Rich Schefren (an Internet milionaire) just released a free report called "The Attention Age Doctrine, Part 2" that many Internet marketers and e-entrepreneurs want to pay attention to. The report spread rapidly around the Internet in just few hours of release and I downloaded a copy of it to find out what's inside this report.
So what's this report about?
The report actually is a guide on using web 2.0 websites such as Myspace, Digg, Youtube and other social media sites to market your website and make money online, giving you the new web 2.0 marketing techniques and methods you can use to generate profit for your online business.
Rich will teach you how to use web 2.0 sites to communicate with your targeted prospects and build trust within them. When your targeted prospects trust you, selling to them will be much easier. Also you will learn the mistakes you must avoid in web 2.0 marketing.
Download a copy now at http://www.strategicprofits.com/doctrinenew/. This is the report you don't want to miss if your online business is relying on web 2.0 sites as it has new powerful info.
The most important thing for a blogger is having unique content. With the number of blogs out there, the need for quality content is increasing. The success of a blog depends on the originality
and quality in the information provided. The blogs that boast of repeat visitors are blogs that have something special for their visitors. The bottom line is that search engines simply love content.
There are several ways of generating fresh and unique content with minimal effort and time.
Here are some conventional and time-tested methods of getting fresh content.
Write from the heart
A bog is where you are interacting with your visitors and a personal touch will attract more people that you would think. Write a 500 word article each day for your blog.
If you are not a writer yourself or you would rather concentrate on getting traffic to your blogs or creating new blogs, then pay for the articles and get them written. There are some article writers out there that work for cheap rates and are good.
The tough part of maintaining a blog is certainly not writing content, it is getting new content ideas.
Content through researching
Researching other blogs may be time taking but a necessary evil. To be above your competition, you first need to know what they have to offer. Some blogs may have great ideas but their presentation of those ideas may be lacking, while others have unique presentation styles but lack ideas. Combining the best of other blogs and adding valuable information is the key to keeping your blog fresh and a step above the others.
Let us take a look at some unconventional and less used methods of obtaining unique ideas, which can then be transformed into unique content:
1. Google provides lots of other tools other than web searches, which can be used on the blogs, depending on the niche. News with http://news.google.com and a lot of latest up-to-date information can be retrieved and made summary of to create your own content.
2. Google ‘groups.’ (http://grous.google.com/). Here people discuss various subjects and is the best place to see what people are truly interested in, in a given niche.
3. Alexa.com, when you do a search on your subject comes up with the same results as Google as it is powered by Google. You may be wondering why you need to look at it then? Because it does provide value added information. When you do a search, click on the ‘site info’ link and not on the link that takes one to the listed site. You will be taken to a section, ‘People who visit this page also visit,’ and this is where you would be going, as this place shows what the marketplace is interested in.
4. Encouraging readers to ask questions and answering them on the blog is a great interactive way of attracting return visitors as well as obtaining useful content. The blogs that gets tons of comments get crawled by search engines more frequently, as a comment is almost like updating the page.
5. Check out the forums in the niche and pick out questions and talk about them on your blog.
6. Talk about the 'common misconceptions' in your niche and try to explain why it is a misconception in your blog.
7. Interview experts in the field, and this gets valuable information to your blog as well as helps with marketing.
Re-writing private label articles (PLR)
For a small fee monthly, you get a set of PLR quality articles of different niches every month in http://www.yourownarticles.com. Some of the PLR articles may be suitable for your blog. But these PLR articles aren't unique because they will be published by other people who buy them as well. So what you can do is re-write these PLR articles into unique articles and post them on your blog. You can either re-write them by yourself or by using an article writing software.
Article writing software will turn a PLR article into unique content in less than 10 minutes. But you cannot publish unique articles written by software straight forward on your blog. Some editing works are needed to improve the software-generated articles so that they sound ok when reading by humans.
Hiring blog writers
Outsourcing the content creation process to others will save you a lot of work and give you more free time. There are 2 choices when hiring writers for your blog. You can either look for a blogger that will in charge your blog content creation work entirely and pay the blogger a flat fee monthly. Or you can request freelance writers from freelance sites to write a number of articles for you and pay them anywhere $15 and $30 per article.
Guest blogging
When you are out of content ideas, you can invite other bloggers to write for your blog. This is known as guest blogging. The agreement usually is pretty simple. You invite someone to become a guest blogger and the guest blogger will write unique content for publication on your blog. In return, the guest blogger will get one or two free link back from your blog. You are getting free unique content this way and the guest blogger is benefited by getting free exposure and link back from your blog.
Automated content with Wordpress rewriter
Wordpress rewriter is a plugin for wordpress blogs, and this turns the articles into unique content. All pages will be 100% unique written content. You will be able to copy and paste, import posts through RSS feeds, place content from any source you want to, and everything will be transformed into unique content. I may not opt for this, but it certainly could be an option for someone hard pressed for time and looking for some easy content.
Just think outside the box and look for ways of getting the latest ideas for the niche you are in and content for your blog can be created in a matter of minutes. The only way to stay in the race is making your blogs content rich and driving traffic.
I have another three helpful resources to share with you this week.
Free E-Book - Blog Your Wage
Tony Shepherd has recently put together a 70 pages blogging course titled "Blog Your Wage".
The content and information inside this course will guide you to starting an online business with blog marketing and making serious money with your blogs in long-term. You can get a copy of Blog Your Wage free now at Blogyourwage.com.
The Pink Elephant Truth Exposed (PETE) Report
The PETE report is written by Mike Antoni to expose the truth about about making money with Internet marketing. You may be wondering what the Internet marketing gurus don’t want you to know: the secrets, the lies, the unspoken truth, about Internet marketing. The PETE report will give you some of the answers you're looking for. To download this report, simply go to Petereport.com and fill out a simple form.
Free Info-Products Package
Russell Carter is giving away a package of 9 e-books and software (some are related to Internet marketing and others are in different topics) with resell rights at $0. You can either use these info-products for your e-business growth and success or resell them online with 100% profit margin.
Upcoming Monday Webinar Focuses on Unique Traffic Systems that will Dramatically Increase Your Online Earning
David Frey will be doing a webinar this Monday November 26th at 6:00 PM Eastern time showing you the 7 unique traffic systems they have used to drive more than 1ook unique visitors to their networks of sites monthly and how to create a business, not just a product.
If you'd like to see these 7 systems and learn how to implement them to get traffic and boost your website revenue, then you need to register to attend and listen to the webinar.
Register for the webinar now
The webinar will hold 750 people only and once reaches that number, it will be closed for registration.
The best part about having an article directory is that one can print their views on anything, although that’s not reason enough to set up an article directory. The main reason is to get the 
articles published without any restrictions, like other article directories demand. Like, there should be no ‘affiliate links’.
It’s not very difficult setting up an article directory and is cheap as chips. The script for an article directory is free, the only expenses involved are buying the domain name and hosting.
Generic domain name
When buying a domain name, it is advisable to buy something generic and something short, may be a five or six letter domain like Google or Yahoo. You could buy the domain name from GoDaddy or Namecheap but since the domain names would be brand new, they will not have any PR attached to them. It is wise to buy a domain with an already good PR. These domains are available for sale in the ‘services’ section of any marketing forum, like Digital Point Forum. It is not required to spend more than $100, in fact a great deal may be found for around $50 for a PR4 or PR5 domain name.
Installation of Script
Once the domain is decided upon, the next thing to be done would be to find an article directory script and hosting. There are two free article directory scripts available. One is called the Article Dashboard and the other is EvoArticles. Article Dashboard is free but slightly difficult to install for beginners, whereas EvoArticle is easier to install.
