Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
In my visits to money making forums, I often come across questions like “how do I make money for free”, “can anyone make any money without a list” or “is it possible to make money as an affiliate”?
There are 4 simple ways to make money online if you are starting out and do not own a list, a product and simply do not have a single penny to spend.
1. Writing Articles and Selling Them
A very straightforward method is to sell original articles. You can either use project-based communities like Elance, Scriptlance and GetaFreeLancer to find work as a writer. Project assignments go for around $3 – 10 per article written depending on your skill level and reputation.
Alternatively, you can simply write a set of articles on a hot topic like dog training, dating and so on. Then sell them as PLR articles at forums like Digital Point forum. Go to all the money making forums and promote the sale. But the trick is to price each article below $1. If you can sell a batch of 10 articles @ $10 to 20 or 30 buyers, that is $200 – 300 in your pocket. Not too bad if you can do it every day!
2. Direct Affiliate Marketing
Since you do not own a product, you can simply sign up as an affiliate in ClickBank. This is the first step. The next step is to drive tons of traffic to your link.
Direct Linking Method
Basically, what this means is you promote the affiliate link directly. You can use a signature link that points to your affiliate link and be active in forums.
Go and post at least 10 interesting posts a day in each forum. Repeat it for as many forums as possible, minimum 10 forums. By doing so, you have 100 posts scattered around and 100 chances of getting some targeted eyeballs on your signature. Be creative and make some outrageous or catchy signature like “How to Make $100 Within 2 Hours”.
You can also leave your affiliate link in blog comments as well as free classified ad sites like Craiglist, BackPage, EPage etc.
Try this and do not be surprised that you will start seeing sales streaming in. One of my readers was so thankful when he made 2 sales shortly after doing so. While that is not a lot, but for a newbie, it can be very encouraging.
But one word of advice, try not to send all the traffic directly to the sales page unless the sales page converts really well! Otherwise, it makes sense to presell your prospect first.
Presell Method
This requires more work but it works like a charm. Do a review of the product be it at Squidoo, HubPages or EzineArticles. Direct the traffic to the affiliate product (EzineArticles require a website, so why not direct the traffic to a Squidoo lens you have created?)
Reviews are known to improve conversions by many fold. I personally tested it and found in one case that it actually improved the conversion rate from 1% to 5%.
Start driving traffic to your review pages using article submission, blog comment posting and forum posting.
Anyway, these are all free to set up, so why not?
3. Blogging
Go and start a free blog at Blogger or WordPress. Pick an expensive topic like Mortgage, Debt and so on.
Start blogging and update the blog frequently.
Do not use Google Adsense immediately. I discovered that it does not help you in the search engine rankings when you slap those ads on your blog while it is still fresh and new. Google often see these new blogs with Adsense ads as trashy “made for Adsense” sites and never love them.
But that does not mean you cannot put other affiliate product banners on it. 
Build it for a while, at least a month or two before you put Adsense on it and you are safe and ready to receive expensive clicks.
One important thing you need to do is to ping your blog after posting. Ping it at http://www.Pingoat.com to inform the feed directories that your blog has been updated.
Building backlinks to your blog is vital. There are many free methods like article marketing, bum marketing, blog comment posting, forum posting and link exchange.
From this method, you are monetizing your blog by earning when someone clicks through your affiliate product banners and buys the products and click on the Adsense ads.
Once your blog hits a good PR, you can even start selling text link and banner ads on your blog. Participate in Adbrite or other ad networks for more cash.
4. Sell Your Own Products
This sounds contradictory. How do you sell your own products without creating one? Well, you can always download any product and treat it as your own by participating in giveaways like:
Viral Marketing Giveaway 11 – Download Your Free Gifts Now!
The IM Giveaway – The Most Massive Giveaway With Thousands Dollars Worth Of Gifts
There are tons of free ebooks, templates and scripts with Master Resale Rights and Private Label Rights (PLR). You can simply resell them for profits.
How to set it up?
Go to one of the free web hosts that allow you to upload web pages and files.
You will be able to find a lot of free web hosting services at http://www.free-webhosts.com.
Upload the sales page, download page and report. These are included in the resale rights packages.
Create a PayPal button for your customer to pay you.
How to promote the product?
Simply apply the methods I described in 1, 2 & 3.
So, here you have 4 really simple to follow methods to make money online without a product, a list and even budget. All the above are free techniques that work!
Once you have a hang of these methods, it is time to proceed to more advanced techniques as an experienced marketer.
