The first strategy to make money online is building a list. This strategy is one of the single most important steps to continue to make money long term. If you do not already have some type of auto responder system you need to get one. Don’t be cheap here either because your entire business will hinge on this one piece of software.

You can build your list many different ways. You can buy leads from reputable list building companies and get them into your auto responder. Most good list building companies will have an option to send an email to your auto responder so you don’t have to manually input the lead’s information.

Another effective way of building your list is from the traffic that visits your website. This step, which is probably the most effective,does require you to have a website in order to implement an opt-in list form. Of course if your Affiliate program does offer a list management service then you can send traffic to the affiliate URL, but I don’t recommend it as you will usually not be able to email the entire list with special offers.

To make the most of your opt-in form and get the most sign ups, you should place it in your sales page text. It should be strategically located in the sales text after you present a problem. The title of your auto-responder email series should address the problem by offering a solution. In the example below we will assume that I am selling a hosting package and I want opt-in subscribers to my email course for back-end sales.you can pay for your site to be show when certain keywords are queried in their search engine.

Example: You can use the pre-built websites or build your own. Many people think that building a website is hard, but I can show you how easy it really is. Take my 10 day email course “Build a Website with Ease”[sign up form here].

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Affiliate marketing is responsible for making more six figure earnings year after year. The rate of growth within the affiliate marketing arena is sizable and some of the figures are pretty incredible. But it really is very easy to understand as to why. After you have worked out the best way to set up a affiliate review site, your main activity is singular for the most part.

There is actually very little you have remaining to accomplish, except for driving the maximum amount of targeted traffic that you can to your given product review site and next to follow will be gathering the names and email addresses of your potential potential customers and generating a list of your own. This really is important to your ongoing financial success and allows you to sell to these folks again and again.

Many of those that get started on the internet simply don’t wish to come up with their own products and this becomes a really attractive avenue for all parties involved. Affiliate marketing is a good union for you and the product owner as well. For The vendor, it makes it possible for he or she to outsource to sales agents like yourself to market his or her product or service and have an army of people driving traffic and in return you receive your piece of the pie

And it will be good for you if he or she provides a good quality product or service that has a really low return rate. Your now establishing a name for yourself in a specialized niche with high quality goods. Searching for high quality products to advertise is not really all that difficult to find and it is about researching your given area of interest of choice.

Where many don’t succeed within this business is not actually paying for the product or products which they want to market. Absolutely nothing replaces hands on knowledge and experience using the product itself. By using the product or service you will be advertising it allows you to write your review with the good and the not so good in your review.

Two of the most preferred companies that supply up a huge choice of affiliate programs in numerous niches is Commission Junction as well as Clickbank and these are not the only ones on the market by any extent. But this is unquestionably an outstanding place to start. But bear in mind, seems like a different concept to you, it is crucial that you educate yourself as to easy methods to achieve the most benefit. You can never be to knowledgeable.

Understanding how to find worthwhile niche categories is important to your becoming successful.

There isn’t any point in promoting something that does not already have a eager market of money in hand, ready to buy prospects. Your very best possibility of winning this game is discover products and niches which possess a healthy level of interest to you. In the long run it is going to make it less complicated for you stay excited.

Blogs are an easy way to begin in affiliate marketing and here’s the reason why. Once you have isolated a niche that is profitable and has a eager market, and you have also determined the product or products and I would recommend at least 3 choices, your number 1 goal is build traffic and Blogs are wonderful simply because happen to be a web 2.0 compliant format that is already built in. This format means that you can write in depth about your market on a regular basis by writing blog post.

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The growth and popularity of blogs in general has been phenomenal within a very short period of time. Blogs or web logs as they were previously called is where all the action on the World Wide Web is, right now.

It is amazing how quickly web sites have been relegated to the back seat. Actually the role of web sites is rapidly being re-defined but it is clear blogs will be the place where all the traffic will be congregating for a long time to come. What some thought was a passing fad is clearly here to stay and is a permanent development that has already had far reaching effects on communications and the way we transmit and receive information.

Yet most entrepreneurs who have quickly jumped onto the blog bandwagon do not seem to fully understand and appreciate what blogs are really all about. Worse still, many of those who have remained away have no idea what all the fuss is about.

A clearer understanding of blogs is bound to benefit any e-commerce business owner or online entrepreneur.

Everybody can be a publisher or media owner

Probably the most significant impact of blogs is the fact that it is rapidly changing mass media, as we have known it since the invention of the printing press in the 15th century. Powerful media companies have been in the hands of a few people who have carefully controlled what we see in our media. Sometimes deliberately to achieve their corporate goals and objectives. Blogs are effectively transferring that power back to the people and away from the hands of a few.

This era of blogs means that anybody can be a publisher or media owner and effectively transmit whatever information they want and push whatever cause is dear to their hearts. The impact of blogs in politics for example has been a clear demonstration of the power of blogging. We have some blogs covering politics that have a couple hundred thousand visitors on a daily basis.

This may be a scary development to many folks including media owners but it presents a number of excellent opportunities for entrepreneurs to reach huge audiences with their messages at a tiny fraction of what their budgets used to be in the days when blogs did not exist.

