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Hi everyone, I hope your weekend is going well. I am holding another contest today. This contest will last for 72 hours. I have been really successful at teaching people how to make money at home. So I want to share my knowledge with some of my regular readers.
There were a few of my readers who didn’t enter the last contest in time and lost out. Hopefully by the end of the summer a majority of my regular readers will win this contest. I will be looking to have 3-4 contests like this each month. I know I can help you!
Details: This contest will last for 72 hours. It will end on May 14th at 8:00pm eastern time.
To enter the contest; comment on this blog post.
I will pick a winner the old fashioned way. All names will go in to a hat and I will have a friend (not involved with contest) pull the lucky winner. I will Congratulate the winner on May 15th in a blog post.
The winner of the contest will get the following:
Winner receives-
Both of my e-guides. The Home Drop Ship Guide and The Auction Power Guide
**3 Months of Tutoring From Me!**
Thanks for entering the contest everyone! Good luck!
My help will include research that you can’t do on your own. (Finding Wholesalers/Drop shippers/Hot items/Explaining the tricks and tips/anything you need)
Any questions you have will be answered so you head in the right direction.
Special Note: The subject matter doesn’t have to apply to my e-books. I can teach you how to buy wholesale, drop ship, market and advertise, affiliate marketing, build/host your own website, make money by writing your own e-books, blogging, anything that has to do with home business online.
No e-book can tell you everything you need to know. That’s why my e-books are sold with tutoring along the way. I can back up what I say. I don’t just sell you an e-book. I help you, until you are ready to do things on your own.
Note: Don’t be alarmed if you don’t see your comment right away. I have to approve it. Don’t worry, all comments to enter the contest will be approved.
If you have any questions, email me LP@thehomedropshipguide.com
Hi all, I hope everything is going great for you today. I recently had someone ask me if they should buy a program that gives them a better web page rank on Google. Getting a better web page rank is very difficult. It takes lots of dedication, time, and creativeness.
I can promise you that, there has never been an effective software that will give you a better web page rank or more traffic. The only way to get a better page rank is to have back links, thousands of them. Stay away from these scams.
You can create back links a number of ways. Organic advertising and marketing are the best ways to get back links. You can learn how to create back links in this blog post I wrote. But, it will take some very hard work on your part. You can also pay someone to market and advertise your website. But this can cost you thousands of dollars.
You have to be creative and write constantly about your website. Tell your friends, family, whoever will listen. Nobody will advertise your website until you get some street cred online. Another words, nobody will promote your website until you earn it. So get out there and tell everyone.
Join all the forums, social networks, article directories, and website directories as you can. Make some friends and tell everyone about what you have to offer. But, don’t fall for anyone claiming to know all the inside tips on how Google or any other search engine is run. Nobody really knows. They just know what works.
Listen to the people that have lots of traffic and have a high webpage rank. There is lots of free advice on how to drive traffic and get a higher webpage rank. Don’t buy any programs that claim you the world. Although there are some really great e-books and programs to teach you how to drive traffic and webpage rank. Those programs take lots of time to see results but they usually work great. Don’t buy in to the ones that claim you don’t have to do anything and you’ll be rich also.
The problem is; people don’t want to work. They want things for free with little to no work involved. They want something that they can sit back and do nothing and collect money at the same time. There is no such program. Stop living in a fairy tale and wake up. The only way you make a lot of money is to work really hard. Unless; You just won the lottery or large inheritance.
So please take my advice. Don’t buy any of those software programs that promise you a higher webpage rank or more traffic. You may see a short spurt of results. But, it will hurt your webpage rank more than help. Do it yourself if you want it done right.
Thanks for reading everyone!
Hi everyone, I hope your weekend is going great. Today I am going to post a great success story from someone who bought one of my E-Guides a few months back. He told me about his success, so I asked him to write about it for my blog. His name is Bobby Tulley and I hope you enjoy it.
My name is Bob Tulley.I live in Tampa Florida.I am 42 years old.
All I can say is Thank you Lisa.4 Months ago I bought your ebook.
I wasnt expecting much cause the price was under 50 dollars.
When you said you would teach me for 3 months if I bought your book
I was very skeptical.I bought ebooks in the past for a hundred dollars
or more & ended up with nonsense & garbage.You helped me more in 3
months than any ebook I bought.4 months since I
bought your ebook and I have a website with really good traffic.My
website didnt get 20 hits a day.
Now my website gets over 500 hits a day
thanks to you. I finally get a steady flow of sales.
I usually get 3-10 affiliate sales each week.The results keep getting
better as time goes by.Business consulation companies
charge 10X’s more than you & do half the work.I know cause I
been down that route before.
What a huge difference from the methods I used before to make money.I went
from making about 30 dollars a day to over 400 hundred dollars a day.
You not only taught me how to buy & sell wholesale.You also
taught me how to bring traffic to my website.You taught me how to make
money from affiliate marketing with my website.My website gets steady business
everyday.I also make really good money on the marketplaces you showed me.
You answered everyone one of my
questions right away & helped me understand things I didnt know about.
You even found some great wholesale guys for me.
Your are sooo right about needing to ask questions.Like you say no ebook can tell
you everything you need to know.Having you as a cushion to help me
along was all I needed.Im not too sure about retiring early yet.
But I can see a great future for
my business & my family.Thank you soooo much lisa!I can only
say great things about your ebook & what you are doing.To think where
I would be if I found you a
long time ago.I make more money
online now than I ever have.Your ebooks are too
underpriced!
Congratulations Bobby, I knew you could do it!
Thanks for reading everyone. See you tomorrow.
Hi everyone, I hope everything is going well for you. Have you ever had an idea for a great product that you could make yourself? Lots of people have ideas like this. The problem is; most people don’t know how to distribute the product they make. This can be a huge problem. After you read this post, you will know everything you need to successfully promote your product.
It’s easier to make your own product than most people might think. Just think of things you are good at doing. When you make your own product you have an advantage. You set the standards for prices you can sell your product. You will have little to no competition. Your product will most likely be original and rare. Originality sells anything on the market. Consumers love to try new things. If you can come up with a product that people need, you could end up being a millionaire.
