Making Money Online Has Never Been Easier

By: Jimmie Leonguerrero

The Internet is crawling with tons of money-making programs. Many of these are scams or ripoffs that are out to steal your hard earned income. The competition online seems very stiff. Yet, it has never been easier to make money online than it is today. That's right, despite all of those websites offering you bogus programs that simply don't work, there are many legitimate ways to make money online and it's not that difficult to do. The internet is still one of the easiest routes to start up a business from scratch. The income potential that is available to internet entrepreneurs are better than ever simply because the World Wide Web is expanding at a tremendous rate and will continue to grow.

How can it be so easy to make legitimate money online today? When you compare the internet with the outside world, investing in an online business just makes more sense for absolutely anyone. In the real world, the monetary investment that you must make to start your own business usually runs in the thousands of dollars and up. Not everyone can afford this hefty price tag. Unfortunately, if your business doesn't work out, you've risked a lot of money that you may never see again. However, anyone with access to a computer that's connected to the internet has the potential to make money even if they are on the tightest budget.

One of the most popular ways to earn income online is to have your own website and promote a product on it. The product can be as simple as selling an online program. There are tons of companies on the internet that will let you sell their products and pay you commissions for selling them. You don't even have to sell a product to make money with a website. You can simply offer information that people are interested in. You make money by displaying ads on your website. If people are interested in the ad they will click on it and the advertiser will pay you. It's as simple as that. Google offers one of the most well known programs called AdSense that allows you to place ads on your site. Best of all, it's absolutely free. If you do not have a website, you can easily build one. There are many free website building programs available to download. These programs have become more user friendly than ever before. If you still feel it's too complicated to build your own site, you can make money even without one. There are free blog websites on the internet that you can use to promote any product you are selling. You can even buy your very own prebuilt website designed to make money at a very affordable price.

It's simple to start an online business with just some of the ideas mentioned earlier. However, you must have one very important thing before you can make any money online. You must have traffic. In order to make money, you must drive visitors to your website that you are promoting. This is probably the only difficult thing that you will have to achieve when developing your online business. The good news is, you don't have to spend thousands to advertisers in order to promote your website. There are many free and low cost methods that you can implement in your advertising campaign that can be more effective than shelling out loads of money on advertisement. You can use different techniques such as article writing, search engine optimization, writing blogs, submitting your site to search engines and directories, placing classified ads and joining forums or discussion groups to advertise your business. These are just some of the ways you can promote your website. The internet is a vast resource. Use it to find more information on not only how to promote your site, but to develop it as well. The key is to get the link to your website circulating. If you write an article today with the link to your website you are promoting in it, that article can potentially remain on the internet forever and continue to make money for you when people visit your site. The residual income possibilities on the internet can be limitless.

The Internet is getting bigger every single day. As more and more people come online, there is more potential money to be made. More people means more potential traffic for your website. Starting up and promoting your business is easier then ever before. You do not need a big investment in time or money. The costs for the upkeep of a website over a long period of time is miniscule compared to a regular business. Most people who start an online business have regular jobs just like you do. The risks are small, but the income potential can be huge. It may take some time, but the more you brand your online business the bigger it's going to get. If your drive is strong, you will make money online. How much money you make and how much time it takes depends on your determination. The internet is a beautiful thing. What other method do you know that allows anyone the opportunity to make a good income online without a lot of money, time or business knowledge. Everything you need to learn about making money is on the net and most of it is free. Good luck to you and your success in the future.

How to Sell and Market Your Ebook in 10 Easy Steps

By: Donna Gunter

Electronic books, or ebooks, are one of the quickest ways to make yourself an infopreneur, or someone who makes money by selling information. As a service business owner, it's also a simple way to sell the information that you have spent countless hours amassing to all of those who want to buy what you know but who cannot afford to hire you as a service provider.

The most effective way to market your ebook is via a one-page website. If you already have a website, I recommend that you set up a separate stand-alone page for this ebook. Most domain registrars will permit you to forward and mask your product domain to an internal page of your current website. If you don't have a site, you can create a one-page site with its own hosting.

