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Table Of Contents
Special Report: 1k Per Day Formula ....................................................... 4 Getting the Most From Affiliate Marketing ............................................. 7 How To Avoid The 3 Most Common Affiliate Mistakes ............................ 9 Why Using Camtasia Can Increase Your Affiliate Checks ..................... 11 How Affiliate Marketing Can Enable You To Work From Home ............. 13 How To Avoid That Affiliate Marketing Scam ....................................... 15 How To Be Cautious And Successful In Affiliate Marketing .................. 17 How To Become A Super Affiliate ........................................................ 19 7 Quick Tips For Online Business ......................................................... 22 7 Recommended Resources For Online Business ................................. 26 7 FREE Giveaways ............................................................................... 28 Special Report: Kindle Answers ........................................................... 30
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Special Report:
Can You Earn $1,000 Per Day From Your Online Business? We tried to find an answer to this question, especially because many people will instantly say that’s not possible or it would be very hard to achieve such a goal. But Ryan Lee, one of the most respected Internet marketers and winner of the Best Overall Membership Site award, thinks differently – and he says he can prove it to anyone! 1k Per Day Formula “Is it possible to earn $1k per day in online business?” Here is what Ryan says: “Absolutely! I can show you how to make $1,000 per day... with no list, no software, no blog, no media buying...” That sounds like a hard-to-deliver promise, or like something that would costs us thousands of dollars to get the real “secret”. “Not at all”, Ryan says, “You can attend my FREE webinar in which I will show you my proven way of going from ZERO to $1k per day!” It’s hard to believe but… “From my FREE presentation you will find out the easiest way to build a $1,000 per day revenue streams - with zero technical skills! I will also show you how the "gurus" are REALLY making their millions, and I can assure you it's not what you think at the moment. I will also show you the simple 3-part formula that virtually guarantees your success, and much more...”, Ryan assures us he means it for real. Can we believe you? “I'm one of the most trusted Internet marketing entrepreneurs so that speaks for itself. It proves you can trust me, but you don't need to take my word for it... Just check out what my actual customers and members
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witness about me and my products...”, Ryan says and points us to his Success Stories page where we can find many testimonials from his previous customers and active members, like these ones:
There is no surprise that Ryan’s Inner Circle have 97.55% success rate and probably more satisfied members than any other membership program out there. What others have to say about Ryan "Before I stumbled onto Ryan Lee a couple years ago, I was working60-70 hours a week at 2 dead-end jobs and still struggling to pay my bills. Ryan taught me step-by-step exactly how I could use my fitness knowledge to build an online business & help millions of people around the world..." Mike Geary, Truth About Abs - Click here to read the full review... "I just wanted to say THANK YOU for all of your help. When I started off online, I had no idea what I was doing (I could barely turn on a computer). With your information and products, I went from doing ZERO dollars online to over $20,000 a month in 6 short months." Pat Beith, Complete Speed Training - Click here to read the full review...
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"My business has doubled every year for the last five years to $4M in sales. It’s been very rewarding to become a sports fundraising industry leader and I am grateful that you have been so open and willing to help others reach their personal and professional goals." Jordan Kern, My Sports Dreams - Click here to read the full review... So, what about that $1k Per Day Formula? Here is a short message from Ryan: “You don’t need to think a lot about it. Just visit my 1k Per Day Formula website and register yourself for my FREE webinar. I will explain it all to you on that call. But hurry up because these online sessions always sellout, so grab your spot RIGHT NOW – and see for yourself what all the buzz is about…” Click here to visit Ryan’s official website for $1k Per Day Formula and find out more about this unique program!
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Getting the Most From Affiliate Marketing Affiliate marketing is something that many your own website or there are some things
nothing new on the internet. However, it sure is come and go after. When you are looking to start blog and add some affiliate marketing links to it, that you should know.
