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How To Make Money Online

Ideas for those looking to join the Internet millionaire's club.

Targeted Advertisement
A slew of random eyeballs won't cut it anymore--today advertisers want a direct link to consumers and a proven return on their marketing dollars. "Targeting techniques dramatically improve [advertising rates] and make businesses viable that might not have been," says Howard Morgan, a partner at First Round Capital, an early-stage venture fund in New York that invests in Web-based companies. Entrepreneurs can make a buck either by running Web sites that appeal to a specific demographic or by writing nifty software that captures information on how people shop on the Web.

Example: 33 Across, a Manhattan-based software start-up, is developing software that sniffs out online "influencers"--those who might share an advertisement with other, larger groups of people--whom advertisers can target directly

Niche E-commerce
Amazon.com
might sell a little bit of everything, but there's room for smaller e-tailing sites that mine specific lucrative niches. The best of these sites generate revenue both by taking a cut of every sale and by selling advertising. And while the recession is spanking retailers across the board, "people are doing more price discovery and shopping online," says Morgan.

Example: Avelle.com, formerly BagBorroworsteal.com, employs a Netflix-style model for luxury accessories. Customers can rent Chanel earrings, Balenciaga tote bags or Hermès watches at a monthly or weekly rate. The company also charges $60 for an annual "membership" that offers discounts on those rates.

Lead Generation
Be an online broker and take a cut of the business you scare up. Add value not just by driving customers to other businesses but by helping advertisers learn more about their target audiences. Another alternative: simply make it easier for customers to make purchases.
Examples: Opentable.com peddles restaurant-table-management software that lets consumers search for reservations and book online. Diners make reservations for free, but the restaurants pay per lead. Mint.com offers users an online bookkeeper that can categorize and graph all spending, as well as outline ways that users can save money (strategies provided, of course, by Mint advertisers). For instance, Verizon might offer a combination package of cable, cellphone and landline service that could save Mint.com users a $100 per month; Mint.com then captures a fee for each referral.

Software
While software development costs have plunged in recent years (thanks in part to the "open-source" revolution), small programmers still face the challenge of marketing and distributing their work. Enter Facebook, the iPhone and a host of sites and gadgets that efficiently corral a massive potential user base for the next killer apps. On Facebook, software developers can advertise directly on each application they create. On the iPhone, developers can sell apps through the Apple store online and take a 70% cut.
Example: Esgut makes applications that run on Facebook and MySpace. One of them, called Superlatives, lets visitors rate their friends as the smartest, cutest or best looking; the Entourage app lets users post pictures of their favorite friends in a Brady Bunch-style frame. Esgut, recently bought by Social Gaming Network, generates revenues by selling advertising on its applications.

Vocational E-learning
This increasingly popular arena includes software and video. Classes and programs aimed at developing specific, commercially attractive skills will perform best, says Adam Dell of Impact Venture Partners. "Becoming accredited as a service technician, a nurse or in a specialized field attracts many more dollars than learning how to play the guitar," he notes.
Example: Knewton.com, an online test preparation site, charges $1,390 for a GMAT-training course, including video classrooms, test preparation questions and examinations. The company recently raised $2.5 million in venture funding.

Subscription-Based Content
For all the free stuff online, people will still pay to enter gated communities--and with the rise of social networking (Facebook, Twitter, et al.), the options for virally marketing such sites are myriad. The challenge: offering such valuable content that people are willing to pay for it.
Examples: The Ladders.com charges $30 per month for listing of open jobs paying $100,000-plus salaries. Meetup.com charges "organizers" a monthly fee to arrange meetings in U.S. cities for groups devoted to any imaginable interest.

Infotainment
Even in this tough economy, if you can wrap a compelling video around useful, practical information that appeals to a specific audience, large sponsors will pay good money for it.
Example: Foryourinformation.com, founded by Paul Kontonis, has multiple online video networks devoted to infotainment, and one comedy network, on which advertisers buy space. Companies can also buy shows created around a particular brand--an even more lucrative model, in terms of revenues per view, says Kontonis.

"Freemium" Service
This model--in which you give basic service away for free while banking on an up-sell for the premium stuff later--often sounds better than it is. Newspapers certainly have had trouble with it: In September 2007, The New York Times scrapped TimeSelect, its subscription-based access to op-eds and other content, because too few readers were signing up.
Example: Photo-sharing site Flickr.com lets users upload and store up to 100 megabytes' worth of digital photos each month for free, while its "Pro Account"--with unlimited storage--goes for $24.95 a year.

Software as a Service
Struggling small companies are looking to cut costs anywhere they can. That's where on-demand software--also called "software as a service" (or SaaS)--comes in. Instead of having to shell out for and maintain their own information technology systems, customers can simply rent information technology time from a SaaS provider. (For more on trimming costs, check out "14 Creative Ways To Keep Costs Down.")
Example: Publicly traded NetSuite peddles a range of SaaS services--from customer relationship management programs to e-commerce functions.

