Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Building your own residual income

Currently, more and more people are trying to find ways on how they will earn more. There are actually a lot of ways to earn extra income. The most sought after income any man would like to get is the residual income.

What exactly is a residual income? For those who still don?t have any idea what a residual income means, then here it goes. A residual income is a kind of income a person gets over and over again for a work or a job they did only once. Included are the person with good talents and skills. Like the authors, or a movie director etc. They have been paid over again for their creations. That is how a residual income is gained.

But how will one gain residual income through direct online marketing? The ultimate goal of an online marketer is to achieve the full time income. Well it is always easier said than done. You need to exert all your efforts and hard work.

How does an online marketer gain residual income? Residual income when applied to online marketing is gained when you make your first sale. Then automatically, you are going to earn your residual income for months and even years. That is the difference between the ordinary residual income and the online residual income.

Well does it sound convincing to you? But to tell you, many online marketers got a hold of their residual income already. Residual income is very good since you can get it while using the same reserves for you to achieve a sale and then you will receive payments over and over again for years if you are that lucky enough. So how will you build a residual income? Read on to know what necessary things you need to understand to achieve your goals and plans as an online marketer.

You need to enter affiliate programs. Affiliate marketing is specially made for those people who enter the world of the internet. Webmasters created a lot of websites so they can attract a lot of people each day.

Join these affiliate programs but make sure that you choose the one which is related to the products and services that you promote. When you do this so, you canpromote this programs to other company and visitors.

Definitely smart online marketers will find companies that will be able to provide them residual payments when they find accounts or clients for the company?s products and services. This marketing tactics has found to be giving huge profit for online marketers through this residual revenue flow.

Always find the best legitimate Affiliate networks, some of the most popular ones are the LinkShare, Commission Junction ShareaSale and many more. These are internet providers and programs that offer almost the top companies which you can promote.

Also you can get lucrative residual income from private deals. When you made a good deal with this particular company, you will get your most awaited reward. All you need to do is to find clients for that particular company. Smaller companies can be a good target too.

When you pick an affiliate program, make sure that they offer services such as web hosting, cable services, phone services and even marketing services. Pick those affiliate programs you think will make the visitors to sign up. This way, you will get your commission, maybe a monthly basis, as long as the users patronize the service.

These are some of the ways to build residual income. There are still many factors to do this. It just depends upon your will power to decide what the best way to start is. Just make a real hard work and every effort will not go in vain. Residual income, the best way to make money online. Just be patient and see how many rewards await you. Good luck!




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Monday, April 14, 2008

Tricks for Affiliate SEO

The majority of the world?s working population perform their jobs
in offices and most of the world?s working population do not
like their jobs because, well, who wants to work? So, if you
don?t like to work but have to work anyway, why stick yourself
into a job with low pay? The best solution would be to find a
high-paying job, work hard and then start your own business if
you can. The problem is, even with a high paying job, you can?t
earn enough money to start a business.

The World Wide Web, being an economy in itself, offers a
variety of opportunities for making money. You can try your hand
at freelance jobs like data encoding, medical transcription,
article composition and programming. There are a number of
freelancer websites that you can join so you may work at home
and put some extra money in your pocket.

Start-up capital

There are supposedly expert moneymakers who, for a small fee of
$100 to $200 will teach you how to earn $2,000 to $10,000 a
month. You can try out their system for free, but, you will have
to place a deposit to be able to get the free trial. Start-up
capital = $49 to $100 depending on deposit requirements.

Finally, you can be a passive internet salesperson. I call it
passive because all you have to do is establish a base of
operations in the internet. Once that base has been established,
you have the potential to earn from %ARTICLEBODY% to unlimited income. All
you have to do afterwards is maintain or update that base once
every three months. And yes, this advice is free. No trial
offers, and no deposits required. Read on please.

Vendor sites like amazon.com offer internet surfers the
opportunity of earning additional income in exchange for the
promotion of their website and products. This is how it works.
You will need to sign-up for affiliate membership. Most vendor
sites that offer affiliate programs do not charge you for this.
This is only fair since you will be selling them to people. Be
wary of vendor sites that charge fees for membership to their
affiliate programs.

Once you join-up, they will give you a reference number or an
ID number that you will paste into your html scripts. Your
vendor site will give you instructions on how to paste them.

Normally, an affiliate will have to have a website where they
can promote the vendor site. You will promote the vendor site by
adding links to the site?s home page and some specific products
which you think will sell more. You will need to design your
website to accommodate these links as well as alter some of your
websites graphics to make way for banners, or picture links.
Don?t forget to add the ID or reference number to the link so
that the vendor can identify your referral.