Affiliate marketing is not for everyone. It is not for anyone that is looking to make money fast, nor is it for the impatient. You have to have two things in order to be successful with affiliate marketing, and those two things are patience, and determination. When you put those two together, there is no stopping you or what you can do with your affiliate marketing business. Affiliate marketing can be done a few ways; it can be done through email, newsletters, websites, or blogs. By using any of these things, you can be successful if you are marketing to the right audience. Finding your readership, and catching them with good content is what it is all about. To do so, you need to know where they go and what they look for. Try starting with message boards to begin with. However, use some patience and don’t come off as the newbie know it all. Take some time and peak others interest. Add the link to your website or blog in your signature line at the message board that you are visiting, and most importantly, make sure that the message board is relevant to your market. If you have a website that pertains to a market that has to do with gardening, you will not want to be visiting a message board that is all about pregnancy. It is really quite simple to understand how these two things must be relevant to get results. So, once you have found a busy message board that will allow you to include your link to your website in the signature of your posts, you are in business. Just start off by posting and chatting, and when someone asks a question that you know all about and answer to, answer it. This will peak their interest and before you know it, they will be clicking on the link in your signature and checking out your site. While doing this can be quite time consuming, it will pay off. Gain the other members trust, and you cannot go wrong. The next thing that you should know about getting the most from affiliate marketing is that you should be writing articles. Writing articles on the market that you are promoting and then submitting them to article directories or ezines is a great way to get the most from your affiliate links and programs that you are a part of. Be sure that you include a link in the articles that you are submitting that will lead the readers back to your
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website. Doing so will get your site more traffic, and will pay off in the end. However, you will not want to submit the same articles that you have on your site to these directories. You will want different variations of the articles to be used in the directories. This is because when you submit these articles to the directories, you are going to see that by checking your back links, there are other webmasters using your articles, which is also great because they will in return give you a back link to your site. However, they are depending on you to have a different article on your site than the one that you are submitting. Affiliate marketing is something that takes work. You cannot just set up your site and let it go. You have to work on it consistently to see a good amount of revenue come from it. However, make sure that you are doing everything that you can to get it seen. Use the best free tools that there are available to you, and pay for the ones that really work. You will find that you can get the most from the resources that are out there and available.
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How To Avoid The 3 Most Common Affiliate Mistakes Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning some money online. This program gives everybody a chance to make a profit through the Internet. Since these affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement and pays a commission on a regular basis, more and more people are now willing in this business. However, like all businesses, there are lots of pitfalls in the affiliate marketing business. Committing some of the most common mistakes will cost the marketers a large portion taken from the profit they are making every day. That is why it is better to avoid them than be regretful in the end. Mistake number 1: Choosing the wrong affiliate. Many people want to earn from affiliate marketing as fast as possible. In their rush to be part of one, they tend to choose a bandwagon product. This is the kind of products that the program thinks is “hot”. They choose the product that is in demand without actually considering if the product appeals to them. This is not a very wise move obviously. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon, try to choose a product in which you are truly interested in. For any endeavor to succeed, you should take some time to plan and figure out your actions. Pick a product that appeals to you. Then do some research about that product to see if they are in demand. Promoting a product you are more passionate about is easier than promoting one for the sake of the earnings only. Mistake number 2: Joining too many affiliate programs. Since affiliate programs are very easy to join, you might be tempted to join multiples of affiliate programs to try and maximize the earnings you will be getting. Besides you may think that there is nothing wrong and nothing to lose by being part of many affiliate programs. True, that is a great way to have multiple sources of income. However, joining multiple programs and attempting to promote them all at the same time will prevent you from concentrating on each one of them. The result? The maximum potential of your affiliate program is not realized and the income generated will not exactly be as huge as you were thinking initially it would. The best way to get excellent result is by joining
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just one program that pays a 40% commission at least. Then give it your best effort by promoting your products enthusiastically. As soon as you see that it is already making a reasonable profit, then maybe you can now join another affiliate program. The technique is to do it slowly but surely. There is really no need to rush into things, especially with affiliate marketing. With the way things are going, the future is looking real bright and it seems affiliate marketing will be staying for a long time too. Mistake number 3: Not buying the product or using the service. As an affiliate, you main purpose is to effectively and convincingly promote a product or service and to find customers. For you to achieve this purpose, you must be able to relay to the customers that certain product and service. It is therefore difficult for you to do this when you yourself have not tried these things out. Thus, you will fail to promote and recommend them convincingly. You will also fail to create a desire in your customers to avail any of what you are offering. Try the product or service personally first before you sign up as an affiliate to see if it is really delivering what it promises. If you have done so, then you are one of the credible and living testaments aware of its advantages and disadvantages. Your customers will then feel the sincerity and truthfulness in you and this will trigger them to try them out for themselves. Many affiliate marketers makes these mistakes and are paying dearly for their actions. To not fall into the same situation they have been in, try to do everything to avoid making the same mistakes. Time is the key. Take the time to analyze your marketing strategy and check if you are in the right track. If done properly, you will be able to maximize your affiliate marketing program and earn higher profits.
