Are You About to Begin Your Own Online Business?... Here are a Few Basic Essential Points for Your Success.
Copyright 2005 Sandi Clements
The internet is a place where people are looking for a quick fix, overnight sensational kind of magic success which almost never materializes. I say almost because there is a way to really be successful,... yes on the internet. It take careful consideration, time and effort. Many times we expect people to just happen onto our crisp, clean happy little plot without realizing that unless we have a real strategic plan in place no one and I mean NO one will ever even find your little nook let alone hound you with sales requests. And remember this: No matter what you have for sale or how much it is in demand, you simply must have a well thought out plan or nothing going is going to happen. You have to create a certain kind of presence. Something they can not only see but a felt presence. Hmm! How to do this... Well there are a few things that will really begin to get you noticed! Ahhh yes good ole SPAM. That will surely get you noticed and kicked off all reputable websites. NO! There are much better ways.
1: A really well designed, professional looking website in my opinion is #1 (Your reputation is at stake here.) It can make or break your online business. If their first impression is a bad one they may never be back.You need to think about where you are going to set up your humble abode (or not so humble.) Nothing much is really free these days and if you want quality don't settle for what appears to be a good FREE website until you have thouroughly checked out the facts. They do not always display the quality that you are looking for nor do they have sufficient space to properly organize what you will want to do with you site.
2: Hosting Service: You need a good, reliable place to host your website. A plot of land (hosting server) to build your house (website) on.
3: A reliable source for content (You can either learn to write which is really rather fun and not as hard as you might think or use some really well written articles from article directories. When you become a member of IGR, you can use their articles as they are, combine parts of several and create a whole new article and even put your own name as author as long as you abide by a few simple rules.(a reputable article directory with great benefits you can find here: http://www.InfoGoRound.com
4: Opt-in list and Traffic: Oh yes...we have heard it a thousand times...the $$$ is in the list...that all important list which begins the flow of "traffic" (No list...No traffic...No traffic...No sales. It is just that simple.We must find a way to get a good reliable targeted list of names of people who are really interested in what you have to offer. Once you build a good solid opt-in list better still (double opt-in) meaning that they not only have shown interst in your newsletter or ezine they have confirmed again by answering to an email saying yes I do want to receive this newsletter.) you can then send them great content and super offers for ever as long as they stick with your newsletter.
That is why it is so important to give your prospects excellent content and great information that will help them solve their problems. They need to feel that you really care about what they want and be able to trust that you are not some scam artist out there just taking what you can without ever giving back.
We need to reach out and give, give and give some more and it should be of utmost quality. People are tired of every other email holding out its wretched hand for yet another dollar. Seemingly cold and unfeeling, just another pitiful cry for whatever you are willing to fork over for the best -ever -whatever. They don't know who you are and you need to make them feel comfortable and show them they can trust you. Let every produt you offer leave them with a good warm feeling about you and your business and you will never lack for warm and willing to buy customers.
5: Contact: You need at least one good autoresponder which is an excellent way to get your info to your subscribers in an orderly and timely fashion. Never make the mistake of thinking that your customers will remember you if you only contact them every few weeks or months. They need to hear from you on a regular basis at least once a week with good, valuable information that they can benefit from in their everyday life and a super offer like a free ecourse or ebook or even a useful digital product once in a while. It will benefit you much to establish rapport with those whom you deal with online or off. Once your customers begin to trust you and your business thru your constant giving them what they need and want they will become open to your suggestions and referrals thus in turn giving you what you need and want.
6: A blog is an excellent way to provide your customers with information at their fingertips, just a click away. Keep it fresh and alive by searching out useful info and writing great interesting articles on a variety of everyday subjects (not just business...people like to get away from that once in a while) and update it regularly.You need at least one good autoresponder (a great time saver) to run your online business efficiently. Just think what kind of frenzy you would be in if you had to manually send out all that great info. Once your list is built to a substantial number it would be impossible to keep on top of it.
About the Author
Sandi Clements can help you start your own profitable online business...To learn how visit: http://www.SandizMoneyMaker.com/pips.html
Paid Online Surveys - An Easy Way To Make Money At Home
Copyright 2005 Elaine Currie
Doing paid online surveys is a very easy way to make money at home. I'd rank this occupation as second in simplicity only to getting paid to autosurf - there simply cannot be anything easier than logging into a website and allowing advertisers' websites to scroll across your computer screen - doing paid online surveys does take a little more effort but not too much and it is an enjoyable pastime.
I discovered paid online surveys by accident. I was actually using the Internet to search for a job and I had the idea of looking for work at home opportunities. It all seems a bit unreal when I look back - was there really a time when I didn't know you could get paid for doing online surveys? In those days, the only surveys I knew about were the ones I occasionally received in the post and which would promise entry into a prize draw as a reward for taking the time to complete the survey. I never did win a prize but I built up quite a collection of free pens. Now I take it for granted that email invitations to take part in paid online surveys will turn up in my mailbox on a daily basis and (the important bit) that I will get paid for completing the surveys.
