Turn Your Website into a Pot of Gold

by Rachel Lower

Out of 500 million web pages, is yours among the very few that visitors will remember? Businesses are catching on as far as hiring professionals to design their websites. A professional looking website does give visitors an immediate, positive impression.

However, no matter how well designed, a basic website does not leave a lasting impression. Visitors won't forever recall your spiffy "Location" page or "About Us" section. They won't even remember how polished your fiery red logo looks.

There is one important key to leaving an impression on website visitors and potential customers. One way to go from "good website" to "awesome website, dude!" It will inspire a visitor to bookmark your site, link to you, or refer friends to your URL. The key is to provide a rich and useful website.

The basic website is like a skeleton. People know what it is, a web site (a skeleton), but if all the people you know sat around in nothing more than their bones, would you be able to pick out any one individual? If you want a thriving website, put some flesh on its bones. Be recognizable by
developing a web site face for customers to remember.

There are various features you can add to enrich your business site:

- Q&A with an email or form for question submissions

- Informative FAQ's

- A quality links page or directory with personalized descriptions

- A blog (Write your own informative articles to feature on your website)

- Writing articles that are featured on other sites, but linked to from a
page at your site

- Including quality article reprints from other writers

- How to's and DIY resources

- Offering your own monthly syndicated article to related and popular
content-driven websites

- Managing an email list highly tailored to your customer base

- If applicable, including files about your products, product maintenance,
troubleshooting, etc.

- Providing useful print outs and checklists

- Reviewing and testing products your customers use in relation to your
field of work

- Thorough portfolios of work, perhaps with a positive account/summary from
each job included

- Standing out as a leader in your industry by providing a resource, such as
a mailing list, for others in your line of work

- Providing clips of interviews or television shows you've appeared in as an expert in your field

Anything that shows you know your business, that brands you as an expert, is gold for your business website and to potential customers.

It is prudent to choose just one or a handful of features. Overloading your website will only result in its neglect due to overwhelming demands on your time.

Over time you'll see your online referrals increase, as well as the kudos you get for having a great web site. You'll also have a major edge on any competitive companies who only have the basic cookie cutter info. on their sites.

Establish yourself, your experience and credentials, your expertise and willingness to share information, and you'll be in the lead before a potential customer even receives any quotes.

© Rachel Lower is a freelance writer and web designer from Toronto. Visit her websites at

5 Steps To Creating Your Own Money Machine Online

If you want to set up a business on the Internet, there are several steps you need to get right in order to get maximum results from your efforts, and missing any one of them could destroy your odds of being successful.

This report will help you get everything right from the start, with the least amount of work. Here's what you should do:

1. You Must Find A Good Target Market

You must focus on a group of people you can relate to and understand. A good target market is a group of people who share common problems, have money to spend, and have a proven history of buying products related to your topic. When you find such a group, you can be sure they are ready to buy.

2. You Must Find Out What They WANT To Buy

You should only sell what people want to buy. Never guess. Instead, let them tell you what they want. Research related products and ask people in forums what they are looking for. When you have a good idea of what your target market WANTS, you'll easily be able to create a winning product quickly and KNOW that it will be profitable.

3. You Must Create A Winning Sales Letter

Once you have your product ready, you should create a simple sales letter that shows exactly what benefits people will get by buying from you. Tell them exactly what problems they will solve, promise specific, instant end results - and finally make an offer that's too good to turn down.

4. You Must Drive Massive Traffic To Your Sales Letter

When you have your sales machine ready, it's time to start selling. Find out where your target market is, and advertise in these places. If you can generate at least $0.50 per unique visitor, you have a winner. Then roll out to thousands of people a day. Otherwise, refine your sales letter and test again.

5. You Must Create A Back-End Strategy

You should maximize the lifetime value of your customers. The front end sale is just to eliminate your marketing costs. Then your profits start. You should now continually introduce new products and services that they want to buy. Create your own, or set up joint venture deals with other people. Send out a new offer at least once per month.

That's it. Make sure that you include all these steps, in the right order. These tips will let you take a shortcut and have that money machine up and running as quickly and easily as possible. Use them now and make your dream a reality, starting today!

Martin Franzen is the author of The Internet Marketing Master Plan: How To Turn Your Hobby Into $100,000 A Year Online. If you're interested in making a lot of money from your home based business while doing what you love, read his exciting FREE report now at: http://siteselling.com/free.php?b=ar&c=5steps

How To Triple Your Sales & Profits With A Powerful Follow-Up

No matter what you sell... products, services, or causes... one of the key ingredients to your success will be the attention you give your sales lead follow-up system.

Notice that I used the word 'system' to describe your follow-up program. It's an important conceptual word. If you do not have a well planned, step-by-step system for lead follow-up you are leaving a lot of profits sitting on the table.

