6
Jan
2012
Dawn Of The Digital Age And How To Build Your Internet Empire
With unemployment at near historical levels, it’s hard for many to appreciate that we’re witnessing the birth of the greatest wealth-building opportunity in world history.
That said, truth is, no matter how dark the economic climate or mood of the country, three online business ideas have led on to innovations that could change your future in ways not conceivable just ten years ago.
It’s the dawning of the Digital Age.
Not possible just 10 years back, today everybody’s got a real chance to build their own business and sell real products that people are actually looking for.
The price: your work time and about $100 a year.
Imagine a store which has no employees, no no rent or utility bills, no inventory. Though open 24 hours a day, you never have to handle a single buyer.
What products can you sell? Nearly anything nowadays.
Anything that Amazon sells. Or Apple. Not to mention thousands of other nationally and globally well known businesses.
All because of the confluence of new, virtually free, technology, and game-changing marketing and advertising breakthroughs.
Innovation 1: Big Box Affiliate Marketing
The planet’s largest retailers—-Amazon, Walmart, Sears, Orbitz, Expedia, Buy.com, Petsmart, Macys— and thousands of other brick and mortar companies—- are always on the prowl to improve their share of the market, sell more of their products, and improve their bottom line.
Till the Digital Age, these huge corporations were normally compelled to open new stores, a risky and expensive proposition.
Then, one by one, these titans of commerce discovered a sure-fire way to build their businesses: let others do it for them using digital age technology that could open and reach previously untapped markets pretty much everywhere.
The concept, itself, is sublimely simple.
This is how it works. A company sets up an affiliate (sometimes called “associate”) program paying online entrepreneurs a commission for marketing its products. Typically, the affiliate can use company made banners, product descriptions, etc. on his or her site (with simple copy and paste or even WordPress plugins). When a consumer visits the affiliate’s website and makes a decision to get a product, he is taken to the company’s website to complete the transaction.
The company makes a sale it wouldn’t otherwise get. It’s cost? The commission it pays to the marketer.
The affiliate marketer gets a commission for selling the company’s products.
Innovation 2: Adwords Pay Per Click Advertising
The arrival of Google’s Adwords PPC ad program proved to be a seismic game-changer in the digital age, allowing each website, wherever found, whatever its size, to competitively enter the world marketplace. It permits internet marketers and businesses to connect, nearly instantly, with web searchers who are often hunting for the very thing a marketer has to sell.
How do the searcher and marketer find one another? Thru keywords. The words in the search inquiry (“sony cybershot” or “sony cybershot digital camera”) match, or are related to, the words the online business person uses in his Adwords campaign.
And, because Adwords is a pay-per-click program where the cost of a click is set by a bid auction process, any ambitious online business person can publicize within his or her own budget restrictions.
Innovation 3: WordPress and Other Simple to Utilize Internet site Building Programs
Early in the Digital Age, online innovators like WordPress.org and WordPress.com, developed digital products that were both amazingly cheap and required no experience of computer programming. In the very beginning, the products were designed as blogs but web entrepreneurs realized almost instantly that their cost (very cheap or even free) and ease-of-use made them perfect for advertising products.
Which brings us to now.
Whether you have got a job or lost it due to outsourcing or downsizing, had your hours or pay cut back, or simply want to get in on the ground floor wealth-creating opportunities of the new Digital Age, you can begin building your own internet business empire today for less than $100 a year. Our suggestions:
1. Build a web site around a niche that may be exploited using inexpensive or free WordPress or other easy-to-use platforms.
2. Run your Adwords campaign using high traffic keywords with good commercial intent.
3. Maximise your profits using A/B testing (free).
4. Once your first site is working well, move to a second, then a third.
Build your empire.
Each successful internet business is constructed on great online ideas like understanding the 12 components of successful pay per click ad campaigns.
And, naturally, it is usually good to know how to get higher ad position for less money than your competitors using Google Adwords Quality Score.