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Eight Ways To Make Money Online

Virtual Store
This is one of the oldest online business models, and one that left many dot-coms in ruins when the Internet bubble burst in 2000. High-end goods (custom suits, fancy cars) are tough to peddle online, but some commodity items, from books and T-shirts to hotel rooms and mortgages, work nicely--if you execute well. Beyond an easy-to-navigate Web site, you'll need a warehouse to store the inventory, as well as "fulfillment" software so customers can complete the transactions. If you don't want to deal with the IT side, set up shop on eBay and let them handle the technical issues. Some of the best eBay retailers (affectionately called "Power Sellers") pull in more than $100,000 a year.
Tip/Warning: Retail is a cut-throat business, online and off. Target a niche and offer over-the-top customer service.

Virtual Landlord
You can move merchandise online without paying rent on a warehouse. Just play virtual landlord and charge other retailers monthly fees (or per-transaction fees) for the opportunity to market their products on your site. Amazon.com nabbed 28% of its revenues this way in 2006. Craigslist is another take on this model: The 25-person company charges businesses to post help wanted ads in San Francisco, New York and L.A., and also collects fees for apartment listings in New York City. (Total page views per month: about 5 billion.)

Virtual Matchmaker
Matching buyers and sellers online sounded like a great idea back in the late '90s--until a lot of these Internet brokers went bust, still, online marketplaces persist. EBay runs online auctions and takes a cut of the final selling price. Other marketplaces simply charge buyers and sellers monthly fees for easy access to each other. Most are niche plays. Examples: Mfg.com matches equipment manufactures with smaller component suppliers, while H2Bid.com links municipalities with wastewater-equipment vendors.
Tip/Warning: Transparency adds value, so offer users the ability to rate the people they do business with. Also, auctions require more sophisticated software than basic online retailing.

Content Provider (subscriber model)
If you create truly valuable content, you should be able to charge for it, right? Targeted newsletters and pornography sites can, some yielding operating margins of 30% and higher; many other media outlets resort to selling advertising (see next slide). Dating sites like Match.com--a cross between a subscription-based content provider and a virtual marketplace--charge subscription fees for access to their members.
Tip/Warning: Subscription sites fill an urgent need--for tangible investment ideas, a potential mate, etc. General-interest content generally doesn't cut it with subscribers online.

Content Provider (advertising model)
This is every pajama-clad blogger's dream. Selling advertising is also how thousands of established online media outlets pay their electric bills. They charge advertisers two ways: by the number of overall Web pages (called "impressions") they serve up, and by the number of people who click on the ads. Some small fries are surviving: Jossip.com, a media and gossip blog, counts Coca-Cola and Sketchers among its advertisers. The trick: attracting enough eyeballs to make it worth someone's while to pay to advertise on your site.
Tip/Warning: The "click-through" rates on ads tend to be quite low--in the neighborhood of one-half of 1%. To have any prayer of attracting large advertisers, sites need to attract at least 500,000 unique visitors per month, says Jossip publisher David Hauslaib.

Domain Directory
Simply corral a bunch of related Web sites and charge their owners annual fees, or per-click fees, to post their listings. High-end example: Business.com, basically Yellow Pages for the Internet.
Tip/Warning: While this may sound easy, the bigger the online parking lot, the trickier the technology to support it. Business.com, for instance, requires a content-management system, search technology and a way to track ad clicks.

Domain Flipping
As with tangible real estate, you can buy virtual plots (URL addresses), flip them and make a buck. GoDaddy.com sells unused domain names for under $10 apiece. To attract buyers, run tests to determine how often certain key words are searched so that you can demonstrate the likelihood that your URL will show up in a Google or Yahoo! search. (For more on this model, check out "Meet Noah Of The Internet" and "The Most Expensive Web Addresses.")
Tip/Warning: The best domain names are short, sweet, specific and easy to remember.

Virtual Futures Market
As Internet usage grows, so too will the sophistication of online business models. Take 3-year-old Yoonew, which sells futures contracts on sports tickets. Fans buy the right to take delivery of tickets if their teams make it to a coveted playoff game, perhaps months away. Given the uncertainty of the bet, those contracts sell for a fraction of the future market value of the underlying tickets. If your team makes it to the big game, you’ve locked in a cheap seat; if it falls short, you lose that insurance premium. Yoonew makes money when the revenue it collects from selling all those contracts exceeds the cost of delivering a small number of very expensive tickets on game days. (The danger: If ticket prices spike, or there are no seats available, the company could suffer a loss or alienate its customers.)