It is widely accepted that it takes a minimum of five attempts to close a sale (any sale) before the customer has enough information and confidence to buy from you. My own experience, based on years of in-the-trenches experience suggests that the minimum number of timed follow-ups is anywhere from nine to thirty... depending the complexity and/or cost of your products or services. If your idea of follow-up is to bounce one autoresponder message back to your on-line inquiry and expect the cash register to ring, you are in for a shocking surprise.

You have heard often, and will continue to hear, that internet marketing is based on the building of relationships with your potential customers. It's true! Indeed, this is one of the true Power Principles of internet marketing.

One of the great benefits of the internet is the ease and cost-effectiveness of relationship building.

We must understand that our potential customer is inundated with competing advertising messages from various media--television, radio, newspapers, magazines, billboards, point- of-purchase, direct mail--and now the internet.

All of these marketing methods attempt to build a relationship with its audience in order to make the advertising message credible and believable. Credibility and believability lead naturally to sales.

The one media that stands head and shoulders above the competition is the internet. No other vehicle provides the opportunity to connect with your audience in such a timely and intimate way. Using the combination of web sites and email you have the graphical power of television and the intimate targeting of direct mail--without the associated high costs. It's a powerful combination. Add-in a timely telephone call or two... and you are on your way to increased
sales.

If you really want to 'Reach Out And Touch Someone', the way to do it is with the real Killer Application of the internet e-mail.

The two most powerful e-mail tools for effective client follow-up are:

=> Your own e-mail newsletter, ezine, discussion list, etc.

=> A programmed system of timed e-mail follow-up messages.

Let's look at each one briefly:

YOUR OWN E-MAIL NEWSLETTER, EZINE.

I can't say enough about what a regular newsletter or ezine will do for your bottom line. By communicating useful information to your clients and prospects on a regular basis you are building a strong bonding relationship with them. Over time, they will begin to see you as a partner in their success. The trust and friendship you have built through your newsletter will translate to added business and increased profits for you.

Managing a newsletter or ezine does not have to be expensive or very time consuming. There are several free services that will host your publication and provide an automated subscription process. I just switched one newsletter over to the YahooGroups system for new subscriptions and it seems to work fine. It has eliminated all the hand subscription process and automated it for me, all at no cost.

If you are a network marketer, you simply must communicate regularly with your downlines... and your product customers. In addition to the tools available through your company provided websites, you should give serious consideration to producing your own periodic e-mail newsletter. In doing so, you will be building relationships which will fatten your profits quickly.

AUTOMATED E-MAIL FOLLOW-UP:

The use of autoresponders to supply immediate and comprehensive information to your prospects is a very powerful use of e-mail technology and, I believe, a good one.

But, what do you do after the initial lead response? How do you continue to follow-up at regular intervals? If you deal with very few leads of high quality, it's not a problem to follow-up with custom one-on-one messages and it is imperative that you do so if you expect to convert these leads to sales.

If your lead flow runs to big numbers, however, you have a problem. You simply must automate the follow-up process to insure that every prospect inquiry gets properly timed, on-going, information and reasons to buy--a 'minimum' of 5 times. To do less is to waste your lead generation investment... more is better. You must maximize this return-on-investment if you are to succeed and the only practical way to do this is with automation.

A number of e-mail services provide an autoresponder system that will send a series of pre-written, timed, follow-up messages to your leads. This is a powerful use of technology. The real power comes, however, when the messages you send are professionally crafted works of benefit laden sales copy. These timed responses can be profit-enhancing selling tools... or downright intrusions. The difference will be the skill with which you use the tool.

Fortunately for you, you have available numerous high-tech tools. In order to maximize your income you will want to take aggressive advantage of all lead generation tools and systems available online.

The reward for building an automated follow-up system is always worth the effort. The time you spend nurturing your follow-up program will result in:

* Increased sales and profits

* Improved image

* More sales leads

* Lower sales costs

* Shortened selling cycles

* Improved cash flow

* Faster Team Building

* Higher Income

* Faster Return-On-Investment (ROI)

Remember... the profits are in the FOLLOW-UP!

(C) Copyright 2005... Thom Reece is the CEO of On-Line Marketing Group, a direct response marketing agency with headquarters in Hawaii. His firm builds custom lead generation & follow-up systems for organizations & individuals. He is the creator of the Online Marketing Resource Center [ http://www.e-comprofits.com ] . Thom can be reached by email at: thomATe-comprofits.com

8 Benefits Of Helping An Online Business Newbie

Copyright 2005 Richard Meredith

Do your remember when you first ventured out in the online
business world? You probably had questions and problems
along the way. Wouldn't it have been easier if you had
help? When a newbie asks for your advice, educate them;
answer their questions and help them solve their online
business problems. If you do not have the knowledge to help
them out, point them in the right direction.