The first place you can distribute your product is auction or social marketplaces. This takes a lot of time but you will reach millions of customer right away. This can be the money that keeps you going until you are developed better. Ebay is a great place to start; but I would recommend staying away from ebay for now. Ebay can cost a lot of money to make only a little if you are unexperienced. You can find some great auction places that won’t cost you as much as ebay in my top 15 list of 2007-2008.
If you already have a website, put your product on your website. Get a good template or build a professional looking website. Now that you have a website, you have to do the most important thing. ADVERTISE AND MARKET your website and product. So many people make the mistake of just having a website without telling anyone about it. They think being in search engines are good enough.
Promote your product and website to social networks. Especially the ones that let you distribute articles about your product to your friends list. Facebook, technorati, digg, delicious, myspace, are some great places to make some friends. Try and make friends with people that have the same interests as you. Chances are they will be interested in your product as well.
Write some articles about your product and website. Submit articles to major article websites. These websites get millions of hits everyday. All of these people come to read original articles. Keep your articles original and catchy. Hopefully your product is catchy enough. You can write articles at various places around the internet for free. I wrote a post about some good article websites you can use here.
Make some friends in forums. Forums can bring you tons of traffic. There are millions of members to various forums out there. Don’t underestimate the power of a good forum. Make sure the forums you sign up for are related to your product/business. Don’t spam the forums with posts either. That will only get you kicked off or suspended. You want to actually make some friends there. Talk about various topics in the forum. Make sure the forum gives you the option to have a signature. The signature is how you will get people to your website/product. Put your website in the signature. Now, every time you leave a response or start a topic in the forum, people will see your website link and visit your website. Because the forum is related to the topic of your business/product, more people will buy your product. Don’t join forums if they don’t let you have a signature.
Submit your website to as many website directories as possible. Most website directories will let you submit your website for free. This can be a great way to bring in traffic but can take time to see results. Try and set up the keywords on your website. Put as many keywords as you can that relate to what your product is about. This way search engines will find content related to your business/product. This can be very effective if you get good at it.
Keep the content one your website updated. Update your website at least once a day. Only the newest content makes it to search engine front pages. If the content on your website is over a month old, you don’t stand a chance to make it on the front page of Google. The old style of search engines would have let you slide. But new updated search engines are optimized to find the new stuff first. Google is probably the most popular search engine out there. They don’t want their readers to find old content on the front page and in the number 1 position. Think about it.
Most of these techniques take time to see results. The results are too overwhelming to ignore. These techniques are very effective if you have time and dedication on your side. Any marketing firm charging you thousands of dollars will advertise the same way if you are lucky. Now you know how to advertise and market your product. Get to work!
If you have any questions, feel free to email me or leave a comment. Thanks for reading everyone!
Hi everyone, I hope you are doing well. Recently, someone asked me if they should have their own website. They went on to me that they didn’t see the benefits of having a website, since they already have an ebay store. I am not going to tell anyone not to have an ebay store. But never limit yourself to that ebay store. You are at a disadvantage by having a store on some else’s domain.
If you own your own website and domain name you will be under control of everything you can do. There will be no limitations to what you can do on your own website. As long as you stay within your host’s rules, you can do virtually anything with your own website. You are not allowed to advertise or make money with affiliate marketing on your ebay store. But, with your own website you can advertise, use affiliate marketing, ad paid links, anything you want. You can make some great money on your own website, without just selling the merchandise you offer.
If you have your own website, you can choose your domain name. If your business is called Joes donuts; You can see if joesdonuts.com is available. If it’s not available, you have lots of other choices (joedonuts.net, .org, .us, .biz, lots more). Some people even get creative and add a 0 to all the letter o’s. It’s always a good idea to get the same domain name as your business name. This way, if someone wants to find your business; tell them joesdonuts.com & “replace the o’s with zeros”. It’s a new trend that has caught on in the Ebonics era.
You can change the look and feel with your own domain. You can have the freedom to use a website template or build your own website. If you don’t know how to build a website, you can find free website templates all around the internet. Or you can find a good web designer to build you a customer website to fit your business. You don’t have to worry about auction fees. You can list as many items on your website as you want for free. Most hosts charge you by the month. The average monthly fee is $4.99 for bottom end. About $49.99 a month for really good service.
I recommend using godaddy or yahoo for your host. Godaddy is my favorite because they are cheaper. I pay $52.00 for the entire year on each of my websites. You need some ftp uploading experience to use godaddy. I would say you have to be a novice to advanced to go with godaddy as your host. If you have ever uploaded anything you should be okay. Godaddy offers some great customer service if you get stuck. Plus they have some good tutorials if you are unsure about anything. Another thing I like about godaddy is; you can choose a Linux or Windows based host. I have been using godaddy for a while now and couldn’t be happier with them. Believe me; I have tried just about everyone out there.
Another host I recommend is yahoo. Yahoo is $29.00 and up per month for web hosting. Every once and a while you can catch a discounted price. When I used yahoo, they gave me the first 3 months for $19.99 and $39.99 each month after that. They have a beginner based system. You don’t need any web design experience to have a yahoo merchant account. They make it pretty easy to create your own customer website. They even give you a yahoo web builder tool that lets you build websites with Photoshop quality. The customer service was okay. I seemed to get bounced around if I called or emailed them about a question or problem I had. I am a bugger about customer service. And yahoo didn’t impress me much in that department. But, all in all they offer a great service and better than most of the competition out there.
Ebay won’t be around forever. If they aren’t around anymore, you will need an immediate back-up plan. But if you already have a well established website, you won’t need to worry. It can take 6 months to a year in order to receive consistent traffic and sales to your website. If you start building now, you won’t have to worry about rushing in to building a website in a frenzied panic later. Don’t put all your eggs in to one basket. Expand your business all over the net, not just on ebay. The more places you sell, the more sales you will make. Don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise.
