Employee to Entrepreneur: Replacing Your Salary With Infomarketing Income Within Six Months

by Marcia Yudkin

What if you have no following, no fans, no list but want to create an information marketing business that supports you so you can retire or quit your job? And suppose you are eager to say sayonara to your paycheck within the next six months. Are there business models to follow that boost your chances or reaching that goal?

After giving this question a lot of thought, I have come up with five realistic strategies to generate a full-time income from selling information products and related services within six months.

1. Become an impresario. Remember Max Detweiler, the show producer who schemed to get the von Trapp family singing on stage in The Sound of Music? An impresario today orchestrates events, which in the information marketing realm might be conferences, bootcamps, telesummits, web conferences or virtual trade shows. To do this, you need a strong sense of what a definable, reachable audience wants to learn or experience along with an ingratiating personality that can persuade well-known experts with drawing power to participate in the events.

2. Become a product developer for others. Approach one or more people or companies that already have a hefty following but few things for fans to buy. Offer to create their product empire in exchange for a percentage of the income.
Start with merchandising ideas that can be implement quickly, such as branded mugs, T-shirts and stickers and then proceed to the more expensive offerings, like group coaching programs, retreats, themed tours and access to celebrities.
You need both a high-flying imagination and down-to-earth marketing skills for this strategy.

3. Collect others offerings in an online store. Identify a constituency that can’t easily find a one-stop information hub with products to buy such as left-handed musicians, parents of physically handicapped children, nerdy women
or aspiring crime scene analysts. Find courses, reports, consulting programs, etc. for this constituency that pay you a commission for each sale. Persuade additional people with general information products to create versions for your
niche, with a commission for you. Use pay-per-click ads, media publicity and joint ventures to create traffic to your online store and resell buyers on related products and services after they become customers.

4. Aggressively develop your own product line. To start with, select a niche and concentrate on product types for that niche that can be developed quickly, such as audio expert interviews or PDF compilations of advice. Within the first
month, complete a free item, a low-cost item, a medium-priced offering and a high-priced item and arrange them in a classic marketing funnel, where buyers at each level are encouraged to continue to the next level. Then use the traffic building techniques mentioned in strategy #3 to attract customers. And finally, continue to add to the product line as quickly as you can while maintaining product quality.

5. Use outsourcing to develop an assembly line of loosely related ebooks or DVDs. Here you are aiming at an existing marketplace that gathers millions of prospective buyers for you, such as Amazon’s Kindle store (for ebooks) or
Amazon and eBay (for DVDs). Select a topic in which you have an avid interest and some knowledge. Use keyword research to identify product titles that are often searched for, and develop a cadre of trusted workers from sites like Fiverr, Guru or eLance who can create original work at low rates for which you purchase all rights. You serve the mastermind of this empire, with freelancers performing the content creation, quality control, cover creation and marketing
copy unless you are already good at one or more of those tasks.

The above business models all aim at speed of implementation for fast results. None is a lazy way to riches. Before getting started, calculate how much income you need to be clearing per month from your business to replace your salary, and
when you have built to that level, you are ready to say goodbye to employment.

With an intelligent choice of topic and target market and a good measure of hard work, you should be able to accomplish your goal of exchanging the dependability of your job income for the freedom of the entrepreneurial life.

The author of 16 books and nine multimedia home study courses, Marcia Yudkin has been selling information in one form or another since 1981. She has developed and sold more than a dozen multimedia home-study courses on publicity, writing, web site structure and personal branding. Download a free recording of her answers to the most commonly asked questions about information marketing by entering your information into the privacy-assured request box at
http://www.yudkin.com/infomarketing.htm .

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Passive Income Streams: Are There Truly Lazy Ways to Online Income?

by Marcia Yudkin

Someone asked me what kinds of online businesses i would recommend for someone who wanted to do any necessary work up front, then sit back and enjoy passive income for a number of years. I thought about what i had heard about and seen and asked for additional input from Internet marketers. Six realistic options cropped up.

1. Affiliate programs. If you know how to get traffic to a web site through either pay-per-click advertising or search engine optimized content, then you can match that traffic with products and services that earn you commissions when your visitors buy. You are best off featuring high-quality memberships or programs that have recurring fees, such as web hosting, dating services, insurance, etc., so that every time your visitor gets charged for another month or year, you earn an additional commission.

2. Adsense sites. If you understand how to identify in-demand keywords, you can purchase domains, set up sites with timeless content on them and then enroll in Google’s Adsense advertising program for publishers. This automatically populates your site with ads related to your content and pays you a commission every time a visitor clicks on one of those little ads on your site. An information marketing veteran I know told me he earns $1000 a month from such Adsense ads, with expenses totaling $70 a year and no work on his part after he set up the sites. Others claim to earn far more than that in passive income from Adsense.