If you find it difficult installing the scripts, hiring someone to do this would be the best way out and it is not expensive at all. Modification of the template is required to make it more presentable.
Once you have installed and uploaded the article script to your web host. Your article directory is launched on the Internet and ready to be visited by others. There are a few things that need to be done to get the directory going online.
Get Free Content for Your Article Directory
The first thing to do is to promote your articles to invite people to sign up as an author and submit articles for publication on your article directory. You can get some people to become authors and contribute to your directory but announcing your article directory in Internet marketing forum like Digital Point and V7n forum. To find more authors and writers, you may try using article marketing techniques. Write a series of articles related to article marketing and submit them to a list of top articles directories. Make sure you introduce your article directory in your author bio and invite the readers to become authors.
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In case you haven't read part 1 of this article, please click here.
Pay-per-click (PPC) search engine like Google and Yahoo can also send you some author sign up. The costs of using PPC search engines are pretty affordable as there are only a few people bidding for keywords like article directory, submit articles and other closely related keywords for PPC traffic.
Directories submission and social bookmarketing may also give some help in increase your article directory authors as well .
If you use the above mentioned marketing techniques and used them for some months. Your article directory will gain some Google page rank (PR), probably PR3 to PR4. And also the search engines may start sending your some traffic since your directory is updated with quality content frequently and has got a number of backlinks.
Monitize Your Article Directory
Google AdSense works well in quality content and it is the biggest money maker for the majority 
article directories on the Internet. So AdSense is the first money making program you should consider using it on your article site. Learn some AdSense optimization techniques and place your AdSense to the right positions to maximize your AdSense earning. The first place to start learning AdSense optimization perhaps is Google AdSense Help Center.
Article directory can also be used to promote affiliate products. Placing some of your Clickbank and Amazon affiliate banners and links may generate some sales for you.
Selling advertising space directly is another way to make money. Advertising packages people usually interested are banner ads and text links. So you may offer these advertising packages on your directory.
Build in Traffic for Your Article Directory
You will want your article directory to get as much traffic as possible. Just like websites and blogs, the more visitors and readers you can drive to your article directory, the more revenue your directory will generate possibly.
You are going to learn the various effective Internet marketing methods and use them to get consistent traffic for your article directory. Some traffic generating-techniques that are good to article directory are:
- Social bookmarking - bookmark your top articles on Digg, del.icio.us ,StumbleUpon and other large traffic social sites.
- Forum posting - Actively participate in forum discussion and send traffic from the forums to your directory using the signature section.
- Search engine optimization (SEO) - SEO works are tedious but your efforts are paid off when your directory achieve top ranks in Google.
- Squidoo - Create a Squidoo len (web page) to market and promote your article directory.
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There are many people looking for ideas to make some extra buck at the end of the year. This article will give you some cash-generating ideas and strategies for the holiday and the end of the year. It wouldn't take you very much time using the ideas and strategies to earn money money. But like everything else, to make them work, you must take action and put in some hard effort.
Money Making Ideas for holiday:
Create and Sell Holiday Turnkey Websites
Turnkey websites that are related holiday seasons can be created and sold at a good price in Internet marketing forums such as Digitalpoint and Sitepoint.
Adding income streams like AdSense, Amazon products and quality articles will help you sell your site at a better price. Some of the holiday topics and themes you can considers are: gourmet gift, holiday discounts & vouchers, CD, games, dolls, jewelry and cloths. These are just a few topics, you can get more by doing a little research.
Study what turnkey sites that sell well in Digitalpoint and Sitepoint marketplaces before selling. Find out what quality buyers are looking for.
Join MyPowerMall.com
Mypowermall gives members a free personal shopping mall with over 1,000 stores inside the mall. Members can earn cash-back shopping rebates when purchasing an item through their own mall. Also you can invite and refer others to open their free power mall and earn shopping rebates from purchases of power mall owners referred by you up to 9 tiers.
Mypowermall is a great place to shop as you can almost find anything you need and want from the 1,000 brand name stores selling million of products.
Advertise Your Holiday Specials Offer on Craigslist
Craigslist Business Services in a great place to sell your services and products during holiday seasons. The idea is to offer great value at a lower price. Here are a few services you can sell:
Salesletters
web development and hosting
web logo designs
Year end tax advantages
Be sure to test the headline and description of your ads.
Set Up Gift-Related Website
Set up website specifically to guide people in gift buying and giving. Publish quality articles, tips and ideas to assist people in their entire gift buying process from knowing what to ask for to what gifts their should buy for which person. Some article titles to write are:
- Gifts Buying for Family
- Gifts Buying for Woman and Man
- Gifts Wrapping tips
- Gifts that People Like
- Gifts for Your Colleagues and Clients
- 10 Special Gifts You can Buy
programs. So, don't forget to place your AdSense ads, Auction ads and affiliate ads to your gift website.There are more than 2,000 free templates in http://www.oswd.com you can use for building your site.
Set up a Review Blog
Create a blog to review popular holiday products and services. Be sure to provide honest reviews and comment on the products your are reviewing based on your experience and researches. To make money, you'll want to promote affiliate products in the reviews. But be careful when promoting, do not blatantly advertise as it will work and may drive your visitors away. Here are some of the places you can find affiliate products to promote:
ClixGalore.com
CJ.com
Amazon.com
After written reviews, you'll need to drive traffic to your blog. Some free traffic techniques you may want to use are commenting on other blogs, article marketing and social bookmarking.
Are you playing Playstation 3 games often? Can you write about video games? A video games blog is currently searching for bloggers who have keen interest in Playstation 3 console and its gaming titles.
Details of the video game blogging positions:
- Must be good in English.
- Must be able to write in an engaging and entertaining tone.
- Bloggers who get hired will be required to publish 2-3 blog entries daily (200 word minimum) with an optional opinion piece article submission for the weekend period.
- Bloggers will be paid based on a flat monthly fee with an added % revenue model.
I just come across an Adsense preview tool at Seochat.com that will give you a sense of which AdSense ads would be display on a given page. Every time you changed your content, the AdSense ads shown on the content page will also change. With this tool you'll be able to know which AdSense ads Google is going to deliver to your page after the change.
SEOChat - Google Adsense Preview Tool
The AdSense preview tool is pretty easy to use. Just enter your URL, select the ad format, press submit and you will be previewing which AdSense ads is going to make you money.
Have you ever heard from website owners that their websites getting thousands of visitors every day but making only a few buck daily? Something must be no right to their websites. They must have made some sort of website mistakes or they will not make that little with the massive number of visitors they get daily. I'm sure you don't want to become one of them that have spent a hard time on generating traffic but only earning little from the large amount of traffic they generated.
To make you money making website work, you must properly optimize your site and avoid making mistakes in your website. Speaking about website mistakes, below are some of mistakes you must avoid:
1) Too many outdated content - You should remove information and content that already outdated or no longer useful to your site visitors. And update your website when you have found latest information that your visitors like to read and know. Both, the search engines and visitors like fresh content. So you should consider publishing new quality articles on an ongoing basis. Publishing fresh and quality articles not only will help in keeping your traffic growing but also will increase your pay-per-click (PPC) advertising revenue as PPC ads work best with quality content.
2) JavaScript pop ups- A JavaScript pop up is a notification window that automatically opens when you visit a website that states and message ; and has an “ok” button at the end. This was very popular during the website boom, but quickly become a no-no because JavaScript pop up is annoying to many visitors and it has been over used by webmasters. Usually these pop ups aren't seen as important by the visitors. In most cases these pop ups do nothing but disturbing visitors thus easily annoying them. However, if you have a message that need to display to your visitors before they can go further on your website, then a JavaScript pop up may still be a good idea, but I strongly caution you to not overuse it, if you use it at all.
