I am interrupting my current series due to an inability to continue without sharing this great news. Am I struggling to make money online?? It is hard to say. I definitely belong in the rare category of someone who can talk the talk.. but have a hard time walking the walk.. meaning I possess more knowledge than most, but have not really been able to profit from it much.
Most people are somewhere along the path of just beginning to understand, putting the pieces together, or actually profiting. The reason I dont really belong to any of those 3 is because of a revelation I was told that really took me aback.
Its not that I didn’t know this about myself. Its that I refused to believe that It was true. Wanna know what it was?
If the word Viral sounds contagious and something you should watch out for, or you just might catch it.. YOU’RE right! Similar to a virus, when someone is ailing due to a bug they caught from someone else, viral marketing is when a product/idea, etc. spreads from one person to the next.
The latest in the trend of viral tools is the Refer-a-friend software. Instead of the traditional squeeze page, where you are just asked for YOUR name, there is a 2nd step which allows you to send the information to other friends who may benefit from this information. Sometimes there is an extra bonus included or you are only entitled to a freebie if you can send it to 3 or more friends. This could be a way to easily triple your sign up rates with the same expense, since your visitors are doing the work for you!
Even though we have seen it in action for a long time.. Continue reading Viral Marketing 101
What are Resale Rights and how can you make money from them? And why, oh WHY, would someone else let YOU sell the product they worked hard to create and make 100% of the profit??
Resale Rights is when you purchase a product that includes the rights for you to resell it. Each product comes with it’s own set of rules – whether you can give it away as a bonus, sell it on an auction site (ebay), etc.. When a product has Master Resale Rights, this also gives the individual purchasing the item from you, the ability to resell it for a profit. Products with Master Resale Rights are usually more expensive, since you are offering more value to the customer. However, I personally believe them to be of LESS value, since there is no limit to how many people can then be selling the product, and the market could saturate quickly, making the competition for you too fierce.
Continue reading Resale Rights 101 (including Master and PLR)
It all begins and ends with Affiliate Marketing. There are multiple ways to make money online, but almost ALL of them come down to affiliate marketing.
What does affiliate marketing mean? When you send a visitor elsewhere, and they in turn make a purchase, then you will get a commission. If you are the creator of a product than it also includes collecting ‘affiliates’ to sell your product for you, offering them a percentage of sales.
The first, and most well known, online affiliate is Amazon. Perhaps you dont remember or didnt pay attention to all those times that you would search for a product and find yourself on a particular site, only to be funneled into Amazon to finalize the purchase.
The concept is soo fantastic for both sides playing the game.
Continue reading Affiliate Marketing 101
Email marketing, in my opinion, is the easiest, fastest, and most legitimate way to make money online. The ONLY catch, and its not a small one, is that it is Much easier and more successfully done if you have a topic you have a passion for.
I tried my hands at it a few times and continued to fail! I came up with a few topics that I thought would be good niches, and found myself copping out before finishing. I did NOT have a passion for the topic. I did have a passion to make MONEY, but shockingly, this passion was not strong enough to overcome my lack of passion to work on something I didnt LOVE. So… now I am. True, there cannot be more competition than I have in the internet marketing field, but I have been working in it since the year 2000, and for a long time I have ate, slept, and breathed it! Learning of all the possibilies of making money online was soo exciting to me, that I could hardly fathom the concept that people still actually had to get up and leave their house to earn such pitiful salaries at Mcdonalds, selling paper goods, or insurance! I was almost tackling people on the streets and trying to convert anyone who came into my home - ’ARE YOU AWARE THAT YOU COULD BE MAKING MONEY AT HOME, ON YOUR COMPUTER, IN YOUR PJ’S, WORKING HOURS YOU CHOOSE’??? ok, I will calm down now.. but you can see the fuel that feeds my fire here .
Continue reading Email Marketing – The MONEY is in the ‘List’!