It’s a vicious circle, you look online to find out how to make money but everything costs money, you wouldn’t be looking if you had money to spare right?

You also don’t know what to do but everyone wants your money to show you how to do it! Again you don’t have spare money right?

Well it’s time to see how badly you want to make it!

You could make a start today! At a cost of ZERO!

I spent nearly a year hunting around the web trying to figure out how people were making money. I found a lot of people who wanted my money to show me how but I did eventually start on my own at a cost of Zero.

Note that “I found products to sell” is not top of the list, it’s not even 2nd or 3rd! A lot of people (myself included) look for the product first and get bogged down looking for that killer product to make them their fortunes. My advice (for now) is forget the product! In fact if you take action and do steps 1-4 I’ll give you some products to sell for FREE!

So now I’ll explain how you can do those first steps for FREE but more importantly why you should do them and why in this order.

A Website – We are talking here about internet marketing, so selling anything online you obviously need a website. I’m sure some product vendors will try and say you don’t, they’ll tell you they supply a website to send traffic to, which is true but if you do that you are only going to build their list and not make much money. WHY? Well you could find some affiliate products and send traffic to their website, any sales would track to you but the reality is people don’t buy a product the first time they see it. “The money is in the list” we all know that (if you didn’t that’s lesson 1!). You need to capture peoples name and email, you need to give them value to build trust, then, and only then, will they consider purchasing anything from you. Without a website you can’t capture their details, without an autoresponder you can’t either but we’ll leave that until step 2.

So hopefully by now you agree you need a website. I said I’d show you how to do this completely free, which I will, but I also want to tell you my recommended way which can be low cost.

Low Cost (but preference if you can afford it)
A wordpress blog hosted on your own domain is what I would recommend. WordPress is free but would require you to buy a domain name like www.yourname.com and also pay for hosting check out www.Godaddy.com where you can pick up a domain name with hosting for as little as $45 / £28 for a year! If you go down this route this article will take you through how to set-up wordpress on your Godaddy domain once you’ve bought it http://help.godaddy.com/article/834

FREE (very good for starting out and learning the ropes)
www.weebly.com is really easy to use, choose a style layout then drag and drop titles, pictures or text to build up your site visually in front of you. Watch the video on the home page to see how it’s done.

Whichever you choose your next question is probably what are you going to put on this website right?

Well remember when marketing anything online YOU are the brand that you want people to trust, if you buy a TV you buy a particular brand because it’s well know and people trust it. You want to become the brand that people trust. In time people will buy things from you just because YOU said it’s cool!

Make the website about you, what you did before you discovered Internet marketing and what made you choose to turn to the Internet, it could be the crazy hours you were working and you wanted a way out of the rat race. Whatever it is you want people to relate to you as a human being, pictures are great too let people see you are real. In time you will build the site up but an about you page is a great start.

Next pick a niche that you would like to be involved in, ideally something where you have some knowledge but remember you only have to know a little more than someone else to be able to offer valuable information. When I created my first website and started building a list I created a newsletter about Internet marketing. I hadn’t ever sold a thing online but I had been researching it for a year so I was able to explain a lot of the buzz words associated with Internet marketing and pass on some of things I’d learnt from my hours of searching the web. You could do this too! In fact you could even regurgitate this post in to 3 – 4 different emails if you pad it out. There will always be people looking online that very first time who really don’t have a clue! You might have a tried a million diets in your life so could offer a newsletter about healthy eating and diets that work, build a list of people interested in this and I can show you a lot of places you will be able to find e-products to market to that list.

Don’t spend too long on choosing this, the key is to get something started!! It all becomes a lot clearer when you stop reading and start doing. One of my favorite quotes is…

“You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it started.”

Great, you’ve got a website and you’ve chosen a niche. Next you need an autoresponder, if you’ve no idea what one is check out this previous post What is an Autoresponder

Now I use www.aweber.com it does have a $1 trial but you will pay more after the first month. It is my recommendation but I said we were doing this all for free so if you can’t afford that then I have a couple of options for you

1. Mail Chimp
2. Ezinedirector

User interfaces vary but essentially with an autoresponder you create a list, give it a name, then create what’s called a “web form” these come in different shapes and sizes but are just those sections you see on websites asking for your name and email. When you create your web form the autoresponder will give you the HTML code to copy and paste to your website, it looks complicated but you don’t have to worry, they do the clever stuff, all you have to do is copy and paste it. If you are using weebly you just drag and drop the “custom HTML” box into your site then paste the code in there.