3) Too many graphics and pictures - Adding too many graphics and photos to your site can lower your website loading speed. Visitors don't like to wait too long to get into a site, many of them will choose to leave your site and look for another. Also a percentage of web visitors are still in dial-up connection, which means they will have trouble downloading websites that have large number of graphics. Unless your website is in flash, I would try to avoid using any type of animated graphic, since they typically have large file sizes.
4) Using heavy, high contracting colors- High contracting colors would grab the visitors attention but they can also hurt the users eyes, making them uncomfortable and swaying them away from the website. So you need to limit the use of high contracting colors. Areas that you shouldn't use these colors are your website background, the text areas and the navigation sidebar. For title and headline, using high contracting colors is a good idea to get your visitors attention.
5) Clutter up pages - If your website seems be cluttered visitors will be less likely to view further into your website, especially if they think they will have to weed out the information they need from the information that is useless to them. You do not want to have too much information and content in each page, and you don't want more then one topic on each. A good navigation system will eliminate any problem you have.
6) Too many ads appear on your site - Users usually visit website for information and not ads, so a website that has more ads than content will definitely drive people away. Visitors do not want to have to weed though the ads to find the content that they are looking for. You need to maintain a balance between ads and content that show on on your site. The irony of the situation is: A visitor is more likely to click on an advertisement link if they do not feel that they are being bombarded by them. This is defiantly a situation where the saying “less is more” is true.
Here's is a brand new tool you might want to use for building your affiliate marketing business.
Paydot Clickbank Alert
This new tool is a free service created by Doug Champigny and Tim Brechbill for affiliates to do well in marketing Clickbank and PayDotCom affiliate products. When you sign up this free service, you'll begin to receive daily email alerts letting you know the brand new products that were added either in ClickBank or PayDotCom affiliate marketplace within the last 24 hours. And thus giving you a chance to promote new clickbank and Paydotcom products before most people even know they are online.
Anyone who has been marketing online knows that the lifeblood of a business is the traffic of a site. More visitors equal more sales. However, here are some ways that you can tweak your sites with to improve sales without the need to get more visitors.
The first method is to weave in your personal touch in your sales message. Nobody wants to be sold to by a total stranger, but many people will buy what their close friends recommend to them. If you can convince your audience that you are a personal friend who has their best interest at heart, they will be convinced to buy your products. Remember to speak to an individual in your sales letter, not to your whole audience.
The second method is to publish testimonials and comments from your customers. A good idea would be to publish both good and bad comments; that way prospects will be really convinced that these testimonials are real. When prospects see testimonials on your website, they will have the confidence to buy from you because human beings follow the herd mentality; when others have bought and proven it authentic, they will jump on the bandwagon and buy too.
Use visual representations for the problems and solutions that your product offers. Not everyone will read your text copy from the head to the tail, but most people will pay attention to images on your website.
Offer quality bonuses to accompany the product. When you offer bonuses that complement your product, your prospects will feel it's a very good deal and it would be stupid to miss it. Be sure to state the monetary value of your bonuses so that people will be even more compelled to grab your good bargain.
Lastly, ask for the sale! Many people entice their prospects with the benefits of their product, sell to them with stories of how it has solved many problems, even offered killer bonuses but forget to ask for the sale. Give a clear instruction on how to buy your product (e.g. "click the button to buy now!").
Lack of resources this week, I only manage to post to two here.
Free Wordpress report
I downloaded a free report titled "How to Become a Wordpress Expert … Overnight" and read it. The report gives a lot of information (from Wordpress blog installation to blog promotion) needed by Wordpress beginners to get their blogs up and running to start sharing their thought and earn money online. So I think you may want to read it too. Link to Download How to Become a Wordpress Expert … Overnight.
http://www.easytechvideos.com/powerful
This site is offering free information on how to build a profitable email list from scratch and improve your current list building strategies (if you already have a list). You'll find different email marketing tips and strategies that are helpful for your email marketing success. To sign up and get the list building information, you need to give your name and email address to the site.
Drop shipper is a wholesale company that will ship your product directly to your customer for you right from their warehouse. You don't pay until you sold the item.
Although drop shipping today is a hot topic being discussed among many online business owners, and it does have many benefits, it may not be the best option for every business. However, in this article we will take a closer look at some of the advantages, as well as disadvantages to be had from running an online drop shipping business.
First, if you are just starting out in setting up an online business to earn money online, and do not have much operating capital, then this may be the best option for you to go with. The great thing about this particular type of business is that you do not need to hold vast stocks of the products that you are selling. Instead, this is all done for you by the drop shipping supplier you have gone into partnership with. This results in you eliminating a significant cost in order for your business to be set up and to get it running.
The site you set up can be produced very quickly, and so be providing the product to those people you are targeting.
As you are getting the customers orders before you actually order the goods from the drop ship supplier, this means that you have little or no initial investment to make.
Because you are not actually holding any of the inventories yourself, then you do not need to pay either for storage facilities, or having to invest in expensive merchandise which you may not in fact sell.
Setting up an online drop shipping business provides you with the chance to diversify what you are actually offering to your customers. In fact, you will only be limited by not being able to find the right drop shipper for the product or items that you wish to sell.
Although there are plenty of advantages to setting up a drop shipping business, there are many disadvantages as well.
First, as you do not own the inventory that you are selling, then you will usually find that you have no control on how the product is packaged. Also, you will not be able to include any coupons or offers in to the package which can help in increasing the amount of return business you get.
Every company which offers their drop shipping services will have a different fee structure, so carry out as much in depth research as possible. In fact, you do not want to end up with high shipping costs, as this will only make people less reluctant to purchase their goods from you.
With drop shipping, because you are only ordering one item at the time rather than bulk amounts, then you will not expect to get the same kinds of discounts.
If you decide to sell multiple products that are supplied by multiple drop shipping companies, then you will also see a significant increase in the fees that you pay to the drop shippers, which, in turn, will need to be passed onto your customer in order for you to make a profit.
There are many suppliers who will be able to provide you with drop shipping services that you can use to integrate their products into your website. However, you may find that you will be charged a fee for using a particular service through them, so be sure that you carry out your research thoroughly before opting for one particular drop ship supplier.
One major drawback to be had from setting up a drop shipping business is that not all manufacturers allow for drop shipping. This is because they will need to employ more staff (extra costs) in order for them to process these individual orders, and could result in delays in their normal shipping and receiving system. There are other companies who will only supply in bulk, so this means that it is impossible for smaller outlets to get custom orders provided for them for select numbers of items.
However, when drop shipping is available, certainly many small as well as internet based businesses find that it can solve many more problems than those it may create.
Dr Mike & Howie will be showing people how to build a lucrative, time-friendly and straight-forward online business to make thousands of dollar monthly in a upcoming teleseminar to be happening on Monday. This is the final free teleseminar they will be presenting in. If you like to learn their Internet marketing techniques for profting online, Don't miss this teleseminar. Below is the link to register:
http://www.leadsupreme.com/teleseminar.php
Also, you'll receive a free report by John Reese called "the last secret of internet marketing" after sign up this teleseminar. The report is 56 pages long, and contains some valuable info about Internet marketing.
You’ve probably heard this saying before – lather, rinse and repeat – and that’s exactly what you should do. When you find a way to make money that works for you, repeat the process over and over again in different niches and/or with different products.
These methods are not hard to do, but they will require some effort on your part, as does anything else.
With that said, let’s jump right in…
1. Answer a question
That almost sounds too simple, doesn’t it? Here’s what I mean…
Visit forums, Yahoo groups, MySpace or other social networking sites. Find out what kinds of questions people are asking or what kind of information they’re interested in.
