Work From Home Tips - How To Earn A Residual Income From Home

It is the dream of many people to work from home and quit their 9 to 5 job. But it can be overwhelming to decide on which online business opportunities to go for.

So in this article we will go over a number of tips to help you make money from home by leveraging the power of modern day internet marketing methods:

Affiliate Product To Sell - I think to make money online in affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to start off as a newbie. Because with affiliate marketing you just need to focus on the most important part of marketing online: driving traffic. When you have mastered the art of driving traffic then you can make money online quickly and easily. Some people recommend creating your own products and recruiting affiliates to market for you. This will work well if that is your skill set, but for most newbies affiliate marketing is probably the easiest way to start internet marketing.

Residual Income - The whole point of online business opportunities is to build up a monthly residual income. This is where you have a base income arriving to your account whether you do any more work that week or not. Network marketing is one way of building a residual income because you leverage the power of a team to earn money from the sales of others. Also, look to promote products that have a recurring nature to them. Online membership sites that bill the customer monthly is a good way to get a recurring from home income arriving for your business.

Go Where The Traffic Is - Many beginners are told to find an untapped niche to market in. But I think that is bad advice as in an untapped niche there is probably not much of an audience and you will have to totally dominate that niche to see success. Instead, go after a large marketing where there are millions and millions of potential customers. Markets like business & wealth, relationships, and health & fitness. Market something that will be easy to find people to send to the offer.

Work From Home Jobs - In many internet business listings you will often see lots of work from home jobs. These are not so much opportunities that entrepreneurs will want to get involved in because they are for people with more of an employee mindset. For example, you will often see biz ops listed for paid surveys, writing articles, data entry, and stuffing envelopes etc. But these are more like jobs and are not automated ways to build your income by leverage the power of internet marketing. I would focus on the residual income opportunities instead.

Internet Marketing Tips - The Whole Truth?

I have absolutely no doubt that this article is going to cause a ruckus with some people. In fact, I can already see the hate mail coming. Well, that's okay. I can take the heat. A lot of what you're going to read here, about the "whole" truth is going to shock you. Don't say you haven't been warned.

Okay, so what exactly am I talking about when I say the "whole" truth? Well, the best way to explain it is with an example to start and then we'll get into the specifics of why things are done like this. Once you see the process, you'll understand the reasons behind it. At least after I explain them you will.

Let's take, as an example, that great commercial that Jerry Stiller is in. You know the one I'm talking about, with the checking account. He talks about how we're earning bupkis on our money and that by using this particular checking account, we can get five times the national average. That all sounds well and good until you realize that the national average is a joke and five times bupkis is STILL bupkis. But it's great advertising because they don't actually tell you what the interest rate is. They just say five times the national average.

It's what we call less than full disclosure. And you can look at just about any product or service being sold today and you'll find the same thing... less than full disclosure.

All of these "how to make money online" products that talk about all the money that you can make, and even show screen prints and videos of all the money THEY'VE made. It's all true. You CAN make a lot of money online. I'm living proof of it. But what they DON'T tell you is how much work you have to put in to MAKE that kind of money. That's always left off of the sales page.

Again, this is less than full disclosure. And a lot of people don't like this. They think it's unethical. They think it's slimy. They think these marketers should all be taken out to the back of a barn and shot. But what they DON'T understand is that...

It's NECESSARY.

Huh? What's that you say Wags? Marketers have to lie?

No, that's NOT what I'm saying. I'm saying that marketers have to hold back certain pieces of information about their product or service.

Before you get ready to lynch me, you might want to read the rest of this. There are two reasons why.

Reason number one is obvious. Full disclosure means less sales. Like it or not, if you tell people every little thing about your product, all the pros and cons in minute detail, prospects won't buy. There are several reasons for this that I will get into as part of reason two, but for now, suffice it to say, if you plan on full disclosure, you're going to lose money... lots of it.

Okay, so let's get into reason number two.

Reason number two is not so obvious but it is something that you will learn the more you get to know people. Prospects don't WANT to know the whole truth.

Think about it. When you were a little kid and got sick and your mother said to you, "Take your medicine, it will make you feel better" did you WANT her to tell you that it tasted like crap? I know I sure didn't. Yeah, I found out when I took it, but at least I took it. If she said to me, "This tastes so bad you're going to throw up" would I REALLY take the medicine? I somehow doubt it.