3. Kindle ebooks. Like to write? Research relatively specific topics that are in demand but not oversaturated, then write a series of substantive 30-page ebooks that you publish for Amazon’s Kindle store, Barnes & Noble’s Nook and Apple’s iBookstore. Because those online retailers attract the customers, you can get away with little or no marketing after posting the ebooks for sale there. I recommend the ebooks be related to one another in some way so that someone who buys one and likes it is likely to buy another one. I am a couple of months into this strategy and see that it is going to add up to passive income of thousands of dollars a year for me.

4. PDF ebooks. Whereas ebooks for Kindle, Nook and the iBookstore generally get priced from $.99 to $9.99 and you are hoping to cash in with regular volume, there is still a market for specialized, short, practical information reports in PDF format in the range of $19.95 to $99.00. Choose problem-oriented topics whose solutions won’t go out of date quickly for these. Write a long, persuasive sales letter and either recruit affiliates through a network like Clickbank or buy pay-per-click traffic to your sales letter page. You may need a period of trial and error until you see decent conversion rates, but beyond that point it’s possible to receive sales like clockwork month after month after month.

5. Software. When you belong to an industry and share its day-to-day routines, you often observe an unmet need for automation of a specialized, yet not that complicated task. Commission web-based software to perform that task and then sell it for a low monthly fee. This can cost as little as a few hundred dollars through various programmer marketplaces like Scriptlance, and you don’t need to understand programming yourself to set this up. Once buyers get accustomed to using your service, they tend to stick with you for quite a long time, and this becomes a mounting stream of passive income for you.

6. Stock stuff. This was mentioned at one of the places I inquired for ideas online, and it involves creating saleable images, video clips, sound effects, ringtones or other such small pieces of intellectual property that can be sold repeatedly and over the long run through online marketplaces for each of those items. To avoid having your creations go out of date quickly, choose subject
matter that doesn’t involve quickly changing fashions, for example, landscapes instead of people shots, where hair styles become telltale signs of
when the work was created.

These six ideas barely begin to exhaust your options, of course, and perhaps they will inspire you to create possibilities of your own for online income that you can set up once and sit back and collect income from, year after year after year.

The author of 15 books and nine multimedia home study courses, Marcia Yudkin has been selling information in one form or another since 1981. She has developed and sold more than a dozen multimedia home-study courses on publicity, writing, web site structure and personal branding. Download a free recording of her answers to the most commonly asked questions about information marketing by entering your information into the privacy-assured request box at http://www.yudkin.com/infomarketing.htm .

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Using Personas to Draw in More Customers

By Karon Thackston © 2012, All Rights Reserved

What’s the golden rule of copywriting? Know thy target
audience. Why? Because you can’t effectively write and/or
persuade people that you know nothing about. In order to
convince customers that you are the obvious choice to solve their
problem, you have to know:

. Who they are
. What their problem is
. Why it’s a problem
. What they want done about it
. How much they can spend to solve it
. Their preferred communication style
. Who they are
. What they do
. Quirks, irritations and pet peeves
. And on it goes

That information won’t be the same for every member of your
target market. In essence, each segment of your target audience
makes up its own little group. If you exclude references to that
crowd in your copy, you may be sacrificing sales.

Let’s say you work for Apple computers. You want to write copy
for the iPod Nano. Can you just imagine the target audience for
that product? It’s huge! Not everybody within that target
market is the same, however.

You’ll have teens that want a Nano for the music, business
people that want to download podcasts to listen to, adults that
want to use it when working out. the list goes on. To help you
relate to your customers, you’d create a persona that fit each
“category” of human being that might be interested in your
product/service.

Categorize, Don’t Stereotype

Personas are based on fact, not assumptions. These are not
stereotypical behaviors. They are comprised from surveys, emails
and other actual contacts you have with your customers. Then,
each category is made into the persona of a fictitious person.
Give him/her a name and you’ll have an easier time remembering to
include information suited just to them when you write.

Here’s a very good example from a post I wrote awhile back
(http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=435). As you can see,
even narrowing your personas down to “federal agent who needs to
buy a new personal computer” won’t quite cut it. As the example
shows, not all federal agents are created equal :)

With the iPod Nano, taking a quick look at the features page for
this MP3 player (http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/features.html)
lets you immediately see that Apple did its homework. They’ve
included something for businesspeople, music lovers. practically
everybody.

It All Boils Down to One Question

Basically, the people in various segments of your target
audience want to know one thing: how is your product/service
going to help me specifically? Not, how it will help all small
business owners or how it will help small business owners with
budgets over $1,000,000.

How will your product/service will help small business owners
with budgets over $1,000,000 that are control freaks as well as
techno-phobes. How will it help a second segment comprised of
small business owners that are completely hands-off? Do you see
the difference?

One persona wants you to do everything for them while the other
insists on micromanaging. If you created copy that spoke
exclusively to one you would alienate the other.

While you may not be able to identify every segment, you can
most likely draft a persona or two. The more you know about the
people within your target audience, the better you’ll be able to
communicate with them through your copy.

