Want To Make Money Online, Not Sure Where To Start? Start Here…
If you want to make money online one of the biggest things you need to learn is how to get a steady stream of visitors to your website. Once there you’ll want to convert them into paying customers, but that’s a topic for another day.
The First Step
The first thing you will need to learn is how to find a list of quality keywords (words or phrases your customers use when they search online for the product or service you are selling).
To properly learn to do keyword research make sure to check out the Keyword Academy. There you’ll learn all you need to know about keywords. Remember no matter what type of online marketing you are using you will need to use keywords.
Grab All The Traffic You Can
Here are some of the most common methods for driving traffic to your website and the pros and cons of each:
1. Pay Per Click (PPC)
This is when you place an ad on any of the major search engines the ad will show up on the side of the results page when someone types in the keyword you have targeted for that ad.
For example, let’s say your keyword is ‘housebreak your dog’. You can go to Google, Yahoo or MSN and place an ad. When you place your ad you will enter the keyword you are targeting, in this example it will be ‘housebreak your dog’.
When someone gets online and does a search using the phrase ‘housebreak your dog’ your ad will come up. Now please keep in mind that this is an overly simplified overview of how PPC works. You will need to learn how to bid on the keywords you want and your ad won’t always show up in the top 10 results for that keyword.
Learning to do PPC properly will take some time and practice. This is a technique that is probably best used after you have a little experience in Internet marketing.
2. Article Marketing
This is by far the best way to get started in online marketing for because it’s easy to learn and it’s free to do. Don’t let the fact that it’s free fool you into thinking it isn’t effective, it’s extremely effective when done properly.
The Internet is all about providing people with answers to questions. There is an enormous need for quality content to feed the appetite for information. If you write an article, again targeting a keyword, and provide helpful, valuable information you can drive people to your website for free.
The best part of this method is that when you use article marketing the people who arrive at your website were already specifically looking for the information you provided…that means they are very highly qualified prospects!
(This too is a simplified explanation of article marketing. If you want an easy to follow, step by step article marketing course, for free, sign up for my free e-course : 5 Easy Steps To Make Money Online. You will receive one lesson every other day that will walk you through the article marketing process in easy to follow steps.)
But, I Hate To Write…
If you don’t want to write your own articles you can hire a professional to write search engine optimized (SEO) articles for you. Be careful to hire only professionals who know how to write and speak English as their first language. This is not a area of your business where you want to scrimp and save a couple of dollars.
Learn How To Make Money Online…
Lots of people, more everyday, dream of quitting their job, starting an online business and make money online. It is very possible to do and most people will be able to make more online than they are making at their job.
But if it’s so easy, why isn’t everyone doing it? The reason there aren’t more Internet millionaires (and there are more new millionaires every year from an online business than with any other segment of the population) is because people have an unrealistic idea of what it means to make money online.
There are too many programs out there that promise almost instant wealth with virtually no work. That is the number 1 lie told on the Internet.
Building a massive online business is much easier and quicker than a traditional brick and mortar business, but that doesn’t mean it’ll happen overnight with no effort.
Even very intelligent people can get caught up in the hype. Once they don’t make a lot of money overnight they either quit or get lured into the next great program. It goes on like that until one of 3 things happens:
1) They get discouraged and give up on their dreams of an online business altogether or,
2) They don’t have any more money to invest in the next ’sure thing’ and give up or,
3) They wise up, realize that success can be achieved and start investing in some education and not the next ’sure thing’. Then they take their new found Internet marketing knowledge and put it to work on a consistent basis. And guess what? They learn how to make money online!
So there is no time like the present to pick option #3. Especially if you are just starting out. Invest in educating yourself and consistently put into use your constantly growing knowledge of Internet marketing.
Run away screaming from any program that ‘guarantees’ you’ll make money practically overnight with no work. The only guarantee they are really making is that if you want a refund you’ll get one. They don’t guarantee your success. They can’t. They have no idea if you will even work at the business.
Do don’t let yourself end up in option 1 or 2. Be a 3! You’ll be glad you did!
Picking A Good Niche Market = Your Road To Riches…
Niche. You hear people talking about it all the time. But what does it mean and how can a niche help you make money?
The definition for niche is:’ pertaining to or intended for a market niche; having specific appeal: niche advertising’.
For the purposes of your online business think of niche like this: a group of people who share a common concern or a common goal.
And a good niche could be described as : a group of people who share a common concern or a common goal and they are ravenous or desperate for a product or service that will help them with their concerns and goals.
All you need is a ‘hungry’ crowd and something to ‘feed’ them and you’ll make money, lot’s of it.
So, how do you find your niche? Well the first place to start is to make a short list of some of the things you know a lot about, or are interested in learning more about. Once you have a starting point go online to see how many websites there are on that topic. You can also do a search of forums to get an idea of how many people are interested in that topic.
You should also consider getting the right training on the exact steps to finding hugely profitable niche markets. Finding a good niche isn’t hard, but there are some specific steps you will need to take if you want to do it right. After all, you don’t want to waste your valuable time promoting a product that just doesn’t have a very big market, do you?
There are some great free tools that you can use to narrow down a good niche market. Google is one of the best. They have a free keyword tool that you can use to identify good keywords, those with relatively high search volume and low competition.
