Saturday, December 12, 2009

how to find and solve problems in your chosen information marketing niche.

Information marketing at its best helps to solve real problems
that real people live with everyday. If you can come up
with a product or service to promote in a niche market that
will help people solve their problems then you will have a
profitable niche market website and can quickly build a
long list of potential customers.

The things that people view as 'problems' run the gauntlet
of possibilities, everything from a hang nail to a golf
swing to a chronic disease are people problems that they
are looking for help to solve.

A good way to find out what people consider a problem is to
visit the online forums. People talk about anything and
everything online. They discuss subjects that they wouldn't
talk about with their best friends for the simple reason
that they can remain anonymous. They look for solutions
online for the very same reason. By visiting forums and
taking note of what people are most concerned about you can
search the internet for products and services that will
help them solve those problems.

Gather the information about the topic.

Write or have written for you articles about the topic. In
this way you can find a topic and build a content-rich
website for niche marketing that helps with the problem you
have identified and that will serve the needs of people.

An additional way to use forums to help you build a niche
market website is to join a forum, identify the problem
being most often discussed, post a question that will
produce many responses and use those responses to write an
e-book on the topic. The fact is that many people will buy
an e-book that is filled with information they could
actually gather for themselves.

They will also purchase e-books that will tell them what
other people with the same problem they have think about or
are doing about their common problem.

Yours in profits,

Ibiene Wabara- Founder
www.affiliatewealthsecrets.blogspot.com

Saturday, October 31, 2009

20 Ways to Make Money Online

If you are thinking of ways to make money online, then look no further, because this list is definitely what will suit you as it might change your life from now on.

When you find many things just for nothing, this post of how to make money on Internet will definitely good for everything. It is not merely a cheap talk here, rather it is the compile of thousands of hours discussing with my friends about how to make money on internet. It’s very tiring because it took lots of time for doing research and also reading from many sources, but it’s also very exciting to learn from other people experiences.

I apologize if you think that each summarized method on how to make money on Internet below is too brief, but what is important is for you to grab the core of the idea here. Even though, I do not yet completely try them out, I do have intention to expand on the ideas that I believe work the best for me. I will write more about each topic details in my next posts.

Let’s make money on the Internet then.. here they are..

1. Pay Per Click (PPC)
The very first in the list of how to make money on Internet is by making use of Pay Per Click (PPC) sites. The top 3 PPC sites that you can refer to are google adsense, bidvertiser and adbrite. When you use this method, your earning is counted per click made by your site’s visitors on the displayed advertiser’s banner. Comparing to the pay per impression scheme, the amount of money you will receive is likely to be higher with PPC method. This method is closely related to the conversion rate, in which the conversion rate itself depends on how attractive the banner is. However, it is commonly still higher when you compare it to the pay per sale method. The higher traffic site you have, the higher possibility of the click rate you will get. Besides that, to make it even better, you need to carefully select the banner suitable to your targeted audience.

2. Pay Per Impression (CPM)
Pay Per Impression is basically a method in which you will get paid after certain numbers of advertisers’ banner display. Generally, the calculation is based on a thousand impressions of the banner. For example $5 CPM means that you will get $5 for every 1,000 banner display. CPM is considered as a high conversion rate. Even tough the amount received is not too much, but it is a very easy way to make money on Internet, because every time a visitor visits your site, you will automatically make some earning. Therefore, you need to create a site that can attract lots of visitor, so that you will get more earning as well.

3. Pay Per Sale or Lead
Among the other methods that have been discussed above, Pay Per Sale or Lead method might give you the highest amount of earning, but somehow, it is the lowest conversion rate. You will get payment only if your visitors click through the advertisers’ banner and then have some purchases or at least take some prescribed action, such as signing up for a particular service. Similar to Par Per Click method, you are most likely having better payment if you carefully select the advertisers’ banners that best suits your targeted audiences. Examples: amazon and commisionjunction.


4. Affiliate Programs

Affiliate program is also known as associate program. It is basically an arrangement between on line merchant web sites with the affiliate web sites in which the merchant will pay some amount of commission to the affiliate for sending them traffic. The agreement is commonly based on how many visitors send to the merchant’s site or it can also be how many people do purchases from the merchant’s site or some other prescribed action. How much the payment will make depends on the initial agreement between these two parties. Seeing from the merchant’s side, affiliate program is an excellent and effective way to promote and sell their product online, yet it is cheap. If you are interested into this method, here are some most well-known affiliate sites that you can refer to: clickbank, amazon and commisionjunction.

