3 Secrets for Creating a Successful Newsletter that will Bring You a Nice Online Profit (Part 1)

Creating a successful newsletters, like everything else, has a formula for success. If you don't follow it, your newsletter probably will be just another newsletter that your subscribers will hit the "Delete" button and send it to their mailbox trash. However if you follow the same formula that other highly successful newsletters are using, your subscribers will read your every newsletter issue, love it, and even recommend it to their friends.

So would you like to discover the top 3 secrets of this formula to make your newsletter highly successful?

Then let's get started...


Secret 1 - Give Your Newsletter a Shining Personality
When I compared different highly successful newsletters in different topics, I found a similar very interesting trait in all of them…

Having a personality.

So what does it mean?

It means the author makes his newsletter unique by letting his personality shine through his every word in his newsletter. You see, we are humans and it's a proven fact that people are interested in people. We don't like to read a faceless newsletter who we can't feel a connection with – like a robot has written it.

We want to feel there has been a real person just like ourselves behind the keyboard typing those words. We want to feel we know that person.

How Can You Give a Personal Voice to Your Newsletter?

That's not difficult. Here are some ideas...

Include a section at the beginning of your newsletter called "Editor's Notes". It's where you always get a chance to say "hi" and talk to your subscribers from a more personal level. Here are some other creative names for this section that I've heard...
(For example the editor's name is Mike)

• Greetings from Mike

• Mike's Friendly Corner

• Coffee Break

• Mike's Ramblings

• On The Personal Note

The list can go on and on.

Another good idea is to include your photo in your newsletter. You can just include a small photo of yourself in the Editor's Notes section. (Of course you'll need to have an HTML newsletter to be able to include pictures.)

Also you can talk about some recent things that are happening in your life. For example if it's near Christmas, let your readers know what your plans are for the holidays. In the upcoming weeks before Christmas, tell you readers what you're going to do.

3 Secrets for Creating a Successful Newsletter that will Bring You a Nice Online Profit (Part 2)

Secret 2 - Provide Helpful Content that Your Readers Want
Want to have a newsletter with thousands of fans and loyal readers?

Then simply give your readers helpful information that they want.

What does it mean?

It's simple. Everybody knows you should offer helpful content in your newsletter.

But what few people pay attention to, is giving their readers what really want. Because not every helpful information is what your readers want. Let's say you publish a newsletter about cars. You keep including information and pictures for Mercedes Benz in issue after issue.
The information and pictures are really cool and useful. So you think your readers love it.

But without you knowing this, there is a problem with that…

85% of your readers are interested in Ferrari – and not even a bit interested about Mercedes Benz. So imagine how frustrating it is for them to hear all about Mercedes Benz in your newsletter week after week.

See the problem here?

That's why you should not only provide helpful content, but also the information that your readers really want. Otherwise, it will be like giving very valuable information about growing a coconut tree to Eskimos. Your information is still very helpful – but not to your readers.

Most newsletter publishers give their readers what they think their readers want… which is by the way 80% not right. So How can you discover what your readers really want?

Simply ask them!

Yes, you can run a simple and easy survey from your list and ask them what they want to find most in your newsletter. You'll be surprised about the responses. You can simply create your survey outline by email and send it to your list and ask them to reply back, or if you want to look more professional and get more response, you can simply use SurveyMonkey. It's a great survey service that I have personally used and have seen other big newsletter publishers use too. So find out what your readers most like to hear about, and then give it to them. Then I promise you will have a big list of fans and loyal happy readers behind you.

Now let's get to the last newsletter success secret.

Secret 3 - Use a Professional, Reader Friendly Newsletter Design
I still can't believe how many honest, hard-working newsletter publishers spend hours on writing and preparing each issue and still kill their efforts and results by using a poor newsletter design for their newsletter.

It's like you spend years of your life writing an awesome book and then when it comes to choosing a cover for it, you use a very cheap and low-quality paper and write the book title in handwriting on its cover.

Wouldn't it be insane?

Still, some people do the same with their newsletter. Even if the newsletter content is very helpful, people won't still read it because they are turned off by the low quality and cheap looking design so much that assume the content will be as bad as the design. Or maybe the design is so bad that hurts their eye to read the articles – like too small text or a cluttered look that confuses them which part is where.

So what about you?
Is your newsletter design really professional? Or maybe it is killing your newsletter readership...
You can read this article and learn 3 ways to easily get a professional design for your newsletter that your readers will love. You will find this article an eye-opener.

Final Thoughts
So now you know the top 3 secrets to have your own highly successful newsletter...

1. Give Your Newsletter a Personal Voice
2. Provide Helpful Content that Your Readers want
3. Use a Professional Design for Your Newsletter

So now you are armed with powerful information that can help you transform your newsletter success.

A New Video from Andy Jenklin Showing How You can Multiply Your Online Revenue Using only a Cool Trick

Andy Jenkins from stompernet.net is going to publish a series of free videos with quality content inside the videos that will help people increase their traffic and website revenue. The entire series of this free video is called 'Going Natural 2.O'.

The first video of Going Natural 2.O has just released today by Andy. In this video, Andy will show you a cool trick that took one of his e-commerce sites from making $1,000 a day to $2,988 a day in less than one month.

Going Natural 2.O - First Video

Andy has made this video professional with step-by-step guide to help you learn the technique he has applied to increase traffic and sales.

6 Website Mistakes You must Avoid when Making Money Online

Have you ever heard from website owners that their websites getting thousands of visitors every day but making only a few buck daily? Something must be no right to their websites. They must have made some sort of website mistakes or they will not make that little with the massive number of visitors they get daily. I'm sure you don't want to become one of them that have spent a hard time on generating traffic but only earning little from the large amount of traffic they generated.

To make you money making website work, you must properly optimize your site and avoid making mistakes in your website. Speaking about website mistakes, below are some of mistakes you must avoid:

1) Too many outdated content - You should remove information and content that already outdated or no longer useful to your site visitors. And update your website when you have found latest information that your visitors like to read and know. Both, the search engines and visitors like fresh content. So you should consider publishing new quality articles on an ongoing basis. Publishing fresh and quality articles not only will help in keeping your traffic growing but also will increase your pay-per-click (PPC) advertising revenue as PPC ads work best with quality content.

2) JavaScript pop ups- A JavaScript pop up is a notification window that automatically opens when you visit a website that states and message ; and has an “ok” button at the end. This was very popular during the website boom, but quickly become a no-no because JavaScript pop up is annoying to many visitors and it has been over used by webmasters. Usually these pop ups aren't seen as important by the visitors. In most cases these pop ups do nothing but disturbing visitors thus easily annoying them. However, if you have a message that need to display to your visitors before they can go further on your website, then a JavaScript pop up may still be a good idea, but I strongly caution you to not overuse it, if you use it at all.

3) Too many graphics and pictures - Adding too many graphics and photos to your site can lower your website loading speed. Visitors don't like to wait too long to get into a site, many of them will choose to leave your site and look for another. Also a percentage of web visitors are still in dial-up connection, which means they will have trouble downloading websites that have large number of graphics. Unless your website is in flash, I would try to avoid using any type of animated graphic, since they typically have large file sizes.

4) Using heavy, high contracting colors- High contracting colors would grab the visitors attention but they can also hurt the users eyes, making them uncomfortable and swaying them away from the website. So you need to limit the use of high contracting colors. Areas that you shouldn't use these colors are your website background, the text areas and the navigation sidebar. For title and headline, using high contracting colors is a good idea to get your visitors attention.

5) Clutter up pages - If your website seems be cluttered visitors will be less likely to view further into your website, especially if they think they will have to weed out the information they need from the information that is useless to them. You do not want to have too much information and content in each page, and you don't want more then one topic on each. A good navigation system will eliminate any problem you have.