One great thing about paid online surveys is the fact that you don't need any special skills to take part. As long as you have an Internet linked computer and an opinion, you are qualified. There are no right or wrong answers when it comes to surveys, the companies want to hear what you think, they don't want to test your knowledge. Most questions will permit you to answer "don't know" or "not sure". Sometimes, you will be given multiple choices and asked to pick the closest to your viewpoint. The best survey companies without fail, try to make it easy for you to give meaningful answers.
Another great thing is that you can complete your paid online surveys at your leisure. When the invitation is sent to you, it will normally state a deadline for closure of the survey and, as long as you respond before the deadline, it does not matter when you complete the survey. As the majority of paid online surveys can be completed in 5-15 minutes, it is very easy to slot them here and there into your daily routine. You can easily do a short survey or two while you drink your morning coffee but, if you prefer, you can save up all your survey invitations and do them at midnight.
All sorts of companies, all over the world are spending a small fortune every year on advertising their products and services. In order to advertise as effectively as possible, these companies invest heavily in market research programmes to help them target their advertising. Market researchers also investigate what people might like or dislike about various products which are still in prelaunch.
Paid online surveys will quite often include a question about whether you would be prepared to test a sample of a product from their client. I've received free samples of a variety of things from chocolate, to facial soap to detergent tablets. These free samples are worth having because they are generous in quantity: they aren't the mini free sample sizes you see given away in shops. I was quite surprised when I received a full size box of detergent tablets through the post. The fact that it was a new variety of my preferred brand was an added bonus, I only wish I could get to test chocolate more often.
Paid online survey companies make payment to their members by a variety of methods. Some pay instantly via PayPal, some by cheque, some with Amazon gift vouchers, some have a points system where you earn points which you save up and later trade in for products of your choice or for cash. There will also be some surveys where the reward will be entry into a draw for a large prize.
Generally speaking, the cash payments for taking part in paid online surveys are quite small but, as each survey takes only a short time to complete, you can do several each day and build up a steady income. If you want to earn a decent amount of money, you won't do it by just joining a couple of paid online survey companies you need to sign up with a large number of them. The easiest way to do this is by joining one or more paid online survey database companies. For payment of a small one off fee, you will get access to a database of reputable paid online survey companies. Your membership will include regular industry updates and notification of any new additions to the online paid survey company database.
Another advantage of joining paid online survey companies by paying for access to a database, is that you will avoid the scam companies who are just out to harvest your details which they will then sell to anyone willing to pay. If you do a Google search for online paid surveys, you will undoubtedly notice many websites which offer a free list of survey companies and which advise that you should not pay to join a database when you can join free through their website. The owners of these websites are not philanthropists, they are affiliates for each company they list and they receive commission if you sign up through their link. They don't care how much junk mail you will get!
I made the mistake of signing up to some paid online survey companies through a couple of these websites and I very soon noticed an increase in junk mail, unsolicited marketing phone calls and emails. I also noticed the poor quality of some of the "surveys" I was invited to complete. The worst company would regularly email me a message claiming they wanted me to take part in a $50 survey on movies. I answered pages of questions about my taste in cars, holiday destinations and various other unconnected subjects. Eventually, I would be informed that I was not suitable for the $50 movie survey. All I got for answering all those questions was mail and phone calls from people who seemed to think I wanted to buy a Mercedes, go on a cruise and buy all sorts of mobile phones.
If you are looking for an easy way to make money at home, I recommend paid online surveys as an excellent place to start but beware of the scammers. The small fee (which you can soon earn back) for access to a reputable database is well worthwhile both in terms of getting paid and in avoiding the nuisance of junk mail.
About the Author
Elaine Currie has a Work From Home Directory and Survey Review at her Plug In Profit Site:
http://www.huntingvenus.com
for people who want to make money at home.
Proven Step-By-Step Formula Creates Website That Makes People Pull Out Their Credit Cards And Buy
By Rick Miller
Copyright 2005 Rick Miller
Have you ever wished you had a magic formula that would cause your website visitors to hand over their money to you?
In a recent interview with Tellman Knudson for the List Crusade program, Patric Chan revealed his secrets for building a website that actually compels people to buy your product.
(Note: To access Patric Chan's complete audio interview for fre^e, see end of article)
Patric Chan is a 24 year old Internet Marketer living in Malaysia but working successfully with some of the biggest Internet marketing gurus and motivational speakers on earth-people such as Anthony Robbins, Joe Vitale, Willie Crawford, and Mark Joyner, to name a few.
He's living proof that anyone in the world can actually make money and a living online in Internet Marketing.