Breaking news, courtesy of the blog community

Further power of blogs to handle breaking news in real time, complete with photographs and video clips, has clearly been evident in retimes. For example during the Tsunami tragedy last December. Footage of the damage being caused by the giant waves was seen in blogs long before the traditional media channels got wind of what was going on.

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I was speaking at a seminar Friday & a guy came up to me. He said, “I’ve been following you for a long long time, love your stuff. Can I ask you some questions about Google?”

Sure thing. First Question:

“Google just sent me this letter, offering to have their staff help me optimize my account. Should I do it?”

First Answer:

“ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES LET GOOGLE EMPLOYEES ‘OPTIMIZE’ YOUR ACCOUNT. An angry mob of gangbangers in your front yard with 134 cans of spray paint would do less damage than a Google staff member “improving” your $5,000 AdWords campaign.”

He explains how he manages campaigns for a bunch of different local businesses. I assume he’s familiar with all the basic stuff I teach…

Second Question:

“My customers’ campaigns are all local and they get tiny trickles of traffic so it really doesn’t make sense for me to test ads since it would take me months to get a result.”

Second Answer:

“It ALWAYS makes sense to test your ads. If it takes 3 months to get an answer it’s way better than never asking the question in the first place.”

I’m beginning to realize he’s never read my Definitive Guide. Or if he has, he hasn’t *really* read it. I’m reminded there are LOTS of people like this.

So he signs up for Renaissance Club which gets him a Definitive Guide and gains him access to my breakout Q&A session. In that session he opens up his account.

Dang, there’s all kinds of things he’s doing wrong…

-Every single keyword is broad match

-No split testing

-Ugly display URL’s are murdering his Click Thru Rate

-Bad copy in his ads

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Poor guy, he’s paying TONS of stupidity tax to Google.

If he read through my Definitive Guide and took some basic notes, he would 3X his performance with 2 hours of edits. That’s $1,000 per hour work if there ever was such a thing.

I certainly hope he does make those changes & I’m sure he will.

Meanwhile I’ve got a question for you:

How much stupidity tax are YOU paying Google??? Does it feel like they’ve got a needle in your veins and they’re sucking all the blood they want?

Are you feeling woozy yet?

Google LOVES it when you pay stupidity tax. More free lunches in Larry & Sergey’s 5-Star-Chef Cafeteria, thank you very much. Plus you can’t find Google’s phone number and they answer your emails with mindless reps in India who paste canned replies. So if your campaigns crash and burn or get shut down, you never get a straight answer as to why.

(Sad as that is, the day Google’s customer service improves is the day I sell off my Google stock. When you’re #1 in the world you can treat people like cattle and get away with it.)

Google’s job is to THIN THE HERD. My job is to FATTEN THE HERD. (My herd.)

Google will NOT help you squeeze the most juice out of the orange. It’s not their job.

Their job is to squeeze the most juice out of YOU.

Sorry the most appropriate analogies here are agriculture and farm animals. Fact is, either Google is the farm animal or you are. And in the end, you’re the one who decides who’s getting milked.

So allow me to throw down a 2 hour challenge:

–> Regardless of your level of AdWords proficiency, open your Google account, page through the 2010 Definitive Guide to Google AdWords and start implementing. Make it your exclusive focus for 2 hours.

–> If your investment doesn’t return to you in 1-2 weeks through cost savings or increased sales, let us know and we’ll give you a full and courteous refund.

Get the 2010 Definitive Guide here:

Adwords and running highly profitable campaigns truly doesn’t have to hurt. Let Perry show you how he does it. He is the Godfather of google adwords and has been for many years. He is the one individual that all the guru’s go to for all things adwords. When done properly adwords can double or triple your present income.

Writing Articles is a great way to promote your home business web site and it’s very easy to do. You can write articles that are related to your business and submit them to article directories. All it takes is time to create the articles and submit them. The pay off is just to good not to be doing it.

At the very least it should be part of your daily and weekly marketing mix. I don’t perform just one form of traffic generation but article marketing is certainly part of the mix.

The article process is as follows: You create the article, proof read and correct the article, and submit the article.

One way articles create traffic to your web site is from the reader. The reader can find your web site address from a link in your article resource box. You have to make sure the article resource box contains a link to your website. The resource box is one of the single most important parts of your article.

However, creating content that is interesting and keeps the reader on the article is also important. Many make a huge to do about how they dislike article marketing, but when it gets right down to it, it should be one of the easiest things you can do considering that if you are in a niche you more than likely know a lot about,  and it should make the process fairly easy.

Remember you don’t have to write a book here, your just going to create 350 to 500 word articles that shouldn’t take more than a half hour to write. One of the easiest ways to accomplish this is to sit and make a list of your keywords you use in your website content. Then simply sit down and address a given problem and hand them the solutions.

Article marketing is also known to be a method of viral marketing. Meaning popularity of your article has the potential to grow. For example, webmasters from other sites can use your articles to use as content on their web site. In return for allowing the webmaster for using your article, your article will include the resource box you created containing a link back to your site.

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