6) Too many ads appear on your site - Users usually visit website for information and not ads, so a website that has more ads than content will definitely drive people away. Visitors do not want to have to weed though the ads to find the content that they are looking for. You need to maintain a balance between ads and content that show on on your site. The irony of the situation is: A visitor is more likely to click on an advertisement link if they do not feel that they are being bombarded by them. This is defiantly a situation where the saying “less is more” is true.

A New Tool for You to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing

Here's is a brand new tool you might want to use for building your affiliate marketing business.

Paydot Clickbank Alert

This new tool is a free service created by Doug Champigny and Tim Brechbill for affiliates to do well in marketing Clickbank and PayDotCom affiliate products. When you sign up this free service, you'll begin to receive daily email alerts letting you know the brand new products that were added either in ClickBank or PayDotCom affiliate marketplace within the last 24 hours. And thus giving you a chance to promote new clickbank and Paydotcom products before most people even know they are online.

4 Money Making Ideas You can Use to Profit Online (Part 1)

You’ve probably heard this saying before – lather, rinse and repeat – and that’s exactly what you should do. When you find a way to make money that works for you, repeat the process over and over again in different niches and/or with different products.

These methods are not hard to do, but they will require some effort on your part, as does anything else.

With that said, let’s jump right in…

1. Answer a question
That almost sounds too simple, doesn’t it? Here’s what I mean…
Visit forums, Yahoo groups, MySpace or other social networking sites. Find out what kinds of questions people are asking or what kind of information they’re interested in.

Then write a report that answers their questions. Or put together a short web page with reviews of 3 or 4 different products that will answer their questions. (This way they’ll have a choice of which one to buy.) Of course, each product on the web page will contain your affiliate link.

No matter which method you choose, simply add a link to your sales letter or review page in your signature file at the forum or group. (Don’t blatantly advertise, though, because you don’t want to get banned for spamming.) Use an enticing line of text that links to your web page so people will be interested enough to click your link.

Here’s an example:
Let’s say the forum you visit has hundreds of people interested in learning how to make an “old fashioned” craft item of some sort, but they can’t find directions anywhere. The members continuously ask if anyone there has a pattern, so you can see that this is a “hot topic” at this forum and probably at others, too.

You happen to be an expert on making this particular item, or you know where you can find instructions for it, so you simply write a report detailing how to make it. Or you can do some research and locate an ebook (or a couple of them) that is exactly what the forum members are looking for, then create a quick web page reviewing the product(s), using your affiliate links so when they buy you get the commission.

Then take few hours daily to browse and post relevant content in the form of answers to members’ questions or by asking your own questions and posting comments. You’ll have the link to your web page in your signature file and if you use a line of text such as “Let Me Show You How to Make (name of craft item)” people will click your link and you’ll make sales.

2. Find a need for a service, then provide that service
You’ll make money selling the instructions for making that old fashioned craft item I used as an example in quick profit idea #1, but you can also take this a step further… why not locate groups of people who are NOT interested in making the item, but rather, in buying the item?

You’ll have to search out other forums or groups of people who buy antiques or crafts, but again, if you see that they’re asking for that item you’ll know you can have a hot seller.

Simply create the product, have someone create it for you or even find some at local garage sales; write your sales letter and then put your link in your signature file. Remember to use an enticing line of text to make people notice it and click the link.

Here’s an example:
Visit forums where Internet marketers hang out. You may be surprised by some of the questions people ask. For instance, many new marketers don’t know how to upload files to a server so they ask how to do it. Many don’t know how to edit html pages or create/update a website. If you’re good at any of those things, offer your services for a small fee. (Don’t forget to use a link in your signature so you’re not spamming the forum.) or… teach them how to do these things for a small fee!

To read part 2 of this article, Please click here.

4 Money Making Ideas You can Use to Profit Online (Part 2)

In case you haven't read part 1 of this article, please click here.

And services like these aren’t just for new marketers who don’t know how to do them. Other people outsource many of these jobs, too, to save themselves time. You might be surprised at how much money you can make by doing small, odd jobs. Remember the old saying “it’s a dirty job, but somebody’s gotta do it.” People will pay someone to do jobs they dislike or don’t know how to do. You can be the Internet’s version of a “handyman.”

3. Write content for profits
With all the free information available on the Internet it might be hard to believe, but some websites will actually pay you for your content!

Do a search for “get paid for content” or “get paid to write articles” and other similar terms in Google and see what comes up. There are sites available that will pay you to write articles or other types of content such as “how to” do something.

Associated Content (http://www.associatedcontent.com) is one such site, but there are others, too. Just be sure to follow their guidelines for the content you submit to them. Some require that it be exclusive content, while others don’t. Some will require a minimum or maximum word length, while others don’t care how long or short it is.

Another idea in this category – write articles on numerous topics and sell them with Private Label Rights. You can target MANY markets this way…

“One size” doesn’t necessarily fit all here. Instead of targeting all marketers with your niche PLR articles, promote each niche’s articles to marketers in that niche by posting messages at forums within the niche market. You can also find webmasters in the niches you write articles for and contact them by email or phone and let them know you sell PLR articles that they might be interested in.

4. Create Your Own Products
Yea, I know… this is something many people are afraid of, but it’s easy if you purchase products with Private Label Rights and then edit them to make them your own.

Since Private Label Rights means you can edit the ebook and add your name as the author, that’s exactly what you need to do to make it your own product.

Simply use the original product as an outline, changing it as you wish, to add more content and personalize it to “sound” like you. Do research, if need be, to get more information on the topic so that you’re sure you’re giving solid information. Be sure you fix any spelling and grammatical errors, too, for a more polished and professional product.

But how do you pick a topic and where do you sell it? The same way I suggested in quick profit ideas #1 and #2 - forums and online groups are a good place to start. In addition to having your link in your signature file look around for potential joint venture partners, too. A quick email to a few of them offering a 50/50 or 60/40 split of any sales they make could bring you a lot of money.

Of course, if you have your own opt-in list then you can just offer it to them if you’d like. But don’t sell yourself short… visit forums and leave your link in your signature file and find website owners to do joint ventures with.

AdSense Simplified Ad Management Feature Went Live

AdSense's new ad management feature finally started rolling out to publishers yesterday. But not all AdSense publishers can see this new feature yet in their account because it will take some time to roll out the feature to all publishers. As mentioned earlier in Google AdSense blog, the new feature is designed to help publishers optimize their AdSense ads in a more easier manner and save their time.

I login my AdSense account just now, there is no ad management feature appearing yet. So I still didn't have to chance to use this new feature and have no idea how good is it in helping AdSense publishers to make money with AdSense.

3 Recommended Affiliate Networks that can Help You Make Money with Affiliate Programs

When you decide to enter the affiliate marketing world, there are several niche markets that are worthy of consideration. Here are three affiliate networks that are well known in the affiliate marketing industry, simply because of their reliability and stability.

ClickBank
Perhaps the best known of the three networks is ClickBank: http://www.clickbank.com. Clickbank has over 10,000 affiliate info products with different categories where you can select any one of them to promote online.

There are a few of reasons why people find ClickBank such an attractive networks when it comes to affiliate programs selection.

The first reason is that the affiliate commission generated by any customer purchase made through your Clickbank affiliate link is credited to your account in two minutes time after the transaction occurred. Because of such comprehensive tracking feature provided by ClickBank, affiliates find it easy to check how things are going, even if they run multiple sites as part of the program.

This handy software interface means that you do not need to create a separate ClickBank account for each program that you are marketing. Everything can be combined into a single ClickBank account, and the transaction detail will be plenty to help you sort the transactions into workable detail on how much you are earning from each affiliate product.

Along with the ads on your sites, you will also given a branded portal that will take visitors over to the ClickBank marketplace. Any products that are bought at the marketplace through your portal will also earn you commission, and will record in your daily detail, just like any purchase from the affiliate ads would do.

This in effect allows you to maximize your earning potential using the resources that ClickBank provides. Payments are currently made by check, which are mailed out every two weeks.