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Why Using Camtasia Can Increase Your Affiliate Checks Since there are already lots of people getting into affiliate marketing, it is no wonder that the competition is getting stiff. The challenge is to try and outdo other affiliates and think of ways to be able to attain this. There are also many tips and techniques being taught to these affiliate in order to best plan their strategy for their program to work effectively so that more earnings will be achieved. What better way to wow your prospects and customers than to record and publish top notch, full motion and streaming screen-captured videos. Nothing like feeling your hard work getting paid by having your customers jumping up excitedly in great anticipation to buy your product right there and then. This is Camtasia in action. It is a proven fact; giving your customers something they can actually see can explode your online sales instantly. You do not need to have trainings and education to be able to know how this system can work for your affiliate program. Anyone can create stunning videos, from multimedia tutorials and step-by-step presentations available online. The process is like having your customers seated next to you and looking at your desktop, as you show them the things they need to see and hear. All this done step by step. For those who don’t know it yet, how does Camtasia works? 1. It can record your desktop activity in a single click. No need to have to save and compile all your files because it is recorded right there and then. 2. Can easily convert your videos into web pages. Once converted, you can have your customers visiting that certain page. Videos are easier to understand and take in unlike reading texts which oftentimes is a trying thing to do. 3. Upload your pages. Publish them through blogs, RSS feed and podcasts. You may want your Camtasia videos to get around and reach out to other people that may be potential customers in the future. Nothing like being visible in many sites and pages to advertise yourself and get your message through. There are other things you can do with your affiliate program using Camtasia. You can…
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Create stunning multimedia presentations that are proven to increase sales because all the senses are engaged. This also has the tendency to reduce skepticism among hard-to-please customers. Reduce refunds and other customer issues by demonstrating visually how to use your product and how to do it properly. Complaints will also be minimized because all the facts and the presentation are there for the customers to just see and hear about. Promote affiliate products and services using visual presentations. This is an effective way of redirecting your viewers straight to your affiliate website after they are finished with the video. Make the most of the presentation by putting your site location in the end and make them go there directly if they want more information. Multiple your online auction bids exponentially when you give your readers a feel of what you have to offer. Based from reports, auctions that includes pictures increases bidding percentage by 400%. Imagine how much higher it will be if it were videos. Publish valuable info products that you can sell for a much higher price. It will be all worth the price because of the full colored graphics menu and templates that you will be using. Minimize miscommunication with your customers. Instantly showing them what you want they wanted in the first place is making them understand clearly the essence of your affiliate program. The good thing about multimedia is, nothing much can go wrong. It is there already. These are just some of the things you can do with Camtasia that can be very helpful in your chosen affiliate program. Note that the main purpose of using Camtasia is to boost the income that is generated from your affiliate program. Although it can be used for entertainment and enjoyment purposes, which is not really a valid reason why you choose to get all through that trouble. Try to focus on the goal that you have set upon yourself to and achieve that with the use of the things that may be quite a lot of help in increasing your earnings.
