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Online Business – What Separates Success and Failure – A SPN Exclusive Article

By John DeAngelo in Featured

Almost everybody, myself included, who steps into the world of making money online, does so with the wrong attitude. Because of this, most beginners are doomed from the outset.

The hype, mostly due to crafty copywriters, that exists out there makes it so that people view an online business as a quick and easy path to wealth.

Make $4500 a Week Starting Right Now Working Half an Hour a Week! Easy Guide To $250,000 a Year Guaranteed!

And so on.

It’s no wonder that after not seeing floods of money coming his or her way a few days into it, the beginner concludes that this doesn’t work, and goes on to do one of two things: quit, or look for the next internet marketing product that will get them there by next Thursday.

I fell prey to this myself. For months, I dabbled in PPC, PPV, SEO, media buying, article marketing, offline marketing, email marketing, Craigslist, blackhat marketing, you name it. I bought more internet marketing products than I care to admit. I was the quintessential jack of all trades and master of none.

I looked for magic, the one secret that was going to take me from zero to financial independence overnight. And it wasn’t until I refrained from jumping and stumbling from one online opportunity to another that I finally came to see results on a consistent basis.

I’m still working on growing my business (that never stops), but having altered the way I viewed making money online has not only led me to get my online business off the ground, but it also set it on a path to success.

In reality, an online business takes not only work and lots of it, it also takes persistence and most of all the right mindset. The good news is – applying this to your online venture will undoubtedly lead to success.

Forget the hype. Making an online business succeed takes a lot of work. Just come to peace with it now and you’ll be thankful you did later.

It boggled my mind. I would get up every day in the wee hours of the morning to go to work five days a week despite the fact that I hated doing so, yet when it came to working on something that in time would change my life as well as that of my loved ones, I found it hard to put in the effort – I should’ve had my head examined!

It turned out the work wasn’t hard; I just had to do it. All it took is setting aside a couple of hours every day to take a step towards achieving a goal.

The work involved isn’t hard for me and it’s not hard for anybody. Just pick a business model that you’d like to pursue, write down an action plan, a series of tasks to reach each of your goals, and execute that plan come heck or high water. That’s what it takes folks. That’s the magic.

A task doesn’t necessarily have to be completed in one day. Some tasks will need to be broken down into smaller steps and scheduled accordingly. Whatever you do, make sure that every day you’ve done some work, however big or small, to move your business forward.

Don’t Quit.

Unlike what most have been led to believe, most things you try to get your online business going will not work, but that doesn’t mean you failed. You learn from what doesn’t work and adjust your next step, and you keep adjusting until you find what does work. Thomas Edison said: “I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”

You only fail when you quit, because then you’ve cemented the fact that you’ll never reach your goal.

Keep at it. It may take you two months to see results, it may take you two years. That’s irrelevant; time is going by anyway.

Why not make it so that one day you wake up as the owner of a successful online business? A business that will give you the freedom and lifestyle that the overwhelming majority of people only experience in their dreams.

Easier said than done? Thousands upon thousands of people have achieved financial independence making money online. You’re not shooting for the impossible here. This is certainly possible and if others have done it why can’t you?

Go into it with the correct mindset. Understand that what you’re about to embark into is not a ‘get rich quick’ scheme. You will be required to learn new skills. You will be required to apply these skills. You will have to take action, otherwise nothing happens. As with anything worth doing, you will run into obstacles, and you will find a way to remove them. Embedding this in your mind from the get-go will help you keep plowing ahead – especially when things look insurmountable.

Learn to tune out doubt. This is not a sprint; it takes time before you see results. It also takes trial and error. This will cause you to start doubting what you’re doing. You start to think: this doesn’t work, I’m wasting my time, I don’t have the capability for this, and so on. It’s only natural for this to happen; it’s just how our brain works. What you need to do is just not listen, because if you do listen, then it will
eventually get to you and cause you to quit, and that’s when you fail. Hit the ‘doubt be gone’ button and keep going, finish what you set out to do in today’s two hour slot.

Everybody gets plagued by doubt every now and then, yes even the most successful among us. What separates those who make it from those who don’t is the way they react to it.

Anybody can make money online. I honestly believe this. Just don’t buy into the hype. Put in the necessary amount of work, show some persistence, and get your mind right.

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Automatic Online Income – Myth or Fact?

By Titus Hoskins in Featured

Nothing excites the mind more than receiving automatic online income, day-in, day-out for all 365 days of the year. A true marvel to behold and the perfect solution to all your money worries.

