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The Rich Jerk: Never Trust A Guru

Feb 27

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I was sickened when I read this article.  See, that’s why my motto is “Never Trust A Guru.”  Self professed internet marketing guru The Rich Jerk, you’ve heard of him, probably seen his ads on guru, you might even be on his mailing list.  If you’ve shelled out the $10,000 for his ‘coaching and mentoring’ program, then you are one of the fools he refers to in his public ‘confession.’

NEVER TRUST A GURU THE RICH JERK

Let me give you some background, and I hope this article reads right because in my mind I am on fire!  I hate it when people take advantage of other people for their own material gain.  Call me naïve, call me whatever, but I am real, know this to be true!  I don’t want you to shell out money for products I know don’t work.  Maybe that’s why I only promote online games.  I will NEVER have my name tied up with some scam artist.  These people prey on those who don’t know any better, who are looking to make a quick buck.  People who act impulsively and choose to let their credit cards do their thinking.

But as George Hull (not P.T. Barnum) once said, “there’s a sucker born every minute,” yes apparently so.  The Rich Jerk (as he calls himself, Google this name and you will see who he is), still makes $1 million a month instead of the $3 million a month he was making (thanks to the FTC.)  He is making this money from the wallets of unsuspecting people like you.  If not you, then maybe your relatives, friends or neighbors, whomever.

Don’t let anymore self proclaimed gurus take advantage of you.  People I implore you to do your research, read about a company before you join one!  Don’t be a sheep, don’t be a follower.  And please don’t believe the hype when you read, “only 12 left,” or “private launch.”  Those words are the biggest sack of lies ever invented; designed to get you to part with your hard earned money as quickly as possible.

You can read the rest of Rich Jerk’s confession by going here:  “Just Thoughts (and why most marketers probably won’t promote my stuff anymore.)”

I warn you it is not pretty.

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Did You Know Free Reports Build Lists?

Feb 27

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Special Reports: Build your List and Make Money

Does your business enterprise need a boost? Consider using special reports to add revenue and build a business contact list for future use.   (GET YOUR FREE REPORT BELOW BY CLICKING ON THE IMAGE)

What are special reports?

Special reports are short reports that contain helpful information on a subject. The reports are anywhere from a few to 30 or so pages in length. If you have the know-how, you can write them yourself or hire a writing service to do it for you. There is very little work involved in creating them but they are versatile tools for building an online business.

One popular subject for special reports is how-tos. They direct a reader, step by step, how to do something. If you are knowledgeable with computer software and hardware, that is a perfect niche for special reports on your website. People are always having trouble figuring out their computers and you could help.

Marketing special reports

There are options for marketing your special reports. If you are trying to build a business list of customers, use these special reports as a freebie when any visitor signs up to be a part of your email mailing list. For this type of promotion, use a shorter report like a five page report on how to navigate problems with Windows Vista (if your website has a computer niche).

You can create a five-part course and use the first part as the free promotion. It is your hook. Once they sign up for the mailing list, you can grant them access to the other installments through emails that also advertise your website products. Signing up for a business newsletter subscription can also be the reason to gift a free special report.

Making money

All of your special reports don’t have to go towards list building. Besides your other products or services, you can sell special reports on your website. Many reports sell for between $5 and $20 a piece, but if you offer very valuable information, you can command a higher price. Sell single reports or create various courses to interest your customers.

People love to learn about money-making opportunities. They will pay the money for any information that is a how-to guide to making money on and offline in various ways. How have you made money? Begin there with the subject of your special reports.

As your business grows, create an affiliate program. This gives customers a way to help you make more money and also make some for them. Offer certain special reports as additional compensation for reaching a certain selling level in the affiliate program.

There are a number of ways to use special reports. As you build your library and your lists, alternate the free promotional reports and continue to sell your entire library, creating combination offers such as Buy Two, Get One Free.

While your special reports are building your contact list, they are also making you money. With such a low cost to create them, your profit margin will rise.