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Ten Top Work At Home Ideas

Are you looking for some great ideas on how to work at home? Let's look at our selection of the top 10 work at home ideas.

Idea#1: Tutoring
Do you like to teach others? Were you good at any special subjects at school? You can start your own home tutoring business and offer to coach kids at your home for a monthly fee. You can turn your house into a learning center and add books, references and inspiring photos.

Idea#2: Blogging
If you love to write, consider becoming a part-time blogger to start sharing your passions with the rest for the online community. This is a great way to make money online. It doesn't cost much to get your own domain name and a free template. You can even start your own blogs at one of the free blogging platform online.

Idea#3: Daycare Center for the Aging
You may want to start an elderly daycare center in your community by offering to look after the aging members of the family when the others are out working. It is a highly lucrative business and those who do have elderly members of the family may want to send their aging parents to your home so they would be well taken care of.

Idea#4: Cooking classes
If you love to cook, you can start a bakery and cooking class where you get to coach others in your neighborhood on ways to prepare special culinary dishes. If you can produce really tasty dishes and can impart the skills to others, you can really make money this way. Make it into a weekend activity when others are around and have time to spare to attend your classes. There are dozens of dishes you can segregate the class into or offer separate classes to teach. Add variety to your offer and you will find your reputation will grow if you can really deliver what you promise.

Idea#5: Makeover Studios
Have you ever watched how they transform an ordinary plain Jane into dazzling women with the use of make-up and hairstyles? Are you aware that these makeover studios are highly enticing to women especially if they have an important event ahead and want to look their best! Women are known to spend ridiculous amounts of money just to appear good and fashionable so this is a good way to make money from home by offering a service that can add to their quality of life.
This is one lucrative business you can start on your own home. Start a photography and makeover business offering makeup solutions and hairstyling sessions for your customers. Charge less than what is being offered by professional makeover studios but do not scrimp on the quality. Once your reputation grows, you will have more customers than you can deal with begging to use your services, especially if you do a good job with the transformation.

Idea#6: Nursery
Do you like gardening? If you have green fingers and love to work with plants, starting your own nursery can be a great and fun idea to explore. There are so many varieties of highly popular plants that you can raise and nurture in your backyard and sell them off to interested buyers when they reach maturity. Adeniums, Roses, Lilies, Gloxinias and Delphiniums are all great choices to be included in your list of plants to grow.

Idea#7: Home Made Bakery
Do you like to bake cakes? What about creating your own home made bakery business? This is both a fun and highly rewarding way to make some fast cash from home. What you need is a reliable oven, some handy kitchen tools, your culinary skills and you are off to a great start. You can start by offering these cakes and cookies for free to friends and families. As your reputation grows in time, the demand will rise for more of these home made cookies and your business will grow accordingly.

Idea#8: Resume Writing
Are you aware that there are thousands of people who agonize about writing the perfect resume for an important job interview? If you have the right skills, you can start an online resume writing business. Start by offering one or two resumes for free in exchange for a great testimonial. Once your reputation grows, you will have more work than you can handle just by working from home writing resumes.

Idea#9: Article Writing
If you are not into resume writing consider writing articles for internet marketers. This is a highly lucrative niche and you can expect to make a steady income if you are persistent and honest in your work. You need to learn about optimizing keywords for the search engines, how to write engaging copy that converts and determine the right pricing structure for it.

Idea#10: Internet Marketing
If you know how to promote websites, you can offer online services to help other webmasters promote their unique URL or their Web address. You can learn internet marketing skills from online forums, e-books and experts that offer this kind of coaching for a fee online. Once you have mastered the art of promotion online you can offer your services in exchange for a monthly fee.
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About the Author
Lydia Clark has been working from home for several years now. She is also a very keen trail runner. You can see her latest website at http://www.salomontrailrunningshoes.com where you can find good deals on Salomon trail running shoes

How To Make Money Online From The Comforts Of Your Home

Over the past few years, I've seen people coming up to me with the same question i.e. "how to make money online?" Well, in recent times internet has turned out to be a necessity rather than a source of entertainment. There are innumerable ways that helps you to make money online. This isn't all, with the advent of the internet; you can now make money online without having to step out of your house! Just imagine...no office...no boss...flexible work timings and an opportunity to earn millions...isn't that great! In a nutshell, it can be termed that the idea of making money online seems attractive to many, chiefly because of the benefits that it brings with it. Check out a couple of online money making opportunities listed below:

* Opting for Google Adsense
* Freelance opportunities such as computer related jobs, web designing and writing jobs
* Affiliate marketing
* Selling your products and services on eBay
* Joining a web hosting company as a reseller and selling the domain and hosting names
* Creating websites, building some links, generating some traffic followed by selling it.
* Writing an e-book
* Internet marketing
* Joining the paid to click companies

Now that you have come to know how to make money online, you can slow down and chalk out your online journey accordingly. So make sure you adhere to top ideas to make money online from the comforts of your home and enjoy the personal freedom in the process that comes with working without a fixed geographic location or time frame.