It is totally liberating.

It gives you the freedom to pursue your life’s goals, no matter what they may be. It gives you the freedom of mobility; you can live anywhere in the world. Moreover, it gives you the time to do the THINGS you want to do, whether it’s sailing solo around the world or staying home to raise your kids.

Simply put, it gives you choices, plenty of choices. You are no longer tied down by a 9 to 5 job. You are your own boss. You decide when you work or even how much work you do.

But is automatic income from the web a myth or fact?

Are there really people making money 24/7 while they’re sleeping, enjoying a delicious restaurant meal or even while on vacation?

The answer is YES!

Computers and the Internet are relatively new inventions. Like anything new, many people don’t fully understand how they work or what excellent opportunities they offer. Most people just can’t comprehend how someone can earn automatic income from the web.

To understand how this income is possible, you must first understand how the Internet works. Basically, at its very core, the Internet is simply information. We use the web to find information. We use it to find what we’re looking for – whether that “something” is in the virtual world or in the so-called real world. Whether it’s a pizza with the works or the theory of relativity explained in full… you can find it all on the net.

We use the Internet to solve problems, find a friend, buy a condo, book a vacation, write a book report… and the list is endless. But how do you earn income from the web, automatic or otherwise?

Again, the answer is quite simple, you just have to give web users what they’re looking for and in most cases that “something” is information. They want information, neatly packaged and accessible at all times. They want things explained and pointed out to them in a direct manner. They want easy solutions to solve their questions or problems.

Information Is The Key

If you want to earn income from the web, you must place your website or sites squarely into this “information mix.” You must offer something of value to your site’s visitors, whether it’s how to make the perfect angel cake or tips on buying a new laptop. You must offer valuable content, special deals, bargains… you must give people a good reason to use your site. They must benefit from using your site.

Just look at Google; they have built a billion dollar company by simply telling people where they can find information on the web. Their homepage is one of the simplest pages on the web and hasn’t changed much since they started in 1998. But they offer the visitor valuable content/information which is needed and appreciated.

Granted you’re not Google, but even the smallest webmaster can offer valuable information to their visitors. Everyone is an “expert” on something – just take your favorite hobby or pastime and run with it. Build a site, offer tips, give advice, gather information… create an online presence for your chosen topic or hobby and you’re in business.

Once you have built a reputation for useful content, the search engines and your visitors will spread the word about your site’s content. Then it is simply a matter of monetizing that content with affiliate links or thru advertising, such as Google Adsense.

There are countless ways or models of making automatic income on the web. The above example is just one of the simplest ways of earning income from your website. If you have your own product and an army of affiliates, then the above scenario is multiplied a hundredfold.

Automation Is Your Friend

You must keep in mind: computers and the Internet are tailor-made for automation. Once you create your sites and content, they run 24/7 without any help from you. Once you set up your follow-up autoresponders, they run 24/7 without any help from you. Once you set up your affiliate links and/or Adsense Code, they run 24/7 without any help from you. Once you have set up your viral marketing systems, such as free videos, free buying guides, free downloads, free articles and ebooks, they run themselves 24/7 automatically.

Of course, it is a good idea to monitor your site and your whole online operation. Plus, it would be wise to keep adding valuable content to your site or sites on a regular basis. But once you have set up your automatic income streams, they pretty much run themselves without much help from their creator.

Then you will see for yourself that regular automatic income from the web is indeed possible and not a myth. You will earn revenue, like clockwork, day-in, day-out; it is a true beauty to behold. Besides, there is no greater joy than coming back from a computer-free vacation only to find you have earned enough money to pay for your vacation and then some… all the while you were away enjoying the sun and the company of friends.

That’s just one of the many joys having an automatic online income will give you. Many more await you…

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The author is a full-time online marketer. For the latest web marketing tools try:www.bizwaremagic.com If you want to create your own automatic income from the web, try these free courses from Ken Evoy’s SiteSell: www.bizwaremagic.com/Free_Marketing_Courses.htm Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

Monetizing Traffic vs Monetizing Websites

By Titus-Hoskins in Featured

One of the most common questions discussed in many online
circles is: how do I monetize my website? Just how do I make
money online from my site or sites?

The solution to that problem is not just a matter of slapping
a few lines of Google Adsense code on your pages and hoping
for the best. Actually, the solution to earning income from
your online site or blog can be as complex or as simple as
you want to make it.