And you can apply this to just about any product or service out there. People don't want to know about all the problems they can have after buying their shiny new Lexus, even though it's been touted as the best thing on the planet on four wheels. We know there is a chance it can break down at some point, and probably will, and give us all sorts of headaches. But right now, we just want to drive that luxurious automobile.

Humans bury their heads in the sand over a lot things because the truth hurts. We don't want the WHOLE truth. Just tell us the parts that are going to make us feel better.

If my first info product that I bought told me that I would have to work 14 hours a day to become successful, would I have ever bought it in the first place? I seriously doubt it. Sure, I was disappointed when I found out that there was work involved in making money online, but making that money was important enough to me to actually DO the work.

Go on. Look at all the appliances and contraptions you have around your home. Write down all the problems you've had with them, or potential problems you COULD have with them and tell me how many of those you were told about when you bought them.

Truth in advertising only goes so far. Anybody who thinks differently is delusional. Nobody says, "This product does XYZ really great BUT you can have ABC happen to it or go wrong with it."

The ONLY products where they now HAVE to do this are medications because of the potentially deadly side effects. But no real estate agent is going to tell you that the new home you're thinking of buying just happens to have a running railroad in back of it unless you notice the tracks and ask. And even then, they might say, "Eh, it doesn't run very often."

Yeah, right. Been there, done that.

But then we probably wouldn't have bought this home that we love so much. And today, the railroad doesn't run anymore or hardly ever.

Point is, if you plan on telling your prospects everything, human nature being what it is, prepare to lose a lot of sales.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

How to Price Your Coaching Service

Are you charging too much?

The short answer is probably not, so good luck and have a great day! Really though, what fun is a short answer though without an explanation?

Pricing is a tricky subject because in many cases your feelings about pricing are also tied to your feelings of your own value in the marketplace and face it, we've all got self esteem issues.

You may not realize it, but your pricing is a huge piece of your brand. If you price yourself too low you're going to look "cheap" and will attract a much different clientele than if you are charging a premium price.

Then of course, you also run the risk of pricing yourself out of the market. So what's a coach to do?

You first need to decide how you want to be perceived in your brand.

Do you want to be the bargain brand, or the premium? There is nothing wrong with either choice, it will depend on the image you want to put out there, and what kinds of clients you want to attract.

If you're charging a lower price it will mean that you need to find more clients in order to reach your financial goals. So when you're figuring out how many clients you can feasibly serve a month, make sure that with your pricing you're going to be able to pay your bills. This may sound like a "duh" piece of advice, but you'd be surprised!

Try to steer clear of hourly pricing.

As a coach it is so tempting to give yourself an hourly rate, based on what you see other coaches charging. Sometimes hourly rates are okay for a one off appointment, but in general you should be creating coaching packages which will allow you to leverage your time and get out of that money for time mindset (for both you and your clients).

Another reason you want to get out of the time for money mindset is because it's easy to base the price per hour on the hour you are actually on the phone with a client, but there is so much more to running your coaching business and your fees need to cover those costs.

What do I mean by that? Well…you need to cover the cost of marketing to find clients, the administration of managing clients, the work you do to improve your coaching skills or coaching process, the time it takes for you to create worksheets and assignments, not to mention the in between session emails or question answering. Suddenly charging hourly for your time on the phone doesn't sound very lucrative does it?

You also need to know your market and what level of pricing is appropriate.

Do your research and check out other coaches that are serving the same market as you. Make sure that you don't compare your prices to the coaching world as a whole because depending on the service you're offering, and your target market, the pricing can vary greatly.

It always boggles me how much executive coaches can charge for nearly the same services as those that serve other types of clients. It all has to do with the market, what they can afford, and the value they associate with coaching services.

So know your market, and your competition and price yourself accordingly.

This brings us back to the self esteem issue in the beginning. Many coaches will price themselves dependent on how they feel they measure up to the competition which is a terrible idea.

You can't price yourself based on how you feel you measure up because, quite frankly you're always going to be underselling yourself.

Even if you think that another coach has more experience, or is "better at coaching" than you, they don't have what you have. Each of us brings a different set of experiences and talents, and they all have tremendous value.

So stop thinking of others as better, and recognize that they are just different. The value you bring to clients is probably so much more than you think and you'll be surprised what people are willing to pay for the results you provide.

Price is almost never the barrier to buying.

The barrier is the perceived value in exchange for the price. If you deliver killer results that are exactly what a prospect needs in that moment, then you could be charging the moon and they'd take out their check book.