Then write a report that answers their questions. Or put together a short web page with reviews of 3 or 4 different products that will answer their questions. (This way they’ll have a choice of which one to buy.) Of course, each product on the web page will contain your affiliate link.
No matter which method you choose, simply add a link to your sales letter or review page in your signature file at the forum or group. (Don’t blatantly advertise, though, because you don’t want to get banned for spamming.) Use an enticing line of text that links to your web page so people will be interested enough to click your link.
Here’s an example:
Let’s say the forum you visit has hundreds of people interested in learning how to make an “old fashioned” craft item of some sort, but they can’t find directions anywhere. The members continuously ask if anyone there has a pattern, so you can see that this is a “hot topic” at this forum and probably at others, too.
You happen to be an expert on making this particular item, or you know where you can find instructions for it, so you simply write a report detailing how to make it. Or you can do some research and locate an ebook (or a couple of them) that is exactly what the forum members are looking for, then create a quick web page reviewing the product(s), using your affiliate links so when they buy you get the commission.
Then take few hours daily to browse and post relevant content in the form of answers to members’ questions or by asking your own questions and posting comments. You’ll have the link to your web page in your signature file and if you use a line of text such as “Let Me Show You How to Make (name of craft item)” people will click your link and you’ll make sales.
2. Find a need for a service, then provide that service
You’ll make money selling the instructions for making that old fashioned craft item I used as an example in quick profit idea #1, but you can also take this a step further… why not locate groups of people who are NOT interested in making the item, but rather, in buying the item?
You’ll have to search out other forums or groups of people who buy antiques or crafts, but again, if you see that they’re asking for that item you’ll know you can have a hot seller.
Simply create the product, have someone create it for you or even find some at local garage sales; write your sales letter and then put your link in your signature file. Remember to use an enticing line of text to make people notice it and click the link.
Here’s an example:
Visit forums where Internet marketers hang out. You may be surprised by some of the questions people ask. For instance, many new marketers don’t know how to upload files to a server so they ask how to do it. Many don’t know how to edit html pages or create/update a website. If you’re good at any of those things, offer your services for a small fee. (Don’t forget to use a link in your signature so you’re not spamming the forum.) or… teach them how to do these things for a small fee!
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And services like these aren’t just for new marketers who don’t know how to do them. Other people outsource many of these jobs, too, to save themselves time. You might be surprised at how much money you can make by doing small, odd jobs. Remember the old saying “it’s a dirty job, but somebody’s gotta do it.” People will pay someone to do jobs they dislike or don’t know how to do. You can be the Internet’s version of a “handyman.”
3. Write content for profits
With all the free information available on the Internet it might be hard to believe, but some websites will actually pay you for your content!
Do a search for “get paid for content” or “get paid to write articles” and other similar terms in Google and see what comes up. There are sites available that will pay you to write articles or other types of content such as “how to” do something.
Associated Content (http://www.associatedcontent.com) is one such site, but there are others, too. Just be sure to follow their guidelines for the content you submit to them. Some require that it be exclusive content, while others don’t. Some will require a minimum or maximum word length, while others don’t care how long or short it is.
Another idea in this category – write articles on numerous topics and sell them with Private Label Rights. You can target MANY markets this way…
“One size” doesn’t necessarily fit all here. Instead of targeting all marketers with your niche PLR articles, promote each niche’s articles to marketers in that niche by posting messages at forums within the niche market. You can also find webmasters in the niches you write articles for and contact them by email or phone and let them know you sell PLR articles that they might be interested in.
4. Create Your Own Products
Yea, I know… this is something many people are afraid of, but it’s easy if you purchase products with Private Label Rights and then edit them to make them your own.
Since Private Label Rights means you can edit the ebook and add your name as the author, that’s exactly what you need to do to make it your own product.
Simply use the original product as an outline, changing it as you wish, to add more content and personalize it to “sound” like you. Do research, if need be, to get more information on the topic so that you’re sure you’re giving solid information. Be sure you fix any spelling and grammatical errors, too, for a more polished and professional product.
But how do you pick a topic and where do you sell it? The same way I suggested in quick profit ideas #1 and #2 - forums and online groups are a good place to start. In addition to having your link in your signature file look around for potential joint venture partners, too. A quick email to a few of them offering a 50/50 or 60/40 split of any sales they make could bring you a lot of money.
Of course, if you have your own opt-in list then you can just offer it to them if you’d like. But don’t sell yourself short… visit forums and leave your link in your signature file and find website owners to do joint ventures with.
Joel Comm was generous enough to give away a free copy of his Kontera reports "Kontera Content Links Secret" to webmasters and bloggers who want to make more money from online 
advertising programs. The free report is now available to download at:
http://www.konterasecrets.com/special.html
You may have heard about Kontera Content Links advertising program or even use it on your site to increase your pay-per-click revenue. Is the program working? If it isn't working, something must be wrong. I will suggest you read this report, you might learn some new tricks and techniques to improve your Kontera result.
The good thing about Kontera Content Links is that they can be used together with AdSense. If both of the programs are optimized properly in your website, you may put your website revenue up to next level. And the report is going to teach you that.
Setting up a blog for the purpose of making money online is relative easy but maintaining a successful blog is a far more difficult and challenging process. Why maintaining a successful blog is difficult? Because there are many different aspects which can contribute to the success of your blog you need to know and do well. Some of these aspects include the subject of the blog, the blog's popularity and even the aesthetic layout of the blog. Furthermore, the ability to market and promote the blog effectively and reach a large number of targeted audiences will also have a profound impact on the success of a blog. Although there is no one simple formula or system for building and maintaining a successful blog, there are some basic tips which can help to ensure a bloggers will enjoy success with his/her blog. Below are some of the important basic tips:
Adding New Blog Entries Frequently
The importance of adding new blog entries on an ongoing basis cannot be underestimated. Updating your blog regularly with unique and useful content can attract your visitors to keep returning your blog to read the content they are looking for. Readers may visit a blog originally by chance but become committed to returning to the blog frequently based on the content which is posted on a regular basis. If the blogger seldom publishes new blog post, his/her readers may gradually reduce because they do not have motivation to keep coming back to the blog. However, if there are new blog posts published on an ongoing basis, visitors are more likely to come back to the blog frequently with expectation of new postings.
The length as well as the depth of a blog post can vary considerably based on the subject of the blog and the expectations of the target audience. However, in many cases even a relatively short blog entry offering only a small amount of content may be enough to keep readers interested. This can be useful when the blogger is unable to provide in depth posts but in the long run, blog readers are looking for a certain degree of sustenance and will likely expect the blog to be updated with new posts regularly. Additionally they will come to expect a certain voice and quality to the blog posts so bloggers who enlist the use of guest bloggers should carefully screen guest bloggers to ensure they are capable of posting blogs the audience will appreciate.
Understanding the Blog Audiences
You also need to understand your blog readers to succeed in your blogging business. Most successful blogs concentrate on a rather exclusive niche which draws a unique set of visitors. By updating the blog with content and information related to the niche, the blogger helps to ensure the audience will remain interested in the blog. However, the subject matter is not the only important aspect related to understanding the target audiences.
Bloggers should also be well aware of the type of information the blog readers are seeking and the way in which they prefer to have the information provided. This is important because some blog readers may enjoy lengthy pieces while others may prefer posts which are brief and to the point. Still other blog visitors may prefer to have posts provided as bulleted points in an easy to read manner. Providing the information in a way in which the visitors can process the information easily is as important as providing quality information.
Evaluating Changes to the Blog
Finally, all successful bloggers know how to make changes to the blog carefully and evaluate the effects these changes have on blog traffic. This is critical because a blog which is already successful can be doomed to failure if the blogger makes a chance which is not appreciated by the dedicated visitors and does not address the concerns of the readers. To avoid this potential problem bloggers should be careful to only make one change at a time and to allow ample time to evaluate the effect the change has on website traffic as well as the comments from readers before deciding whether to reverse the change or make additional changes.
