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7 Steps to a Solid Monthly Internet Income
There are literally thousands of ways to make money online.
One of the most solid business models to ensure a continual
monthly income is a subscription based membership website.
Members pay a monthly fee for access to a private member’s
area where they can access your information. You can provide
a variety of information in as many formats as you choose.
You can offer articles, reports, audios, videos,
teleseminars, downloads, software, almost anything you can
imagine.
Even if you offer a low cost membership, it only takes a
few members to make a comfortable income. A membership
website that charges $9.97 a month, only needs 300 members
to generate $3,000 every month.
And setting up a membership website has become remarkably
simple with advances in software that can be set up in a
couple hours, even by the average non-technical person.It’s just that simple. In the beginning, it takes some time
and energy to put the whole project together, but then it’s
simply a matter of updating, maintaining and marketing. So
let’s look at the steps to put together a successful
membership website.
Step 1
Choose a market. This is critical. You should look for a
market you’re going to enjoy working in as well as a market
people spend money in. People spend money where they are
passionate. Markets like sports, pets, business, and hobbies
all make hot markets to launch a membership website
Step 2
Test the market. Visit forums and chat rooms and ask people
if they know of any good websites that offer up-to-date
information.
Step 3
Use your research from Step 2 to develop a rough outline of
what your website will offer your members
Step 4
Write a sales letter and have the graphics professionally
designed. If you can’t do this yourself, hire a freelancer
from elance.com or guru.com
Step 5
Set up the membership software to run the site.
Step 6
Populate the site with your content
Step 7
Market your site and let the cash flow begin.
7 simple steps and you’ve got a membership website that
will generate a solid monthly cash flow for you. Each step
takes some effort and energy, but you can have your first
membership website completely set up and running in less
than a month. Then you can repeat the process as many times
as you like to increase your membership portfolio and your
monthly income.
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Enjoy your day!
Denise
0 comments Monday 04 Aug 2008 | admin | General
Good Internet Marketing Questions AND Answers
It’s been a little while since I had time to post here. Sorry about that!
I just came across the blog of one of my favorite marketers, and he invited his readers to post their internet marketing questions and he’s replying to all of them.
I hope he doesn’t mind if I put his blog link here so that you can get the information, too. 
Nah! He probably won’t mind. 
http://www.michaelrasmussen.com/free-coaching/
Oh, and you can pick up a free gift from him by clicking on the image below my signature here.
Enjoy!
Denise
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0 comments Thursday 31 Jul 2008 | admin | General
Social Marketing Brings Instant Website Traffic
Hopefully by now you’re using social marketing to drive traffic to your website or blog. Web 2.0 is here to stay, and it’s the fastest way to get free targeted traffic to any site you choose.
Sites such as StumbleUpon, Squidoo, MySpace, HubPages, Twitter and others are prime spots to “drop” your url’s while you’re “socializing” with people in the communities.
And the best part about these sites is that you don’t have to wait days or weeks to see results. Social sites will bring you an instant surge of “same day” traffic!
The reason for this instant traffic is that social sites are extremely viral. If one person enjoys your posts or comments, they’ll let their friends know about it. And those people will let their friends know, and so on.
A good number of the people who read your comments at social sites are likely to visit your website or blog to see what else you have to say.
Once the ball starts rolling you almost can’t stop the traffic coming to your website… but why would you want to?
0 comments Wednesday 25 Jun 2008 | admin | General
Big businesses are sure rude these days!
Maybe it’s just me, but the dealings I’ve had with any big business in the last few months or so haven’t really been very pleasant.
For instance, I just got a phone call from my gas company offering me a warrenty plan for my home appliances, furnace, etc. When I told the woman that I don’t need their plan, but thank you anyway, she hung up!
This is not the first such incident like this. It annoys the heck out of me that people are so rude! Big Corporate America must have told its employees that as soon as they hear the word “no” they need to hang up and call the next victim… errrr, potential customer.
Another thing that annoys me is when I receive a phone call and there’s an automated message telling me to please hold for an important phone call.
I don’t think so! You called me, you idiots, not the other way around. I refuse to be put on hold in such situations.
Can you imagine how long small businesses, either offline or online, would be in business if we treated our customers this way? Not very long, I’m sure.
That’s why, to me, customer service is so important, especially online where your customers can’t see or hear you. It’s very important to set yourself apart by offering fast replies to emails and support tickets, and by helping your customers and subscribers as much as possible.
