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Friday, June 5, 2009

Learn How To Make Money With Survey Referrals

Guest Post by Bruce Alan

Anyone who has searched for ways to make money online has probably bumped into one of the survey sites. These are the sites where you get paid to try different offers and fill out surveys. You can pick up some extra money doing this but not a lot as the surveys may pay anywhere from a quarter to a dollar and the offers not much more. People who join these sites either end up loving them because they can make a couple of dollars everyday or hating them because they can't make enough.

When you sign up for a survey site, and there are a lot of them, the chances are it has some sort of referral program. Most people have no idea what a referral program is and end up missing one of the best ways to make money. If you do a search online, you will be able to find lists of the many ways you can refer people to a site and if they use your link, you will get credit. Unfortunately, most of these lists only have offline ways to refer people such as printing up business cards and leaving flyers on cars. While these methods might work, they are no where near as effective as moving your referring efforts online.

Even online, many people attempt to get survey referrals in the wrong way. A common method is to sign up to many forums and include your link in the signature. Then they spend many hours every day looking through the forums and answering questions hoping their links will be seen and followed by the other forum members. This ends up being a lot of hard work for very little return as people in forums are quite Internet savvy and most have already heard about and signed up for surveys.

Anyone who wants to learn how to make referrals in the most efficient way needs to start a blog and learn how to drive targeted traffic to it. Once you get a steady stream of targeted traffic that converts, it is like opening up a water faucet and having the water pour out. Unfortunately, most poeple have little knowledge about blogs and even less knowledge about how to get traffic. Putting up a blog, writing articles for it, and getting traffic is not something that is done overnight. The process takes a tremendous amount of patience and it can take many months of hard work to become successful. If you do things correctly though, the end result can be worth it.

One of the best survey sites is called CashCrate and it is because of their referral system that they are the best. It is my belief that you can make more money with CashCrate referrals than referrals from any other site. They pay you for both first level referrals and second level referrals as well. As mentioned above though, most people have no idea how to go about making referrals and miss out on this part of the money. Although you can make money with the surveys, you can make so much more by getting the referrals and it is a shame that so many people never learn how to do it.

Author Bio

Bruce Alan shows you his CashCrate check payment proof and teaches you in detail how to make surveys for money referrals at his website.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Tips to Ensure Success with Your Email Marketing Efforts

Email marketing is something that many online business owners use to promote their offerings and make money online. However, if you do the wrong things with your email marketing campaign, your subscribers will want to opt out of your list. This will leave you without a platform to effectively communicate with the people who have already shown interest in what you have to offer. What's worse is that your online business will gain a bad reputation and people online will be less likely to trust you.

Newsletter publishing is the most popularly used email marketing strategy. This is because it is effective not only in attracting customers but in encouraging repeat purchases as well. For the success of your online business, you should consider launching an email marketing campaign composed of weekly newsletters. Make sure that all the emails you send out are informative and beneficial to your readers. If not, you can easily annoy them. Keep your emails short and link each one to relevant pages on your website. Make sure that the content of each one strikes the interest or curiosity of your readers so that they will want to read more. Also, keep the sales pitch off your email marketing campaign and focus on engaging your readers.

Another very important element of a successful email marketing campaign is regularity. Develop a schedule for sending out emails and stick with it. If you promised your subscribers an email once a week, make sure that's exactly what they will get. Also, send out your emails on the same day (and, if possible, the exact same time) every week. This will allow your subscribers to know when they should expect emails from you. If you send emails when your readers don't expect them, you not only make them more likely to ignore or delete your email but may also make them feel that your online business is unreliable. Doing that may also annoy your readers and prompt them to unsubscribe from your mailing list. Once they've done that, you can be sure that they will no longer support your online business.