Similarly a blog which is looking to increase website traffic can run into problems if they make too many changes and do not evaluate how these changes are affecting the blog’s traffic. A better strategy would be to make small changes one at a time and evaluate the effect of the change carefully before making more changes. This will help guide the blogger to produce a successful blog.
I've been notified by Joel Comm today that Google has made a little changes to their AdSense ads to reduce the number of accidental clicks of AdSense ads.
AdSense Contextual ads consists of four elements:
- A title
- A description
- An URL and
- A backgroud (the surrounding areas for the ads)
Now the question is will this new changes affect the revenue of the AdSense publishers. I believe they will. Probably a very small part of AdSense earning of many publishers are coming from accidental clicks of AdSense ads by visitors. So with this new changes took place, the publishers may experience a very little drop of AdSense. And so publishers shouldn't worry about this new changes as they will not obstruct you from earning more from AdSense. As long as you grow your traffic, you'll get more AdSense revenue as usual.
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Your eBay buyers are your customers if you are selling stuff in eBay. Just like shop retailers, you may also have some problems with a number of customers. While many of the eBay buyers are friendly and easy to deal with, there are some who can “ruffle your feathers.” While your
first thought may be to give a difficult eBay buyer a piece of your mind, you may want to refrain from doing so, especially if your monthly income is depending on your eBay business.
First Difficulty: Customers Asking for Lower Price
One common difficulty that eBay sellers face is having to do with their current auction listings. When you have selling on eBay for some time, probably you'll get eBay messages from buyers asking you to reduce your price on one of your listed items. The eBay buyers may mention that they are other eBay sellers offering the same items with lower listed price. If this happens to you, you may solve this problem easily by doing what the customers said, which is lower your price. If lowering your asking price isn't possible, you should reply to your buyers telling them your reasons to make them understand your situation. Do not ever suggest the buyers to look for other eBay sellers that offer lower prices as the buyers may think that your are impolite to them. Whether you want to reduce your eBay prices or not, the decision is yours to make. You should never feel pressured into doing so.
Second Difficulty: Customers Asking for Payment Method Your don't Accept
One of the other problems that commonly arise on eBay, concerning difficult eBay buyers, is the payment process. There are actually a number of eBay buyers have the assumption that all eBay sellers accept the same methods of payments, but not all do. The most common payment method in eBay is PayPal. If you do not have a PayPal account at the moment, you may want to look into doing so. Regardless of what payment methods you accept, you are advised to specify them in your auctions. Yes, eBay has a section for sellers to outline the payment methods they accept, but, unfortunately, not all sellers make their way down to that section. Should you have a buyer that wants to make alternative arrangements, you need to use your best judgment. If you cannot reach an agreement, eBay should be notified.
Third Difficulty: The Winning Bidders are not Paying
Another common type of difficult eBay buyers is those who refuse to pay after wining your auctions. A simple policy of eBay is if you bid on an item and win it, you must making payment for the item. But no everyone complies this rule. Your may encounter non-paying buyers. If you do have these buyers, you will want to stay professional when requesting payment from them. By simply sending a few reminder notices you should still be able to keep your positive image. If you non-paying eBay buyer haven't reply your after weeks of waiting, you will want to contact eBay about this issue. eBay has a process that allows you to claim your listing fees back, as well as a process that will gives non-paying eBay buyers a negative feedback rating.
Fourth Difficulty: Customers not Happy with Your Item
eBay buyers that bought and received your item but not happy with the item is probably the most difficult customers you have to deal with. should this happens to you, you need to use your best judgment. To prevent a problem from occurring, you should provide a detailed description of the item you are selling with several pictures. It is also advised that you set a return policy, whether or not you actually have one. If you have unintentionally mislead an eBay buyer, you should apologize and do anything you think needed to make the situation right; however, stand your ground if you are being scammed or “taken for a ride.”
Unhappy customers can damage your eBay seller image which will directly affect your eBay sales by leaving you negative feedback. Some buyers will just post a negative feedback without contracting you when they receive an item that they don't satisfy with. The best way to prevent this is to send a follow-up email when your item is on the way to your buyer. Ask them whether they have received the item and should they not happy with the item they receive, tell them to give you a change to solve the problem before leaving you a negative feedback.
The above situations are just a few of the many that you may experience when doing business in eBay. No matter what difficult you face, you should use your best judgment and also keep your cool.
I found Shoppero yesterday. It was a new products review website providing users recommendations and opinions on products to aid people making better decision in their purchases. Registered users of Shoppero who write about products, reviews and recommendations that published on Shppero will earn advertising revenue.
Earning money with Shoppero is simple. Below is a short intro on how it works:
The ads revenue you can earn from your product reviews and recommendations is depending on the page view of your product recommendation pages. The more people read your recommendation, the more revenue you'll get.
Besides that, you can also display Shoppero adget on your blog and social networking sites and earn money every time your visitor clicks on your adget. Here's are some illustrations:
But Shopero adget is all about product recommendation. If your blog and site aren't related to consumer products, these adgets wouldn't work well.
A quick update on the two money making programs I stumble upon lately.
IPublishPress.com - Get Paid to Read
I Publish Press is actively looking for people to become their readers for their audio book collection. I Publish Press offers many titles in audio format. Audio readers will be contracted to make the recordings for new titles, and I Publish Press will sell all the audio recording of readers in their online store.
Jobacle.com/Blog
There are currently 2 paid blogging positions opened in a career advice blog called Jobacle:
1) Career Web 2.0. The blogger is responsible to bring the latest and greatest career tools to readers’ attention and letting them know the pros and cons.
2) Career Advice. The blogger need to provide standard and realistic career advice and tips in a voice that readers trust.
Two posts a week per position (approximately 250 words each). Bloggers will receive payment via Paypal.
Application must be sent to Andrew G.R. - Jobacle@gmail.com. Send whatever you think is necessary to get the gig and tell how much you expect per post.
If you're just boarding on the AdSense train, and looking to find a quick way to make the profits 
you've seen all being pulled of all over the Internet, you might be interested in a couple of tools.
These software tools are designed to aid AdSense publishers in getting a better understanding on how traffic flows through their site. Some will help you in understanding which keywords gain you more money and which locations give you the best AdSense payment.
One of the useful tools available is AdSense Gold (http://www.profitbooks.com/go/astracker) which allows you to have a better understanding of which ads and formats actually get more clicks and which are useful or nearly useless.
This program works by tracking views and clicks on all the publisher's pages. It even goes as far as offering you the possibility to see which referrer each visitor came in through.
There's a free tool called SynSense (http://www.singerscreations.com/RSS/Posts/235.asp) which is more of an AdSense monitoring tool. This sits in the tray and offers actualized AdSense stats as you hover your mouse over its icon. It's a very nice tool for those which like to be informed on how their AdSense is doing at all times of the day.
Google provides you with stats in a csv format on their site. So someone made a tool that can automatically download such files and extract a lot of information from them. The name of this tool is CSV AdStats and it is available from http://www.nix.fr/en/csvadstats.aspx?q=download
It has a large number of features, including the possibility to highly customize reported stats, exporting data and charts to other formats. It's in French but the language can very easily be changed to English.
Of course any tool can only access these stats as often as 15 minutes but the authors are well aware of that fact and none of these tools will get you in trouble with Google because of that.
If, however, you're browsing content most of the time, and your tool of choice is the Firefox Internet browser, there's an extension for this program that allows you to view the stats in your status bar.