How To Start An Internet Business

We have all heard and read about the overnight millionaires who made their fortunes on the internet when it first started up. Things a a little different now but fortunes can and are still being made. So what can you do that will start to earn money online for you?

The first thing to realize is that an internet business is what it says. A business. You will have to do some work and that will take some effort. The good news is that you can start from home with little or no cash to invest and yet, if you work at it, the rewards can be huge.
What if you don't know what sort of business to start. It's fine saying that you can earn money online but doing what?

I would personally suggest that you try affiliate marketing. That just means you sell other peoples stuff and get a commission. You don't have to buy the products and fill up your spare room and then try to sell them. You just promote products on behalf of the company and when you make a sale, they pay you.

Sounds too simple? It's not really. Lots of people do it now and you can too. The online sales business is worth billions of dollars every year and some affiliate marketers can earn thousands of dollars every day. Could you manage to live on that?

Your are not likely to make quite so much money when you first start but it is not too much to expect that you will in the future. Believe me, when you see that first $20 commission come in to your account you'll be hooked.

That small payment can have a massive effect on you proving to yourself that you are capable of making your own living online. With some work every day you will see regular sales.

The Apple iPhone 3G S 32GB offers delights to satisfy every whim

The Apple iPhone 3G S 32GB is a phone which has an unassuming style but has bags of appeal. It looks sleek and stylish and is full of functions and features that provide multiple means of entertainment.

The phone weighs in at 135 grams. Its dimensions are 115.5mm x 62.1mm wide. It is only 12.3 mm thick. It utilises the ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz CPU and also the PowerVR SGX graphics facility. Its operating system is based on the MAC system and is aptly called the iPhone OS.
The phones display screen is a 3.5 inch TFT capacitive touch screen which displays over 16 million colours at a pixel size of 320 x 480 pixels. The screen offers a vibrant colour representation and provides true life like imagery. The phone comes with an innovative multi touch input method for accessing functions. Several sensors are offered which include an accelerometer and proximity sensor. These provide the means to alter the aspect of images and auto shut off the phone to conserve battery life.

The phones internet capabilities are equally impressive with its HSDPA connection offering speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps as well as the useful Wi-Fi function. GPRS and EDGE as well as Blue tooth and USB are also all included which provides additional means of file transfer and synchronisation. Satellite navigation is offered by means of the integrated GPS with A-GPS support and Google maps.

The Apple iPhone 3G S 32GB provides a 3.15 mega pixel which has a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels. Additional tools include auto focus and touch focus which are extremely useful and provide a simpler way of focusing on the subject matter. Geo-tagging is also included. The phone has a video capture facility which is at VGA quality and records at 30 frames per second. A video Geo-tagging facility is also provided for locational referencing. The iPhones internal memory is set at a large 32 Gb.

The iPhone 3G S 32GB offers the latest advancements in phone technology brought to the masses by Apple. The iconic nature of the iPhone has helped this latest version to gain popularity very quickly and is sure to continue unabated.

10 Mesmerizing Ways To Reinforce Your Profits‏

1. Anticipate any objections your visitors may have about your product offer. You must research your target audience's needs and wants.

2. Remember not to use outrageous or unbelievable claims in your ad copy. People are too savvy online and won't believe you.

3. Pick a good name for your business and product.Your names should be memorable and describe the kind of product your offering.

4. Solve your customer complaints by being quick and friendly. The faster you respond, the more your customers feel you care about them.

5. Never think your customers are satisfied with their purchase. You should be constantly finding new ways to better your product and service.

6. Market yourself, as well as your product. You could write articles, ebooks, do free consulting, do speaking engagements, etc.

7. Find new target audiences for your products or services. For example, if you're selling coffee to stores try to also sell it to coffee shops.

8. Use the phrase "invest in our product" instead of the words buy or purchase. This makes prospects feel they're investing in their future if they buy.

9. Create offline affiliates to market your product. Have people sign up at your web site to sell your products through "house parties".

10. Use logos and slogans for your business. They make it easier for people to remember and identify your business.

How to find real work at home jobs

Many people are being laid off, and jobs are becoming difficult to find. Many people are now searching for options to make a living on which they can survive. Stay at home moms are searching everyday on how to "make money from home", as finding legitimate work can be very challenging.

There are many legitimate companies who are offering work-from-home positions, the pay might not be great but if you work hard at it you can make a substantial income enough to make ends meet. With the internet there are many new opportunities for parents and others who want to work at home.