You'll get many benefits from helping online business
newbies. Below are eight possible benefits you could
receive:

1. You will feel good knowing that you had a part in
helping them build their business.
You can sit back and say "I had a part in their success."

2. They may become one of your best friends.
Most people can use new friends, even business owners. You
may even become business partners and create a totally new
business together.

3. You could end up being strategic business allies in the
future.
You could regularly do joint venture and cross promotion
deals with each other.

4. They may help you out with your business.
Maybe they will give you some testimonials or endorsements
for your products or services.

5. You might gain some valuable referrals from them.
They may also join your affiliate program and make sales
for your business.

6. They might offer you some free advertising space on
their web site or in their e-zine for your help.
You could also exchange advertising with them.

7. You both could end up developing a new product or
service together.
The product or service could be a combination of your
current ones.

8. They might purchase the products you sell and become one
of your best customers.
You could sell them many back end products or services in
the future.

There are probably many other benefits you could get from
helping a new online business owner. Always remember to
help them out because it's the nice thing to do and not
just to benefit your own business.

One more thing on that... get your hands on a book called
"Think And Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill, and you will truely
understand exactly WHY there is a UNIVERSE of reasons to
help a newbie (or anyone else for that matter)!

About the Author:
Richard Meredith is the author of the critically acclaimed
ebook "The BLACK BOOK of Online Business"- the must-have
source book for anyone doing business online... or even
THINKING about it! http://www.straight-talkmarketing.com

10 Adsense Tips For Maximum Click-Through Rates

By Christos Varsamis

1) You should make your Adsense ads look as a part of your web page. They shouldn’t look like an Ad. People are negative to advertising. They search the internet for content not ads. Especially for Banners - they have a less of 0.5% response. Their days are over. Imagine if you have an Adsense ad looking like the typical Banner with different colors. It will not be profitable.

2) Text ads are better than image ads. Like before, people are more responsive to text than images. In a way it is considered as a part of the online document and is more clickable.

3) No Border ads. One of the best tricks is to erase the borders of Adsense ads and make them, again, having the same color with your website’s background.

4) No other advertisements. The first reason is to be legitimate according to Google’s Rules and the second more practical reason is that you do not want to distract your visitor’s attention and go somewhere else without clicking your Adsense ads.

5) Placement. Even if you have the best Ad, people will not respond if they don’t see it instantly. The best place to see the ad is the top of your web page and the next is aside your document’s text. Visitors will click it more frequently since it will look like your text.

6) Traffic. Try to use legitimate ways of traffic. Some people use Google Adwords and other Pay-per-click search engines. The problem here is to search very carefully for the right niche and keywords in order to make your campaigns profitable. Other ways are link popularity techniques like link exchange directories, software or even mass blog submission techniques. Don’t use link farms and classifieds for that, because the search engine’s algorithms are extremely clever and they will ban your listings.

7) Do not rely on one website. Yes, you can make money with one website but try to make as more as possible.

8) Relevant content is King. Articles are one of the best tactics to create huge websites that will be crawled by search engine’s robots. Don’t forget search engines exist to provide relevant content at first. One excellent resource to automate your article directory procedure is http://www.articleequalizer.com .You can create an article database in minutes which otherwise is time consuming and it would take you a week!

9) Use site maps. Google’s site maps visit your site and crawl it much sooner that any other submission process. More information is here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

10) Relevant ads. It’s one of the most important factors for Adsense success. If the internet user can’t find a relevant ad in your page, he or she won’t click the ad. Would you act differently? So it’s critical to create relevant resource for your web page. In order to do that, you must do the following steps.

First the file must be saved with the appropriate name. For example: Golf-Secrets.html if your article is about golf. So the webpage will be: http://www.yoursitesname.com/Golf-Secrets.html

Second thing you must change is your title tag. For example: Golf-Secrets article

Third is the heading. The first sentence must have this heading: 12 Golf secrets

About the Author: Christos Varsamis is a Business writer, creator and owner of the http://www.settinglifegoals.com & http://www.fastprofitbiz.com Sign for your 7 day FREE e-course " How to TRACE a Legitimate business Opportunity.”

10 Adsense Tips For Maximum Click-Through Rates

By Christos Varsamis

1) You should make your Adsense ads look as a part of your web page. They shouldn’t look like an Ad. People are negative to advertising. They search the internet for content not ads. Especially for Banners - they have a less of 0.5% response. Their days are over. Imagine if you have an Adsense ad looking like the typical Banner with different colors. It will not be profitable.

2) Text ads are better than image ads. Like before, people are more responsive to text than images. In a way it is considered as a part of the online document and is more clickable.

3) No Border ads. One of the best tricks is to erase the borders of Adsense ads and make them, again, having the same color with your website’s background.