During your initial consultation calls you should always be asking your prospect what has held them back up until this point from getting help to solve their problem. The answer is nearly always NOT money and by asking this you'll get great insight into your market and how you can overcome the actual barriers.

So do your research, find your sweet spot in the market that is in alignment with what your audience can afford, how you see your brand, and ultimately what you can quote someone without throwing up on their shoes.

Accepting Negative Feedback Is Essential For Online Success

Many people are afraid of feedback. You try something, you get a result. Whether the result is good, or bad, it lets you know how you are doing. Most people love good results. They strive for them. They are the only reason, after all, that they take action. Similarly, people hate bad results. Ask out a girl, she says no. This fear is what keeps men paralyzed with fear.

It's also the same fear that keeps millions of people with great ideas from starting a business. What if I fail? What if nobody buys my product? What if somebody else has a better product?

The truth is that bad results, or negative feedback from your actions, are just as valuable as good results, or positive feedback. Strangely, most of us have a hard time accepting bad results. We blame others, hide our heads in the sand, and refuse to acknowledge that a course of action that we've taken has given us other than what we expected.

Do you remember when you were a baby? Probably not. But if you did, you'd remember that all natural learning, all natural acquisition of skills and development of abilities is based on trial and error. Babies know this instinctively. They try something, it works, they do more. They try something else, it doesn't work, they do less.

Why is this? Because all the adults around them give them positive reinforcement both ways. We get an "A" for effort whether we succeed or fail.

Why does this change when we get older? Maybe because we put too much emphasis in what others think about us. Maybe because we are afraid that any failure in business is an indication of a deeper, horrible truth. One that we dare not face.

But the honest truth is that if you are going to succeed in business, I mean really succeed, you have to accept failure just as openly as you accept success. Failure can teach you much more than success. Sure, you may try something and make money. But do you know exactly how? Do you know exactly why?

Without an open acceptance of failure as well as success, you won't really know what you're doing. By accepting both as a normal part of business, you'll be continually fine tuning your skills and building more and more successful strategies.

Imagine if you could measure your skill when it comes to making money in a business. What if you were certain that you could double your skills every year, for the next ten years. How much better would you be? How many more products could you produce? How much more money and wealth could you generate, not only for yourself, but for society as a whole?

All it takes is accepting the feedback that you get. And just like a child, unaware of the negative labels put on "failure," just do more of what works, and less of what doesn't.

In a few years time, you'll be one of the top business people in the world.

Home Based Business Opportunity Ideas: Tips And Suggestions For How To Work From Home

There are hundreds of ways to make money online that it can get confusing when you are looking to start your own online business.

To help you get off to a quick start, here are a number of online business ideas and suggestions:

Affiliate Marketing - This is not an opportunity as such but I recommend that your internet business evolves around affiliate marketing. It is hands off as you do not need to deal with customers. You don't have to create your own products, sales copy, or sales funnels. As an affiliate you rely on other experts having already put this into place so that all you need to do is to drive traffic to an affiliate offer. This is the best way to make money online: driving traffic. Most people overcomplicate it with other less effective tasks.

100% Commissions - When you are selling products directly to a consumer then you can have much higher commissions than a typical affiliate program or if you go via 3rd party distributors. You will find many direct sales businesses that will give you 100% commissions for your efforts on many of their products. When you earn 100% commissions you can afford to really scale your business. This is because you can more easily recoup paid advertising costs when you are earning all the money.

Paid Surveys - You can earn good money from home by filling out a survey. Companies want you to do this for market research purposes so that they can improve their paid advertising campaigns. Also, it is a way for them to get free business opportunity seeker leads. So you could spend all day filling in paid surveys to earn a basic wage. But how about being an affiliate marketer that earns money by getting others to fill out these surveys? By automating your marketing you can send traffic to these paid surveys and earn money every time someone fills it out. This is a better use of your time than filling them out yourself. Look for CPA affiliate programs with biz opp and paid survey CPA offers.

MLM and Network Marketing - Many people from the internet marketing nice look down on internet network marketing and MLM opportunities. But when you combine network marketing with affiliate marketing it is an extremely powerful business model and where the BIG commissions are made. With internet network marketing you do only make money from your own sales, but from sales of your team members. It is like a two tiered affiliate program to leverage the power of a team for more residual income for yourself.

Article Writing - Freelance writing is another way to earn an income from home. This typically included writing simple SEO (Search Engine Optimization) articles for other marketers. There is a lot of work doing this but the pay is usually very low. To earn more money as an online freelance writer look to master the art of writing SEO press releases as the pay is higher for that. Article writing jobs can be found on sites such as ODesk and Elance.

