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Web content includes, among other things: text, images, sounds, videos and animations. More broadly, it’s all the ‘stuff’ in your site, weblog, discussion board, e-commerce site, etc. Documents, data, applications, e-services, images, audio and video files, personal Web pages, archived e-mail messages, and more.

Adding valuable content to your site should encompass more than an hour or so culling information from several different sources and slapping it on your site. There is an abundance of free content on the Internet for your use, but that’s the problem. It’s free; and abundant. Everyone is using it.

You should have a strategy. First figure out what your site’s content will be and your site’s content sources. If your content is not original, it is your responsibility to ensure that you follow all applicable laws when developing your site content. If you didn’t create your content and are unsure of its source, find out. If it’s not clear that you have explicit permission to use it, don’t use it until you know that you legally can. Check the terms of use and policies of your resources to ensure you use content properly. Last, but certainly not least, you must determine who is going to maintain your site. You can do it yourself, which may involve considerable time and effort. You may choose to pay someone else to do it, which cut down on your time and effort but increase your costs. Whatever your strategy is, write it down and revise it as necessary.

A significant portion of your web content should be original, and contain value-added content. For example, a blogger spends a couple of hours writing a blog post on some current topic, and thousands of others do so as well on the same topic. This blogger, however, did her homework. She went beyond the incremental knowledge on this subject that many of her peers had, and took the time to create specific, in-depth content. This in-depth content takes much longer to create, but it will truly set her site apart from a lot of the lesser experts on her topic. Occasionally, a single unique phrase within a paragraph can increase conversion rates. Thorough content’s added value can hold your audience’s attention, raise feedback, increase subscriptions and revenue, and increase your sites popularity.

Good website content will not only be interesting to the initial reader, but frequently recommended to other by that reader. Since you couldn’t possibly know everything about your online audience, try to vary your content. While your content should certainly be timely, a portion of it should be ‘static’- meaning good content that need not be immediately be updated or changed significantly. This will save you time and money, yet still provide your audience with substance. If your content is somewhat controversial, use this to your advantage. Give your online audience a place on your site to sound off by leaving comments, suggestions, or even hold their own discussions.

If you’re not a great writer or researcher, there are options for you as well. Free reprint articles, private label articles, and ghostwriters can all help you with your content for a fee. Ultimately, deciding what content to offer and how to incorporate it should be your decision.

Your great, innovative place on the web is like building a home. It takes some planning, preparation, and time. There is no quick, easy way. Once the content foundation is laid, it is value-added, and reaches its audience it’s not likely to fail.

If you are new to the net and interested in making money ethically then this article will educate you in the various methods of making money online.

It uses a blog as an example of various types money making paths. Blogs cost nothing and are provided free to build a community on the internet.

First of all you can sell a product directly. Have a website and sell as you would have in a mail order catalogue, except thanks to the internet you can automate most of the process, other than shipping and handling. You also still have to stock a product. However this becomes limited when compared to your traditional shoppping mall because while Wal-mart, K-mart, Big-W or whatever can have thousands of products on display, attempting the same on one website becomes very difficult. This is why most people to sell products direct online have a limited number of products for sale. I do participate in a variation of this same theme and you probably have as well, selling on auction on ebay is a type of direct product selling, courteousy of a third party provider.

Next go to the resource box and you will see examples of all the rest of the things I am going to be talking about. (just copy and paste the address to your URL – thats the address bar)

Firstly, you will note that there are no direct products for sale. I don’t want to ship hundreds of items, I want to leverage my time, so the first thing for sale is a product available through an affliliate. At this stage it doesn’t matter who it is for, its the concept that is important here. You don’t have to sell a product directly to make money on the internet. You can become an affliliate member which gives you the right to advertise a product and if a sale is made you get a commission – kind of like your old door to door salesperson, but this time the door is via the customers internet. In order to succeed here you need traffic to your website, the more targeted traffic the better. (by targeted I mean something that the customer is looking for, you don’t want someone who wants to buy a dog to come to your cat website, as its unlikely to result in a sale). Eventually given enough traffic the sales will come. Remember the higher the cost of the product the less sales are likely, most people are on a restricted budget, but the higher the cost or the product normally the large commission payout. This is a balancing act, if one thing pays out $500 dollars you would only have to sell one a week, if another paids you a $5 commission then you would have to sell hundred to make the same money.