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, Forum Marketing, Free Money Making Methods, General, Giveaway Events, Online Marketing Learning | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Ebay Crusher is set to rock the internet marketing on the 08 May 2008, this Thursday. You may not know the author of this report David Fransko, better known online as BillyA but this man is quite well known as a former eBay Powerseller. Coined as Ebay Crusher, it is designed as a revolutionary new system to make money on eBay.
How Did Ebay Crusher Come About?
David Fransko having sold products successfully as an eBay Powerselller and later delved into affiliate marketing, he discovered 2 challenges that are peculiar to the eBay seller and affiliate marketers respectively. For the eBay seller, it is becoming tougher to find profitable products to sell. As for the affiliate marketer, driving sustainable traffic is always the mammoth challenge of every affiliate. With rising PPC costs and the ever-changing search engine algorithm, many affiliates, newbies and veterans alike are facing a great deal of pressure trying to capture more sales.
This is why Ebay Crusher was born, to solve the traffic problem as well as solve the product issue.
I had the chance to review this report and so I thought, hmmm…why not? But as usual, I shall cover this Ebay Crusher review from a third party standpoint and give you my honest take on it.
This report is a 47-page report covering 9 chapters of tips and tricks of making money online using eBay and affiliate programs. No prizes for guessing this right.
But this report covers a lot more about affiliate marketing, targeting affiliate marketers mainly leaving only the last chapter to the usual eBay folks who have been making money from selling digital products.
I shall spill the beans about the gist of each chapter. If you want to know the full story, do go and download the book.
At the time of this writing, David Fransko is offering a free copy of “No Brainer Secrets to Selling On Ebay” so be sure to go download it. Oh yes, you can watch a video right there that illustrates the entire EBay Crusher system.
Chapter 1 talks about how you can make money without selling anything of your own. Hint: Think affiliate marketing.
Chapter 2 reveals the main secret of the report, The Ebay Crusher Method. Pss…this is an eye opener to me as I have not seen many affiliates doing this at all and the profit potential is limitless. I love this chapter the most!
Chapter 3 spills it all about which are the most sellable kind of products on eBay. This step is necessary to prevent wasting time and money promoting worthless products that cannot sell at all.
Chapter 4 teaches you a really sneaky trick to take advantage of product launches and sell tons of it without even owning a LIST!
Chapter 5 – 7 are pretty standard stuff which you probably already know as an affiliate marketer. I do not find it special but just some stuff that you can read elsewhere.
Chapter 8 teaches you a cool tip to stay ahead of your competition and sell only things that sell well. It saves you a lot of time researching and selling the wrong products so that you can start profiting quickly.
Chapter 9 talks about the dilemma of all digital sellers. If you use eBay either to sell cheap $0.99 digital products to build your list, LISTEN UP! This chapter will save your business and life!
By now, everyone must have heard about eBay’s recent ruling to restrict instant downloads in their auctions. Basically, in the auctions, everyone needs to offer a physical product and ship it to their customers. For those who have been selling cheap digital ebooks to build their list are the hardest hit as you can no longer do so. It feels like losing a limp or arm and I can understand.
Ebay Crusher in this final chapter reveals a secret trick to overcome this problem and get you back on the map faster, leaner and even stronger. So at the end of the day, you may even thank eBay for coming up with this rule as it has gotten rid of your competitors in the process. Few marketers know this secret method and if you know it, then you have the cutting edge to put more money in your pockets.
Priced at $77, this amount can easily be recouped by applying the step-by-step blueprint. The steps are easy to follow and David Fransko has made it a point to illustrate everything with screen shots and simple instructions in a “do this, click that” manner.
The Ebay Crusher report is written for the affiliate marketer and it does not matter what level of marketing skills you are at, anyone can follow and profit. For those who have been slapped by eBay because of its “no instant digital download” rule, this system is a life-saver.
If you are thinking of downloading the report, I encourage you to do so here and I shall throw in some really cool Ebay Crusher bonuses worth at least $300 for you.
All you have to do is buy the product through the link below, then place a comment here “I want my Ebay Crusher Bonuses and your ClickBank receipt number” and I shall get in touch with you.
Posted in General, Online Marketing Learning, Product Reviews | 13 Comments »
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Giveaways or Giveaway events are great places for all internet marketers. You can download tons of free gifts. There are ebooks, software, guides and memberships and many of them even come with full resale rights. What this means is that you not only can use them personally, you can also sell them to someone else and profit from them.
A lot of these giveaway events give away hundreds of products created and contributed by the giveaway partners. You do not need to pay a single cent but can sink your teeth into dozens of quality products. Participate in one of such event and you can set up an entire bookstore selling all these products. Wow!
You get your products, the contributors get to build their lists. It is quite a fair deal and in most cases, the people who come for the freebies are the ones who gain the most.
