List of Business Ideas

2011-09-06T16:37:00.001-07:00

Small Business is alive and well in South Africa http://ping.fm/JQ8Ax

2011-06-04T01:54:00.001-07:00

Craft Fair and Craft show Listings http://ping.fm/vsq2S

2011-05-10T20:43:00.001-07:00

Tips to consider before looking to buy a business http://ping.fm/e0RjF

2011-04-27T05:42:00.001-07:00

New info on Homemade Crafts for Sale http://ping.fm/YwwNW

2011-04-21T11:42:00.001-07:00

Patio Furniture – Gauteng http://ping.fm/t9b2R

2011-04-19T08:12:00.001-07:00

Crafters Blogs – A need to know post http://ping.fm/X7Ag1

2011-04-16T03:02:00.001-07:00

Crafters Blogs – Home craft Business http://ping.fm/qx4pu

2011-04-13T18:53:00.005-07:00

Small Business ideas – Flea market ideas http://ping.fm/tbHvp

2011-04-13T18:53:00.003-07:00

Keyword Search Tool http://ping.fm/1mhIz

2011-04-13T18:53:00.001-07:00

Micro business or small business? http://ping.fm/Dtd3L

2011-04-12T08:22:00.001-07:00

How to start a Craft Business – some tips http://ping.fm/yWELR

2011-01-12T07:14:00.001-08:00

Handmade fabrics â A guide to Small business owners http://ping.fm/GYDgO

2011-01-11T10:43:00.001-08:00

Craft keywords Bonus offer http://ping.fm/UxY5O

2011-01-03T07:01:00.001-08:00

Work From Home Business tips http://ping.fm/29IVc

IF you need Free Stuff.

2009-04-09T05:55:00.000-07:00

I have more than 100 free items that i am able to give away at no charge to you. Many of these are related to the affiliate marketing field.

Things like how to blog, how to use Twitter effectively, free wordpress templets.
And more.
What you will need to do is tell me what you need in an e-mail. rob@designsmith.co.za

I will then be able to check what you need against my stock.

Work Online

2009-03-19T09:42:00.000-07:00

Work online is very often mistaken for easy money. if you are aware that you will have to apply yourself just as much online as offline, then great, let us get started. i am able to offer you access to about 300 great online opportunities.
you are welcome to start a direct dialog with me if you are not sure exactly where to begin. I am more than willing to help you if you need it.
if you would like to have a look at some of the options that i have taken a peep at myself, try - http://www.maverickmoneymakers.com/?hop=safestnet

if you are wanting a very complete and full training system, go to my all time favorite, http://www.androb.thebizreview.net/

Home jobs

2009-03-19T09:33:00.000-07:00

Home jobs are a very attractive idea. you get to give up commuting, saving time and money, and be your own boss. there is just the small matter of which type to do. there are literally thousands of options. the trick is to find out which type you would prefer to do and then look closer within that group. if you are completely at sea, and need direction you are welcome to contact me direct. rob@designsmith.co.za
if you are just in the mood to browse through some excellent opportunities feel free, check these out. - https://paydotcom.com/r/31010/safestnet/23441270/ or https://paydotcom.com/r/11804/safestnet/23441256/
cool, let me know what you decided to do. thanks, rob.

Jobs From Home.

2009-03-19T08:56:00.000-07:00

now this would generally suggest that you are looking for a more simple and fairly easy type of business to run from home. there are courses that would cover a complete training program, and if you contact me I could get a better overview for you. however there is a very good training system covering a part of business that is easy - blogging, so please go and look at - http://www.bloggingtothebank.com/?hop=safestnet

however if it is a heavyweight affiliate option you are looking at, but want it given to you on a plate then go and try - http://www.therichjerk.com/site/intro?hop=safestnet

Affiliate Programs.

2009-03-19T08:47:00.000-07:00

Affiliate programs offer a huge variety of types of money earning opportunities. The most commonly known among these are Clickbank, Pay Dot Com and Amazon. Each of these are huge and all could offer you some of the easiest type of income opportunities out there. Google itself is a sort of affiliate program. seek out my e-mail on this page if you need to get a more specific answer.
If however you are simply wanting to see who has the best overall training program, then there is not really any competition, just go to - http://androb.netsalaries.com/
You could only go wrong there by not buying. well - just go.