It is important to understand that as an affliliate you are provided with a code embedded into your links which tracks you are being responsible for bringing the company the sale. Hence in any banner, links, code to put in, make sure its your own.

The second item for sale is a viral type of product or similiar to the old MLM’s.

In this case GDI – Global domains International, which has the rights over the .ws web address ending (in this case .ws is advertised as standing for website). What they are selling is a hosting service provider as well as a domain name and a variety of other internet services, quite cheaply really considering what your getting. But the real money making deal here is that by signing up others you make a $1 per person per month, and you make another $1 for each person they sign up and so on to five levels deep. Why would a company do this. Because its cheap advertising for them and explodes their growth. In the case of GDI they have made it very clear that they want be the dominant website address .ws, in order to accomplish this they are willing to share money with anyone who helps them grow. By clicking this link the company knows you brought them another customer and your share in the profits. I call it viral because like a virus it catching from one person to a few more to many more, to hundreds, well you get the idea. $1 dollars is not alot, but $1 times 5000 is. Once again you are not selling a product, you are as an agent, and you are not selling a tradtitional goods but in this case a service. This is a viral type or MLM type of system. Often MLM gets a bad rap, but I believe it is because people buy the SYSTEM, instead of buying the PRODUCT, whatever you buy make sure you are happy with the PRODUCT.

The third one is an ebay link. Once again this earns money through affliliate program. It is easy to sign as an affliliate, just look on any web home page and your will normally find a link to “affiliates” In this case the affliliate it run through a third party – commission junction, who acts as an independant company to make sure affliliates are not ripped off, paid on time, etc. This isn’t even directly selling a service – its straight out promoting another website.

The four one is EPI – Emerald passport Inc. which is a total online product, namely financial education materials, self improvement, hours of video and audio, information store on line. Its an example of selling INFORMATION online.

Don’t think information is valuable consider this short piece of information

for anyone who has sold on ebay.

Do you list a product at $20 or $19.99. Which will make you the most money?

The $19.99! how you ask, because the listing fee difference between $20 and $19.99 is 25 cents (don’t tell ebay I told you this, that might lose some of your money). Hence if you list and sell at $20 you earn 24 cents less than the person who listed and sold at $19.99.

How much is this information worth – well at least 24 cents, but to those who sell hundreds of items, much more if they are making this basic mistake and costing themselves money.

Obviously quality information that saves money, creates money or increases your knowledge is important.

Finally you see an short article on clickbank. Like comission junction they act as an afflitate provider and users. This link sells NOTHING yet still makes money. HOW? because anyone who travels down your link to clickbank and joins in makes you a small commission. Once again its a company paying you to advertise, in this case to help them advertise.

A similar thing is google adwords where you are paid to advertise and then pay a small amount per ad click through.

Some other links are included as examples, but you get the picture. Some links make NO money but are their to try and generate traffic, see instantBuzz.com, traffic swarm, etc. Not everyone can be listed in the first pages of a search engine, so you can either accept that fact, be in constant competition to optimise and re-optimise your web page to stay near the top.

There are people willing to do this. Why you may ask? Because the free advertising generated by being in the number one spot is a virtual goldmine and drives huge quantity of traffic to your site, especially if you are listed with a big search engine like google or yahoo. However if you aren’t going to be listed high on one of these search engines (in fact sometimes its even hard to be found and cache by these engines) then you are going to need alternative ways to bring traffic to your website. Another option to marketing is to pay for it, like with google ads word. Another is to advertise offline in a variety of traditional media, magazines, newspaper, radio and TV.

I hope this article and the website at have helped you increase your knowledge of how business takes place on the internet. There may be other ways I haven’t yet covered, but this is a good base for you to start.

(This article is written by Alastair HARRIS and is the property of the HARRIS family, you have permission to copy the article and share it as much as you want, but do not modify the article in any way. I will respond to criticism, but remember I’m new to writing articles so don’t be too harsh)

The author may be contacted at anhharrisandsonsprimusonline.com.au

Happy netting.