It just makes good business sense and it will keep loyal customers and readers coming back for more.
Making money online takes work, like it or not
Sorry if this is a bit of a rant, but I can’t help it. I’m tired of people saying they want to make money online, but then they don’t want to work for it. Making money online isn’t really much different than making money offline… you have to work. It’s just a different kind of work.
Let me give you an example…
“Joe” emails me asking how to make money online. I give him some ideas like creating a blog or Squidoo lens and putting links to related affiliate products there.
I tell him to make frequent posts and updates to keep the search engines happy, and to drive traffic by visiting forums, blogs, Squidoo lenses, etc. that are related to his topic and leaving his url in his signature file.
There’s nothing hard about any of that. It can be a bit time-consuming, but anyone can do it.
“Joe” writes me back and says I haven’t helped him at all. He knows all of that stuff.
Ummmm… OK, “Joe”… but knowing it and doing it are two different things.
It sounds like “Joe” is looking for a magic pill that will dump money into his bank account. Sorry “Joe” - it ain’t gonna happen.
Here’s another example…
There are MANY different ways to make money online. If someone is good at writing, for instance, they can offer writing services to webmasters who need articles, ecourses or ebooks written. If someone is good at web design or installing scripts, they can offer those services.
Those are good, honest ways to make money online. Yet some people think that getting paid to ‘do someone else’s work’ is beneath them.
Let me put it this way…
If you work offline and have a boss, aren’t you ‘doing his work’ in a sense? After all, the work you are doing is keeping the company you work for going. (You aren’t doing that work for yourself, or your own company.) The boss cannot do it all by himself, therefore he hired employees. So what’s the difference if you do things for other people online?
In reality, you are your own boss online, even if you contract your services to other people. You don’t have to be at your desk any specific hours, you can take on only the work that you want to do, and you can charge your own prices. You ARE running your own business. And isn’t that what you’re trying to accomplish?
If you want to make money with no work, well… the only way I know for you to do it is to pay people to do all the work for you - create a product, set up your website and drive traffic to it. If you have lots of money to spend, then more power to you!
But assuming you’re like most people, you don’t have thousands of dollars to spend on outsourcing so you’ll need to dig in and get your hands dirty, too, to get your business going. Sorry, Charlie, but it’s the only way you’ll make money online, or offline, for that matter.
0 comments Thursday 29 May 2008 | admin | General
Top 10 Reasons to Use Squidoo to Drive Traffic to Your Website
Social networking sites are a popular way for internet marketers to draw guaranteed website traffic. Creating a Squidoo lens to promote your affiliate programs or your own products can help you reach your target market and explode your client base without breaking your budget.
In fact, Squidoo.com is quickly becoming THE place to market your products and services, especially if you are new to the world of internet marketing.
In the past, online marketers brand new to marketing struggled to earn their first profitable dollar. The only way to bring in traffic in a hurry was through pay-per-click.
In 2008, it’s a whole new ball game, and here are your top ten tips for SQUIDOO! 1. It is FREE!
We all like FREE. Am I right? The new internet marketer can get started without spending a dime.
2. You don’t need a web site to get started.
The fact is that the budding internet marketer has to begin SOMEWHERE. And when you turn to Squidoo as one of your first steps to online revenue … the web site can now become secondary. Until you’re ready for your own brand and your own site, Squidoo can BE your web site. Create as many pages (or Squidoo lenses) as you need, for any topic you want.
3. You position yourself as an expert faster than ever before.
The definition of expert is knowing more about a topic than other people. When you make a lens on a topic you know something about you quickly become an expert in other’s eyes.
4. A knowledge of SEO is NOT a requirement.
Search Engine Optimization is one of the key features of Squidoo.com. In fact, it’s all built in. The makers of Squidoo have designed it so lenses would come up quickly and are ranked in Google and other major search engines.
5. You can brand yourself.
Branding yourself is easy with Squidoo. People will see your name in relation to your lens topics and will remember you. Remember that marketing online is NOT about hiding behind a cutesy user name. Use your REAL NAME and your photo. They are part of your unique brand identity.
6. Easily feature affiliate products.
There’s no need to hide, cloak or mask affiliate links at Squidoo. You can make entire lenses about 1 product or many.
7. Squidoo earnings.
Without the need to join affiliate programs and create funky links with strings or weird characters and numbers, Squidoo makes this easy through the use of their modules as well. No need join a program, just build your own lens.