4
Aug
2011
Simple Online Business Ideas
There are many different things you can do which will increase the success of your online business. The goal of this article will be to help you find a way to improve your business as it sits right now. My personal expertise is search engine optimization so the majority of this article will be making sure you have a corelation between what you sale and what you are attempting to rank your website or blog for. Online business has three main properties to it the first being creation which is when you set up your website or blog, next is internet marketing and this consists of everything from social networking to ranking your presence at the top of the major search engines, finally there is monetization which is when you earn money from the traffic you get to your website. Some of the common monetization methods include ppc publising, affiliate marketing, and product creation/selling.
The first thing when creating an online business or running an online business is understanding what the web traffic coming to your website wants. To get this understanding you much keep track of where and how the traffic is coming to your website. This is why online business owners install a website counter. The two top counters which will help evaluate the incoming traffic sources include statcounter.com and Google Analytics which you will find in your Google Account Settings. Both of these two will allow you to tell exactly what is bringing in the traffic. One of the most important incoming sources to check is keywords. These websites will let you know what keywords searching for to find your website. Make sure you check to see what position you are at for these keywords and if you are not number one start building links to reach the top.
The final topic I would like to discuss is testing and utilizing monetization techniques when trying to become a successful online business professional. Many think you throw Google Adsense up and begin making thousands, but this is rarely the case. A much more usual circumstance is barely making anything with adsense and having to test many different monetization techniques. One of the monetization techniques which I use is the affiliate programs on paid surveys websites. These are extremely easy to market because people sign up and make money for free. Some other websites that are worth testing out if you are trying to make money from your traffic are amazon and clickbank. These two websites have many different affiliate products in every niche imaginable.
You must remember that if you decide to open and run an online business it is important to be ready for years of work. No one makes it online overnight it is a long and tedious process. The main thing you should worry about in the first year is learning everything you can about online business especially internet marketing.
4
Feb
2011
Online Business Tip: Follow Your Competition
Every website or blog online has at the very least one competitor who is fighting for the same targeted traffic. This is the way it has always been in the online business world and will continue to be. If you want to stay on top of your online business competitors making it possible for you to earn money online then it is imperative that you follow them making sure you know exactly what they are doing. Knowing your competition will allow you to use the same marketing methods they are using plus your own. This combination of marketing will put you at the very top. You may think once you reach the top it will be time to rest and you can let your competition do whatever, but what you must realize is keeping a top spot is very difficult. You will need to work diligently not letting anyone creep up an overthrow you. The only way to do this is looking at the top twenty and figuring out what they are doing. If their methods are working then take them and use them to ensure your presence will stay number one.
There should be a couple things that you are looking at when checking out online business competition. The first thing to look at is their onsite optimization. To do this pay attention to links that are pointing towards pages within the presence. The main linking will of course be navigation, but most webmasters and bloggers that are ranking well in Google will have other links on their presence. In most cases they will have links on the bottom of their pages linking back to the main page with the keywords they are trying to rank well for. You will also notice links within the content of their pages. One of the easiest ways to create links is using your own presence to link to your main page from articles on your site. I made sure to do this with my website make money online free and it worked out quite well.
Another couple things you should look at when trying to figure out your competition is checking the amount of time between updates. Google and the other major search engines rank websites higher that have quality content updated on a regular basis. The reason for this is if your content is old and nothing on your website or blog has been updated for a long time then your presence will look dead. Usually if a blog or website is out ranking you one of the main reasons is they are producing content more frequently. The final thing to check is where your competition is getting their links. To check this all you need to do is go to Yahoo’s site explorer and type in the competitions URL. This tool will bring up the number of backlinks your competitor has as well as a thousand places your competitor acquired backlinks.
4
Feb
2011
Learn How To Build Your Own Online Business
There are many ways you can start a simple presence and create an online business. The first thing you will need to do is find a quality host that will provide you with your main presence where you will earn money online. This will be where the majority of your work will be and everything you create outside should be linked towards this main presence. I highly recommend using a blogging platform since updating and content creation is pretty much automated. You can have static pages mixed with constant content updating which will help your presence rank well within Google and the other major search engines. If you are willing to put in thousands of hours of work over the course of a few years then it is imperative you purchase unlimited hosting. The reason for this is free hosts such as 000webhost.com or wordpress.com have limits on storage and bandwidth. When choosing a hosting company make sure they have truly unlimited hosting for a reasonable host. I don’t recommend paying over ten dollars per month for a host.