4) No other advertisements. The first reason is to be legitimate according to Google’s Rules and the second more practical reason is that you do not want to distract your visitor’s attention and go somewhere else without clicking your Adsense ads.

5) Placement. Even if you have the best Ad, people will not respond if they don’t see it instantly. The best place to see the ad is the top of your web page and the next is aside your document’s text. Visitors will click it more frequently since it will look like your text.

6) Traffic. Try to use legitimate ways of traffic. Some people use Google Adwords and other Pay-per-click search engines. The problem here is to search very carefully for the right niche and keywords in order to make your campaigns profitable. Other ways are link popularity techniques like link exchange directories, software or even mass blog submission techniques. Don’t use link farms and classifieds for that, because the search engine’s algorithms are extremely clever and they will ban your listings.

7) Do not rely on one website. Yes, you can make money with one website but try to make as more as possible.

8) Relevant content is King. Articles are one of the best tactics to create huge websites that will be crawled by search engine’s robots. Don’t forget search engines exist to provide relevant content at first. One excellent resource to automate your article directory procedure is http://www.articleequalizer.com .You can create an article database in minutes which otherwise is time consuming and it would take you a week!

9) Use site maps. Google’s site maps visit your site and crawl it much sooner that any other submission process. More information is here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

10) Relevant ads. It’s one of the most important factors for Adsense success. If the internet user can’t find a relevant ad in your page, he or she won’t click the ad. Would you act differently? So it’s critical to create relevant resource for your web page. In order to do that, you must do the following steps.

First the file must be saved with the appropriate name. For example: Golf-Secrets.html if your article is about golf. So the webpage will be: http://www.yoursitesname.com/Golf-Secrets.html

Second thing you must change is your title tag. For example: Golf-Secrets article

Third is the heading. The first sentence must have this heading: 12 Golf secrets

About the Author: Christos Varsamis is a Business writer, creator and owner of the http://www.settinglifegoals.com & http://www.fastprofitbiz.com Sign for your 7 day FREE e-course " How to TRACE a Legitimate business Opportunity.”

I Earn $250 A Day Through Google Adsense And So Can You

By K Larson

How would you like to increase your monthly website revenue by 25% with only a few hours of work? What if I said that it wouldn’t cost you a dime? It’s hard to believe isn’t it?

I know this claim sounds as though I should be pitching a $200 get-rich-quick scheme in the next couple of paragraphs, but I’m not. The technique I used was free to me, and I’m sharing this information with you free of charge because I’m more excited about this discovery than I can put into words.

What did I do to achieve this jump in revenue? I placed Google Adsense advertising boxes on my website, and in just the first seven days, I generated over $1700 in Adsense revenue. Even better, I didn’t have any decrease in sales from the original source of revenue for these sites – paid memberships to my wholesale information directory.

I’ve known about Adsense for years, but I always thought that it was a system best used by free informational websites needing to generate revenue. My reasoning behind this was that I thought that these ads could possibly bleed traffic from my site and steal potential paying customers. I’m happy to say that I was wrong, and I only wish I would have tested this program earlier to discover how wrong I was.

I am completely surprised by how well these advertisements have paid. I have done some research on ad placement agencies, and I don't think that there is an agency online that could sell ads for me at the rate that AdSense pays per thousand impressions, and I know that if I advertised banner space or text link space on my site that I couldn't sell it at an equivalent cost per thousand impressions. I would tell you the cost per thousand impressions, but it's against their terms to discuss it.

Google AdSense may well be the most lucrative source of income for website owners seeking to sell ad space on their site, and the results are instant. All you need to do is place the code and let your current visitors click on the link ads.

It’s a very simple system that is easy for anyone to implement. All you need is:

1. A website with quality content

2. An existing traffic source, be it 100 visits a day or 100,000+ visits a day.

3. The ability to read the Google Adsense Program Policies

4. Free page real estate, hopefully in a conspicuous place above the fold

It is that simple; however I cannot stress enough that you read the Google Adsense Program Policies. There are certain types of sites, certain types of pages, and certain types of advertising on and through which Adsense will not allow their ads to be associated. It is each advertiser’s responsibility to know their guidelines and avoid breaking any rule that could put their account and an excellent source of revenue in jeopardy.

Finally, let me stress that these ads should be placed in a conspicuous place. Visit the site linked in the “About the Author” section below for examples. No matter how effectively your site is designed, more people will leave a page without reading below the fold than will continue on to the bottom of the page. For that reason, as you’ll see in my site, I place the ads at the top right of my page, in an area where any visitor to my site can find them.

Adsense is an excellent source of revenue for any website owner. Don’t waste time like I did. Place some ads on your site, and I’m sure you’ll be pleased with the results.