Paydotcom
Another good choice of affiliate network is http://www.paydotcom.com. Like ClickBank, PayDotCom provides an easy to use affiliate interface that allows you to view your transaction details in real time.

One of the good things about PayDotCom is that this program will interface with your PayPal account, which means that vendors can pay you monthly commission directly to your PayPal account. However not all vendors are using PayPal as a commission payment method, so you may still receive payments by check for certain products you are promoting.

Still, a number of the vendors do utilize PayPal, and that can often mean receiving payment without having to wait for a long time. But bear in mind that if you chose PayPal as your preferred payment method, you will be deducted a small amount of fees by Paypal every time you receiving commission.

In like manner, you will incur a small percentage of the payout on each purchase to PayDotCom as well. This program is easy to sign up with, and the staffs are pretty helpful to people who just started to make money with affiliate programs.

Shareasale
The third choice is http://www.shareasale.com which is consistently gaining recognition among affiliate marketers as a affiliate network that is designed to match up to the content of your existing website and blog. Sharesale is free to sign up as an affiliate.

Basically, you can join the network and then browse through a list of available merchant programs, selecting the ones that you believe will be of interest to the readers and visitors at your site or blog. The merchant list includes a wide variety of industry types and products, some of them digital, but many of them physical.

The sale commission vary depend on the merchants. Some merchants pay a flat rate for a sale, while others go with a percentage commission on the sale price. It is not difficult to determine which method is preferred while you are checking out the merchant listing.

You can search the merchants list by category, by method of compensation, and by the newest programs added in the last twenty days to see what programs are right for you before you decide to join a program in Shareasale network.

Like other affiliate networks, Sharesale makes it easy to view your traffic and earnings around the clock. The reports are all web based, so you do not need to use any software to load and read your affiliate reports.

The payment is made either by check or direct to your bank account depending on your choice of preferred method. To qualify for a payment, you have to earn at least $50.00 commission. Any amount under that will carry forward to the next payment period.

AdSense Upcoming Feature: Make Changes to Ads without Replacing Code

AdSense Blog has posted a good news about Google AdSense program today. In the coming weeks, Google AdSense will be launching a new feature allowing publishers to manage their AdSense ad units inside their AdSense account.

With this new feature, you will be able to change your AdSense ad units (such as colors, channels and borders) that display on your site or blog within your AdSense account. This mean that you'll no longer need to copy and paste your AdSense code to your pages every time you made changes to your AdSense setting (colors, channels and borders). All you need is few clicks of mouse inside your account and you'll see your ads changes take place on your site or blog.

The new feature is created to help save your time and let you optimize your AdSense ads more easier. As mentioned in AdSense blog, the feature will be rolling out in phases in the next few weeks and another post will be updated at that time to explain how to use the feature.

7 Ways To Make Money Using Nothing More Than Your List

An opt-in list can be quite crucial to any site or internet based company. Even for a small venture such as a niche profit site an opt-in list can make a world of difference and also add some extra income for your pocket. Rarely would you see an e-commerce site, big or small, that is without an opt-in list.

An opt-in list allows for a company to market their wares and site via an e-mail. With an opt-in list, a site and a subscriber consents to sending and receiving a newsletter from your company. Through this, you can keep your subscribers abreast of what is currently available in your site as well as whatever is coming out.

And because there is mutual consent between the two parties, any mail sent to the list is not considered as spam mail. There is a great number of successfully read promotional materials such as catalogs, newsletters and such that are sent because the subscribers themselves have signed up for them, meaning, they do want to be sent those items.

Building a list is crucial, only a small percentage actually subscribes for an opt-in list. Many people find promotional mails annoying but of you provide a good newsletter or promotional material, you will see your list build up and grow. You can also achieve this by having good content on your site. If people like what they see and read on your site, then they surely would want more. Newsletters would be a way to attract them back to your site. A little teaser or appetizer if you will.

But other than marketing your wares and your services, an opt-in list can also be used to earn extra profit. Not all lists can be used though. It would be good to first build a successful list with a huge number of subscribers. The more subscribers you have, the more money you can get. Here are seven ways to make money using nothing more than your list.

1) Place advertisements. There are many corporations who will be willing to pay to put their banners and ads on a list with many subscribers. Selling or renting out lists is not a good idea so rather than doing that, many companies would just rather place ads with lists that have a huge subscriber base. Your newsletter could be placed with many ads and each one spells money.

2) Have affiliations with other companies that have at least a semblance or relation to what your site is about. Here other companies will provide links and brief descriptions of what they offer, products and services. With every click made on the link that directs or leads a subscriber from your list to their site, the company will pay you. This P4P or pay for performance.

3) Make deals with other companies by asking for a small percentage of sales done through your list. With every sale done by customers that have come from your list and have gone there because of your newsletter, the other company will pay you a small percentage of your sales. The more people who buys from them, the more earnings you get.

4) You may also get products from other sites on a consignment basis and sell them to your list via your newsletter. Place descriptions, articles and photos of the product in your newsletter. There will be those who will buy from you and when that happens, you can order the product from the other site and sell it to your buyer.

5) Sell e-books or a compilation of your articles on your list. Manuals and how-to articles are in great demand. Many people will be willing to shell out money to gain knowledge about a certain topic and subject. With your existing list trusting your expertise in that area, an e-book could be offered and sold or used as an incentive.

6) Create a network out of your list. Get people to invite more people to view your site and subscribe to your list. The larger your list is, the more people will be able to click on your links and affiliate links as well as make your advertisement rates higher.

7) Subscribers are willing to pay for information if they know that it can be trusted and relied upon. Use your list to get more and more people to subscribe to you as well as browse your site. Lastly, you can use your list to earn money by making them your partners. Your list will be the bloodline of your growth and increase.

10 Ways of Getting New Product Ideas to Profit Online

As an internet marketer, one of the most difficult things to do is coming up with product ideas. If you are new, it is even more difficult as you have no clue where to start or if the idea is going to be a hit.

Here are a few tips that may give you some ideas on how to go about getting new products into the market. If you like an idea, make sure you implement it.

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”~~ Gautam Budha

Problems people face
This is one of the easiest ways of finding out what people are looking for. Go online to observe and understand what problems people are having. Once you identify a problem, think of how you can help solve it. It is easy to find problems on the internet, by checking the various questions and complaints people have. Yahoo answers is one of my favorite places to find what people are looking for. Their questions are your answers.

Following Trends
Trends keep changing. Internet is a fast changing medium where the flavor of the day changes with every passing day. One day it is Britney and the other it is Whitney. In internet marketing, it could be Butterfly Marketing one day and Bum Marketing the other. You need to find ways to capitalize on these constantly changing trends. There is a product you can come up with for every trend. You need to keep pace and watch the market carefully to see what is hot. During the cricket world cup, come up with something related to cricket and watch the sales.

Improve on a product
One of the more easy ways to come up with product ideas is to scrounge the market for products and see how you can improve on an existing product and come up with a better product. This is something that is commonly done but it works each time without fail. You will have to choose products that are in huge demand. With the research for demand being taken care of by someone else, you have conquered 90% of the market, the rest is the 10% you are going to add to the existing product.

Introduce a product in a new niche
This idea entails looking for products in a particular niche. Find a product that is doing great in one niche and introduce a similar one in a different niche where it may be useful too. Of course make sure that it has not been used in the niche before. I am sorry; here you can’t afford to get away from research.

Adding to a physical product
If you are looking at physical products, take an already existing hot product and add things to it. For example, if a certain Golf ball cards are hot, add a Golf ball and a Golf cap or something that is related to it. This mix and match is great and there will be no end to options.

Old product
You may have come across some old products that people have totally forgotten about. You may get that product and see what you can do to make it fresh and invaluable to the existing market, and launch a great comeback. A few latest innovative additions and changes to the product and it is as good as new.