So if you are wondering what are the Giveaway events taking place now, here’s some details:
1. Viral Marketing Giveaway 11
This event gives you over 300 hot and fresh Internet marketing ebooks, software packages, guides, and memberships – many with Resell Rights you can turn around and sell for big PROFITS! Download them all, or just the ones you want.
If you’re interested in building a subscriber list and have a gift to contribute, you should check out Viral Marketing Giveaway 11.
It’s designed for people who want to start or grow an online business because it offers tools in all the key aspects of online marketing – from setting up websites and list building to converting sales and creating joint ventures.
Check out Viral Marketing Giveaway 11 now!
2. Lightning Giveaway 4
Mike Mazzella and David Thompson have come up with the latest Lightning Giveaway 4 Giveaway Event. This giveaway is different from most that you see. Both Mike and David have managed to arm twist online marketers including myself to contribute brand new products that you have not seen anywhere else. You get to download quality reports, software etc from the likes of:
Jason James
Soren Jordansen
Denise Hall
Doug Champigny
Jason Dinner
Reed Floren
Mike Steup
Mike Mazzella
Larry Dotson
Xavier Nelson
Earl Day
Kez Engineer
Matthew Griffin
Gregg Hall
Michelle Brouse
Joel Osborne
Stephanie Mulac
James Jackson
Barry Richardson
Jim Miller
Jordan Hall
Brad Smith
Richard Wing
Jamie Bing
Matt Ng
John Rogers
Tuks Engineer
Kathe Lucas
Daniel McGonagle
Ken Reno
David Thompson
Gina Gaudio Graves
Joe Gilharry
Edmund Loh
Aurelius Tjin
Alex Sysoef
Rick Macaulay
Shelby Carr
Greg Lloyd
Todd Gross
Mieke Janssens
Melvin Ng
Pete Hall
Julius Moltgen
Scott Case
Davion Wong
Go and download your gifts before the event closes. It will be open only for 14 Days!
Here’s your invitation link.
Lightning Giveaway 4 Special Invitation Link
If you own a list of more than 5000, you can join in as a JV member. Here’s the JV invitation link. Only on my special invitation.
Lightning Giveaway 4 Special JV Invitation Link
Posted in General, Giveaway Events, Joint Venture, Online Marketing Learning | No Comments »
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Have you heard of GistWeb? If not, this is the latest free tool developed by Jonathan Leger. Jon has been pumping out many free and paid software that are useful for marketers especially affiliate marketers. This online tool is intended for people who find content research a chore.
Any affiliate marketer alive would know that writing good quality unique content is the lifeline of content publishing. Your blogs and websites need content to improve readership. Your article marketing efforts need unique content to capture the attention of the search engines to achieve good rankings.
But the trouble is, to create unique content, there are only 2 main ways. Either you write it yourself which takes tons of time and a lot of brain juice and creativity or you pay for your content.
Writing everything yourself can be time-consuming. It takes time to conduct research for the information and organize them properly before you can write a good blog post or article.
Another way is to hire someone to write for you. This may help you to get away from writing your own content, but getting somebody to write unique content for you can cost a lot of money. This is especially so if you own a lot of websites and blogs, monetized for Adsense or affiliate programs.
GistWeb.com is able to overcome both sets of problems – cost and time. Firstly, it is a free service anyone can use. Secondly, it takes only a minute for it to work.
What can GistWeb do for you?
It pulls out the gist of search results, organize them nicely into summaries of different lengths. You simply input the keyword you are interested to research on and it will go searching the web for related information. You can use the short, medium or long summary as you wish.
While it takes a little time to organize the content a bit, you will realize that it is a really cool tool to conduct online research for useful information.
Try out GistWeb today to conduct your content research and start churning out unique content as fast as lightning!
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, General, Online Marketing Learning | 4 Comments »
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I have compiled a huge list of social bookmarking sites, about 200 sites in total that you can bookmark at. There are some niche ones. I have decided to be nice to you by sharing it here. Majority do have a PR, while the newer ones do not have any PR at all, but that is just a small handful.
In my previous post, I have explained the beauty of social bookmarking in getting free high PR links to your websites. It is also one of the best and FREE way of ranking the deep pages of your websites.
If you search around online, there are not really too many effective ways to get quality high PR links for internal webpages.
Social bookmarking your blog posts, individual web pages and so on only takes a minute. If you are like me who is too lazy to do it manually, hire someone to do so. It can be a school going kid who just wants to earn some pocket allowance.