Call center jobs
Most companies are now offering their customer-service calls to home-based call-center workers. Training is provided and all the necessary technology that you would want to set up your own home-based call centers.

Home-based operators are usually contractors who are paid for each minute spent on the phone, which pays typically starts at $10 per hour.

Some call centers that employ home-based workers:

Alpine Access
LiveOps
Arise
West at Home


Start your own online business
To start you own online business sometimes require a minimum investment. If you have a skill such as teaching you can offer your service online. Most people charge $20 -45 per hour depending on the level and subject areas.

Also you can open an online store; you do not need to have the stock at hand, as most wholesalers offer dropshipping. This require an investment of $10 - $20, as you need is a website and to register your domain name. A free website that you can start with is ecrater.com.

Do your research about what you want to sell, baby items are very good choice, then search for dropshippers, set up your website. You can spend $50 per month advertising using Google adwords, as you will need traffic to start your business.

You can offer your products on online auction sites, such as EBay, Amazon

You will need to run your business as a small business, where you need to register the company. The U.S. Small Business Administration has a free business set-up guide on its Web site.

Start your own Home-based business
Turn your hobby in a home business. You can open a daycare for kids, or pets, dog walking and errand running.

You will first need to know license and insurance requirements for your state. Some home-based business ideas:

  • Personal trainer
  • Tutors
  • Consulting
  • Accounting
  • Web Design
  • Cleaning service
  • Freelancing
  • Virtual Assistant Secretarial Service

Mystery Shoppers
This career can be very rewarding, but it takes time. Mystery shoppers are typically paid $5 to $100 per assignment depending on the company you are working for. This job comes with perks and you get to allot of freebies.

Companies that wants Mystery Shoppers

Corporate Research International Mystery Shops
Mystery Guest
Service Intelligence Experience Exchange

10 Heavy Duty Online Sales Grabbers‏

1. Give your prospects extra incentives so they will order quicker. It could be free shipping, a faster shipping option, free gift wrapping, etc

2. Make your small business look big on the worldwide web. Design your web site using professional graphics, ordering systems, organized layouts, etc.

3. Attract a lot more customers by giving them clear ordering instructions. Give them all the information they need so they can complete their order easily.

4. Give your customers buying incentives so they'll make repeat purchases. Offer them discounts, free gifts, bonus points, etc.

5. Tell people about your site whenever you get a chance. Those people will tell other people and soon. It's a cheap way to multiply your advertising.

6. Write and send press releases for your web site. Use a strong headlines, make it newsworthy, and tell the journalist why their readers would like it.

7. Use a lot of headlines on your web site and ezine. Some types of headlines are free offers, questions,problem solvers, sales, and statistics.

8. Design graphics, templates, buttons and banner ads for other sites. Allow people to use them in exchange for your web link on their home page.

9. Use time saving promotional software. You can automate your search engine submissions, posting to online classified sites, etc.

10. Advertise your online business by dressing in clothes that are imprinted with your ad. It could be a T-shirt, ball cap, coat, etc.

How to get free business cards

If you have a business you need business cards to help with your marketing. When you have business cards potential clients or customers see that you are really serious about business. Business can be very expensive, but there are ways to get free business card you have a computer and printer.

Most companies will give you the cards for free and you only pay for shipping, which is an average of $4 per 250 packages of business cards. Below are various companies that offer free business cards.


VistaPrint
With is company you have over 42 templates to choose from to create your business card. You can upload your own logo, and all you pay for is shipping and processing fee.

The only drawback to this site is that you have to accept an ad on the back of the card.

Bizcard
This company offer high quality business cards on the web. They provide over 400 free business card templates. Business cards can be horizontal or vertical. The cards come in Slim size: 1.5" x 3.5" and Square Business Card size is 2.0" x 2.0" .You can upload your logo and it is all free.

MarketSplash
With this company you options, you can chose business cards template based on the industry you are in. You have three options to chose from, business cards with logo, basic or industry. They come in horizontal and vertical. You can print them directly to your printer. Or just pay for shipping.

Business Card Star
This website makes it easy to create the perfect business card. You can choose from dozens of design templates, customize graphics, text and colors. You can print your cards at home for free. You could also pay to have them printed and shipped to you.


Microsoft Office
Microsoft has over 100 business card designs to choose from and they can be downloading using various Microsoft Office programs. You can then edit them to make them your own.

You can also upload your own graphics and logo. If you have printer you can print them directly from the website. Make sure you use nice and sophisticated business cards paper to make your cards look really professional.

10 Killer Ways To Sell Your Back-End Products‏

A back-end product is a product you attempt to sellyour customers after they have recently purchased arelated product from your business.

If you're not trying to sell back-end products to yourcustomers, you're making a big mistake. It is easier tosell to existing customers than it is to sell to new oneswho don't trust your business yet.