Ask your list
If you already have a list, this tip will help you come up with a new product idea. Ask people that are already on your mailing list, what THEY want. Make sure you are not selling them any product in that mail where you ask them their suggestions. This will make them feel important and trust you well enough to give you great ideas. You’d be surprised at the ideas people come up with. All you need to do is ask them. Who knows, just a single suggestion could be the beginning of a new product.

Combine two products
Take two products and combine them into a single product. Find two products that sort of compliment each other, for example, a budgeter and a planner. If it is an ebook, then make enough changes so that the flow is perfect and it does not look like two pieced thrown together. Once you are through with that, get it packaged attractively.

Surveys
For website owners, it is a good idea to conduct a survey on the website. Ask your visitors what sort of products they would like to see you come up with. This will certainly be a great way to get some product ideas.

New market
Take one of your products, I mean existing products, and find a fresh new market for it. You will have to make enough modifications and add bits and pieces to it, to make it look like a new product to woo the new market. Then repackage it and there you have a brand new product in a brand new niche.

There will certainly be several others, all you need to do is look around and imbibe what is happening and you will find the answers yourself. Where there are questions, answers are found automatically.

123RF.com - Turn Your Photos into Cash

123rf.com hosts photos uploaded by people around the world and help sell their photos. The process of selling your photo and images in 123rf.com is pretty simple:

Step 1 : Sign up with 123RF to be a member of 123RF.
Step 2 : Upload Your Photos. Log in. Next, click on Upload Image to submit your photos and 123RF will sell the photos for you.
Step 3 : Keep submitting photos to earn more!

How much you can earn?
123rf pays you 50% of the nett proceeds from each of your photo downloaded or sold. Besides that you'll earn $0.36 per subscription download.

There are also other ways to make money with 123RF. Here's how:

Refer customers
You can help promote 123RF online and send customers to 123RF. For every purchase made by customers referred by you, You will receive 15% of the purchase price.

Refer photographers
When you refer your photographer friends or colleges to join 123RF, 123RF will pay you when someone purchases the photos of the photographers referred by you. You'll receive 10% of the price for each of their photo sold or downloaded.

A Simple Guide to Selling Expensive Items on eBay

You may think that selling expensive items is very different from selling inexpensive items on eBay. But the fact is there are not much different. No matter what item you are selling, it all comes down to how you market and promote the item. But this doesn’t mean that you must search around the Internet posting ads here and there. when selling on eBay, the marketing part is all handled by eBay. You just need set up your auction to list your product and ebay will send targeted buyers to your auction.

Set the lowest selling price for your high price item
To sell your expensive item on ebay, you must first know the lowest price you are willing to accept for your item. You can follow this three simple steps to determine the lowest price of your item:

1. Have your high priced item evaluated to determine what the actual market value is.
2. Next, look for similar items from past auctions at eBay to find out how much those items sold for.
3. Finally, determine what the value of the item is to you. With this information, you should be able to determine the lowest amount you are willing to sell the item for.

Use the reserve price feature of ebay to attract potential buyers
Once you have determined the lowest price, you can starting setting your reserve price in your auction (On eBay, the reserve price is the lowest price that you are willing to sell for your item). And then set your opening bid price no more than $50 – no matter how high your reserve price is. This is an ebay marketing tactic. It will be difficult to catch the attention of targeted buyers to an auction for an item selling for hundreds or thousands of dollars. But setting your opening bid less than $50 will make getting targeted prospects to view your auction a lot more easier. With the reserve price feature, you don’t have to sell the item to the buyer with the highest bid if the highest bid price hasn't reach your reserve price unless you choose to do so at the close of the auction. This method of price setting resembles marketing tactic applied by offline businesses that are simply designed to ‘get customers in the door.’

Item description and details
The item description for your listing is very important. so you should spend some time to work out a good description. Try to use words that really describe your item well. Provide as many details as possible, including details that prove the authenticity of collectible items. Include pictures of the item as well. Be honest to your potential buyers. If the item has marks or scratches, tell them and make sure that the pictures convey this as well. Provide packing and shipping details. Also let potential buyers know that shipping insurance must be purchased as well in case the item is damaged once it leaves your possession.

Offer an escrow service
The majority of eBay buyers feel more comfortable using an escrow service when purchasing expensive items. so you can offer this as an option in your auction and let your buyers know that they have to pay extra if they want to use the service. This protects both parties from fraud, and it makes many buyers more secure to pay to obtain the item. eBay always struggle to secure the transactions between buyers and sellers, so they have partnered with an escrow service that is commonly used for high price items.

Another Free Telephone Seminar about Making Money with E-book

It seems that lately Internet marketers like to organize online seminar to give away free information to the public. David Riklan, founder of http://www.SelfGrowth.com is inviting people to attend a 60-minute telephone seminar at home. David and his partner Eric Taylor will speak about the system they applied to develop and market eBooks on the Internet.

Date and Time
Two dates: Either September 11th 9:00 pm Eastern or September 18th 3:00pm Eastern.

How to Sign up
To sign up for this Free TeleSeminar, you may go to http://www.SelfGrowth.com/FreeEbookseminar.html and fill in a simple form with your name and email address. Don't worry about the opt-in, you can always unsubscribe after gaining helpful information from the seminar.

There's no cost to participate in this telephone seminar except your normal long distance charges.

Affiliate Marketing – How Really Competitive It is and How to Survive in the Competition

When you watch a football game on TV, you can easily see how games are won or lost in the battle that takes place on the line of scrimmage. Offensive plays are designed to protect the quarterback and/or to open up holes in the defense so that yardage can be gained.

Defensive plays are designed to sack the quarterback or close holes that would allow yardage to be gained. Quarterbacks and coaches get the credit for wins and blame for losses but the battle is won or lost in the trenches.

Affiliate marketing is a lot like a football game just without the bruises and sore muscles. An affiliate marketer must design offensive plays and defensive plays that will put him in a position to win the affiliate wars.

When you are one of many marketers who are trying to sell the very same product to the very same consumers, you had better have a plan to get at least your fair share of the market or more.

Every niche market on the Internet is competitive. If it isn’t competitive then there can’t possibly be much of a customer base to sell to. That is just the nature of all Internet marketing and in every niche.

So, you ask, what is it that I can do that will assure that my customers will buy from me? The answer is just one word... unique!

You have to be unique. You have to offer something that sets you completely apart from your competitors. You have to make your offer for a product or service for which you are an affiliate more attractive to buy from you than it is to buy from you competitors.

If you simply send out a marketing email advertising a product or service that you are an affiliate marketer for, you need to remember that there are dozens or maybe even hundreds of other marketers who are sending out marketing email advertising the exact same product or service and many of them are sending them to the same people that you are. You have to do something to make sure that your customers buy from you...you have to be unique.

There are several ways to achieve uniqueness. One way is to have established yourself as an expert in the field for which the product or service is being sold. You have to have become not only visible but credible, as well. This visibility and credibility is not easily achieved. It takes a lot of hard work, time and effort.

Visibility and credibility are established by taking such measures as writing and marketing articles and E-Books, posting to blogs and forums, appearing as an expert on teleseminars and webinars, etc. The fact is that when people know you and trust you, they buy from you. They will buy from you even is your competitors are offering a better deal or more incentives.

People do not like to buy from strangers. The Internet is a big impersonal and even frightening place to many consumers. They want to feel like they know and trust the people that they buy products and services from. The time, effort and energy that you put into becoming visible and credible is the best time, effort and energy investment that you will ever make. Reputation is everything in the world of Internet marketing. Credibility makes you unique.

Add extras! Add free gifts! Even better than extras and free gifts is additional help to use the product or service that is being sold. You can offer a free teleseminar for those who buy the product or service from you that will make the product or service better or easier to use.

You can most likely even get the producer or the product or service to speak at your event if you plan far enough ahead. People just love teleseminars... and they love free...when you add teleseminar and free together, you will have a winning play that might just score the proverbial touchdown for you.

