Archive for September, 2009

Forum Marketing: Don’t Be A Spammy Jerk

I’m writing this post because there’s a particular forum that I am a member of, and it has nothing to do with internet marketing whatsoever. It is a gaming site, specifically, it is about digital rights management and gaming, yet,  as the site grows in popularity, more and more people join simply to market their stuff.

Home Based Business Ideas: Staying Motivated

Running a home business can be profitable and rewarding. It can also be frustrating and downright depressing, especially in the beginning stages. Dealing with the ups and downs of working for yourself is challenging. In this post, I am going to give you some simple tips for staying motivated as you build your business.

When you’re first starting out, give yourself a break if you make mistakes. It’s a learning process and making mistakes is how you learn. When they happen,  roll with them, learn from them, but don’t beat yourself up about them.

For Affiliate Marketers: Using Adwords Wisely

Google Adwords is the premier pay-per-click advertising service on the Internet and it has the most reach due to the size of Google’s network.  Therefore, it is no surprise that many successful affiliate marketers use Google Adwords to advertise.

That being said, unless you know what you’re doing, Adwords can quickly eat up your advertising budget and leave you with no sales for your trouble.  You can avoid making costly Adwords mistakes by following the tips I am about to share with you.

Get Your Own Domain

ClickBank Pirate Review

Clickbank Pirate bills itself as a “plug and play” affiliate marketing system,  which means that a lot of the affiliate set up is handled by the program and all you need to do is send traffic to it and you can make money.

The Clickbank Pirate program offers the following:

  • Different Clickbank products to sell each month, all of them in the make money online niche.
  • Pre-fabricated squeeze pages attached to an autoresponder which is loaded with pre-written emails for creating an email list and following up with leads.
  • Hosting for the squeeze pages and a blog.

How To Find Legitimate Work From Home Opportunties

Finding legitimate work from home opportunities can be a daunting task. With all of the schemes out there and all of the hype it is hard to know what is genuine and what is not.

Google Is Your Friend

A great trick for rooting out scams or for finding out if an opportunity is more hype than truth is to google the opportunity name and add the word “scam” after it. You will get search results on pretty much anything you put in there, so read through a few of them. If it sounds more like disgruntled customers, then the opportunity is genuine.

Top Five Reasons To Work From Home

With unemployment shooting through the roof, there has never been a better time to consider running your own internet business. While having your own business is less financially secure than having a job is, it does have some benefits that can make the risk worth it.If you’ve found yourself unemployed, now may be a great time to look at working for yourself.

1: Be your own boss

If you’ve ever had to deal with a nasty boss, then you’ll love working for yourself. You won’t have to answer to anyone or have anyone breathing down your neck, micromanaging everything that you do.

Why Traffic Exchanges Don’t Work

If you’re looking for a low to no cost way to get traffic to your website, odds are that you’ve heard of traffic exchanges. You may have even had them recommended to you as a good source of traffic.

A traffic exchange is a website featuring a rotator where you can get your site seen in exchange for viewing other people’s sites. How many times your site will be seen is often based on credits, which must be either earned by viewing others’ websites for period of time, often between 30 and 60 seconds, or on some traffic exchanges, you can purchase credits. Your site will continue to be shown in rotation with other’s sites as long as you have credits in your account.

CPA Affiliates: Zero Friction Marketing Review

Zero Friction Marketing is a program that teaches you how to make money with CPA affiliate networks using MSN Adcenter as well as other CPC providers.

The program was created by Sal P., a 25 year old internet marketer from the UK.  His specialty is affiliate marketing and he has created other products related to that such as the 4 Tier  Annihilation Method, Affiliate Payload,  The Site Rush, and Affiliate Funnel System.

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