Home Based Business

2009-03-19T08:29:00.000-07:00

i could offer you at least a dozen really excellent home based businesses. and it would cover most of the options. if you are not sure exactly where you want to go e-mail me at rob@designsmith.co.za or try - http://www.bloggingtothebank.com/?hop=safestnet this is a great home business and can become very lucrative. another option that is good is - http://www.my-online-income-system.com/?hop=safestnet , another proven system.

go and look, it could be what you are looking for!
GOOD LUCK!

Business opportunities

2009-03-19T08:16:00.000-07:00

business opportunities, are plentiful and many on the internet right now. be careful. if you are going to purchase a training product that will cover every single aspect of internet business ideas, there are only two options.

http://www.androb.thebizreview.net/ here you will get a university level training system.

If it is a more of a direct system you are looking for try - http://www.maverickmoneymakers.com/?hop=safestnet

all are welcome Here

2009-03-16T00:15:00.000-07:00

hello, and welcome.
Before i start to drift off aimlessly --
HERE IS MY E_MAIL ADDRESS rob@designsmith.co.za
The reason for that is this ; last night , in the middle of the night, i was surfing the net researching how well newbies are doing. i went to different internet programs for sale and then read through the "rave" emails sent in by the testimonials types. when i saw a name that was fairly unique i then went and googled it.
You would be horrified to see how many of them have articles posted, but only 3 or 4, all over a peroid of a few weeks, and then no more. these are people that had written to a "guru" saying - wow i am so glad.........., and then they dissapeared.
so i got determined to find some that had actually gone further. and i did. but i must say i did about 50 names to get two guys who had a nice and visible presence on the internet.

i think that it tells me that people give up really easily. i refuse to give up. simply put the internet really does offer the most incredable array of beginner opportunities. and if you want to go in a direction that is expensive to set up, no problem, use another way to fund your trip.

so, sorry, this post is not really any information. i did it simply to make my contact details very clear. if you have any question at all. send it to me. if i do not know the answer i will refer you to someone who is brighter, or more experienced than me.

if you are brand new - and wanna start right now. go to the profitlance button on the side here click on it , read all the bumf, and buy it. then come back in a week and thank me. or buy me a car next year.;o)

2009-03-13T12:08:00.001-07:00

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My 100% invitation to the most complete training system on the internet.

2009-03-13T12:08:00.000-07:00

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My 100% invitation to the most complete training system on the internet.

Struggling with P.P.C.

2009-03-13T09:50:00.000-07:00

Hi, I would like to take a tiny portion of your time to debunk the general fears associated with ppc. Whilst it is clear that well established internet marketers are safely using ppc and are mostly earning huge amounts of money, there are many more new and not so new people struggling with it.
Understandably the main reason for being a little nervous with ppc is that it can cost you a lot of money. If you have loads of money to waste then you could learn while you lose money. It does seem very stupid though. If you stick to just a few of the basic rules you should be able to acquire the experience to start adding your name to those lists with the super trillionaires on it. Let’s go through a few rules.
1. Research.
To be honest, this is really the only rule. If you do your research properly and carefully, you should find yourself in a position of absolute happy anticipation when you finally place your ads (order). There are hundreds of systems and products for sale out there either pushing niche markets or just ppc in general. Chances are that you already own a few yourself.
Their products are generally accurate and factual. And being the owner of a pre-made mini site is not a bad thing. Where you run the risk of losing your shirt is when you target the incorrect keywords without the proper time taken to research. You have probably been told that you can start earning money in 24 hours. This is true. You were not lied to, however you can also start losing money in 24 hours. Perhaps even easier.
Use every tool available to you to do extensive research. Then do it all again. Especially if you are new. Never rush this section. Everything hinges upon the correct and accurate research being done. Use yahoo and the other tools also.
Did I mention that you must do it again? And again?
2. Cross check.
If you rely solely on your original research you could be throwing away huge amounts of money. Now why would you even consider that? If you are going to stay in the system, do it properly. If you do not you are simply giving your money to some other marketer. It could be me, and thanks I will be grateful.
I was talking to one of my new mentorees, (is that a word?) and he had been running a ppc goodie for a few months and it was getting about 3 to 6 clicks a day. He was advised to tweak the ads wording, which he did. It changed overnight to 600 or 700 clicks a day. The same placement – just different wording. True story. (By the way his hoplink was not working and he lost days before he found out).
3. Devils in the details.
If you are not checking up on all your tiniest details all the time a badly structured ppc campaign can waste your money. Tidy up your site. Fix the placement of the ads on your site. Ask your friends, or mentor, to go to your site and look at it. Simply moving a badly placed picture can double your sales. Check your hoplink. Check your download page. Check – check – check.
Finally a well thought out carefully structured system should not fail you. Use your auto responder properly, and you will multiply your original investment ten times over time.
Be careful out there. Please have fun.