My SEO/web copywriting course offers detailed info on target
audiences, personas & more. Lessons, practice assignments &
private Facebook group make sure you’re on the right track. Get
details at http://www.CopywritingCourse.com

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It’s All About Online Branding: Branding and Marketing a Small Business on a Shoestring Budget

When I set up my Life Coaching business my husband and I were planning two expensive propositions – adding a sizable extension to our house and planning for a second baby

I was determined, however, to launch my small business and managed to successfully launch for well under $1,000.

I established my business slowly, spending money only on the things I could afford out of my discretionary money each month.

So what do you need to do to launch, brand and market a successful online or small business on a shoestring budget?

    1. Register your business name to ensure that no-one else can operate under that name (in Australia this costs less than $200).
    1. Register your domain name and web hosting ($100 per year), this will enable you to set-up emails at your company domain and host a website at your business domain address. This looks far more professional than 3rd party email or website provider.
    1. Decide on your brand image and obtain an effective Logo - You could pay thousands of dollars for logo design work, however, companies such as Logo Chief can provide you with a professional, customised logo design suited to your brand for as little as $49.
    1. Set-up a website - The best low cost solution is WordPress, a free website content management system that allows you to update the website content. This will save you hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars. It is advisable to purchase a premium website theme from companies such as Theme Forest with built in functionality that can then be customised to suit your branding ($20-40).
    1. Purchase online Word Press training - A professional looking website is critical for an online business’s success so I highly recommend investing in an online training program (including recommended plug-ins and widgets to obtain desired functionality and search engine optimisation or SEO). I used Laura Roeder’s program which saved hours of frustration ($197).
    1. For a professional look purchase high resolution images from a stock photography business such as photodune ($1 per image) these can be used on your website and any other print and graphic design projects.
    1. Design and purchase business cards consistent with your branding from an online company such as vista print or zazzle ($30) so that you have a summary of contact details when networking and marketing your business in the real world!
    1. Set-up social media accounts under your business name with Facebook and Twitter and consider extending this to LinkedIn and Google+. Ensure that your branding is consistent across all of these social media platforms and connect with other companies that have a similar audience. Invite your personal and professional networks to connect with your business via these platforms and ask them to recommend to their networks where relevant. Keep your personal social networking platforms just that for personal use!
    1. Set up a blog and write concise and relevant information to your target audience and issue this on a consistent basis (weekly or monthly). Repurpose these documents and submit to other websites or blogs that serve a similar audience and to online article websites such as EzineArticles. By having other websites link back to yours you will get significantly better results in Google searches and drive traffic to your site.
  1. Consider some cost per click advertising and set a low budget ($25 per month) with Facebook or Google AdWords.

 

As a final tip, sign up for as many reputable business newsletters providing free tips and resources in online marketing, branding, social media networking and search engine optimisation (SEO). In the online age there is so much to master and many businesses provide enough free content to allow you to be successful without blowing your start-up budget.

There are many more branding and marketing activities that should be undertaken but the one’s listed will get you off to a professional and importantly low-cost start.

Kathryn Hocking the Director of Reverie Coaching and uses her passion, forward thinking and creativity to inspire, motivate and encourage working mums and mum-preneurs to pursue their dream careers and dream businesses.
To see Kathryn’s range of Career and Life Coaching Programs please visit http://www.reveriecoaching.com/coaching-programs and connect with her on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Reverie-Coaching/220095881411988?ref=tn_tnmn
(c) 2012 Reverie Coaching all rights reserved

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Ready to Fire Your BOSS? The EASIEST Way to Earn An Extra $2400 a Month From Home

Who else is dying to quit their day job? Do you have inspired ideas, big dreams, goals and aspirations… but just can’t quite find the way to make them a reality, or parlay your PASSIONS into profit? In this article we are going to take a quick and easy look at what I believe is the absolute easiest way to pave your own entrepreneurial path… but to also do it in a way that honors YOUR greatest gifts as well! Curious to know more? Continue reading as we take a closer look below.

The BEST way to “fire your boss”?

Believe it or not, I’m not one of those internet marketer types who is going to tell you to start a million blogs, or take up affiliate marketing, or start an MLM or networking marketing business either.

Instead… the absolute EASIEST way to become gainfully self employed is to first find out what you love, and then turn that into a living.

How to pick the perfect “niche” for you?

Very easy. I know it sounds trite and way too easy… but simply identify that one thing that makes YOU “come alive” and build your business around that. The truth is, as long as there are many others who share your passion, it’s rare to find a niche or a topic or a market that can’t be turned into a very lucrative home based, or online income stream, and the chances are 99% that so too can yours.

The KEY is too either learn how to COACH others in your niche, or to find (or create) a high paying product in your market that helps people either solve a major life problem, or advance their interest, enjoyment or experience in an area that they love.