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How Affiliate Marketing Can Enable You To Work From Home Most of us are incredibly comfortable in our own homes. It is where all of our comforts are kept. Part of the daily grind of a job is having to leave the home. The task is much more difficult if you have children to consider. Many of us would love to be able to work from home. We are more comfortable and can be much more productive. However, very few regular jobs offer this type of flexibility. They want employees on site where they can be watched and monitored. If you would like to make a living working from home, the affiliate marketing business could be the answer. If you have a computer, with internet access there is no reason your home office cannot become your new home business. Affiliate marketing means that you work on behalf of another company. You helping to expand a company that already exists. This provides you with several advantages. First, your marketing brands or products that are already on the market. You don’t have to create new product and present it to the public. If the brands are fairly well known then attracting customers should not be too difficult. It is much easier to sell something that has an established reputation that break in with something new. Second. The advertising of the product will already be taken care of. The main corporation will have some suggestions and equipment available to help advertise the product or product line. This can include pamphlets, catalogues or posters. They will also make samples available at no cost to you. This minimizes your investment so the risk is nothing. You just need to concentrate on selling the product and maximizing your earnings. Third, Affiliate marketing can be done in the comfort of your own home. As long as you have adequate storage space for company product there is no reason you cannot set up shop in the comfort of your own home. You can put as much or as little into the venture as you like. You paid according to how well you perform. If you have an off month, it is reflected in your commission. You don’t have to worry about a boss coming down on you. How much you do is entirely up to you. Finally, running this business venture from you home presents very little risk for you. You have the perfect location and you don’t need to invest any of your own money. Your also not subject to work are sales targets to break even. What you produce is what you are paid for.
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Running an affiliate marketing business is hard work. You’ll want to make the most of your skills and talents and that means working some very long days. Don’t be fooled by affiliate marketing companies that promise the world for very little effort. You’ll have to work very hard promoting the products that you decide to sell. However, if you are willing to work hard and use all of your abilities, there is no reason why your affiliate marketing home business cannot be a huge success. If you want to work from home then an affiliate marketing scheme is the perfect way. With minimal risk to you, you will be able to employ you skills to your own benefit. You’ll have to work very hard but there is everything to gain and very little to lose.
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How To Avoid That Affiliate Marketing Scam You have finally decided that the 9-5 day job isn’t for you. Your tired of your work being undervalues and underappreciated. You would like to work when you feel you are most productive, not when some boss or manager feels it is so. You are also tired of working hard with no incentive or reward scheme in place. Affiliate marketing is a great opportunity for those who want to venture out on their own. The minimal risk and zero startup costs make it an attractive option to many. Affiliate marketing programs are perfect for those people who are motivated and self-starters. They are also great for those who want to set their own working hours. The internet has helped up change so many aspects of our lives. We can study and work from home with the help of a computer and high speed internet access. However, there are unfortunately lots of scammers out there ready to take either your money or your work to use for their benefit. Many of these email scam programs and work at home schemes have little hope of amounting to any kind of living. Unfortunately, these scammers have made their way into the world of affiliate marketing as well. There are some excellent affiliate marketing programs to get involved with; the trick is how to spot the scammers. The face and manner of the internet and affiliate marketing is constantly changing. This makes it very difficult to produce a definitive list of do’s and don’ts. However, there are some signs that one can look for. If your company displays any of these signs it does not mean for sure that they are con artists. However, it should warrant further investigation. An affiliate marketing program should always provide you with some support. This can include an agent that you can contact with questions or problems. A legitimate company should want you to do well. The better you do the better they do. It should at very least contain a toll free phone number, email address and fixed street address. If your company is an online affiliate marketing program, the lack of an email or web page should definitely raise some red flags. Other things such as no phone or address do not mean necessarily that they are trying to scam you. However, you need to investigate them with a fine tooth comb. A good test is to send the company an email with some basic questions. If it takes them weeks to get back to you then you need to give this venture careful consideration. Again, they may not be out to con you but if they
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are poor at communication, this could be a sign of other internal problems. If the company has no website then you should consider something else. Legitimate affiliate marketing programs generally have a detailed website with all the information you need. One should be suspicious of companies that operate only by email. A website is fairly easy to create so why hasn’t this company invested the time to do so? Also, a website leaves a bit more of a trail to a company. If they do end up scamming you, the chances of tracing the people via a website are much better then tracing them through masses of email addresses. Many of us would love the opportunity to work for ourselves. We would love to chuck in the day job and start our own businesses. However, the costs of starting a business combined with the risk involved stop most of us before we even get started. Affiliate marketing is a great way to make some money by working for yourself. The costs are none and the risk minimal. One needs to use some caution when signing onto a program. Make sure there is adequate support available to you. Make sure the company is contactable and that they answer queries in a timely fashion. Be incredibly cautious of companies that have no website. These factors do not always mean that the company is out to scam you; however they should be looked at carefully.