How to Write an Ad Copy Effectively

Do you think your ad is original? There are countless ads out there. It's important that your ad will be good enough for people to read it. So what kind of ads are most likely to be noticed? Any ad that promotes a service, product or even ideas that can help or solve your readers' problem.

Competition is tough. For sure whatever you are selling, someone is already selling that too. Advertising is about convincing customers to purchase from you. There's no need to have a one of a kind product but it must be noticeable in the eyes of your buyers. This is not a "hype". It's just plain good business.

You don't need to be dishonest. Just make it a point that your product or service can get someone's attention. Contemplate about those people that stand out. A good example of this is a teacher who inspired you. Or, what about your favorite celebrity?Definitely, they did something different and unforgettable. That's what your ad has to be - not "hype" in the negative, but the positive sense.

You can also add something to your ad to make it sound interesting: "Are Your Ads Boring Even You? Discover The Secret Of How To Write Compelling Ad Copy Now!" Be creative and come up with a better sounding ad that's not an exact copy of the others.

The only time advertising becomes effective is when people read what you write and understand it.

Another thing to remember is to make sure that the ad focuses on the customer and not on you. Let them know how they(customer) will benefit from using your service or product. The appearance of your ad is also essential. It has to be easy to read. You can use bold face or capital letter to emphasize a point.

Although creating a long copy can also work however, it's better to keep your sentences brief and simple. Don't let your reader's eye roam around!

Be extra careful when using abbreviations. There are many ads that were totally thrown off in meaning by not having words spelled out.

Lastly and most important of all, your ad should tell the reader what you want them to do. Include action verbs telling them to how to order or send an email. This is a fundamental rule that is often overlooked.

Once your ad is ready, remember to always spell check and proofread your ad.

Get Real ROI by Using Effective Viral Media Campaign

The best way to promote your website, products and services on the Internet is Viral Marketing. It is a strategy in marketing which helps to increase general awareness of company's products, services, company, business or brand. It is one of the most widely acclaimed forms of internet marketing because it needs very low budget. This type of marketing implies fast transfer of a marketing message on the web in free viral marketing tools such as YouTube, Facebook and other social media websites built to be viral are used.

Viral marketing is effective, but it depends on a high pass-along rate from person to person. If a large percentage of recipients forward something to a large number of friends, the overall growth snowballs very quickly. It is ethical way of driving more traffic to your website. This type of marketing integrates a variety of initiatives and creative ideas. Star Wars Kid and Afro Ninja are big examples of viral marketing. The things go viral when its content is funny, controversial, or gives something of high value for free or cheap.

With the help of social media and social networking websites, viral marketing is a staple of the internet these days which is quite common for a video, image, or story (having some controversial issues and strong topic) to be quickly shared amongst a large number of people and percentage of the internet users. With help of viral media campaigns your website traffic can be reached at its highest level from nothing to thousands of hits per day. Viral marketing is incredibly cost-effective marketing technique.

Viral media campaigns helps in successfully promoting your products and services among the public without investing huge money for advertising. This campaigning includes planned viral advertising consulting, multimedia development, creation and management of viral contents, social media promotion. Reporting and monitoring of these campaigns is also necessary. With proper planning and implementation of appropriate viral marketing methods, you can achieve targets of your online business.

Social media platforms are active all time, so it's reliable to run viral media campaigns. Media campaign is an effective sales mechanism by which you can build a strong profile online with a lot of connections and achieve success exponentially. If your advertisement is in circulation for long time then more people will find your company or product easily and you can reach the target audience. With this technique of marketing you can take one idea, thought, and message to unlimited amounts of people with few efforts.

How to Get Paid $1.17 for Every New Subscriber

Ask any direct mail business owner where the money is and you'll get the same answer. The money is in the list. The same holds true for internet business owners. The money is in the list.

The difficulty with building a quality list is, it takes time and money. You can advertise on PPC search engines, conduct ezine ad campaigns, work joint ventures with other publishers and generally work yourself half to death trying to get potential subscribers to your free sign up page.

But what if there was a more profitable system that eliminated the freebie subscribers? What if you could generate a subscriber list that was made up of proven buyers from day 1? And each new subscriber paid you $1.17 to be on your list. That makes better business sense.

Sound like a pipe dream? It's not. It's a proven system that builds your list at the same time it adds a cash flow to your business.