5. Writing Articles

If you love writing, then it can be your source to make money on Internet. There are many web sites owners who would be happy to hire those who are interested (experienced would be preferred) to write articles with certain subjects for their websites contents. The rate offered can be varies, bust most commonly, for 300-500 word article, the rate can be range from $ 1-10.

6. Flipping Sites
One method that is now becoming a trend is flipping sites. Flipping involves creating and selling the web sites you created. Therefore, the whole idea of flipping sites method is to create and develop a site, make it as attractive as possible to increase traffic and then sell it to get profit. Are you interested with this way to make money on Internet? You can try guys.

7. Paid for Reviews

Writing reviews on products can be an excellent way to make money on Internet. You only need to write a review around 100 words or so in English mentioning how you think or even experience with the related product. The payment can be varies since some source will have payment per submission, others will have their payment based on hit your review receives or revenue generated, while some others might prefer to have regular writers. Your writing skill is somehow needed here, but don’t worry too much if you are not the most gifted writer as what they seek here is simply ordinary people’s opinions.

8. Giving Service
If you need some extra money, you can make money on internet by offering services. What kind of service that you can offer on the net depends on your skill? If you know about web programming, you can give an offer to install, create, or repair the website or blogs. If you know SEO (Search Engine Optimation), you can give an offer SEO for other websites or blogs. You also can do copy paste service, such as submit people sites to directories and so on. If you are multi-lingual, you can also offer a service as a translator.

9. Selling e-Books
Besides blogging, you can take advantage of your knowledge to make e-book and then sell it. For example, if you know much about SEO, you can sell SEO e-book. It doesn’t have to be about website or blog, you can write almost about anything else, cooking, novels, traveling, and so on. So that, if you think you have unique and great ideas that not everybody know but would like to know, why don’t you write e-book and sell it?

10. Selling Ads Space

When you are visiting web sites, you will most likely find banner advertisements displayed on the pages. If you are not yet familiar to the scene, you must’ve thought that it is difficult to get such advertisers who want to buy ads space on you site. Or you must’ve thought that it must be either company or a well known site to get such advertisers.

If you think that way, then it is time for the correction. The truth is that any web site can actually get advertisers. Even when your web site is new and not yet well-established, you are still able to get advertising revenue. However, it is correct that if you have a well known site, companies might directly contact and offer to buy the space on your site.

If you are interested to sell space, then the best way to do it is joining affiliate sites. There are two types of affiliate that you can choose from, direct or via affiliate network. This is where you can select a various advertisers to be place on your site.

11. Selling your products online
If you have your own products, you may want to sell your products online to increase your earning. You can run your own e-commerce website. If you know about programming, you can create online store by you self, but if you don’t, you can hire a website programmer to make your online store.

12. Selling Stuffs on e-Bay or Amazon
Another way to sell products online is by joining website like Amazon.com, e-bay.com or Half.com. From these web sites, you can sell used books, CDs and other items at a fixed price. You can list items in exchange for a percentage of the sale.

13. Selling Themes or Plugins for website or blog

Whereas bloggers are already so many, even too many, you can try other perspective to make money on Internet, which is from creating blog or website themes. These bloggers do not always know about how to create such theme. Therefore, if you have related knowledge, why don’t you try to create your own interesting themes or plugins and then sell them? It is true that there are free blog themes already, but if your themes are unique and interesting and even with good SEO, there is always room to earn some extra bucks.

14. Make money With File Sharing Websites
Another way to make money on Internet is with the file sharing websites. These are programs where the users are paid around $ 5-15 per 1000 downloads. How much the price is depending on what country from where the file is downloaded. Some of the websites that work with this method are uploading.com, depositfiles.com, Letitbit.net and ziddu.com.

15. Make money with Social Networks
Social networks have been gaining popularity these days that almost everyone has a profile in sites such as Facebook, Myspace or Yuwie. This can be another opportunity for you to make money on Internet, as have been previously discussed about make money with Facebook and make money with twitter. Another great thing that you can refer to is a website called 6dgr.com (Six degress). It is like other big sites, such as MySapace or Facebook, but with 6 dgr, you will be paid for creating profile, inviting friends, establishing business contracts or staying connected with your present and even new friends. Joining this website is 100% free and it can become your news source of wealth. I will write in details about this in my next post.