Once you have a quality host that will be the server of your main presence the next step is creation an optimized presence. Optimization is extremely important from the very first part of your presence to the success of your online business. You will need to pick keywords and go after them. There are many different ways you can attack keywords. One of the most common ways of optimization is attacking the long tailed version then once ranking well for this version going after the generic term. One good example is if you are going after a term such as “paid to read email” it would be a good idea to first go after a term such as “get paid to read email” then once you rank on the first page for the long tailed version go after the generic paid to read email. This of course is only one view many have gone straight after the version of the term which was difficult with success.
When trying to figure out what terms to go after the tool which is mandatory is Google Adwords Keyword Tool which you can find by doing a quick Google search. Type in any term into this tool and it will bring up the monthly traffic. Usually you can gage the amount of competition by the amount of traffic. Anything under 10k monthly searches will be low competition, traffic between 10k and 50k will have moderate competition and everything above 50k monthly searches will be highly competitive. When you have more competition it will mean more time working before you can reach the top page. Highly targeted terms will take years before you reach the top so focus on less competitive terms in the beginning.
30
Jan
2011
The Truth Behind Online Business Success
Many people come to the internet with the hope of being able to earn money online. Setting up a presence is usually easy enough with such resources as wordpress.com and 000webhost.com. Both of these are free and make it easy to build an online business. The problem is most people don’t understand the work that goes behind an online business and usually give up before their business becomes successful. If you are wanting to begin earning money online with an online business then you need to understand it is a long term project and the first year or so will bring in little income. This is the normal scheme of things and you need to be prepared for a low income business in the first year. After the first year if you worked hard marketing and creating content you will see your online business reach its full potential which means it will rank very well for competitive keywords.
During the first year should be the time that you learn how to create content on a regular basis. Personally I use a blogging platform which makes publishing content extremely easy. You can either set up a free blog at wordpress.com or add the wordpress platform to your static website by downloading the files at wordpress.com and uploading them to your server. It is important to write every single day and you will see the increase of traffic and income by doing this. The reason content is extremely important for an online business is your audience does not want to see the same thing over and over they want new information on your niche. When creating content it is also important to create more than text if possible. You can add videos by purchasing a web cam or pictures if you have a digital camera.
Another important task you should be working on during the first year is internet marketing. When you start out there will be no links to your website and your social network will be non-existent. These two things will need to be built from the ground up. To build a social network all you need to do is get on twitter and facebook. Make sure you use these social networks in a social way rather than a marketing platform. Take time to interact with people and add content rather than just posting link after link. Link building will also be an important part of your success and you will need to catch up with the rest of the websites within your niche. Begin building links at such places as directorycritic.com then move onto the major article directories which you can find by doing a quick search. I personally use the freetrafficsystem.com for the majority of my link building and have been pleasantly surprised by the effectiveness of the program.
20
Jan
2011
Is There An Easy Online Business
The majority of people who start an online business will quickly realize the difficulty of earning money online. Many will want to work less and earn more money, but when it comes to online business you will need to put in the work before you can reap the rewards. As you surf the net over and over get rich quick schemes will be popping up and these are all a joke. There is no way you can make thousands of dollars in a few hours unless you build an online business which allows you to earn money online. One of the biggest mistakes people make is buying into these programs spending hundreds of dollars for turn key businesses or programs. The truth of online business is you do not need to pay money before you can make money. There are certain things worth paying for, but you should only pay for online business tools once you have learned the basics.
While searching for an easy online business you should get something started. The biggest rule of online business is the first few months will be a tremendous amount of work, but if you take the right first steps the work load will drop as time passes. If you are wanting an easy online business the best way to take the workload off yourself is producing content that creates links by itself. One or two articles will not make a difference you will need to create hundreds of articles publishing them on your website. The easiest platform when you would like to publish articles is wordpress. You can add a wordpress blog to your static website or have it as an independent platform which you run your online business from. Go to wordpress.com download the wordpress files and upload them to your server. The instructions will be added to the files making it extremely easy to make create your blog.