Once you have the links in place, you will need to write some
250++ words about the product you are selling. I recommend
allotting 1 web page per product as this will help you in search
engine result rankings. The content you write will have to be
relevant and filled with keywords that pertain to the product
itself. Once everything is done, you need to find out if your
website shows up in search engine queries when browsing for your
product.

If you think this is too much work, you can try writing
newsletters about a product on a vendor site that contains links
to the product. You then post the newsletter on the internet and
hope that a search engine indexes it.

Mind you, this isn?t a get rich quick scheme. Times are hard
and we need all the financial assistance we can get. This is
just one option where you can possibly earn a lot more than your
current income.

The problem with most affiliate is that they don?t last
long because they fail to maintain and update their product
links. Some of the products that you have linked to before may
have already been discontinued. You need to check on your links
at least once every 3 months or once a month at optimum.
Finally, don?t be content with what you have. Look for
additional products to sell.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Passive Income opportunities: Will It Work For You?

Great passive income opportunities are easy to find in the financial world, however most people do not know about passive income opportunities online/internet simply because they have not looked or believe it's possible. I am here to tell you that I have been generating a part-time income from residual based income programs now for about 2 years now. Sure I've had my ups along with my failures but that comes with any business. Large or small, new or old.

I started out with two hundred dollars to mess around with in the fall of 2004, bouncing from one opportunity to another. Not really having alot of time, money, or a mentor, I had some great success, and huge failures. At the end of it, I've become a smarter man first by managing my money, and learning from my failures. I have been able to turn that two hundred dollars into a great income for my family.


People are led to believe they have to sell something, or recruit a substantial amount of people into a multi-level-marketing business in order to make any kind of decent money. I can tell you from first hand experience they are completely wrong and lack the proper education when it comes to passive streams of income.

I've done some due diligence on HYLP's (High Yield Loan Programs). Basically these types of programs allow you to lend money to them and in return pay you a fixed interest rate for lending them your money. Many programs offer anywhere from 1% all the way up to as high as 50% a month.

Choosing the correct program to go with is crucial. Some programs do work, while others do not. From my personal experience, I tend to favor the lower end of the spectrum, and stick with programs that yield between 1% and 10% per month. The truth of the matter is programs claiming to make 50% a month cannot sustain these levels very long and eventually crumble. However, programs with lower return rates are the ones to look for these tend to last for years.

Proper money management is needed and I strongly advise one to diversify themselves in any type of passive income opportunity. These programs do work, some last for a few months while the stable ones last for many years. The truth is, millionaires have keep passive income opportunities a secret for years, and that is why there are only a selected few people who reach that level. Having your money work for you is the key to success rather than you working for your money.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Boost Your Business With Blogging

Business blog is an incredible online marketing tool that saves you thousands of dollars but provides great business opportunities in just one click. Blogs are user-friendly, customized and flexible medium for disseminating useful information for effective positioning of your products in the market.

Companies engaging in business blogging have a definite edge over its competitors. Here are some advantages:

a) Word-of-Mouth. In a survey, there are currently 14 million blogs with 80,000 more being added each day and about 30 percent of the 50 million users are blog readers. Imagine how much gain your company will have, if your products are advertised through blogs. With Internet, information spreads so quickly especially if an impressive write-up goes with your product. Soon your blogs will be passed on to hundreds of possible customers.

b) Awareness and loyalty. Open communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them. Being there to respond to their questions and comments make them all the more willing to try your products and services.

c) Feedback. Blogs is good for product research and reviews. It would be easier to improve on your products if you observe your customers? thinking and behavioral patterns. You can also take immediate action to your customers? concerns.

d) Community halo-effect. Bloggers are reasonable, friendly and helpful. They are more than willing to create blogosphere of comments regarding your product. The only thing you have to do is embrace and take active part in the culture and your product will surely be considered in their next stop to the supermarket.

For better marketing results, actively promote your business blogs by submitting your blogs to blog search sites and directories. Do not forget to paste in with your blogs, your URL. Be sure that your blogs contain exclusive information with value and are always updated to keep readers popping in, read up your blog, move on to the next and click on again for updates.

Blog is like a setup booth in the biggest trade show on earth everyday. Marketing possibilities are just around the corner waiting to strike your sale scales up.

The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important too in conjunction with your blogs to get the best benefits. Use effective keyword phrases to generate high ranking status in the search engine traffic. In this way you have better chances of people finding your website leading to your blogs. More traffic means more potential sales.

For this to be successful, you can use RSS for news update feeds which can be read through RSS reader application. This is a very useful tool for business and internet marketers as well.