Google trends can be another way to identify hot markets.
Once you’ve done your research and you know that there is a hungry market, now is the time to find a product to sell (or you could develop your own if you want). Go to Clickbank.com and do a search for products in that niche that you could sell for a commission.
You could also go to Google and type in the name of your niche and use the + sign than the word affiliate.
For example: weight loss + affiliate
This will give you a listing of any product in that niche that has an affiliate program.
To really prosper from a niche do it the right way. Find your profitable niche first, than worry about finding a product. If they are hungry enough you will make money, period!
Should You Be Twittering?…
Twitter, Facebook you’ve heard of them. They are the latest and greatest in online marketing. Many online ‘gurus’ will tout web 2.0 as the best way to get a ton of traffic to your website. The question is, does it work?
Yes and no. It is never a bad idea to make online contacts and get your name out there. But the majority of the people on these sites aren’t interested in your product or service. They’re not ‘hungry’. So you might get some additional traffic but it probably won’t help you build your bottom line that much.
It’s also way to easy to get on these sites and think that you’re ‘working’ while actually you’re just wasting time. It’s very easy to get sidetracked and waste a lot of time without really accomplishing anything to further your online business.
While I’m not saying you shouldn’t try these methods I am saying that the payoff will probably be quite small and you shouldn’t take too much time away from other traffic generating activities.
So by all means Twitter and tweat, but don’t ignore your blog posts, article marketing and PPC. Keep it in balance and you’ll be fine!
Is Pay Per Click The Best Bang For Your Buck?…
Many people who are working an online business system are trying to figure out the best way to get traffic for their website. There are a ton of ways to do it, and one of the most popular is Pay Per Click (PPC).
You may have heard of Google Adwords, this is one example of PPC. What happens is that you pick out keywords for your topic, you go to Google open an account and write your ads. You only have to pay when someone clicks on your ad.
Then you will need to bid on those keywords and that is where things can get a little tricky. First of all, it’s not always the case that the highest bid wins. Google will also take other factors into consideration such as the click through rate as well as other indicators of your ads quality.
The higher the quality the lower the bid will be. You will set a top bid price and start your campaign.
The good thing about PPC for your online business system is that you can get a ton of traffic fairly quickly. This allows you to test various aspect of your website to make sure it is converting (people are actually buying your product). That is the up side of PPC.
The downside is that it is very complicated to learn. You will be paying for your ads and more than likely you won’t be making any money from them, at least to start. And Google will change their rules frequently. So if you have a winning campaign today, it might not be doing so well tomorrow.
I believe that there are better methods of generating traffic for anyone who is just starting out with their online business system. There are many free methods that will get you a nice, steady stream of targeted traffic.
I would definitely take the time to learn PPC techniques and add them to your internet marketing arsenal. But first things first. Start with the free methods until you are making some money, then re-invest some of that money into educating yourself on a PPC campaign, that way it won’t be so painful if your first couple of campaigns don’t make you any moeny.
List Building Club- A Reveiw
It doesn’t matter if you’re brand new online or have a little more experience, you probably have heard that to get the real money you need to build a big list of opt-in subscribers. A list is the way you can get a huge pay day all at the click of a button. But there is a technique to it. That’s where The ListBuildingClub comes in.
Tellman Knudson, the unorthodox genius behind the ListBuildingClub, has become a multi millionaire using the same exact methods you will learn in the LBC.
This program offers an extremely easy to follow system. There are over 120 instructional videos. The videos start at the very beginning so they are perfect for beginners.
The only downside to this system is that it does start with the basics. If you are already experienced online than some of the information might be a little too basic for you.
Not only will you learn how to build a list but you will also learn how to monetize your list. Actually building your list is only the first step.
Build your list, start today. This easy to follow course will make it easy, and very profitable. Join ListBuildingClub today.
Email Marketing That ‘Kills’…
You’ve probably heard that the ‘money is in the list’. When you have any type of online business you want to build a list of opt-in subscribers. You want to keep in touch with them on a regular basis, but there is a method to this madness, you have to be careful how you handle your list.
Treat them right and you could be making a great living online, treat them wrong and you might end up working at a fast food joint!
You’re probably a lot like me, you get a ton of emails every single day. Way too many to read. Most of the emails I get I don’t even open, they go right to the trash folder. So, how can you be sure that the emails you send don’t end up in someones spam folder?
The short answer would be: write an interesting subject. If you pique their curiosity they will be much more likely to open your email. That is step one.
Step two is to write an informative email. Make it something that they will want to read. Something that benefits them. Always remember: WIIFM (what’s in it for me) this is what your subscriber is always thinking.
Give them something worthwhile and you will build up trust and they will be much more likely to read your emails in the future.
Step three don’t just send sales pitches. This is the best way to get your emails sent to the trash folder. If all you ever do is ask your subscribers for money they will get sick of it!
They probably get at least a dozen emails a day asking for money. To be successful you have to be the different one, the one who offers them something of value instead of just asking them for their money.
So, in order to make email marketing work for you make your subject lines interesting, offer your subscribers something of value don’t just ask them to buy something, and build a long term trust and rapport.
If you follow these simple steps your emails will get read, and you will build trust so that when you do make a product recommendation they will be much more likely to buy.