About the Author: Kirk A Larson has worked for over 15 years in business as a writer, personnel manager, and most recently for the last 4 years as a successful entrepreneur. To see examples of an effective Google Adsense campaign, visit The Wholesale Suppliers Registry at http://www.wholesale-suppliers.org

Making Money With A Content-Oriented Website

By David Risley

Many websites out there have quite a bit of content, but are untapped as a resource for making money. Countless webmasters have heard the stories about getting rich working from home on their website. Yes, many people have done it. Yes, those who got in early on it did pretty well, but as I tell people fairly often, the ways to make money online are only limited to your imagination. The internet is the most free medium on the planet. Now, a website which directly offers a service or product is a no-brainer. You promote that produce or service and sell it and you make money. However, if your website is a nice library of content, but with no services or products to provide to the visitors, how can you make some money with it? There are ways and here are a few of them:

* Traditional Banner Advertising

* Form a subscription service

* Host contextual ads

* Sell affiliate products

* Sell your own content

Banner advertising is the most prevalent method of generating revenue from content sites. Content sites are valuable to internet advertisers. After all, what gives any content site value is the eyeballs looking at it. Its like an internet highway. In the real world, people will pay to put billboards on the side of well traveled highways. The same occurs online. Well trafficked websites are valuable for advertising. If your content site does not have much traffic yet, then get busy promoting, because the traffic is what gives your site value. Without the traffic, your content is worth very little in the real world.

There are many sources of getting advertising in your website, and the easiest is to join a network. A few networks are Burst, Tribal Fusion, Rydium, FastClick, and Google Adwords. Each network has its own requirements for applicants.

Offering a subscription service is another method of generating revenue. The trick here is to figure out what to offer. The best bet is to survey your public for what they need and want from your website and what they are willing to pay for. If your content is updated routinely, you might be able to charge people a fee for accessing it. You might also offer enhanced services of some kind for subscribers. If you have an online forum, you could possibly offer access to private forums or other enhanced profile capabilities for a small fee. The trick on this is to offer something for free. It is the free content which will bring traffic to your website, so finding the balance is something you will need to work out.

Affiliate programs are something you can get into as well. In this case, you don't have to come up with the product yourself, yet you can bring attention to it and get visitors to purchase them from you. Find affiliate programs in which the products offered are relevant to your site. You want something that your public will be interested in. Amazon.com has a popular affiliate program in which you can offer books for sale on your website for a commission. You can also go to the affiliate networks to search for programs. Some well known such networks are Linkshare, Commission Junction and Regnow.

You can also come up with and offer your own products. This is where some imagination comes into play. One possible idea is to author and sell an e-book. You could sell white papers for your visitors to solve certain problems they may have. There are a number of things you can do, and it depends on the type of site you have. On the internet, though, your best bet is to sell your knowledge and expertise. It is a 100% profit margin (after your initial investment of time to put it together).

The trick in any of these ideas is to survey your public and find out what they need and want. People love to express their opinions, and you should not be sitting there guessing at what people want and would spend their hard-earned money for. Ask them!

About the Author: David Risley is a web developer and founder of PC Media, Inc. (http://www.pcmedianet.com). Specializes in PHP/MySQL development, consulting and internet business management. He is also the founder of PC Mechanic (http://www.pcmech.com), a large website delivering do-it-yourself computer information to thousands of users every day.

How Starting A Part Time Internet Business Can Yield A Full Time Income

By Joel Teo

Most people spend their day traveling from home to work and back home again slogging really hard at their offices. The reason why you remain as poor as you are is that the boss takes a slice of the profits by leveraging on your work done for them. Now before you get bitter, why not start your own internet business part time and turn the tables on society and become the boss of your own business for once. This article explains how starting an internet business in your part time can allow you to make money online.

Leverage on the internet

When I market anything online, this is seen by everyone in the English speaking world online. Can you imagine the reach of online advertising today? Google the largest search engine company now became big because of advertising. By starting an internet business, you too can take part in this new global market and make money from it.

In addition, making money on the internet means that you can make money while you sleep. That’s why some internet marketers make massive amounts of money online but all this wealth is well hidden from the Forbes and Tattler International Magazines.

Leverage on systems

When people first started to market they did telemarketing and sales was dependent on the person making the phone calls and the training they did. This limits the amount of sales to the number of people who pick up calls. Today with the advent of the internet and marketing systems, I can have literally hundreds of people visiting my website and when they signup to learn more, I can leverage on automated systems to followup with them and encourage them to make a purchase.

Leverage on other people’s time

The combination of the internet, mlms and two tier affiliate programs has brought with it the unprecedented ability to make massive amounts of money by leveraging on the power of a downline or affiliate program. These basically allow you to make money whenever your affiliate or downline sells your product for you. Once you have an established system and your downline follows your success, you can then notice that the more you work, the more people follow you and the more money you make. Massive I would say as the more sales people in your team, the more money you will make.

