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Saturday, August 8, 2009

How to Successfully Market on Twitter

The Internet, also known as the “Cyber Media” or the “New Media” is one of the most powerful tools discovered by science – and is a blessing to mankind. It has the ability to compete with the other forms of media in terms of speed, space and simplicity. Internet possesses the unique characteristic of bringing the world news at our fingertips just with the help of a click. It provides us an ocean of information through the various search engines like the Google, Yahoo and Wikipedia etc. Last but not the least the Internet generates enormous revenue through several advertising endorsements.

The social networking sites in Internet (Orkut, Facebook, Myspace, Hi5, Youtube etc) play a significant role in marketing various goods and services. These social networking sites are an excellent pathway of connecting millions of people throughout the world. People are able to contact and interact with one another which generate greater awareness. Thus several advertising endorsements posted in these sites will attract the attention of consumers than the ads posted in other websites. A number of people come across ads posted in Orkut like matrimonial websites advertisements, car ads, etc.

Advertisements can be animated graphics, motion pictures or still images – their main aim is to grab customer attention, subsequently get them to buy your product or service so that you make money.

Like the other social networking sites, “Twitter” is another place with the help of which brand recognition can be built. Unlike other social media marketing (SMM), twitter is much simpler, easier, and faster. Moreover, twitter offers several advantages too.

Firstly, sending e-mails to people individually is time consuming. Instead of wasting time and energy doing that, one can just post all company alerts here. Customers are updated on the latest alerts as soon as they login to twitter – just at a glance.

Secondly sales can be increased by offering discounts on twitter. Customers can be motivated to join twitter by offering special discounts unique to twitter. It goes a long way in capturing the interest of people.

Thirdly, a sense of fraternity is created through the use of twitter. The customers should be made to feel special through the access to all kinds of information related to the company – so that they feel that they are part of the same family and a sense of oneness is promoted.

Fourthly, target customer of a definite product can be located and approached by knowing about themselves through their profiles on twitter.

Lastly, twitter is an essential tool for doing market research for any business. With the aid of “search function”, we can observe the feedback and opinions of customers.

Thus we see that Internet (especially the social networking sites like twitter) is emerging as shrewd advertising medium in the twenty-first century. Online advertisements have helped people to make their choice and selection of goods of miscellaneous uses. It is boosting consumerism among people and raising aspirations of the people and their standard of living. Internet has proven its persuasive power in influencing human behavior time and again through different advertising endorsements.

Internet marketing is not an easy task. You will have to strike a balance between providing things to your subscriber list and making a profit. If you give too much out for free, you will find it harder to make a sale. If you promote to your list too often, people will begin to see you as desperate to make a sale. Find that all-important balance and watch your profits soar.

Friday, August 7, 2009

3 Important Reminders Before Choosing a Niche

Guest post by Albert Fang

Websites are now commonly becoming the fundamental stones to making a living online, however, choosing a niche can be rather difficult when starting out your first web page. However, here, I have listed simple informative reminders that you can easily follow step by step to first and lastly, discover a niche that you can both financially benefit wallet wise and be interested to write about it as well. Choosing a niche should be your core decision and not some random Google AdSense keyword that is telling you otherwise.

1) Like What You Write

Simply, "like what you write" is a simple phrase that I tell most website owners and Bloggers to follow because if your not all that passionate about your niche, your most likely to fail before even starting! Writing shouldn't be labor, but rather something you enjoy sharing to the world and be able to make money off it. Don't let keyword tools put you down. If you like to write about dating or romance, good stick with it because in the end, you can be making more with the niche you like than writing about house loans, lawyers, all that boring stuff. I'll show you how.

2) Do it For Your Readers

At first your first objective maybe to create a web page to make money with sales, and affiliates, however, in the end, you will soon realize that your readers is the core of your website. Treat your readers with respective and provide valuable information directed to them, and not shove 50 affiliates in their faces. Build a relationship with them and build trust from the bottom up. You will be making way more money that way, and it creates a nicer reader atmosphere as well.