8. Easily build and grow an opt-in list
You’ve heard it before – the money’s in the list. By adding a link to your squeeze page to your lens and building a targeted opt-in list you can later follow up and send additional offers.9. Easily add video.Already mentioned in this audio is Squidoo.com’s modules. One module is YouTube. Quickly add a YouTube video, whether it’s yours or even someone else’s to your lenses.10. Easily ping and bookmark lenses.Web 2.0 is an important part of any online marketing strategy. Since each lens has an RSS feed you can easily ping them to blog and RSS directories. You can also include an “add this” button to your lens making it easy for others to bookmark it!
In conclusion, when you participate in a free social site such as Squidoo.com, it is a perfect way to boost your sales without spending a dime on targeted niche traffic. The power becomes unleashed when you create interactivity between your Squidoo lens, your blog, and your web site. You can get started in the next few minutes by choosing your keywords and creating your first lens.
Note: Due to a reader’s request, here are some of my Squidoo lenses that pull in natural search engine traffic, as well as traffic from StumbleUpon, Digg and Delicious, on autopilot. You’ll see that they’re in a variety of niches. Since they’re quick to create, you can pump out quite a few of them in no time.
www.squidoo.com/HowToGuaranteeFailureUsingGoogleAdWords
0 comments Monday 12 May 2008 | admin | General
Finding and Marketing to Lucrative Niches
I know it’s been awhile since I answered any of your questions here. I apologize. I was having problems with this blog, but they’re all fixed now, so let’s get back to it.
This is a question that comes up all the time…
"How do I zero in on a truly profitable niche?"
There are ways to do research online that will show you where people "hang out" and give you ideas on what they would want to buy if it was offered to them.
Basically you need to locate "hot" topics of interest. You can do this by searching online forums, groups and popular social networking sites.
In order to find out what they might be interested in buying, you’ll need to read their questions and comments. This will give you ideas of what they’re looking for.
This is a pretty general answer because the step-by-step details are too much to write here. However, that’s exactly what I did when I created my new product, Niche-Blueprint.
I don’t want this to sound like an ad, but Niche-Blueprint will show you exactly where to find hot markets, how to figure out if the niche is profitable enough to be worth your time and effort, and how to market your products to the niches you find.
Now, here’s another question sent to me by a reader…
"How can I make money quickly? P.S. Denise, I love your work! You’re an inspiration."
Here’s a great idea to make some quick money from the "hot topics" you locate at forums or other websites…
Write a report (or use a product with Private Label Rights) that answers the questions the forum or group members have. Then simply put a link to your report in your signature file. (Be sure to use an enticing line of text so people will click your link.)
Contribute some value to the conversation that’s going on about that topic daily so your signature appears frequently and you’ll start getting traffic and sales in no time.
This totally cracked me up!
I got a notice from Aweber today that someone had unsubscribed from my newsletter list. Sometimes people leave comments about why they unsubscribed. I like to read them because it helps me know better what my list likes, or doesn’t like, so I can serve my list members better.
The comment I received today made me laugh out loud. The guy said "BECAUSE THIS IS SPAM EMAIL - DUH!"
I felt like writing to him and telling him it most certainly is NOT spam, that he had to double opt-in to my list in order to receive my emails. (And I know exactly when and where he opted in, too.)
And that brings me to the point of this post… It sounds like maybe he had never received emails from me before or he wouldn’t have thought I was spamming him. It seems that even good old Aweber can’t get ALL emails delivered these days due to the heavy filters imposed by ISP’s.
I know we all get tons of true spam email, but it really bites when someone opts in for information and they don’t receive what they requested. Then when suddenly an email does get through they think it’s spam because by then they forgot they signed up for information.
I don’t know quite how to do it, but there’s gotta be a better way for ISP’s to filter out TRUE spam. If anyone has any ideas, please tell the rest of the world. Maybe we’ll get rid of all the "enlargement" and "drug" emails and receive what we really want in our email inbox.
Sal, The Site Stealer, Got Me In Trouble
I picked up a copy of Site Stealer yesterday and after reading every word of it I decided to promote it to my newsletter subscribers today because it’s full of good marketing tactics.
Little did I know I was going to offend one of my readers so much that he unsubscribed!
He wrote and told me he used to think I was an OK person, and that he has even bought a few products from me in the past, but if I’m going to promote stealing I should promote it elsewhere.
