Increase Your Web Profits With The Power of Free

July 20, 2008 at 4:06 am · Filed under make moneys

Have you ever wanted to know how to quickly and easily increase your web profits?

If you have been operating your web business for any length of time you have seen all off the sites promising to teach you the secrets of Internet wealth.

While there are many techniques, tips, and strategies that can help you make money online, most of the eBooks being sold don’t teach them.

If you want to succeed online you need to copy the strategies that offline marketeers have been using to make money for years.

One of the favorite offline marketing strategies has always involved giving something away for free. By offering something for free you are fulfilling a desire that every person has out there. After all, who doesn’t want something that can benefit them, especially when it doesn’t cost them anything?

If you want to use the power of free to build your online business you should use the following strategies.

Strategy #1

Offer a free ezine. Your site visitors are interested in the topic of your website. They have only agreed to spend time at your site because they are interested in the general topic that your Internet business is involved in.

Since you know that they are interested to begin with, it’s a great time to offer them a free ezine on the topic that interests them. You can then use the ezine to send out special offers to your subscribers and remind them to visit your site in the future.

Strategy #2

Offer them a free newsletter. In this case I am referring to a hard copy newsletter which you send out by mail. While strategy #1 is more cost effective than sending out a print newsletter, strategy #2 still has many benefits over strategy #1.

When you send out a print newsletter you are assured that your subscribers will receive the issue you sent out. Spam blockers are now stopping up to 25% of all emails from reaching their intended recipients. Compare that to the US Post Office’s 99.9% delivery rate.

Another important benefit of sending out a hard copy newsletter is that the recipients will hold on to it longer. Instead of simply deleting your email after they have read it, they will have the newsletter sitting at their desks for a couple of days. Every time they look at it you have another chance of capturing a sale from them.

Strategy #3

Offer a free eBook in exchange for their contact information. This is a great strategy because it accomplishes three objectives. You will have their contact information which you can use to sell contact them with your offers. Every time they read your eBook they will think of your site and might even visit it. Third, it establishes your credibility as an expert in your field.

Since all of these strategies involve giving something for free to your visitors, you will quickly build up a database of potential customers that interested in your products and services.

Donny Lowy runs http://www.closeoutexplosion.com an online wholesale and closeout business that supplies eBay sellers, retailers, and flea market vendors.

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Easy Internet Businesses You Can Start

July 17, 2008 at 4:33 pm · Filed under make moneys

Making money online is now easier than ever before. There are many tools that simplify the process of building and advertising a website. And if you are not web savvy, there are many web designers who can design a site for under a $100.

There are even methods for making money online that don’t require you to have a website. I use many of these strategies to consistently earn money online.

The following Internet businesses are easy to start and operate. They require little if any technical skills. And the best part is that once they are set up, they usually require little oversight, besides the actual running of the business.

Easy Internet Business #1

Membership site. Design a site where you post information that is of special interest to a group of people. You can have a membership site that covers weight loss tips for vegetarians, or a membership site for collectors of old license plates. Be creative and make sure the information is of value to your members. You can charge a monthly or annual fee for membership.

Easy Internet Business #2

Write an eBook. Everyone is an expert in a given topic. You might know allot about a topic which you think is of little interest to other people, but if it interests or bothers you, chances are that it does the same for other people. Your eBook can be concise as long as the information is relevant, interesting, and otherwise hard to obtain. I have seen 40 page eBooks sell for as much as $100.

Easy Internet Business #3

Become an affiliate. Sign up as an affiliate for an online merchant. You will be given a link to track the customers you bring to the merchant. Every time you send a customer who buys from the merchant you will receive a commission. There are even merchants who will pay you just for bringing them a potential customer. Once you sign up post your affiliate link on free classified ad sites. To make this strategy effective write a compelling reason why someone should visit the merchant’s site. Example: “Special 50% off sale this week,” or “Brand new update released.”

Donny Lowy runs http://www.closeoutexplosion.com an online wholesale and closeout business that supplies eBay sellers, retailers, and flea market vendors.

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The New Internet Home Work How Much Do You Really Need to Know to Get Started

June 3, 2008 at 5:02 am · Filed under make moneys

You? Start your own Internet business? Give me a break! You just don’t speak the language, so why even try?

It begins with ‘booting up’ your computer instead of just turning it on. And you can’t simply fill in the necessary information to get something connected: it has to be ‘configured.’ Also, it’s painfully apparent that computer tables and windows bear no resemblance whatsoever to the kind you have in your living room, nor is a browser someone meandering through your local bookstore. And the only directory you know anything about is full of telephone numbers.