Or head over to Scriptlance, GetaFreeLancer or money making forums like SitePoint, DP Forums, Wicked Fire etc to hire. It probably will cost you about $0.10 to $0.20 per post. Multiply that by 200 posts at all the social bookmarking websites will only cost you about $20 to $40.
That kind of money will probably just buy you a good link from a PR 3 or 4 site at best. But remember to alternate your titles and descriptions so that they are not spammy looking.
1. http://www.furl.net – PR 8
2. http://www.backflip.com – PR 7
3. http://www.blinklist.com – PR 5
4. http://www.blogmemes.net – PR 5
5. http://jots.com – PR 6
6. http://www.linkroll.com – PR 6
7. http://www.looklater.com – PR 5
8. http://ma.gnolia.com – PR 5
9. http://www.maple.nu – PR 4
10. http://www.markaboo.com – PR 3
11. http://www.rawsugar.com/search – PR 6
12. http://www.shadows.com – PR 7
13. http://simpy.com – PR 4
14. http://www.spurl.net – PR 6
15. http://wink.com – PR 6
16. http://www.stumbleupon.com – PR 7
17. http://www.kaboodle.com – PR 7
18. http://www.clipmarks.com – PR 4
19. http://www.tagtooga.com/db.tag – PR 5
20. http://bluedot.us/friends/dots – PR 6
21. http://del.icio.us – PR8
22. http://www.fark.com – PR8
23. http://www.furl.net – PR8
24. http://www.kuro5hin.org – PR8
25. http://www.technorati.com – PR8
26. http://www.bloghop.com – PR7
27. http://www.blogpulse.com – PR7
28. http://www.connectedy.com – PR7
29. http://www.digg.com – PR7
30. http://www.google.com/notebook – PR7
31. http://www.icerocket.com – PR7
32. http://kinja.com – PR7
33. http://www.librarything.com – PR7
34. http://www.newsvine.com – PR7
35. http://www.nextaris.com – PR7
36. http://www.shadows.com – PR7
37. http://www.stumbleupon.com – PR7
38. http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com – PR7
39. http://www.backflip.com/login.ihtml – PR6
40. http://www.beanrocket.com – PR6
41. http://www.blinklist.com – PR6
42. http://www.blogmarks.net – PR6
43. http://buddymarks.com – PR6
44. http://www.citeulike.org – PR6
45. http://www.cluebacca.com – PR6
46. http://www.diigo.com – PR6
47. http://www.feedmarker.com – PR6
48. http://frassle.net – PR6
49. http://www.gibeo.net – PR6
50. http://www.hanzoweb.com – PR6
51. http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks – PR6
52. http://www.jots.com – PR6
53. http://www.kaboodle.com – PR6
54. http://linkfilter.net – PR6
55. http://www.linkroll.com – PR6
56. http://listmixer.com – PR6
57. http://maple.nu – PR6
58. http://www.mecanbe.com/temp/default.aspx – PR6
59. http://myprogs.net – PR6
60. http://www.mystickies.com – PR6
61. http://www.netvouz.com – PR6
62. http://www.nowpublic.com – PR6
63. http://www.rollyo.com – PR6
64. http://scuttle.org – PR6
65. http://www.simpy.com – PR6
66. http://www.spurl.net – PR6
67. http://suckingfish.com/welcome.do – PR6
68. http://supr.c.ilio.us – PR6
69. http://www.tailrank.com – PR6
70. http://www.wists.com – PR6
71. http://www.wurldbook.com/info – PR6
72. http://www.yoono.com – PR6
73. http://www.clipfire.com – PR6
74. http://www.30daytags.com/fresh – PR5
75. http://adoppt.com – PR5
76. http://www.ambedo.com – PR5
77. http://www.blogmemes.net – PR5
78. http://www.bookmark-manager.com – PR5
79. http://www.bookmarktracker.com – PR5
80. http://www.browsr.com – PR5
81. https://www.chipmark.com – PR5
82. http://www.connectedy.com – PR5
83. http://www.dinnerbuzz.com – PR5
84. http://www.fantacular.com – PR5
85. http://www.feedalley.com – PR5
86. http://www.filangy.com/index.jsp – PR5
87. http://www.gather.com – PR5
88. http://gnafi.com – PR5
89. http://www.gravee.com – PR5
90. http://www.igooi.com – PR5
91. http://www.jeteye.com – PR5
92. http://www.kmfavorites.com – PR5
93. http://www.lifelogger.com – PR5
94. http://www.linkagogo.com/go/Home – PR5
95. http://www.lookupthis.com/online/signin.asp – PR5
96. http://www.lookmarks.com – PR5
97. http://meneame.net – PR5