Listen closely to Patric's every word and learn how you, too, can duplicate his success:
"The first part to build a list successfully is you need to create the correct webpage.
Now there can many, many definitions of what correct is, so I'll define correct as what's been making money for me.
I know it works, because that's what I do everyday. The correct webpage that will help you make money fast is the 'direct response' webpage.
I'm not tslking about websites like amazon.com, ebay.com, kazaa.com and so on.
A direct response webpage only has one task to achieve: to get the visitor to take action.
In List Crusade's case, the action is to assure opt-ins to your mailing list so that you can build a list and sell to them in the future by adding value to them. Note here that we add value to them, not in the sense of getting our list bigger and bigger just to make money.
It's all about adding value, and when they see value in what you have to sell them, then they will buy.
The direct response web page should be as personal as possible. What I mean by being personal is to make it a very one person to one person, as opposed to a big company or industry.
For example, the webpage should have a person or personality that is dealing with you, not a company or a website. This means that it's supposed to be you and me, not we and you.
'We' is like a company kind of thing, but they're not actually doing business with a website, not at all. They're not doing business with a webpage, they're not doing it with an email, but they're doing business with you.
You might start your direct response webpage as if you are actually writing a personal letter. So in your direct response webpage, after the headline, you should start with 'Dear friend.'
Then you might want to put a date there...
Putting a date is done by inserting a little script or code so that you can actually have the today's date shown there. You can get scripts for free at hotscripts.com
And, lastly, you should actually end your whole direct response webpage with your signature.
It's like a personal letter, like you are actually writing to them.
So I repeat again, get a direct response webpage and get as personal as possible. There should be three ingredients there: you should begin with dear friend, then you should have a date, and you should have a signature. This will make you look as if like you are writing a letter instead.
That's the basic structure. And, there's so many people not even doing this basic structure.
A personal direct response webpage is normally a small, mini webpage. When I say mini webpage, normally you have two or three pages only. That's what a mini webpage is. One, is the main page. And then you have a second one and it's usually a thank you page. And sometimes there's a third page. Usually, it's a pop-up at the exit or the entrance. So you probably have three webpages. This is called a mini webpage structure."
In the List Crusade interview, Patric also revealed:
* The five step system that propelled Patric to online success in less than a year, and that can be easily duplicated even by a beginner
* The amazing secret to selling to your website visitors even if they leave your website without buying
* What one common mistake you absolutely must avoid if you want to make money on the Internet
* The secret factor to Internet Marketing success that's even more important than getting traffic to your website
* His covert weapon that lets him get thousands of visitors to his website without paying a penny and gives him instant credibility
Without a doubt, if you use Patric Chan's formula, you will achieve much greater success in Internet Marketing. How will that increased success change your life?
About the Author
Rick Miller is a Certified Master of Web Copywriting and co-founder of List Crusade. We've arranged scholarships for 75 of our readers to get access to Patric Chan's entire interview, along with 51 other audio lessons from top Internet Marketing and Self Help Gurus, such as Jay Abraham, Jack Canfield, Joe Vitale, Mark Joyner, and Robert Allen--go to: http://www.ListCrusadeArticles.com/sya-chan.html
Working From Home Can Be Fun and Rewarding
A home based business is a business that you run from your home. The idea of home based business has been around for centuries. You may not have considered the fact that farmers operate a home based business. When people compare the money they spend in business attire, travel, and child care to what they will spend on special equipment for a home office they see that it really does pay to work at home. Home based business has lasted throughout the ages and is slowly becoming the way to work.
Home based business opportunities are everywhere. You can take almost any hobby and turn it into a business. If you have a special skill you can also use that as the basis for your home based business. A home based business can range from gardening to paralegal services. Whatever your special skill, training or hobby is can easily be turned into a money making venture.
Coming up with a home based business idea may seem difficult, but it isn't. Once you identify what special skill or training you have, you can build that into a business. For example, if you are a good gardener you may try growing specialty herbs and selling them at a local farmers market. It is a matter of taking what you have and figuring out how to make money with it.
Starting a home based business takes some time and money. Depending on whether you need inventory, special equipment or something else to get started you may be able to start out cheaply or have to come up with some capital. You should then check local and state laws for the types of license or permits you need. Once you are legally recognized as a business you can get started in advertising and bringing in sales.
If your business can be done online you are able to access a whole new world of clients. You still need to follow the basics of following local and state laws and get yourself established as a business. You also need to set up a website and start your internet advertising. Do research into online business before starting up.
Free websites are readily available around the internet. These sites offer you the ability to set up your website content and even include special things like trackers and ads. Most site will offer you an address that look like this : http://www.thefreesiteswebiste.com/yourwebsitename. So, you are actually like a link off their main page. However, if you can not afford to put the money upfront for a site and hosting this is the way to go. You get all the same options, just for free.
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