Once you have your wordpress blog uploaded and installed it will be time to begin writing for your niche. This will be your chance to fill holes within your niche. If you created your blog within the internet marketing then search for internet marketing, internet marketing articles, or learn internet marketing and find what information is missing. You can then publish the information on your blog and when people within your niche see that the information on your website is needed they will be much more apt to share it with their readers in the form of links and shout outs. This will take your blog from a small little presence where you publish content to an authoritative website where people go to find information making it much easier to make money online. This is the easy online business creating content and having it shared by your niche. Once you learn how to do this succeeding online will no longer be a problem.
16
Jan
2011
Starting A Profitable Online Business
There are two types of online businesses out on the internet those that are succeeding and those that are not. The success of an online business will be dependent on the goals of the webmaster of blogger and their ability to lower income going into the online business and increase the profit they receive. These two things are extremely difficult to do since there is no free way to do anything online. You may not have to pay money for such things as hosting or marketing, but it will take time and in the online business world time is money. As your business starts succeeding you will understand why a successful webmaster or blogger would opt for paying people to do basic tasks such as link building or content creation. These are mandatory tasks which must be done on a consistent basis, but for the owner of a web presence these tasks are very time consuming and take away from other important aspects of a business.
For those who are new to online business and would like to learn earn money online without paying you must find free ways to create a presence, market the presence, and monetize the presence. These three things are not easy and are extremely time consuming. WordPress.com offers a free blog hosting making the creation of your presence free an easy. One of the major reasons I recommend using wordpress is when creating an online business content will be a major factor of the success of your business and wordpress makes it extremely easy to add and modify content. The way you make money online will not matter nearly as much as the content you produce. If your content has a higher quality compared with the rest of businesses within your niche then people will send you links and share your content on the social websites. This means your marketing will be cut down leaving more time to create quality content.
Free internet marketing is another important factor when trying to build a profitable business. There are far too many people who think the only way to get traffic is buying it from such programs as Google Adwords and Chitika. Usually people who buy traffic will end up spending more than they are making. Personally I never buy traffic, but rather spend the money on content, submissions to directories and social websites, or internet marketing programs. For those who have no money to spend it is extremely important to learn everything you possibly can about search engine optimization. This is placing keywords on your presence, making sure URLs have keywords, placing keywords in titles, and building links on authority websites using keywords between the anchor tags. This is the basic process of search engine optimization and there are a few tools out there which will help you find the keywords you would like to rank well for. The tool that I use to find the amount of traffic a keyword has is Google Adwords Keyword Tool which you can find by doing a Google search. You should also be spending time learning more about advanced aspects of search engine optimization on forums such as v7n.com/forums/ and the top blogs seomoz.com and seobook.com.
10
Jan
2011
Beating The Recession With An Online Business
There are millions of people across the world who struggle from a poor and jobless economy. Even with access to the internet and some basic information on how to create an online business success success is anything but guaranteed. Starting an online business will not immediately solve your money problems, but you can start on the path to financial freedom. Many say that if your goal is to earn money online then you have no chance, but money is an excellent motivator as long as you make it past the first few months which are quite dry. These months you should set some basic goals which are accomplishable. Do not set goals such as make a million dollars this is fine for a ten year goal, but for the first little while making a couple dollars should be all you look forward to. Before you start an online business understand that the only way to make it and build a nice income is sticking with it no matter what. The first year or so you will usually make very little, but if you continue to learn everything you can about business and marketing you will begin making more and more.
For those of you serious about starting an online business the first thing you will need is a presence that has links which will make you money when visitors click on them. There are two types of presences out on the web the first is free and the second is paid. I highly recommend that you purchase your hosting because if you use free hosting at any time they can take your website or blog down for any reason. One of the best paid hosts I have ever used is hosting24.com which will give you truly unlimited hosting for under five dollars per month. Another important reason for having paid hosting is they can hand much more traffic than a free server. Free servers or hosting have limited bandwidth and if you surpass this bandwidth your website or blog will be shut down for the rest of the month. If you have absolutely no money to spend on your online business then go ahead and use free hosts such as wordpress.com or 000webhost.com.