The cool thing with autoresponders is the “auto” automatic bit that means you do the work once and it happens again and again regardless of what you are doing. So next you need to create your newsletter in whatever niche you’ve chosen. If it’s Internet marketing you could be explaining what an autoresponder is, how to create simple websites etc. These are created in your autoresponder as follow up messages, these follow up automatically. You set the number of days after the last mail you want to send the next and it just happens. So for example on your website you could have promised to clear up all that Internet marketing confusion, explain all those buzz words like autoresponder and squeeze page and written about this in your follow up messages. Now when someone on your site enters their name and email they will automatically receive day one of the newsletter and they will receive the next email a number of days later (whatever you set it up to be).

Now your all set up, your website is live and you have your newsletter waiting to start building your list. This is all pretty useless though if no one knows your website is there. It’s time to get some traffic (traffic means getting people to view your website).

My absolute favorite free method of traffic generation is twitter, twitter is a social networking site where people give short (140 character) updates about what they are up to. You can set up an account for free at Twitter.com

The concept is around following people. If you follow someone then you will see their “tweets” so you want as many people following you as possible so if you write a tweet including a link to your website you have the potential that lots of people will see it and click through to your site. Ideally you want the people following you to have an interest in what you market. So if you’ve chosen to get into the niche of weight loss and fitness you want people following that are interested in that because if you have lots of followers that are interested in gardening and you tweet a link to your weight loss website then chances are they are not going to click!!

There are ways to do this, you can search on twitter for people that are tweeting about your chosen niche. When you find them, follow them in the hope that they follow you back.

At the time of writing this post I have 20,838 followers on my main twitter account twitter.com/stevemales this is a great position to be in as every time I tweet anything I have the potential that 20,838 people could see my tweet. If I have a link to a website in my tweet a percentage of these people will click too getting me lots of traffic.

I have other twitter accounts in different niches too, as soon as you crack one niche I recommend you replicate what you did to another. The automation of lots of the stages makes this possible. 20,838 followers doesn’t come overnight but their are tools to help. My favorite recommendation to you is www.tweetspinner.com you can set up keywords to search for and automatically follow people that tweet those keywords. Twitter has some unwritten rules about not letting you follow too many people related to your own number of followers and tweetspinner keeps you on the right side of these rules too.

That should give you lots to go at for now, feel free to ask any questions in the comments of this post and I’ll be sure to respond. If you know anyone else that could benefit from this post hit the share buttons below

Good luck!
Steve.

The internet has always been a major source of information and recreation but nowadays it has become a medium for online marketing. Marketing is no longer
confined inside the four walls of a store. A lot of people have become aware of the internet’s potential as a medium for marketing products and services. In the beginning, online marketing used websites to promote and sell products. That was before social networking sites came into the picture. A social networking site is a website where people from all over the world connect and interact with one another. At present there are over a hundred social networking sites.

Marketing Through Social Networking Sites

These websites are not just a venue for socializing with one another but also a venue for online marketing. Popular social networking sites such as facebook are made up of a huge network of individuals from all over the world. At present, there are millions of facebook users; this offers a huge market to promote and sell a certain product. More and more people have begun selling their products through facebook and most of these sellers are doing well in their online selling.

More Friends Means A Bigger Market

People engaged in online marketing should create a huge network of friends on facebook. The more friends a seller has, the bigger his/her potential market is. As a seller, it is to your advantage if you add more friends. The more friends you have, the more people you can sell your products to. Your network does not have to be made up of people you know personally; you can add people from the friends list of your friends. The key to online marketing through facebook is to add as many friends as you can.

Marketing through Pictures

Online marketing through facebook is very easy. All you have to do is post pictures with descriptions of your products. Once you post these pictures, the people on your friends list will see this new update on your profile. They can browse through the pictures of your products and hopefully they will find something that catches their eye. Another way you can sell through photos is to post pictures and tag some friends in each of the pictures. This will surelycatch their attention since they will be notified once you tag them in one of your pictures.