There are thousands of ways to earn money from your site
or blog… among the most common are selling advertising,
selling your own products, using affiliate programs,
drop-shipping, donations, Google Adsense, Azoogle…
and the list goes on.

But this is a rather superficial approach to this issue.
A more interesting way to tackle this rather lucrative
question is to define or make some distinctions between
what exactly you are monetizing – your website or your
traffic?

This may seem pragmatic to many, but any professional
webmaster or marketer who has dissected this issue will
have discovered how you approach this problem will greatly
affect how much income you will derive from your sites.

To the savvy professional marketer it is more an issue
of refinement than anything else. They make the distinction
between a general monetization of a website and a highly
targeted monetization of their site’s traffic. There is
a difference.

Any webmaster can place ads on their sites to get an income.
If you have a normal amount of traffic, you can monetize
your site with ads such as Adsense, Azoogle, Chitika…
and you will receive your monthly checks. But is this the
best way?

Any professional marketer knows you can easily get 100 times
what you can get from Google Adsense by using other means
of monetizing their sites. It comes down to a marketing
strategy that involves monetizing the traffic coming to
their sites, rather than just monetizing the sites themselves.

Not all the traffic to your site or blog is looking for
the same thing. You can have general traffic, searching
for information on a broad subject area, or you can have
someone looking for a specific product or service. Therefore,
you must closely monitor your traffic to find out exactly
what your visitors are looking for and then providing these
visitors with a solution.

Individually Monetizing Your Pageviews, Traffic…

Individually monetizing your pageviews, traffic and landing
pages is the key to deriving larger amounts of income from
your online sites. Just as “long tail keyword” marketing
can greatly increase your income, so too can constructing
income sources directly related to your long tail keyword
traffic.

Using affiliate products and services from third party
affiliate networks like Commission Junction LinkShare,
ClickBank… will earn you 10 times more income than you
would earn from using Adsense; most times it is much more.

The prudent professional marketer will closely examine
their site’s traffic logs to find out exactly the source
of the traffic and the keywords their visitors are using
to find their site. These marketers will closely examine
their traffic and then take steps to monetize it. It may
involve producing their own products or services to offer
to these visitors. It may be using an affiliate program to
offer a product.

They also know that “keywords,” the exact words someone
types into a search engine to find what they’re looking
for on the web, are the real main sources of targeted traffic
on the web. Quality traffic that’s worth its weight in gold.
Domination of the main keywords in your market or niche will
spell monetary success even for webmasters whose main goal
may not be making money from their sites… these strange
creatures do exist I am told!

Aggressive marketers will take a different route, especially
if they have gained domination in a niche area; many approach
other businesses in their niche with offers of partnerships
and independent deals… they supply the leads or customers
to these businesses in return for a percentage of the sale.

I personally go for “residual income deals” where I get a
percentage of the revenues generated for the life of the
clients I refer. Large multinational companies in your
targeted niches probably won’t give you the time of day,
but smaller, lesser known companies will give you lucrative
deals if it is a “win-win situation” for both parties.
This is my number ONE way to monetize my traffic.

Any professional marketer will also aggressively market
their traffic by collecting opt-in lists of interested
customers. These marketers will offer free product buying
guides, valuable information, deals/coupons, customer ratings…
all to capture leads because then instead of just having one
chance to market to their site’s traffic, they get many more
chances in follow-up emails. Studies have shown it make take
6 or 7 follow-ups before a sale is made.

ROT – Return On Traffic

These marketers “add value” or “pre-sell” to their site’s
traffic in order to increase their odds of producing more
income from this traffic. They never forget this traffic
is the real source of their site’s income; instead they
exploit it to their full advantage. No reason why you can’t
do the same.

Always keep in mind, you should develop different sources
of traffic: search engine traffic, article traffic, social
bookmark traffic, link traffic from related sites, viral
traffic with free PDF files, PPC advertising… if one traffic
source dries up, it won’t be a major problem for you.

Likewise, like most things to do with business, it is never
wise to just use one tactic or source of income. I have always
used a “multiple income streams” strategy. On any given site
I may use Google Adsense for general traffic, affiliate products
for my more targeted ‘long tail keyword’ traffic and, of course,
I give priority to special independent deals with long-term
residual income. Even higher PPC (Pay Per Click) bids are possible
with residual deals, as you will recoup your investment down
the road.

