money for my life

Easy Profits From Having A Website?

I can seem like it is easy in hindsight. I love to read all of the advertisements about how you can easily make money on the Internet by having your own website. Of course you need to get a good domain name and one of the best ways that I have found is by doing a free search at godaddy. But there is more to it than just that. Just because you have a good degree doesn’t mean that opportunities are just going to flood your mailbox, your inbox of your email, or calls on your voicemail. You actually have to work at it.  Of course, the harder you work, the more reward that you will realize.

I said that you have to work hard, but really it should read the smarter that you work, the more rewards you will reap. You have to be open to new ideas because the strategies that you have been using may not be the strategies that work well. Here are some ideas:

* Copy Others - You were probably taught in school that it is wrong to copy. I am not talking about stealing things word-for-word (plagiarism), but notice what the successful Internet marketers are doing out there and incorporated the style that they use into your plan.

* Sometime You Gotta Pay -  Realize that not everything is free. Don’t spend without thinking about what you are paying for. You can pay to get traffic by doing a Pay-Per-Click campaign, and that may be what you have to do to get traffic in the first few months. There are a lot of free ways to get traffic, and it is best to explore those first.

* Be Flexible - If you keep doing the same thing over and over again and you get the same results, there is no chance that if you do it more that your results will change. You’ll just become exhausted sooner. Be willing to take suggestions on how you can improve your products, how you can improve your traffic, how you can become more savvy on you Internet quest for money.

Emulation, valuation, and flexibility.  These will help lead to your success! Have a GREAT day!

Tags: internet marketing, internet opportunity, making money on the internet, money, wealth, web traffic

To Get Traffic, How Often Must I Write?

In regards to gaining traffic on you Internet site and developing a Web presence, you should write, or post to your site/blog as often as possible. If possible, you should write something new each and every day. This serves several purposes:

* If you post everyday and then “ping” your website through free services ling ping-o-matic! it will tell the search engines that there is something new and potentially interesting on your site and will move you up in their rankings. Believe me when you want to be in the first page of Internet search engines like Google because more people will discover your website. You could have the most awesome website in the world, but if nobody knows that it is there, what good is that?

* The more that you write about a subject, the more knowledgable youwill become. You may find yourself visiting other sites (and, of course, leaving comments) and seeing what they are saying.  Who knows? You may get the next great idea for a post on your blog/website.

* You can always get ideas at sites that offer PLR material. Such sites are to be found here. You can use the material, but you must significantly alter it so as not to be plagiarism.

* Ask experts in the field that you have an interest in (you niche) about your topic. You are sure to get a wealth of information to write upon there. If you quote them, be sure that you credit them as well.

Have a GREAT day! And Happy Writing!

Tags: article marketing, articles, web traffic, writing

Going My Way?

Once you have a website going, the key to success is getting traffic there. Sure, telling your friends and your family are good starts, but if you are to make any sort of money on Internet, you will need to drive traffic.  Here are a few ideas

Pay Per Click - You can go with Yahoo! or Google and you can bid on keywords that will have ads displayed. The great thing is that you don’t pay anything, until somebody clicks on the ad.

Blogs - You can set up a blog for free (I have six) at www.blogger.com. You will need a google account (they are free) and just besure that you include lots of key words so that the search engines will pick up your blogs. One way to do that is to regularly ”ping” your blog through www.pingomatic.com. If you have wordpress on your blog (free) it will do it automatically.

Comment On Other Blogs - search in google for other related blogs, and post a comment on that blog with a link to yours. Traffic will come soon enough.

Have You Blog With Your Signature On E-Mail - that way if you happen to forward a message (that others may have forwarded to you) the message may get forwarded and others will now have your link.

Advertise With Other Websites - You can always ask the website webmaster how much they would charge you for the ad. Some are inexpensive and can easily drive you valuable traffic to your website.

Advertise The Old-Fashioned Way - believe it or not, you can always use print media and radio.  It costs more, but if you have an exciting product to offer, you can always try to use this route.

Don’t give up and Never Surrender! Look at what other successful people are doing on their websites and simply employ some of the same techniques.

Tags: action, advertising, money, niche marketing, web traffic

You Gotta Be “Niche-Picky”

One of the most important things to using the Internet to make money is to be “niche-picky”.  What does that mean?  Well, it is part of marketing in that you have to know who your target market is and make it as specific a market as possible to enjoy success. Perhaps it is best to use an example.