Below are ten killer strategies you can use to sell yourback-end products to your existing customers:

1. When you ship people the first product they bought,insert a flyer or brochure for your back-end product in the package.

2. Give customers a free subscription to a customers only e-zine when they buy your product. You could include your ad for your back-end product in each issue.

3. Send your customers greeting cards on holidays or on their birthday. Include a small advertisement inside the card for your back-end product.

4. After people order your first product from your website, take them to a "thank you" web page and include your back-end product ad on that page.

5. Send customers a free surprise gift after they order your first product. You could attach another ad with the free gift for your back-end product.

6. If you're selling an electronic product, like an ebook,include your ad for your back-end product somewhere inside the electronic product.

7. Give your customers a free membership into your"customers only" private site. You could include your ad for your back-end product somewhere inside the private site.

8. Contact your customers by phone and ask them if they were happy with their purchase. You could tell them about your back-end product.

9. Send your customers a thank you letter by mail or e-mail. You could mention your back-end product somewhere on the letter.

10. Ask your customers if they want to be updated inthe future when you have new product offers. You could have them sign up to receive e-mail or snail mail updates. Your business will have a greater chance of survivingwhen you attempt to sell back-end products to yourexisting customers.

10 Eye Popping, Jaw Dropping Ad Copy Secrets‏

1. Use a hand written letter on your ad copy instead of text. Write the ad on a piece of paper, scan it and publish the ad on your web page. Adding a personal touch will always increase your sales.

2. Publish a list of famous and respected customers who have bought from you on your a copy. People will think that if these people bought from you, they should also trust your business and purchase yourproducts. Make sure to get their permission first.

3. Show before and after photos for your products on your web page copy. Show the problem picture and then beside it, show the picture of the resolution to the problem when they use your product.

4. Include an article or review that has been written about you or your business with your ad copy. This will show people that your business is respected and will increase your credibility.

5. When you offer free bonuses in your ad copy, alsol ist the dollar value beside each bonus. People will feel they're getting a good deal and it will increase the value of your product.

6. Hire a famous person to endorse your product or service. Make sure the person is well known to your target audience. Include their picture and statements on your ad copy.

7. Include your own picture on your ad copy. This will show people that you're not hiding behind your ad copy and will increase their trust. Also, include your contact information below the picture and a brief statement or quote.

8. Tell your potential customers on your ad copythat you will donate a percentage of their purchase price to specific charity. This will show them you really care about the people. They may just buy your product to donate to the charity.

9. Ask your potential customers plenty of yes and no questions in your ad copy. The questions should remind them of their problem and make them think about what will happen if they don't purchase your product.

10. Tell your potential customers they will receive a free prize if they find the five words in your ad copy that are misspelled or spelled backwards. The longer you can keep someone reading your copy the greater chance of them purchasing.

10 Ways To Make Your Online Testimonials More Believable

1. PICTURES
Ask people if they would e-mail a picture with their testimonial. If they don't have one scanned you could have them send their picture by mail and you could scan it. This technique will give your testimonials more credibility.

2. ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES
Most online testimonials you see have text signatures.You could have people mail their written signature,scan it, and upload it with their testimonial. People will feel the testimonial is more official.

3. ONLINE AUDIO
You could record people's testimonials with a mini taperecorder over the phone, on your answering machine,or voice mail. Then you could convert the recording into a online audio file and upload it to your web site.You can find more information about converting audiorecording's by typing "real audio" at a search engine.

4. POSTCARDS
Have people mail you their testimonial on a postcard,scan it and upload it to your web site. This will give people proof that the testimonial isn't fake becauseit will have a post mark on it.

5. PROFILES
Ask people to include a profile of themselves with their testimonial. You could just have them answer some questions like age, occupation, hobbies, favorite quote,etc. This will make your testimonials more entertaining to read.

6. HAND WRITTEN LETTERS
This is similar to the "electronic signature" tip. Scanand upload the entire written testimonial or letter to your web site. This will give your testimonials a feel of realism.

7. RECORDINGS
You could record peoples testimonials over the phone with a mini tape recorder. Then, take the recording and record it to an answering machine or voice mail system. Under each one, include a phone number they can call to hear the actual testimonial.

8. E-MAIL MESSAGES
When you get e-mail testimonials, publish the entire e-mail message instead of just the contents. It will be more believable because it will include the date, time,subject, who it's from and who it's to.

9. CONTACT INFORMATION
When you get testimonials from people, ask them if you could include their contact information under the testimonial. This will allow potential customers to ask your current customers questions about your productor service before they buy. Usually, they will trust them more than you.