98. http://www.millionsofgames.com – PR5
99. http://motor.crispynews.com – PR5
100. http://www.mybookmarkmanager.com – PR5
101. http://www.myhq.com – PR5
102. http://www.mylinkvault.com – PR5
103. http://www.mypip.com/home – PR5
104. http://www.myvmarks.com – PR5
105. http://www.openbm.de – PR5
106. http://tags.library.upenn.edu – PR5
107. http://www.peoplefeeds.com – PR5
108. http://www.phigita.net – PR5
109. http://www.pligg.com – PR5
110. http://www.portachi.com – PR5
111. http://www.rrove.com/home – PR5
112. http://segnalo.alice.it – PR5
113. http://www.shoutwire.com – PR5
114. http://www.sitejot.com – PR5
115. http://www.squidoo.com – PR5
116. http://www.stylehive.com – PR5
117. http://www.tabmarks.com – PR5
118. http://unalog.com – PR5
119. http://yummy.printfu.org – PR5
120. http://www.youtube.com – PR5
121. http://www.zurpy.com – PR5
122. http://aworldofhelp.com/home/index2.htm – PR4
123. http://www.allmyfavorites.net – PR4
124. http://articletag.com/index.php – PR4
125. http://www.blinkbits.com – PR4
126. http://www.bmaccess.net – PR4
127. http://www.bookkit.com – PR4
128. http://www.butterflyproject.nl – PR4
129. http://www.clipclip.org – PR4
130. http://www.clipmarks.com – PR4
131. http://www.esnips.com/signin/index.jsp – PR4
132. http://www.favmark.com – PR4
133. http://3form.com – PR4
134. http://www.Givealink.org – PR4
135. http://www.guicookies.com – PR4
136. http://indiagram.com/index.php – PR4
137. http://www.linkarena.com – PR4
138. http://www.linkologia.pl – PR4
139. http://www.oyax.com – PR4
140. http://www.peoplefeeds.com – PR4
141. http://www.rawsugar.com/index.faces – PR4
142. http://www.stanmx.com/sabrosus – PR4
143. http://www.stylefeeder.com – PR4
144. http://www.taghop.com – PR4
145. http://www.ticklr.net – PR4
146. http://www.urlex.info – PR4
147. http://my.xilinus.com – PR4
148. http://www.de.lirio.us – PR3
149. http://www.eigology.com/dogear – PR3
150. http://dohat.com/dohathome3.html – PR3
151. http://www.favoor.com – PR3
152. http://feedmelinks.com/portalc – PR3
153. http://www.flipskipper.com – PR3
154. http://www.i89.us – PR3
155. http://www.lilisto.com – PR3
156. https://ma.gnolia.com – PR3
157. http://www.meme-stream.com – PR3
158. http://www.onlywire.com – PR3
159. http://tagsy.com – PR3
160. http://6-clicks.com – PR2
161. http://www.bloglot.com – PR2
162. http://www.crispynews.com/global – PR2
163. http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com – PR2
164. http://www.indiamarks.com – PR2
165. http://www.listible.com – PR2
166. http://www.sitetagger.com – PR2
167. http://www.smarking.com – PR2
168. http://www.30daytags.com/fresh – PR1
169. http://www.getboo.com – PR1
170. http://www.syncone.net – PR1
171. http://www.blabb.com/user/blabb.php – PR0
172. http://bookmarks.blauerbote.com – PR0
173. http://bluedot.us/friends/dots – PR0
174. http://www.collectfavorites.com – PR0
175. http://www.complore.com – PR0
176. http://www.eggkeg.com – PR0
177. http://www.fatredfish.com – PR0
178. http://www.forumsofindia.com – PR0
179. http://www.fungow.com – PR0
180. http://mybookmark.gokodo.com – PR0
181. http://www.goobtoob.com – PR0
182. http://linkatopia.com – PR0
183. http://www.linklog.nl – PR0
184. http://www.markaboo.com – PR0
185. http://www.minddeposit.com – PR0
186. http://www.pixelmo.com – PR0
187. http://popurls.com – PR0
188. http://recommendit.dehsoftware.com – PR0
189. http://www.reddit.com – PR0
190. http://www.rojo.com – PR0
191. http://say.something-everything.com – PR0
192. http://www.searchles.com – PR0
193. http://www.shoppersbase.com – PR0
194. http://socialbookmarking.org – PR0
195. http://www.taganiche.com – PR0
196. http://www.tagtooga.com/db.tag – PR0
197. http://thumblicio.us – PR0
198. http://www.tutorialism.com – PR0
199. http://www.ticklr.net – PR0
200. http://www.wirefan.com – PR0
Do you know of any other social bookmarking websites? Feel free to list them here.