The system works like this:

Potential subscribers are offered something of value for free. But instead of being the typical eBook or free report it's a product like an interview or PC video presented on a CD or DVD. The new subscriber is offered the CD for free if they pay the shipping and handling. In actual fact, the price of shipping and handling covers the cost to produce, package and ship the CD and leaves you with a profit.

Let's take a look at a real life example. To increase subscribers for my newsletter, I offered a 1-hour audio interview with Kacper Postawski, a niche marketing genius. The interview was valued at $97, but I offered it as a free CD if the new subscriber paid the postage and handling of $6.95.

Postage and handling charge $6.95

- credit card processing 0.38 (5.5%)

- credit card processor fee 0.45

- $4.95 CD production, packaging, and postage

= $1.17 profit

This offer generated an average of 100 new subscribers per week with minimal promotion.

The drawback to this kind of list building is it's not automated. It takes about 2 hours per week to maintain the database and as it grows bigger it requires more time. In the short term, it's nice to get paid upfront to build a list.

Another variation of this method is to do everything online. After your new subscriber signs up for their freebie, you direct them to a One Time Offer page that allows them to buy an add-on product to enhance their free product. For example, you could offer your new subscribers a free transcription of an interview with an industry expert. During the sign up process, you offer them the audio of the interview for $4.99 or $9.99 or whatever price you wish.

If you generate an average 1% - 2% response to your $9.99 offer, you'll make approximately $10 - $20 per 100 subscribers. It's not a fortune, but it adds up quickly.

Two Easy Steps To Mass Distribute Your Content

You could take all your site pages, blog posts and off-site conent placements and submit them by hand to all the RSS directory sites, but it would be too time consuming to be worthwhile.

Instead, we'll teach you here how to consolidate your material into single RSS feeds and then use one site to get all your content quickly spread to dozens more sites around the web!

Typical Use Examples

Mass Distribute Existing RSS Feeds:

Your Blog's RSS Feed --> Submit Once to Dozens of RSS Directories Your Website's XML Sitemap Feed --> Submit Once to Dozens of RSS Directories Web 2.0 sites (Squidoo, Tumblr, HubPages, etc.) and article directories (EzineArticles, GoArticles, etc.) RSS feeds --> Submit Once to Dozens of RSS Directories

Create An RSS Feed From Any List of Links:

List of Miscellaneous Backlinks --> Create A Single RSS Feed --> Submit Once to Dozens of RSS Directories Take A List of Any Backlinks, Article, PDF, PPT, Video or Bookmark URL submission list --> Create A Single RSS Feed --> Submit Once to Dozens of RSS Directories

Easily Share Your Quality Content

We always recommend creating and sharing quality content online instead of relying on backlink trickery to increase your rankings and traffic.

But there is nothing tricky or unsavory about further distributing your content via RSS feeds and directories. Here's what Google says about RSS in general on their own RSS feed site Google Feedburner:

"Publisher Bottom Line: Feeds permit instant distribution of content and the ability to make it 'subscribable.'"

A Quick "What Is RSS?"

You probably already know what RSS is, but just to be clear as we move forward: RSS is the way to distribute a site's content. It's accessible via a specific URL or by clicking the familiar orange RSS button at right.

WordPress blogs have an RSS feed (righthandplanning.com/feed) and cnn.com has many RSS links organized by topic (cnn.com/services/rss/).

Two Reasons To Use RSS Submission Sites To Promote Your Content

You want to submit all the pages from your website or blog to RSS collection and distribution sites to make them available to people and sites looking for RSS feeds You've submitted your content elsewhere such as articles, video, PDF or Infographs and to other sharing sites such as Squidoo, HubPages, etc. and you want to convert the resulting links to RSS feed links in order to increase the visibility to search engines and visitors

How To Get A List Of All The Links From Your Website or Blog

If you are using WordPress, the RSS for your blog posts (only, not pages) is found at yoursite.com/feed. This is the RSS for your blog posts only, it will not include your site's Pages.

To get a list of all Posts and Pages from your WordPress site you have to have an XML sitemap creator plugin installed. Then the link to all your Pages and Posts will be yoursite.com/sitemap.xml. This will also work with any other type of site that uses an XML sitemap.

You'll only need to submit one of the above URLs - choose the.xml link to submit all your site's pages and blog posts, or use the yoursite.com/feed URL to submit only your blog posts.