Again, this software is aware of Google's 15 minute rule and enforces its usage, 15 minutes being the minimum time between updates. The Google AdSense notifier for Firefox can be obtained from http://code.mincus.com/?p=3
So as you can see, software developers are making more and more programs meant to help you in your quest to maximize your AdSense profits. But before you go out looking for them remember that Google has a few features of its own as well.
It does offer some reports (albeit a bit more limited) and using the 'channels' feature is a good way of finding out which ads on your site are really bringing in most of the revenue.
Be on the look out as new tools appear daily and make sure to invest time in your site, as that is the real key in success with AdSense.
Would you like to know how you can get the most out of the new trend toward making money using video on the Internet? Jay Douglas, an Internet marketing expert who has literally made hundreds of cash producing videos for all types of products and services online is going to reveal his successful video marketing techniques in a tele-class to be held on Wednesday, November 14.
Sign up now to secure your seat.
Here's what you'll learn if you attend this tele-class:
- How to create professional videos that will explore your sales.
- What to never do or your video will be a flop.
- What software is the easiest to use.
- What hardware you need to get the job done properly.
I started this blog 14 months ago and got a little success running this blog. This blog has make me more than enough for my monthly expenses. But it hasn't able to achieve financial freedom for me. So, I plan to start another blog to help me achieve financial freedom faster. Also I feel more secure if I have another money making blog - If this blog Money Maker Info failed, I still have the second one to support me.
I will be using Wordpress to manage my new blog. Wordpress is much complicated than Blogger, it will take some time for a Wordpress beginner like me to learn how to use Wordpress effectively for my Blog marketing business. Speaking about learning Wordpress, I found a good blog providing detailed video tutorial on how to set up a Wordpress blog:
http://www.solostream.com - Wordpress Video Lesson
If you are a Wordpress beginner like me, I suggest you watch this video tutorial too.
The topic for my new blog will be "Home business". I'll be focusing on posting useful content related to home business, Internet marketing, online and home selling. Hopeful this new blog is another informative and helpful blog for people who want to start and grow a profitable home business.
I will be spending a hard time on SEO to make this new blog achieve top rankings in Google and get quality traffic from Google. My target is Top 2 in Google within 12 months. Besides that, I will use other common marketing methods to drive traffic to my blog. I realize that social bookmarking can be a great way to get a lot of free traffic. But traffic from social bookmarking sites are less converting according to my experience, so I'll not be using them as my main sources of traffic.
I read about complaints from people in different forums said that social bookmarking traffic are useless. One of the latest articles about social bookmarking really surprise me. The title of the article is:
How I Got 70,000 Useless Visitors To My Site In One Day
The author describes that how he got massive number of visitors (70k) from social media sites in one day but receive an extremely poor result in term of getting lead and income increase of that day and further added that the best kind of traffic is traffic coming from organic search. But at the end of the article, the author doesn't conclude that social bookmarking sites traffic are completely useless. They can be useful for some purposes. I 100% agree with the author. Social bookmarking sites traffic aren't useless, just that it is much harder to get them to convert to leads, subscribers or revenue.
My new blog is expected to launched in the first quarter of next year. I will introduce it here once it has launched.
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We keep hearing about the $7 products being the best bet to earn money quickly. Understanding the meat of the concept is very important, instead of blindly getting into things. They will bring you good results, the likes of which you may have never seen.
Information products are difficult to sell if they are priced too high. When they are priced too low, people still hesitate to buy them, thinking they may be worthless. As with anything else, when given away free, the hold zero value. This is where $7 products entered into the picture and basically found a middle ground, and it works like a charm every time. How many people are there that will not be willing to spend the cost of a lunch on information that could make them money or solve their problem? See, how it works? It is foolproof because refunds are virtually eliminated.
Let us look at a few benefits that $7 products have over other products.
Benefit of ‘no’ support
With a $7 product, there is no need to provide any support. Most of them are very small digital information products and it hardly takes any time to get them together. For something so small that costs less, you are not expected to provide any sort of support.
Easy to sell
Just think about it. If you are trying to sell an $87 ebook, what do you have to do? You have to have a sales page and good graphics. The reason being, getting people to buy an expensive product is not easy and they need a lot of convincing, for them to understand the value.
Whereas, with a $7 product, there is no need of a fancy sales page and nobody expects it. In fact, it would look odd if you were to put up a $500 sales page to sell a low cost info product that prices at $7. The amount of work that you need to do is very less.
Length of the product
The main benefit is that they don’t have to be very long and because of this, they can be created easily. There are people that can create a product in a day without any hassle. Because it is easy to knock more of them faster, it means more profits because you will make more sales.
To read part 2 of this article, please click here.
In case you haven't read part 1 of this article, please click here.
Making money
I know you must be thinking that you are only making $7 for each product sold. You must understand that the way $7 products are put together, you will make much more than $7 in the long run. How? Most people, when they put together a product, also add affiliate links inside the books, to programs they promote, and make sales from what is called the backend. This means, that with every $7 product, you also have the potential to make much more than $7.
Building a list
A great thing about these products is that you can build your list easily. The person who actually created this $7 products built that into the system and it is pure genius. You get a $7 sale and some backend sales, and also get those people on your list, enabling you to send them other offers of products that you create down the road. Imagine, how many sales you could make and how many people you can have on your list, if you keep offering them $7 products.
Affiliates for selling
I know what you want to know. Why would anybody want to sell my book as an affiliate? There is something beautiful about the system. They would certainly love to do this for you, because you would offer them the total sale money as commission, all 100% of it. In turn, you get to put them on your list. It is in-built in the script too. Another great incentive for the affiliates is that unlike Clickbank, where they need to wait at least 2 weeks before getting paid, here they get paid instantly to their Paypal. People love this instant cash, as this is one of the most viral things there is on the net. Whenever someone buys this report from one of your affiliates, with the help of the script, the buyer’s name and email address is collected, ensuring more people for your list. All you need to do is install the script on your server.
Believe me, there are several benefits in selling $7 products. It is a very simple system you will ever see for selling any product online. All you need to make sure is that you have the right product. The only thing you may need for your products and this is something you may not be able to do yourself if you are not used to it, is creating custom ecovers. The reports may be cheap but you still must ensure they have a good-looking cover. There are plenty online if you cannot afford a professional to do it for you.
There is no question that $7 product is a great concept. If you put together a great product, you will be able to make a pretty decent profit or use it to build your list by having others sell it, or do both.
The below resources are what I have bookmarked recently. Check them out as the will guide you to make money on the Internet.
SiteSalary.com
SiteSalary.com provides a free step-by-step guide to help webmasters expanding their sites income. You'll learn 5 changes you can implement to your site that will increase your web revenue reading the free guide.
http://www.ethiccash.com/hostingreport
Web hosting might be the most overlooked issue you have to face when you consider building an online business. Ignoring hosting could negatively affect your online business and all of your efforts. For this reason, JP Schoeffel have released a free report giving you some general insights on hosting, but also some more advanced tips on C-Class (it has to do with IP). To download this report, simply right click the above link and click save.
Video Product Giveaway
This is a giveaway program that only focuses on video products. You can download more than 60 video related products for no-cost joining this program. Some of the products show you how to create videos, and others are video tutorials to teach you how to make money online.
AdSense's new ad management feature finally started rolling out to publishers yesterday. But not all AdSense publishers can see this new feature yet in their account because it will take some time to roll out the feature to all publishers. As mentioned earlier in Google AdSense blog, the new feature is designed to help publishers optimize their AdSense ads in a more easier manner and save their time.
I login my AdSense account just now, there is no ad management feature appearing yet. So I still didn't have to chance to use this new feature and have no idea how good is it in helping AdSense publishers to make money with AdSense.
