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Three Ways To Develop Your Own Internet Marketing Course

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Your own Online Marketing Course will give you the financial edge that other online marketers are talking about or experiencing. Without your own product to sell it becomes very difficult to make a steady income online. This article will offer three helpful methods to create your own Internet marketing course, should you decide this is for you.

Product Creation Method #1 – Obtaining Private Label Rights
One of hottest trends in online marketing these days are Private Label Rights, more commonly referred to as PLR. In short, PLR means taking an existing product or item for which you have purchased the PLR rights, make it your own product and sell it. PLR rights basically mean “The Rights to Label it as your Own”. One issue, however, is that they are open to the public, therefore making many absolutely worthless. However if you can secure the private label rights to a product that isn’t widely known then this could be a cash cow for you. Just hire someone to rebrand it for you, repackage it and promote it for instant cash.

Product Creation Method #2 – Develop Some Videos
In case you aren’t aware of the trend, online videos are becoming more popular and more widely-used. This same trend applies to online Internet marketing courses. Videos make things a lot easier for your customers as learning from both visual and audio instructions is much more effective than reading a large blob of text. A different but terrific way to utilize video is by making instructional videos around a product for which you are an affiliate. After making your instruction videos, offer them as a free reward for people who make purchases through your affiliate link (for which you get a commission).

A video report will sell a lot more than a written report, so whichever video-method you choose, you will be safe with video.

Product Creation Method #3 – Do Interviews and Record the Audio
I personally prefer this method because even if you’re new at whatever you do, you can still get instant credibility. Furthermore, this method is not used by as much people as PLR for example so you’ll be able to stand out more. For free publicity there are a lot of marketers who will give you an half-hour or even an hour of their time. Request an interview from them and tell them that you’ll be adding it into a future project that you’ll be heavily advertising. An offer to promote a product or service of theirs in your interview or course will usually guarantee their cooperation. After recording the audio interview, rinse and repeat with other marketers, add some “packaging” and your course is ready to go.

While there are other methods of product creation such as writing an e-book, creating graphics, or creating a template of some sort, these are just a few of the common ways that anyone can use to begin to profit over the Internet. You can read more about these on Online Marketing for Beginners. After you have created your own Internet marketing course make sure to find affiliates who will promote it for you. After that, simply cash in those checks and make sure you share some of the proceeds with me 😉




Try Out Article Marketing – It Works

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Any website owner who starts down the path of internet marketing will soon discover how many “guru’s” are out there all claiming some secret trick to boost your search engine rankings.  The reality is there are a few things to really pay attention to, but most of it really comes down to hard work.  Depending on what keywords you want to rank for, you can achieve success in a week or 2 or it may take months of hard work to get any results.

Aside from basic webpage SEO stuff to make sure everything is done correctly, the biggest single factor still in your rankings is the number of links and where they come from.  The PR (page rank) of the site linking to you is important, as is the content on that site.  Reciprocal links used to work really well (you link me, I link you) but now its really downplayed by Google as a valid method of links.

The easiest way to get links is through article marketing.  This is not the least work path, its the easiest as far as results go in my opinion.  The setup is simple:

  1. Do some keyword research on your topic.  Pick 2-4 keywords you will focus on.  Make sure they get decent search volume but do not go after stuff that is too generic (meaning it will have unusually large searched volume) – those will be way too hard to rank on in a reasonable time.
  2. Plan on writing 10 – 12 articles of 300-400 words each, using 2 of the keywords with links to your site in each article, with no more than 3 links per article total.Use the keyword itself as your link text, not http://.
  3. Publish 4 of the articles on a major article directory that has good ranking such as Ezine Articles or ArticlesBase.  These have human reviewers so it will take a bit of time to get your article published.  Luckily they do not expect it to be the first time its published, so while you are waiting there you can post it elsewhere.
  4. Make sure you get some software that helps to spin the article content and links.Spinning an article allows you to auto substitute other words or phrases into the article each time it is published so you get a slightly unique version to a totally new version depending on how much you spin it.  DO NOT try to use rewriting software – I have seen none that do a decent job – usually it reads like garbage and that will not help your rankings.  If you spin an article right, you can easily get 10-20 different reading articles from a single article, enough to not worry about duplicate content out there (and possible penalties).
  5. The next step is to mass distribute your articles to sites looking for great content.  You can do this manually for free, or find some tools to purchase that can greatly speed this up.  I usually choose to pay some money in the savings of time.  There are so many things to do, you have to trade off somewhere.  You want to make sure you spread out the distribution – its unnatural for any site to go from no links to 500 links in 1 day – what is more natural is 0 to 10 to 18 to 25 to 40 … over several weeks build it up.
  6. You will need to start tracking your ranking level on the few keywords you have picked out.After you have used article directories to get about 300 links or so you should start to see a boost in rankings.  Some keywords that are not as competitive, much less, and of course, some it might take thousands.Your goal on most keywords should be to get into the top 10-15 in ranking, number 1 is nice but sometimes the effort needed to keep and hold it is not worth it.
  7. In addition to the article work, you can also use social media accounts to link to each of the articles you publish AND also to your main web site.  You should make a hub pages site and a squidoo lens about your site or niche as well with links to the site.