Forum marketing or Social Marketing can truly be another great hidden source to add to you’re over all Internet marketing. It is a place were people with similar interest gather to discuss all types of topics for that subject.

How affective is it for your Internet Marketing and generating website traffic?

Forum Marketing can help in many different ways when it comes to marketing your website, here is how:

First you want to find a discussion board or forum that is targeted to your website theme. Think of it like this would you market your website about jewelry to a forum about cooking? The answer is no.

Participating in forums can help you and your website build an expert status online by posting answers to questions others have in a specific topic.

Never posted in forums before?

First thing you should do before just jumping in and posting wildly, take a look around and see what other are posting about, view the set up and feel the mood of the forum.

Once you have a good understanding of the forum then you can start participating in this targeted marketing platform.

Note: There is a sign up process for most good forums. Process is simple and only takes a few minutes. Forums normally use sign in to help better monitor the forum and protect it from spamming.

Keep in mind that most forums do not allow advertising in their post and the regular participants of these forums can smell an ad from a mile away. This way of using the forums will not make you any friends so keep your content exactly that content. Add value to the forum by providing your own unique quality copy.

Forums allow a signature line were you can place a small description about your business along with a link to your website. Here is where your link popularity can climb and climb steadily as new post creates new fresh content that the search engines love.

Search engines pick up and index forum posts high so be sure to include important keyword rich topics and content in every forum posts so they will attract targeted traffic for your website through your popular keywords.

Consider Forum Marketing as part of you Internet marketing strategies, it can have many benefits for your website and business that you may not have thought about.

I was brand new to this nice product marketing thing less than 2 years ago and I have to say that if you feel lost and overwhelmed I know exactly how you feel. (By the way “niche product” and “niche program” are one and the same – both things you are aiming to sell to your niche market) I made many mistakes and lived to tell the tale – and boy did it pay off!

I was the number one computer phobic, clueless dumbo when I first came across this way of doing business. All I knew was this seemed like a way to ditch my 9 to 5 job (that I’d been stuck in for 26 years!). So I took a deep breath and dived in.

If you are like me you will read everything you can find and soon learn that opinions are like rear ends – everyone’s got one. But I realized after a while that I kept coming back to some very basic ways go about marketing niche products – and it is these that are the key to your success.

1. Find a niche market

2. Find a niche program or product.

3. Sell the product to the market.

The first and maybe not so obvious is find your niche market. Notice I said first find your market – not your product. I remember frantically looking for great products I thought would set the world on fire. Guess what? No one else thought the same. Result – no sales. Eventually the penny dropped and I started finding the market first and then finding a product to match.

How do you find a hungry niche market? Find what they are typing into search engines. How? Well there are many great products to help. The one I use the most (Good Keywords) also happens to be free! Just go to Google and type in “Good Keywords Softnik Technologies” and you will find where to download it free.

A great place to find your niche products once you have established your hot market is Clickbank.com – If you are not a member then join now, and you will have access to over 10,000 digital products that cover every niche there is. And it is digital products that are easiest to start selling if you are new. Clickbank deal with all the order processing and delivery so you just have to concentrate on sendng your customers.

The established way to go on and sell your products is through pay per click advertising or having a website. Both these work but can be difficult to learn in the your early stages – and why make it difficult for yourself?

There is a 100% effective niche marketing strategy, almost “undercover” way to get to the top of the search engine rankings using articles about your niche products. It is a system put together by Nathan Stark and it enabled him to bring in over $3 million in sales in one year. This is something I was totally skeptical about – until I tried it! I have to admit you need to put in a bit of effort, but it soon became apparent that this new technique rewards you thousands of times over in the form of sales. For only 60 – 90 days work an ongoing stream of customers is created for life! Wow – was I taken aback!

I hope you pursue your niche product marketing business because I have to say, hand on heart, it is the best thing I ever did – but remember it’s not something for nothing. Do the basics right and you will be richly rewarded.