In conclusion, the internet represents a large market for internet marketers and those intending on starting an internet business. Only if you have the determination, zeal, the right program and the right system will you be able to make money online. An internet business therefore represents the best way today to make money from your home even while you are sleeping.

Copyright © 2005-2006 Joel Teo the Coolest Guy On The Planet

About the Author: Joel Teo is the successful owner of several successful internet business ventures. Click here to learn how you can start your own successful internet business today. http://www.massive-profits-online.com

Are You Stuck In Your Internet MLM Business?

By Joel Teo

Many internet mlm business owners sometimes have a period where they just cannot seem to be making money and they are almost about to give up. This article looks at some common reasons why you are not making money and suggests some quick steps to remedy this problem.

Lack of signups

The first problem that any internet mlm business owner would face is the lack of signups. Most people face this problem when they first start out and spend lots of money on all kinds of promotion ideas that do not really work. I have found two types of promotion in particular that does work and they are pay per click advertising and article marketing.

Pay per click advertising simply means that you pay the Search Engines to put your listings prominently near the actual organic search results that any search engine user would see. So you get signups that are actually searching for your internet mlm business and therefore more targeted.

Article marketing is simply the best way to promote an internet mlm business online. By writing lots of articles online that reaches your target audience, you will find that the number of websites with links to your internet mlm business will rise and you get more website traffic and more people signing up for your internet mlm business.

No Followup system

Some internet mlm companies have a very aggressive anti-spam policy and this means that they do not really followup with your signups. What you do need to do and I recommend this is to find a promotion system promoting your particular business to save you time designing one. This followup system should have a built in autoresponder and sales letters designed to followup with your prospective signup online. If you are not following up with your internet mlm signups you are losing potential customers that you had through the door waiting for you to call. A followup system that is well designed will save you much time and close more sales for your internet mlm business.

Lack of compelling copy

For internet home based business ventures in particular, what is needed is not compelling copy in the normal sales process but in establishing yourself and getting your visitor to trust you. Your website or landing page should not be a rephrasing of the company referral website. It should tell your visitor about your life and how you are a normal person like your visitor is and by letting them know more about you, they will trust you more and would likely signup with you rather than another internet mlm business owner online.

In conclusion, if your internet mlm business is currently slow, spend some time looking through these three reasons and perhaps you might find out what is wrong and then be better placed to make more money from your internet home based business today.

Copyright © 2005-2006 Joel Teo the Coolest Guy On The Planet

About the Author: Joel Teo is the successful owner of several successful internet business ventures. Click here to learn how you can start your own successful internet business today. http://www.massive-profits-online.com

Source: www.isnare.com

How To Develop Leadership In Your Internet MLM Business

By Joel Teo
The bane of internet mlm business in trying to build any internet mlm business is having whinny downlines that think that they do not need to do anything to make money online. The best way to deal with them is to develop a method to develop leadership in your business as part of how you deal with your downlines so that they start taking ownership of their own business and start building their own downlines.

Be nasty to be nice

Sometimes affiliates in my internet business spend time asking questions that they could have read and answered online by reading the online forums. The solution is to acknowledge the validity of their questions and direct them back to the online resource and tell them that its not that you do not want to help them but you want them to learn to direct any of their future downlines to the forum so as to help them save time when their downlines get real large.

Provide a roadmap

Many people are fishing in the dark when they join any internet mlm business opportunity. Provide a simple plan for your new affiliates to follow and then give them a few resources and let them work. You want affiliates who are motivated to work so that these people can then build their own downlines strong and on autopilot without your intervention. Providing too much help I have found can be a hindrance to growth.

Reading List

Some people have no idea what it takes to become a leader in their field of business and what it takes to succeed online. A good way for you to groom leaders is to choose a list of books for them to read in the library and discuss with them. Choose books like Rich Dad and Poor Dad and other leadership building books to help them along to become great internet mlm leaders.

In conclusion, leadership in your downline can be encouraged but not forced. Spend some time thinking and planning who in your downline can be groomed into a leader and help them achieve their potential today.

About the Author: Joel Teo is the successful owner of several successful internet business ventures. Click here to learn how you can start your own successful internet business today. http://www.massive-profits-online.com

Designing A Website That Sells

By Dan Ames

Would you buy meat from a grocery store that left the bad meat in with the good meat or wasn’t clean? Would you buy a car from a sales lot that had totaled automobiles on the front lot? I wouldn’t and neither would you. Your website is your grocery store; your car lot. You must have an atmosphere that is pleasing to buyers. One that tells that buyer that you are not an amateur, but instead a trained, seasoned professional. Your site is a direct reflection of your product and that is why that having a well designed website can make or break your sales.

