Why Do You Want To Make Money On The Internet?
Written by David Hurley, published with his permission
Have you sat down and asked yourself why exactly you want to make money online?
If you think that is a dumb question, you are wrong.
It is not enough simply to want to make money on the Internet. That is far too vague. You need to form a clear idea about what are are aiming to achieve with your Internet business.
For example:
1. Why you want to use the Internet as your business medium? What are the particular benefits of starting an online business for you?
For many people the answers have to do with independence, convenience, cost and being able to sell your goods or services worldwide, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
2. What is your “definite major purpose” for wanting to start a business on the Internet?
Setting up an online business is nothing more than a way for you to get where you want to go.
For example, if you made five million dollars on the Internet you might just decide to retire and do something else. When you know what that special “something” is you will also know why you really want to build an online business – you will have your “major purpose”.
Once you are able to articulate what your major life goals are, write them down and refer to them regularly.
By now you should have a better understanding of what your online business goals are so you should find the next few questions easier to answer…
3. What are your monthly earning targets?
Set a precise target figure, an amount of money that will enable you to do what you want, whether it is $500 a month, $5,000 a month or $50,000 a month. Write it down.
4. How long should will it take to reach that level of income?
If you don’t set yourself a time frame in which to reach your income target you will probably never get there.
5. How much time and money will you need to invest to reach your target?
Before you set up your online business do some research about the kind of skills that you will need to develop in order to succeed.
Think about how much of your time, energy and money will be needed to develop those skills. Which jobs are you going to learn how to do, and which jobs are you going to outsource to others?
For example, do you want to design and build your own website? Or do you want to spend your time on something else and outsource the design side of your business to a competent web designer?
Do you enjoy writing? Do you find the prospect of having to create fresh content for your website exciting or daunting? Would you be willing to spend the time and make the effort to write your own copy, or would it be better simply to pay somebody to do it for you?
Once you have gone through this self-examination you will know why you want to make money on the Internet. You will also have a clearer idea as to whether you are ready to proceed with your online business and how much time and money you will need to invest to achieve your goals.
David Hurley is an online article marketing expert and writes articles that focus on the best Internet marketing strategies for home-based business owners. To learn about how you can build a viable, home based business on the Internet, check out David’s website at: Grasp-The-Nettle.com and take his free Internet marketing course.
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The REAL Death Of Email Marketing
The REAL Death Of Email Marketing
Written by Willie Crawford published with his permission
For online marketers who have been around for a while, it’s no secret that email marketing “is not what it use to be!”
For many online marketers, conversions rates are a mere fraction of what they use to be. At the same time, there are a few marketers that I’ve chatted with who have experienced no significant drop in conversions. These are all marketers who have built incredible subscriber loyalty over the years.
For many online marketers, the biggest problem is email deliverability. Their email is simply not getting through. Email is being filtered so heavily today that often less than 20% of a large ezine mailing gets delivered.
There are things you can do to improve your email deliverability, such as run it through a spam checker prior to sending it out. Top mailing list management systems, such as
http://ProfitAutomation.com , have built in systems that allow you to grade an email against the Spam Assassin database prior to sending it. If your email scores higher than a 2, I personally would revise it to lower the score.
I’ve talked to friends over a year ago, who often confided in me that they sometimes sent out emails and got absolutely NO response. They wondered if anyone even received the emails or read them.
Many savvy marketers also realized that a business totally dependent upon email was not a very solid business. They realized that what they really needed was a database that contained not only names and email addresses, but physical mailing addresses. That way, if something dramatic ever did happen in the world of email, they could just shift their marketing to direct mail, and still be in business. This is one of the reasons that you started seeing some online marketers offering loss leaders on CD or DVD. It gave them the perfect tool (excuse) to build out their databases. They knew that email could someday go the way of fax broadcasts.
Some of my in-the-know friends have also shared with me that many ISP’s now monitor things such as email delivery rates, bounce rates, and open rates. They use readily available data, and if a given ISP or third party list host had a dismal record, they may block ALL email from that source.
That’s pretty scary. I was also told that a few well-known list management providers were having emails coming off their servers BLOCKED, or “black holed.”
If ISPs are tapping into database that reveal which mail servers send out a lot of mail that has very low open rates, for example, and blocking email from those servers, that does very well spell the slow death of some email marketers… unless they move their list to other platforms.
Ok, so I just painted a pretty dismal picture for some marketers.
When I was in the military, my bosses always told me that they wanted the truth from me. They insisted that I not “sugar-coat” the facts. However, they also told me not to bring them problems, without also bringing them viable solutions.