Struggling with List building.

2009-03-13T09:49:00.000-07:00

List building has been said to be the most important item in building up your internet business. If you haven’t yet noticed the thousands and thousands of free items available out there then you need glasses. Unless you are brand new to the system. From my part I am very glad that the free system is operating so hectically out there.
Why you need a list.
A very true fact is that the vast majority of people very rarely buy on their first visit to a site. Now it could be argued that if you really were interested in a product you would save the link and go back at a later date to buy it. I have done that, so it is true, and to be honest I have yet to buy an item that is repeatedly thrown at me in email form. But the truth of the matter is that the bigger your list the more you can sell to the people in your list. It needn’t be that first item the buyer saw, it could be another option that you can show him, or a third. You could get more details out of them and aim products at them in a more focused way. With a list the options are endless.
But you do need to get a list. How you get it, and how you use it is your own planning, but why throw away the chance to lose a potential buyer.
Take advantage – use the system.
Now here is a thing that I am enjoying immensely. I have given out my email to hundreds of guys with the sole intent to see what they are up to. Firstly I am seeing what they are offering, and some of it I am taking, thank you.
Secondly I am seeing squeeze pages on a daily basis. How much easier is it to learn how to make up a good squeeze page?
I am seeing thank you pages, and learning, I am seeing the many different fonts and styles used. Just how the different types of auto responders are working is an education to me. Thanks guys. It has all been for free. And very well done too. On the other side I am also seeing which I am already tending to not read at all, and some of them are even starting to irritate me.
The most important item that I am going to concentrate on, on my list, is people skills. If my list gets to feel like they are my friends, or at worst, a good source of information, then I am a huge winner. That is the most important fact of all.
I would love to be able to “out” the list guys that are huge in the industry and are seriously working on my nerves. Ever better the others that are doing a good job, and there are only a few of those.
So - Learn, copy, delete. This free listbuilding education I have received has been great, but they will almost all get deleted. So please try to build up your own list with this in mind.
Finally my ending comment about list building is this. Why the hell not?
If you have gone to the trouble of getting a prospect to click on your product, then please for your own sake take the time to politely offer him the chance to allow you to keep him informed and up to date with the type of item he searched for in the first place.
If you give them a choice they are less likely to remove you at the other end. The great part of this is somewhere down the line you already have the basis of an ezine that on its own could earn you huge money alone on Adsense and advertising.
Way cool. Take care.

Struggling With Clickbank?

2009-03-13T09:47:00.000-07:00

Welcome. If you are experiencing problems with clickbank, then you must be brand new to the internet. So, again, welcome.
Signing Up.
Firstly – and this is the easy part – there is no reason at all to have any problems with clickbank itself. (Incidentally, there are other affiliate sites like pay-dot-com that are as good and will offer you similar products.)You simply go to the Website, log on, and join up. You will need to follow their prompts and fill in all the relevant boxes. Just a quick –by the way – here, choose a member name that will not embarrass you down the line when your hop link is visible everywhere.
Choosing a Good Product.
Be careful here. There are so many items that you could promote and sell that you would probably get confused and cause yourself to get lost. Get yourself a plan. If you haven’t done any of the courses available then I would very highly recommend that you do. You are welcome to use the availability of all the free stuff out there. The risk is that you leave out a step or two and will lose your money. There are a few fantastic and very comprehensive courses you could read through. I did it, and I really do say to others – go for it, it will give you a solid grounding, save you time, and really save you money. I have to presume that you want to run your internet business as an affiliate marketer.
Therefore if you have done your research properly, have setup your website, your blog or are simply going direct with the sales page of your chosen product, then choose your product.
Check and Double Check.
Again, if you have done a quality training course you will know how to analyze and choose a particular product by checking through things like the commissions etc. it is very important for a new person to go through all the tiniest and silliest details again and again in the beginning. Check and double check that you have gone through all the basic steps correctly. Many times it has happened that it looks so simple (and it is ) that you rush through it, and find that down the line you have spent three weeks promoting a product without your hoplink on it at all.
Another important item to check for is breaks in the links, or leaks. When I first started I never knew to check and two weeks later I did check and one third of my links never went through. Naturally I deleted those products, and it is their loss, not mine.
Promoting the product.
Now the heading of this article is Struggling With Clickbank, and in truth what most people really mean is – struggling with the marketing. This is the real part that feels like a solid wall to the beginner. If your brain starts to spin with all the millions of facts that are at your fingertips, stop.
I really mean stop, have a break, and come back to your plan. Always stick to your plan.
To end off, if promoting the product or planning the next step in your plan is where you are really stuck, don’t panic. It is really very easy. But you will have to get a mentor. Or get more training. Or visit one of my other articles. Get more training.
Oh yes, just in case I didn’t mention it, get a plan and stick to it.