Here's what you need to know to successfully market your ebook via a one-page website:

1. An identifiable target market. Ebooks work best as a product for a very specific niche market, like an ebook on how to teach your dog tricks, how to effectively meditate to relieve stress, or how to find a green career. You need to be able to identify and describe your target market, from determining what the target market needs and what they'll pay for (as well as how much they will pay) to what publications they read, what groups/associations do they belong to, and where they hang out both on- and offline. Make sure you understand what your target market needs and how to reach them before proceeding to the next step.

2. A domain name. The domain name for your ebook site should mirror or closely resemble your product name or a prominent feature of your product. So, for example, if you are a hypnotherapist and you have a podcast that you're selling on how to use hypnosis to lose weight, then you'd want to try and get a domain name like LoseWeightFast.com. Try and get the .com version of your domain name if possible, but if that's not available, seek out the hyphenated version of the .com domain name.

3. A give-away. You have two goals for your ebook site: get the contact info from your visitors and convert them into paying customers. Because not everyone will buy your primary product (thus providing you with their contact information), you need another strategy to collect your prospect's information. The best way to obtain contact info from a visitor is to create a free giveaway that's closely related to the product that you're selling in which the content is so compelling that the visitor gladly parts with his/her name and primary email address to obtain the free giveaway. By giving you their contact information, they have become a warm lead and you can start to develop a relationship with them. You can then develop a series of 3-6 follow-up autoresponders to upsell them to purchasing your product.

4. A merchant account. In order to collect payments, you need to be able to take credit card payments online and provide electronic product delivery. I use and highly recommend PracticePaySolutions.com, a company that works with many coaches, consultants and speakers. Your merchant account company needs to offer a "virtual terminal", which lets you enter and process transactions online and interfaces with your shopping cart program.

The most commonly used virtual terminal is that provided by Authorize.net. If you don't want to invest in a merchant account, you can begin by using third-party processors like PayPal or ClickBank, but they offer less flexibility than a full merchant service.

6. Shopping cart software. Ultimately, your shopping cart software will be a workhorse for you and enable you to automate many functions of your online business. The cart that I highly recommend is KickStartCart.com, which offers a great deal of flexibility in how you list and bundle products, gives buyers a 24-hour download URL for downloading your electronic product, has built-in autoresponders so you can automatically follow up with your buyers, and provides an email broadcast function so that you can send out special notices to the customers or prospects on your list.

7. Sales letter page. This is the primary sales page of your ebook website, containing a long sales letter with benefits of your product and testimonials of others who've used the product. In many ways, this has now become the electronic version of the 6-10 page direct sales letters that used to be sent to us regularly via snail mail. The formula for writing an effective one-page sales letter site includes an attention-getting headline, a strong opening statement, body of the letter that outlines the features and benefits of what you're offering, the actual offer itself, several testimonials from happy purchasers, and then a request for the sale. Most sales letter pages are constructed very similarly. If you look and compare other one page websites, you'll find this style used again and again.

8. Follow-up auto responders. It's always easier to sell to someone who has already purchased from you than to convert a new prospect to a customer. Therefore, the ability to continue to reach out and "touch" your customers is key in developing a relationship with them so that they continue to buy. I create a series of 3-6 follow-up autoresponders that are sent out over the 3 weeks following a purchase to check in with the purchaser and to interest the purchaser in another item.

9. Traffic to the site. Because your ebook site is only one page, it will be virtually ignored in the organic search engine ranking process. There's simply not enough content to warrant a high ranking on any keyword you might choose. The easiest way to drive traffic to a one-page web site is to purchase keywords, or pay-per-click advertising. Google's Adwords is the best-known pay-per-click advertiser. You can also generate traffic to this site by holding teleclasses or webinars on some topic covered in your ebook, creating a series of articles with a link back to your product in the resource box, or create a blog or an article directory devoted to the topic of your ebook.

10. Additional selling features. Once you've created you one page ebook website , you may want to add additional selling features, especially if the ebook is priced more than $50. You could create additional pages in which you print a chapter excerpt, your table of contents, or an invitation to sign up for your product's affiliate program.

Ebooks are one of the quickest and inexpensive ways to help you establish your expertise and create another source of income for your business. Follow this simple ebook marketing plan and begin selling your information today!