Posted in General, Online Marketing Learning, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Web Traffic | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Social bookmarking first started innocently as a tool quite similar to our browser’s “Save favourite” feature.
The original intention of social bookmarking our favourite webpages was to make these pages available wherever we go. In the past, when we see a website we like or frequently visit, we will save it. But we can only access that using the same computer.
With social bookmarking, you can bookmark any favourite website and still be able to locate it anywhere as long as you have an internet access.
So what has this got to do with internet marketing or making money online?
Let me share a bit more with you.
1. Get Top 10 Ranking in Google for Long-tail Keywords
A simple experiment I did revealed that social bookmarking can boost your search engine rankings! Subsequently, I have used the same method to obtain high rankings for many other keywords. Social bookmarking sites typically have high PRs and placing your links there will give your websites a boost.
Basically, what I did was to social bookmark a blog I own http://articlesubmissionservice.wise-tips.com using the keyword “article submission service review”.
After a few weeks, it is now ranked No.1 in Google for the search term “article submission service review” out of close to 7 million search results.
2. Fast Indexing
Submitting your sites to Web 2.0 authority sites like Digg, Stumbleupon and Propeller can get your webpages indexed quickly. People often complain of slow indexing especially for internal pages.
This is the surest and quickest way to get instant indexing. It takes as fast as a few hours.
3. Selling Without a Website
I personally have seen how people have social bookmarked direct affiliate links. Though I have not done it, but by virtue of seeing it happen so many times, they must be doing something correctly. Since you determine what tag to use, it is easier for you to rank well in the search results of each social bookmarking site than seeing zero hope in ranking in the search engines for an affiliate link, for example a Clickbank hop link.
The whole idea is that Social Bookmarking sites are seeing more traffic from targeted searchers. While my feel is that such traffic are not of the highest quality and many are simply window shoppers or information browsers, it can still add up especially if you manage to get people to vote for your bookmarks.
Digg has a voting system and those sites that manage to get a good number of votes within 24 to 48 hours stand a good chance to stay on top of the category. This can mean 1000s of free visitors.
At the same time, I have also seen MSN ranking hop links in their search engine. Could this be the doing of social bookmarking? Quite likely.
A suggestion here though I have not tried it is to take a newly launched product’s hop link and social bookmark it to 100s of sites. Observe for a while and see if it ranks. Who knows someone who is searching for it will find your link in Del.icio.us?
The exact steps to do social bookmarking properly:
1. Decide a page you want to rank for. It can be the home page of your site or internal page.
2. Create an appropriate title. Research on the keyword you are trying to rank the page for. Make sure that the keyword is also the target keyword of your content. Do not even attempt to try to rank a webpage on the topic of list building for the keyword “making money with surveys”. It just won’t work.
3. Research on the tags. One clue is to look at the tag cloud at each social bookmarking site to get an idea of the most popular tags. If it is relevant to your webpage, use it. Tagging your bookmark with popular tags will get you some good traffic.
4. Social bookmark at as many social bookmarking sites as possible.
I personally have found 2 free automatic social bookmarking tools that are very useful. Each can post your bookmark to over 15 social bookmarking sites, so in total, you get your social bookmarks listed on over 30 top high PR bookmarking websites.
They are Onlywire.com and GetBookmark.com. GetBookmark.com is somewhat new but works fine. You can just drag and drop it into your browser and go to each of your webpage and bookmark conveniently.
5. Be Creative
Create attractive titles and descriptions, but do not forget to use the target keywords.
Alternate your titles and descriptions for different social bookmarking sites to avoid looking spammy to the search engines.
Go ahead and social bookmark your websites for more traffic, sales and subscribers.
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
By now, you would have heard of Ewen Chia or for that matter his latest Working from Home Secret Report. He is my fellow countryman, friend and someone whom I do respect a lot. Why?
Partly because I have known how hard he worked his way to today’s status as the Secret Weapon of Super Affiliates. But largely because he often over deliver on his products. Do not expect B.S from this guy.
This is the man behind successful products like AutoPilot Profits and Secret Affiliate Weapon. These reports continue to sell well on ClickBank. But I am still curious to know how this new system works and whether he can live up to my expectations.
But what exactly is Ewen Chia’s Working from Home System about? 15th April is the first day of the pre-launch to announce the arrival of this new income system.
Well, I downloaded his free report titled “HOW TO GET RICH FROM HOME IN JUST 5 SIMPLE STEPS!” or you can watch his video here:
Watch the video at Ewen Chia’s Working from Home website now!
After watching the video and reading through the 5 simple steps to get rich from home on the internet, I must say that it is still refreshing as ever. You can download the report for free without opting in to any list. So go ahead and do so.