10. ONLINE VIDEO
If some of the people who give you testimonials have a camcorder, ask them to record their testimonial on video and send it to you. Then you could convert the video to an online video file and upload it to your site.You can find more information about converting audio recording's by typing "real video" at a search engine.

10 Killer Ways To Make People Click‏

1. Use reverse psychology on your banner ads. You could tell people not to click on your banner ad. For example "Don't Click Here If You Are Comfortable With Your Looks

2. Make your banner ad words as attractive as possible. Use words like ultimate, powerful, sizzling,hot, etc. Your words should relate and highlight your total offer.

3. Offer a discount offer on your banner ad. People are always looking for good deals. You could offer a percentage discount, dollar discount, buy one get one free discount, etc

4. Use a testimonial on your banner ad. This'll give people proof they aren't wasting their time clicking on your banner ad. The testimonial should include enough information so they understand the offer.

5. You could have a famous and respectable personon your banner ad representing your product, website or service. People will click because they'll trust them over you.

6. Use a strong guarantee on your banner ad. You could include the guarantee as a headline for your offer. It could read double or triple your money back guarantee, lifetime your money back guarantee, etc.

7. Tell people to click on your banner ad. Newbies to the internet may net even know they can click on banners. Just having the phrase "click here" on your banner will increase your click throughs.

8. You could advertise a trial or sample offer. This will tell people there is no risk or obligation if they click on your banner ad and try out your product or service.

9. Tell people the major benefit of your product, website or service on your banner ad. It could be benefits like make money, lose weight, increase energy, save money, save time, etc.

10. You could advertise a free offer on your banner ad. People love free stuff. The freebie should relate to your target audience. If the freebie is attractive to them they will click.

10 Electrifying Ways To Explode Your Orders‏

1. Persuade visitors to link to your web site. Give them a freebie in exchange for them linking to your web site. It could be content, software, etc.

2. Link to web sites that provide useful informationor services for your visitors. If you have many useful links on your site, they may make it their start page.

3. Spice-up your web site's wording using plenty of adjectives. It gives your visitors a clearer vision of what your explaining or describing to them.

4. Don't make your banner ads look like ads. Most people ignore banner ads. Design them to look like content and have them click to read the rest.

5. Join affiliate programs that go with the theme of your web site. You'll just be wasting valuable space and time if your visitors aren't interested in them.

6. Market your web site as a free club instead of a web site. This'll increase your repeat visitors and sales because people enjoy belonging to groups.

7. Interact with your online customers on a regular basis. This'll show them you care about them. You could use a chat room, forum or message system.

8. Check your web site links regularly. After people click on one link, and it doesn't work, they usually won't risk wasting their time clicking on another one.

9. Give visitors a positive experience when they're at your web site. Provide them with original content and free stuff. They'll tell all of their friends about it.

10. Share customers with other businesses that have the same target audience. Offer their product to your customers if, in exchange they do the same for you.

10 Killer Ways To Jump Start Your Profits‏

1. Offer to write exclusive articles (that means you only submit them to one place) for high traffic websites in exchange for a link back to your site.

2. Create a positive online image. Tell your visitors about fundraisers you have sponsored or that you donate a part of your profits to charity.

3. Improve your customer service on a regular basis. Try out new technologies that make it easier to communicate with your customers over the net.

4. Ask your customers what they would like to see offered by your business in the future. This type of information can boost your sales.

5. Make sure your web host isn't losing your sales. If you get an e-mail from someone that told you that they couldn't access your site, it might be your host.

6. Allow your visitors experience to be an enjoyable one at your web site. Provide easy navigation, good content, fast loading graphics, search options, etc.

7. Keep changing or adding freebies to your website. If people see the same freebie in your ads they will say to themselves, "been there done that".

8. Add a directory to your web site. When visitors submit their web site, e-mail them confirming their link has been added and remind them to revisit.

9. Organize your marketing and advertising into a plan. Create a list of daily, weekly, monthly and all other future promotional plans.

10. Trade links only with web sites that your target audience or yourself would visit. They should offer their visitors valuable content or freebies.

10 Effective Ways To Reduce Your Business Costs

1. Barter
If you have a business you should be bartering goods and services with other businesses. You should try to trade for something before you buy it. Barter deals usually require little or no money.

2. Network
Try networking your business with other businesses.You could trade leads or mailing lists. This will cut down on your marketing and advertising costs. You may also try bartering goods and services with them.

3. Wholesale/Bulk
You'll save money buying your business supplies in bulk quantities. You could get a membership at a wholesale warehouse or buy them through a mail order wholesaler. Buy the supplies you are always running out of.

4. Free Stuff
You should try visiting the thousands of freebie sites on the internet before buying your business supplies.You can find free software, graphics, backgrounds,online business services etc.