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How To Be Cautious And Successful In Affiliate Marketing Affiliate Marketing is a great program. It provides those who want it with the means to set up their own home business. As an affiliate, you do work for another but you are rewarded for your work. The money you make is based on your individual performance not an hourly or yearly salary. Affiliate marketing provides many incentives to work harder and more efficiently. The harder and better you work, the more monetary success you are likely to see. Affiliate marketing also reduces the amount of risk. The main company handles the advertising and creation of the product allowing you to move the product in whatever way you think best. One does need to be cautious in the field of affiliate marketing. For every great, legitimate opportunity out there, there are more ready to con. The internet has made it quite easy for these con artists to operate and even thrive. Before you Plunge head first into the field on affiliate marketing you should do some checking. A general rule of thumb is to never do business with anyone that doesn’t have a fixed address and telephone number. If all they have to offer is an email address then look for another company. Doing business only by email is very dangerous. It makes it far too easy for these con artists to slip away and never be heard from again. Unfortunately, when they slip away it is likely with your money or earnings. If you find a company that you are interested in then check the startup costs. These should be minimal if any at all. Ask is there is a way to pay back the startup costs through your sales commission. Most are willing to do this. However, if there seems to be a lot of initial money that needs to be paid by you then find something else. The chances are good that they will take your money and run, leaving you with worthless product. Finally, ask what support you will receive if you agree to become part of their affiliate marketing plan. There should be someone there to guide you through the process and answer any questions that you have. They should also offer you advice on how best to market their product. It is up to you in the ends but they should offer you some stat up ideas. If their legitimate company they should want to help you all they can. They more you are able to sell the greater benefit for them as well.
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You should keep in mind that affiliate marketing takes a of work. It is like any other business except that the risk to you is much lower. Ignore companies that promise huge salaries with little effort, it just won’t happen. Many people make great successes with affiliate marketing programs. However, they do work incredibly hard. However the rewards come when the hard work pays off. You’re the one that will reap the rewards, not your boss. Affiliate marketing is a great way to start working for yourself. With lots of hard work and creativity you could be well on your way to great earnings doing something that you enjoy. It won’t be easy and in the beginning you’ll have to work harder then you ever did in a full-time job. But if you’re driven it will all be worth it in the end.
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How To Become A Super Affiliate Many people have taken the plunge and joined the world of affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing allows you to work for yourself and put your skills, hard work and independence together for you. Success in any business will not happen overnight. It still takes time and effort to get your affiliate marketing scheme up and running. However, if you are persistent, determined and willing to give it your all, affiliate marketing can be the perfect career opportunity for you. To become the so called super affiliate, you should really follow the advice of other successful affiliates. They have been through what you are and know what they are talking about. One of the first pieces of advice they give is to concentrate on a niche. Don’t try to sell everything but the kitchen sink. Concentrate on one thing in the early days. Work out the best way to sell it and get going. Once you have some strategies worked out you can always expand. One you have built up a store house of affiliates, you need to know how to promote. Search engine and the web is usually the best way. If you are confident then you could try pay per click. However, make sure you understand this well. Many affiliates have gone for is option only to find that their profits have been eaten up. You should take time to know your product and who you’re aiming it for. When you understand both well you begin to build up credibility. People will begin to trust you and what you offer. They will feel much better about giving their business over to you rather than others. This will result in higher sales revenue for you and a much stronger business. Don’t be afraid to diversify. Sign up with more than one merchant. Beware of any merchant that wants you to sign up with them exclusively. By using several merchants you get much more exposure. You are also protecting yourself if one merchant goes under or does not pay. Keep on top of current trends in the market. need to. The world of internet marketing staying flexible and having a willingness to changes work for you rather than against working last month may not be this month.
Be prepared to change if you is continually changing. By change you can make these you. Remember, what was
Finally, don’t give up. It is true that many of these affiliate marketing schemes do fail. However, the reason isn’t due to poor products or ideas. It is because people give up way too soon. It takes time to build any
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business. Just keep at it. Try to do something every day to promote your business. If you keep it up you will eventually start to see results. Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money and work for yourself. You can put your skills and creative knowledge to work for you and not others. Affiliate marketing does take work. You need to build it up like any other business. However, if you stick to the advice in this article and don’t give up, you’ll soon find that your business is booming. Affiliate marketing is a great career opportunity. With hard work and determination you will be well on your way to becoming the super affiliate.