16. Paid Forum Posting
A forum will be interesting only and if only it has lots of posting from the users. Many webmaster realize this fact and therefore, they offer some interesting ways to encourage users to have postings on their forum. The most common techniques used are by offering special prize for the most active poster, setting different raffles and giveaways or even hiring a paid forum posting team. If you are interested, you can try it out.

17. Selling Your Forum Signatures
When you find yourself love postings on the forums, you can generate some extra cash by selling your signature in a graphic form. Every time you post in certain thread or give response to a certain topic, you will eventually leave your on line signature. This online signature can be made as an innovative advertising strategy for most online businesses. Forum junkies as such will be paid just by placing any company’s ads after their online signature. With this, the advertisers can establish any contact with as many potential customers as possible.

18. Paid to Share Pictures
Another interesting site that can be your source to make money on internet is shareapic. It is a free service based where the users can upload and host images on its server. The great thing is that the user will be paid when they are directing friends or family to visit their hosted images. Hosted images can be in form of a gallery. Every time the user can show his or her gallery to others, he or she will be paid some amount of money.

19. Giving online course/ online Coach
If you have excellent skill and knowledge in particular fields, such as SEO, web programming, translating, consulting and other, you can try to offer online course or online couch. For example, many beginner bloggers are not too familiar with SEO and they are likely too lazy to read ebook or do internet searching. You can then offer them online course or couch, step by step until they get and understand the whole points about SEO. You can help those who want to learn as well as generating some extra income from online coaching.

20. Writing Tips
If you are creative and smart in giving advices or tips for friends or family and they love it, you can try this program. With this program, you will get paid for writing tips. One of the websites to accommodate this program is DayTipper.com. Lots of people have been joining this website, so that you have to compete with other members in order your tips are accepted. You can try to write fresh new ideas that most people do not yet know.

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Friday, October 30, 2009

Do You Tweet? Make Money With Your Tweeter Account

Another blogging service, the Twitter, has been gaining huge popularity over recent years. People as well as companies from all around the world have created the Twitter accounts. As its popularity keeps increasing, advertisers started to see it as a great place to promote their products and services. Now, there are some companies in which you can register yourself to sell advertising space on your Twitter profile as well as on the tweet stream. It is then a great opportunity for you to make money using Twitter.

Creating a Twitter Account If you are not yet registered yourself in the twitter account, then you need to create one first. The registration is simple and quick. You can just go to twitter’s homepage at twitter.com.
From here, you need to follow every detailed instruction in creating the account.

There are some things that you need to highlight when creating the Twitter account when your purpose is to make money on twitter. They are:

1. You must aim certain product or service when creating the Twitter account, because the advertisers will be more interested in such specific profile as they can directly target the intended audience.
2. In order to be more appealing to the advertisers, you can use keywords in the Twitter account. For instance, when you are aiming to get some ads from home business companies, you can name your account with nighomebizideas or if you are aiming for the pet ads, you can then name your account with DogLover. These are examples to be more outstanding so that your chance to get advertisers is higher.
3. Supposed you have your own Twitter account and is a well-established one, you might consider to create another new account specially intended to make money using twitter. One of the reasons is that you might lose some of your followers when they find your ads stream disturbing in a way. Therefore, to avoid such disturbance, you can consider to create a new Twitter account.


Mass Followers When you have lots of followers, more advertiser companies will be more interested to place their ads on your Twitter account. Besides that, the bids you receive from the advertisers will also be higher compared if you only a few followers. It is because the advertisers will definitely want their promotions to reach as many people as possible.

In order to get great number of followers, you must first send out interesting yet compelling tweets to attract people to follow you. It is highly suggested for you to wait until you get more followers before you decide to place ads on your Twitter account. One of the reasons is that people are most likely already reluctant to follow you if they see lots of ads on your tweet stream.

When you have lots of followers, more advertiser companies will be more interested to place their ads on your Twitter account. Besides that, the bids you receive from the advertisers will also be higher compared if you only a few followers. It is because the advertisers will definitely want their promotions to reach as many people as possible.

In order to get great number of followers, you must first send out interesting yet compelling tweets to attract people to follow you. It is highly suggested for you to wait until you get more followers before you decide to place ads on your Twitter account. One of the reasons is that people are most likely already reluctant to follow you if they see lots of ads on your tweet stream.