Email marketing is something to take seriously as it can easily lead to the success or failure of your online business. Be sure that your readers have something to gain by being on your mailing list. Also, you should use your email marketing campaign to show that your online business is professional and trustworthy. Remember that the longer your readers stay subscribed to your mailing list, the more likely you are able to generate sales from them. In addition, the better the image you are able to portray through your email marketing campaign, the more likely your subscribers are to trust and patronize your online business.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

How to Make Money Online with Affiliate Programs

Guest Post by Trent Brownrigg

There are literally thousands of affiliate programs on the internet that you can join for free and market the products for commissions on each sale you make. Being an affiliate marketer is one of the best ways to make money online and here are some of the reasons why...

- You don't have to create a product
- You don't have to build the sales site
- You don't have to deal with customers or refunds
- You don't have to stock inventory
- You don't have to ship or deliver the product
- You don't have to do anything except market and get paid

As you can see there are several positives of affiliate marketing and those are not nearly all of them. There are also others such as the potential to earn thousands of dollars per month and the ease of entry into becoming an affiliate marketer.

Most people who work at a regular job could work at the same place their entire lives and still not earn as much money per year as a good affiliate marketer makes in a few months. It is very possible to make a very good living online by marketing products and services through affiliate programs.

Here are some tips on how to make money online with affiliate programs...

1) Pre-sell to Your Visitors

You need to warm up your website visitors to a product or service before all out selling it to them. This "warm up" process is called "pre-selling" and it is a great way to make more sales. Pre-selling on a blog or website usually involves posting a review or a personal experience you've had with the product. Don't just describe all the positives or your review won't feel genuine to the readers, you need to list any negatives as well.

2) Cost Per Action (CPA) Offers

One of the hottest ways to make money online right now is through CPA or pay per lead offers. This is great for affiliate marketers because it's almost always harder to generate a sale than it is to have someone fill out a simple online survey or submit their email address on a form. Sites like Market Leverage, Never Blue Ads, Azoogle, and many others have great CPA offers that can be a great addition to any affiliate website.

3) Build Your List

All the top affiliate marketers have a list of prospects that they can email any time they want to get several sales of any new affiliate offer they are promoting. To do this you will need to sign up with a reputable autoresponder service such as Aweber or GetResponse, and put up lead capture pages or opt-in forms on your website.

Your visitors will submit their names and email addresses, and you can email them anytime you want. It's best to send them free and useful information on a regular basis to keep a good relationship with them so they will buy from you when you do send them an affiliate offer.
You can't just hammer them with affiliate offers or they will opt-out and never buy from you again.

4) Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Getting your website to the top of Google and other search engines for your keywords is a sure way to get a lot of affiliate sales and make a lot of money. The traffic you get from having top search engine rankings will come in day after day with very little extra work on your part once you have the high rankings. And the visitors will be very targeted and looking for what you have to offer.

SEO isn't very difficult but it's also not something you can learn from one article. It's a whole other subject all in itself. Spend some time at internet marketing forums and you will be able to learn all you need to know about SEO in a short amount of time.

5) Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising

This can be a great way for an affiliate marketer to make a lot of sales but it isn't something you should get into very heavily until you have done some learning and know what you are doing. PPC seems really easy on the surface and the basics of it are quite simple, however you can waste a lot of money very quickly if you aren't careful.

Another thing you need to consider when making money with affiliate programs is to research properly before spending your time marketing an affiliate product or service. Find things that are selling well without an overwhelming amount of competition and make sure the product delivers on its promises. Your reputation is on the line so you don't want to be promoting crappy stuff, and you don't make money if the product doesn't sell.

Basically what I am trying to say is that affiliate marketing can be a great way to make
money at home
. So, don't hesitate any longer, go find an affiliate program that interests you and get started right now!

Author Bio:
Trent Brownrigg is an internet marketing strategies expert who has been making money online since 2003.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Four Reasons to Earn Money Using the Internet Now

Statistics show that everyday transactions are now being made online, not to mention buying as well as selling products, goods and services. This is how huge e-commerce has become today and this is something that you can use to your advantage.

Here are more reasons why you should use the web to earn money:

1) Easy and Effective Customer Service

It has been said that customers are always right. However, if the person on the other side of the table thinks otherwise, this could start a big feud. That is the trouble with face-to-face customer service. Phone-based customer service is also upsetting for customers who always end up hearing that busy tone and they'll spend so much time waiting just to talk to a service personnel. This could easily fuel their disappointment towards your business. Using the internet for customer service is easier and faster and you can do it just by using electronic mail.