Struggling With Building a Website.

2009-03-13T09:46:00.000-07:00

Website building is crucial to the success of your online business.
So it is very simple. Either learn to create good websites by yourself, or contract out the work, buy pre built sites or use the free website places or blogs. You are able to go the route of only using your affiliate sales pages. Remember that if you couple this with a good auto responder campaign then you could do without a website. In all cases there are advantages and disadvantages.
I cannot stress enough as to the importance of setting out a long term plan for your online business enough. If you had a long term plan, then which option of website acquisition you take would be self explanatory. There would be no doubt. I personally feel that there is no other way than to know how to do it yourself. And my reasons for this are very simple. If you do the websites yourself you are in control of your own details, good and bad. You are able to make changes to your products easily and quickly.
Build your own.
There are many fantastic website building programs out there. I encourage you to do some homework into which type you would in the long run, before you get started. An example is that if you plan to do one- off websites or mini sites. And then you plan to push out hundreds of these, it will require a specific type of website. However if you are planning a large Adsense website that is continually growing and in a state if change, then different rules apply.
Website programs like Dreamweaver are more advanced and professional, and if you are able to learn how to use these then it is first prize. From there you would be able to graduate to bigger things like flash website building. However there are many wysiwyg type website builders like Kompozer, which are very popular.
Contract out the work.
This speaks for itself. Again this many shared hosting sites offer their own site builder. Do your research. However this would depend on your strategies. There are many big internet gurus that never build their own sites.
Buy pre built sites.
The PPC type marketing system has spawned a huge supply of instant type websites out there. The general idea is that you would fill it with affiliate products, market it, and then leave it out there and move on. Other pre built options allow you to start up and build onto a website platform like word press and these are great, especially for the beginner. Some of these are for free.
Free website places.
By these I mean the shared web hosting sites. The option is great as you could be up and running in a short space of time. My nervousness towards them stems from my lack of control. But please do not let me scare you away, go and see for yourself.
Blogs.
Blogs and blogging are great. Almost all are free. Almost all are very easy for anyone to get started. You can have as many as you like. There are a very large variety of templates out there so you needn’t feel bored. The only drawback is you do not have your own www. Address. Another drawback is that is a competitor wishes they could have your blog removed. So, for full control, in my humble opinion, do it the hard way, and do it right.
As a final note I have in my possession a very well written step by step guide on how to start up and publish a full website in one day. It gives you details and small baby steps to get the job done. All done by a far better teacher than myself.

Struggling With an Online Business

2009-03-13T09:45:00.001-07:00

The huge numbers of people struggling with their online businesses are staggering. The failure rate is massive. Sadly a large amount of the blame could be placed at the door of the very marketers who got the newcomers involved in the first place. The endless promises on how you can go from being flat broke to overnight wealth are often to blame. However my comment on this is, are you a complete idiot? Surely not, so you would realize that even if the details being given to you were true, they are probably a best case scenario. If I told you that if you bought a bicycle from me and then trained a bit that you could win the Tour De France next year, would you believe me? Why not? I have given you all the tools you need. So what is your excuse? You see that when you realize that firstly you will need to train for 8 hours a day every day, and then a full year later you still only “might” win a race. But it is still possible. Now the guy who still trains and doesn’t win, doesn’t lose, in fact he will win some prize money for coming in third.
Here are some facts.
Expectations.
New internet marketers expect very easy money for very little work. And generally they get their returns.
Distraction.
New internet marketers allow themselves to be easily distracted from what they are doing, and drift off onto a new plot before allowing the first one to work. After doing a few scattered attempted projects and failing the beginner blames everything else.
Stupid spell.
Newcomers also seem to be under some sort of stupid spell, thinking that if they keep buying up products then they will succeed.
Real world.
People seem to think that business is totally different on the internet. While some aspects are different, a general rule is that in any business it will always need time to build up the required experience and framework before a good income is coming in. experience is a huge factor in any business.
Bad training.
If the workman’s tools are bad, how can you expect to get a good job? The quality of the training is so important that I cannot stress enough on the subject. If you are unable to get into one of the good training products because of not having any money, then please make an effort to teach yourself properly. If you are able try to get someone to mentor you. Very often you think that you are on the right track but are wobbling around aimlessly.
No technical skills at all.
Newcomers that arrive into this brand new business world and have absolutely no knowledge about website building etc are going to fail unless they allow themselves time to learn. Failing that they must pay other people to do the things that they cannot do. I have seen some excellent step by step instructions on how to build a website. Great stuff, baby steps.
No plan.
Easy! Do your training! Make up a step by step plan! Stick to it! It is so simple that when I see people floundering around with piles of zip files in their hands like a drunken person, complaining that they are lost, I want to cry for them. Silly fools. If they simply went to a mirror and asked the person that they see in that mirror where their plan is it will help.
Please struggle no more. Stop, study, plan and execute. Easy.