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7 Quick Tips For Online Business 1. Don't expect to become rich overnight Not even Mark Zuckerberg became rich overnight with his brilliant Facebook idea, so how could you with some tiny niche website like various “gurus” are promising you? Don’t fall for that because it ain’t gonna happen no matter which product you buy or who you follow. Online business is real and serious business just like any other business out there, so treat is like that. You have to understand that this business requires work, effort, time and money. The only difference is the fact that you don’t need a lot of money to set up your own website. Actually, you can do it for free, but then expect to be required to invest more of your own time and effort. The second difference is possibility to become successful fast, but not overnight. You can’t expect to get rich in a week or two, but you can expect to start earning pretty nice income from your online business in time frame like 3 to 6 months, which is more than doable if you seriously work on your online business. Keep in mind that you need to work and put effort in your online business. Don’t fall for various push button software because that doesn’t work. Online business requires work and effort, but much less than any other job or business out there.
2. You have the power How successful your online business will be, or how successful you will be, depends only on you, no one else! You have the power to do wonders and don’t let anyone to tell you differently! Your success in business depends on you and only you are responsible for every gain and every loss you or your business make. It’s not a method or software or technique that makes you successful or rich – it’s you and your actions! Power is actually “ability to act”, but to act in the right way. We need to use our natural power to ACT as we should, to make the right decision – between watching television and working on our new website. Do you see it now? That’s the power that makes difference between a millionaire and a guy (or girl) on 9 to 5 job! That’s the power we need to unleash in order to become successful – we need that power to ACT because
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without proper and consistent action we won’t be able to become successful! You already HAVE that power – you don’t need to buy it! You just need to unleash it and use it for your own improvement. Get out of your comfort zone, forget about your favorite TV show and improve your ability to ACT! Remember, if you don’t act, if you don’t do certain things, you can’t become successful because those things won’t be done by themselves.
3. Always create your “to do” list It’s very simple: if you don’t have a “to do” list, you will get lost in things you want to do and you won’t do those that you should do. I’ve been there, I know what I’m talking about. I’ve lost so much time switching from thing to thing and was impressed by how much I can get done, but a few hours later I came to understanding that I didn’t do anything I should in order to make my business more successful. However, when you have a “to do” list and you stick to it, it will be more easier for you to complete important tasks, schedule your time in the best possible way and accomplish what you have planned. You need to have a plan or otherwise you won’t complete those important tasks, and time is flying by very fast so you could easily end up doing nothing important if you don’t have serious and realistic “to do” list.
4. Use online resources for your own advantage Remember, online resources (products, services, websites) are there to help you, especially free ones, so be sure to use it. Yes, some of them can cost you some money, especially those professionally designed and created, but that’s not the valid reason to avoid them. Remember, this is serious business, so it should be treated as such, and serious business needs investments to be able to produce more results for its owners. That doesn’t mean you should spend your money on everything that’s offered to you. Use your brain and think about how important some service or product can be for your online business. If it can give you valuable benefit, simply don’t spend your money on it. Also, don’t buy something you can get for free on the Internet – spend your money wisely.
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However, don’t lose too much time searching free versions of paid product or service you need in your online business. Your time is your most valuable aspect, so treat is as such and keep that on your mind!
5. Always express your own opinion Simply said – be yourself. No one likes copies, but everyone likes originals. You can copy various business models (as long as you don’t breach any copyright rules or laws) but give your best to add your own personality into your business. People want to hear you and your opinion, not some other marketer or author through you. You can always quote someone and show their thoughts, but don’t leave it on that – add your own opinion on that quote. In short words, be different, be yourself and stand out – don’t blend with others. On today’s Internet you simply must stand out with something because that’s the only way someone can notice you, like you and follow you. If needed, be controversial. As a matter of fact, you should be controversial as much as you can, as long as you are telling the truth and not insult anyone. Ever heard about Howard Stern? Why did you hear about him? Why did tens of thousands of other people heard about him? Why thousands of people are following him and listening to everything he says? Because he is himself, he is controversial, he is different, he is interesting. Even people who don’t like him are following him and listening to what he have to say. That’s the power of being yourself.