An Introducation toThe Different Types Of Resale Rights

Resale rights are one of the fastest ways to make money online. All the hard work like finding a profitable product idea, researching the niche, product creation and development are done for you. All you need to do is buy the high-demand product that comes with resale rights and upload it to your website and you are in business.

As you may already know, there are many different kinds of resale rights that you can buy and resell them for profit.

Here are the main types:

Resale Rights
This gives you the right to resell a product to an end user. This can apply to both physical and digital products. Where a digital product is concerned, you resell the product and keep
100% of the profits without losing the enjoyment of the same product as digital products
are duplicable in nature.

Basic Resale Rights
You have the right to resell the product but your customer does not have the right to resell it to another. You keep 100% of the profit after every sale you make.

Master Resale Rights
You have the right to resell the product as well as the Basic Resale rights itself to your customers. Your customers can in turn resell the same book to their customers. The Master Resale rights can either be bundled together with the purchase of the product or purchased separately from the product.

Private Label Rights
This is the mother lode of all resale rights! Buying Private Label Rights usually give you the right to change the product in any way you like, put your own name on it, sell resale
rights or even master resale rights to others and basically use and treat the product as it were your own creation.

Give Away Rights
You can give the product away for free. In most cases, however, you cannot resell and/or edit it.

Royalty Rights
You have to pay the original product author or franchisor a percentage of every sale made by you. This right normally applies to physical products. McDonald’s and books found in
bookstores are very good examples that demonstrate this right.

At times you can purchase a product and it will automatically come with either resale rights or master resale rights. Other times, you purchase the product and the resale or master
resale rights separately. In either case, once you have some type of resale rights to a product, you may then begin making sales and you get to keep 100% of the profits.

This is just like having a product of your own. The only difference is that you are not authorized to change anything about the product and the product creator's name remains
on the product.

I'll bet that you even own rights to products already and you may not even realize it. You see, many products on the internet are sold with either resale rights or master resale rights already. So, make sure that you read the sales letters carefully!

A Quick Update on AuctionAds

AuctionAds is now offering $25 bonus to web publishers and bloggers who sign up as a new AuctionAds Publisher. New AuctionAds Publishers will receive an instant balance of $25.00 automatically once they completed the sign up process. And the $25 bonus cannot be withdrawn until the new publishers reach the $50 minimum payout.

Existing AuctionAds publishers are given a unique affiliate link to spread the word about this offer. AuctionAds publishers will earn 5% of all revenue generated by new AuctionAds publishers they refer for a full six months.

Auction Ads and Google AdSense
Auction ads program has no conflict with Google AdSense. This means that you can place your Auction ads onto each of your web pages that currently display AdSense ads to generate more advertising revenue.

7 Ways to Increase Your Affiliate Commission - Part 1

Affiliate program promotion is a most rewarding and easy way of earning money online. You don’t have to be very knowledgeable or experienced, to be successful at affiliate marketing. This is a great way of earning residual income.

Many people don’t make the sort of commissions that can be made with affiliate marketing. It would help to understand the different routes one can take to earn huge affiliate commissions.

Article writing and distribution
With article writing, you can promote your affiliate programs very effectively and earn money. High quality and informative articles should be submitted to all the good article directories, like Ezine articles, which has a high PR. These articles will appear on search engines like Google, when people search for information related to your article. Writing articles and having a link to your website in the signature box helps drive huge amounts of traffic to your website, as long as you ensure your articles are attention-grabbing and your bio has a strong call to action. Just make doubly sure not to link directly to the affiliate product, as many top directories don’t allow this. It’s best to have your own website. Since you are going to be advertising your affiliate link on the website, there will be a huge increase in the number of sales and the end result is an increase in your affiliate commissions.

Multiple keywords in articles
Having multiple keywords related to your affiliate program in the articles, helps you rank higher in the search engines like Google for those keywords. If your affiliate program is related to making money online, you can have keywords like “make money from home”, “make money working online”, “make money working from home”, “earn money online” etc. When people who are looking to make money online, type any of the related key phrases, your article will show up at the top of the search engine. If you rank high for at least 3 key phrases related to your business instead of just one key phrase, your traffic will increase tremendously and so will your affiliate commissions. This is a very powerful technique that will certainly increase your affiliate commission.

Ad campaign personalization
To earn more commissions from affiliate programs, it would help to offer your visitors something more than just the affiliate program. Do not ever rely solely on your affiliate program website as a good way of promotion. Personal touch matters and will help get you more affiliate commissions in the long run. You can make a list of the particular market products and see what people are looking for. Do not refer them directly to the merchant’s website. It would do good to give something like a ‘quick start guide’ to gain the visitor’s attention. Many people may not know much about the affiliate program being promoted by you, so your guide, which will explain things will be helpful. This gives a feeling that you care. This will sky rocket the affiliate sales.

7 Ways to Increase Your Affiliate Commission - Part 2

Creating a blog
How does a blog help? Having a blog on your website means fresh content on the website. Fresh content drives traffic to the website. Have reviews of the affiliate products on the blog and also your affiliate links. People will read these reviews and click on the links, thus increasing affiliate commissions through an increase in affiliate sales. You can also aim at having a separate blog, where you have fresh content and redirect visitors to your website.

Targeting the right market
You should aim at advertising your affiliate products to the right market. Advertising your acne affiliate product to an IM niche will not yield good results. The most cost effective way of getting the right people to your affiliate product is finding forums related to your affiliate product or social networking sites targeted at the correct niche. These are the places where your market is usually found. This will bring targeted traffic to your affiliate product, which will result in more sales.

Creating a list and ezine
Creating a mailing list is very crucial to being a successful affiliate. Once you have a mailing list, an ezine becomes a powerful way of promoting your affiliate program to your subscribers. Bring out an ezine that is related to the affiliate program you are promoting. You can have an ezine sent out weekly, where you will be promoting affiliate product related to the content of the ezine. Over a period of time, since these people are used to getting some good info from you, they will begin trusting you, and in turn look at products being promoted by you. This is a great way of increasing affiliate commissions.

Cloaking affiliate links
This may not be a direct way of increasing affiliate sales, but a way of ensuring that you don’t lose any sales. Yes, losing sales is common in the affiliate business. It is also considered to be very unprofessional displaying affiliate IDs. By cloaking, I mean that you do not display the affiliate ID that is used to get you commissions. If you have a website, you don’t have to worry about this, but if you don’t, then there are several ways of cloaking your affiliate IDs.

One way is to buy a domain name related to the product that you are promoting and then using domain forwarding to mask the affiliate links. Alternatively, you will find software that masks the affiliate links for you. You will find plenty of such softwares if you search on Google. There are also several free cloaking sites that help you cloak your links for free.

By following the above steps for promoting your affiliate programs, you will see your commissions increase and you will start making money through affiliate programs immediately.

10 Powerful Ways to Turn Your Visitors into Buyers

Whether you are making money online by promoting affiliate programs or running an e-commerce website that loaded with products for sales, you want your targeted prospects who visit your site purchase from you. The higher the percentage of your targeted prospects buy from you, the more profit you'll make. Here are 10 benefits and power words that can motivate your targeted prospects to take an action (make a purchase) on your website:

1. TIME: Most people makes time their most valuable commodity. When they search on Internet to shop, they are looking for products or services that can help save their time. Power words: FAST, INSTANT, QUICK, i.e., fast shipping, fast ordering or quick results.

2. SECURITY: People want to feel safe when buying online. The want to make sure that they are accepting a real offer. Power words: MONEY BACK GUARANTEED, Risk free, i.e., 30 day money back guarantee, zero risk guaranteed, no obligation.