Sign up With an Ad Service There are some advertiser companies that you can refer to make money using Twitter, such as: 1. Twittad.com
2. Be-a-Magpie
3. adCause.com
4. Assetize.com
5. revtwt.com


These three advertisers are different. If you use Magpie and adCause, you will have their ads directly put in your tweet stream. While for the Twittad, you will have the ads placed on your profile page. If you are interested to use any of these services, you can go to their websites and register yourself. There are some instructions that you have to follow. However, the general procedures will require you to post your profile on their web sites and after that the advertisers will purchase the ads space from you. The parameter will be pretty much depending on your profile establishment.

After you have determine yourself to make money using Twitter, you need to make sure that you have more and more followers as they can end up to be potential buyers. In some cases where you might lose some number of followers when you are placing ads into your tweet stream, you have to make sure that you also send out interesting and engaging tweets rather than placing more and more ads.

For your further guidance on how to make money with Twitter, you can read “99 Ways To Make Money Using Twitter”. It is a great 355 page book that will guide you in details on what to do on the twitter page and on how to attract as many followers as possible.

Caroline Oguama

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Life As A Home Business Mompreneur

Life as a home business mom can be very tiring and interesting. I have really experienced a lot, the good, the bad, the ups and downs of been a mompreneur. What with taking care of the home front, managing my home business which includes staying up all night to write an information product that will be published very soon on the internet, setting up blogs upon blogs for demanding clients, writing articles to post on my blogs,selling ebooks online and offline, getting free U.S Mastercards for clients, doing part-time affiliate marketing for construction companies, working fromhome as a marketing executive for a microfinance bank and being on the look out for new, sizzling,hot information to turn into the next best seller for me and a solution for my ready-to-buy clients who trust myjugdement on the efficacy of the product.

It has not been that easy to cope with the stress, but I love every minute of it, its what keeps me alive, puts food on ,my table,pays my bills, high-speed internet connection and more. If you really love doing something, no matter how stressful, poorly paid or highly paid it is, you neverstop doing it, because its what keeps you going until you get celebrated someday.
So my advise to all moms out there, keep pushing, keeping doing what you love, you will surely be remembered by your grandchildren, the world,by posterity for giving hope and value to other pepole's lives some day, not forgetting the menfolk aswell, keep on moving.

To your success!

Caroline Oguama.

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Monday, September 21, 2009

QUICK HOME BIZ IDEAS YOU CAN START WITH LESS THAN $100

START A WEBSITE BIZ:

This is a very lucrative business that I would recommend that you do. Yes, it has been a very profitable home business for me, because all I have to do is send an sms to all my friends and business associates through my phone, notifying them of my skills. The response has been wonderful and massive, and to think that I didn't have to spend money on advertising through payperclick or through newspapers, but through my phone. Tell you what, I just finished setting up a simple blog on blogger.com for one of my clients today, and got paid $100 dollars. Check out the blog: www.jdaconsults.blogspot.com. This is my third client, since I started this business a month ago! I still have more orders coming in droves.

I paid just $10 dollars to learn how to design blogs and websites at a seminar in August this year. I am a banker, but I do not depend on my salary, because I have other multiple streams of income, from information brokering, affiliate marketing, google adsense, and from website designing.

You can follow my idea and start up your own website design home business today and reap the benefits. All you have to do is invest in a good web design teacher who will teach you how to design websites step by step. Also invest in ebooks that will guide you on how to design and market your blogging for profits. Then market your skills on social networking sites like facebook, myspace, twitter, linkedin etc.

You shall be celebrated one day.

To your success!

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

THE NEED FOR A BUSINESS PLAN IN SETTING UP A HOME BASED BUSINESS

Irrespective of what you might need the money for, whether to start up your dream business or simply to use it to keep the business running or for purchase of assets for the business. You need to draw a business plan.

What Is A Business Plan?
It is simply a document that shows what the money requested for will be put into use as well as necessary inputs that will ensure the business achieves the objectives for its setup.
When writing your business plan/proposal, it should include the following below:

Executive summary (Mission statement):
Your executive summary is a one-page overview highlighting the business plan essentials such as nature of business, name, legal structure, amount for loan and repayment proposal.

Vision Statement For The Business.

Financing goals:
Financing goals highlight costing and estimated financial projection while competitive analysis examines the industry competitiveness relevant to the business. This will include money for capital expenditure.

Products And Services

Implementation Process.