If you are already convinced with the potentials of business blogs for marketing and targeting sales increase, your company is now ready to start blogging. But first, you have to be in tune with your company?s business objectives and determine if blogging will really help you achieve your goal.

1. Several blogs are dedicated to teaching people the do?s and don?ts of blogging, READ them! Include in your reading materials blogs that are consumer-based too to give you an idea.

2. Setup several test blogs right away.

If your initial try out with blogs worked well, you can now start setting up your blogs.

1. Study blog design. Blog hosting services provide pre-designed templates. But if you opt for paid blog service, you can ask your artist to design and layout your blog site to match the company?s identity and needs.

2. Choose a topic. Its good to have a line-up of topics you want for your blogs but be sure they are in consonance with your business objectives. This would be a test of your flexibility and open-mindedness since results may be going against the set objectives.

3. Remember the following safety measures in blogging:

- legal issues are sometimes involved in blogging; it is safer to include disclaimers and limitations of liabilities;

- corporate communication and legal department are responsible in educating the senior management on how blogs might affect business;

- create blogging policies; set limits on who gets to blog and what information are allowed to be made public;

- avoid outright marketing blog or you will shy away your readers;

- make content updated, relevant and fresh;

- reinforce the company?s core values; and,

- encourage employees to use it.

4. Start blogging and complete 20 posts before going to marketing.

5. Begin marketing.

6. Regularly monitor the coming ins and outs of readers and get updates. Then, measure your results.

7. Adjust if needed. You can always play with your designs in the blog site as long as it remains to match the company?s identity.

8. Strive to be consistent with your topic all the time.

9. Try to have unrelated topics with general and broad appeal.

10.Schedule updates regularly. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday would be best to update blogs.

Once you have done all these things, you can now ultimately enjoy the benefits of business blogging.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Three Home Based Business Marketing Secrets

Marketing is the part of business that no one seems to like. Perhaps that's because it's confusing and made to be even more confusing when you begin to read books on marketing and its applications to the business world. So, are there any secrets that actually work and that you can actually apply to your online business? The answer is yes. There are three home based business marketing secrets that you can keep in mind as you begin this adventure into running your own business - and as you become a success.

Less is More

One of the things that marketing professionals don't tell you is that you really don't need to do as much as you think you do. By simply adopting a strategy of telling as many people as you can, treating each customer with respect, and then repeating this cycle, that's going to bring in a lot of new business. Word of mouth advertising may not get as much press as it once did, but it certainly still works when it comes to smaller home based businesses.

You also want to keep in mind that these marketing secrets don't require a lot of time or a lot of money in order to be effective. Something as simple as adding your website address to your emails is just as effective as running a commercial on TV and a lot less expensive to implement. Think about smaller ways to spread the word instead of bigger ways. Target only the customers that have already shown interest in what you have to sell and you're certain to market for success.

More is Less

You also want to remember that a customer on the internet these days is accustomed to seeing a lot of advertisements, so they know when they are being 'sold' something. Instead of focusing your messages on sales exclusively, try bringing the customer information they can use - informational articles, etc.

When you put too many advertisements in outgoing emails or you simply push your company too much, you will turn off prospective customers. Even if they are interested in what you have to say, the more you talk to them about the same things, the more they're going to wonder what the 'catch' is and why they should buy from you at all.

Recognize that your customers are smart and that they WILL respond to you, even if you don't tell them about every sale or every feature for your products. You just don't have to beat them over the head with what you want to sell them.

Use Your Home Based Appeal to Bring People to You

By adding a personalized touch to your marketing strategies, you will begin to pull in more customers, almost without trying. So often, online businesses forget that it's their placement and location that allows them to be unique. Instead of downplaying the fact that you work from home, make sure that your customers know it. Show them pictures of your office and pictures of yourself to make the experience more personal. This is a marketing strategy that works no matter what you are selling. Since people aren't meeting you in person, the personalization will do the 'talking' for you, making a customer more comfortable with you.

Try adding a blog to your website that will introduce the kind of person you are and what you are capable of helping a customer with. Or you might want to include a video of yourself talking about your product or a personal story that relates to your product. The internet can be such an impersonal place, so try to connect with your customer more.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Telling apart a fake from a real search engine optimization expert

So you found a company that claims to be a Search Engine Optimization Expert, but you are not sure if they really are the Search Engine Optimization Expert they say they are. So how can you weed out the fakes and the incompetents from one who is a real Search Engine Optimization Expert?