6. Never recommend products you don’t believe in If you are working with affiliate programs and making money online as an affiliate, be careful about the products you are promoting. For example, you can go to Clickbank and find thousands of products you can promote on your websites or in any other possible way. But, does that mean you should promote all of available products? No, because most of them are not so good to be recommended and promoted. On today’s Internet it’s hard to get a second chance. Blew it once and you are literally done! Give one wrong recommendation and people will feel unsecure about buying again from you. You will lose their trust and you will lose them as your followers. That’s something you don’t want to
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achieve, so be careful about what you are promoting to your visitors, subscribers and clients.
7. Network, network, network! Networking is important these days because you can’t succeed alone. You need friends and partners to help you, especially when you are getting started online. In this case networking means two basic things: connect better with your existing friends (especially ones on social networks you are using) and give your best to find new friends and partners (preferably someone who is in the same business, in the same niche, in the same town, and so on). Don’t fool yourself that you can do everything alone – you can’t! Even if you could, you would need to invest much more time, effort and money in achieving the same level of success as you would easily achieve with smart networking. That doesn’t mean you should be boring, scammy and spammy stalker. You don’t want to spam people with your offers, especially not experts in your niche who already have successful business, but you rather want to make them notice you by standing out with what you are doing online, from your websites to any form of networking online.
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7 Recommended Resources For Online Business 1. OptimizePress OptimizePress is a great tool for creating professionally looking money making web pages and complete websites. With this Wordpress theme you can create great looking squeeze pages, sales pages, content pages, launch funnels, complete membership sites and much more. There are many valid and proven reasons why OptimizePress is voted #1 marketing tool for 2011. and 2012. by many marketers, including myself. Nowadays I’m using only OptimizePress to create all of my websites and blogs. Click here to check OptimizePress official website >
2. Clickbank Clickbank is the biggest online marketplace for buying and selling digital products. It’s also the biggest affiliate network for online digital products and there are tens of thousands of affiliates who are making money on Clickbank. With that said, it’s pretty clear why you should join Clickbank, no matter if you want to sell your own digital products or you want to promote other people’s products. Also, Clickbank is free to join for both affiliates and vendors. Click here to check Clickbank >
3. 90 Second Squeeze Page 90 Second Squeeze Page is one very good and highly recommended tool for everyone who is just starting online and wants to create great looking squeeze pages tested and proven for high conversions. This service is created by Russell Brunson, one of highly successful online marketers, which is another reason for recommending this useful tool that allows you to create pretty good squeeze page very fast and completely free. They will even host your squeeze page for free. Click here to check 90 Second Squeeze Page service >
4. Pingler Pingler is great online tool for professional pinging of your websites, blogs, feeds, etc. This service is free for “pinging by hand”, which means you will need to go to this service, enter information about website you want to ping and manually submit pings, which will put your website in queue for pinging. Pingler also allows premium accounts which allows you to store
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more websites and schedule pinging for them, which can help you to increase popularity and rankings of your websites, as well as traffic to your website. Pingler is highly recommended tool for every online marketer. Click here to check Pingler service >
5. JVZoo JVZoo is another available affiliate network which allows you selling of your own digital products and promotion of other people’s products as an affiliate. This network is created by fellow internet marketers and that’s the main reason why JVZoo is designed to be fully functional and friendly to marketers who are using it. In short words, JVZoo offers you everything you can possible need to be able to successfully sell products online. JVZoo support payments via Paypal, which is another great reason to use this service. Click here to check JVZoo official website >
6. Hostgator Hostgator is one of the most popular web hosting providers on the Internet. According to their website, they are hosting more than 8 million websites, which is more than impressive. I’m personally using Hostgator web hosting service for more than 5 years now and I’m pretty satisfied with them. Honestly, all my new websites are now hosted on Hostgator’s web servers. Also, there are many benefits and features of Hostgator, like $100 Adwords coupons you get with every web hosting package, friendly cPanel and many other features. If you are registering new web hosting package with Hostgator, I recommend you to click the next link to get a huge $25 discount! Just click on the next link and in second step of registration enter coupon code “HOUSTON” to unlock huge $25 discount. Click here to check web hosting plans on Hostgator >
7. Social Monkee Social Monkee is great online tool for quick and easy social bookmarking. This service will allow you to bookmark your links on 25 bookmarking websites each and every day – for free. They also have several premium packages which will allow you to bookmark your links on hundreds of bookmarking websites. For example, their Premium package, which I was bought, allows me to bookmark 3 of my links on 100 websites – each and every day for small one-time fee. That’s impressive. Click here to check Social Monkee bookmarking service >
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Can You Create High Quality, Extremely Targeted And Super Profitable Kindle eBooks In Less Than 60 Minutes? According to Mark from Sofware 4 Profits, author of the popular software Kindle Answers, the answer is yes! Why should marketers concentrate Amazon's products like Kindle?