I recommend having your own website domain over some free website also. If you have a free website, you will be stuck with unwanted advertisements and limitations to what you can do. You may be stuck with a web domain name that has nothing to do with your business name (joeshmoesfreewebsitehosting.joesdonuts.com). Another problem with a free website is the size of your domain name. Chances are your domain will be too big for anyone to remember and re-visit. Free websites bring little to no sales because they look very unprofessional.
The only down side to having a website is; all the time you have to dedicate to bring traffic. Advertising is very important when you have a website. You can find out how to advertise your website on a blog post I made here. Those techniques are the same ways that any marketing company would market your business for money. It’s very time consuming to launch an advertising campaign for your website. It’s really easy, but takes a ton of time out of your life. You could hire someone to market your website. But, that can cost thousands of dollars. I look at it this way; I know what those companies are going to do in order to market my website. So, I use those techniques and save myself thousands of dollars.
If anyone has any questions at all, feel free to email me. Thanks for reading and see you all tomorrow.
Happy Monday everyone! Today, I will be answering a question someone asked me over the weekend. They asked me if affiliate programs work. You know, the ones that claim you can make thousands a day. The answer is; yes, these programs work. But, only for some people. People that are experienced at bringing large amounts of targeted traffic to websites usually prosper in this type of work. For every one affiliate that succeeds, one thousand others fail. Affiliate programs are not for everyone.
Although a majority of affiliate programs are legit, most of these programs are very misleading. They claim you can make thousands of dollars a month for doing absolutely nothing. This may be true, if you can place that affiliate program link on a website that gets thousands of hits everyday. If you don’t have a website that gets thousands of hits everyday all ready, then you would have to build one. It could take months or years to drive a marketing campaign and get thousands of visitors a day.
They make it sound very easy. You place the affiliate link onto your website. Someone visits your website and clicks onto the affiliate link. If they buy something, you get an affiliate commission for each sale. No inventory, no overhead, no boss, no storage space needed. It sounds very easy. And it is very easy. Only if you know how to market and advertise your affiliate website with the affiliate links. Or, if you have a website that already gets thousands of hits everyday.
Some programs even say you don’t need any customer service. WHAT? No matter what you do in the business world folks; you will always need customer service. Most programs go out of their way to hook you in to the program with big dollar amounts and fancy slogans. I tend to stay clear from these types of programs, as they are usually bad news.
Stay away from all the sketchy or questionable programs. If you feel uneasy about the program, don’t sign up for it. There are thousands of others out there that are very good programs. Try and sign up for major name affiliate programs. People tend to trust these programs more for obvious reasons. Try and find affiliate programs that you know will pay you well. You are not doing this for free. Lots or programs out there reward you with a very reasonable commission. Don’t be forced into small affiliate commission pay outs.
Make sure the program is suitable for your customers. Does the affiliate program offer them a good deal for a reasonable price? Remember, they clicked onto the affiliate program from your website. So you can be held accountable in your customer’s eyes. They may never return to your website if they get ripped off. Have you ever tried the product or program? Would you buy it? Scams are everywhere. Although something may seem legit, try and do extensive research on each of your affiliate programs you advertise. You don’t want to give your website a bad name by advertising scams to your customers.
Try not to combine other ad programs and affiliate advertisements on one website. Blending other ad programs onto an affiliate website never seems to blend in right. It usually makes the website look jumbled together with advertisements. I am still learning how to make a website look pretty with advertisements. All in all, it makes a great trial and error experiment. From my experiences, you get a very poor turn around rate if you combine other advertisement programs with affiliate programs on one webpage.
If you know how to drive traffic or have a website that already gets lots of traffic, you can be a big affiliate success. If you don’t know how to advertise or market, here is a post I made to bring targeted traffic to your website. Check it out here.
Having lots and lots of traffic coming to your affiliate webpages is very important. You won’t succeed in the affiliate world without lots of traffic. This is the heart of the operation when you are an affiliate marketer. Some people go to college for years to learn how to market or advertise. Other people have picked up on how to advertise and market right out of their homes. There are many different ways to market and advertise. My suggestion to you is; change with the times. Find out what is new and working right now. Because, what worked 5 years ago to market and advertise wouldn’t work as well today.
Related content is another important factor on your affiliate website. Make sure the content on your website is somehow related to the affiliate programs you offer. If your website is about home business, you shouldn’t offer recipe or cooking affiliate programs. If your website is about home business, offer legit programs that help people make money. Offer some good e-book affiliate programs. Whatever the case may be; don’t steer away from the related content on your website.
Make your affiliate links blend in as much as you can. You want your affiliate program advertisements right in your customers face. But don’t over-do it. Sometimes less is more. You can put a picture link affiliate advertisement on your website. Or you can place just text link advertisement on the website. Sometimes text links have a better turn around.
If you are still interested in affiliate marketing, do your homework. Do lots of research. There are lots of programs out there. Take them for a test drive and see what works for you and your website. Everyone is different. Don’t expect to get the same results as the guy making thousands of dollars a month from affiliate marketing. But it is very possible if you keep working hard at it. Or you can ask me any questions you might have.
Thanks for reading. See you tomorrow.
Hi everyone, thanks for reading my blog. I have been getting lots of positive reinforcement to keep me going. Thanks for all your support. I am going to hopefully change the website theme this month sometime. I am trying to find a better theme. Speaking of that, wordpress just released version 2.5 and I have to say it is great! I installed it today and no problems at all. My blogs look great and even seem to load a little faster.
If anyone is interested in blogging, I recommend using wordpress. It’s absolutely free. All you do is upload it to your website host. There are literally thousands of themes you can choose from. The theme on this blog is a wordpress theme customized to me. There are lots of ways to make your blog more professional using wordpress. It is fully customizable and the interface is very user friendly. You don’t need any website of HTML knowledge. You just need to know how to upload it to your host.
I am going to be making a few positive changes in the next month. I will be offering my services as a business consultant right through my blogs. I already give my advice for free here. But I will be offering much more very soon. I will be offering email, Instant message, and even phone consultation. I want to help as many people out there as I can. You have to have a back-up plan, with the economy always keeping you guessing. It’s really easy to make money from home. People just need the right guidance. I have been helping people start home businesses for a few years now. Helping people over the internet comes very naturally to me.