I emailed him back and explained that Site Stealer doesn’t actually teach you how to steal websites, but rather how to copy successful marketing tactics.
I thought I had cleared the air with my explanation, but I was wrong.
This reader wrote back and said "To quote from the sales letter ‘I call it "Site Stealing’ because straight-up that’s what it is."
At that point I wrote back and said "That’s sales hype, which unfortunately the ‘make money online’ niche has become accustomed to."
Once again, I thought I had cleared things up, but again I was mistaken. He wrote back saying "that’s a cop-out" and then he unsubscribed.
I’m quite upset over this, to say the least. To begin with, I included a note in my email this morning that Site Stealer isn’t illegal or immoral in any way.
But besides that, Site Stealer had a huge launch last week where dozens of marketers promoted it to their lists. And as near I can remember they also mentioned that it’s not illegal, it’s not really stealing, etc.
But it seems like this guy somehow missed all that noise and now he’s taken his disdain of what he thinks Site Stealer is about out on me.
Sal would probably say "Hey, fuggedaboutit!" but I can’t forget about it. My subscribers are my friends and I don’t want any of them to be upset or offended.
Sal, don’t let me catch you in a dark alley. I don’t like losing subscribers, especially over a misunderstanding like this. You don’t wanna mess with this little half-Italian woman!
So since I can’t give you a good punch in the chops for losing me a good subscriber, I’ll just sell Site Stealer for less than you’re selling it for. How’s that grab ya, buddy? Hey, fuggedaboutit!
This kind of crap just pi**es me off!
I came across an interesting post at the Warrior Forum a few minutes ago and it made me so mad I felt I had to write this.
Actually, it wasn’t the post itself that got my goat. It was what I discovered about the forum member who made the post.
His post was simple… he said he has no money and no job and needs to make $400 by July 11th. He was asking for ideas on how to do that.
Being curious about the guy, I clicked through to his profile and what I saw appalled me to the point that I had to call him on it right there in the forum.
He didn’t even get my point and he seemed to think it was a joking matter!
I had intentions of putting the link to the forum thread here so you could view it for yourself, but it disappeared while I was typing this. I’m not sure how, because as far as I know only the forum moderators can delete threads and they had no reason to delete it.
Since I can’t post the thread I’ll give you the jist of it…
As I said, he was asking how he could make $400 by July 11th with no money for advertising or anything. I clicked through to view his homepage and what I read there told me this guy was so full of sh*t it’s turning his blue eyes brown!
I really don’t want to send traffic to his website, but I do want you to see his Rich Jerk style sales tactics to understand how completely full of doo-doo he is. So go read it here:
My reply to his post basically said that I don’t understand why he’s broke and in debt because according to his home page he makes a fortune online so his ebook must not work as well as his sales letter claims it does.
I went on to point out that also according to his sales letter with his "large volume of sales" and the price he charges for the ebook it won’t take him very long to make $400.
And I couldn’t help one final thought to finish off my reply to his post. I told him that while his sales letter implies I’d be a "f*cking idiot" not to buy his ebook, I think I would be one if I did buy the ebook.
He replied to my post within a couple of minutes with "LOL yea, my page is still being worked on."
I wrote back that apparently he didn’t get my point at all and I mentioned something about deceptive advertising. Then the forum thread disappeared.
This guy is a classic case of bullsh*t in action!
Please, please, please always do your due diligence before buying into
someone’s BS! I know it isn’t always easy to know what’s right and wrong or who’s telling the truth and who’s not.
Here are some things to watch out for, taken right off this idiot’s sales page:
1. If you look at the top of the page you’ll notice he’s using free web hosting from GoDaddy.com. But according to the sales page he’s rich, so why doens’t he pay for hosting?
2. Inconsistencies in information… take a peek at the ClickBank screen shot. He’s actually pieced together information from 2 different time frames and they don’t even come close to adding up.
The first part shows sales from 2001-2002! The next part shows ClickBank totals for pay periods ending 9/16/06 and 10/1/06!
3. This one is hilarious - look at the newsletter opt-in form. He didn’t customize the directions for filling it out and apparently doesn’t know enough to remove the text that comes with the form!
If you’re not familiar with a person or product check with your friends. You can also look for reviews about the product or the marketer by doing a search at your favorite search engine. Find out as much as you can before you buy anything from anyone.
2 comments Wednesday 27 Jun 2007 | admin | General