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Here is what Mark says: „We all know that publishing on Kindle is one of the few long-term residual income streams that you can rely on. Unless the world suddenly vaporises, Amazon is here to stay and a good Kindle income stream is going to be around for a long time to come. What’s more, it’s one of the few ways of making real money online that isn’t in danger of getting blown clean out of the water by those party-killers over at Google.“ But, marketers still struggle with creating ebooks for Kindle that would sell well and make serious passive profits for its authors. Why marketers have a hard time creating quality books for Kindle? According to Mark, there is a reason why so many marketers struggle with creating quality and profitable ebooks for Kindle, despite so much help being offered to them today... „People are usually mislead with the idea that they don't need to be a New York Times bestsellers to make money from Kindle ebooks, but they can upload simple ebooks for 100 to 200 niches, make 1 or 2 sales each day and enjoy in fat checks from Amazon and pina coladas on the beach. However, that's not going to happen.“ Mark goes even deeper in the story about profits from Kindle ebooks: „Once upon a time, herds of regurgitated PLR content books freely roamed the earth and the shelves of Amazon but thankfully those days are long gone and now the emphasis is on producing quality, original books that add value to those who buy them. This is good news all round but does make life a little trickier for us marketers as we can’t just rely on dusting
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off all those thousands of PLR articles we all have sat on our hard drives. Hmmm, what to do?“ How Mark changed the world of Kindle publishing with a unique approach Mark claims that the best solution for problems of Kindle publishers is Yahoo! Answers website. „It is without doubt the leading question and answer site on the internet today and receives over 55 million visitors each and every day. Which means that tens of thousands of people asking new questions and seeking recommendations daily. All of this makes it an absolute goldmine for Kindle publishers.“, Mark tells us. Mark focused on the unique approach of gathering well researched content of high quality for publishing on Kindle by combining tons of targeted content from Yahoo! Answers with software solution that allows anyone to create high quality, well researched and extremely targeted content in literally minutes. Was it worth it? „I started to use it and gave it to a few friends who started to use it too. They were knocked out by the software and how easy it was to use. Work that used to take them hours was now taking them just minutes.“, Mark said. And Mark is not alone. There are many success stories that you can read on his website – Kindle Answers - that should, at the very least, inspire you to give it a try too. To learn more about Mark's solution, and his story, along with dozens of other stories from people who have also tried this solution, visit Kindle Answers. What others are saying... Here is what other customers of Kindle Answers software had to say:
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„Well, what a find! Kindle Answers has already saved me several hours' work and I haven't had it long - 15 minutes!“ Jacqui Carrel, Kindle author and publisher Click here to read the full review... „I love 'Kindle Answers'... not only does it help you really get the bottom of what your prospective readers want solutions to, but it also alows you to analyze and collate information for a niche in minutes rather than hours!“ Gary Varnum, Author & publisher - www.23rdjuly.com Click here to read the full review... „This is a pretty slick tool! Kindle Answers makes researching people's hot-buttons a dead-simple process and is, without a doubt, a real timesaver...“ Phil Hosemans Click here to read the full review... Is that all this software is for? „Not even close, because you can use this software to create highly researched and targeted content not only for publishing on Kindle but also for creating every type of content, reports and ebooks you can think of – and for every purpose you possibily can need...“ Click here to visit Kindle Answers official website to read more successful stories and find out more about this unique content creating software!
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