Again, you can literally do this in just about every market in the world. You can teach people how to diet, date, divorce or dance. I’ve seen 80 year old grandmothers create rewarding recipe and cook book communities… and seen psychics and spiritual advisors parlay their passion for new age information into amazing income streams as well.

If you can create content like THIS article, you can create communities of fans, friends and followers who will not only pay attention to what you have to say, they will PAY you to say it!

The easiest way to get to the $2400 a month income range?

Honestly? First create an outline of everything you know in your niche (I call this a “Content Cornerstone”

Then -

Use that content to create articles like this one, and submit them to article directories

Next -

Set up a page where those who read your articles can visit to learn more, and subscribe to your community

Last -

Create a coaching, teaching or training program by converting your “cornerstone” into content you can sell to your subscribers.

If you can get one new coaching client a week at the industry average ($150 per session for most coaching markets) you will have $2400 in revenue by the end of your first month or so. (give or take a week or two, depending on how quickly you get moving)

Of course that sort of money will NOT make you rich… but it WILL give you the momentum you need, and the CONFIDENCE you crave to quit your job and focus full time on building your home based business UP to the point where it will! (and many are using the exact steps above to do just that as we speak)

Want the SECRET to earning 4 figures in ONE Day WITHOUT Tricks, Gimmicks or Guru’s? Click HERE and I’ll give it to you 100% Free!

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Working From Home With Children Doesn’t Have To Be A Struggle

Running a home based business while taking care of your children doesn’t go without challenges. I understand the pull to do laundry over making sales calls. I get it when you ask me, “How the heck do you even talk on the phone while your 2 year is tugging at your pant leg saying “Mommy, mommy I think I poo’d in my pants.” I confess this has happened to me more than once! But the rewards of making an income, being a successful business woman, while being able to stay at home and raise your children is well worth it.

Here are some simple tips you can take to making your Mompreneur journey go smoothly:

1.) Have a designated area to do your work: Of course it would be fabulous to have an office, but not everyone has that luxury. It IS important, however, to have a designated area just for your work. Not for anything else. Covet this area. The kids should have a special area that they can do their homework and create as well!

2.) Choose a business that works with your new schedule: What do I mean by this? Well, if you used to be a field sales executive (in your past life) then trying to work the same way now with children may be a bit frustrating for you and the kids. Try to find something that you can be flexible with, you may want to schedule your calls during a time that the kids are playing or taking a nap. Tele-classes may need to be held at 11:00am vs the standard 8:00pm time slot. It’s okay, you are a mompreneur now. You determine the schedule that works best for you. I guarantee you will attract other moms that will have the same schedule.

3.) Tell your clients that you are a mompreneur: This way when your children do happen to interrupt your call, your client isn’t surprised. Try, however, to explain to your kids that you will be on the phone that you need some quiet time. There is nothing worse than being on the other end of the line and “mom” decides to have a whole conversation with the child and forgets about you, the client. If you have to call the client back, then do. It’s better than having a double conversation going and neglecting your child while being rude to your client.

4.) Block your time: I learned this from my personal coach, Debra Larson at Simply Wealthy by Debra (http://www.DebraLarson.com). She teaches you to do similar items at the same time. It literally takes 7 minutes for your brain to adjust each time you change to a different task. As moms we are forced to be multitasker’s, but the more like-items we group together, the quicker we will get those tasks done.

5.) Is this a hobby or a business?: It’s common practice for people to think that SAHM’s that work from home is just a hobby, and perhaps you may not be taken seriously. With technology these days, working from home is becoming more common. So my comment to this is treat your business like a business and you will be fine. If you set time aside to work then work, don’t do your laundry. Some of the most successful women I know work from home… I am talking women who make millions of dollars each year!

6.) But I don’t have 4 hours a day, let alone 8 hours a day to give to my business: This is one of the biggest myths newbie Mompreneurs bring to me. You would be amazed how much you can get done with just 2 focused hours per day. I’m talking 2 focused hours on specific projects NOT playing on facebook. Plus, don’t be afraid to reach out and hire a Virtual Assistant to help you. You may not think you can’t afford it, but you may be surprised how much more you are able to make with a little helping hand not to mention just getting things done quicker with less stress (this goes a long way in my book). This applies to running some errands for you too. You don’t have to be superwoman, but with a little help everyone will think that you are!!!

7.) Can you pick up my _____?: Your spouse may think that now you are at home you don’t do much and have a tendency to have you run all the errands and create a big To-do list for you. This is one of the most miss-construed comments I have ever heard and I’m sure you would agree! Share your schedule with your spouse so they understand that your day isn’t a free for all. And that you’d be happy to help but you may not be able to do “___” until “___”. This is better than grumbling and getting upset thinking he doesn’t understand (which he probably doesn’t.)