Similarly, it is a good business practice to find or promote
companies that will give you a “cookie for life,” which means
once you refer a customer – they are yours for life. Marlon
Sanders does this, so too does Ken Evoy’s Site Build It,
where your customers are yours for life. Also promoting
products like web hosting, marketing tools, and utility
services that have recurring income are very lucrative sales
to make. Believe me, getting a monthly payment for a sale you
made five years ago will put a slight smile on your face every time!

So the next time you’re trying to monetize your site or blog
- first take a real close look at the your site’s traffic,
monitor your site’s raw traffic logs to find out what your
visitors are looking for on each page of your site and supply
a solution for them. Be it your own products, affiliate offerings
or even Google Adsense ads… along the way make sure you offer
them valuable content to help them on their quest and help you
to collect their contact information for further follow-up.

Of course, savvy marketers will create or make the above scenario
happen from the get-go; they find a product, they target and
dominate the keywords for that product in all the search engines
and then harvest this traffic with killer landing pages, opt-in
forms and special bonuses if you buy from their links. They use
this traffic and this marketing strategy to sometimes obtain
obscene amounts of income from the web.

Your success or failure in obtaining the same results will
largely depend upon your own skill level, but mostly it will
depend on the amount of work you put in to earn this income.
This process is so simple, yet so complex to perfect, but with
a little work and some practice anyone can monetize their site’s
traffic to get the best returns.

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Affiliate Marketing Tips for Monetizing Your Traffic

Since I am a full-time affiliate marketer, most of the above
post is biased or geared towards affiliate marketing. It is
a simple way to derive income from your sites without having
to worry about handling sales, supply problems, customer complaints…
all you have to do is supply the lead or potential customer
to your promoted affiliate programs and let them do the rest.
All tracking, sales, product delivery… are handled by the
affiliate company, which lets you concentrate on marketing,
producing content, search engine optimization and promotion.

It’s a system that suits me to a T!

However, it is not the most profitable way to monetize your traffic.
Perhaps the most profitable way to monetize any traffic is to
produce your own products and/or services. But this usually takes
some time and skill level beyond the ordinary webmaster; and it
does create additional headaches like product delivery, support
issues, sales records, taxes… everything associated with running
a business or company.

If you’re like me and go the much easier affiliate route,
here are some tips for you:

1. Use well established affiliate networks like Commission Junction,
LinkShare, Shareasale, ClickBank… all these are professionally run,
which makes finding affiliate links/products extremely easy for you.
Besides, they will deliver your checks on time.

2. Aim for or promote affiliate products that have residual or recurring
income because these will be your most lucrative over the long haul.
Pick ones like web hosting, marketing products, utilities… or other
services, which once people sign up for, rarely change.

3. Concentrate your marketing on small, little known niches. Dominate
the main keywords in that niche with your sites and then create special
“residual” income with the main companies in that niche.

4. Pick affiliate products that have lifetime cookies and/or have high
payout rates. You can promote anything; why not promote high-ticket
items that pay the big commissions.

5. However, picking the highest paying products may not be your only
choice. For example, I have found promoting Amazon products usually
pays less than my other affiliate products, BUT the conversion rate
for Amazon products is much higher so you sell many more products and
earn many more (albeit smaller) commissions, which quickly add up to
a nice sum.

6. I have had success by concentrating on well-known products that
you can only purchase online. Smart tactic that pays off, especially
when those companies offer coupons/deals that are only available online.

7. Marketing in foreign markets has proven very lucrative for me.
Usually getting top ranking in these countries is much easier than
in the very competitive U.S. marketplace. For instance, marketing in
the UK is less competitive, and you get higher commissions when you
consider the pound is equal to two bucks in USD. I use Affiliate Window
for marketing in the UK.

8. PPC advertising is the fastest way to deliver targeted traffic
to your pages, but you have to know exactly what you’re doing or
you will lose money. Here, I concentrate on promoting products with
proven residual income so that I can make higher bids since my initial
investment will be returned to me, many times over in the coming years.

9. If you’re a one-marketer, one-person company, you will have to
choose your affiliate products very carefully. Pick only top quality
products to promote, preferably ones you use yourself. Your conviction
will come through in your content or writing.

10. Being a former teacher, I know knowledge is money. The more knowledge
you obtain about affiliate marketing the more income you will make.
But choose your learning sources very carefully, like that saying on
old maps: “here there be monsters”. Be careful. Choose your educators
wisely. Here are two sources I would recommend for further study on
Affiliate Marketing: try Ken Evoy’s free Affiliate Masters Course or
try one of top self-help guys Steve Pavlina – he has a very good page
here on how to make money from your blog.

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