In his 5 steps report, he covers the essential 5 steps to start making real money online fast.
1. Finding a Rabid Marketing With Huge Growing Demand
This is good old wisdom but most affiliates miss this out completely. Ewen Chia advocates in his free report that any online marketer should find a market that has ready buyers and a continuous need to consume.
The golfing and the “work from home” niches fit in the bill nicely. Rather than to sell to a market that will only buy from you once, for example, how to get rid of cockroaches, why not sell golf balls, golf equipment, golf memberships in the golf market or sell “traffic building”, “Google Adwords”, “make money online” reports and memberships to the “working from home” market?
Of course, this step involves doing some keyword research.
2. Finding an Excellent Product as a Solution to People’s Problems
In the free report, he points out the need to focus on 1 product rather than 100 of products. Just 1 excellent product is good enough. Quite frankly, I do not fully agree with him. The reason is simple – never put all your eggs in one basket no matter how good the product is.
But he does point out in this report at Workingfromhome.com that it is important for the affiliate program to pay the affiliates well. At least 50% commissions are reasonable for a digital product. This point, I fully agree.
Another gold nugget of advice which I always tell my subscribers is this, make sure the affiliate program comes with a complete set of affiliate tools such as emails, banner ads, PPC keywords, classified ads etc. I am so glad Ewen did that in his report from Working from Home.
3. Complete Sales Funnel
Kudos to him on this point about complete sales funnel. This is something that I often find missing in most make money online books I buy. A complete sales funnel does not only sell the prospect on the upfront, but it has an up-sell and a backend.
Simply put, earning a $25 per sale from a $50 product should never be your end in mind.
A complete sales funnel will allow you the affiliate earn on the upfront, up-sell and backend. Sad to say, many affiliate marketing programs perform poorly in this.
On the contrary, any product that does provide the complete sales funnel to its affiliates is likely to be a winner for a long time to come.
4. Focus on Money Making Activities
This is a practical thinking tip and I like that because I am a firm believer in this. In the report on “5 simple steps to get rich from home on the internet”, he talks about focusing on money making activities, ie those things that will get you more sales.
Well he does not explicitly mention about what are the money making activities, I can translate that to activities like website promotion ie article marketing, PPC, comment posting, forum marketing, etc and website/blog creation activities or even getting JV partners.
His Mini-Day tips is simple but trust me, many people do not really implement that. It took me some time to convince my online marketing student to do that.
5. Be Proactive
Wow! This is such a SIMPLE step but the trouble is, many folks are just too bogged down by distractions.
Remember, knowledge has no value until it is acted upon.
So, even taking a little action on what you have learnt will put you in a better income position. Massive action will really let you quit your day job, work from home and get rich from home on the internet.
This free report is a good read. Do watch the video and download it to read up the details.
By the way, Ewen Chia’s Working from Home Secret Report will be launched on the 21st April. You will read about it here!
This 50-page no-fluff report will probably be the key to make real money online fast, quit the rat race and replacing your income with the internet in 30 days or lesser.
Within the Working from Home Secret Report, you will discover 3 proven and easy ways to earn cash within 30 days.
Within the report, expect to:
See proof of how Ewen Chia went from $0 to 5 figure with a Brand New Website In 30 Days
Learn the 4 simple stages of all successful online businesses
Discover how to pick a profitable market to sell your products within minutes with free tools only. Also, you will be able to find rapid markets with ready cash to spend.
Learn how to leverage one top website to start your business without any website of your own and start earning in a week.
Master the art of spying on the hot sellers and “stealing” the profits for yourself.
See Ewen show you how he made his first million bucks and how you can copy him and let somebody do all the grunt work for you!
Discover how to create simple ONE-page websites that outsell the super gurus. You will also receive some examples so that you can copy for your own success.
Learn 4 easy methods to get hot buyers ready to buy whatever you are selling to them. And 3 of these methods are totally free of charge.
Learn the exact step by step method of creating and selling your own product within 7 days.
Discover the technique of pricing your product. Yes, you will learn the psychological reason for why certain price points will automatically click within the buyers.
Know the fastest and simplest way to accept credit cards online without paying a single cent until someone buys a product from you. No sales, no need to pay!
What is the price of Ewen Chia’s Working from Home Secret Report?
$9.97!
I will let out a little secret here:
On top of the report, the Work from Home Secret Report all comes with bonuses like:
Bonus 1:
The “Instant Income System” which is an income system with a complete sales funnel that lets you earn up to $156.77.
Bonus 2:
“How To ‘Steal’ Other People’s Work And Get Rich”(Retail Value: $67). Within this report, you will:
Find out how the Web 2.0 phenomenon can help you ramp up your earnings quickly.
