can join Zubka Referrer program but it seems that the program is only worked in:

• United State
• United Kingdom
• European countries
• Australia
• New Zealand

as most of job vacancies posted in Zubka job board are looking for residents in the above countries.

It seems that lately Internet marketers like to organize online seminar to give away free information to the public. David Riklan, founder of http://www.SelfGrowth.com is inviting people to attend a 60-minute telephone seminar at home. David and his partner Eric Taylor will speak about the system they applied to develop and market eBooks on the Internet.

Date and Time
Two dates: Either September 11th 9:00 pm Eastern or September 18th 3:00pm Eastern.

How to Sign up
To sign up for this Free TeleSeminar, you may go to http://www.SelfGrowth.com/FreeEbookseminar.html and fill in a simple form with your name and email address. Don't worry about the opt-in, you can always unsubscribe after gaining helpful information from the seminar.

There's no cost to participate in this telephone seminar except your normal long distance charges.

When you watch a football game on TV, you can easily see how games are won or lost in the battle that takes place on the line of scrimmage. Offensive plays are designed to protect the quarterback and/or to open up holes in the defense so that yardage can be gained.

Defensive plays are designed to sack the quarterback or close holes that would allow yardage to be gained. Quarterbacks and coaches get the credit for wins and blame for losses but the battle is won or lost in the trenches.

Affiliate marketing is a lot like a football game just without the bruises and sore muscles. An affiliate marketer must design offensive plays and defensive plays that will put him in a position to win the affiliate wars.

When you are one of many marketers who are trying to sell the very same product to the very same consumers, you had better have a plan to get at least your fair share of the market or more.

Every niche market on the Internet is competitive. If it isn’t competitive then there can’t possibly be much of a customer base to sell to. That is just the nature of all Internet marketing and in every niche.

So, you ask, what is it that I can do that will assure that my customers will buy from me? The answer is just one word... unique!

You have to be unique. You have to offer something that sets you completely apart from your competitors. You have to make your offer for a product or service for which you are an affiliate more attractive to buy from you than it is to buy from you competitors.

If you simply send out a marketing email advertising a product or service that you are an affiliate marketer for, you need to remember that there are dozens or maybe even hundreds of other marketers who are sending out marketing email advertising the exact same product or service and many of them are sending them to the same people that you are. You have to do something to make sure that your customers buy from you...you have to be unique.

There are several ways to achieve uniqueness. One way is to have established yourself as an expert in the field for which the product or service is being sold. You have to have become not only visible but credible, as well. This visibility and credibility is not easily achieved. It takes a lot of hard work, time and effort.

Visibility and credibility are established by taking such measures as writing and marketing articles and E-Books, posting to blogs and forums, appearing as an expert on teleseminars and webinars, etc. The fact is that when people know you and trust you, they buy from you. They will buy from you even is your competitors are offering a better deal or more incentives.

People do not like to buy from strangers. The Internet is a big impersonal and even frightening place to many consumers. They want to feel like they know and trust the people that they buy products and services from. The time, effort and energy that you put into becoming visible and credible is the best time, effort and energy investment that you will ever make. Reputation is everything in the world of Internet marketing. Credibility makes you unique.

Add extras! Add free gifts! Even better than extras and free gifts is additional help to use the product or service that is being sold. You can offer a free teleseminar for those who buy the product or service from you that will make the product or service better or easier to use.

You can most likely even get the producer or the product or service to speak at your event if you plan far enough ahead. People just love teleseminars... and they love free...when you add teleseminar and free together, you will have a winning play that might just score the proverbial touchdown for you.

EatonWeb is looking for an SEO artist and/or directory specialist to contribute to their blog. The blogger will be responsible for updating EatonWeb Blog with fresh content. The pay is $100 per month for writing any of the following:

A) Four 800 word columns monthy or
B) Two 800 word columns and four 400 word columns month or
C) Eight 400 word columns

How to Apply
Anyone interested to the part-time blogging position may email to ryan [at] performancing [dot] com.

How to start an online business in shortest time possible and avoiding the costly mistakes you could possibly make? Ameer Salim's free exclusive membership site Hotmarketingvideosstarter.com has the answers for you. The membership site contains step by step video tutorials like list building, squeeze page & mini-site creation, website conversion tips, Internet basic and a lot more learning tools for setting up an online business to make money online.