Web 2.0 sites such as Squidoo, HubPages and Tumblr also have RSS feeds containing lists of your submitted content as do content sharing sites such as EzineArticles. See their instructions for how to find the RSS feed for your content (be sure to find the RSS for your account specifically and not the RSS for the main site).

How To Remove Irrelevant Site Pages Before RSS Distribution

If you look at links in the yoursite.com/sitemap.xml options you'll see that it contains all the links on your site including pages such as About Us, Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, etc.

If you don't want to include these pages in the RSS feed you'll be mass distributing then highlight all the links, paste them into a spreadsheet and delete the irrelevant links.

Then copy the remaining links and paste them into the RSS Holder site shown below to create one link to submit to the Bulk Ping RSS Submit page (not the BulkPing site!) discussed below.

Mass Distribute All Your Content Distribution Links Via RSS

In addition to submitting the RSS feeds of your website, blog and specific content sharing sites you can s and submitting them to RSS directories, you'll probably also want to do the same with your content distribution.

Although there are sites where you can convert one link at a time to an RSS style URL, this would be very time consuming to do a list of 30 article directory links where your content was just submitted, for example.

RSS Holder Creates one RSS Feed from Many URLs

Instead to turn your multiple URLs Into a single RSS link you can use the site RSS Holder http://rssholder.com/ to create one XML link out of many separate URLs.

This site couldn't be any easier to use as you can see from the screenshot of the RSS Holder interface below. Once you're given the XML address of all the links, simply post it into the Bulk Ping Free RSS Submit Online tool mentioned below.

Distribute Your RSS Feed To Dozens of Distribution Directories

The simple way to make all your links and content more widely available to readers and search engines is to simply enter the feed URLs from above to Bulk Ping's Free RSS submit form.

Bulk Ping Free RSS Submit Online - Easily submit your site or a list of RSS links or URLs to multiple RSS directories.

Important Note: When you submit your RSS feeds at BulkPing, be sure to use the RSS submission form here, http://www.bulkping.com/free-rss-submit-online/index.php. The main URL for the BulkPing is different from the submission page and will only "ping" your links rather than distribute them.

RSS Bulk Ping Submissions automatically submit your feeds to 25 directories from 2RSS and Daytimenews to Twingy and Blogdigger and including Google and Goldenfeed, Plazoo and many more in between.

Get Many More Backlinks and Visitors

These simple steps are worth doing because they will spread your content to sites, people and search engines far and wide and result in dozens if not hundreds of extra backlinks and visitors.

Some Of The Easiest Ways To Earn Money Online

Income today is shrinking with the abundance in job losses, eliminated bonuses, salary cuts and diminished contributions on the 401K, but bills are not. If having regular jobs is no longer getting you enough cash to get by, then having side gigs on the internet may help you get back on your feet.

Here's some easy ways to earn money online. These sure fire ways will provide you the extra dough to provide food on the table.

Online Gigs

• Freelance work Almost any jobs nowadays can be done on a freelance or contract basis online. You can check out sites like Sologig to get contracts, part-time projects, or any freelance work in your field.

• Starting a small business You can turn your hobby, expertise or skills to earn money. Join sites like Jobvana to get tools to market your services online. These types are relatively easy ways to earn money online that you also love doing.

• Selling your junk You can sell things you don't like or have no use for anymore in eBay, Amazon and the likes. Furthermore, you can visit local thrift stores or garage sales to buy items for cheap and sell for much higher online.

• Be a mystery shopper You will need a keen eye and a good memory to be one. If you have these qualifications, you can register with companies who hire mystery shoppers. You main job is to go shopping on their appointed online stores and report what you observed on a customer's point of view.

• Sell photos to stock agencies You can also sell your photos to stock agencies like Shuttershock and get paid for it. Some pay for the images outright and others pay you when someone downloads them. You don't need to be a professional or seasoned photographer to submit photos for these sites.

• Virtual Assistance Small business owners online occasionally need help with their work. By being a virtual assistant, you will be helping them with their work like a secretary and get paid doing it. The work varies from making travel reservations to paying bills depending on your client.

• Write reviews Another way to earn is by doing product or book reviews online. People who usually do this are authorities on their respective field and clearly know what they are talking about. The list here are just some of the popular examples and the various ways to earn money online are a broad area to delve into to fit in one article.

Reminders

Here are some simple reminders to guide you when searching for the best ways to earn money online:

• Avoid paying anyone for online advice on how to earn money. This is counterproductive.

• Before quitting your day job, make sure your chosen field is profitable in the long run. Start working on your side job during the night or on weekends to not interfere with your main job.