EDC Diamond and The Multiple Streams of Income

By: Ric Meza


If you are part of EDC Diamond, EDC Gold or any other online programs how many times have you heard that the secret to making a real income online is to have multiple streams of income?

For those of you who may not know, this simply means having more than one income producing product or service on the Internet. This way, if the market suddenly wipes out one of your products, then you are not at a total loss. It can also mean bringing home a lot more money simply by having more than one income source. It’s no different then having 2 hooks in the water when fishing, the more you have to promote online the more money you will make. Before you can make money on the Internet however, here are some things you need to know.

Time Is Needed

Making money with EDC Diamond or EDC Gold programs should not mean attempting to become rich overnight. While many seem to expect this, it rarely ever happens. Internet marketing should be looked upon just as any other business, where it takes time to develop and get into profit. While many of the ads you see tell us that Internet gurus make more than $50,000 in a 24 hour period, the truth is that they are very few and far between and those that are able to earn that kind of money have already paid the price. Those who are not so experienced should figure on sticking with something for at least 6 months to a year before big money starts to be made. Faithfulness and persistence are key when it comes to being able to establish multiple streams of income.

Work Is Needed

Once again, earning multiple streams of income will not come simply through idly sitting by filing your finger nails. Remember that the Internet constantly changes, and what works one day to bring in masses to your web site, may not work tomorrow. To be effective, it takes work, study, and spending many hours at the keyboard.

Planning Is a Must

Oftentimes, those EDC Diamond - EDC Gold business seekers, work in a rather scattered fashion. Many times more is learned than can ever be applied to your business. This has a tendency to leave a lot of necessary little things undone, and can only increase frustration. It would be more practical if you created your own list of things you would like to add to your marketing efforts. Start a daily, weekly and monthly ‘to do list’ and keep adding to this list one at a time. Soon you’ll get faster and more experience, allowing you to accomplish more in less time.

You Must Take Action

Another important factor is that you must take action. There is a ton of useful information out on the Internet and it is up to you to find it. Just reading book after book on marketing techniques is not going to bring home the big cash. You must put into action what you learn or nothing will ever come of it.

Making Money Online Without Getting Scammed!

By: Gary Lamb


When I evaluate a company, I look for these key points. Keep in mind, when I join a company, my #1 goal is to make money and to do it legitimately. I do not want to hurt anyone or rip anyone off. This is what I've learned and these guidelines will help you determine what company is right for you.

1. If you are not making at least 75% of the upfront commission when you make a sale, forget it. This means that you are doing all the work and the company and/or the person above you is making all the money. Guess what that is called having....a JOB!

2. If you have to have 1000, 10,000 or 20,000 people in your organization before you make any real money, DO NOT Join. Most people will NEVER get there.

3. If they teach you to hold home parties and invite all your friends. Run away fast. Trust me I have been there done that. Now when my friends and family see me coming they scatter!

4. If they have a sales pitch 2-3 times a day and only 2-3 training classes per week.

This means that the company is more interested in selling you than training you how to make money long term

5. If you can't break even or get into profit with 3 sales, forget it.

6. If you can't speak with the owners or the corporate office via phone or web-in-ar,

Forget it. I like to know whom I'm doing business with before I will do business with them.

7. If it is a start up or in pre launch, forget. The chances of these companies becoming the next Amway are about as good as winning the lottery. At least with the lottery, you have a chance to win once or twice a week. You might as well go to Vegas and blow your money on a good time. At least you'll have some great memories, see a great show and have a great meal.

These are not all the rules for success on the internet, but this is a great guideline to follow when evaluating an internet company. Use these guidelines to help you narrow down your choices for choosing a company that best fits yours goals.

Making A Residual Income While Relaxing At Home

By: Dave Nettles

People love money. But, people love easy money even more. As you grow older and start thinking about taking an early retirement, you naturally begin to wonder if you will be able to afford it. After all, you need money to live and enjoy the comforts to which you have become accustomed. But, where will that money come from? Do you have a way to generate income? Even better, do you have a way to generate a passive income without putting a lot of effort into it?

Today, with the internet, there is a cool home business opportunity for anyone that is willing to do a little research. Despite what you may have heard from your friends and family, there are truly people around the world who are generating thousands of extra dollars each month by taking advantage of these home business opportunities. At this point, you may be asking yourself what residual income means.