Constant Monitoring

The key to successful online marketing is to constantly monitor your accounts so that you can instantly reply to inquiries and process the orders of those who want to buy your products. It is important to be online as often as possible so that you can monitor the accounts you are using for your online marketing. Possible customers might lose interest in your products if their inquiries are unanswered.

Find out more with my FREE REPORT on “How to Explode Your Business with Facebook”

to your success

Steve.

Now I’m not saying don’t promote products and systems to earn commissions but when you are doing it make sure you are building your brand and your list as you go.

I see so many people endlessly pushing links to the systems and products they are promoting with little thought to themselves and how they are being perceived.

Here are 2 facts that if you don’t know, you should know!

1: People rarely buy something the first time they see it.

2: People don’t buy from people they don’t know.

So if you are reading this and haven’t ever made anything online then this could be why…

As an Internet marketer you need to become the brand, you want people to know who you are, trust you and then anything you recommend will be seriously considered.

Remember people rarely buy the first time they see something online so it’s imperative you capture their name and email details on this visit so you can follow up with them later.

Build relationships with your list, if every email you send to your list is just another product you are promoting they will soon lose interest. Why should people buy from you? In fact they may even be wondering how they ended up on your list in the first place.

Get social! Show them more of who “you” are, let them in to your life.

Invite them to link up with you on facebook, allow them to put a face to the name that keeps popping up in their inbox.

Then lastly, but arguably most important, give them value, lots and lots of value, you can’t possible over do it in this area, free and valuable information is what you need to give people. This will make you that name that people remember and will make them want to check you out over and over again.

Now that’s the theory, it’s time to take action!

I wish you every success!

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It’s that time of year when we reflect back on the year before and decide to make changes in our life and plan what we hope to achieve in the current year.  New years resolutions and personal goals are seldom kept by the majority of people.  Distractions in life and lack of focus may be part of the reason but one thing is for sure.

The Way You Set The Goals & Objectives Matters!

Telling yourself you are going to “make more money” or “spend more time with the family” are just throw away statements unless you are going to write down not just what you plan to achieve but more importantly HOW you are going to achieve it!

Break Things Down

3 years ago I set myself a massive goal.

“I wanted to quit my day job, replace it with something that paid equally well or better, that I could do from my home, with hours to suit that would allow me more time to spend with my family”

Some said I was living in cloud cuckoo land. Some told me I was, and always have been a dreamer! I’m definitely not cuckoo but yes, I am a dreamer! So too is every successful entrepreneur on the planet. Dreams are healthy and should be encourage. The imagination and vision is what creates drive to succeed.  Now my goal wasn’t going to come overnight but with hard work and belief it was going to be achievable!! My high level goal was fantastic, a simple sentence that I could read every morning when I woke up and every night before I went to sleep but behind it I needed a plan! My vivid imagination was called upon once again, this time I wrote down ideas, in a sort of scrawled brain dump, I carried the piece of paper around with me for days and as soon as something entered my head it was written down (as crazy as it sounded) it didn’t matter how crazy it seemed it went down on my paper to be made sense of later!

Now it needed some structure.

I had formed my plan and split out the streams of work required to achieve it. I wrote next to each step if this step was something I could do myself or if it was an area I would need to learn / outsource to someone else to do.

Then the work began

All tasks were down in black and white, I knew what I had to do, what I had to learn and what I was going to get someone else to do! Over the coming days, weeks and months I crossed off more and more tasks.

I also had to change and tweak the task list

While completing the tasks and learning new skills I found I was easily distracted! It’s the Internet after all, information overload is a big problem! My stagey here was simple, if I found something that might be of use or required further investigation I wrote it on another piece of paper, to be looked at later, I forced myself to stay focused on whatever I planned to achieve that day. My days were split by starting the day completing something I knew I was able to complete myself, followed by spending some time acquiring the skills I needed to do others and if there was time, the other list got a look in. This structure was crucial and my focus was very important. Now think about your goals for the year. Are they high level or do you know exactly how you will achieve them?

Now let’s get to work!