3) Google Adsense Isn't Everything

Most often when you go through famous webmaster forums like Digital Point, you hear people yapping about how much they got for every click because they choose a great niche, such as loans, but in most cases, they don't know a single thing about the topic nor are they very passionate about the niche, and they end up quitting anyhow. In simple words, there are other methods to making money than just Google Adsense. There are plenty of methods for monetizing your website such as affiliate networks, CPM networks, and etc. For instance, dating, there are hundreds of affiliates that are willing to pay up to $10-$30 per referral. Compare that to those puny $1-$2 loan clicks that you only get every other week.

Simply, if you are passionate about what you write, and you are good at what you do, you will be endeavoring to making a new sustainable income with a niche that you are both passionate about, and can provide you another stream of income to fit your financial needs. Online money making is the future, and you can be making an effort now by and choosing a niche that you love writing about and even earn money off it. Just put a little bit of effort to it, and you can be making a sustainable income online in no time.

Author Bio:
Albert Fang is the owner of MoolaDays. He passionately emphasizes on the ways to make money online and plans to make the effort to educate the world about money making. Feel free to visit his blog and learn how to make money online with any site in general.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

How to Start an Internet Business

Guest post by Michelle Meine

Starting an internet business may sound simple and easy, but it's not exactly like that. It takes a lot of time and effort to succeed and get to that "flowing" mode. If you're thinking about starting an internet business, you'll have to do several things in order to lay a healthy base, which is crucial in the development process of your business.

1. Find your niche

There is a million of niches, and it's not just that simple to choose one of them. You'll have to do some analysis before you pick your niche. Basically, it's the best to choose a niche that you're interested in, so it doesn't get boring for you. Ideally, it's the best to find a niche that interests you and that is profitable. Analyze your competition and see if you'll be up to competing with them.

2. Analyze the market

It's of huge importance to analyze the market thoroughly before getting into this venture. You have to check other sites in that market, you have to check the supply and demand, you have to check what approach will work the best.

3. Great domain name

Don't settle for any domain name. Go for, if not the best, then one of the best in that niche. Ideally, you will choose a dot com, with your keyword(s) in it. Don't choose a domain name with too many dashes, because search engines don't like that. Choose a domain name that is short, brandable, easy to remember and contains your keywords.

4. Cool design

If you're not a designer, hire a designer to design your website. It's really worth it. A website with a great design will be much more pleasing for the eyes of your visitors, thus making them to remember your site and they may even come back.

5. Clean code

If you're not a coder, hire a coder to code your design. Demand valid XHTML/CSS and compatibility with all browsers. That way you'll be safe, both with your visitors and search engines.

6. Invest in content

Content is king, they say. And it's really true... The more content you have, the better your site will look in the eyes of the search engines. Add more and more content each day and you will have no worries.

7. Invest in advertising

Don't think that you don't need to spend money on advertising and link building, because you have to. You have to let everyone know that your site is alive and online, and awaiting visitors.

Note that you will not earn money in the beginning, but if you keep on working, you will get there. Just have patience!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Making Money Online - Are You Risking Your Brain Cells?

Guest post by Madiha Hamid

There are hundreds of opportunities for making MONEY ONLINE. Some work, some don't. Fill registration forms and get paid, refer your friends and get paid! These are definitely quick and easy ways but I would say not a good option for brain cells!

Why can’t be options for making money online, a little productive, add to ones experience, increase the knowledge base, grill the brain cells and the wish list goes on. In most cases, the online money making ideas are about becoming rich ‘over night’! I would say this investment of ones most precious resource i.e. time is not a good bargain. However, I am still a huge fan of work from home and making money online options!

By ‘little productive’ in making money online, I mean any work that adds value to one’s knowledge, to say the least. And I guess you would agree to that! There are many websites that are working on more or less the same model like Helium, Hubpages, sqidoo and Allvoices i.e.you submit your content and earn cash rewards.

With the first three sites being extremely popular, I will explain here the model of Allvocies. Allvoices is worlds leading social news network site, where anyone can report news from anywhere in the world. All you need is an internet access, through PC or phone.

Allvoices is running a Brand Incentive Program, by registering with this program you are eligible to earn cash based on the performance of your posted news stories, images and videos. All you have to do is post interesting news articles on the site with supporting images and videos; participate in the community discussions by commenting on others news and start earning. Sounds productive and lucrative?