Discover 4 killer “pre-sell” page secrets that will beat out the competition
Learn How to Find Excellent Affiliate Programs to Promote
Sounds like a lot to me. Before he takes down the report and video from the Working from Home website, go check it out.
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, Buzz Marketing, Forum Marketing, General, Online Marketing Learning, Product Reviews, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Web Traffic | 54 Comments »
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
After marketing for over a year now, I have come to realize that having a proper online marketing education is necessary. No, I am not talking about getting a degree in online marketing or internet marketing.
I am referring to investing in continual learning from successful internet marketers. The internet marketing world changes quickly and it is a challenge to keep track of changes unless you are in the midst of them.
“No one loves changes but it is necessary for your income to grow!”
Some methods you learn today can become obsolete within months. But certain principles of online marketing always remain unchanged. Things like SEO, list building and article marketing are very much alive as they were a decade again!
The good thing I have learnt though is that once you cultivate the habit to adapt to changes, it becomes your second nature.
Well, you can get a proper online marketing education through a few simple ways.
1. Subscribe to successful marketers’ newsletters.
Currently, I am on the newsletter of famous and successful internet marketers like Ewen Chia, Cody Moya, Derek Gehl, Jonathan Leger and many others.
Read what they are saying, learn from them, duplicate their methods, ditch what doesn’t work for you, modify and apply what you have learnt and get your thinking cap running.
2. Read Ebooks & Reports
Ebooks or reports are often written in digestible format. The standard Ebook length is probably 20 to 50 pages. A report such as a mini report can be as short as 5 or 6 pages only. It normally does not take anyone more than a few hours to finish reading a report or Ebook.
Sometimes, you get to download them for free. But I would encourage you to invest some money in good Ebooks that can help to boost your income.
It is all about returns. If what you learn from an EBook can increase your earnings by $1000 every month, spending a one-time $50 on it becomes insignificant.
For example, here are some EBooks that have helped me greatly in my business.
Blogging to the Bank 1 & 2, Google Pay Load, Secret Article Profits, Auto Pilot Profits
3. Participate in Forums
I used to think that forums are a waste of time. Why would anyone want to spend hours in a forum chatting away? There is no value in doing so!
But when I soon discovered that top internet marketers are participating in forums, it got me thinking really hard. Surely if these guys who are ultra busy are spending time at the forums, it must be worth the effort.
True enough, forums are great places to rub shoulders with other successful internet marketers. You get to learn some new tricks of the online marketing trade, know what the products are genuine and helpful, and read about scams so you can avoid them.
Some forums I participate actively are DP Forums, NicheRockets & Warrior Forum.
4. Online Marketing Seminars
Seminars are great places to go. I must confess that till now, I have yet to attend one. Perhaps I should go for one this year.
Even though I have not been to one, I gather from my friends that some of the seminars can be real eye-openers! That is also where people get to hear from the horses’ mouth – the gurus and the like who share their secrets of success.
Live demonstrations can be expected as well.
My motto towards my online marketing education is
“Learn, Innovate, Apply & Master”
Treat your learning seriously and put feet to your knowledge and the returns will be great!
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
I promised in my previous post to share about some online marketing Ebooks and reports that I have read that have benefited me greatly. I picked up the principles, applied some of the concepts and techniques, created my own methods and seen quantum leaps in my earnings.
I read quite a lot of online marketing Ebooks and reports written by other online marketers like myself. There are probably a thousand over of such Ebooks in my private collection. Some are free. Others are all bought over time.
One Tip For You:
Whenever there is a free Giveaway Event, join it as you can find dozens of quality Ebooks and freebies inside!
You can also download a copy of my free report “Secrets of Affiliate Marketing” and learn some powerful tips on affiliate marketing.
Among the hundreds of ebooks I have read so far, some are plain trash and only a few Ebooks are really worth reading. Most recent examples are:
1. Blogging to the Bank 1 & 2
2. Google Pay Load
3. Secret Article Profits
4. Auto Pilot Profits
So did I apply all the methods and tips inside? Nope!
Each time I complete an Ebook, I will only digest the concepts that are taught inside. Not that the content is no good, but rather I am someone who does not like to follow everything to the “T” strictly.
I LOVE to improvise, innovate and come up with my own methods! Moreover, if thousands of people use the exact method, the cutting edge may be lost.
Very often, I will then toy around with the methods, see how I can make it better, and combine them with other online marketing techniques I already know.
Experiment! Experiment! & Experiment!
This is what you can do using what you learnt from online marketing Ebooks and reports.
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