The first thing to keep in mind when designing your website, is “surfability”. Take a few minutes a look around at several web pages. What makes them appealing? Were there some that you closed out of immediately? Why? Take notes and do your research. Keep in mind that when a person visits your site they have a goal in mind. They are either seeking information or shopping for a product. Give the person what they want without having to search for it. Be sure that all the information on your site is relevant to your product. Make the buyer think that they need your product to solve their problem.

Your main page serves a very specific purpose. It should be an avenue by which the customer can shop your site. It should be easy to view and load very quickly. This is your first impression and we all know that first impressions can either close the deal or loose the deal. Make it simple. It is best to have links that are easily viewable by the reader that will navigate them to where they want to be. Tables are often a great choice when deciding on a way to design the main page of your site. Your main page should load very quickly, chances are if it takes the page more than ten seconds to load even on a 56k modem, the customer will click away to save time, hoping to find the information or product elsewhere. To increase the loading speed of your main page you should avoid large graphics or excessive graphics. To many banners or special effects can cause a page to load slowly as well.

To make your web site more appealing to the eyes, you should stick to mild colors. If your site is a content site where the user will be doing a lot of reading, it is best to stick to black and white. Color can be added when using tables, as a way to brighten up the page, but remember to keep the overall look of the page professional and appealing to the audience that will be visiting most often. Since screen resolutions vary among monitors, it is a good idea to set the pixels to a standard 800x600. You may also choose to set the tables in your web page to span a percentage of the page rather than a set number of inches. This will be sure to accommodate all screen sizes. You should remember that a lot of Internet users will not use the same browser as you, and therefore you should be sure that your site looks as good on other browsers as it does your own. You can do this by downloading several browsers through which to look at your page.

Be aware of the fact that the overall look of your website is a way to make money. The appearance of the site, if designed properly, can be an excellent marketing strategy for your product or service.

About the Author: Dan Ames can help YOU start your own profitable business on the Internet within the next 24 hours... To learn more, visit: www.RealTimeInternetIncome.com/pips.html

3 Simple Steps To Internet Home Business Promotion

By Joel Teo

Many internet home business owners are lost when they first start out building their internet home business and spend time purchasing bulk popunder traffic that does not really work for them. This article will highlight 3 simple steps that any internet home business owner can take to effectively promote any internet home business.

Registering your own domain

This simple point cannot be repeated enough. If you want to promote your internet home business, always use your own link. The reason for this is that people would see your own domain name as more professional rather than some unsightly company referral domain. In addition, should the company you are promoting close down, you can easily point your domain at a new domain and promote a new internet home business. Always register your own domain when purchasing advertising on other websites so that you do not need to have to contact the website owner should you decide to promote a different internet home business.

Article marketing

One of the best ways online to get people to visit your internet home business has been through article marketing. In one highly published experiment recently, one internet marketer showed how he achieved many people linking to his website through the use of an article submission software. The links that people put it linking to your website will be a permanent link which is always on their websites and its very much like online networking. Imagine many websites like salesman telling other website visitors about your products. The more salesman you have promoting your internet home business the money profits you will make online.

Pay Per Click

One of the best ways to send highly targeted online website traffic to your internet home business is pay per click advertising where search engine companies like Google and Yahoo place your ads near or into their search results. Thus this gives you very targeted traffic that can result in higher conversion ratios for you in your internet home business.

Make good use of these three quick tips in your internet home business and you will see more profits coming in. I would add that you should also spend time planning how you are going to use these ideas and write down how long and how much money you are willing to spend doing these things. Then, execute your plan and track your results. An internet home business can generate profits, provided promotion is done correctly, hopefully this article will point you in the right direction.

About the Author: Joel Teo is the successful owner of several successful internet business ventures and he recommends that you visit http://www.massive-profits-online.com/ to learn how you can start your own internet business today.

Making Money With Niche Sites

By: Sandra Stammberger

If you want to make money with your niche site, draw visitors to your site by niche marketing. There are many things to know to earn profit from niche marketing. These things dictate exactly how to plan your attack to successfully market to customers in your niche in order to make money.

Firstly, make a vast research to truly understand your niche and all of its shades. You must clearly define your niche market and make sure that the people in that niche market are willing to pay you for what you are offering them.

People from all over the world will use keywords to search for information about their topic of interest, and if have chosen your keywords after careful research they will come across your niche site on the search engines results. Your keywords should be in your domain name and preferably, they should be your entire domain name. This tactic will increase the traffic to your niche site and thus the chance to earn more profits.

High website ranking is the key to attract the free search engine traffic and consequently free visitors. It is the niche site that reduces the number of competitors that you are competing against, and hence making it easier to be prominent and getting high ranking in the search engines. Niche sites concentrate on one particular type of product or service. Due to their targeted impact; they’re more effective, less costly and turns out better results. If you are selling a product or service on niche sites; due to targeted market your visitors are already interested in what you are offering them, and thus are pre-qualified to purchase it. Hence your number of visitors and sales will be high and you will be making more money.