Struggling With an Online Business

2009-03-13T09:45:00.000-07:00

Struggling With Affiliate Programs.

2009-03-13T09:43:00.002-07:00

Struggling? I feel that by the very definition of the word struggling it gives off a feeling of helplessness. Nine times out of ten if someone is struggling with an item it is quite simply because they haven’t been properly taught about that item. Affiliate programs are generally very simple; you promote or sell someone else’s product item or website.
Types of affiliate programs.
Perhaps the confusion lies in the diverse ways that affiliates can earn their money. The great part of affiliate earnings are the fact that you are able to dress up your website with a variety of different affiliate products.
The most well known item is the e-book or e-course type products available at Clickbank and Pay Dot Com. These products are very often the largest portion of the income earnings in the marketing side of the internet. Another very popular affiliate product is the side-bar products, this is where you place advertising down the side of your website with companies like Amazon and then when your visitor clicks on the advert they get diverted to the affiliate site and then if they purchase anything you make a commission. In many of these cases the biggest advantage is that you need not have a solid product at all. All you are doing is the marketing for the respective companies and getting paid on the results.
This type of commission sale is ideally suited to the internet world as the software is able to track what people are doing.
There are very many other types of affiliate programs available, and trying to list them all would be of no purpose. However a simple search on Google would result in a great return. If not I do have a comprehensive list that I could make available to you.
Training on affiliate programs.
The general training available out in the internet world would give you a fair idea as to which way you would like to take you affiliate connections. Whether you use free of a paid course it doesn’t make much difference, where the difference does show up is in the knowledge needed to do the marketing of the affiliate partner when you are ready to do that.
Too many options
Personally I find that in the beginning a new internet marketer is inclined to try to put too many banners and conflicting products onto their website and this just results in a totally tatty looking website, and will never get any sales. Banners themselves are already tending to be ignored, and newer marketing styles are becoming the norm. An example here is the strength of the video clip as a marketing tool.
Stick to a plan.
I keep returning to the obvious. And it is the way I was taught in the program that I did when I first started. The idea is so simple. Work out where you want to get to. Then work out as to how you are going to get there. Finally when that is all said and done, stick to your plan, and go there. The very nature of doing the planned steps and not getting distracted is how you will get to achieve your goals.
Any affiliate program will get you the required results if you apply a tried system to it, given to you by the affiliate program. Keep to the plan, never clutter it with distractions.
Err, and by the way very often hard work and effort is required with any affiliate program. Try it.

Struggling With Affiliate marketing.