3. EXCLUSIVITY: When there is only a limited version of an product or a limited amount of an item, it makes people feel that the product is more valuable. The more valuable your product or service appears to be the more people will appreciate what you have to offer. Power words: RARE, LIMITED, SPECIAL, EXCLUSIVE, i.e., limited for the first 300 buyers, special offer, limited edition.

4. SIMPLICITY: People appreciate clarity and ease. Show them how your product or service will reduce their stress. Power words: EASY, SIMPLE, CONVENIENT, STRESS FREE, i.e., stress-free ordering, simple instructions, convenient to use, easy payments, etc.

5. PROOF: Online buyers like to know what other people think about your product or service. Power words: TESTIMONIAL, REVIEW, CRITIQUE, COMPARISON, i.e. buyers’ testimonial, consumer review, customer satisfaction.

6. SPECIAL OFFERS: People want to find bargains in the form of rebates, one time sales or percentage offers. Power words: SALE, DISCOUNT, REBATE, ONE-TIME, LIMITED TIME, i.e., one week sale, special discount, instant rebate, one time offer, festival discount.

7. INCENTIVES: Giving free gifts will delight your potential buyers and making them more likely to do business with you. Power words: GIVEAWAY, BONUS, GIFT, REWARD, i.e., your complimentary subscription, order bonus, special e-book giveaway, a gift for you.

8. RECOGNITION: People want to know that you understand their concerns. Power words: YOU, YOURS, i.e. the benefits you want, the solution to your problem.

9. STATUS: People want to know how something will affect their life. Power words: ALERT, IMPORTANT, ATTENTION, i.e., important notice, attention please, special alert.

10. POPULARITY: People are always looking for new products or services that will improve their lives. Power words: NEW, FRESH, UPDATED, i.e., brand new, fresh off the press, updated report.

451Press.com - Paid Blogging Opportunities

451Press.com is one of the largest blog networks. They are always looking for writers to contribute to their growing network of blogs which cover a wide range of subjects and topics. If you're passionate about a topic, you may think about writing for 451press's blogs.

Requirement

• Knowledgeable and passionate on the topic you write.
• Strong writing skill with unique voice.
• Creative
• Reliable

How much you can earn
As a blogger of 451press.com, you task is to write unique content for the blog you are handling. 451press will take care of promotion and generating advertising revenue for your blog. They will provide the support you need to succeed. You'll get paid 40% on all the advertising revenue generated by your blog.

To know more about 451press's blogging opportunities or apply as a 451press's writer, please click here.

A Quick Update on Blogcatalog.com

Blogcatalog, a social networking site for bloggers has made some changes to the site to make it more easier for bloggers to network and promote their blogs.

The Changes include:

- Complete Visual Redesign
The have finally shed our dated look for a much cleaner interface.

- Shout-to-Shout
Get a better picture of your shoutbox conversations with the new shout-to-shout feature.

- BlogCatalog Broadcasts
Send mass messages to your BlogCatalog followers with new Broadcast tool.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/broadcast

- Special Features For Our Supporters
Get frequent thumbshot updates, no ads, access to beta features and much more when you help support BlogCatalog
http://www.blogcatalog.com/account.donate.php

- Improved Language Support
With blogs in dozens of languages Blogcatalog have updated their encoding to a much more friendly UTF8.

Blogcatalog.com is similar to MyBlogLog.com. If MyblogLog.com can help you get more traffic and increase you revenue, then blogcatelog.com may do the same for you.

2 Easily Violated AdSense Policies

I have read Google AdSense Policies several times and I have to admit that I am not a good reader. Today Sushith from http://brokencodes.blogspot.com commented on my blog stating that I have made an AdSense mistake by placing a label "Topics" above an AdSense ads link unit. After reading this comment I quickly went to www.google.com/adsense to read again the AdSense policies. And yes, Google doesn't mention about label. Here's what Google said:

Publishers participating in the AdSense program may not place misleading labels above Google ad units - for instance, ads may be labeled "Sponsored Links" but not "Favorite Sites"

Well, it seems that Sushith is right. I have made an AdSense mistake that can lead to my account being disable. So I decided to remove the "topic" label placed at the top left sidebar of this blog to comply AdSense policies fully.

You may have spent a hard time optimizing your AdSense ads to make the most money from AdSense. But if you use label with AdSense ads, you can only label "Sponsored Links" above the AdSense ads or link unit.

Another AdSense mistake that is easily made by AdSense publishers is placing AdSense ads in second level domain names that contain the word "Google". Some of the example of second level domain names that use Google are:

http://googleadsensetips.blogspot.com/
http://google.blognewschannel.com
http://google.blogspace.com
http://google.weblogsinc.com

Publishers who display AdSense ads in these domains can get their AdSense disabled by Google and actually Google disallows people to register Google trademark as second level domain name as stated at http://www.google.com/permissions/guidelines.html.

4 Web Design Tips for Increasing Your Website's Money Making Potential

When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are four important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages
Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that -- pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

2) Have a simple and clear navigation
You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

3) Have a clear indication of where the user is
When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!

4) Avoid using music on your site
If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some music looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.

2 Cost-Per-Click (CPC) Advertising Programs that can be Used along with AdSense

Google AdSense is probably the most effective money making program in helping bloggers and webmasters to generate online income. But Google's AdSense program policies are pretty strict. They disallow AdSense publishers to use other similar contextual advertising services together with AdSense in same web pages. However, not all contextual advertising programs are disallowed by AdSense actually. There are several CPC contextual ads programs compatible with AdSense. Here are two of them:

Kontera
Kontera can be a great way to increase the money you can make from your site and blog. Kontera is a little different with AdSense. Their ContentLink In-Text Advertising system will underline the relevant keywords of the content in your web pages. When a visitor points the mouse to a underlined keyword, an ad will show up. If the visitor click on the underlined keyword, you'll earn money. Below is a screenshot of Kontera content link


Kontera works with publishers from most of the countries in the world. But they also have a set of policies to meet to become their publishers.

Chitika eMiniMalls
Chitika eminimalls offers a selection of unique cpc ad formats that are targeted to your website or blog content. Chitika can potentially increase your web revenue if you know how to optimize their ads on your blog and website.

To run Chitika together with AdSense, you must set your Chitika ads to non-contextual. They also provide a number of options to publishers to customize their Chitika ads. You'll need to spend some time to test on different Chitika ads formats to find out which work best.

8 Tips to Make Your Website Profitable

1. Your website's template and design should relevant to your site’ title and content. You wouldn't want to use a dog graphic header on an e-commerce website that sells cell phones.

2. Whenever you have added new articles and content to your site let your visitors know immediately. You can do this by alerting your visitors using email. This will increase the numbers of people revisiting your web site.

3. Let your visitors know about your email address or even telephone number on your website. This offers a way to visitors to contact you to ask for more information and assistant which will enable you to build good relationship with your visitors. And those who are in the same niches may contact you requesting for potential joint venture for making more money online.

4. Provide an option to your visitors to view your website offline. You can offer it by autoresponder or printer friendly version.

5. Make sure your web content is original and targeted to your audience to avoid being seen as spamming by search engines. Search engines are good sources of high quality targeted traffic to your website in long term. So you don’t want to be blacklisted by them. You don’t need to make your content 100% original, 60% original or higher is safe enough.

6. Give your visitors a good reason to come back to your site. You may try to give incentives to encourage them revisiting your site like providing free games, adding entertaining videos frequently, allowing free downloads such as ebooks and software that are useful to your visitors.

7. Customize you website in logical and profitable sequence. You don't want people to see your freebies before they learn about what products you are offering. Identify what actions you want people to take when they are visiting your website that will make you profitable and then organize your site accordingly to entice people to take that action. If you main purpose is to earn money with cost-per-click ads programs such as AdSense, YPN, etc; you’ll want your visitors to click on your CPC ads to earn money. So you’ll need to place your CPC ads in the areas that will be easily seen by people when they first landed on your home page.