If anyone has any ideas to make your experience more interactive with me, let me know. I want to interact and help as many of my readers as possible. If you have a home business, you want to keep it very interactive with your customers. Maybe that’s why I run my blog the same way. People like to feel comforted by knowing they can ask questions.
I am thinking about having a contest soon. I will keep you informed & hopefully will have the news of contest details by the end of this month. If you are a web designer, check back soon. I am sure you will love this contest. I will also be getting a sponsor for one of my blogs later this month. I am very excited about that and will announce it as soon as I can.
Ebay was voted worst auction marketplace on the web last month (March). Be sure, that I will be talking about that, this month also. I am going to give you some great up to date ebay killers. So many great auction marketplaces are popping up all over the place recently. The auction places that were out there in the past, were never as good as the new ones that have been popping up. Could it have something to do with ebays new rule and fee changes?
I am looking forward to giving you all my review on the “so-called” price reductions ebay announced. They went into effect today. I am curious to see how much of a final value fee hike it is also. It seems like ebay is crumbling before our eyes. They are still the auction marketplace giant. But not the Goliath it used to be. Something better always comes along.
That’s why positive change is better. You have to listen to your customers. Take their word collectively and make a decision. If your customers are against something you are thinking about doing; you may want to rethink your plan. Customers are the base of what keeps you going. Ebay has turned their back on it’s customers for over a year now. They keep making changes that are against their customers. But, that is another story. We will get into that all this month.
I really hope to add some readers this month and catch your attention. I haven’t seen many interactive blogs. Hopefully I can start a trend with my wacky and original idea.
See you all tomorrow. Let me know if you have any questions.
Okay, now that you know what I mean about writing articles we can move on. Now, you are probably thinking, how do I combine clickbank and writing articles? Here is how you do it. Clickbank lets you promote any product they offer as long as you are a clickbank member. Just a reminder, it is absolutely free to become a clickbank member and promote clickbank products to get paid. All it costs is your time promoting the products.
Go to Clickbank marketplace and choose the products you would like to promote. Assuming you have signed up(free) for clickbank already, make sure you are signed in. Notice next to each product in the marketplace, you can see your designated affiliate link to promote the product with. Copy the link and save it somewhere. I will tell you why later.
Okay, now the writing part. Now go to one of the products homepages that you want to promote. Read about the product and get to know it. You are about to write an interesting article about this product. Do you think you can do it? It’s really easy once you start, believe me. Writing an article about someone else’s product is very easy. Just take information they give and tell everyone about it in your article. If you have tried the product, that is even better. You can be like me and only promote good products and services you have tried and recommend. If you can spice up your article without misrepresenting the product, then go for it(but you don’t need to). Simple is always better.
Now, remember that affiliate link you got on the Clickbank marketplace? You want to place the affiliate link at the bottom of your article. Now, post that article in as many places that will let you post your articles. The three places I told you about (ezine, goarticles, and idealmarketers)should be sufficient enough. They all get tons of traffic. But don’t let me stop you from posting it anywhere else.
The more places you post this article the more sales you will make. Clickbank gives you a commission for each product you sell for them. Try and sell the products that offer a 50% or higher commission per sale. Since most products sell for $50-$100 you should make some decent money.
Now, combine what I have told you and use it. Write articles for as many clickbank products as you can. Then post all your articles in every article submission website you want. If you advertise your articles you will make even more money. Advertise them everyday and you will be a professional affiliate in no time. It’s very possible and very easy to do. Working at home doesn’t feel so far away right now does it?
You can even send articles through social networks in an all out advertising campaign. You can find out how to advertise and market your articles in this blog post I made. http://thehomedropshipguide.com/blog/advertising-your-business-is-the-important-part/
Just remember, I tried to make this a brief post. If I didn’t explain something thoroughly enough, don’t be afraid to ask me. I have been doing very well with clickbank lately. I wouldn’t recommend it if it wasn’t working. And I don’t mind helping any of you. I know how tough it is to make extra money these days.
Thanks for reading my blog everyone. See you tomorrow.
Hi everyone, I hope you had a good weekend. Today, I am going to tell you how to make money with clickbank. Unless you have been asleep, I am sure you have heard of clickbank. Clickbank is a place where publishers can sell their books. It is also a place that you can make money from being an affiliate to promote ebooks of your choice. As you know, affiliate products are great to bring extra money into your website.
Clickbank.com is the worlds leading marketplace for digital products. Almost every ebook sold online has been sold through clickbank. It you have ever written an ebook, you could sell it on clickbank. I have 2 ebooks I have written, both which I sell through clickbank. All you do is sign up at clickbank.com and become a publisher. List your ebook landing page and thank you pages on clickbank. Every time someone purchases your ebook, they are brought to clickbanks checkout page. From there you can choose to pay by credit card, paypal, or echeck. Clickbank is a great way for anyone who likes to write ebooks to make money.
Publishers list all kinds of ebooks for sale on clickbank. All kinds of ebooks, from cooking books to how to make money ebooks. Clickbank is a great place to learn the ropes of being your own publisher and boss. Clickbank’s marketplace of ebooks has been known to help people retire and make a living at home. Everyone buys ebooks at one time or another. Information is like gold online. Especially if it is helping someone make money.
That’s fine, if you don’t like to write ebooks. You can make money on clickbank by becoming an affiliate to promote ebooks. You can actually sell the ebooks on on your own website for commission. Most sales on clickbank ebooks offer a 75% commission from each sale! Not bad for just being the middleman for a sale. Clickbank affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money on the web.
All you do is browse through clickbanks marketplace to find ebooks you would like to sell on your website. When you find the ebooks you want to sell, you list them on your website. Just put your affiliate link from the clickbank products onto your webpage. Then, when someone clicks the affiliate link on your website and purchases the ebook, you get a commission. Most ebooks on clickbank sell for $50-$100. At a seventy five percent commission on each book sold, you can see how much money there is to be made.