Let’s say that you have a great product/eBook/program that you know everybody would love.  After all, you love it, why wouldn’t anybody else.  For this example let us assume that this is a sure-fire way to lose weight quickly, effectively, and permanently.  (The weight-loss industry has endured for years, and there definitely is room in this field to make a decent amount of money).  So, you think that your target market is overweight people.

Too broad (no pun intended).  There are millions of people out there that are overweight and want to definitely lose the weight quickly.  The problem is that you are too general.  You need to target it your advertising/marketing toward individuals that feel as if you are speaking directly to them.  So, you narrow your field…Overweight Men.

Still too broad.  While you may have just cut your audience in half, there is a lot of people in this category.  How old is your target audience?  How active is your audience?  What do they enjoy doing?  What sort of jobs do they have? 

Whew!  That’s a lot to think of.  So you narrow your field again: Overweight men over thirty years of age.  Now you are getting closer, but narrow it even further.

Overweight men over thirty who are largely inactive.

Overweight, inactive, tried-every-diet-under-the sun, need simplicity men.

THAT”S A LOT CLOSER!! You see if you target just overweight people, nobody will read your articles, go to your website, purchase your products, … so forth and so on.  You need to have your product geared to catch an individual’s attention.  Find the individuals, and they will grow your business and will be the most loyal customers because they have felt as if you are speaking to them.  

Go and find your niche!

Tags: advertising, making money on the internet, money, niche marketing, target audience

You Gotta Give to Get

In creating traffic to your website, it is best to be willing to give traffic to other sites.  A fair amount of time is spent each week looking at other sites that have similar themes and ideas that my blogs have.  I read to see what others have to say and I comment on their writing.  The reasons are multiple:

* By commenting on the other sites, the webmasters will often reply or visit your site.  Remember that traffic = $$$.  You can have the ost excellent website in the world, but if nobody knows about it, how will you profit.  It is like having the most exquisite restaurant in the world that nobody has ever visited.  The food may be out of this world, but if you never have any visitors or customers, you won’t be able to stay in business for very long.

* You will see the trends that are developing out there.  If you only  look at trends that interest you and you only, you may be the only one that ever is interested in what you have to say.  Try looking at what is happening out there.  Don’t be cause by surprised if something exciting happens and you fail to notice because you failed to look beyond yourself.

* You have the ability to network with others.  You can share ideas, learn tips and trade “secrets”, even develop future business contacts.  Don’t live in a fortress and let nobody in.

* You can receive criticism.  Sometimes it takes another opinion to show where you lack.  I welcome all criticism because I look at it as a way to grow into a more empathetic writer.  Maybe you should too!

Keep in mind that there are a lot of hungry souls out there that can provide you with some of your greatest ideas for making more money for your life.  Some will use that to get out of the shackles of debt while others may use the money for pleasure.  Remember that money is only a tool, it is not evil unless somebody uses it to be evil. 

Let me know what you think, and here’s to a successful life! (you can even visit my blog to learn about saving money)

Tags: finances, financial independence, internet marketing, wealth, wealth creation

A Bit of a Preview

To get ahead financially you essentially have to make more than you spend.  One of the ways is by saving money.  You can get ahead by making what salary you happen to be on (unless it is just minimum wage cleaning bathrooms in a call center, and yes I have done that).  You can get ahead by bettering yourself through conscious effort, going back to school, working toward a promotion, etc. 

One thing that has exploded in popularity is internet marketing, finding a niche and coming up with a solution to meet that niche’s particular desires.  I know you have seen the emails saying that you can make $1,000 a day using Internet Marketing and Sales.  Can you?  Of course.  Will you?  Not without a lot of hard work.  And there is nothing wrong with hard work.  I have been there and I have explored some of the hype andd found that some of it is true, but there is also a lot of untruth out there.  A lot of it boils down to desire. 

There is a difference in stating that you’d like to have more money and stating that you will have more money.  Feel the difference?  One has a whimsical feeling to it while the second has a air of definitiveness of purpose.  I will be sharing with you in the soon-to-be-here future what has worked for me and what may work for you.  I will keep it real.  Those who knew me a generation ago will recall that I was a teacher, but there was more to life than the subject which I taught.  I knew that, and they knew that I knew that as well.  I am still a teacher, just allow me to open your eyes and teach you as well.

Tags: financial independence, goals, money, success, wealth