Here's the link to join Hot Marketing Videos Starter to get all the training material free.

http://www.hotmarketingvideosstarter.com

Also when become a member of Hot Marketing Videos Starter, you 'll automaically sign up as a affiliate of Ameer Salim and earn 50% commission for every sale refered by you.

Resale rights are one of the fastest ways to make money online. All the hard work like finding a profitable product idea, researching the niche, product creation and development are done for you. All you need to do is buy the high-demand product that comes with resale rights and upload it to your website and you are in business.

As you may already know, there are many different kinds of resale rights that you can buy and resell them for profit.

Here are the main types:

Resale Rights
This gives you the right to resell a product to an end user. This can apply to both physical and digital products. Where a digital product is concerned, you resell the product and keep
100% of the profits without losing the enjoyment of the same product as digital products
are duplicable in nature.

Basic Resale Rights
You have the right to resell the product but your customer does not have the right to resell it to another. You keep 100% of the profit after every sale you make.

Master Resale Rights
You have the right to resell the product as well as the Basic Resale rights itself to your customers. Your customers can in turn resell the same book to their customers. The Master Resale rights can either be bundled together with the purchase of the product or purchased separately from the product.

Private Label Rights
This is the mother lode of all resale rights! Buying Private Label Rights usually give you the right to change the product in any way you like, put your own name on it, sell resale
rights or even master resale rights to others and basically use and treat the product as it were your own creation.

Give Away Rights
You can give the product away for free. In most cases, however, you cannot resell and/or edit it.

Royalty Rights
You have to pay the original product author or franchisor a percentage of every sale made by you. This right normally applies to physical products. McDonald’s and books found in
bookstores are very good examples that demonstrate this right.

At times you can purchase a product and it will automatically come with either resale rights or master resale rights. Other times, you purchase the product and the resale or master
resale rights separately. In either case, once you have some type of resale rights to a product, you may then begin making sales and you get to keep 100% of the profits.

This is just like having a product of your own. The only difference is that you are not authorized to change anything about the product and the product creator's name remains
on the product.

I'll bet that you even own rights to products already and you may not even realize it. You see, many products on the internet are sold with either resale rights or master resale rights already. So, make sure that you read the sales letters carefully!

Not much resources I can find this week, so only two links I can share with you in this post.

Easy Niche Audio Video Course
This video course is a complete guide to making money online by selling your own niche audio product. The course will show you how to create profitable audio products and promote them to get people to purchase your audio products.

Sale Page Primer - Report
The copywriting tips and information in Sale Page Primer report may be able to help you improve your sales page conversion rate. Topics you will read and learn includes headers, your headline & sub headlines, features and benefits, order process and more.

AuctionAds is now offering $25 bonus to web publishers and bloggers who sign up as a new AuctionAds Publisher. New AuctionAds Publishers will receive an instant balance of $25.00 automatically once they completed the sign up process. And the $25 bonus cannot be withdrawn until the new publishers reach the $50 minimum payout.

Existing AuctionAds publishers are given a unique affiliate link to spread the word about this offer. AuctionAds publishers will earn 5% of all revenue generated by new AuctionAds publishers they refer for a full six months.

Auction Ads and Google AdSense
Auction ads program has no conflict with Google AdSense. This means that you can place your Auction ads onto each of your web pages that currently display AdSense ads to generate more advertising revenue.

Affiliate program promotion is a most rewarding and easy way of earning money online. You don’t have to be very knowledgeable or experienced, to be successful at affiliate marketing. This is a great way of earning residual income.

Many people don’t make the sort of commissions that can be made with affiliate marketing. It would help to understand the different routes one can take to earn huge affiliate commissions.

Article writing and distribution
With article writing, you can promote your affiliate programs very effectively and earn money. High quality and informative articles should be submitted to all the good article directories, like Ezine articles, which has a high PR. These articles will appear on search engines like Google, when people search for information related to your article. Writing articles and having a link to your website in the signature box helps drive huge amounts of traffic to your website, as long as you ensure your articles are attention-grabbing and your bio has a strong call to action. Just make doubly sure not to link directly to the affiliate product, as many top directories don’t allow this. It’s best to have your own website. Since you are going to be advertising your affiliate link on the website, there will be a huge increase in the number of sales and the end result is an increase in your affiliate commissions.