Gaz Hutchinson Internet Marketer

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No, I’m not talking about THAT kind of hooking up…this is a business article, for goodness sakes! I’m talking about building mutually beneficial relationships with other online business owners. That’s the kind of hooking up that will propel your business to long-term success.

Many people get online and think that the more people they meet online, the bigger customer base they can get. To some degree that is true, but in this marketing mama’s humble opinion, it’s not where you should focus your efforts.

Nearly, four years ago, I started my online business. I was just a mom who desperately didn’t want to return to work after maternity leave. I had NO CLUE what I was doing. None at all, but one thing I did do is meet people, but I didn’t try to make these people my customers.

What, you may ask? Didn’t I want to get any customers?

Sure I did, but I realized something much more valuable. The other online business owners that I met online weren’t necessarily my target market and they had something much more valuable to offer me than a few dollars in my pocket from an Internet sale. They had knowledge, experience and ideas…and I had my own to share too. So, this is what I did…

I made friends and now I run a 6-figure per year business.

Yup, good old-fashioned friends with a common interest in online business. I share my experience and knowledge and they shared theirs. We discovered where we could collaborate on projects and build lifetime partnerships together. In other words, I gained a lifetime of value from these friends…not just another “Notification of Payment Received” email from PayPal.

Through these relationships, I have found:

- A number of partners on numerous profitable projects that we continue to produce and promote.

- Marketing advice from:

- A copywriter who has written million-dollar sales copy for numerous clients

- A guy who works from Florida and makes millions yearly from his online business ventures; and a bunch more. These are people that have made VITAL differences to the future of my online business.

- Someone who has orchestrated 6 and 7-figure product launches for his friends and clients.

- And a bunch of others too numerous to mention, but I am so grateful for every day of my life.

- Indispensable and trustworthy assistants that keep me inline when my mind wanders or I just can’t get all the little things done in my business.

…and a whole bunch more. It doesn’t really matter, what I gained. It’s time to ask yourself what you want to gain…and if you’re in it for the long haul. If you decide you are indeed in it for the long haul, it’s time to start building those relationships.

How to Attract The Right People to Your Network

If you are already networking online, through message boards or other means, you’re already on the way. Here’s some tips on how to make the right kind of friends through your network.

- Scrutinize your networking list. If you belong to a bunch of email groups and even more message boards, it’s time to start cutting out the fat. Your time is valuable, so choose just a few quality groups and boards where people are serious about online business. Forget about the ones where people are out to get rich quick or where you simply post for “Ad Mondays”.

- Don’t be too eager. Don’t start out by telling the world, you want to “partner” on a project or anything like that. Take it slow, get to know people and give your input where you can. I emphasize the “where you can” because if you don’t have any experience on a subject, just keep quiet. But don’t worry, if you feel you really don’t have a lot of experience, you can still be a valuable community member by giving support and encouragement to your fellow online business owners. The experience will come with time.

- Share your experiences. Expanding on the previous point, do share on the subjects in which you have some experience. The more freely you share your information, the more willing people will be to share with you. We all have our own experience and expertise. We can cut our learning curves tremendously by learning from others.

- Make personal connections. If you have something you’d like to discuss privately with a member, contact them. It may be to discuss a particular idea you have for their business or you may want to interview them for your newsletter. When you do make these connections, always keep in mind what value it has for your networking partner. If you have nothing of value to offer them, save your personal contact for later.

- View your competitors as partners. There’s nothing worse than the sometimes catty world of online business where people see competitors as the enemy. The Internet marketplace is so vast, there truly is room for everybody. People who reach the same target market are your potential partners for products, free ebooks, co-promotion and more. Don’t limit yourself.

Bottom Line is…

Stop thinking about yourself. Think about how you can help other people and it truly comes back to you.

Affiliate marketing can be extremely lucrative as you know, but if you are a newbie who are starting to involve in earning online through affiliate program, you may find it’s hard to find a suitable affiliate products to promote with, because most of them have been promoted heavily by many other affiliate marketers; hence if you are promoting the same affiliate products, you need to complete with these experience affiliate marketers.

So how can you find untapped and therefore potentially highly profitable products to promote as an affiliate?