A Search Engine Optimization Expert is one who understands that SEO has two functions: The Search Engine Optimization Expert has to foresee what the customers or potential visitors to your website would like to see as content of your website; and the Search Engine Optimization Expert also has to work within the constraints set by the preferred search engines.

Your Search Engine Optimization Expert should be able to identify the special keywords that are most likely to be used by your end users, readers or visitors. Some SEO teams will provide you with hundreds of keywords to use in your website content, but that is not effective or efficient because many of those target words and phrases may not be used by many people. Effective marketing by your Search Engine Optimization Expert means narrowing down the search process for your target visitors to a select list of keywords and key phrases that are very popular among the Internet population.

Your Search Engine Optimization Expert should also know that basic keyword research still contributes a lot to effective SEO efforts. This means prioritizing quality hits from quality visitors over just hiking the number of hits you get from the world at large. This is because a real Search Engine Optimization Expert knows that you are after revenues so that your business can not only survive but thrive, rather than just being a popular site for people to glance through. Even if you are the most-visited site on the Internet, if that doesn't translate to revenues for you, then hiring a Search Engine Optimization Expert becomes a useless effort.

Something that is not commonly known except by an actual Search Engine Optimization Expert is that text is not the sole content being eyed by search engines when ranking websites anymore. Nowadays, your Search Engine Optimization Expert should understand that content like news articles, videos and images are also part of the content which are scrutinized by search engines and contribute to your rankings. So a so-called Search Engine Optimization Expert who insists on text-only content has clearly missed the bus so you need to look elsewhere for a better Search Engine Optimization Expert to consult and hire.

Does your Search Engine Optimization Expert know how to use online press releases? Online press releases can be used by your Search Engine Optimization Expert by submitting them to formats like RSS feeds and news sites ? and yes, even search engines. Online press releases (in the hands of a competent Search Engine Optimization Expert) can prove to be an effective way for link building to be conducted. But your online press releases should not concentrate on promoting your company name. If your Search Engine Optimization Expert doesn't know that, tell him to focus instead on providing information and news articles that act as a supplemental service to the Internet community. The Search Engine Optimization Expert should create this type of content from the perspective of the reader, audience or end user. Online press releases are best sent out to target channels at least two times per month. Online press releases are also a good way to integrate target words and phrases into the content so that your Search Engine Optimization Expert is hitting two birds with one stone: keyword usage and promotion of the website.

Your Search Engine Optimization Expert must focus on certain areas in the SEO effort that will make it more effective. Very popular keywords must be placed in the title tag, with less priority on the company name. Your website URL should be as short as possible, yet very concise with use of information. Adding a keyword or two to the URL is also a good idea. User-friendly content that has been written by master writers is great and always a good addition to the website.

Prioritize quality links over mass link building. And have your Search Engine Optimization Expert place a site map on your website for the convenience of your visitors so they don't get lost.

If you find outsourcing work to a Search Engine Optimization Expert to be rather costly, consider hiring an in-house Search Engine Optimization Expert instead. This may drive down your expenses by a lot, and also gives you more control over what your Search Engine Optimization Expert is doing for you. You might opt for a multidisciplinary Search Engine Optimization Expert team that has IT and Marketing expertise for best results.



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Monday, April 7, 2008

A Review Of The Univera Life Sciences Income Opportunity

Originally known as Oasis Life Sciences, the company was founded by YunHo Lee, a Korean businessman who suffered poor health until he tried a natural remedy suggested by a friend of his. The remedy worked and Lee went on to experiment with many ethno botanical formulas. He discovered the right mixture of herbs and other ingredients and created the flagship product of the company, Ageless, a concentrated drink that works on a person's DNA level to promote healing and good health. Leading the company into greater things, Lee teamed up with the former head of Avon, Stuart Ochiltree. The company now offers natural produced vitamins, fruit drinks, and is supported by companies in the ECONET family. The company runs a non-profit charitable organization called Univera Serve First, which provides vitamins and supplements to undernourished children around the world. Recently, Univera implemented a new computer system that has caused them to have shipping and receiving problems. Any customers in the United States who are waiting for their products are asked to be patient during the delay.

 

Ageless, the foundation for Univera's products, offer four areas of benefits: Nourish; Restore; Fortify; and Vitalize. The product was developed using research on cell renewal within the body, and the company has taken strides to make this product work on a similar level. Vitamins, nutrients, and active botanical supplements are mixed in antioxidant rich berry juice. The product is said to help build up energy and reduce fatigue, help clarify and strengthen the mind, reduce stress, and promote healthy joints and flexibility. Univera challenges everyone to take their 90-Day Challenge with their Ageless product. They guarantee that by using it twice a day for three months, people will feel better and healthier or they will refund the cost of the product at 100%.