Sites all want fresh content on them to improve their quality score.Most want articles about their site topic to keep the viewer on the site longer and to get better search engine ranking.  This is exactly why article marketing works – you get links on distribution sites, webmasters get to search for content to add to their site from what is published.

Making Money Online?

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Are you ready for a life changing turn?

How often have you heard that there’s a lot of money to be made online.Perhaps you read a newspaper column that had a nice big advertisement next to it asking for three payments of $17.95 or maybe a friend of a brother-in-law made millions online and retired early.  Maybe just maybe you’ve been skeptical up until now but something just tells you there is money to be made online, something whispering late at night that you can succeed if only you’ll try.

Well the truth is that there is money to be made online and there’s a lot of it at that.  Not to mention all the ways to make money online, man o man are there a lot.  If that question’s been keeping you up late at night burning the midnight oil, you need to ask yourself a new question.  How can I begin to capitalize on this online phenomena?

The first thing you need to do is find an internet marketing mentor, someone who’s been there before and knows the roads that must be traveled. He or she will protect your best interests because it is their duty, It will be like having a dedicated lifeguard at the beach saving you from drowning.  Choosing a good mentor can be a very hard task indeed.  You’ll have to kiss a few frogs to find a prince, but just keep on kissing and do it fast, and once you’ve found one never let’em go.

After you’ve found your mentor it’s up to you, read the material, try the material, and rinse and repeat.  This is where most people get stuck, they just keep reading and reading on and on.  You’ll know you’ve found a good mentor when they kick your butt and tell you to get moving instead of just reading.  Since I intend to give it to you straight there are a lot of other obstacles to your online success; personal things, professional things, even technical things.  You’ll have to become a true entrepreneur and go over them, through them, or around them before you receive success.Just remember, when you go through the trials that will come up, you can gain a lot of leverage by learning from other peoples mistakes.

How To Make Money On Ebay

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If you’ve ever read an article about eBay, you will have an idea of the kinds of incomes people are making – it isn’t unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay.

Next time you visit eBay, see how many PowerSellers there are: you’ll find quite a few.

Now consider that every single one of them must be making at least $1,000 per month, as that is eBay’s requirement for becoming a PowerSeller.Silver PowerSellers earn at least $3,000 each month, while Gold PowerSellers earn more than $10,000, and the Platinum level is $25,000. The top ranking is Titanium PowerSeller, and to qualify you must make at least $150,000 in sales every month!

The fact that these people exist gives you come idea of the income possibilities here. Most of them never set out to even start up an eBay store – they simply started selling a few things, and then kept going.

There are plenty of people whose full-time job is selling things on eBay, and some of them have been doing it for years now.

Can you imagine that?

Once they’ve bought the stock, everything else is pretty much pure profit for these people – they don’t need to pay for any business premises, staff, or anything else. There are multi-million dollar businesses making less in actual profit than eBay PowerSellers do.

Even if you don’t want to quit your day job and really go for it, you can still make money with ebay classified.  You can pack up orders during the week and take them down to the post office for delivery each Saturday. There are few other things you could be doing with your spare time that have anywhere near that kind of earning potential.

What’s more, eBay doesn’t care where you live, who you are, or what you look like: some PowerSellers are very young, or very old. Some live out in the middle of nowhere where selling on eBay is one of the few alternatives to farming or being very poor.

eBay tears down the barriers to earning that the real world constantly puts up. There’s no commuting involved and no job interview – as long as you can post things, you can do it.

Put it this way: if you know where to get something reasonably cheaply that you could sell, then you can sell it on eBay – and since you can always get discounts for bulk at wholesale, that’s not exactly difficult.

Buy a large amount of something in-demand cheaply, sell it on eBay, and you’re making money already, with no start up costs.

If you want to test it out before you commit to actually buying anything, then you can just sell things that you’ve got lying around in the house. Search through that cupboard of stuff you never use, and you’ll probably find you’ve got a few hundred dollars’ worth of stuff lying around in there!