Then, of course, there are all those blasted letters: DSL, RAM, ROM, POP, RSS, HTML, FTP, MLM . . . Good grief! How can someone like you even think about starting an online business? Hey, it’s for the kids. They understand all this jargon, all this technical stuff. But you . . .

Well, what about you? Okay. So maybe you don’t know what most of those letters mean. And it’s a safe bet you don’t know a tenth of what the average techie does . . . maybe not even as much as today’s computer-savvy ten-year-old. But does that mean you can’t do this stuff?

At least, before you decide to pass on the exhilaration of creating your own online business (not to mention the extra bucks you might have at the end of the month), let’s look at two possibilities.

First of all, the fact that you have no idea how a telephone works (unless you’re a Verizon repair person) has never stopped you from making phone calls. And you’re not afraid to turn on the television set because you don’t know how all those moving pictures get inside that little box.

And speaking of letters, even if you had no idea what ‘TV’ stood for, you could still watch “American Idol.” Nor is it necessary to know what ATM means in order to make a cash withdrawal.

Why, letter combos are positively old hat. RPMs have been around since before Sinatra, and mpg was a Henry Ford staple.

All any of it is, really, is that secretarial staple of yesteryear: shorthand. Only these letter codes are a heck of a lot easier to understand than all those lines and squiggles.

Just to convince yourself it’s no big deal, why not invent some code of your own? Certainly you have as much right to do it as any computer techie. So why not tell them to FTL and PHO . . . and be absolutely sure they NLFD. That’s Fold The Laundry, Pre-Hear the Oven, and make sure they’re Not Late For Dinner. Remember: sticks and stones can break your bones, but letters can never hurt you. Nor should they stop you.

Okay. That’s the first possibility: breaking the code may not be as necessary as you think it is, e.g., you don’t have to know that NaCl is salt in order to sprinkle some on your tomato.

Even so . . . whether you actually need to know all of it or not, maybe you’d be more comfortable if you did. And, obviously, it would be helpful if you knew at least some of it.

Which brings us to possibility number two. Why not learn a few new things? Actually, that’s what makes life an ongoing adventure: no matter how long you’ve been around and how much you’ve discovered already, there’s always something (in fact, plenty!) left to learn.

And the good news is that, with the Internet, learning just got a whole lot easier. You can’t use the excuse that it’s too cold to go to school, or too hot to go to the library. There’s information enough on the Internet for you to earn a PhD just by clicking on your mouse. So what’s your excuse now?

I remember, when I was a kid, looking at a piano, and thinking: “How could anyone ever know what all those keys are for?” Truth is, I was afraid to take piano lessons because I was convinced that I’d look foolish if I tried.

And therein lies the rub: we’re so afraid we’ll look foolish that we’re willing to be foolish instead! And how foolish would it be to refuse to learn new things - - things that could help us in any number of ways, brighten our lives, ease our financial burdens - - just because we’re afraid we’ll look foolish!

But that’s another great thing about the computer. We don’t have to walk up to the blackboard with the whole class staring at us. We don’t have to worry about tripping, or not knowing the answer, or . . . well, any of the things that seemed to go along with learning back in the good old days.

We can be clumsy and bumbling and slow . . . and nobody will ever know! Even if we do look foolish, it will be for our eyes only. The computer makes us blessedly, mercifully anonymous. It lets us learn and work at our own pace, whatever that pace may be.

And so, if those letter combos have you feeling a bit inadequate, go ahead and look up the definitions. There are plenty of free computer and Internet glossaries available online. My personal favorite is www.Webopedia.com.

Or, if you’re not exactly sure-fingered on the computer, check out some tutorials. Get up to speed on Word or Windows or whatever else you’d like to try. It doesn’t cost much. In fact, you can do it for free.

And then, you can move on to setting up your own online business. Yes: YOU!

After all, when you think about it, not getting your slice of the Internet pie just because you’ve let the jargon scare you off is like refusing a cruise to the Bahamas because you don’t understand the bar code on the ticket.

So why not hop on board PDQ. (That’s Pretty Darn Quick, in case you didn’t know.) You’ve got nothing to lose . . . and who knows what-all to gain?

Bob Brooker’s mission is to make home-based Internet business accessible even to Internet beginners. Bob — himself a devout non-techie — looks for and personally tests products that are the simplest to understand and use, even if your computer skills are limited to sending an occasional e-mail to your sister. http://www.makingmoneysimplified.com

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