2009-03-13T09:43:00.001-07:00

Affiliate marketing in its pure form is so simple that it is made to look very easy. Here is where every new affiliate marketer goes wrong.
Take a product, get your hoplink attached, PPC it, or article market it, and earn huge money – right? Well didn’t they tell you that? And not just one person, hundreds. And in truth it is that simple. Ha ha.
Why then are so many thousands of internet marketing people out there earning no money at all? Here are three reasons why.
1. Incorrect training.
The grounding that you use as your base to start doing business on the internet is very important. If you have spotted one single supposedly easy system to earn yourself some money and then you start doing it without realizing that there is some or other problem with that method, you could be wasting your time. If fact there are certain aspects of affiliate marketing that even when you are experienced, the slightest change to an advert or item could double or half your sales.
A fellow marketer friend of mine once had a PPC ad set up and had been running it for about 6 weeks. Now it was in an expensive category, which was ok as he was only getting 2 to 3 clicks a day. Then one day he fiddled with the wording on the ad. Two days later he saw that he had received 1200 clicks already. So remember the training you receive would teach you to carefully watch these types of items.
Get good training. Teach yourself or buy a good course. There are lots of both out there.
2. Pathetic research.
It still amazes me that there are intelligent people out there that are able to read and write, will be willing to pay good money for training, and then do the stupidest things. Checking that your product is a good one, is well priced and will sell, is so easy to do. And yet a huge amount of people just think that if it is up there for sale people will buy it. Please do your research properly. In fact a good idea is to lay out a 20 point plan for the way that you choose and research your new product s.
If your research is well done then almost all the other stuff will follow. There are many different types of methods to do excellent research. Some are free and others will have to be bought. Confusion and hopping around.
3. Sticking to your plan.
If your product is well researched, and then your plan involves a great mix of the different methods of marketing available out there, you will not go wrong. However please remember that the only regular way of getting instant income is from a good and well planned PPC campaign. This method is going to cost you money, so be very sure that your ducks are all in a row.
However if you are using a combination of other methods, great, but follow the timeline of your plan to the tiniest detail. If you are the type of person that thrives on taking chances and want to try the many quick shortcuts, feel free, a lot of them do work. If not go about it carefully and in a well thought out way.
Finally the best advice I can add at the end of this is, when it all clicks and you are earning a steady stream of income, fine tune everything and track and check the changes as you go along. You will be surprised as to how much of a difference a small detail could make.
Good luck out there.

Struggling With Adwords.

2009-03-13T09:42:00.000-07:00

Adwords, Adsense and keywords are all connected. In very many situations they are used for the same end result. The running of your online business very often is hugely dependent upon the correct use or application of your Adwords. In fact a good analogy is to say that Adwords are the fuel that drives your internet engine. If you use a mixture of fuel that is too weak then you motor will go slowly or stop. Equally a mix that is too rich will be expensive and burn out the engine.
Within the workings of the large search engines Adwords are what keeps the clicking running along. Your advertising and targeting of Adwords is crucial to the acquiring of customers. The good news is that most of the systems needed to seek out and use good Adwords are free. Google itself has wonderful tools to allow the amateur or experienced researcher to have access to the same tools.
Adwords is essentially a word given to mean keywords. And here again there are systems in place for keyword research. The research is necessary no matter which method of marketing you are using to earn your money out there.
The most common use of, or abuse of, Adwords is used by the PPC people targeting instant buyers. However it is equally important for the same research to be done in relation to Meta tags and other items necessary to the running of your business.
However adword campaigns themselves are what we are really talking about here. I am privileged to say that when I first started to learn how to do internet marketing the initial course that I purchased was fantastic. My grounding was so solid. It is important that you fully understand the intricate details involved in any adword marketing that you do. It makes no difference if you are targeting an obscure long tailed keyword, or diving headfirst into the tightly contested big markets. All adword research must be done carefully.
I have told this next story before, but here it is again as it is a great illustration. A friend of mine was busy with promoting a single product and his PPC click system was chugging along ok. But only getting about 3 clicks a day. However he was happy enough, and had even had two sales in a month and a half, which is just ok. So he decided to fiddle with it a bit. He kept his key adword the same, as that was hoe he had bid on it. However he changed the other wording, and within the next two days his clicks jumped to 600 a day. That is an increase of 200 times. Wow. By the way I forget as to how many sales he made, as this percentage would also have changed.
There are very many systems out there for sale on the market solely for the use of better adword income. If you feel the urge to pay for these I cannot stop you. But I do suggest that you teach yourself first. Then you start to earn some money. And then only start to spend the money from your profits. I am a believer in the idea that it pays to buy into every product that is either there as your opposition or there to help you. But please wait until you earn something first.
Good luck out there.

Struggling With Adsense. How to Fix the Problems.

