Making Money Online and Blogging 2

Making Money Online and Blogging 2

My last post appears to have hit a nerve in the blogging community, and overall the comments surprised me. The topic definitely warrants further discussion, so I’m devoting a second article to it.

When I became involved with online marketing, the first thing I did was create a squeeze page to start building a list, and then some sales pages, which I promoted with advertising, and a splash page on traffic exchanges.

At the time I was also involved in selling clothing through online auctions, and made full use of my Ebay ‘About Me’ page to market my digital product sales pages.

[A quick aside on the topic of peripheral marketing techniques -- don’t forget to use your 404 and other error pages, otherwise it’s just wasted space. Pop up some ads or graphic marketing links on them. You have nothing to lose, but may very well gain an occasional Paypal payment notification that you wouldn’t otherwise have received.]

Anyhow, by this time, I was reading a lot about blogging and social networks, the whole Web 2.0 phenomenon. The logical next step was to start my own blog, and Reward Rebel came into existence. What I hadn’t really expected was how enjoyable it is, especially once you become involved in the blogging community as a whole. At the moment, I believe I’d continue blogging even if I were to quit internet marketing.

There are different types of blogger, from those who first start a blog, and then consider monetizing it, to the people whose blogs are genetically engineered to exist as a vehicle for making money online!

There is room for a comfortable middle ground, where an interesting blog containing enjoyable content, and helpful information and ideas, can also be actively marketing. The subscriber chooses to be included on a mailing list, and each communication should offer an ‘unsubscribe’ option. Personally, I don’t mail more frequently than once a week, and usually more like once a month, and many of my mails bear useful info and tips rather than promotions. Not every marketer is just trying to grab your money.

You know the old maxim, ‘the money is in the list’. It’s made to sound like some arcane magic elixir, if only we could get our hands on ‘the list’, we’d have everything our heart desires and be rich beyond our wildest dreams!

Yeah, well, not quite. The fabled list won’t make you rich by its existence alone, you do have to actually do something with it.

If you do choose to build a mailing list, avoid the mindset of treating your subscribers as though they are your property, or worse, your personal friends. They’re most definitely not. There are marketers who should know better, from whom I’ve received entirely inappropriate mailings.

Recently, I received one from quite a high profile name, an email about his daughter starting university soon, and how she needs all the help she can get with tuition fees. So he’s offering some digital product in return for helping her out. Global panhandling. This infuriates me, and I’m amazed that anyone has the bald-faced audacity to market at such a low-down, arse-sniffing level – and on such a massive scale! Although, I suppose if you’re going to do something, you may as well do it BIG!

For every blogger there will be a point of view, and it’s this element that makes it such a fun adventure, so enjoy yours!

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An Encouraging Start To 2008

An Encouraging Start To 2008

The UK’s transition into 2008 brought me the good omen of making a product sale in the earliest hours of the 1st January from a page I hadn’t been actively promoting for quite a while.

Emails from Aweber and Paypal alerted me to this particular transaction, and served as a timely reminder of why I’m building multiple income streams. It’s important to have as many sales pages as possible ‘live’ in cyber space, because even when our efforts at promotion aren’t all they could be, we pick up business from serendipitous surfers landing at our sites.

It’s a commonly heard complaint that many people fail to make money with internet marketing, but often the same people have failed to create any income potential beyond some Adsense listings on their blog. Well, as they say “ya gotta be in it, to win it!”.

So I’ve been going over my files with a view to compiling additional packages, and as soon as I’ve completed the first project, you’ll hear about it here.

It’s a bummer I’ve got this thumb RSI prob. It’s still acutely painful and there’s no chance of forgetting about it for a while — leastways not as long as I persevere in actually trying to use the offending digit!

It seems appropriate to also report here that the Rebel Booty promotion has been steadily gaining new customers, and with this blog enjoying developing its profile, in general I’m feeling very energized and positive about the year ahead. I can feel it in my thumb — it’s gonna be a big’un!

And the adventure continues…

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Recipe For Plucking Low Hanging Fruit From The Internet

Recipe For Plucking Low Hanging Fruit From The Internet

If you haven’t yet read Kevin Riley’s latest offering “Recipe For Plucking Low Hanging Fruit From The Internet”, you really should.

At a meagre $29.95 you get simple formulas presented in an easy-to-grasp fashion. You’ve nothing to lose, as Kevin offers an 8 week, 100% refund - no questions asked.

To view further information about this publication, simply CLICK THE PIC and it’ll take you right there.

With the guarantee, even if you’re skint, you can still check it out!

Though I must make it clear that I’m not advocating requesting a refund just so that you can get it free whether you’re satisfied with it or not.

Good luck in all your future endeavours, and remember to enjoy your adventure.

Reward Rebel

How To Start An Online Business

When you’re looking at how to start an online business, you’ll first want to look at a particular field in which you are interested.

You’ll want to see whether or not there is a great deal of competition out there because this could affect your decision to get into that particular field. When you are deciding to start an online business, you usually want to look for a field in which there is less competition so that you can come in with cheap, but effective, marketing and dominate that niche. It is often easier to be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond.

There are many different techniques by which you can make money on a website, and this article will introduce you to some of them. You can decide to sell products online, which you can find through wholesale distributors. You are able to advertise on your website and sell advertising using programs such as Google Adsense. You can even sell your products through store fronts at either Yahoo, eBay, or Amazon websites.

Another key when you are looking at how to start an online business, is to make sure that you are continually testing and retesting your website. Once you design your website, you cannot sit back and wait for the sales to comment. You want to test and retest the difference ways in which you have your pages and website built to make sure that you are taking advantage of the traffic coming into your website. If you do not do this, you are leaving money on the table.

The final key when looking at how to start an online business is how you decide to market your website. There are many companies which you are able to buy traffic from at a very cheap price and this can be a good way to supplement your natural search engine traffic.

The way to build natural search engine traffic is through content and developing back links. Back links are links from other websites to yours so that when search engine search bots are indexing web pages, they will find the links to your web site and index your pages.

If you work on finding and under-served niche, it is easier to pay for traffic bought from Internet marketing firms as well as move your way up in the natural search engine pages. You want to make sure that you are developing both a good site and its contents of the people will want to read what they find and then continually return to your website.

At first… play. Surf around the relevant sites to find out what people are talking about, dig deeper into these topics, then see what products exist that could satisfy the need

This is a simple formula in your search on how to start an online business.

While you’re doing it, remember to enjoy the adventure!

Reward Rebel