8. If you’re selling products or services or offering something free to use on your website. Don’t forget to add a FAQs section on your website that will answer your visitors and users questions immediately. This will simply make your visitors more happier visiting your site or using your free service as they are getting immediate assistance reading your FAQs.

AdSense Optimization Tips from Google's AdSense Publisher Support Team

Have you noticed that Google has recently posted a recording of one of their recent webinar called Taking It to the Next Level: Improving Your AdSense Performance in Google's official AdSense blog . The Webinar offers tips and suggestions on how to make the most money from AdSense. If you're are relying AdSense to make money online, you might want to look at it.

2 Legitimate Online Companies You can Work with to Make Money at Home

I have read about Hirepoint.com and Customloyal.com in a forum. They are 2 legitimate online companies that provides home-based opportunities to people who want to make money online or at home. I'm not affiliated with any of these companies, just want to introduce them to you and hopefully they can help you make money.

Hirepoint.com
Althought the site address is Hirepoint.com but the company name actually is TeleTech Holding. It is a global company providing business process outsource services and work at home opportunities. The work at home job opportunities of TeleTech are available to people in US, UK and Australia. To work with Teletech, you first need to apply to become their accociate and then go through several selection processes before you're hired. There is no fee to apply. To learn more please go to http://www.hirepoint.com/index.html.

Custom Loyal Concepts
There has been many people working with Custom Loyal Concepts (CLC) as a call employee. CLC services newspaper subsribers in many different areas. As a call employee, you'll be making outbound call to CLC existing newspaper subscribers. It is not a cold calling. The pay starts at $7.00 per hour. All the positions are for US resident in 26 states only. There are minimum requirements to become a call employee of CLC. If you are interested, please click here for more details and find out the steps you need to take to apply for a post.

8 Benefits of Helping a Newbie to Make Money Online

Do you remember when you just started to make money on the Internet? You probably had a lot of questions that need to be answered, difficulties and problems that have to be solved along the way. Wouldn't it be easier if someone willing to help you? When a beginner ask for your advice and help; you answer the beginner's questions and provide the right information to help the beginner solves his/her problems. You are likely to gain a number of benefits from doing that. Even if the newbies questions are beyond your knowledge to answer, you can still help them by pointing them to the right direction to get the info they needed. Below are eight possible benefits you could receive:

1. You will feel good knowing that you had a part in helping them build their business. You can sit back and say "I had a part in their success."

2. They may become one of your best friends. Most people can use new friends, even business owners. You may even become business partners and create a totally new business together.

3. You could end up being strategic business allies in the future. You could regularly do joint venture and cross promotion deals with each other.

4. They may help you out with your business. Maybe they will give you some testimonials or endorsements for your products or services.

5. You might gain some valuable referrals from them. They may also join your affiliate program and make sales for your business.

6. They might offer you some free advertising space on their web site or in their e-zine for your help. You could also exchange advertising with them.

7. You both could end up developing a new product or service together. The product or service could be a combination of your current ones.

8. They might purchase the products you sell and become one of your best customers. You could sell them many back end products or services in the future.

There are probably many other benefits you could get from helping a new online business owner. Always remember to help them out because it's the nice thing to do and not just to benefit your own business.

4 Selling Techniques You can Use to Profit with Your Products

The upsell Technique
Upselling is a selling method in which you offer a product or service to your customers and they buy it. Then the customers are given an opportunity to upgrade their purchase with another product. Software sellers and websites that offer membership subscription services often use upselling to market their products and services to make more profit online. Anti-spy software sellers are good example of using upselling method to push their products. Anti-spyware usually comes with 2 versions:

Free/trial version
Licensed version

Free version can be downloaded at no cost but with limited features. To enjoy full features, the users need to pay money to upgrade to licensed version.

The Back-End Technique
The back-end selling simply means the selling you do after the first sale. E-book and Information sellers like to use back-end selling method to earn more profit. If you often buy and read e-books related to Internet marketing niche, you find that these e-books frequently provide links enabling you to buy related products, that's back-end selling. Getting more sales from similar customers is possible if you have a quality product with a strong back-end.

The Firesale Technique
You may have seen this or heard of it before. This is when a company or seller has a massive sale at an extremely discounted price to move their products. Firesales is popular because of the great amount of profits being pulled in from them. It's not surprise to hear people say that they made thousands of dollars in just few days. That's the power of the Firesale. A good Firesale will offer high quality products for an insanely low price, with the price going up by any given percentage or dollar amount throughout the length of the sale. It builds like a fire! Until it's all over and it has burned out, or run it's course.

The Affiliate Technique
This is the most common selling technique and probably the cheapest method you can use to market your products and services online. By setting up your own free affiliate programs, you can recruit hundreds or thousands of affiliates to marketing your products and bring in new customers for you.

3 Tips To Create Profitable Online Business Ideas

All Online businesses begin from ideas. With a good business idea in your mind, you successfully launched an online business. And then you need ideas for web promotion and marketing; solving problems, product development etc. Sometime, the difference between success and failure could be just one idea. So, personally I think that good and profitable business ideas are the foundation of a successful online business.

Now, let’s take a look at how we can generate profitable business ideas:

1. Communicating frequently with other e-entrepreneurs and business people can help you come up some ideas. There are a number of ways to meet and communicate with business people. Some of the ways are through discussion forums, chat rooms, seminars, trade shows etc. Sharing your business knowledge and experience, asking questions, and absorbing new information will stimulate your mind. Your brain will start to put all this information together to generate new business ideas.

2. Besides communicating with business people, reading business information like business books, reports, magazines, e-books, articles, journals, newspapers, e-zines, etc can also stimulate your mind. Your brain will create profitable business ideas by taking in and rearranging the information you have read on a regular basis.

3. If you don’t like to read? You could listen to business audio books, seminars and courses. Listen to them in the car, while you are doing house work, working in the yard, or exercising. Also, tune in business related radio stations. This will help you save time and generate profitable business ideas at the same time.

When you have absorbed a lot of business information, you brain may begin to generate ideas. You should write down in a notepad every time you get an idea so that you don't forget them.

AdSenseigg.com - A New Social Bookmarking Website Sharing AdSense Revenue

I received emails from the owner of Senserely.com last week informing me that he has started a DIGG-like website called AdSenseigg. I then visited AdSenseigg, it just like Digg.com, anyone can sign up as a user to post their favorite news stories in a vast array of topics. And the site allows users to display their AdSense on all their news pages to make money with AdSense.

I have seen a number of Digg-like websites closed down because of lacking of traffic. I think this one will not end up the same way as the site offers a 50/50 AdSense sharing programs.

AdSense sharing seems to be working in large traffic site or blog. I previously have signed up an AdSense sharing program in Worldvillage Blog. The blog gets 3k visitors every day. I contributed about 15 articles to the blog about 7 months ago and the articles earn me nearly $30 AdSense every month. If AdSenseigg can become another popular social bookmarking website, the users who share AdSense may be able to rely on AdSenseigg for additional source of online income.

8 Things You Can Do To Attract Visitors Return Back To Your Website

You have spend a lot of energy and time to drive targeted visitors to your website. And as a result, you get a good amount of website's visitors daily. But later you discover that most of the visitors don't come back to your website and then you are thinking about how to attract visitors return to your website often.

If you are selling something, each visitor to your site is a potential customer. They don't buy on their first visit but they might decide to buy from you on their second or third visits. If you are monetize your website or blog with AdSense, CPA ads, CPM ads or affiliate programs; getting a good percentage of returned visitors will definitely help maintaining and increasing your traffic level and your website revenue.

So how to make sure many of your visitors come back to your site time and time again? Here are some of things you can do:

1) Add new and fresh content to your site frequently. You can have a section on your home page like 'What's New', 'What's Top' or 'What's Hot' section and update this section on a daily basis. This give your targeted visitors a reason to visit your site again.

2) Offer freebies. You can create a section in your website to allow your targeted visitors to download free e-books, reports, tools and software they are interested in.