8.) Turn work off: Work is always at home now, so you may be tempted to work all the time. I know, I’ve been there. This was a big learning curve for me. You must set up boundaries for yourself. Set some structure to your work time and family, relationship time apart from each other. Make sure you adhere to this as best you can. Otherwise I guarantee your spouse will feel neglected and will not feel important. Though he may never express this to you, I promise it will come out in other “not so pretty” ways. Plus, you will just be more relaxed if you focus on family during family time and vice versa.

So with just a few tweaks to your schedule, a few boundaries and communicating with the ones you love you should be on your way to a stress-free way of working from home and being a fabulous mom as well!

Brandy, Creating Success Where it Counts http://www.Brandyhotz.com

Brandy Hotz, a Mompreneur Go-To Resource Guide. Assists stay at home moms that want to earn an income from home so that they can create a solid future for their children, have money and time to spend with their families and still have time left for them selves.

Brandy’s simple and practical tips will help you build your business, increase your revenues, gain more free time, and create the extraordinary life you always wanted while raising a family. Through her experience, Brandy will share with you social media tips, marriage tips, business revenue making tips, family tips, and health and wellness tips that you can implement easily to better your life.

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A Few Things You Should To Know About Key Blanks

Keys are an important part of modern life that is usually taken for granted. The fact remains that in a typical day you will make use of a number of keys than you care to remember. Starting from when you step out of your house to set out for your place of work, until you come back home and turn in for the night, keys cannot be ignored. However, if you want to duplicate your keys, you will come to value the need for key blanks.

If you do not understand how a locksmith could duplicate keys effectively without wasting much time, you will need a visit to the shop of such a professional. You can actually find many businesses that will help you duplicate your keys for a little fee. The trade of a locksmith is an intricate one; however, the major needed for a perfect duplication is the right blank.

The type of blank that he will choose is dependent on the type of keys that you want to cut. If you want duplicate keys, the locksmith will ask for the original keys and look for a corresponding blank in his stock. However, you may need to provide an original, if you do not have these; there is no way he can replace such keys for you.

When you need to duplicate a set of keys, the artisan has two major options of providing the service. He may duplicate the keys manually or he may choose to duplicate them on a machine. If he is using the manual method, he will have to cut along the outline of the blank to replicate the groves in the original keys. If he wants to use a machine, all he has to do is to place the blank inside the machine set the blades properly.

Blanks vary according to the type of keys that you want to duplicate. In fact, any artisan that is serious about the business to duplicating keys will have a blank for every common type of key. There is a blank known as the tubular blank. It is used to duplicate the keys used in tubular locks. If you do not know what a tubular lock is, just look at the typical bicycle security lock, or the lock on the typical luggage box.

Another common blank is the skeleton blank; this is the one used in the duplication of skeleton keys. The skeleton keys are the oldest type of keys; they have been around since the beginning of the history of keys as a form of security. These keys can easily be recognized by their long thin shaft that looks like a skeleton. You can find them in older houses; just pay attention to the keys to the basement and the attic.

Another interesting thing about these products is that they are sometimes stamped by the manufacturers that they are not to be duplicated. However, it may surprise you that such warnings are not heeded and people still go about duplicating the keys. Such an act in not even considered illegal in most countries. However, some manufacturers can control the distribution of the blank by ensuring that they are not sold in certain regions.

Key blanks are also gaining popularity in some parts of the world as fashionable pieces of jewelry. You can see people having a large selection of blank keys that they display proudly. For instance, those who love cars may choose to carry the blank keys of all their favorite cars. If you are also comfortable with the idea, you will surely find many of the blanks at a cheap price.

Want to find out more about key blanks, then visit Darryl Jones’s site on how to choose the best Key Machine for your needs.

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Why Your Business Won’t Succeed Without This!

For all you entrepreneurs who are running your online home business and want to learn home business marketing strategies that work, I’d like to introduce you to Freeda, the flat-headed flea.

(This story is a twist on an old, behavioral science story that applies to the quest for financial freedom that one of my mentors shared with me. Allow me to explain what Freeda has to do with online home business marketing. I promise to tie it all together at the end.)

Freeda, the Flat-Headed Flea, grew up inside a bottle. She didn’t know how she had gotten into that bottle, but there was food and she was comfortable.

She was very lonely. Day after day, she would look through the glass of the bottle and yearn to be part of all the exciting things that were happening around her. She was very eager to get out of the bottle and experience the world.

Ever since she was very young, Freeda loved to jump. It felt good, and she was good at it. It came naturally to her. You might say she had a gift of jumping and a passion for it.

Freeda wanted to jump out of the bottle and do more with her life. So, she naturally tried to jump out.

At first, she wasn’t very strong, and she couldn’t jump very high. As she practiced, she got better. With each jump she would get closer and closer to the top of the bottle. It became easier and easier to get closer and closer as she got stronger and stronger.

Then one day, she just knew that she would be able to jump out with her next jump. She was so excited that she would soon be out in the world. She told herself that this would be the jump that would lead her to freedom–to life without constraints. She would be able to do what she wanted to, when she wanted, wherever she wanted. She had to get out!

