Internet Marketing & Home-Based Business

I’m selling this site and the content will go away. I will probably find a new place for some of the articles, but everything else will go away for now. Thanks for reading and listening to the podcast! It’s been great…

So we know that Internet Marketing is all about driving traffic and creating relationships. How can you turn that into money? There are a few specific techniques that can bring in the bucks, and one thing in particular that you might want to…well avoid isn’t right, but you shouldn’t focus on it too much.

First off, don’t spend all of your time trying to get rich off of Google AdSense payments. Do you realize just how much traffic you will have to generate to get enough money that Google ad clicks is your primary source of income. Let’s just say that you have a blog with AdSense on it, and you get $.10 per click. Sometimes you get less, and sometimes more…this is just an example. Read the rest of this entry »

Internet Marketing is not some catch phrase or advertising fad. It’s a viable source of generating buzz, interest, and sales. Unfortunately, I think that this phrase has had some bad press due to so many marketers selling junk with it. We can’t really help what some people do or say, so I suggest you just ignore them.

Let’s take a look at the phrase itself for a moment. Internet marketing. Broken down, obviously, that means advertising something online. That’s all it means — nothing fancy. When you look at the application, however, things get more interesting. You see, Internet marketing, due to the very nature of the web, is different than traditional advertising methods. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are considering making mobile apps and selling them, here’s some useful info. According to the article, free apps are still quite popular (duh!), but users are paying money for apps. This information can help with your mobile app business strategies. Read there article:

App Store buyers spend an average of $9 per five downloads

Your email newsletter should not be some endless sales pitch. You need to give your readers something of value. Do this every single week, and they will be coming back for more. People subscribe to newsletters because they want content, not because they want commercial after commercial.

Fortunately, there’s a way to create valuable content once and then have it automatically delivered to each of your readers, on time, until you tell it to stop. This device is called an Autoresponder. All the best email newsletter services have them, and if yours doesn’t, find a new one. An autoresponder is a message that you write once, and then the system will send it out to your list at intervals you define. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m going to be honest with you. When I first heard of Twitter, I thought, “Lame.” But then I came around and saw the marketing and traffic-driving potential of Twitter. So I created my first account and started tweeting. I got into a rhythm after a while, but I wasn’t seeing any real positive reactions from my Twitterings. My account was growing, and I would get some oddball website traffic from it here and there, but nothing significant.

Then I found the Twitter Traffic Machine. This is a system that uses free tools to do two things: Get followers and post automated, quality content to your Twitter account. I’m not talking about spamming your followers here. I mean actual news stories with links to the original story, posted right to your Twitter account. With this system, you’ll provide quality content for your followers. This will also have the added benefit of getting you more followers by simple retweets or people searching for a particular topic.

Can’t I just do all this myself? Yes. After using this system, I thought to myself, “why didn’t I think of that?” It’s so easy, after all, and the tools are all free. Well, I just didn’t think about it, but this guy did, and he made a great system. Use it. Don’t spend three weeks trying to figure all this stuff out on your own. It’s been done for you. Use the system.

Real World Examples

Need proof that this works? I’ll give you some. I have several websites and projects that I want traffic directed to. So I created 4 new Twitter accounts that were tightly focused on what I wanted to promote. These accounts were all brand new, and I wanted to see just how well this system performed with me doing a minimal amount of work. I didn’t try hard, but the results were still…excellent.

I had to cut my experiment short by a few days due to the Twitter DDOS hacker attacks, but I did get some good data. Over the course of seven days (yes, only 7 days of using this system), I had nearly 1000 followers on two accounts. And remember, this is with minimal work. If I had tried harder, I’m sure I could have grabbed more followers. I started tracking the data shortly after starting to use the system and seeing immediate results.

Here are the follower counts:

OSI
Start: 4
Finish: 286
(note: This one only had 5 days before the Twitter outage…I started this one late)

Education Finder
Start: 139
Finish: 991

Cube Escape
Start: 141
Finish: 759

Self-Reliance and Homesteading
Start: 57
Finish: 903

Here are my follower counts as of right now while I’m writing this:
OSI: 420
Education Finder: 1097
Cube Escape: 864
Self-Reliance and Homesteading: 1025

As you can see, these are all pretty good numbers for doing almost nothing. After setting up the automation tasks, I barely touched any account.