After creating a presence you may notice that you are getting absolutely no website traffic. Just because you built a presence does not mean anyone will know about it unless you do some internet marketing and social marketing to let the world know you exist. This can be done in several different ways such as submitting some articles to article directories or submitting your online business to some basic general directories over at directorycritic.com. For social marketing you must understand that promotion is not what will get you success, but rather connecting. You can talk about your website or blog on such websites such as twitter or facebook, but if you really want to see success you must learn proper social networking connections. When you get on twitter or facebook make sure the majority of your content produced has original helpful content. I usually like to stick with the rule 1:10. This means for every link I post in facebook or twitter I make sure to have 10 quality content posts.
4
Jan
2011
Time To Find Online Business Ideas
The first step of creating a business is setting up a presence on whatever topic you enjoy writing about. There are many resources out there which will let you have a free blog or website. Some of the most common resources include blogger.com, wordpress.com, webs.com, and 000webhost.com. All of these are free and will give you a domain name, storage, and bandwidth. I personally recommend setting up a blog because it makes updating your presence with fresh unique related content extremely easy. Google and the other major search engines favor the websites that have content updated regularly so if you would like to begin an online business with the intent of being able to earn money online having a presence that you can update is important.
Setting up a presence is actually quite a bit easier than you think. All you need is an idea such as teaching online business or instructing webmasters how to build free website traffic. You can also create a presence which is used to sale products either from amazon.com or clickbank.com. There are countless online business ideas if you know where to look. When I am trying to think of new ways which I can build a successful add on to my business there are several places which I use for new ideas. One of the best include Google, Yahoo, and Bing. These search engines are where you can search and find other peoples presences and see what they are doing to make money. Search for top keywords in your niche and when the top ten websites pop up go to them to see what they are doing.
When you are looking at your competition there are several different things you should be looking at. One of the most important is how they are presenting their information and how they are making money on their websites. Usually the top websites will have information which is updated regularly. The most common presentation is a wordpress platform, but of course there is a wide array of different presentations. Usually these top websites will not be a simple presence, but a network. One great example of this is what Darren created over at problogger.net. Once the blog succeed he create a forum to compliment making a simple blog into a online business network. The same can be said with Jeremy over at shoemoney.com who created a marketplace to compliment his blog.
Watching others is one of the best way to find what is working in the online business world. These top players do not settle for simplicity they create networks rather than a presence. It is possible to earn decent money by creating one presence and you shouldn’t even consider creating network until you understand how to succeed with a simple presence. Start small and let your presence grow incorporating different presences as you learn about online business and web development.
3
Jan
2011
Building A Quality Online Business
In the online business world there are many who have tried and tried to make money with really bland websites and blogs. This is why the majority of webmasters and bloggers fail. They do not realize that in order to have a successful online business you must first work on content. If your content is above average then your business will be much easier to market because other webmasters and bloggers within your niche will link to it without having to be asked. Now if you would rather slave away building links towards a mediocre business with only average content then you will need to build all the links to reach the top of Google and you will have to keep building links if you want to stay on top. If you work on your content rather than your marketing when you start reaching the top of Google the traffic will spread your content around the web and links will begin flowing in. This will make it much easier if you are interested in being able to earn money online.
The first thing you will need if you want a successful online business is a platform where you can publish your content. There are a few ways to go about creating a presence such as using a host and creating a static presence. I have personally made quite a bit of money with this method from my website paid to read email the only problem is when I want to update the presence rather than being able to update it server side I have to update it on my computer then upload the changes. If you would rather be able to do everything on the server or host then use a CMS (Content Management System). One of the best out on the web right now is wordpress.com which will allow you to update your presence with the click of a button. Make sure when you are creating your online business presence you focus on content rather than monetization or search engine optimization.
For a truly successful online business it is necessary to understand your audience and what they are looking for. One good example of this is if you are running an internet marketing blog and you are not sure what your audience wants. One good way to find out is going to facebook.com or twitter.com and looking around the social networks to see what discussions on your niche are taking place. If you find a hot topic that you know about write a blog post on the topic. Usually when people are discussing these things on the social networks there are even more searching Google and the other major search engines. Another way I like to find what people are writing about is going to forums within my niche. These are excellent platforms which you can use to communicate with your niche audience and really start targeting them when you write your blog posts.