What Is Residual Income?

The best home businesses are those that pay you over and over again for doing something one time. For example, assume you run a website where you give advice through articles. You charge people $10 a month to be a member of your site. That home business can generate residual income for you even though you are only writing each article once. Imagine having 1,000 members of your website, each paying $10 every month! There are thousands of home business opportunities like this that can generate residual income for you.

But, what is involved to succeed in a home based business opportunity? How do you get into one of these opportunities. What does it take to make a residual income with your own home business?

What Does It Take To Succeed With My Own Business?

As with anything new, you need to spend a little time doing research into the wide variety of home businesses you can start. Because there are tons of great business opportunities available, you need to find the one that best suits you and your personality. Do you like reading? Do you like giving advice to others? Do you enjoy traveling? How about cooking? Whatever you enjoy, there is likely a way for you to generate a residual income while relaxing in the comfort of your home.

You may need to spend a little money to take advantage of some of these home business opportunities. Remember, some of the most profitable home businesses available require a small fee. But, when compared to the potential residual income that the business can generate for you and your family each month, the small fee is hardly worth worrying about.

So, are you interested in taking advantage of one of the thousands of home-based businesses that are available to you? Just one cool home business opportunity has the potential to generate more money in residual income than you made in your full-time job. Imagine relaxing at home (or traveling around the world) while your home business puts more money into your bank account each month than you earned with your full-time salary. It's time to start enjoying life as it was meant to be. Don't let the "old world" thinking of being a slave to the grind at your 8-5 job prevent you from starting your own home business and generating residual income for you and your family.

Do You Really Need A Website To Be Successful?

By: Doug Sheridan

Do you need a website to be successful on the Internet? If you don’t have a website and you’re trying to make money on the web this question is probably foremost in your mind.

The answer is no!

There are other ways to make money such as becoming an affiliate for various products. Becoming an affiliate simple means advertising other peoples products and receiving a commission for each sale you make. There are numerous ways to do this, you can sign up at Clickbank and sell digital downloads. Commission Junction, they have numerous items you can sell. Stores such as Walmart, Sears, and most other stores have affiliate programs. Do you need a website. No.

Ebay is another way of making money, buy low and sell high, drop shipping, or sell downloadable products like ebooks. Is it easy? No! Why? Unless you have an unusual item or can buy items in large quantities at low cost the competition will wipe you out.

Do you need a website? Again the answer is no.

Would you a better chance of earning on the Internet if you had a website? Why of course you would. How many of the guru’s were successful without just one but many websites? They have a site for every product they sell. You could sell affiliate items on your site, direct ebayers to your site, or sell your own creations on your site.

What do you have to do or learn to make your own websites? Programming? Scripts? Uploading? C-Panel? Going round in circles? Pulling your hair out? The yelling? The screaming? Wooooow! Sure seems complicated. Not any more. There’s an easy way.

Profitmatic is here. I recently found this fantastic program and it’s like a weight was lifted from my shoulders. If someone had told me a program like this existed I wouldn’t have believed them. It’s so eeeasy to use. I’ve been building websites so fast I even amazed myself. Profitmatic is the answer to my prayers. I decide on a product or subject and a half hour later I have a site ready to go. No uploading, no FTP to figure out. It’s absolutely amazing.

Other benefits with this fantastic program include unlimited hosting and unlimited websites. You can build, and build, and build some more. Forms, links, html, no problem, it’s all included and they also have a great referral and profit sharing program. The creators of Profitmatic put in all the bells and whistles so a complete novice can have the whole program figured out so fast he or she will go to bed smiling.

Want to include adsense? It’s easy. Photo’s, images? No problem. Want your own list? Put a sign up on all your sites. Piece of cake. If that’s not enough you can even try it for 14 days free. That’s 2 whole weeks to check out all the features. But I must warn you, if you try it, you’ll like it, and you won’t want to give it up.

Using Viral Marketing to Propel Your Online Business

By: Davin Ogden

As far as I’m concerned personally, any chance you have to get traffic virally, build your list virally, or distribute an ebook or software which can have viral elements you should be doing it.