To be popular and make money niche sites need to have good content. Search engines don’t like a website with loads of TE style pages rather they prefer to give high rankings to keyword-rich websites. Putting quality content on your niche site will help bring in relevant and targeted traffic and hence more clicks and more sales. An excellent way to get content online is to join content giving membership sites. These sites give you a stable flow of content for one set price each month and the content is worth it for the price paid.

So, you must fully utilize the search engines to make it fast and easy for your niche market to find your niche site and benefit from your service or product.


About the Author: Sandra Stammberger is the owner of Contentattack. Content Attack provides members with 300 keyword rich articles per month, which can be used on members' websites as fresh, SEOed, relevant content. http://www.contentattack.com.

Top 5 Ways to Increase Your Income Successfully

by Nikola Grubisa

Why You Are Not Wealthy Today?

There are two reasons that you don’t have as much money today as you desire:

You didn’t think about or plan for today before it arrived. Had you been more aware, then, that you would always need money and acted on that awareness in the past, you would be wealthier today than you are right now. Why?

Because, you would have intentionally saved money (perhaps even by making small sacrifices over the years) or invested money (even small amounts) and would therefore have more money today than you currently have. Make a list of your expenses for one month; you’ll quickly discover how many unnecessary things you buy and how much you could therefore set-aside for tomorrow.

If you want to free yourself from financial troubles, then start putting a portion of your money into a special account.

The work you have now isn't bringing in enough money. There are many ways to increase, even maximize, the financial and nonmonetary rewards you earn from your job.

If you want to get more money out of your work, consider these 5 options.

1. Change jobs.

Money isn't everything. Financial gain isn't the only consideration when evaluating your current employment. Work that you enjoy doing will give you greater satisfaction, a feeling that no amount of money can provide.

You've probably heard the saying, "Do what you love and the money will follow."
Successful people concentrate on their work, the business, while unsuccessful people focus solely on the money. Think it over.

2. Take on an extra job.

Perhaps your primary job gives you great satisfaction, but doesn't yet provide a sufficient income. Taking a second job may be a better solution than changing jobs. Like everything else - it depends on the individual. You know best. You have to consider the consequences; working two jobs means there will be less time for everything else and added pressure. Ask yourself if the increase in income is worth the additional taxes you'll pay, time you will spend, etc.

3. Invest more time in your present job.

Another possibility is to put in more time into your present job. Since you are probably paid according to time or efficiency, your income will probably rise with more time invested. This alternative is similar to the one above, that of increasing your workload, except it doesn't require acclimating yourself to a new job and therefore you don't need to concentrate on (and master) two different jobs.

However, the work may be monotonous (where adding an extra job might allow combining mental and physical work, a possible advantage) or less rewarding, thus, it might not be profitable to bet everything, so to speak, on one horse.

4. Be more efficient in your present job.

One good variation is to be more efficient at your present job, which often results in higher earnings. Think about how you can save time and money. Search for bottlenecks and fix them. Consider the Paret Principle - 80 percent of your income comes from 20 percent of the work done. Concentrate more on effective tasks and less on auxiliary ones that don't bring in money directly (like preparation, cleaning, etc.).

5. Learn to enjoy your present job.

You'll move towards your goals faster if you organize your present job so you enjoy it more. Make a list of things that make you happy at work or bring you satisfaction from your job. The list might include: what you have, what you have always wanted, where your advantages are, how tasks can be done in a pleasant and fun way and so on.

You'll find the job itself probably isn't so bad, it's just that you have been focusing more on the negative, rather than the positive, aspects. Be optimistic and start to take an interest in your field of expertise. Associate with people who do similar work and enjoy doing it - allow them to pass their enthusiasm on to you.

Maybe you won't get a raise at first, but you'll be much happier and not only at work. If I asked you, which you would prefer, money or happiness, what would you say? Well, there, you see...

I promise you that over time you will be noticed - if not by your superiors at work and business associates or partners, then by others. There are always plenty of jobs for a worker who is conscientious and an expert in his or her field.

Those who are the best in the business have doors opened everywhere, regardless of whether such a qualified person is needed right then or not.

Wise employers employ someone the moment they realize that a person can benefit their company. They don't wait for an empty position where they would be forced into a feverish search for an appropriate candidate.

================================================
Nikola Grubisa is a European Marketing and HRM Consultant and the co-author of
a European bestseller "The Millionaire Mindset: How to Tap Real Wealth from Within". He is now sharing some of his secrets for free in this special report: "Reverse Engineering: The Best Process Available to Effectively Identify and Achieve Your Goals". Get it here: http://www.themillionairemind.net/reverse.pdf?dp3