She mustered up all her strength to make a powerful attempt. She jumped higher and faster than ever before.

She hit something.

There was a cork in the mouth of the bottle. She hit it hard, and it hurt…but she wasn’t ready to give up.

She tried over and over again.

Ouch! Each time she tried she it her head and fell back down hard.

Eventually, Freeda realized that if she did not jump as high, she would avoid hitting her head on the cork. So she learned to jump just high enough to get near the top without hitting it.

She settled on living her life inside the bottle and only jumping high enough to avoid the cork. She never tried to get out again and only jumped just high enough to not get hurt.

As time passed, the cork loosened and fell off the bottle, but Freeda didn’t notice. She continued jumping only as high as she had learned to avoid pain, failure and disappointment.

Freeda’s life almost came to an end when a passerby kid saw the bottle and shook her out. She was free! Now her dream of freedom would not simply be buried inside her flattened head.

Now, what does Freeda, the flat-headed flea, have to do with home business marketing? You probably figured it out. Does any of this story sound familiar to your home business marketing exploits?

Many of us live our lives based upon internal interpretations of what is possible. Very often our notion of what is possible is not based on reality. We all run into obstacles that threaten to end our chances for success, and we sometimes give up on our dreams.

Are you going through life with a cork on your bottle? That cork can be any obstacle in the way of your home business marketing.

Does your head hurt from banging it against the obstacles you face along the way to your success? Do not give up! Stay motivated to achieve your goals.

You see, there’s a Freeda alive in all of us.

We want to be financially free, but sometimes we give in to thinking that we can never achieve our dreams.

Don’t give up on your dreams. Do not stop dreaming!

Get back in touch with your passions! Create your own reality!

Are you trying to start an online home based business, but know little about home business marketing?

Discover how you can go from beginner to pro in Home Business Marketing and not give up on your online home business dreams. Stop by JC Dawkins’ site where you can find her other Stay Motivated tips and techniques from Freedom Freeda.

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Earning a Decent Income – Tips for Housewives

Every mom would consider some extra cash in her wallet as a blessing for her. However, there seems to be no way to earn that money while she stays at home, being a good mom.

But now it is possible to flow in some money and spend a quality life without being too tight on budget.

The answer is in freelancing jobs. This is the best job for moms who have some computer skills. Freelancing means that you work from home, on your own computer and receive online payments for your work. There are many freelancing websites out there where employers post their project and freelancers get their job.

Best freelance websites are:

Freelancer:

There are many jobs available there and it runs on a very secure system. There is minimal risk if you do it properly and through the website. Just log in, find a job suitable to your skill, place your bid, get accepted, do the work and receive payment. You are charged a project fee when you accept a project but that is very low and a tiny fraction of the amount you will receive. You will get a good feedback in return which will help you get other jobs for a higher bid.

Odesk.com:

This is also a good website and has many employers there who offer jobs and pay but it is less secure. For fixed price jobs, there is no payment guarantee and like the above website, there is no secure milestone payment system. The management asks you to accept its terms and risks which includes that they don’t provide any arbitration services if you are not paid. So make sure you are ready for the risk. The benefit is that there are no project fees for the freelancers so they can earn at the maximum.

If you are wondering whether you can become a freelancer or not, you need to look at the skills you possess. You do not need to have high educational qualifications. Anything that can be done on a computer, can be done by a freelancer. This includes writing jobs, forum posting, data entry, graphic designing, web designing, template designing, app development, etc. Log on to these websites and enjoy some extra cash flow in your bank account. Make sure you have a PayPal account for easy cash withdrawal. If not, there are many other withdrawal options to choose from.

Maria Ilyas is a freelance writer and writes high quality web content, articles for submission, product reviews, press releases and newsletters.

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Why Is Affiliate Marketing One of the Most Best Ways to Advertise Your Business?

You have a business. You need to get more business but have tried all of the normal marketing techniques, mailers, flyers, newspaper ads and maybe even radio or TV but you just aren’t getting the business you want and you’re running out of money!

Ever think of Affiliate Marketing? What, you say? What is Affiliate Marketing and why should I try it?

Affiliate Marketing is basically letting other people send you customers and paying them a small commission if the customer buys something.Why should you try it? Here are several reasons it might work out for you:

1) Low Advertising Cost

Affiliate marketers don’t get paid unless the person they send buys something. When you send 1000 flyers to the neighborhood, you pay for the printing and postage whether anyone comes in to buy or not. With an affiliate marketer you only pay when you make a sale from their source. In other words, each sale pays for it’s own marketing! What other types of advertising does that?

2) Low Employee Costs

Same as above basically. You don’t pay an affiliate marketer unless he/she sends you a paying customer. You can look at it this way: you could have potentially hundreds of “Employees” without any payroll costs for those who don’t produce! Again, what other business that doesn’t use these kinds of advocates can say that?