This is the power of eBay: there is always someone who wants what you’re selling, whatever it might be, and since they’ve come looking for you, you don’t even need to do anything to get them to buy it.

So you want to get going on making money with ebay?

Well, that’s excellent! There isn’t much you need to learn to get started…

PLRpro opens it’s doors today – exciting site creation software

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The doors to PLRpro are opening again today at 9:00 a.m.. If you’ve been waiting for your chance to join this fantastic PLR content site here’s your chance!

Note: that time above was wrong. It was supposed to be 9:00 pm PST but I think it will be more like 11 PM. Sorry.

I decided to check out PLRPro a few months ago when the doors to this membership site last opened, and I must say that I’m impressed with the content, the resources and the level of service.

I’m impressed, not just because of the quality they bring to the table in regards to PLR Content, but also because of the additional education and material that they provide for free. In fact, something you’ll probably want to checkout before you join PLRPro is their http://www.ninetydaychallenge.net site which takes a user from start to finish, and they offer that for free.

When I first joined PLRpro there were offering the following:

  • 440 articles across 11 niches (40 articles in each niche)
  • Full keyword research in each niche
  • Affiliate lists for each niche
  • Header Graphics for each niche
  • 5 Website Templates each month
  • Articles done in 8 languages
  • 50 PR4 sites that you can get links from to get your sites indexed and crawled

In addition to the above I also joined because they were creating a new system, Project Green Button, which would make it easy to create HTML and eventually WordPress Websites within minutes.

“Imagine A “Push Button” System That Automates 95% Of Site Creation, Content Creation and Traffic Generation… Now Open Your Eyes, That “Push Button” System Is Here…”

I’ve had a chance to use the Project Green Button or PGB software and I’m impressed. Right now this software is in Phase One and with PGB you’ll be able to

  • Site Creation – Automatically building HTML sites that are fully structured and ready to go with perfect onpage optimization in just 3 minutes (you can do it in under 60 seconds but you have to type fast…) that requires zero technical knowledge.
  • Content Management – 440 articles each month across 11 niches
  • Site Templates – 25 beautiful templates as the initial “bank of templates” from which you can draw upon to build your niche sites
  • Adsense Monetization – Stage one of PGB introduces the core monetization method behind building an income online… Adsense. Stage two will add additional monetization such as Kontera, Clickbank, eBay and Amazon.
  • Full Silo Keyword Search – Each and every niche has all of this already done for you so you don’t need to go search for the next greatest keyword…just look for, and find an ideal keyword for maximum traffic and speed. The keyword research for each niche is done in an easily laid out Excel sheet that you can quickly glance at and find perfectly targeted long tail keywords to start generating traffic in as little as 5 days.
  • 10,000 strong blog network – This networks makes it easy to get one way backlinks via PLRpro’s Article Marketing Automation system. As a Member of PLRpro you’ll get access to this system completely free of charge.
  • RSS Feed Submission module
  • Social bookmarking poster module
  • PGB desktop command center. You simply install the PGB software on you computer and from there you can access the site building software and traffic related modules.
  • $0-6000 a month training plan – If you follow the system that the guys at PLRpro have put together you should be able to make between $2000 and $6000 every month.

There are many additional features that are available right now too many to tell you about in this article! Product reviews, the ability to drag and drop YouTube videos into your articles, aided rewriting of your articles to make them unique, weekly live training and more! Plus Project Green Button isn’t finished! There will be a second and third phase which will add even more modules that will assist in the building of site and generating traffic.

They could easily charge double or triple what they are charging for membership.

I’ve used the system to create a few sites and it works. I’m pleased with the sites I’ve created, I’m pleased with the quality of the PLR content and I’m excited about Project Green Button.

Now, as I said at the beginning of this article PLRpro is opening it’s doors this morning and it will likely only be for a short time as there are only 262 spots to fill. That’s it. When those 262 memberships are taken the doors will be closed again and likely won’t open again until sometime in 2009.

So if all that I’ve written above sounds like it might be something you’re interested in please go and check out the PLRpro website today.

Search Engine Strategy Basics

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How much you succeed can be directly tied to how much SEO work you do, good internet marketers know that SEO is very important.

Using SEO techniques you can ensure that your website comes up at the top of searches and you get a ton of new traffic to your site. The process of SEO involves choosing the best keywords for your website content.

In this article we’ll show you several key ways that you can optimize your site for search engine spiders.