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Tags: Affiliate Marketing, business, Mail List, Marketing, Online and offline, Web Design and Development, Website, Windows Vista

Let The Games Begin!

Feb 25

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STUDY SHOWS WOMEN EMBRACE THEIR INNER GAMER…

A November 2009 study from Q Interactive and Social Media World Forum shows that more than 2000 women actively engaged with brands as they dabbled in social media games. It shows that women are passionate and very competitive about games like Lil Green Patches and Happy Aquariums and stocking up on virtual currency. According to Pew Internet, the study showed that 50% of U.S. women play online games which shows growth in a group where certain brands fit in. This is good news for the gaming industry which is already a $720 million online social gaming market is expected to at least double to over $1 billion this year.
Here is what the typical female gamer looks like demographically:

• 85% of those surveyed use 5 or less games/apps regularly. Women are loyal to a handful of favorites, and approximately 15% regularly invest in 6 or more games/apps at a time.
• 57% are earning/spending virtual currency daily
• 74% got involved in a game or app due to a recommendation by family or friend or because they noticed a friend or family members’ score
• 95% utilize virtual currency primarily to gift and/or advance games
• When women interact with games and apps, 57% feel virtual gifting, for example, giving a bag of virtual makeup from Sephora is as meaningful as real life gifting

So if you’re a game application developer, a good target audience is women. Its as if these games are a part of the everyday lives of women who chose online gaming. A February 2010 study conducted by Q Interactive and Engage! Expo showed that women are the largest demographic of social media users. The study of over 700 women proved that 54% of the women play games online everyday while a segment of the women (30%) play weekly.

But, what is really interesting is that 42% of the women responding say they are ‘gamers’ while 7% believe they are obsessed with online gaming. 67% of the respondents said that playing games online 1-5 hours a week is socially acceptable. While almost 45% of those surveyed say they have friends whom they consider obsessed with social media gaming.   And get this, close to 16% of the respondents say they hide or sometimes hide their gaming habits.

Are there stigmas attached to obsessive social media gaming habits? 24% of the women believe the games are addictive, while 21% said playing online gaming makes you neglectful in other areas of your life. Of course there are those who believe that playing games online is a total waste of time (17%); while playing at work is taboo, 93% of those surveyed say they mainly play at home.

A major fear of women gamers is that their favorite pastime will no longer be free. Over 54% believe the future of online gaming lies in payment. But developers beware, if you make your huge customer base pay for their favorite online activity, 77% say they would give up the game. Only 10% reported they would agree to a monthly subscription or fee, but another 10% revealed that a pay as you go system would be acceptable. Just 2% preferred a separate payment scenario for each game played.

All this data reveals both challenges and opportunities for the gaming industry. Because I have marketed and promoted some games in various social communities, I have grown to understand that the majority of my users are women. Now, having a better understanding of this important demographic, I’m ready to let the games begin!


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Tags: Game, Gamer, Online game, People, Sephora, Video game, Virtual economy, Women

Cutting Through Affiliate Program Confusion

Feb 19

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So Many Affiliate Programs! Which One Do I Choose? SEC To Investigate Harley-Davidson

 

Ask questions first before you join an affiliate program. Do a little research about the choices of program that you intend to join into. Get some answers because they will be the deciding point of what you will be achieving later on. Will it cost you anything to join? Most affiliate programs being offered today are absolutely free of charge. So why settle for those that charge you some dollars before joining. When do they issue the commission checks? Every program is different. Some issue their checks once a month, every quarter, etc. Select the one that is suited to your payment time choice. Many affiliate programs are setting a minimum earned commission amount that an affiliate must meet or exceed in order for their checks to be issued. What is the hit per sale ratio? This is the average number of hits to a banner or text link it takes to generate a sale based on all affiliate statistics. This factor is extremely important because this will tell you how much traffic you must generate before you can earn a commission from the sale. How are referrals from an affiliate’s site tracked and for how long do they remain in the system? You need to be confident on the program enough to track those people you refer from your site. This is the only way that you can credit for a sale. The period of time that those people stay in the system is also important. This is because some visitors do not buy initially but may want to return later to make the purchase. Know if you will still get credit for the sale if it is done some months from a certain day.