3) Worldwide Expansion

Now I know, many of you with internet businesses are saying “I have a web business. That makes it worldwide”. Really? They might stumble over your website if they are looking for a specific product or service but are more likely to be looking locally. Your not likely to put out a newspaper ad in Belgium for your products. An affiliate in their area draws them into your site specifically because they have an incentive to do so and, again, you don’t spend anything for advertising unless there is a sale.

4) No Store Hours

With affiliate marketers, your business is open every second of the day while targeting a worldwide market!What could be better than that?

5) Most Affiliates Have Affiliates

Most serious Affiliate Marketers build a list of their own Affiliates to piggy back on their mailing lists. You can exponentially grow your “outside salespeople” throughout the world continuously. Imagine what it would do for your business to have an ever-growing sales force out there actively looking for people to send to you!

Having said all of that, this won’t work if you don’t have the right mindset and other important tools to make it attractive to affiliate marketers You also need to keep track of your own website and make sure it is easy to navigate and easy to find online. So better work on this first before considering bringing on Affiliates.

Many businesses have taken off using these valuable advocates to get ahead of their competition.

How about you?

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope you got some valuable information. For other great tips on creating monster traffic and growing your list go to: http://www.monstertrafficmaster.com/

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Learning How To Be An Affiliate Marketer

There is a learning curve to becoming a successful affiliate marketer. Finding companies you want to promote with good products is the relatively easy part. There are many good companies that have affiliate programs and pay good commissions. There are also good affiliate programs where you can find these companies and their products.

Getting set up with an account and getting your affiliate links set up is relatively easy and quick. Once that part of the process is done, then you have to decide how you want to promote your affiliate links. Do you have much in the way of an advertising budget? Are you going to look for free advertising first and see how that works before you spend much money? In the beginning stages of the learning curve, trying the free advertising might work the best to start getting your feet wet.

The main point of this article is to encourage a beginning affiliate marketer not to give up too soon if you don’t get the results you expected very quickly. Any skill that is worthwhile is going to take some time to learn and there will be trial and error. You will want to take action and try some things like article marketing and forum marketing. You will also want to follow people such as Anthony Morrison, Ryan Moran, and Matt Carter. Read blogs written by people like these who are successful and take their advice. Work at your marketing and keep reading and learning and doing all the while.

Marketing skills will be more and more necessary to learn in today’s current job market. The internet and social media has made finding answers to your questions and getting advice much, much more accessible. You do have to do your due diligence and research on anything you decide to get involved with and be happy and comfortable with your own choices.

Learning how to do keyword research and find what phrases and keywords to use in your ads will be a huge key for success. People get online everyday with something in mind that they want or need. Finding out the best keywords and phrases to use in the titles of your ads and the ads themselves will help people find you and your affiliate links quicker. You don’t want your links floating in cyber space and people who want the products you promote not being able to find them.

So, if you struggle with the learning curve that comes with learning affiliate marketing, please understand that it will take time to reach the success you want. Take your time with it, think your way through it, read, learn, try different things until you reach your goals. Everybody has to start somewhere. The only way you really fail is if you quit completely.

Thanks for reading. I hope this helps.

Scott Moore

I have been researching different ways to make money online for a few years. I have learned you have to develop marketing skills first and establish a foundation of trust with people. I hope to do that with my blog. I want to keep my blog free of hype. I enjoy writing articles that help people learn how to market themselves and their products or company online. If you would like to find out more, visit my blog at http://www.scottmooreonline.com/blog.

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How to Protect Your Affiliate Commissions and Cloak Your Link

You might be saying to yourself right now “Is this guy nuts? As far as I know, I’m NOT losing 40% of my affiliate commissions!” At least you think you’re not.

Wait. Are you sure? You might be losing money. You might be losing up to 40% (or even more) of your affiliate commissions. And most affiliates ARE in this “danger zone”. If you are just starting out and your visitors are few and far between than you might not have this problem but many successful and hardworking affiliates out there might never know if they do not stop to check their numbers from time to time.

It’s hard to imagine how much money all those affiliates lose every day. And it drives me mad… because I know that it can be easily avoided – with less than 15 minutes of work! PLEASE don’t make the same mistake that almost everyone makes.

Most serious affiliates already know how and why they MUST avoid it… but I’m sick of seeing the majority of “regular” affiliates ignore my advice. Looks like they just want to lose their money. Oh well. But you should BE SERIOUS about your affiliate business. Heck, I’m sure you already are. So now… STOP losing your hard-earned commissions - CLOAK your affiliate links!

Creating a simple redirect is easy – but in fact the more affiliate links you have, the more time-consuming it gets.

How to create a subdomain redirect?

