Internet Cash Scams? Let Me Know
Question from Jerry:
Earlier I posted on my own site to request ideas on how to supplement my income online. I was given a SH**Load of websites and ideas, however, most are scams, and some require creating a website or blog…….i’m not that creative, and I’m trying to filter out some of the crap that’s been suggested.
For the Yahoo community, could those that have genuinely made money, in a relatively easy manner….please post here in remarks section.
Make Money Being Online For Students
For students that are looking to make money in their spare time. They should look at the many opportunities to make money being online. Among the many that make money while online, the one that presents the biggest potential to make many thousands even millions of dollars from is: Internet marketing.
The flexibility of Internet marketing coupled with the relatively low capital needed to enter this kind of Internet business make it an ideal money-making venture for students who are usually time and money constrained. Because it requires so little time compared to having a part-time job, Internet marketing can definitely fit into the busy schedule of any student without affecting his or her studies.
Students Make Money Online
If you are not familiar with Internet marketing, it is generally defined as the process of selling a product or service over the Internet. One way to make money being online is to develop your own product – it can either be a physical product or an electronic product such as an e book, an online course, membership website or software – or you can sell other people’s products and services through a process called affiliate marketing.
In affiliate marketing, the owner of the product or the merchant will provide you with a link which will track the buyers that you will send through an affiliate marketing campaign you have created. In affiliate marketing, you are required to create a promotion campaign where you sell the products of other people or company and earn a percentage or commission from sales made.
Some affiliate programs offer as much 90% commission from each sale. There are literally thousands of individuals and companies worldwide who are looking for people to sell their products for them that’s why there really is a great potential to affiliate marketing.
In choosing a product to promote you should select one that you are interested in. If you are into music for example you can choose to promote an e book that teaches how to play a guitar. The advantage of choosing a product that is in line with your interest is that, you will certainly be excited about the campaign that you are creating.
An affiliate marketing campaign entails anything from sending emails to creating blogs and websites related to the product you’re promoting. If you have enough earnings already, you can expand your campaign to include paid techniques such as advertising through pay-per-click.
Because of its flexibility and the potential it presents, affiliate marketing is the best option for students
who want to make money being online without having to resort to taking a part-time job.
Make Money Being Online For Students
Make Money Selling Ebook With Desperate Buyers Only
How To Sell E books
After marketing for quite a while, I have been able to develop my own “niche” ebooks that allow me to make money selling ebook.
Some people may even say that I have conquered the ebook selling arena. Every time a see an advertisement for “how to make an ebook” guide,
I Get More And More Frustrated!
Do they really think they are the first person to come up with this concept? Really,
Haven’t we all heard of this type of thing?
I can’t help myself from thinking “not again!” each time I see a new guide claiming to be an innovative way of creating an ebook.
It is due to this that I was not sure if I was wasting my money when I decided to buy Desperate Buyers Only. What made me buy it, especially when I know all there is to know (or so I’m told)? Honestly, it is because Allen Says, an IM guru I completely respect, advised me to get it, and he seldom recommends anything.
Was It The Same As All The Others?
I was first impressed by the size of this ebook. Most of the ebooks you find are very small, coming in at a whopping 20 pages of “revolutionary information”. Amazingly, Desperate Buyers Only contains more than 90 pages of valuable information. I was also amaze at how well this manual was written; it is not often that you find a well written guide in Marketing ebooks today.
The part of this manual that attracts my interest the most is that the author, Alexis Dawes, states that people should focus their marketing on the “desperate” buyer, a person who will buy anything in an attempt to solve a problem, no matter what it is (and you product is just what they need), this is how to sell e books!
I’m intrigued at this point. In the past I never spent a lot of time trying to sell to this population of people, but the concept was very refreshing. I can not go into all the detail Alexis goes into, but believe me it is an intriguing idea. The Ingenious Plan.
I was very surprised by the methods she uses when writing her sales letter. The quality of a sales letter will determine whether you sell a ton of your product or no product at all. In the book Alexis describes her “five point fish hook” method of writing letters.
When You Use All Of Her Techniques
you will be able to create a sales letter that will have people flocking to your product like ants to a picnic, and they will be making purchases faster than you could ever imagine.