Are you planning to become an eBay seller or are you just becoming an eBay seller? If so, you may still in the process of learning the ins and outs of eBay. Owing a small eBay business can help you make extra money and when your small eBay business grows, you can earn enough to support yourself. To become a profitable eBay seller, there is a need to fully learn the ins and outs of eBay. But unfortunately, it takes time to learn all of them. Below are some helpful tips that you won’t necessarily find explained on eBay.
Every eBay seller who want to start an auction to list their items for sale on eBay must pay fees. eBay will charge you two separate fees, which are
1) Listing fee or insertion fee and
2) Final value fee.
You'll be charged a listing fee at the time you list your item. The amount of the listing fee you 
have to pay is depending on your listing price. For example, now, it costs .20 to list an item for sale up to .99 cents and .40 to list an item between $1.00 and $9.99, and the fee scale continues up in a similar fashion.
For the final value fee, You need to pay only when your listed item sold. The fee will be calculated based on a percentage of the price that your item sold for.
I believe all eBay sellers know that there are eBay fees to pay for listing their items. But many of them seldom take the time to thoroughly understand those eBay fees. You are advised to review the eBay fee structure and understand them clearly, as they can help you save money. For instance, many of the price ranges for eBay’s listing fee scale ends at .99 cents. For you, this is a good way to save money, but you need to know how to do so. As stated above, if you list one of your items at $9.99, the sample listing fee would be only .40 cents. But do you know that if you listed your item at $10.00, your listing fee can increase to around .60 cents! An increase of .20 cents of cost just for a penny is expensive, especially if you list a number of items in different auctions that way. So before starting an auction to list your item for sale, always check the eBay listing fee scale to see how you can save money easily, sometimes by just cutting a few cents off your asking price.
A successful auction usually has a good product descriptions and clear pictures of the item that is selling. Of course, having several photos and pictures give you better chances of making a sale, but it can be costly doing so. Adding one picture in your eBay auction is free. Additional pictures can be bought for a small fee, but that small fee can add up overtime. So a lot of eBay sellers limit the number of pictures they include in their auctions; however, you do not want to do this. Instead, you will want to check out photo sharing sites. Photo sharing site like PhotoBucket is a good and free way to add more pictures to your eBay auctions. Join a photo sharing site, like PhotoBucket, follow their instructions and you should be saving money in no time at all.
The above tips are just a few of the many tips that can help you save money on eBay. In all honesty, you should do some research first and the Internet is a great way to learn and research selling on eBay, as many other eBay users will share their money making secrets with you, free of charge.
I have heard about My Power Mall few months ago but at that time I didn't take a closer look on how it works. Today I received an email from one of the staff of My Power Mall explaining the My Power Mall system. It seems that it is a money making system that works.
The My Power Mall system lets you set up your personal shopping mall and earn money from your personal mall without selling any things. Their rebate program allows you to make money every time you shop at your own Power Mall. You can buy virtually anything in your own Power Mall as there are 1,000 stores with millions of products inside your mall. Whenever you are purchasing a everyday items you or your family need and want, you'll earn a portion of rebate on your purchase price.
The shopping rebate you can earn isn't just limited from you purchase. You can share your mall with other people to build up a team under you and earn rebate when a person of your team buy an item. Thus increasing your income potential.
My Power Mall is an American company but their membership isn't just restricted to US residents only. Anyone in the world can join My Power Mall and receive a free personal mall.
Thinking of starting an adwords campaign? On the surface, the Google Adwords system looks deceptively simple. All there is to using Adwords is creating ads, setting the cost for your keywords and letting them run. The problem is, it is not as simple as that.
The most important and difficult part of your Adwords campaign could be the ad itself. The bottom line is that if your ad is not compelling, nobody is going to click on it. Considering the fact that you only have 3 lines to work with, you have to be very clever and come up with lines that are going to work.
How do you write that ad? There exist many theories on construction of ads, and they all work fine, but only for some segments of people. The key here is that you are not going to appeal to every segment. You have to choose your target market and make ads for that market.
Learning a few ad-writing techniques for Adwords will be of help to you. After all there is only so much you can write in 3 lines of 35 characters each.
Take your ad writing one line at a time.
Headline – This has to capture the attention of whoever sees your ad. If you are selling a book on natural acne cure, you may use a headline that says “Cure Acne Naturally.” Since you have only 35 characters, make it short, powerful and to the point. Make sure your main targeted keyword is also there in the headline. Mind you, this is important. Google highlights searched keywords in bold in your ad. When people scan the search results, they always look for keywords they entered. Most searched keywords that are highlighted in bold help catch attention. This is the reason ads with searched keywords perform better than the ones without.
First line – The first line of your ad is as important as the headline and should be as powerful. There is certainly no room for fluff. The first line of your ad should show the main benefit of your product. As discussed above, if you are selling an acne cure that is natural and will cure acne in 3 days, the key benefit of your product is the 3-day part. Your first line could read ‘Cure Your Acne In 3 Days, Stay Younger Looking, Lose Weight, Get Healthier, Live Happier, etc.” This is sure to grab people’s attention.
Second line – The second line of your ad needs to reinforce the first line. In the first line, you gave the most important benefit of your product, that acne would be cured in 3 days. The second line will contain the most important feature, which is “Natural Cure”. So, the second line would be something like “All Natural Cure Guaranteed.”
Let me tell you, this kind of ad will certainly get people to your website. It then depends on your sales copy to do the job of making them buy your product. I agree, those 3 lines of ad are not going to get people to buy your product, but will surely get them excited enough to get to your website.
Let me reiterate that there are many things you need to keep in mind while creating a Google ad. Let us discuss these:
Demographics of the target market. Geographic location of the people you are targeting, their income levels, gender, and age, among other things. These demographics will give you an idea of what sort of messages your audience is going to be receptive to. The same writing style for urban women and rural males is not going to work.
Buyers new to your product or familiar? If your product is new, you will need to explain a bit more in your ad, tell them what problems your product is a solution for and why they will need the product. If your product is known to people and is being searched for on a daily basis, just add some sizzle to generate more click-throughs.
Are you selling your product on price or quality? If you are selling the product on price, you may stress on ‘free shipping’ or low prices. It is important to mention certain words that are appealing, such as quality, guarantee, luxury, low price, free shipping, etc.
Call to action. Try and use words or phrases that catch the eye. Always be innovative and use call to action phrases such as, “Buy Today – Save 50%, “Download Free Trial Now”, or “Sale Ends Tomorrow.” You have to make sure the phrase used is relevant to your business, if not Google may reject your ad.
Do not use common words. Remove all words that do not need to be in the ad, like “a, an, in, on, the” etc. Make sure every word in the ad makes sense and counts.
Deter freebie seekers. Your ad should be a deterrent to freebie hunters. It helps to include the price of your product at the very end of the ad. This will help improve the conversion rate and lower the customer acquisition cost. This may reduce the CTC, but you don’t want people who have no intention of buying clicking on your ads. You only want to target potential customers.
Ad writing for Google Adwords is an art. There are many top marketers who have a tough time writing ads for Adwords. Adwords gives you 3 lines and 105 characters to get people to your site.
Initially, it will be difficult writing ads, but then as you do it more often, it will come intuitively and you will automatically start thinking of headlines etc. As you get better at ad writing, the click through rates increase greatly. When your click through rate increases, the CPC will go down because Google will find your ads to be more relevant.
Stan Morse has lauched a new info product called "500 Dollar's Only - Hype Free Steps To Your First $500". But instead of selling the new info product, Stan is giving away it to anyone who are interested to read it.
This free report is currently available to download at http://yourebooksuperstore.com/500dollar.
The info-product is a report with a step-by-step guide for setting up a blogspot blog to market Clickbank Affiliate products and make money online. Inside the guide, you'll learn:
- How to find a Clickbank affiliate products.