Solutions to the email deliverability issue are out there. For example, paid “sender verification” is one that is often suggested.
One that I’ve looked at many times over the years is some type of direct-to-desktop solution. That’s one where your subscribers install tools that allow your communications to tap into technologies not even dependent upon email.
The objection always brought up when discussing direct-to- desktop applications, is that there’s only so much desktop real-estate, so a person can only subscribe to so many of these independent channels.
Another solution that I like very much is building your list on a hosted platform, so that communications take place within the system.
A good example of this can be seen on the social networking site Sokule, pronounced “so cool.” The Sokule community is built on a platform that looks and feels a lot like Twitter, except that it’s built for marketers, so you are encouraged to market on the platform. In fact, there are several built-in features that allow members to monetize their community membership.
While members of many social networking communities tend to de-emphasize getting lots of followers, Sokule is different. Sokule seems to encourage you to get as many followers (called “trackers”) as you can in two ways:
1) They have a quasi-currency, called “sokens” that you can offer to other members to reward them for following you. You earn these sokens, and then you offer them to community members as a reward for following you. In a way, you can buy followers.
2) They allow upgraded members to direct message ALL of their followers a maximum of once every three day. That means that in a very real way, when you build a following on Sokule, you ARE building a list.
When you set up your Sokule account, you enter three of your areas of interest. This allows others to search the database for members with like interest, whom they can then track (follow). In theory, this means that when you send out a direct message, your message should be going to people interested in the same topic.
Just as with an email list, you need to respect your trackers on Sokule, and provide genuine value to the relationship.
To check out Sokule, visit my profile page at: http://Sokule.com/postit/williec
There you can see how you can personalize your profile and monetize it. The links that you’ll notice on the left side of the page are to five of my pet websites. There are also links on the left side of the page that promote Clickbank products. Those links are coded with MY Clickbank ID.
My old military bosses would be proud of me today. Yes, I came bearing bad news. Email marketing as it once was is dying an agonizing death. However, I also did as my old bosses taught me and presented you with a viable, proven solution.
In future articles, I’ll share with you some more solutions to “the email problem.” For now, check out Sokule. Sign up for a free account and take it for a test drive. It’s quicker to do that at:” http://Sokule.com/williec The key to survival in business, just as it was for me in the military is to be aware of and adapt to changing circumstances. That’s something you’re now ready to do.
Willie Crawford has been marketing online for 13 years, and
used article marketing most of that time (writing over 1500
articles). His favorite tools for automatically distributing
his articles, videos, podcasts, and press releases is the
automated submission site: http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com
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How Laws Of Attraction Can Help You Achieve What You Want?
By Nicolas Baron
The steps to achieving the positive in your life all point to you letting go of the bad and, to do that, you have to focus on your actions and what is happening in your life. You have to actively take charge of your day-to-day activities and realize where you goals lie. The very action of concentrating on each and every action is automatically going to create a change in your life – because NOBODY actively chooses to live their lives in a negative manner. Just being aware of the Law of Attraction can help to motivate you to such an extent that your life is changed and you achieve what you want to achieve.
Positive Action and Motivation
The key to this good fortune is motivation, pure and simple. If you notice, those people whose lives are going in a disastrous direction and generally living directionless lives. In other words, instead of focusing on the goals they want out of life and then implementing each individual step as a conscious effort to get where they are wishing, the person with no direction just floats through life from day to day, taking whatever life throws at them and then moaning and complaining about life not being fair when they reach rock bottom.
Positive thinking, by way of definition, gives you direction and, once you start to take charge of your life again, you will notice that other things begin to fall back into place and, almost without effort, other lovely things are happening to you as well. This is the Law of Attraction kicking in and supporting your own individual efforts – something that you have already begun all by yourself. In other words, you are the master of your own fate and, once you take responsibility for that, you will be able to decide what you want to change about your life. It is your decision about whether you want to take a new job or accept a promotion – just as you choose where you want to go on holiday: after all, you don’t leave that to chance, do you?
Make a list of what you want to achieve and think carefully about each item on that list: dwell on each achievement or desire so that it becomes deeply embedded into your subconscious. Remember that your subconscious is not partial – it will take anything you program it with, but you also need to be specific. If you fancy a new house, visualize the exact house that you want – a specific house you have set your heart on. To keep everything on your list specific, visualize each item – if it’s a new house, picture the color of the front door and what the windows look like, even the plants in the garden. As you are focusing on your goals, you are allowing the Law of Attraction to get to work in your life and, as a result, you will find doors beginning to open for you. If you want the Laws of Attraction to help you to get the best out of life, apply the concepts of motivation and visualization and, over and above all, be specific.
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