If you are a new affiliate marketer, the best place to start searching for your products is at Clickbank, the leading retailer of digital products and the most popular affiliate networks where many affiliate marketers are making the fortune with it. You may wonder that Clickbank products are heavily promoted by many affiliate marketers, are you standing a chance to win in this affiliate market? The fact is Clickbank sell so many products, there are still some very profitable opportunities which are overlook by other affiliate marketers.

If you do some analysis, you will find that most affiliate marketers are naturally go to promote best selling products in each category and the most popular category which love by most affiliate marketers is internet marketing / make money products. This category is facing heavy competition between affiliate marketers, some good strategies are needed to win in the competition. If you not a good competitor and have a marketing budget constraint; then try to look for other less popular products, you will often find some hidden gems that haven’t yet taken off for whatever reason. You can make a good profit with these products by promoting them on PPC (pay per click) search engines, email marketing, article marketing or through your website.

Beside that, the best way to profit from Clickbank products is you must get the first hand alert on any new product launch in Clickbank. And start to heavily promote it as soon as they come available. Getting a good and new product promoted in market before others do, can be extremely lucrative. There are specialist sites that will allow you to constantly scan for any new products that have just entered the marketplace.

Other than Clickbank, there are many other affiliate networks available in the internet that has hidden gems which you can discover and make your fortune from it. Do a search for "affiliate networks" and you will find thousands of affiliate networks where you can find many companies offer affiliate program. These networks present plenty of opportunities because from these lists, there will inevitably be some companies that are under-represented by affiliates, particularly on Google Adwords and other PPC search engines.

Furthermore, if you spend some time to look for companies outside the US which have their individual affiliate program, you will find a lot untapped affiliate markets for non-English speaking countries. These markets have far fewer competitors and may be a potential an absolute goldmine where you can earn a substantial profits from them. Your problem that you will be faced if you want to tap into these non-English speaking markets, you need to translate your sales page or website into a different languages; don’t try to use any of translation software because they very rarely translate perfectly into the natural language. You can many freelance sites that provide translation service; use their service to translate your sales page or website into different language and start promoting your selected products to these countries.

In Summary

Affiliate marketing can be extremely lucrative and to be success in this business, you need to be creative search for untapped opportunities. The internet market is huge and there is always be good companies out there who need more affiliates in all kinds of different niches.

A: They make sure that their links pop up, on the first page of the search engine’s search results. They are gunning for the top 10, search engine results, on all of the popular search engines. They know the tricks, they know how to pick the keywords, and they know that the easiest way to make money on the internet is to let the search engines do the hard work for them.

Don’t buy anyone’s how I got rich program, because they won’t really tell you how they got rich. If they’re rich it is because have the web site that can be easily found using he search engines. It is as simple as that!

Most marketers will send out thousands of emails, and post their ads in ezines, solo ads, they write blogs, ect… These people spend a great deal of time on the internet trying to push their affiliate’s products. If they concentrated 1/3 of their efforts on what the gurus concentrated on, they would be spending more of their time at the beach on some exotic island, than on their computer at home.

Q: How do you get a guru to run?

A: You tell them that you just did a search on yahoo using their keywords, and they weren’t on the first page any more. Waaaahhff

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Marketing on the Internet can often be confusing for people, especially ones who are more used to more traditional methods of marketing and advertising. Doing your marketing on the Internet is generally far less expensive than more traditional types of marketing, though, and done correctly will yield great results.

A first answer to the question how do I market my new business on the Internet is to do your research. I know that it often seems like that’s always the advice you get. Research, though, is vital to learning what types of marketing best suit your style and pocketbook. So before you start plunking down your money for banner ads, do your homework to find out if this is really the best, most efficient way to market your particular new Internet business.

Planning is also an important part of marketing on the Internet. A common mistake Internet marketers make is to jump in with no real plan. You will want to be certain that any marketing plan you develop fits your budget as well.

The best advice is to start small and work up to more expensive marketing techniques. Doing your research, making a budget, and drawing up a marketing plan for your Internet business will ensure that you get off to the right foot.