2009-03-13T09:41:00.000-07:00

I am going to take just a few minutes of your time to go over some of the misconceptions about Adsense. Whilst most people that are confused about or misunderstand Adsense are new to the internet, a large number of old hands dismiss it as not worth the effort. The type of person who is dissing Adsense usually is the type looking for the quickest shortcut, and is generally lazy.
Adsense is so simple, so easy to implement and so easy to maintain that it is a little unbelievable. If you follow a few basic guidelines you will build the strongest website out there.
1. Content.
Always make sure your content is factual, accurate, detailed and easily readable. By having the correct type of content you will build up, over time, a large base of loyal followers to your website. If you have a site dealing with, say, I-pods and then you start to fluff up your pages with waffle your regulars will leave.
2. Backlinks.
Backlinks. These are perhaps the most important item of them all. The quality of your back links will determine your page rank. If you link to sites that are unrelated to your content, beware. If you link to sites with questionable tactics, beware. You must have quality sites linking to your site. Your own pages must link to each other correctly. Your links must relate. You cannot fool the search engines with silly or dangerous tactic here. Please remember that Adsense is a long term income earner, do not rock the boat.
3. Realistic.
Take it slowly, or to be more accurate, realistic. If, overnight your site magically acquires 500 pages it is likely to set off the alarm bells at the robot searching thingy headquarters. Try not to get noticed in a bad way. Rather submit new pages to your site and to the article places etc at a constant rate. Do not frighten the system.
4. Clutter.
If you want to get high income earnings out of your Adsense sites, never clutter the sites up with stupid things. If you open your website up and it lights up like a pinball machine, go immediately to a mirror and shout loudly at the person you see there. You would be looking at a complete fool. There are many ways that will help to get the Adsense ads noticed on your page, and if you fiddle and tinker with it over time you will find that you can maximize you earnings. Warning - there are rules that you must adhere to. Go to the terms page on Google and read their rule a few times. Then go back and do it again. And again in a week’s time. I cannot stress how important it is to stick to the rules.
5. Connected.
I know that this might seem a little obvious, but you will be surprised at the number of people who are unable to correctly place the Adsense code onto their website properly. It would help if you are correctly hooked up.
Adsense is perhaps the most simple and easy way to build a business on the internet. There will probably never be deadlines and pressure. However there are guidelines that must be followed. Finally the most important fact is that it does involve constant and regular hard work.
If you do not want to work hard for the next 2 years then stop doing this and concentrate on PPC. You might get to you rainbow end quicker.
Good luck.

Struggling To Start Up an Online Business.

2009-03-13T09:40:00.000-07:00

There are really only two things that are the big culprits in causing difficulty in starting up your online business. The lack of funds and the lack of knowledge.
No Money at all & no computer.
This is easy - go away and do other jobs until you are in a position to have access to these basic items. Or find someone who will be willing to allow you the use of their computer for a few months.
No money or very limited funds.
The lack of funds is a very minor stumbling block. The reason I say this is that everything can be done for free. Admittedly you would still need to have a compute and be connected online, and I suspect that even that problem could be overcome for awhile until your income begins. Doing it all the free way is not as easy as having limited funds, but as soon as you have some income you would be able to reinvest it into your business and see a quick growth.
The more you are starting to earn the more you will be able to subcontract out the work that takes up the most time in the beginning.
No training or knowledge.
Not knowing what to do is always going to be a very big problem. If you are in a position to afford a good quality training course then that is the perfect way to begin. The good courses out there are very comprehensive and will cover all of the different ways you can earn money online. The advantage to this general training is that you will be fairly sure which way you want to go after your training over.
Good training also teaches you to prepare a business plan and then how to implement it, and then how to stick to it. If you had a good plan in place then you would not find yourself in a confused spin. I do agree that sometimes you will have to earn some money in a certain way to get started and then change direction later. The good news about this way is that very often the first way will keep running even after you redirect yourself.
Never let anyone tell you not to buy into a good training course at all. The huge amount of time alone that you will save is already worth the money spent. Even better is the security you will have knowing that there are probably no holes in your plan. To this day I am still so pleased with the initial grounding I got from my training course.
Having said that, there are very many good products out there available for free. Where you must take care that you do get the correct information. In fact it would be a good idea to continually to keep looking for free training until you are quite sure that you know as much as is possible.
It is even possible to receive mentorship for free for a while and as long as you are showing the correct amount of effort and enthusiasm, you will go far.
Please do this, educate yourself, set and stick to a plan and work hard. The rest will fall into place.

Struggling with P.P.C.