What are the kinds of affiliate stats available? Your choice of affiliate program should be capable of offering detailed stats. They should be available online anytime you decide to check them out. Constantly checking your individual stats is important to know how many impressions, hits and sales are already generated from your site. Impressions are the number of times the banner or text link was viewed by a visitor of your site. A hit is the one clicking on the banner or text links.

Does the affiliate program also pay for the hits and impressions besides the commissions on sales? It is important that impressions and hits are also paid, as this will add to the earnings you get from the sales commission. This is especially important if the program you are in offers low sales to be able to hit ratio.

Who is the online retailer? Find out whom you are doing business with to know if it is really a solid company. Know the products they are selling and the average amount they are achieving. The more you know about the retailer offering you the affiliate program, the easier it will be for you to know if that program is really for you and your site.

Is the affiliate a one tier or two tier program? A single tier program pays you only for the business you yourself have generated. A two tier program pays you for the business, plus it also pays you a commission on the on the sales generated by any affiliate you sponsor in your program. Some two-tier programs are even paying small fees on each new affiliate you sponsor. More like a recruitment fee.

Lastly, what is the amount of commission paid? 5% – 20% is the commission paid by most programs. .01% – .05% is the amount paid for each hit. If you find a program that also pays for impressions, the amount paid is not much at all. As you can see from the figures, you will now understand why the average sales amount and hit to sale ratio is important.

These are just some of the questions that needed answering first before you enter into an affiliate program. You should be familiar with the many important aspects that your chosen program should have before incorporating them into your website. Try to ask your affiliate program choices these questions. These can help you select the right program for you site from among the many available.

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Proper Internet Marketing Has Its Own Rewards

Feb 18

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Just like anything else in life, to reach a summit you have to start with the first step. In fact, internet marketing is exactly that: choosing a summit that you want to climb, planning the expedition, and executing your plan with consistency until you reach the top. Investing in your internet marketing education is a step toward the top of the summit.

Internet marketing is easy, once you learn the “tricks” that 99% of all others trying to make a buck online don’t know. The first and most important trick is coming up with a winning game plan using a tried and tested strategy.

Let’s discuss the “tricks”, or strategy that will put on a winning trajectory. I’ve broken down internet marketing strategy into the following steps for simplicity:

1. Select Your Target Keyword
You won’t be able to rank well on all keywords at the same time. You need to select one or two single keyword phrases on which to focus your ’sniper bullet’. To see what kind of phrases people are looking for, see the Keyword Suggestion Tool. This is an ‘inventory’ of all keyword searches on Overture.com, and the information is free, so use it!!
2. Establish a Budget
marketing on the internet won’t be free, so you’ll need to decide ahead of time how much money you will be able to spend. As you set out to begin your campaing, you’ll come across a myriad of companies offering to help you drive traffic for a “modest fee”. You can mount a VERY effective campaign yourself for under $200.

Always remember, you don’t want traffic – you want positioning (ranking). When you get to the number 1 position, traffic will come; it’s the law of internet marketing gravity! Your sole focus should be on how to reach the #1 spot, not purchasing clicks.

3. Create Your Websites
This is the step where I lose most people. “Create a web site? I just barely figured out how to use Windows!” Don’t worry – we’ll show you everything you need to do to set up your web sites on a very tight budget.
4. Do Your Homework
Buy yourself a 3-ring binder and start keeping notes like you’ve got a final exam coming up in a few weeks! In your binder you will record your observations, your thoughts, keep a copy of our Internet Marketing Manual handy, sketch out your link strucutres, store printouts of your SEO reports generated by tracking software, and more. If you don’t write down what you’re doing or how your doing it, you’re flying blind!
5. Enact Course Corrections
people wonder how I do so well in the Search Engines. They think I’m some sort of boy-genius that cracked the super-secret Google algorithm. I’m sorry to burst thier bubble, but the real trick to getting to top spots is constant course correction (making LOTS of mistakes and learning from them!). I am always searching the net for Internet Marketing discussion boards and analyzing high ranking pages to figure out how to improve my own sites. Once I find a new ‘trick’, I try it out – not knowing in advance if it will work or not. Over the course of several years, I’ve be able to scratch and claw my way to the top. It was (and still is) a journey and requires attention, intrigue, and curiosity. Rome was not built overnight, and niether is search engine marketing.