Clickbank is probably the best kept secret in the affiliate marketing world. Lots of affiliates know about clickbank. But, not many regular Joe’s know about clickbank. Clickbank is probably the best way to make money with your website by referring traffic. What can be better than making money from being a middleman and doing nothing except collecting checks? Signing up to be a clickbank affiliate is absolutely free. But, if you want to become a clickbank publisher also, you have to pay a one-time publisher fee of $49.95.
I have been using clickbank for about 5 months. They are a great service to sell your ebooks. And they are an even better service to make money from affiliate marketing. Give them a try if you are thinking about affiliate marketing on your website/s.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Thanks for reading. See you all tomorrow.
Just remember, it sounds easy but it takes lots of time and dedication. I would say; you will have to write 3-5 articles a day, everyday, for about 3 months. Then you should be able to drop down to 2-3 articles a day. You keep this up as long as you want to advertise your website. You will start to see real results about 3-4 months into marketing with articles. You are planting a seed that will be potentially spread to millions of people reading your articles. Writing articles is the best way to market and advertise any website.
The best thing about writing articles for your website is; it is totally free. Any marketing and advertising company is doing the same when you pay them to advertise your website. They are writing articles on the same websites I am going to tell you about in this post. I am not saying they are ripping you off. Writing articles is not always easy. Paying someone to advertise your website usually works out great. But, it is very expensive. If you know how to advertise the same way they are advertising; why not do it yourself? Save yourself some money if you have the extra time. Write the articles yourself.
ezinearticles.com is probably the best place to post your free articles. There are millions of people that read articles on ezine everyday. Ezine is probably the most popular article website on the internet. This place is a goldmine of traffic to your website, just waiting to happen. Ezine has an author rating system. When you start writing you are a basic member. As you keep writing your articles, you will move up the ranks to become a basic plus member. Then, when you write 25+ articles they let you become a platinum member. The rank system gives each author recognition. Platinum members get to post an unlimited number of articles. One downfall is; ezine has strict rules on things like keywords.
goarticles.com is another great place to write articles. There are millions of readers on goarticles. You will get tons of traffic by writing articles there. They do not have a ranking system. Goarticles let you post an unlimited amount of articles as soon as you become a member. I like goarticles a little better than ezine. But ezine will bring you more traffic. Goarticles doesn’t have strict rules against posts such as keyword spamming. They are very tolerant and very user friendly.
ideamarketers.com is a great place to bring traffic in as well. They have millions of readers that will bring you in traffic. Not only can you write and post articles there; but you can expand your writing hobbies. You can hire ghostwriters to write if you don’t want to write yourself. You can even be a ghostwriter for someone elses website or blog. Ideamarketers is a great all around article writing website. There are tons of options to open your writing horizons there.
All three of these websites are totally free to use. Yes, there are other article websites out there. But, in my recommendation, these three will bring you the most targeted traffic. They have the most daily readers than any other article websites out there. Give them a try if you need targeted traffic to your website or blog.
If you have any questions, feel free to email me. Thanks for reading.
There is too much bogus information about home business on the internet from people that just copy and paste BS on their blog or website. They have no experience and just believe anything somebody says on a web page. So i figured, in my free time I can blog and help people.
But mainly, my goal with this blog is to steer people away from scams and bogus content. And at the same time I want to answer questions and help people. I hate get rich quick scams around the internet. Lots of people fall prey to them everyday and I am really sick of it. The thing I really hate about scams online are the ebooks that come along and say you can be rich overnight. That will never happen.
I have written a couple of ebooks to help people, just because of all the scams with ebooks out there. My ebooks do well, as they are special. I do not just sell an ebook to you. I back it up with my experience by helping along the way. That’s something nobody else is doing. Most people have never even used the information they sell as ebooks. It is usually just information they found online somewhere. I do charge money for my ebooks, as my customers get VIP service and work I can’t do for free. I do go the extra mile for people that buy my ebooks. When someone purchases an ebook they get 3(more if needed) months of tutoring from me. I offer unconditional help with things like researching and finding wholesalers you want, to showing you step by step anything you can’t figure out. I won’t advertise my ebooks on this post, as they do well already.
Who knows, maybe I can start a trend and experienced people will start writing ebooks and sell them along with experienced tutoring. Offer a money back guarantee and all the scam artists will be forced to do something else for a living. If you can’t help someone with questions about your ebook or how to do the subject in your ebook, you shouldn’t be allowed to sell it.
I do have a couple on blogs. Two blogs are for fun. I do use one blog to make money. I have advertisements and took some advice from the great John Chow among others. I don’t make much with the blog but that’s fine. It’s a learning experience and I am not in it for the money anyway. I want to help people learn how to make money at home. Even part time, anything extra helps. I know how it is to be scratching your head at home saying “how can I make money at home or online?” I was that person ten years ago.
I have been using ebay for about ten years. I met this great guy in 1998 who was always telling me how much money he made on ebay. He was nice enough to show me the ropes and get started on ebay. Maybe I got wanting to help people from him. Ebay was how I started making money from home online. I have expanded to many other marketplaces as auction marketplaces are my specialty. As you know, I do not list my auction marketplace ID’s anymore for sabatage reasons. Sad to say but, almost as soon as I started showing my auction id’s on my blogs(especially ebay) I noticed frantic fraud bidding and an avalanche of scam artists. So I don’t advertise my auctions or stores on my blogs anymore. They get enough exposure already on those marketplaces anyway. As you can tell, from the tips and information I give people on my blog; it’s not like I need the help when it comes to making money online.
For the past six months I have been teaching myself affiliate marketing. My goal is to get away from selling and live off of affiliate marketing instead (Don’t worry, I will always have my home business blogs. I think teaching people correct ways to bring in a little extra money at home is very important). I am finding out there is less work and stress involved with affiliate marketing. All you do is list a company link on one of your websites and when customers click that link you get paid in different ways; depending what that person does on that companies website. There are all kinds of tricks and tips to learn to be an affiliate marketing master. But that’s just like anything else. Practice makes perfect.