2009-03-11T07:55:00.000-07:00

Hi, I would like to take a tiny portion of your time to debunk the general fears associated with ppc. Whilst it is clear that well established internet marketers are safely using ppc and are mostly earning huge amounts of money, there are many more new and not so new people struggling with it.
Understandably the main reason for being a little nervous with ppc is that it can cost you a lot of money. If you have loads of money to waste then you could learn while you lose money. It does seem very stupid though. If you stick to just a few of the basic rules you should be able to acquire the experience to start adding your name to those lists with the super trillionaires on it. Let’s go through a few rules.
1. Research.
To be honest, this is really the only rule. If you do your research properly and carefully, you should find yourself in a position of absolute happy anticipation when you finally place your ads (order). There are hundreds of systems and products for sale out there either pushing niche markets or just ppc in general. Chances are that you already own a few yourself.
Their products are generally accurate and factual. And being the owner of a pre-made mini site is not a bad thing. Where you run the risk of losing your shirt is when you target the incorrect keywords without the proper time taken to research. You have probably been told that you can start earning money in 24 hours. This is true. You were not lied to, however you can also start losing money in 24 hours. Perhaps even easier.
Use every tool available to you to do extensive research. Then do it all again. Especially if you are new. Never rush this section. Everything hinges upon the correct and accurate research being done. Use yahoo and the other tools also.
Did I mention that you must do it again? And again?
2. Cross check.
If you rely solely on your original research you could be throwing away huge amounts of money. Now why would you even consider that? If you are going to stay in the system, do it properly. If you do not you are simply giving your money to some other marketer. It could be me, and thanks I will be grateful.
I was talking to one of my new mentorees, (is that a word?) and he had been running a ppc goodie for a few months and it was getting about 3 to 6 clicks a day. He was advised to tweak the ads wording, which he did. It changed overnight to 600 or 700 clicks a day. The same placement – just different wording. True story. (By the way his hoplink was not working and he lost days before he found out).
3. Devils in the details.
If you are not checking up on all your tiniest details all the time a badly structured ppc campaign can waste your money. Tidy up your site. Fix the placement of the ads on your site. Ask your friends, or mentor, to go to your site and look at it. Simply moving a badly placed picture can double your sales. Check your hoplink. Check your download page. Check – check – check.
Finally a well thought out carefully structured system should not fail you. Use your auto responder properly, and you will multiply your original investment ten times over time.
Be careful out there. Please have fun.

Struggling With Adsense. How to Fix the Problems.

2009-03-11T07:51:00.000-07:00

I am going to take just a few minutes of your time to go over some of the misconceptions about Adsense. Whilst most people that are confused about or misunderstand Adsense are new to the internet, a large number of old hands dismiss it as not worth the effort. The type of person who is dissing Adsense usually is the type looking for the quickest shortcut, and is generally lazy.
Adsense is so simple, so easy to implement and so easy to maintain that it is a little unbelievable. If you follow a few basic guidelines you will build the strongest website out there.
1. Content.
Always make sure your content is factual, accurate, detailed and easily readable. By having the correct type of content you will build up, over time, a large base of loyal followers to your website. If you have a site dealing with, say, I-pods and then you start to fluff up your pages with waffle your regulars will leave.
2. Backlinks.
Backlinks. These are perhaps the most important item of them all. The quality of your back links will determine your page rank. If you link to sites that are unrelated to your content, beware. If you link to sites with questionable tactics, beware. You must have quality sites linking to your site. Your own pages must link to each other correctly. Your links must relate. You cannot fool the search engines with silly or dangerous tactic here. Please remember that Adsense is a long term income earner, do not rock the boat.
3. Realistic.
Take it slowly, or to be more accurate, realistic. If, overnight your site magically acquires 500 pages it is likely to set off the alarm bells at the robot searching thingy headquarters. Try not to get noticed in a bad way. Rather submit new pages to your site and to the article places etc at a constant rate. Do not frighten the system.
4. Clutter.
If you want to get high income earnings out of your Adsense sites, never clutter the sites up with stupid things. If you open your website up and it lights up like a pinball machine, go immediately to a mirror and shout loudly at the person you see there. You would be looking at a complete fool. There are many ways that will help to get the Adsense ads noticed on your page, and if you fiddle and tinker with it over time you will find that you can maximize you earnings. Warning - there are rules that you must adhere to. Go to the terms page on Google and read their rule a few times. Then go back and do it again. And again in a week’s time. I cannot stress how important it is to stick to the rules.
5. Connected.
I know that this might seem a little obvious, but you will be surprised at the number of people who are unable to correctly place the Adsense code onto their website properly. It would help if you are correctly hooked up.
Adsense is perhaps the most simple and easy way to build a business on the internet. There will probably never be deadlines and pressure. However there are guidelines that must be followed. Finally the most important fact is that it does involve constant and regular hard work.
If you do not want to work hard for the next 2 years then stop doing this and concentrate on PPC. You might get to you rainbow end quicker.
Good luck.