Just like anything else that you want, you have to be consistent and work hard at it.  Life has its own rewards and so does proper internet marketing.

Guest post by Patrick Oborn, VP of Marketing, Commission River
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All Olympic Athletes Know This

Feb 14

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When I think of all the ways to make money online, I become overwhelmed with thoughts and ideas. My answer to any newbie would be, well simple. Making money online all depends on what YOU want to do. Yes, it depends on YOU. Its possible there are millions of MMO programs available, most of them however are scams. So, keep that in mind.  Also keep this staggering fact in mind: over 90% people will fail this year after beginning a make money online program.

You don’t have to be in that group if you don’t want to.

You could become an affiliate for CPA networks and promote any of their offers. These offers can range from those cheesy freebies you see like (“register for your free iPad. restrictions may apply.”) Or play online games, or this one below sponsored by HighProfits:

The Income Elite program through High Profits pays $47 a month per sign up. High Profits is free to join, and if you have a blog or website, you can post banners or links to get sales. Income Elite so far, has not received any complaints or negative press, so its safe to join. Its a program that teaches you how to make money online with article writing, internet marketing. Its like a tool box full of resources that can help you make a decent supplemental income.

Now here is the catch, I can not emphasize enough that promoting ANY affiliate program takes time and lots of effort. You can not make money online if you are not willing to sacrifice patience and persistence for a quick buck. That is, don’t expect to make a thousand dollars overnight if you have not put in the work. I’ve been working at monetizing my online games through Mundo Media CPA Network since December, and in the past 3 months I’ve earned, $191.70, $743.80 and $270.00 so far for the month of February. My online games is just one stream of income I am cultivating.

But, earning anything online takes work, remember, patience and persistence wins the race. Nothing can for substitute hard work. Whatever you put into something, is what you will get out of it.

If you’re interested in make money online consulting give me a jingle at 314-774-1156 9am – 5pm CST. We can set up some success planning for you and get you on the right track so you can make money online.

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FORMER PORN WRITER GOES LEGIT

Feb 13

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As you probably know there are lots of ways to make money online.  I have always been a writer, so in the beginning I wrote porn and made a pretty decent living.  I wrote short erotica stories for adult webmasters for about 3 years.  The money was good, but it left me morally poor.

Because I wanted to continue writing, I started some blogs and began looking at ways to monetize them.  I began writing posts for PayPerPost, Triond and Associated Content.  I write for these three companies because they are trustworthy and the posts are fun to create.  From time to time you may see ’sponsored post’ as a category on this blog, because its how I make my living.

KITTY PORN

I don’t promote the MLM programs any longer or write porn, however I write and I promote games for a couple CPA Networks.  I work full time making a living online.  That’s why you will almost always see me on Twitter and Facebook (I have a smartphone that keeps me totally connected as well!)

The banners you see along the side of my page to the left are the games I promote.  At first, I didn’t want to promote them, that is until last month when I saw how profitable the games could be.  A few of them are also on Facebook, which really is an excellent way to utilize these types of campaigns.

From time to time if you are my Twitter follower, StumbleUpon friend or Facebook friend, I may send you a link to play one of my games.  Or I might send you the link to become a fan of my Bejeweled 2 Fan Page, Fiesta Epic Battle, Second Life or any of my other games.  Please join in if you like games.  We have great conversations (the fans and I) and fun times sharing our scores, tips and tricks.

Tell me, what way do you make money online?  Do you work full time from home?

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