5. Borrow/Rent
Have you ever purchased business equipment youonly needed for a small period of time? You could have just borrowed the equipment from someone else or rented the equipment from a "rent-all" store.

6. Online/Offline Auctions
You can find lower prices on business supplies and equipment at online and offline auctions. I'm not saying all the time, but before you go pay retail forthese items try bidding on them first.

7. Plan Ahead
Make a list of business supplies or equipment you'll need in the future. Keep an eye out for stores that have big sales. Purchase the supplies when they goon sale before you need them.

8. Used Stuff
If your business equipment and supplies don't need to be new, buy them used. You can find used items at yard and garage sales, used stores, used stufff or sale message boards and news groups etc.

9. Negotiate
You should always try negotiate a lower price for any business equipment or supplies. It doesn't hurt to try. Pretend you are talking to a salesman at a car lot.

10. Search
You can always be searching for new suppliers foryour business supplies and equipment. Look for suppliers with lower prices and better quality. Don't just be satisfied with a few.

10 Cool Ways To Attract People To Your Web Site

1. Give people a free subscription to your e-zine. Almost everyone is publishing an e-zine nowadays so it's important to give something extra with the free subscription. You could offer a free gift or advertising when people subscribe.

2. Provide your visitors with free content. Your content will be more attractive to your visitors if it's up-to-date or original. You could also offer people the option to reprint the content in their e-zine or web site.

3. Offer a free online directory. The directory could be full of interesting ebooks, e-zines, web sites etc. If people find your directory to be a valuable resource they will visit it over and over.

4. Give your visitors a free ebook. You could also include your own ad in the ebook and allow other people to give it away. If you don't want to take the time to write one, you could ask other writers permission to use their articles.

5. Hold free online classes or seminars. They could be held in your web site's chat room. The idea of "live" information will definitely entice people to visit your web site. You will become known as an expert on the topic.

6. Give visitors a free entry into your contest or sweepstakes. The prizes should be something of interest or value to your visitors. Most people who enter will continually revisit your web site to get the results.

7. Let visitors download free software. It could be freeware, shareware, demos etc. You could even turn part of your site into a free software directory. If you created the software, include your ad inside and let other people give it away.

8. Offer free online services or utilities from your web site. They could be search engine submitting,copy writing proofreading etc. The service or utility should be helpful to your target audience.

9. Give free consulting to people who visit your web site. You could offer your knowledge via e-mail or by telephone. People will consider this a huge value because consulting fees can be very expensive.

10. Give your visitors a free membership to your online club. People want to belong to something, why not your online club. You could also give away a free e-zine for club members only.


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10 Killer Ways To Defeat Your Competition

1. Offer free original content. It's important to give your visitors information they can't find any where else. If you're the only source, they'll visit your site.

2. Give people free software. Most people like to find good deals on software for their computers. If the software is free, that is even better.

3. Hold free contests or sweepstakes. Most people like to win things. If you can fulfill that need, people will stop by to visit.

4. Provide a free web directory. Create a directoryof web sites on a popular topic that will attract your target audience.

5. Offer a free e-zine. Most people love to get free information that's e-mailed to them regularly. This saves them time and money.

6. Make your web site look professional. You wantto have your own domain name, easy navigation,attractive graphics, etc.

7. Let people read your ad before they get to your freebie. When you use free stuff to lure people to your web site list it below your ad copy.

8. Attract the target audience that would buy your product or service. A simple way to do this is to survey your existing customers.

9. Test and improve your ad copy. There are many people who write an ad and never change it. Make sure you get the highest possible response rate.

10. Give people an urgency so they buy now. Many people are interested in your product but they put off buying it until later and eventually forget about it.

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10 Killer Profit Boosters

1. Gain an advantage over your competition. You should find one benefit your competition doesn'toffer and use it as your main selling point.

2. Design your e-zine so it creates multiple free advertising streams. Ask readers to forward it to people they know, offer ad trades, etc.

3. Allow your visitors to subscribe to an update e-zine. Anytime you make changes to your website they can receive an informative e-mail.

4. Focus your articles on information the targeted readers and e-zine publishers want. They will get published more often, which means free publicity.

5. Use problems to attract online traffic. Find a common online problem and use your web site to solve it. People will visit and see your ads.

6. Have an informative FAQ page at your web site. Anticipate questions your prospects or visitors may have; this will help improve your sales ratio.

7. Improve your negotiation skills. This'll improve your business because you're always negotiating ad swaps, supply prices, joint ventures, wages, etc.

8. Beat your competition by giving away a similar product or service that they charge for. It could be add on products, warranties, servicing, etc.

9. Build a larger online community by giving your visitors bonuses for participating on your message boards or chat rooms. Try free products, ads, etc.

10. Instead of starting an affiliate program, start a referral program. Give people discounts and free products for referring people to your site.

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