Multiple keywords in articles
Having multiple keywords related to your affiliate program in the articles, helps you rank higher in the search engines like Google for those keywords. If your affiliate program is related to making money online, you can have keywords like “make money from home”, “make money working online”, “make money working from home”, “earn money online” etc. When people who are looking to make money online, type any of the related key phrases, your article will show up at the top of the search engine. If you rank high for at least 3 key phrases related to your business instead of just one key phrase, your traffic will increase tremendously and so will your affiliate commissions. This is a very powerful technique that will certainly increase your affiliate commission.

Ad campaign personalization
To earn more commissions from affiliate programs, it would help to offer your visitors something more than just the affiliate program. Do not ever rely solely on your affiliate program website as a good way of promotion. Personal touch matters and will help get you more affiliate commissions in the long run. You can make a list of the particular market products and see what people are looking for. Do not refer them directly to the merchant’s website. It would do good to give something like a ‘quick start guide’ to gain the visitor’s attention. Many people may not know much about the affiliate program being promoted by you, so your guide, which will explain things will be helpful. This gives a feeling that you care. This will sky rocket the affiliate sales.

Creating a blog
How does a blog help? Having a blog on your website means fresh content on the website. Fresh content drives traffic to the website. Have reviews of the affiliate products on the blog and also your affiliate links. People will read these reviews and click on the links, thus increasing affiliate commissions through an increase in affiliate sales. You can also aim at having a separate blog, where you have fresh content and redirect visitors to your website.

Targeting the right market
You should aim at advertising your affiliate products to the right market. Advertising your acne affiliate product to an IM niche will not yield good results. The most cost effective way of getting the right people to your affiliate product is finding forums related to your affiliate product or social networking sites targeted at the correct niche. These are the places where your market is usually found. This will bring targeted traffic to your affiliate product, which will result in more sales.

Creating a list and ezine
Creating a mailing list is very crucial to being a successful affiliate. Once you have a mailing list, an ezine becomes a powerful way of promoting your affiliate program to your subscribers. Bring out an ezine that is related to the affiliate program you are promoting. You can have an ezine sent out weekly, where you will be promoting affiliate product related to the content of the ezine. Over a period of time, since these people are used to getting some good info from you, they will begin trusting you, and in turn look at products being promoted by you. This is a great way of increasing affiliate commissions.

Cloaking affiliate links
This may not be a direct way of increasing affiliate sales, but a way of ensuring that you don’t lose any sales. Yes, losing sales is common in the affiliate business. It is also considered to be very unprofessional displaying affiliate IDs. By cloaking, I mean that you do not display the affiliate ID that is used to get you commissions. If you have a website, you don’t have to worry about this, but if you don’t, then there are several ways of cloaking your affiliate IDs.

One way is to buy a domain name related to the product that you are promoting and then using domain forwarding to mask the affiliate links. Alternatively, you will find software that masks the affiliate links for you. You will find plenty of such softwares if you search on Google. There are also several free cloaking sites that help you cloak your links for free.

By following the above steps for promoting your affiliate programs, you will see your commissions increase and you will start making money through affiliate programs immediately.

There will be a free website evaluation webinar on Thursday, September 6 at 6.00pm. Central organized by Xeal.com.

The webinar is right for you if you own a money making site and want to improve the performance of your money making site.

Join Xeal.com for this free Webinar

The webinar will offer advice on

- design techniques
- mistakes to avoid
- raising your search engine rankings,
- drawing customers to your website
- improving your conversions,
- marketing your website online and offline
… and much more

I have done 14 update and I still continue to find new money making programs. Here in this 15 update, you will get to know two more opportunities.

WireTapMag.org
Can you write news articles or stories about youth activism, war and peace, civil and human rights, race, immigration, education, environment, culture, sustainable lifestyle, sex and relationships, media or technology? WireTapMag is inviting people to submit their stories for publication on WireTap. The writers who get their stories published will be paid anyway between $50 to $250 depending on the quality. The ideal story length is between 800 and 1,800 words.

CBGlobe.com
There are plenty information products in Clickbank, categories rank from business to sport you can promote and earn affiliate commission. Do you want to promote most of the Clickbank products in just one website? If your answer is yes, CBGlobe is your solution. CBGlobe is a Clickbank store that plugs-in with over 10,000 Clickbank products with your Clickbank affiliate ID embedded in each of the product, thus allowing you to promote 10,000 Clickbank products at the same time in one website. CBGlobe is free to sign up.

In conducting your initial market research, you will take a different approach than you would if you were optimizing a website for a search engine. There's no need to start out with keyword research immediately. In fact, it's probably better if you don't. All that keyword research will tell you is whether or not people are searching on your chosen term. It won't tell you about the size of the market nor will it tell you about the market itself.