I would like to thank my friends around the net who have been kind enough to give me advice on how to market and advertise my websites. I get lots of great advice on young entreprenuer, a forum I visit to get and give home business advice. You see, I am using this kind of A&M knowledge to build experience of making and bringing traffic to my dream business website someday. Marketing and advertising is the most important part of having a website. If nobody knows you have a website, how can they visit it? Over the past six months I have become an advertising and marketing genius.
I think overall I will probaby stick with ebay through thick and thin until something else comes along better. Right now ebay has all marketplaces cornered. Ebay is pretty much the monopoly of auction marketplaces right now. There is too much money to be lost by taking ebay out of the equasion. History always repeats though. Someday something will come along bigger and better than ebay.
But I will always be here for my readers, I love to help people. I have developed quite a following with this blog and I thank you. Now I have found a new love for blogging. Helping people go hand and hand on my blogs. Anyone with questions about making money at home will not be ignored on my blog. In my years of helping people only one person has not been successful. And to tell you the truth, I don’t think they tried.
I do my best to post on my blogs everyday for you, although sometimes it’s just not possible. When I do post, it is usually answering someones question or giving information they asked about. I find answering my readers questions is most useful to everyone. I have been answering questions along with any tips or tricks I can give in a blog post. So, if you have any questions about making money at home, feel free to ask me. It doesn’t cost anything to ask me questions, don’t be shy:) I really am just someone who cares and wants to help you. Times are tough enough without trying to avoid scams too. I would hate to see anyone make a costly mistake they could have avoided. I have helped people from all around the world make money at home.
Thanks for reading my blog everyone. Have a great day!
Hi everyone, I hope you had a great weekend! I was smart and mapped out a fun filled weekend with the family. Nothing seems to go right when I plan at the last minute. I want to tell you a little about goal setting. You have to be really smart about what you do to plan future goals you want to accomplish through your life. If you read my blog regularly, you know how positive I am about everything. You can increase how much you are capable of, when you are positive about what you can accomplish.
The power of the mind is very underestimated. It’s a fact: people with positive energy, get more accomplished through life, compared to people that are very negative. You would never hear Bill Gates or Donald Trump saying “I can’t do that”. That’s why they are so successful. They would say “I can do that, let’s make it happen”. They both came from nothing. They were not born with money. They worked hard and accomplished their dreams one by one. Of course they were pushed around and told it wasn’t possible by other people. But they always had a positive attitude and they never quit. Great people never give up.
Do you have that greatness in you? You can accomplish greatness if you keep at it everyday. Just like a sports star that practices everyday. They are great because they practice everyday. You have to set out your daily goals like you would anything else. Do them everyday and get good at accomplishing them. Goals can help take you and your business to the next level. You work hard at each one until you accomplish that goal and move on to the next goal. It sounds very easy, but it can be devastating to your self confidence along the way. You will run in to all kinds of major distractions and road blocks. You have to stay strong and believe in what you are doing. Don’t let anything get in your way of the goals you want to accomplish.
When you set goals, you have to think of everything you want to accomplish and put it into a sequential order. Taking each step is important. But knowing what steps to take and when to take them can be even more important. Make each daily goal reachable. I have said this before; Nothing will happen if you make your daily goals unrealistic or unreachable. Think of everything from your resources to time spent each day. Studies show that people are more likely to accomplish their goals if they are measurable to that person. Another words, don’t over do it. That can be very discouraging in itself.
I read this a while back from a great positive thinker. Use the SMART system to map out your daily goals.
S - Specific
M - Measurable
A - Achievable
R - Realistic
T - Timely
Specific is pretty obvious. But lots of people don’t make their goals specific at all. Map out precise and very detailed goals. Vague goals will only confuse you and throw your focus off track. A good example would be if you said “I want more sales this quarter”. Instead you should say ” I want to up my sales by __ percent”. Make the percentage specific and realistic to what you want to accomplish. Mapping out a specific plan will help you greatly.
Measurable is an important one. People like to see their goal and try to jump right to it. Some goals can’t be reached right away. You have to chip away at it everyday. Most people like us can’t jump through a hoop and be rich. We have to work hard for it. Make a chart or list so you can keep track of daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly sales. Compare all your data. Make necessary changes according to what works best.
Achievable is a good one to teach yourself. Making your goals achievable means to keep then within your reach. If you made 10 sales last quarter, it is unrealistic to say you will have 1 million sales this quarter. But, if you keep achieving your daily goals you will accomplish that goal later. People have a bad habit of destroying their goals by over expecting what will happen with their business. Then it turns out in disaster and they give up because of it. It is good to underestimate yourself once in a while. Just keep in mind to chip away at that main goal each and everyday. Don’t let it get away without achieving that goal.
Being Realistic is the one that may slap you in the face. Most people have a habit of being very dreamy and unrealistic when they map their goals out. Make sure what you want to accomplish is something that is possible to do. Look at it from all sides, from the consumer to if it is legal or not. Make sure you are mapping your daily goals to reach a realistic one. A good example would be; If you have to change laws in order to reach your goals; then it is probably a bad idea. Nothing is worse than trying to reach a goal that is impossible to reach. Especially if you are using a positive attitude to reassure yourself it can be accomplished.
Timely is the one that most people don’t like. You have to sacrifice and spend time on your goals every single day. Don’t procrastinate! Get off your butt when you have free time. Even if it is only 5 minutes here and there during the day. Don’t take any time off of your daily goals and accomplishments. At the same time; you have to be fair to yourself and only fit in what you can do for the day. Break each goal into one small, timely, task. One baby step at a time. Don’t do more than one goal at a time unless it is absolutely necessary.
When you break your goals into small, simple, tasks, they will be more appealing to accomplish. You will find more time to work on them. That’s what it’s all about. Making your goals concrete, set in stone, and as easy to do as possible. Don’t take on too much at once and you will never be discouraged away from your goals. Everyone has goals and dreams. Not many people can say they accomplished all of their goals and dreams when all is said and done. You have to work hard and never give up to be in that league of people. But it is not impossible!