• Be the best on what you do. No matter how small your chosen niche is, being the best on that field makes you equally great.

• Learn everything you can and pay attention to small details. Only through this route will your career of choice be recognized.

Conclusion

Several ways to earn money online came out every day and choosing the best one that will fit you takes utmost consideration. Do not rush things. Test the water first before making the dive.

3 Roles Social Media Plays In Advertising

In simple terms, advertising is representing your product in a favorable way to make consumers aware of it, and hopping they will buy it. If you have a business, such as selling bathrooms and bathroom accessories, they way you choose to advertise is crucial.

There are various advertising and marketing methods available to you today. This may include print media, television and radio, billboards and so on. A recent phenomenon that has revolutionized advertising is social media.

Facts about social media you did not know

Over 90% of all businesses that have a marketing department use social sites to market their products or services. Approximately 60% of marketers devote an equivalent of an entire workday just to develop and keep up with their social media advertising.

If you are wondering whether it is worth the effort, here is a fact for you; over 80% of companies that start using social media for marketing report an increase in exposure while 60% percent report and increase in sales.This might be due to the widespread use of these sites. Experts estimate that 43% of people between the ages of 20-30 spend at least 10 hours each week on social sites.

Role social media plays

Increasing goodwill and trustworthiness - Social sites allow your company to interact with customers, addressing their concerns, listening to their suggestions and informing them of new products and services. This will form a bond of trust between you and your customers.

Gaining new customers - Using social sites helps you gain new customers, whom you would otherwise not have reached. This in turn helps to boost your sales. Your sales increase will be significant given the high number of social site users.

Efficient product and service delivery - Since social media allows you to interact directly with your clients or customers, you will be able to learn their preferences and respond accordingly. This will also make your other marketing campaigns more targeted and easier.

The perception towards social media advertising is completely changing. It is no longer viewed as a passing trend but it has now become clear that this platform is here to stay. For almost all companies, maintaining a well-managed and strong presence on major social sites is necessary. Although having a company website is important, social sites have the necessary responsive and robust tools that supplement the company's website. There are strong reasons you should use this platform for marketing.

Social Marketing to Enhance Your Brand's Visibility

Companies are adopting unique search marketing strategies these days to get an edge over their competitors. In addition, they wish to make their presence felt on the international platform for attracting potential customers from around the world. The Internet has emerged as a boon for people. It is a dynamic, reliable and affordable medium that is used to inform prospective clients about the products or services. You will find numerous social marketing websites aiding companies to enhance their visibility among the customers. This marketing technique has emerged as the ideal option for companies due to its usefulness in enhancing sales and revenue. More and more people these days are using this technique to attract customers.

Social marketing is a buzz these days. It is the latest marketing technique adopted by many social media marketing companies to attract potential customers who access social networking websites frequently to buy products and services. In addition, it has become necessary for all companies to make use of these tactics to attract their prospective as well as existing customers. Marketing has always been necessary to boost the business' sales. Improper or no marketing will lead to losses. Traditional methods of advertising were time consuming and expensive. With social marketing you do not need to spend a fortune to reach out to a larger audience. More and more companies these days are willing to take their business on social networking sites for grabbing the attention of maximum number of potential customers. This technique has done wonders for companies and various other firms want to benefit in the same way.

Social media has emerged as the best medium for marketing your products effectively to the masses. Millions of people visit these networking websites every day. People spend hours on these websites which increases the possibility of checking out advertisements, offers, and more. If you wish to make your online presence stronger then get in touch with a reputed social marketing company immediately. These companies are proficient in Internet marketing and marketing on social networking sites. They are well versed with marketing techniques that will bring you excellent results in the least possible time. These professionals make use of social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, Stumble Upon, Google+ and more. For instance, they will create a free Facebook page and update the status on behalf of the company on a regular basis. Video hosting is another strategy they make use of. All these strategies will help to make the company name popular among the customers and make them want to purchase the products.

With the escalating popularity of social marketing among companies, many firms are promising to provide customers with the best services. However, some firms may fail to deliver. Carry out an extensive research and locate a reliable service provider known for offering exceptional social marketing services at competitive rates. Do not be tempted by advertisements. A reliable firm will have positive reviews and testimonials from satisfied customers. Check these reviews before making a decision.

Tips On How To Succeed Through Internet Marketing

Are you using internet marketing to build your company's brand awareness? I encourage you to carefully consider this opportunity. The following piece is intended to offer insight into the fundamentals of internet marketing and provide advice on creating winning marketing initiatives.