Do your research carefully! As I said before, one of the biggest reasons that people fail online (if they have even TRIED in the first place, that is), is because they fail to create products for which there is a market. Follow the ideas contained in this course and make sure that a market exists before ever delving into product creation. In the long run, a little extra care in this area could reap great rewards later.

To determine whether there is even a market in the first place (but not to learn about the size of that market or whether they are spenders), try going to Amazon or Barnes and Noble. In fact, you can even browse the sites online so that you don't even have to leave the house! Just go to http://www.Amazon.com or
http://www.BarnesAndNoble.com

Look through the best seller's list at both places. You are looking to see if there are a lot of best selling books on a particular topic. If there are, then that topic might be profitable to create a product around. You can also take a look at http://www.Magazines.com. Take a look around there as well. If people are purchasing magazines on a given topic, there's a good chance that they'll purchase a book on the same subject.

When browsing these titles, also look at the price tags on the books. Are the books on your chosen topic usually available in only hard cover or are there paper back titles as well? Do the books start at $9.95 or do they start at $39.95? This will help you later when you try to put a price tag on your work. You'll know a little more about whether the market you have selected is willing to open their wallet a little, or really wide.

Remember to always check out ClickBank as well. You can find them at http://www.clickbank.com. You want to look at the best sellers here as well. These are usually the topics that are hot on the internet right now.

I just received an email from Anik Singal, owner of Affiliate Classroom stating that he is going to reveal the entire online business model of a 1 million Affiliate, Jeremy Palmer. Anik will create a series of video to show people how Jeremy make more than one million affiliate commission last year using only pay-per-click marketing strategies (Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing) that anyone can copy and apply to their affilate marketing business.

Here is the first video created by Anik:

http://www.ppcclassroom.com

Once you sign up for watching the first video, you will receive some more video tutorials when they are released.

Whether you are making money online by promoting affiliate programs or running an e-commerce website that loaded with products for sales, you want your targeted prospects who visit your site purchase from you. The higher the percentage of your targeted prospects buy from you, the more profit you'll make. Here are 10 benefits and power words that can motivate your targeted prospects to take an action (make a purchase) on your website:

1. TIME: Most people makes time their most valuable commodity. When they search on Internet to shop, they are looking for products or services that can help save their time. Power words: FAST, INSTANT, QUICK, i.e., fast shipping, fast ordering or quick results.

2. SECURITY: People want to feel safe when buying online. The want to make sure that they are accepting a real offer. Power words: MONEY BACK GUARANTEED, Risk free, i.e., 30 day money back guarantee, zero risk guaranteed, no obligation.

3. EXCLUSIVITY: When there is only a limited version of an product or a limited amount of an item, it makes people feel that the product is more valuable. The more valuable your product or service appears to be the more people will appreciate what you have to offer. Power words: RARE, LIMITED, SPECIAL, EXCLUSIVE, i.e., limited for the first 300 buyers, special offer, limited edition.

4. SIMPLICITY: People appreciate clarity and ease. Show them how your product or service will reduce their stress. Power words: EASY, SIMPLE, CONVENIENT, STRESS FREE, i.e., stress-free ordering, simple instructions, convenient to use, easy payments, etc.

5. PROOF: Online buyers like to know what other people think about your product or service. Power words: TESTIMONIAL, REVIEW, CRITIQUE, COMPARISON, i.e. buyers’ testimonial, consumer review, customer satisfaction.

6. SPECIAL OFFERS: People want to find bargains in the form of rebates, one time sales or percentage offers. Power words: SALE, DISCOUNT, REBATE, ONE-TIME, LIMITED TIME, i.e., one week sale, special discount, instant rebate, one time offer, festival discount.

7. INCENTIVES: Giving free gifts will delight your potential buyers and making them more likely to do business with you. Power words: GIVEAWAY, BONUS, GIFT, REWARD, i.e., your complimentary subscription, order bonus, special e-book giveaway, a gift for you.

8. RECOGNITION: People want to know that you understand their concerns. Power words: YOU, YOURS, i.e. the benefits you want, the solution to your problem.

9. STATUS: People want to know how something will affect their life. Power words: ALERT, IMPORTANT, ATTENTION, i.e., important notice, attention please, special alert.

10. POPULARITY: People are always looking for new products or services that will improve their lives. Power words: NEW, FRESH, UPDATED, i.e., brand new, fresh off the press, updated report.