I am not exaggerating. A quality sales letter will can convince your customer that,
They Need Your Product!
And in this book you are told exactly how to write the perfect letter. I feel Desperate Buyers Only is a wonderful ebook with truly revolutionary ideas.
If you take the time to follow every step in this guide and don’t make money selling ebook, Internet Marketing is not for you, so find a different path!
10 Predictions for 2010-2019 From Perry Marshall
From Perry Marshall:
1. In 2010, Google AdWords will announce a procedure for “hearings and fair trials” for banned advertisers. This will enable them to play “Good Cop-Bad Cop” with you if your accounts get shut down.
2. Twitter will get sold to a larger company for less than the $500 million they turned down from Facebook in 2009.
3. The next rage in pay per click is cookie-ing visitors on your site and then having targeted contextual ads “stalk your prospects” on other sites as they surf the Internet. Jonathan Mizel will cover this extensively in a January 29 teleseminar.
4. By 2014 the newspaper will be drastically different than it is now. Most local papers will have vanished; large pubs will consolidate down to just a few like the New York Times, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. Sorry, but there’s no need for 200 different newspapers to all be running the same stories from the wires; it’s duplicate content. Meanwhile a minority of high-traffic bloggers will be identified as doing better research with better reporting and less bias than the traditional media.
5. The music industry is headed in the same direction. The bands that succeed during the next 10 years will be the ones who figure out how to connect directly to their audience via social media and direct marketing. Recently I had a conversation with a recording artist whose advance for making a CD has shriveled from $50K+ down to $15K now, because piracy and digital distribution are shrinking the pie. He can’t depend on them to bring him an audience anymore. (Does that sound at all familiar?) Neil Peart of Rush said essentially the same thing, reporting they want to do an album in 2010 but the record company won’t pay for it. The band is now in search of some other mechanism. I predict that membership and continuity models are the future of the music industry.
6. There will always be demand for excellent content, regardless of what happens to TV networks, record companies, etc. Case in point: DVD and iTunes sales of TV series like “24″ and “Lost” are strong, because those shows are superbly produced. I bought the first four seasons of 24, myself. The worst place to be in media is in the “expensive bureaucratic mediocre middle.”
7. I gave away some Amazon Kindles for Christmas this year, and electronic books are most definitely on the rise. Electronic readers are awesome, they’ll become the norm, and the future is not bright for traditional printing and publishing models. However… excellent magazines and books will NEVER disappear. Ever.
8. The traditional HTML website site hand-crafted by an HTML editor and uploaded via FTP is fast becoming a relic, replaced by Content Management Systems and platforms like Wordpress and Joomla.
9. There is a small, vocal minority of people that insist that in biology, evolution is entirely purposeless and random. This crowd dominates the current academic scene and cooks up anti-scientific theories like “Junk DNA.”
My professional experience in our fast-evolving, “darwinian” online world tells me, evolution is supremely intelligent, NOT random. The intellectual Berlin Wall of 19th century Darwinism will crack in 2013. A 21st century version of evolution is coming, one that doesn’t sneer at religion. I blogged about this last week.
10. Wikipedia will silence its critics. Obviously it’s immensely practical and it’s worked, having entirely replaced the traditional encyclopedia. However, vandalism is a constant problem for some categories. Wikipedia has always had a reputation for smearing controversial people and topics.
But they’re cleaning up, and for the most part doing an excellent job. I made a donation for the first time the other day and I think Wikipedia has made a huge contribution to the speed of getting research done. Nothing has done more for bringing the Open Source movement to the masses.
Happy New Year, and here’s to you in your mission to advance in your own corner of the world during this digital decade.
Perry Marshall
Affiliate Marketing Mistakes To Avoid
Affiliate Marketing Advice
If you’re an affiliate marketer, here are things to avoid – the smart marketers know the mistakes to avoid in order to succeed at the affiliate marketing game.
1. Do not spam your customers- If you send unsolicited emails, you are not a professional affiliate marketer.
2. Do not hard sell – If you push the promotions down people’s throats, you are not a professional affiliate marketer.
3. Do not jump from one affiliate program to another one.
Professional affiliate marketers do know the KEY is to stick with just one
product and then generate loads of sales before moving to the next product.
Win the affiliate marketing game, without losing your shirt 