I wish you every success in 2011 and hope all your goals are surpassed.

Steve

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It’s the information age and gone are the days where people pop down to the library to research something. The Internet is where it’s at!

People turn to the Internet to solve problems, it could be solving the problem of settling an argument about what that actors name is in the film you’ve just watched or how you are going to get those scratches out of stainless steal, the internet is where people turn.

Information products, courses, software, audio or membership sites are the way many every day people are managing to set-up business on line, with no need for stock, a warehouse or distribution network it’s the ideal starter business.

With the Internet so widely accessed the reach a person has to people far and wide means the potential customers are endless.

So many people make that big mistake of trying to sell products not solutions!

“Buy my ebook on lawn care, the best lawn care advice – $19.99″

This doesn’t show the potential customer how it’s going to solve their problem!

“In the Lawn Care ebook you’ll learn the secrets to greener grass :-
With each training section having a series of images to show you just how to do it so you don’t waste time and money learning by your mistakes, meaning you will have a healthy, greener lawn in the fastest time – $19.99″

I haven’t the first idea about lawn care incidentally but the focus in your copy should be around how you are gong to solve someones problems in whatever niche you are in.

In statement 1 I’m being pitched an ebook with the best lawn care advice – that’s about as much as I know.

In statement 2 I know I’m getting images to make things EASIER TO UNDERSTAND I’m going to SAVE TIME AND MONEY and I’m going to have a beautiful lawn in THE FASTEST TIME.

In just a sentence I’m having my problems highlighted to me and shown how they will be resolved.

So the top tip of the day is stop selling and start solving problems.  The end product you are promoting remains the same but the way you think about it changes.

Why not get more Internet Marketing insights by checking out the FERE video training before your leave

To your success

Steve

What is an Autoresponder?

If you want to make money online you need an Autoresponder!

An Autoresponder is a tool to carry out email marketing with and to “Build a List” you will no doubt have heard the saying…

“The Money is in the List”

Yes it is and an Autoresponder is how you build that list.  The “List” refers to a list of names and email addresses of people that have subscribed to what you have to offer.

Many people don’t purchase immediately when they first see a product or service online so capturing the individuals name and email means you can make follow up contact and make a sale further down the line.

Auto responders are a fantastic tool for automating your business.  People can put their name and email in on your website while you are sleeping or on holiday but they will continue to receive a series of emails to tell them more about you, what you do and more importantly what you offer.

Once someone is on your list you can contact them in the future with any new product or service you are offering.  Create and email and click send and your email goes to everyone on your list, a percentage will read the mail and a percentage will purchase the product or service, the size of the percentages depend on the size of the list so list building is something you should always be trying to do.

Check out the video and TRY FOR FREE TODAY!

How To Spend Hours On Facebook And Still Earn Money

The thought of spending most of your days on facebook and still earning a living may seem impossible to some. Who would think that getting hooked on facebook can be helpful to your finances? This is entirely possible thanks to online marketing. You can sell and promote your products online without having to peddle them around or rent a store space. All you need is a computer, a reliable internet connection and most importantly, a facebook account.

The Benefits of Online Marketing through facebook

Online marketing through facebook or any other venue online can be very helpful for people who want to earn a living while staying at home. Through online marketing, you can earn a living just by sitting in front of your computer and staying connected to the internet. You do not even have to dress up in business attire, you can conduct your business in your pajamas and your clients will not mind at all. As opposed to selling your products in a store, online marketing saves you money because you do not have to pay rental for the store space. You just have to pay for the monthly fee for your internet connection which is very minimal. The internet fee is not even an issue since almost all households nowadays have an internet connection.

Minimal Effort, Maximum Returns

Online marketing through facebook requires a very minimal effort on the part of the seller. All you have to do is post pictures of your products with a brief description of each product. Once the pictures are uploaded, the people in your network can view them anytime. It is important to make your photos as visually appealing as possible because your customers will base their decision whether to buy your product or not according to what they see in the photos.