This system works. Get it. Use it. Build your Twitter following and start driving traffic to your Internet properties.

Twitter Traffic Machine

Here is the second video preview of my upcoming online store training course. It’s a video showing you what your end-result store could look like, and some basic features it will have. Watch it, then head over to Online Store HQ.

Learn ecommerce the easy way. Head over to Online Store HQ and check it out!

Who doesn’t want to work from home and make good money? I’ve worked for other people, I’ve worked for myself, I’ve worked in an office, and I’ve worked from home. I’ve made good money, and I’ve been flat broke. And I’ve got to tell you that the combination of working from home and making good money is awesome!

Unfortunately, this isn’t easy to do. There is a simple reason for this — lack of knowledge. Just not knowing how to do it is enough to keep you from finding the success you want. But there is good news. There is a program out there that helps a lot of people make money — all from the comfort of their own home.

Maverick Money Makers

This program was created by a guy named Mack Michaels, when he was fed up with working all the time, making too little money, and feeling burnt out overall. What’s different about this program is that isn’t not just some book and video course that you buy, and use (or forget about). It’s more of a coaching program.

It’s a program with video and a supportive community. Personally, I learn more by doing, after watching an example. Sure, I can read instructions, but watching those instructions is so much more beneficial. I’m up and running faster. Doesn’t that sound interesting? Doesn’t that sound like something you can actually learn from and implement?

This is a really interesting program, and something that you may be able to use to earn some serious cash. Think of what you can do with serious cash. What kind of lifestyle do you envision for yourself? Take a look at it, and if it’s right for you, take the first step. Check it out here:

Maverick Money Makers

Wouldn’t it be great to be able to work at home, or at least generate some extra income on the side? I thought so, too, and so I searched for ways that I could do that. My first idea was to sell goods on eBay. Unfortunately, that’s just too expensive for someone with no budget. After doing some research, I decided to start my own online store.

The problem I had with eBay was that I had to pay every time I listed a product. It didn’t matter if it sold or not – I still had to pay the listing fees. It wasn’t long before I started to feel those fees adding up. I asked myself if there was a way to have products for sale online without having to pay money to offer those products.

This gave birth to the idea of my own online store. It wasn’t long before I had one up and running. I was surprised by how easy it was to get going, but I was disappointed in the sales. So I dug deeper, and did more research. Before long, I was making money. I had my own home-based business that generated cashflow with only a little bit of work each week.

It’s not exactly easy, but it’s not really hard, either. Running your own online store can be a great way to earn a little bit of extra money on the side, and then – if you want – grow that side income into a full-time revenue stream.

Running an online store is how I got started in doing business online. Actually, it’s how I got started in business all together. I wasn’t happy with my career, so I started to look for a way out. I wanted to stay at home with my newborn daughter, and still earn enough money to support my family.

If you are looking for a home-based business, but you really don’t know what to do, or where to start, try running an online store. It’s fun, it’s interesting, and the rewards can pay for a new toy, a vacation, or for the future growth of your business.

Here are some tips to help you get started.

1) Create a store using open source software. Your online store doesn’t have to break the bank just to get it online. There are free software solutions out there that rival those costing hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

2) Sell products that you like. While there are valid arguments for selling certain products based on their own inherent “sellability,” I recommend starting out with items you personally like. That way you will be interested in what you are selling. This will make it more fun, and could make you more successful, too.

3) Learn everything you can about running and marketing an online store. There is a lot of information out there, and you have to sift through it all to find tools and techniques that will work for you.

4) Don’t give up! You might go for a whole year without having a single sale. I went six months before anyone would give me money for what I was offering. I made some mistakes early on, but I learned from them, and learned how to do the right thing. If I can learn how to sell stuff, you can too.

Starting a home-based business is a great experience. I highly recommend it. If you are having trouble deciding what to do, try starting your own online store. It only takes a little bit of work to get it going, and the rewards can far outweigh the investment of time and effort.

To get a jump-start on learning how to create and run your own online store, check out Online Store HQ.

If you are currently working as a copywriter, or if you are looking to start a career as one, I’ve got an article you need to read. It’s on Copyblogger, which is one of the net’s top sites for quick, up-to-date information on copywriting. And it’s got a nice focus on working in the information age, and using the power of the Internet.

Anyway, here’s the article. Read it:

10 Tips for Kicking Ass as a Freelance Writer