Just don’t lose touch of your life responsibilities. Lots of people get lost in their work when they try and reach their goals. They may lose out on the good things in life. Don’t be that person that loses out. Enjoy your life, you only get one chance. I like to live by the saying of the great Benjamin Franklin; “Work like you are going to live to see one hundred years old. Play like you are going to die tomorrow.”
Thanks for reading my blog everyone!
Hi everyone, I hope you’re doing good. Someone recently asked if they could get in trouble for selling counterfeit or fake goods. This is a tricky question, because there are a few answers. And it depends where you live also. Most countries have strict rules against making or selling counterfeit goods. Other countries could care less. The funny thing is; most countries make counterfeit goods illegal to sell, but it’s okay to have it in your possession in small quantity. I don’t think I will ever understand federal laws, I just obey them.
General rule of thumb, if your country has federal laws, chances are it is VERY ILLEGAL to make or sell counterfeit/fake goods of any kind. If you’re country does not have a federal laws, chances are your country could care less if you make or sell counterfeit or fake goods.
But there are ways around it also. If it is a look-a-like without the company logo or name is is not considered a fake or counterfeit. You can sell this legally as long as you don’t promote it as the brand name in question. But, if the item has either the company brand logo or name on it anywhere it is considered a fake/counterfeit and it is VERY ILLEGAL to buy or sell. “If it has the brand name or logo on it, it doesn’t even have to resemble the product to be illegal to sell”.
Counterfeiting a brand name is a major federal crime. Trademark and copyright infringment are a huge problem in the USA right now and can come with jail time and/or big fines. There are over one hundred thousand counterfeiting rings that were busted last year.
Some people say you are okay if you don’t advertise the brand name. This is only okay if your product doesn’t have a company name or logo on it anywhere. Look-a-likes with out a company name or logo are tolerated if they are not advertised as the brand name product.
Look-a-like items are items that look like a brand name item without any company name or logo on it. You may have noticed some people who sell look-a-like items and they advertise it as “Compare to Oakley” or “Just like Oakley”. Even though it looks the same, it’s not illegal to sell because it doesn’t have a logo or brand name on it and they are not promoting it as a brand name product. Federal laws have really weird rules. I don’t see the difference, but apparently they do.
I always hear stories of people getting in trouble for buying fake goods from China. This is very popular. Don’t fall for cheap prices in China. Most wholesalers from China make counterfeit and fake merchandise. They make a living off of it. The problem is, it’s against the law to most of the world. But China is not a democracy, they do not have any federal laws or regulations. Therefore, they don’t need to follow rules set by other countries that have to follow the federal laws. That’s why China can sell counterfeit or fake goods and not get in trouble.
Most people that have been getting in trouble, have been getting caught on receipt of the goods. China or another counterfeiter will ship the goods to it’s customer. When the customer receives the goods, a team of officials arrest the customer. Most of the people caught for selling counterfeit goods have been doing it a long time. There has probably been a sting operation going on for quite sometime if you are caught selling counterfeit goods.
Big name brand companies that have been the victim of counterfeiting have created sting teams to constantly do research and catch counterfeiters. When you sell the goods, the sting team will purchase it. Then they inspect the item to find out if it is a fake. If the team can confirm the item is fake and you are selling fake goods under their brand name, you will be investigated. The investigation will go on until they can catch all the people involved so they can catch the entire counterfeiting ring.
Just because you have seen people selling counterfeit or fake goods and they didn’t get in trouble, doesn’t mean it’s okay for you to sell it. Don’t worry, someday those counterfeiters will be caught. Big countries like China thrive on counterfeit goods. The truth is, people don’t mind buying-to-own counterfeit goods. Even if they know it’s fake, most people don’t mind. Some of it is made better than the real stuff. So they get a better product for a fraction of the price. But it doesn’t make it right. It is still against the law for most of us. And for those that are selling counterfeit goods and shouldn’t be; they will be caught someday.
If you are selling counterfeit or fake goods for a long time, you will probably be investigated soon if you aren’t being investigated right now. My advice to you is to stop right away and don’t contact the counterfeiters again. The sting teams can’t bust countries like China because of the laws. But instead, they bust the recipients of the goods coming from China and other known counterfeiting locations. If you are buying counterfeit goods from someone, you are considered being part of a counterfeiting ring.
It’s not a very good idea to sell counterfeit goods. I know, it doesn’t seem like you are hurting anyone by selling counterfeit goods. I don’t see the big deal either. But big brand name companies have really put some weight on law enforcement to stop counterfeiting. Law enforcement takes counterfeiting as serious as robbing a bank. You get a big fat federal charge to sit on your record for the rest of your life.
Play it safe people. If you think the deal is to good to be true, or if the price is way to cheap something is wrong. Counterfeit and fake items are very easy to spot as they sell for a fraction of the price the real thing would sell for. Don’t make the same mistake thousands of people just like you have already made. Don’t sell fake or counterfeit goods thinking you are not breaking the law. Because you are!
I hope this helps the person that asked me about selling counterfeit or fake goods. If anyone has any questions, I would be happy to help you.
I have been wanting to talk about Build a Niche Store for a while, but I wanted to test it out first. Today I am going to review the famous Build a Niche Store, otherwise known as BANS. For a couple of months I had a little team of people testing this product. It claims you can build an ebay business without selling anything yourself. In my personal opinion, this is a great setup for beginners or expert ebayers. You don’t even need to be an ebay member. You just have to sign up as an ebay affiliate.
Bans works like an affiliate. You build a store that automatically contains ebay items of your choice. Every time you make a sale, you get an affiliate commission for being an ebay affiliate. BANS is genius and I am surprised nobody else has come up with this idea to make money. You will earn 20% to 75% commission on each item you promote and sell.
All you have to do is select what country you live in. Or you can choose what country you want to focus your sales. They let you choose .com(USA), .ca(Canada), .uk(United Kingdom), or .au(Australia) country codes. Now you will be promoting products on the ebay marketplace in the country you choose.