 

 

Univera Life Sciences sell their products through individual sales associates. Associates can join the company by starting out simply as a customer and passing on the benefits to friends and family. They can join the Advantage Customer Program which awards them points for every order. These can be used for free merchandise, as well as additional educational information and promotions. The third option is to become a full associate by signing up for a monthly convenience plan, purchasing the associate kit and selecting the gifting packs you want to use. The associate starter kit is $40.00 and can be obtained by contacting the company. In order to make this a lucrative business, associates will need to commit to purchasing at least $70.00 and month and selling at least $250.00 a month depending on where in the company they fall. This opportunity is available for citizens for the United States, Canada, and Korea, and interested parties can contact the website for more information.

Why Should You Start With A Home Business Residual Income Opportunity

Do you know why you should start your business with a home business residual income opportunity? There are a number of different reasons that you need to know about.

 

Before you start looking for the right home business for you this is important to know. Determining what your goals are for your new business will help you decide how to search for it.

 

 

Here are some of the reasons why it is a good idea to start your home business with a home business residual income opportunity.

 

One: With residual income you will get paid every month without having to do a lot of extra work. For example, if you are promoting a membership site for $49.95 and someone signs up using your link, then you will get paid a percentage of the membership fee every month for as long as they stay a member.

 

All you had to do was to get one customer to sign up and you make money every month. That is much easier than trying to find new customers when you want to make money.

 

Of course it will take work on your part to get the intitial sales. And you will also have to expect a certain percentage of people will cancel periodically.

 

This can vary depending on the type of membership product or program you are selling. For example, because people have to host their website somewhere, website hosting has a very high retention rate.

 

Two: Getting paid every month for finding one customer will free up your time for advertising your business. This is important because even though you will be making money every month from that one customer, you want to remember that the more people you get to sign up for the home business residual income opportunity, the more money you will make.

 

You want to advertise as much as you possibly can to make your home business a huge success. The more you promote the quicker you will find success.

 

The most successful home business owners spend alot of their time in the early days on promotion. This is good because it really allows you to focus on getting traffic to your own website.

 

You will be able to automate much of the promotion process as your business matures. Plus as your income grows you will be able to spend more time enjoying your profits and less time working because you now have a home business that is kicking out residual income checks.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Online Affiliate Programs - Five Reassuring Things To Remember

Online affiliate programs offer ordinary people the chance to make money online in a relatively simple manner. Being an affiliate for online programs is like being a retailer: you sell other people's products and get paid commission on your sales. The rate of commission paid by an online affiliate program varies but it will mostly fall within the 40%-70% bracket. Don't be put off by the offer of 70% commissions because it seems too high. Commissions at this level are not uncommon.

Quick Start-Up
When you sign up to an online affiliate program, you get immediate access to saleable goods in the form of products or services. You don't have to invent a product or research the potential market for a new service. The owner of the affiliate program has already gone through the time consuming and expensive development and testing phase, you can start promoting the product right away. If you join a good online affiliate program, you will be provided with a free website, advice on marketing and other resources (eg members' forums) which vary between the different affiliate programs. It's only day one and you are in business!

No Stock or Inventory
As a member of an online affiliate program, you won't have to worry about having space to store stock. You don't have to handle stock, so you can be an affiliate selling anything from cd's to wide screen TV's. You don't have to deal with the hassle of packaging and posting goods to customers. Your affiliate website is the door to your warehouse, orders placed there will be filled direct by the online affiliate program owner. The only thing you have to handle is promotion of your affiliate website.

Anywhere In The World 24/7
As an affiliate for an online affiliate program, you are not limited by geographical boundaries and shipping costs are not your concern. You can be an online affiliate from anywhere in the world and your customers can originate from anywhere in the world. With an online affiliate program, your business is always open (even if you are on vacation or fast asleep). The Internet never sleeps, it is always daytime somewhere in the world.

No Accounting Worries
Members of online affiliate programs don't have to handle payments or get involved with receipts or refunds or any other sort of cash transaction with customers. The owner of the affiliate program deals with all those issues (which will mostly be automated), the only financial transaction which involves the affiliate is the receipt of commissions on sales made through the affiliate website.

Be Your Own Boss
Last but definitely not least! As a member of an online affiliate program, you get to be your own boss, working the hours you choose. You have full flexibility to fit your work in around your family commitments. With an automated online affiliate program you can make your own schedule, even working in the middle of the night if you want. Your income potential is unlimited. When you are your own boss, you decide your own level of income, you get to keep everything you earn instead of lining somebody else's pockets through your efforts.