2) Automated Workflow

There are a number of tasks you can automate using your computer as well as your internet connection. This means that your online business can function on a 24/7 time frame. With the power of e-commerce, payments and transactions can be made even when you are in a state of deep slumber. Many different automated systems can do different tasks for you so you can make money even while you sleep.

3) International Marketplace

The world is your market so you will not be restricted to the area where you reside. If you set up an online store, you can be visited by anyone from anywhere in the world. Advertising can also be done through online platforms so you will have an unlimited customer base. This also means that you can generate sales no matter what time of the day it is as one side of the world is awake while the other side sleeps.

4) Minimal Capitalization

Having an online business means allowing to you start making money even with very little capital to start with. Much of what you need to set up an online business is free or cost-effective. As long as you have a computer and an internet connection, you have the ability to make money online.

With all these benefits, you will surely find money making online a breeze.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Free Resouces Showing You How to Make Good Money with Affiliate Marketing Using PPC Advertising

I just came across some free training resources that you might want to check out. The resources are from a guy named Emil who has made a fortune on the Internet with pay per click (PPC) campaigns and affiliate programs.

The training resources include:

- An e-book called PPC Bully Blueprint
- Training videos #1 - How To Make With Clickbank Affiliate Product!
- Training videos #2 - Cash In On International Markets
- Training videos #3 - How To Make A Killing Promoting CPA Offers!

If you just started on using PPC advertising for affiliate marketing to make money online, you will know how hard it can be. Researching other people PPC advertising campaigns are important to your success. Emil learned the hard way. And now he released PPC Bully Blueprint and three training videos to help you out.

If you like to have access to all the resources, just enter you name and email address in http://ppcbully.com/launch/ and you will learn practical PPC tips and tricks from Emil right away.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Preparing Yourself for an Online Business Before You Quit Your Day Job

Tons of people daydream about resigning from their jobs so they can put up a home-based business and begin earning money online. While some quickly act to make their dreams come true, others are simply too afraid to risk losing a stable income. If you are among those who hope to make the transition from being a mere employee to being a flourishing web entrepreneur, you should know that there are a number of factors that will contribute to the success of your future online business. And, unless you are ready to provide all those factors, it might be wise to keep your day job in the meantime.

Among the most important factors that will contribute to the success of your online business is your dedication as a web entrepreneur. It will not enough for you to treat your online business as a hobby or as a means to earn extra income. If you want to quit your day job and make a living out of your online business, you need to be ready to dedicate yourself to it and focus all your time and effort on running it. You will also need to spend enough time learning everything you can to help you run your online business properly. Ideally, before you quit your day job, you would have already planned out your online business and have taken steps to learn everything about the niche you want to penetrate, the target market you want to focus on, and the most effective internet marketing strategies.

Another very important factor is your network. To really succeed in making money online, you need to have a network of like-minded entrepreneurs. You also need to establish your online reputation within the niche you want to penetrate. If this is something you haven't done, you should keep your day job in the mean time but start being active in relevant online communities. Begin to establish your online reputation now so that there will already be people who will patronize you as soon as you launch your online business.

Also, a lucrative online business venture entails providing exceptional customer service. No matter what your online business involves, you need to understand that you must go out of your way to take care of and please your customers. Keep in mind that it is always more costly to acquire new customers than it is to keep them. One of your tasks in taking care of your customers would be to communicate with them as regularly as possible. You will also need to reply to their queries at the soonest possible time. If you aren't available to address them when they need you, they can easily lose interest in your business. This is also among the most important reasons why people who truly want to be successful in making money online should not treat their online business as a sideline.

Before you quit your day job, you need to be sure that you have everything it takes to start and maintain a successful online business. Once you have the pre-requisites of a lucrative online business, your transition from a mere employee to a successful web entrepreneur won't be so difficult.

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