Then you pick what products/niche you want to sell. What I like best about this is, you can choose categories like; video games, cell phones, DVDs, or clothing. As you know, these products are very impossible to get at wholesale prices if you are a home business. So why not promote the stuff you can’t buy wholesale. You can pick any category/niche that ebay marketplace has to offer. That’s the best part. You don’t ever have to look for a wholesale distributor ever again. Just choose a niche and it will list some great products from ebay that WILL SELL on to your BANS website. Including all those low priced goods you couldn’t compete with even if you tried.
Next, they let you develop your BANS website. You can go into the admin control panel and pick what options you want your website to have. You can change the way your website will look. I like how you can customize the website to fit whatever theme you have. You can actually transform your website theme in to a professional website with great items for sale very easily.
They tell you to do the obvious next. Promote your website to the online world. They give some great tips to promote your website if you don’t know how. You can learn how to market your website on a post I made here also. Aren’t you sick of not being able to promote your website on ebay? This is the next best thing. You can promote a website that has ebay items.
When you are familiar with the BANS system you can build yourself a store for any niche/category. We got 5 stores up and running. Every one of them are making money for us. Not many of the goods offered on your BANS store is high priced. You get all of ebays products for each category, so there is a wide vary of competitive pricing for each item as well.
When a visitor clicks on to an item on your website, it puts a cookie on their computer for 30 days. If that visitor decides to purchase the item within 30 days, you get credit for the sale and get a commission of 20% to 75% of the revenue ebay makes from the sale. If you had a BANS store with vehicles from ebay, your commission for each sale would be huge.
The themes you can choose with BANS are very professional and very easy to use. The stores can be customized by a beginner user just as easy as an advanced user. That’s the best part about BANS; it is universal for beginner and expert web builders. There is even a member forum to help anyone with anything they need help with. You can find everything there from building your store to tips and secrets to help you make more money with your BANS website.
You can choose from over 60 thousand products through out ebay to sell. YOU CAN GET COMMISSION ON ANY ITEM LISTED ON EBAY!! How can you beat that? BANS is by far, the best tool out there to promote ebay products. Because you can make money for selling products you don’t have to touch. Transactions are made and you do nothing except sit back and promote the store. You don’t have to ship anything or buy any products to sell ever again. You don’t have to list thousands of products on ebay or your website every night. Products are put on your website automatically when you choose your niche.
I highly recommend BANS to everyone. I have put it to the test and it passes with flying colors. BANS is an automatic money maker. You can make more money doing less with a BANS store. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.
Thanks for reading my blog everyone.
Today I am going to explain the benefits of organic advertising/marketing. Paid traffic is a thing of the past. There was a time that a website could buy hits and it would effect the website positively. Now search engines are optimized to weed out the websites that pay for traffic. Search engines put websites that pay for traffic at the end of the list.
Some page ranks can be greatly affected by organic and paid marketing campaigns. Most websites that pay for traffic are penalized by google and other popular search engines. A website that was a page rank of eight or more can be penalized down to a page rank of zero for buying hits to your website.
Organic marketing is not penalized by page ranks or search engines. Organic advertising is just what it sounds like. You plant a seed (your website) and it grows. An organic marketing campaign will include; referral links from other websites, referrals from search engines through keywords and other means, links placed in forums, emails, articles, and other 3rd party websites. Even business cards or billboards are a great way to organically market your website or business.
Organic marketing concentrates more on targeted traffic. Usually when someone finds your website through organic marketing; it was because they were looking for the subject material your website has. You have to make your website bloom all over the internet. In order to use organic marketing to it’s full potential, you need to understand that it won’t be that easy. You have to be dedicated to what you are doing in order for it to work.
A good website with a great organic marketing campaign will be the website to have. You need to write articles, post in forums, use social websites to tell your friends about your website. It won’t happen overnight. But if you start an organic marketing campaign right now; three months from now you will see steady targeted traffic visiting your website. Learn how to organically market in this post I made not too long ago. Click here to see the post.
Paid traffic to your site will do nothing for you. Nothing except your page rank taken away or worse. Google has been taking page ranks away from websites that pay for traffic. You pay for traffic and get one hundred thousand hits or more in less than twenty four hours. Then google will recognize your website going from zero to a huge amount of hits in less than twenty four hours. This will put a red flag up for an investigation. If they have reason to think your website has paid for hits, guess what? No more page rank for you and your website. If your website was found on the first page of searches before, now it won’t be.
When you pay for traffic, you never know who will visit your website. It could be someone looking for the total opposite of what your website offers. When you pay for traffic, you can’t guarantee that it will be targeted traffic. I would rather have ten hits with three sales, than one hundred thousand hits to my website with no sales.
Organic advertising is the way of the future. Search engines are always being optimized and upgraded to find the people that take short cuts and punish them. Don’t use shortcut methods to bring in traffic and your website won’t be penalized. Search engines are also optimized to find only new content. So be sure and update or post on your website as often as possible.
Start your organic marketing campaign right now. It’s really easy to market your website nowadays. You don’t have to be a technician to have a good page rank now. Organic advertising is so easy, any average Joe can do it. And it’s free. You don’t have to pay anyone to organically market for you, because you can do it yourself.
Why would you want to pay someone to do the same thing you can do, only better? It will only cost you time spent. Organic advertising has become as important as your website. You need traffic to your website in order to make money. If they don’t know about your website, they won’t visit it.
Don’t expect to have traffic come to your website as soon as you start marketing it. Organic marketing takes time. Don’t get discouraged if you don’t see a difference in a couple of months. It takes a minimum of 90 days to see a real traffic increase using organic marketing.
Organic marketing is permanent, unlike paying for hits. When you organically market your website, you are planting the seed everywhere. Your website will be spread around like wildfire. Where, if you pay for traffic, the result only lasts for about 24 hours. All the advertisements and urls etc. you plant from organically marketing will always be there. It won’t go away until that website or place you put your URL takes it away.
Use organic marketing everyone. Today’s technology has given the gift of marketing to anyone. Organic marketing can and is used by everyone from beginner marketers to expert marketers. Paying for hits to your website is a thing of the past. The bottom line is; paying for hits doesn’t do anything except hurt you and your website from making progress.
See you all tomorrow. Thanks for reading my blog everyone.