The benefits I see from this site are; one, you can sharpen your writing skills; two, it keeps one updated to the latest happenings in the world; three, it keeps one informed about how people around us are thinking; four, you will be making money online!

My advice, don’t just get boggled by the dollar signs!

Monday, August 3, 2009

Tips to be Successful as an Affiliate Marketer

Though affiliate marketing is a lucrative way to earn money online, it requires discipline and hard work. The following tips will help you to become successful in your affiliate marketing business:

(i) Product selection:
Product selection is very important. The product should be something in which you personally interested and which have a good demand in the market.

(ii) Create a pre-sell page:
Instead of sending visitors directly to the affiliate website, send them to a pre-sell page which may contain testimonials or reviews about the product. This will help in better conversions.

(iii) Cloak your website links:
Some visitors may avoid visiting your website, if they see an affiliate link in the URL. You can avoid this by cloaking your affiliate link.

(iv) Mailing list:
Build your own mailing list. You may collect e mail addresses of your visitors by offering them some free e books or other freebies. Having your own mailing list will help you to keep contact with your potential customers and offer them your products and services. You may use autoresponders to send out automated e mail messages to the members of your list.

(v) SEO:
Search engine optimization is essential to achieve a high rank in the search engines. Proper SEO techniques (both off-page and on-page) must be applied to your website, which will help it to rank high in the search engine results and drive targeted traffic to it.

(vi) Advertisement:
Use different forms of advertisement to advertise your website. There are some methods which are free whereas some are paid. The most important free method is article marketing which involves writing small articles about various topics related to your website and publishing them in different article directories. You may also use banner advertising, free classified advertising, forum marketing etc. Among the paid ones, the most effective is PPC advertising like 'Google Adwords' and 'Yahoo Search Marketing'.

You may use any or all of these methods to promote your website online. The best thing is to focus on one affiliate website at a time. After you become successful in promoting it, go for other products and niches.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

How to Set Up Your Acme People Search Affiliate Website to Make Money Online

By Jason Vantrees

If you have followed this blog for a while, you should have heard of Acme People Search program provided by Tissa Godavitarne. Acme People Search program is a program that anyone can join to start learning and experiencing how to make money online. In this post, you will find specific details about how the program works.

When you join the program, Tissa will provide you a search engine website. You are going to use the website to make money on the Internet. Tissa will guide you in step-by-step to get your website started to generate income. Here's what you need to do:

Step 1
In step one you will sign up for affiliate programs that are free to join. These affiliate programs are linked from your free people search affiliate website (your search engine) for you to promote and drive traffic to. When people use your search engine or click on links offered, you could get paid commissions when they do free or premium searches. At step one, your affiliate links are displayed at 35%....meaning when folks use your search engine, you would have a chance to be credited for commissions earned around a third of the time. After completing this step one, you then upgrade your search engine through step 2 & 3 to increase your profits.

Step 2
This step involves branding your search engine with it's own domain name and hosting to make it more unique and professional. You must use the hosting provided within your Acme People Search back office to brand your website. After you have your own domain name and web hosting, you can now edit your search engine if you have html experience, along with adding more pages for displaying articles and such to make your affiliate website more SEO friendly. After completing step two, your affiliate links are displayed at 65%.

Step 3
This is the only step that Tissa charges a monthly fee for and is also totally optional. In this step, your affiliate links are displayed at 100 percent along with receiving free web traffic from Tissa to generate a guaranteed $125 commission credited to your account and you get access "secret sauce" ingredients. Having your affiliate links displayed at 100% allows you to earn any commissions generated through your people search engine. The “secret sauce” ingredients can increase residual income opportunities and the free traffic provided to you by Tissa gives you the chance to see your affiliate website in action. The minimum pay out to receive your guaranteed commissions is $200 so you will have to earn $75 dollars to get paid the $200 which would be paid to you via PayPal through Tissa's bi-weekly payout schedule. This step comes with a 30 day “risk free” period to help make your search engine a success.

If you are serious about wanting to make money online, you should sign up for your free acme people search affiliate website and complete all three steps located in your back Acme People Search back office for the best results. Visit search-affiliate.com for common FAQ's along with many of the available resources and income streams offered in the Acme People Search program.

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