  • Know all your keywords and make sure you use them not only in titles but in content too. Doing this will make sure that your niche specific keywords will come up high in the search engines when people are using them in searches. Having your site show up in search results will get you way more traffic.
  • When designing and building your website, make sure that your keywords are in your web page headings and sub-headings.
  • Have high quality, unique and fresh content on your website. Duplicate content can result in your website being penalized by search engines. Having fresh content means that your website will get indexed by search engines and more people will visit your website because you have useful content on your website.
  • Submit your site to lots of web directories. This will help your site get found more easily by search engines.
  • Make links with other sites that are similar. In and Outbound links can greatly improve the popularity of your website. To get lotsof inbound links, try article and forum marketing, simple tricks that can drive lots of traffic. Link exchanges with other similar sites will help.
  • Get a blog and use your keywords daily to post about things in your niche. This increases the authority and ranking of your blog so that you can rank better and get more visitors to your site.

These steps can help to increase your website ranking on major search engines, Follow them, use your keywords in everything you do and you’ll see more traffic directed to your websites.

What Is RSS?

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Do You Understand What RSS Is?

RSS can have more than one meaning behind it. Usually, RSS stands for “really simple syndication” but it can also mean “rich site summary” or “RDF site summary”.

The meaning behind, ’RDF’ is resource description framework. That should help explaining the meaning associated with RSS, now let’s look at what it can do.

Exactly what is RSS in the realm of really simple syndication? It is a tool that allows sites to give a quick summary of important links and descriptions in XML format. This essentially allows them to syndicate their content by allowing other blog owners and webmasters to use this summary as part of a list of summaries on a specific topic.

Webmasters and blogmasters will gather a number of these summaries using a feed aggregator or feed reader. Rather than asking, “what is RSS”, this tool will ask “where is RSS” and then find it.

The aggregator tool will locate RSS feeds and collect them from various sites such as, Yahoo and MSN, and will select smaller sites like a personal blog or a news sites.

The blogmasters and webmasters then take the script generated from the aggregator and insert it into their blogs. The RSS feed is then created in this way and will automatically start pulling news items and blog posts each time they come up. Whenever the blog or site page is refreshed, it will display the latest items.

Taking advantage of this tool is good for two reasons. By using your own RSS feed, you will be able to have your content distributed across the internet without having to pay each time you submit a press release, or contact other blog owners and webmasters.

If you have your own personal blog page, then by using an RSS feed you can add fresh content to it much easier and faster. This will allow you to constantly put new content links and summaries on your blog without spending the time to hunt around for related information. You just need to choose a feed aggregator to select the potential feeds you can use and these can be found on a list of news sites and authority blogs. Plus, you can create your own custom feeds by adding any of your own selections that you find.

Do you now understand the basics behind RSS? Simply put, using RSS is a very easy way to generate traffic to your blog and to display additional summaries you find on other blogs.

Wholesalers Dropshipping – Selecting The Correct One For You

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Out of all the online businesses available, the dropshipping business seems to be one of the best, especially for novices. This is because it only requires you to market the products of the wholesalers dropshipping supplier. Once you get an order and the payment from the client, you pay the dropshipping company their fee for shipping. The latter acts on the order and dispatches the product as per the requirement. The quality of the service the supplier offers will be critical to the growth of your business.

This is the reason why you need to know how to select the best, wholesale drop shipping supplier, if you want to succeed in this business. The shipper must be reliable, as this is critical to your business, and the shipper must provide reasonably priced products, as this will determine your profit and sales turnover. The quality of the products is also very important, as this will build your reputation, and lastly, products should be well stocked so the dispatch of an order will be fast and efficient. The reliability of a company can be checked by referring their name to the BBA, as well as running a check on the internet for information. Unreliable dropshipping companies can be a source of great embarrassment, not to mention losses. The quality of the dropshipping products can be checked by asking them for samples.

Another quality that you will require in your wholesalers dropshipping supplier is the ability to accommodate small orders, along with large orders. Ideally, there should not be a minimum limit on an order. This will be critical if you are new to the business, since initially you likely will be dealing with small orders. Though it is often difficult to find such suppliers, the trouble to find one will be well worth your trouble. This is one thing that you should negotiate with the drop shipping company in advance, since once you have the order from the client, it should be honored by your dropshipping supplier.

The quality of the wholesalers dropshipping supplier will directly impact the success of your business. It is therefore in your interest to identify the best there is online and enter into a contract with them. Among the most critical factors is the honesty and dependability of the drop shipping wholesale company, as this will generally cover all other requirements in the business. It is also imperative that you connect to such suppliers that do not impose any minimum amount of orders, making it easier for you to set up your business initially.