One feature that a lot of sites share is that they have a row of links along the top and bottom of each of their pages. These sorts of links are called site-wide links. A site wide link can make your page more user-friendly by allowing easy access to the important pages within your site. In order to convince them to buy a certain product, have a list of products on this page. Be sure to make site-wide links organized as a menu so that your visitors will be able to access other pages in your site easily. Make sure that you put exact descriptions of each page in the menu and that they are logically organized.

When optimizing your site for search engines, it's important to remember the HTML code that isn't shown to humans viewing your site. One key example of this is the meta tag. When crawling and indexing your site, spiders first "read" the content of your meta tags to learn about the purpose of your site. Focus on creating tags that are relevant to your site, and then add some alternative tags that will help you increase traffic. However, you shouldn't overuse meta tags. Only choose the best tags that will be utilized by your audience.

The "H" in HTML is used to show how important a piece of text is. These important tags will make the tagged text appear in bold font. Use each of these tags as the basis for titles and brief passages. Titles and subheadings can benefit greatly from the use of this tag. If you follow this method, it'll be much easier for readers to digest your site's content. And importantly, by using the H tags, the spiders that search engines use to index your site will be able to identify important text much easier. Always use keywords that are useful in your titles and sub-headings.

Keep your marketing efforts fresh to keep old customers engaged and to excite new ones. When implementing SEO techniques, don't forget to implement newer methods, not just conventional ones, to boost your sales. The next video that you post on the internet could become the next viral video, but it won't happen unless you start posting them. You might find that you have become the latest hot topic and that your information is reaching audiences far and wide. These "viral" episodes normally do not last long, but you can benefit from them when they do occur. It's impossible to know what will go viral, so just keep putting things out there. Just make sure that they are unique and funny! Post your material as often as you can to YouTube and other social media sites. Take the time to research and review other popular pieces of online content and see if there are any tips you can use for your own videos.

This is just a small selection of the internet marketing strategies that you can employ. Use these ideas as a springboard for your marketing strategies, and continue to think of ways to improve your campaigns on your own. Visit my blog, http://www.eliteonlinemoney.com to learn more, or check out the link in the resource box. Thanks.

Popular Ways To Utilize Internet Marketing

Internet marketing has changed the way companies are reaching out to potential customers. The days of print ads in magazines and newspapers are coming to an end with the advancements in technology. Most customers are more likely to see an advertisement online than anywhere else throughout their day. In order for companies to remain competitive, they must utilize internet marketing.

A great place to start your online presence is by creating a company website. These websites should typically list your contact information and the basics of what your business offers, plus any other important information that could benefit potential customers. A great tip is to use your website as an avenue to other ways your company markets online, such as social media.

Social media has revolutionized how companies interact and reach out to customers. These social outlets provide customers easier access to contacting a company and create more of an informal relationship between them. Many companies try to increase their online audience by providing special discounts to those who follow them on social media. A great thing about social media marketing is once a customer begins to follow a company, their advertisements will continually be seen, not just when looked for.

Email is another a great resource for those looking into online marketing. Companies can offer the customers the chance to sign up for email newsletters through their website. These newsletters can be a great way to advertise new merchandise or special sales. Encourage customers to volunteer their email addresses by promising special discounts only available to email subscribers.

A new way to market to customers is through their mobile device. This can be done through either an online app or through text messaging subscriptions. An app is a popular way to make your business more accessible. They usually provide the latest information from the company, as well as a way to purchase from the business. Text messaging subscriptions work very similar to the email subscriptions. Businesses can send these text messages using the internet, as well as have customers sign up online.

Using a search engine to market online is another way to get great results because of their popularity. This kind of advertising can done in a variety of ways, including pay per click and paid inclusion. Pay per click marketing is where the company will pay the search engine for all traffic brought in by them. Paid inclusion is a sponsored ad that will make your company appear first when searched.

Online banners are still a way to market online, although their popularity has decreased. These types of banners are often harder to see with the increase of pop up blockers. For a banner to be seen today, it has to be placed on the web page. A cost effective way for small businesses to break into online advertising is to place a banner on a local website or blog.

Internet marketing is beginning to take over the advertising world. The upcoming generation of customers is more digitally focused than ever before. The ways we are getting our information is continually changing and evolving to become more dependent on the internet. In order for companies to remain relevant, they must heavily consider using one of these types of internet advertising