That depends on your web host’s individual rules and configuration. In general you have to create a directory (sometimes in a specific location) and then use your host’s server tools to set a subdomain on that directory. Then you put the index .html (or .htm) file in the directory your new subdomain points to. The HTML code doesn’t change – it’s exactly the same code that we used in our directory redirect. I strongly recommend using subdomain redirects rather than “regular” directory redirects. Subdomains are just more effective – they generally produce better results… and they still cost you nothing to create. If you want to promote multiple products, make sure your web host gives you unlimited subdomain support. It ALWAYS works. Every single affiliate using this method of cloaking notices more sales and higher commissions. And the boost is greater than with directory or subdomain redirects

As an affiliate manager, I’ve seen most (if not all) of the affiliate gurus’ infoproducts. I never miss a chance to learn something new – and then teach my affiliates in order to improve their performance. This approach is very effective. I watch thousands of affiliates in action every day. That’s why I know exactly what works and what doesn’t – I receive reports directly from the “affiliate battlefield”. Happy Cloaking.

Did you find this article helpful? We hope you did that is why we have an entire site free of guides and articles on how to CLOAK your affiliate links Visit our site at: http://www.howtocloakalink.com

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My Success With Making Ruthless Income Online

Jamie Lewis And The Ruthless Income Method

Are you about to throw in the towel, and give up on making an income online? Are you sick and tired of seeing guys claiming the make $25,000 every month, and then they won’t share their method with you? Well don’t give up just yet, I know how you feel, I have been there myself. Let me explain something to you right away. Only one thing separates you from making nothing every month to making that $25,000. That is knowledge. So now your saying, yeah I already know that. Well good then it is a Merry Christmas to you. One of the highest grossing affiliate marketers in the world is releasing a product for the 2012 year. It literally has one of the best methods in the world that allows Mr. Lewis to rake in millions. No joke, he is going to tell you everything.

I have been in the business for a while now myself, and so I thought I would do a review of the new Ruthless Income system that he is practically giving away to the public. Well I have to say I was quite impressed with the thoroughness of the product. It shows you various techniques that allow you to start making money in as little as 24 hours. As you will see by the dozens of video testimonials that Jamie has included on his new Ruthless Income website. Have you ever heard of the old says, “The proof is in the pudding?” Well Jamie is the pudding. The man drives $250,000 sports cars. Actually he owns several and travels all over the world. All from affiliate marketing. That is it. That is all the man does. Now you might be saying, oh if it was that easy I would have figured it out years ago.

Well not necessarily. Look, why not take the advice of somebody who has been there and has already done the hard work for you? Just check out Ruthless Income and you will see that all your prayers have been answered, finally. I always looked at Internet marketing like this. If you have found a good way to make money, why hide from other people. After the entire world is our customer base right? It is not like we are going to run out of customers, last time I checked there are 7 billion of us now. Fortunately, the creator of Ruthless Income feels the same way. So if you are truly motivated to change your life for the better, and are tired of buying ridiculous programs that make you little to know money, then stop floundering and go get Ruthless Income today. I promise it will be the single best decision you have ever made in your life.

Lex Alwyn has been interested in making money through affiliate marketing. You can read more about his first success at his blog Ruthless Income It provides a breakdown of his success with using the program. You can also get some of his personal insight by checking out his Ruthless Income Review He is always looking for new exciting ways to make money online.

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How Do Penny Auctions Work and Make Their Money?

A penny auction is an auction that is held online where people bid against each other to win items at a discounted price. There is a timer on the auction and the winner of the item is the last person to bid when the timer runs out.

Penny auctions work differently from eBay and other auction sites, in the sense that the products being sold, are being sold by the website owners. This varies from many other auction sites where it is normally third parties doing the selling, who are not affiliated to the website in any way.

This all sounds straightforward enough; however, another difference with penny auctions to an auction site like eBay is that every time a bid is placed on the item, more time is added to the auction. So the trick is letting the timer run down and then placing your (hopefully) winning bid.

Bidding fees vary depending on the product you are bidding for on the penny auction sites but generally you can be sure it will be between fifty cents and one dollar per bid. Usually product auctions will start very low, sometimes at zero and then increase by a small fraction each time a bid is placed, normally this small amount is a penny, explaining the name penny auction.

The majority of the time, buyers will purchase packages so that they can bid again and again quickly without having to worry about entering payment details, for instance fifty bids for twenty dollars. Bidding fee auction sites run many auctions at the same time and it is always worth checking that terms and conditions for the bids.

People often wonder how the penny auction sites make their money and simply put, they make money from all the bids, which can add up really quickly.

Maybe you’ve have heard about the amazing deals that people have managed to get on penny auctions. However, it is still good to be aware of the fact that despite paying money, you will not always win. The winner of course is normally very pleased with their purchase, often getting an item like an iPad for less than 95% of the actual retail cost meanwhile all the other bidders have bid, paid and won nothing.

The key to actually saving money is to have a strategy in place. Bidding fee auction sites get criticized for being too addicting, so limit the amount of items you bid on. Experienced bidders know how a particular penny auction site works and can win consistently.

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