- The proper ways of creating a blogspot blog for affiliate marketing.
- What type of content you should write and publish on your blog.
- How to drive traffic to your blog and generate affiliate commission.
Below are the money making programs I came across recently:
Academia-Research.com
Are you making money online as a freelance writer and have tired of the tough bidding competition in freelance marketplace? Academia Research is a company providing freelance writing jobs to people who prefer to work online. They are looking for writers who can provide research and written works for University students. The pay rate is $6 to $20 per page. More details about this writing opportunity can be access here.
Expressaffiliatesite.com
Expressaffiliatesite.com is another membership site that give members a free and fully functional turnkey website. But unlike other turnkey website services which only allow you to generate website revenue from one money making program. Express Affiliate Site is loaded with multiple programs including Google AdSense, Clickbank info-products and Amazon products thus giving you more income sources. However the downside of Express Affiliate Site is that the turnkey website is free only for the first 14 days and after that you need to pay $8.33 per month for web hosting.
When you decide to enter the affiliate marketing world, there are several niche markets that are worthy of consideration. Here are three affiliate networks that are well known in the affiliate marketing industry, simply because of their reliability and stability.
ClickBank
Perhaps the best known of the three networks is ClickBank: http://www.clickbank.com. Clickbank has over 10,000 affiliate info products with different categories where you can select 
any one of them to promote online.
There are a few of reasons why people find ClickBank such an attractive networks when it comes to affiliate programs selection.
The first reason is that the affiliate commission generated by any customer purchase made through your Clickbank affiliate link is credited to your account in two minutes time after the transaction occurred. Because of such comprehensive tracking feature provided by ClickBank, affiliates find it easy to check how things are going, even if they run multiple sites as part of the program.
This handy software interface means that you do not need to create a separate ClickBank account for each program that you are marketing. Everything can be combined into a single ClickBank account, and the transaction detail will be plenty to help you sort the transactions into workable detail on how much you are earning from each affiliate product.
Along with the ads on your sites, you will also given a branded portal that will take visitors over to the ClickBank marketplace. Any products that are bought at the marketplace through your portal will also earn you commission, and will record in your daily detail, just like any purchase from the affiliate ads would do.
This in effect allows you to maximize your earning potential using the resources that ClickBank provides. Payments are currently made by check, which are mailed out every two weeks.
Paydotcom
Another good choice of affiliate network is http://www.paydotcom.com. Like ClickBank, PayDotCom provides an easy to use affiliate interface that allows you to view your transaction details in real time.
One of the good things about PayDotCom is that this program will interface with your PayPal 
account, which means that vendors can pay you monthly commission directly to your PayPal account. However not all vendors are using PayPal as a commission payment method, so you may still receive payments by check for certain products you are promoting.
Still, a number of the vendors do utilize PayPal, and that can often mean receiving payment without having to wait for a long time. But bear in mind that if you chose PayPal as your preferred payment method, you will be deducted a small amount of fees by Paypal every time you receiving commission.
In like manner, you will incur a small percentage of the payout on each purchase to PayDotCom as well. This program is easy to sign up with, and the staffs are pretty helpful to people who just started to make money with affiliate programs.
Shareasale
The third choice is http://www.shareasale.com which is consistently gaining recognition among affiliate marketers as a affiliate network that is designed to match up to the content of your 
existing website and blog. Sharesale is free to sign up as an affiliate.
Basically, you can join the network and then browse through a list of available merchant programs, selecting the ones that you believe will be of interest to the readers and visitors at your site or blog. The merchant list includes a wide variety of industry types and products, some of them digital, but many of them physical.
The sale commission vary depend on the merchants. Some merchants pay a flat rate for a sale, while others go with a percentage commission on the sale price. It is not difficult to determine which method is preferred while you are checking out the merchant listing.
You can search the merchants list by category, by method of compensation, and by the newest programs added in the last twenty days to see what programs are right for you before you decide to join a program in Shareasale network.
Like other affiliate networks, Sharesale makes it easy to view your traffic and earnings around the clock. The reports are all web based, so you do not need to use any software to load and read your affiliate reports.
The payment is made either by check or direct to your bank account depending on your choice of preferred method. To qualify for a payment, you have to earn at least $50.00 commission. Any amount under that will carry forward to the next payment period.
Internet business world is full of competition. If you are in a high demand niche market, probably people who are in your niche are always looking at ways to put you out of business. So it has become your duty to protect yourself.
The question is of survival. To stay in business, you need to learn ways of outdoing your competitors so that their arrows don’t hit you (your business). Here are a few weapons you may use against your competitors.
Spying on your competition
I mean to say, keep an eye to see what they are doing. For example, if you are in the internet marketing niche and your main product is a software that creates ebook covers. Even before creating your product, you need to see all similar existing softwares and see their price ranges. If you have decided on selling your software for $90 and others are selling it for $60, you will have difficulty selling yours, unless your software is far better. Either you lower the price or ensure your software is better. What if you sell it for $50, where others are selling for $60. This is the way you need to think.
Prepare a comparison chart and also if required buy the competitor product and note all the features. Make sure your product is better in terms of features or better priced and let the customer know about these differences. There is no harm in doing this. This is what business is all about. After all this, your competitors are certainly not going to keep quiet, they will come up with something better. This is the reason, you always need to keep an eye on the competing products as well as notice what others are saying about your product.
Sales page contest
If you look at the sales pages of people selling products, all of them look the same and notice that they get totally involved with selling the product from the beginning. The focus of the sales page is solely on getting people to buy their product. Of course, you are going to sell your product too, but make sure not to make it the main focus.
You can actually do something totally different. Have some sort of a contest that would interest people and announce a free report or e-book for the winner. Make sure it is something people look forward to getting. Run the contest for a month or so and if the prize is going to be extremely attractive, people are surely going to be talking about it.
Meanwhile, get all those people to sign up for your list. You anyway need their email addresses to send the winner the prize. With this, you are not only selling your product but also building a list to sell them more products down the road.
Creating an ad directory
Creating an ad directory for customers is an ingenious idea of getting people to buy your book as well as promote it. Pre-advertise and let people know in forums and message boards that you are going to create an ad directory. Then create a page telling them how it works, listing the terms and conditions of how they can get a place in the directory.
To make sure this works, you need to make it a quality directory. You must have a condition that the ad will be placed only if it is for their own website and not for some affiliate site.
Take orders for the directory in advance. You can give them two options of either paying for the ad or selling a few of your books. This is a good idea of getting people to promote your product. If they are sure their ad is going to be seen by hundreds of people, many will be interested. Once you have enough people, promote the directory all over the internet.
Product review
The weird thing about this idea is getting your competition to review your product. Contact everyone that has a similar product and ask them to review your product and give a testimonial. They will wonder what is happening.
You are sending them your product and asking them for an honest review. You may also offer them a nice incentive. They will come back with a review and some may even tell you what they don’t like about it. Because you are their competition, they may even give negative remarks too. You will certainly get additional ideas from their remarks, and you can make changes or implement new ideas in your product so that it is one up on the competition. You have the right to keep changing your product.
Get your list to write your next book
This last tip fits the bill of how exactly to kill your competition. You start with sending an email to your list, asking them to let you know what they want to see in your next product. Of course, giving them an incentive is a must. Think and I am sure you will come up with something. Why not offer to have their link in your book. They would jump at this.
Did you know many big guys do this. They write emails to all big marketers asking them what they wish to see in their next book. They incorporate several of these ideas and the book is a grand success.
Beating the competition means always staying on top of your competition by coming up with innovative ideas and implementing strategies that they would not have thought of, and continually spying on the competition to be one up on them. Who said being in business is easy!