3) Add a Community forum to your website. Many website visitors like communication and discussion. You forum can be a place for visitors to come back often to participate in discussion and search for new info.

4) Install an article directory to your website to publish the latest articles of your niche. People who like to read may return to your site to find new articles.

5) Create a classified section to let visitors to post free ads. This can be a way to maintain your traffic level.

6) Optimize your website or template for faster speed of navigation. Many people don't like to wait too long for a website to load up. So the faster you can make your pages load up, the better chance your visitor will stay on your website and also return.

7) Offer free entertainment. You can add games, interesting video and audio to your website. To keep your visitors return often, you need to update your games (add new game), video and audio content on a regular basis.

8) Add a guest book. Visitors will come to your site and leave their comment about your business and website and to list their signature file.

An Introduction to the Different Types of Affiliate Programs

Today, affiliate marketing programs is seen as one of the most important methods by online companies and merchants to market their products and services because implementing an affiliate program doesn't cost much money and it helps generate a consistent stream of online profit.

On the other hand, the affiliates see affiliate marketing as a feasible and low cost method to make online online by promoting other people products using a website or without a website (using Google AdWords PPC advertising program).

There are many affiliate programs on the Internet and not all of them are similar. The most basic affiliate programs fall into 3 categories:

• Pay Per Performance
• Pay Per click
• Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs

Pay Per Performance
Pay per performance (PPP) affiliate programs are what most companies and online merchants likes to use. The companies only need to pay when an affiliate referral translates into an action. The action can be a purchase or a lead. The affiliates will spend their own money to promote the affiliated company's products, This save a lot of money for the company. PPP affiliate programs can be futher classified into 2 sub-categories:

• Pay Per Sale (PPS) The title says it all. The company only pays the affiliate when a visitor referred by the affiliate make a purchase.
• Pay Per Lead (PPL) PPL is a little different to PPS. PPL affiliate programs usually used by finance and insurance companies. In this type of affiliate marketing, the affiliate will be paid a fixed commission whenever a visitor referred by him/her to the merchant's website requested a quote or filled up an online application form.

Pay Per Click (PPC) Affiliate Programs
PPC affiliate programs are most popular. You should have heard them a lot. PPC programs are probably the easiest way for web publishers to make money from their websites and blogs. The affiliate gets paid a certain amount ($0.05 to $0.50 usually) whenever a visitor click a banner or text ad displaying on the affiliate's website. PPC typically used by contextual advertising companies like Google AdSense, Yahoo Publisher Networks and much more.

Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs
In this type of programs, the affiliate not only compensated for every customer referred to the merchant's website, the affiliate is also paid whenever the referred customer returns to the site and buy another product.

The different types of affiliate marketing programs would deffinitely work differently for merchants and affiliates, and each would have their own advantages and drawbacks. To find out which types of programs work best for you, you'll have to know which one of them suit your need and characteristic most. And then start testing them.

8 Low Cost Methods to Promote Your Website and Blog Offline

1. Have a bumper sticker printed up with your web site address and other business information. Place it on the bumper of your car. People will see it when you're driving.

2. Have some t-shirts made with your web site address and other business information. Your family or friends could wear them almost anywhere.

3. Have some ball caps made with your web site address and other business information. Wear them to keep the sun out of your eyes and promote your business at the same time.

4. Have some business cards printed up with your web site address and other business information. Pass them out to people you meet or that might be
interested in your business.

5. Have a magnetic sign made with your web site address and other business information. Place it on your car door or roof when you are traveling.

6. Have some flyers printed out with your web site address and other business information. Keep a few with you to hang on bulletin boards you see.

7. Have some jackets printed with your web site address and other business information. Give
them away to family and friends. When it's too cold for t-shirts, you can wear jackets.

8. Have some mugs imprinted with your web site address and other business information. Use them when you have company or give them away to friends and family as gifts.

7 Ways to Make Money Online Without Involving Internet Marketing

There are plenty of ways of making money on the net without requiring Internet marketing knowledge and I have introduced a number of them in the previous posts of this blog. For easier searching, I decided to combine them into this post. Here are them:

Work Online for Others
Guru.com and Elance.com are freelance marketplaces with tons of online job opportunities. Getting an online job through freelance marketplace is similar to getting an offline job, it involves competitions. You search for an online job that is right for you in freelance site, then you bid for the job. If your bid is the lowest, the employer will usually award the job to you.

Another site offers online job opportunities is Clicknwork.com. Unlike freelance marketplaces, there are no bidding competitions involved. They will assign the work to you. But to become their home-based professionals or workers, you must pass a difficult test.

Submit Articles for Cash
If you are passionate about writing, you may submit your articles to the below sites for publication and earn cash for each article published:

Developershep.com/writers.php - Accept articles related to web development and Internet marketing.
Associatedcontent.com (AC) - You become their member and submit articles in wide array of topics for payment consideration. Available to US only.
Newsforge - Pay $100 to $300 for each article about Linux, open source and free software.

Try Companies Offers
The concepts are simple. You join a website that contains a list of offers you can sign up or try. For each offer completed and approved, you'll be credited an amount of money into your account. Most of the offers available to US residents only. Treasuretrooper.com is one of the programs allows you to earn by completing offers.

Submit Photos and Images to Photo Agencies
Web designers, magazines and press need new photos and images often. They will look for photo marketplaces and agencies to buy photos that fit their need. You can submit your photos and images to these agencies and they will sell the photo and images for you. Below are some of the photo agencies:

www.dreamstime.com/sell
http://submit.shutterstock.com
www.scoopt.com

Write Products Reviews
Have something to say about the products and services you have used? Send your product comment to products reviews websites. If they decide to publish your review, you'll be paid.

Softwarejudge.com - Reviews software and online games.
Reviewstream.com - Plenty of product categories to review.

Be a Paid Bloggers
Here are the blog networks you can apply for a blogging position:

www.creative-weblogging.com
www.b5media.com/jobs
www.knowmoremedia.com/write-for-us.html

Upload Videos
Large video sharing websites like Metacafe and Break willing to pay people for uploading interesting videos such as funny, amazing and entertaining videos. You can earn hundreds to thousands of dollar, if your original video attracted tons of views in these video sites.

6 Ways to Grow Your Opt-in List

Whether you are promoting affiliate products or selling your own products online, building an opt-in email list is very benefitial to your online business. Research show that many visitors don't buy in their first time visit on e-commerce websites. Is is essential to collect their email addresses to follow up with them. You can collect a list of email addresses of your targeted visitors/audiences by adding a web form into your sales website where visitors can fill out the web form to sign up your e-zine or newsletter. With an opt-in list, you can keep in touch with your targeted audience by sending them newsletter, helpful information, tips, tutorial and promotion to entice them to purchase your products.

The greater your opt-in email list, the more sales you will generate and the more money you will make online. Below are some of the ways you can use to grow your list effectively:

1) Offer freebies. Mention in your opt-in form that your visitors will receive free e-books, report or tools if they subscribe your newsletters or e-zine. The subject of your e-book or report should be related to your targeted visitors.

2) Create a series of e-courses of your visitors interest and invite them to sign up the e-cources by filling out a web form in your website.

3) Run a contest or sweeptakes on your website. Request your visitors to provide their name and email addresses to participate.

4) If you have a membership site, you can offer your visitors a free access to your membership site if they sign up your newsletter or ezine.

5) Offer free ads. You can set up a free classified section on your site. Anyone want to post free ads must give their contact information to you first. Or offer your visitors free advertisement in your ezine if they subscribe your newsletter.

6) Publish testimonials from your current subscriber to encourage more people to join your newsletters or e-zine. You don't need to publish the testimonials in your home page. What you can do is add a text link like "Click Here to Read the Testimonials of Our Current Subscribers" just below your opt-in form in your home page. When your visitors click the text link, they will be sent to a page that contains all you subscribers testimonials.