Some typical ways of marketing on the Internet are:

• Banner ads

• Solo ads

• Ezine ads

• Press releases

• Email

• Promotional offers

• Linking to other sites

• Pay-per-click

There are other methods as well, but these are the most common and useful. All of the above methods are extremely effective ways for you to market your new business on the Internet, but a combination of several of them will bring you the best results. It will be up to you to decide which ones work best for you and how much you can comfortably spend.

Marketing by these methods does require close monitoring and the ability to make adjustments when you see something that isn’t working or isn’t delivering the results you need to grow your business. The great advantage that marketing on the Internet has is that you can track your result easily and respond quickly with any needed changes to your marketing plan.

Perhaps, though, one of the best and most cost-efficient answers to the question how do I market my new business on the Internet is to write articles and post them on website across the Internet. In these articles or at the end, you add your contact information with a link to your site. By providing information people need about topics related to your new Internet business and a link to find your site, you will get a lot of visitors&ndashand more important, lots of sales!

Many people avoid resell rights products simply because they believe that they cannot compete with other resellers who are selling the same product, or they feel the market for that product may be flooded due to the fact that there are a great number of other resellers.

However, if you really think about it, most people purchase resell rights, and have no intention of reselling the product &ndash they simply wanted the product. Others purchase resell rights to sell the product, but honestly don’t know how, or don’t use very effective marketing techniques. In fact, 90% of the people who hold the same resell rights that you hold are doing it wrong.

You must also consider the market. While it is harder to sell Internet Marketing related products, selling non-Internet Marketing products is easier than you think. The reason it is harder to sell Internet Marketing products is because most of the other resellers will in fact be Internet Marketers who do know what they are doing.

First, you must increase your marketing efforts. By doing more, you will put yourself well ahead of the 10% that are actually marketing the product correctly. Find new markets for the product and new ways to reach them. Consider holding teleseminars or joint venturing with other marketers who have large subscriber lists.

Next, make your package more attractive than other people’s. You typically will not have the right to change the product, but that doesn’t mean you can’t change the offer. Use other products as bonuses, as long as you have the right to give those products away. Beef up your package, and you will pull ahead of the competition quickly. Also, change your sales letter. Don’t use the same sales letter that other resellers are using. Make yours unique.

The possibility’s are endless and there is a ton of money to be made. As with any thing it will take some effort on your part

If you got a quick minute or two, I would like to share with you how cPanel will save you and your online business both, hassle and money.

But let me first take a step back and assume you are not such a tech geek like I am.

You might be wondering…What is cPanel?

CPanel is a fully featured web-based control panel that allows you to manage your domain through a web interface. The idea is to transfer as much of the control and responsibility of managing your web site to you.

You have the ability to manage all aspects of e-mail, files, backup, FTP, CGI scripts, and web site statistics.

Before you now say… Wow, hold on Frank! That still sounds way too complicated to me!

Let me share with you what my good buddies Bob Jenkins (aka Bob the Teacher) and Chris Morris came up with.

Their new site is called discovercpanel “.discovercpanel.com/easy/index.php” and their videos show you how to maximize your time and minimize your frustrations using cPanel.

You can even pick up one of their videos absolutely free at .DiscoverCpanel.com

Now, you might still be wondering why cPanel?

I have been working online for years and installed my Add2it scripts on hundreds of web servers around the globe and I can tell you from my own experience that the cPanel interface is the best one out there.

If you web host doesn’t have cPanel, you should seriously consider switching to a web host that does.

Speaking of web hosts I use now Kiosk web hosting… .wwkiosk.com/members/add2you/ for over 4 years and can HIGHLY recommend them.

And of course… they offer the cPanel interface.

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But back to why you can save hassle and money with a web host that offers cPanel…

Compared to other web-based control panel interfaces out there, cPanel is the easiest one that offers you to most features.

And the combination of cPanel and the Discover cPanel “.discovercpanel.com/easy/index.php ” videos will save you over time thousands of dollars of outsourcing costs as you will be able to control your own hosting easily yourself instead of paying somebody else to do that for you.

Enough of the words… you know what to do.

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