Monthly Archives: February 2009

Legitimate Online Business Proving Difficult For The Newbie

Getting a legitimate online business up and running should be easy enough. Build it and they will come didn’t they used to say?

Nowadays though it is just too competitive and anyone believing or thinking that it is simply a case of putting up a site or blog is either dreaming or is misinformed. To have a successful legitimate online business you will need at the least a basic understanding of web design, keyword research, search engine optimization and online marketing.

All these skills can be learnt as you go along but here’s an important fact for you to consider:

97% of new online marketers have given up long before their second year approaches.

This is because of the massive learning curve and the cost of all the ebooks, courses and tools that are constantly hyped as the “can’t do without weapon” for the new online business hopeful.

I and many others have each paid out many 1000’s of bucks on all these “must have tools” that never deliver on their promises and in the end you just cut your losses, realizing that learning everything required to let you to compete with the pro online marketers is going to take several years rather than the few months the experts tell us.

It was 18 months a go that I found myself in this situation. I had been trying to make a profit for the last six months but apart from a few bucks from Google I was way out of pocket and in fact it was so bad I had taken to hiding bank statements from the partner because of the amount I was throwing away at Clickbank on so called “how to make money tools.”

It was then I came across Niches In A Box. Here was a legitimate online business that understood my problem. Niches in a Box knew I didn’t fully understand the keyword research, how to write articles, how to create a sales letter, how to create a squeeze page to capture email leads, how to create my own product that people actually wanted to buy and that even if I did, I didn’t know how to put all that together to create a package.

Because they realized that I and lots of others who genuinely wanted a legitimate online business didn’t know how to do all of the ground work, they did it for us. Every month they give us 15 websites all built around one niche and all designed to make money. Everything is provided including a great ebook to sell, the sales and squeeze pages, even the 10 emails to load up the provided auto responder!

Just use the software that’s provided to upload everything to a host and your done, within half an hour you have your very own online cash machine and because you don’t have to worry about all the website and blog building, product creation, market research etc. it allows you the time to get on with promoting your sites and blog by building links via article marketing etc.

What do you earn?

While my newer niche sites make a few hundred dollars this grows as the site ages and my link building grows. My first niche sites that are over a year old now pull in several thousand dollars each a month and I have been earning 5 figures a month for some time now, going full time as an online business around Christmas time 2007.

If you want your own legitimate online business, you can get more info by clicking here.

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The best ways to earn money online with your own article writing

There has been a wave of new writers joining the existing army of internet entrepreneurs. Article writing is one of the easiest tasks that a complete newbie can get involved in. What many people never tell you is that there is a good way and a bad way to write an article. Starting out on any new business is always daunting and exciting and you must look on your new article writing empire as a business project and not a hobby.

Writing articles online means that you have to know what people are searching for. If you have a superb article on geriatric skateboarding for beginners but no one is looking for this subject then it will be a non starter. So before you start writing articles online take some time to do some quality research into keywords. The google keyword tool is a very goo free tool for finding a range of valuable keywords.

Assuming that you have settled on the topic for your article you should also watch these following points. To start with put your main keywords in the headline, the first paragraph and the last paragraph. You can use terms that are only slightly different from each other and this will give your article good pulling power. The most important of my easy tips on article writing is to write good value content. You must have good information that relates to what the online searcher is looking for.

As well as thinking about how you can actually write your articles you need to apply yourself to finding ways to earn money with them. The first and quickest way to make money fast online is to write for other people. There are service websites like elance.com that have work for article writers like you.com. Online communities and blogs can also give you a supply of customers for your articles. This is how I made my first money online. I also got people to critique my writing so that I could improve my skills. There are many more tips on article writing on these forums and most people on them will always help a new person out.

In conclusion you need to realise that it is inportant to look beyond just the mechanics of how you write and article. You musr persistently and constantly put your plan into action and write and write. To make a decent wage you need to write a good number of well written articles.

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How to Build Your Mailing List

Any marketer will know that customer database is one of the most important marketing element that can help improve business performance. This is because when a company collects a customer database, it allows its marketers to communicate with their customers effectively. Updating customers with the latest news on the company or even the latest product and offers from the company. Companies often spent a fortune building customer database or even potential customer database as they know the value of these database.

In Online Internet Marketing terms, a potential customer database can easily be collected and can simply be the name and email address of interested parties that visited the website. Any company can collect these databases online through their website by adding an email capture form with email autoresponder to allow prospective customer to fill in their details to receive more information. This is practice in internet marketing is commonly known as List Building

However, smart companies always try to further increase their business performance by not just communicating with the customer database but rewarding their customer databases to refer more customers to them.

This is because smart companies know that their customers can help promote them especially if they are being rewarded for their effort. That is why, there are many different types of referral programs like “member get member” from many retail companies around the globe. These types of programs are very complicated and complex to manage well. There will be many administrative work in tracking and rewarding processes  to ensure all parties receive their rewards.

Now, you will be glad to know that In online Marketing, these processes can all be automatically applied and tracked with a simple script that you can install on your website. A script that will manage all referrals and rewards automatically for you and turbo charge the process of building your potential customer database. This is a new strategy in internet marketing known as List Building Techniques and it is very effective in improving your business performance

You can see the actual proof of result of turbo charging email subscribers with an automatic referal script as shown at List Building Secrets

A referal script is highly recommended and it is a MUST HAVE tool for any internet marketer. You can try out the referal script and get yourself a free referal script at the above website.

Learn more about Opt In List Building and Internet Marketing, download more Free tools, softwares and Ebook on Internet Marketing at Internet Marketing Strategy website www.BOBmarketing.com or read more articles on Strategic Internet Marketing

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