Competitive Analysis:
You have to identify your competitors and their products and services in order to find a method to outdo them.

Market strategy:
This has to do with identifying your marketing plans and customer demographics and how you intend to enter the market. Through promotion, advertising, viral marketing i.e word of mouth.

Management and Organization:
For a Home business to succeed, there has to be a captain with the crew that will run the business effectively, irrespective of the size of the business. This is inclusive of staff thatnwould be involved even if it includes relatives.

Operation Plans:
This identifies the location, structure and regulations involved in setting up the business.

Profit and Loss Plan:
You must draw up a profit and loss account plan in order to show how much profit you will make.

Forecasting:
Finally, you should state the plans for the unforeseen and the future. Whether you intend the business to outlive you or you intend to start and later hand it over to someone else has to be put into consideration when planning your business.

These are all the main key elements that you must include in your business proposal for your first step to success in a home based business.

Till I come your way again. I remain Caroline Oguama. Your Host

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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Start A Home Business: Home Business Owners Make More Money Than Employees. Become One Today!

The reason why you must start a home business today is to create more wealth and become financially free.

A well-known author of a book called "Working At Home" by name Lindsay O' Connor, says that before you begin setting up a home business, you must ask yourself these few questions:

  1. Do I feel the Lord's direction to do this?
  2. Where do I feel called to excel and what really bugs me?
  3. What would I enjoy doing and what are my gifts, hobbies and talents?
  4. Does my spouse agree with my decision?
  5. Would my family be supportive?
  6. Am I suited for working at home?
  7. Is there a market for what I want to do?
  8. Have I researched my business decision?

Setting Up Your Home Business:

  1. Determine the amount of time you want to devote your time to the business.
  2. Estimate your start-up costs.
  3. Determine the amount of money available for start-up costs.
  4. From your start-up list, determine your initial priorities.
  5. Choose your Business name and register it.
  6. Open a Business account.
  7. Have your printing stationery done.
  8. Determine your record keeping system.
  9. Establish a Business plan/proposal.
  10. Get your initial equipment and supplies.
  11. Decide where in your house you will locate your business.
  12. Advertise your services or business through word-of-mouth, networking, classified ads, online social networking sites (such as facebook, twitter, LinkedIn.com etc..), pay-per-click ads, local newspaper, hand bills, post cards.
  13. Set up a website or blog to launch your business online (You can start with free blog like blogger.com or wordpress.com to launch your business).
  14. Get Organized.

LIST OF BUSINESS IDEAS YOU CAN START WITH LESS THAN $100

Arts & Crafts:

  • Tie & Dye
  • Sewing
  • painting
  • Bead making
  • Jewelry making

Computer-oriented Businesses:

  • Typesetting Services
  • Web Designing
  • Computer Repair Services

Employment Services:

  • Recruitment agency
  • Resume writing and career counseling

Food:

  • Bakery
  • Catering
  • Cooking Course
  • Pastry Making like puff-puff, akara (fried bean-cakes) etc.
  • Plantain chips
  • Personal Services:
  • Nail salon
  • hair salon
  • Tutoring service
  • Event planning and decorating
  • Home Gym
  • Image consulting
  • Personal shopping services

Publishing & Writing Business:

  • Free Classified ads (online and offline)
  • Desktop publishing
  • Parental guide/directory
  • Freelance writing
  • Newsletter publishing
  • Local Cookbook publishing
  • How-to Guide/manuals.

Recreation and Entertainment Businesses:

  • Entertainment agent
  • Event planning
  • Catering
  • Kiddies/Adult Party Planning
  • Video Production
  • T.V & movie production
  • Vacation Planning

Services to Businesses & Homes:

  • Food Delivery Services
  • Consulting Business
  • Accounting
  • Advertising Services
  • Flier Distribution
  • Debt recovery services
  • Book-keeping
  • Web Designing
  • Graphic Design
  • Information Marketing/Broker
  • Secretarial service
  • Typing services
  • horticulture
  • Home/Office Cleaning
  • Interior designing
  • Ironing
  • Maid Service
  • Pest Control
  • Photography
  • Pool Cleaning
  • Public Speaking
  • Seminar Promoting
  • Networking or Multi-level Marketing Sales
  • Fashion Design etc.

I hope from the listed ideas above, you can be able to pick or have an idea of what you want to do.

Til I come your way next time.

I remain Caroline Oguama, your Host

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