Build A Reputation

In marketing, whether online or not, it is important to build a reputation. It is normal for people who are buying products online to be extra cautious with the sellers they are dealing with to protect themselves against bogus sellers. If you want your business to succeed, you need to build a good reputation as an online seller. Be prompt in responding to inquiries as well as in processing online orders from customers. Most people become doubtful of an online seller’s credibility if they experience a delay in the delivery of the products they have purchased. If you say that you ship on the same day, then that is exactly what you should do. Even in online marketing, you should practice professionalism at all times to build a good reputation and bring in more customers.

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I’ve been so excited about the launch of Mini Suite Profits. Selling products online is extremely easy if the value of the product is so much greater than the price. I’ve been using this myself since it’s launch and I can’t believe it is being marketed at the price it is! This really does give you everything you need to succeed in selling PLR products on the internet today.

• You don’t need any previous experience
• You don’t need to have a product
• A child could make money following this…

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September has been a very busy month for me as more and more people are turning to the Internet and particularly to me to help them build a successful home business.

With the holiday season coming to an end it is set to be an even busier October as people use this time to take action. To top it off YourNetBiz CEO Rob Hannley has announced the pending launch of a big revamp in YourNetBiz 4.0

Rob talks about the pending changes here: -

If you have been looking at YourNetBiz and thinking of joining this fantastic opportunity then NOW is definitely the time to do it. If the last revamp is anything to go by you will be in prime place to make a lot of money! The hype around a relaunch like this brings a hungry crowd and shouldn’t be missed.

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“Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.” ~~ Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Resale Rights Products are a fantastic way to start making money on line.

Many people have made money on the Internet with eBay being increasingly popular. It’s very easy to go in to your garage or attic and find some of your old “Junk” to find that it can fetch more than you ever thought it would using eBay.

But what do you do when the garage is clear but the bug for making an online income still runs strong inside you?

You need a product to sell!

There are a few options you can choose, some people choose to buy wholesale or bulk buying from abroad and split it down and sell. I know people that buy in bulk from China, they concentrate on things like iPhone accessories and cases. The downside is you have to pay out up front a lot of money to get the products and then if they don’t sell or stop selling you are left with a lot of stock (and dead money). Also space might be an issue, you have to hold them somewhere, split and pack them and then ship them to the customer when they purchase from you. The markup isn’t always that great either so you have to sell a hell of lot of products to make any kind of decent money.

Another option is drop shipping. This is where you promote and sell a companies physical products. When the customer purchases a product, you pass on the wholesale money and the delivery address to the company and they ship the goods direct to the customer and you keep the different between the wholesale value and the retail value. Sounds perfect in theory but I found it very difficult to find products with enough margin in them to make this a feasible business venture for myself personally.

So

What are Resale Rights Products?

Resale Rights Products

are products that people have created which include licence to sell on to others and keep 100% of the profits!

These types of products are usually digital too, which means that you have no stock and shipping to worry about. Resale rights products could be eBooks, eAudio or Software. These are all downloadable products which means on completion of payment the customer is automatically directed to the download page.

Merchants like PayPal make it very easy for even a newbie to setup a PayNow button on a website that on completion of payment will redirect to the download page.

Another great point with Resale Rights Products are that the creator usually produces a sales letter website and includes it in the package, saving you even more work. You can simply put your own name on the sales letter and upload it to the Internet and you are away!

There are more than one type of Resale Rights Licence so I’ll break them down and explain them now.

The most basic is Resale Rights. This is where the author sells you a product and also passes on to you the licence to resell it. You can then sell the item over and over again and keep 100% of the profits. With a Resale Rights Licence you cannot pass on the right to sell to your customers.

Master Resale Rights licence is just like Resale Rights however this does allow you to sell the product including the right for them to sell it too. I should point out that with both Resale Rights and Master Resale Rights products you cannot make any changes to the product and must sell it on exactly as you bought it keeping the author and any website links in the product in tact.

Private Label Rights Products is more flexible still and with this type of licence you can do anything to the product. You can add bits, take away bits and even rebrand the product as if it was your own.

So why do people create such products?

Well in the first instance the author or creator can make money on the copies he or she sells.

After the author or creator has exhausted selling the product, he or she continues to get exposure on the web and in turn traffic to his or her websites where there could be more products or services being sold. Having others promote your product is not to be underestimated. It can increase your online presence greatly!