The most popular and famous example of viral marketing was Hotmail. By placing a link at the bottom of their emails for anybody else to get their program created an overnight phenomenon. Day after day, there were thousands of more people signing up for Hotmail accounts. I don’t know what the count is these days but it’s in the millions. And the rights to Hotmail was sold for millions of dollars.

Recently, I visited a blog by a very good blogger named Jay. Jay was saying on his site, that he didn’t use viral link cloakers and was also explaining why he didn’t use them. Some of his reasoning was that, with many viral link cloakers they have a portion of the program that does build a list inside the site for you. Jay was stating that that sort of list that is inside a viral cloaking site isn’t really targeted at all. And you know what? He’s right! He’s right because many of the people that may be in your downline may not be in your niche at all. These people signed up through your reference to the site perhaps, but, I’m sure many of them did it for their own reasons of building their business, but they might be in the “no smoking” niche for all we know. Why would they want to receive emails from another guy that would perhaps be in the “food” niche etc.

I replied to Jay’s post because I knew that the method I’m using viral link cloaking for is entirely different. I told Jay that, for one, I have never emailed my downline in a viral link cloaking and tracking site. The reason I use viral link cloakers is because it gets my ads shown on hundreds of other sites. When my ads are clicked they are interested in the headline of my ad, then taken to a squeeze page of one of my free reports and then people opt-in to my real list! Jay agreed, stating that, yes, I can see if you use them that way it would benefit you. And it does! I enjoy new signups for my list everyday because of this method.

Most readers of my blog know I’m a huge advocate for Viral Spiral. Heck, I must be, I liked the program so much I jumped at the chance to work for Tim Brocklehurst. Not only did I love the system he created, but it also meant I could learn a thing or two from one of the people I considered a heavy influence on me. I’m actually learning a lot from him without even asking much of the time. So it worked out real great!

The type of list you build inside a Viral Spiral site isn’t the type that you build inside one of these viral link cloaking systems either. It is targeted to people in your niche. Why? Well, it’s because you supply all of the members of your site with your squeeze pages and rebrandable books, so they can build their own lists. By you having control of the squeeze pages and ebooks supplied your guaranteed everybody that joins your site signed up because they were interested in receiving your books, or software etc. So yes, it is targeted, more benefit for you and all of the members building inside your site!

Viral marketing solutions provide a great way of getting a non-stop flow of traffic to your offers. Use the systems consistently and long term and holy crap, in some time your traffic will get amazing.

My solution in using them for list building is pretty straight forward really.

I’ve been using Viral Link Tracker to drive traffic to ads, which are shown consistently on other peoples sites. The more I use it, the more ads are shown. The more people that use it below me, earns me more ads being shown. So guess what is in my ads? These ads are all pointing towards my squeeze pages. So using these ads across a huge network is building my list for me!

I also did upgrade my membership with Viral Link Tracker because it will allow me to have the power of more levels of sub-users earning me more ads. It just builds bigger, and bigger, it’s endless….seeing the power yet?

One of the last viral strategies that has to be mentioned is viral software.

I remember a while back Ewen Chia came out with My Free Website Builder. My Free Website Builder is basically NVU. But Ewen, in his ingenuity, came up with the idea to create a bit of a different interface for it with links pointing to his websites or different programs that he has developed and what not. He sent it out to his thousands of subscribers for free, and gave everybody permission to give it to all of their friends too. Hmmm, now why would he do that?

Well, viral, viral, viral…. every time somebody gives it away with his links in it, he’s getting traffic from all of those people, and then from all of the people that they give it to, and so on, and so on….once again endlessly!

I recently came across one such softwares that allowed me to rebrand it with any links I wanted.

Guess who I heard about it from? Ewen Chia of course. I rebranded it with links pointing back to some of the websites that I wanted to receive more traffic to. By giving this away, traffic will be coming in for years to come.

It was really inexpensive to do all this, and once re-branded, you can do whatever you want to with the software. You can sell it, or you can just give it away. Whatever you want really. I suggest that you let anybody that gets it from you either by paying for it or for free, you allow them to give it away as well. Hence, your viral traffic will start to happen again, in a whole other stream of flow.