If you pay attention to the news, especially the financial news, then you know that today’s economy is significantly worse than it was last year. This downturn in the economy means that business owners have to be smarter about their expenses. They have to watch and carefully stick to a budget. Even drop shipping rates are under close scrutiny. If you are a business owner then you need all of the information possible on your shipping needs. Thankfully there are plenty of books and programs out on the market today to help you.

Some Great Tips For Ecommerce Web Sites

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The internet is the defining factor for business labeled as eCommerce as it is the essential medium to make it work.

Following a few simple rules are all that is needed to elicit a positive response from visitors.

The sales process is better with fewer steps

In good eCommerce design it has been demonstrated that there is a direct correlation between the number of clicks a person has to make in order to complete a purchase and the volume of people who abandon their shopping cart before checking out.

You need to make the checkout process as simple as possible on your eCommerce web site so that potential customers are not discouraged easily through poor navigation.

Ensure customers are aware of stock levels

Make sure that customers can check the availability of stock early on in the sales process.

Customers will quickly leave your site if you do not show them what stock is available. Purchasing on the web is easy and it is also easy to find another site to make your purchase.

Ensure web browser compatibility

Make sure you view your site in a variety of browsers to ensure that it is presented correctly. This really is a good rule of thumb for any site that you might be creating. Make sure that you at least view your site in Internet Explorer and Firefox as these are the two most commonly used browsers.

Use sensible words in your hyperlinks

Name your links appropriately using a sensible description that means something to your customers. For instance, ‘Music players section A’ is much less descriptive than ‘iPod Nano range’.

Double check your hyperlinks

Make sure that all the hyperlinks work on your site and that they click through to the correct destinations. Broken links will make your visitors think that your site is not professional.

Use Web graphics that are simple, clean and small in size

Graphics are great for illustration, but you need to ensure they are optimized for the web.

This means that you should use a graphics program such as Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Fireworks or perhaps one of the free ones that you can find on the web to reduce the file size of your graphic images in order to ensure that your eCommerce internet solution does not take too long to load its pages. Visitors tend to leave sites that load too slowly.

This exercise becomes a balancing act between quality versus file size, but usually a good compromise can be obtained.

Create a straightforward checkout process

The final stage of your eCommerce process is also the most stressful for your customer. You need to ensure that your customer is feels safe using your site to make a payment. That of course means that you need to provide a secure payment process in which they can entrust their personal details.

Most web hosts will offer the Secure Socket Layer method that ensures your site is encrypted to protect your customers personal details. Tell your customers about the security arrangements you have in place on your eCommerce web site in order to protect their personal information.

If you follow the tips outlined above then you will avoid most of the common pitfalls that you might encounter when developing your eCommerce web site.

VPS Web Hosting for Small Businesses

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If you are running a small business website and have grown your site to a point where you are attracting many hundreds or even thousands of visitors per day, you will need to start thinking about using a more powerful web hosting plan.

One solution may be to go out and order a dedicated server, but this option can be an expensive one. If you can’t afford a dedicated server at this point but require a similar site performance, then VPS web hosting may be a better solution for you.

VPS (virtual private server) hosting consists of one server divided into multiple isolated accounts, and each VPS account has its own independent operating system with it’s own web server and mail server resources, so there is no sharing of resources with other customers even though your accounts are on the same server. Just like a dedicated server, you can have access to all configuration files within your account which means a greater ability for you to install and run custom software if you’d like to.

VPS web hosting accounts are designed to cope with a high level of traffic. Most VPS plans provide bandwidth allowance of 100’s of gigabytes which is usually more than enough for most purposes, even for extremely popular websites.

While some experienced webmasters will want to manage the technical aspects of their VPS accounts, this can become a time-consuming and complicated task for the unprepared. This is one reason many people prefer to have their VPS web hosting accounts fully managed and monitored by the web hosting company. Sometimes you may need pay a few dollars per month more for this, but this can free up your valuable time and energy to concentrate on providing quality content and promoting your site.

VPS hosting plans usually cost considerably less than a dedicated server. A managed dedicated server might cost from $150 per month up to $300 per month or more, but you can expect to pay just $35-$50 per month for an entry-level, fully managed VPS hosting account and this will allow you to run multiple sites from one account. You should be provided with an operating system, control panel, your own allocation of RAM memory, plus large space and bandwidth resources. At least 256MB guaranteed ram is suggested in order to run your control panels and database driven sites smoothly. For higher traffic sites consider starting with 384MB or 512MB of guaranteed Ram or more.

Many websites that offer VPS hosting also offer cheap reseller hosting plans if you are interested in becoming a hosting reseller.

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