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Referring to email marketing, it is unlikely to
be successful online without some form of
marketing via email. You need to know how to make
use of your customer list and boost up your
business.

You can easily send a mailing in the evening and
earn thousand of dollars by the time you wake up
in another day through the use of the email
marketing.
First, you must develop an attention-grabbing
subject line. While it's one thing to send an
email out to your 20,000 prospects; it's another
thing to get any of them to read it. It will
depend how well you can craft the "subject" line
of your email promotion message.

So, how we could do it? You need to be personal
in your email. There is something both attention-
grabbing and exciting about seeing your name in
the subject line of an email. Normally, we just
love to see our own names. The truth is, when we
see our name in the subject line, we immediately
are drawn to it... (e.g. Gilbert, this is the
free e-book that I would like you to have, etc).
This could easily down using almost every
autoresponder system.
By the way, do not make odd claims like "Earn $50,
000 overnight." If it isn't believable, then
reader will simply delete your email without ever
reading it.
Personalization will "typically" means that it is
not really SPAM. While some spammers do have
access to databases with our names, for the most
part their lists are built by harvesting emails.

You should also only send your emails to your
target your audience. (e.g. If your audience are
interested in reprint rights, you could include
title as "New reprint rights released today, Sell
this new product and keep every penny and etc")

The prospects may receive 500 emails a day, but
if they are interested in reprint rights (and
they would be, or they wouldn't be on that list)
then the particular subject line is going to
stand out when you download your emails."

By combining personalization and targeted
audience, then you have a very compelling subject
line (e.g. "Gilbert, reprint rights are available!
")
Another key thing to attract the reader to take a
look at your message is to use "power" words. It
will trigger our emotions and are strong
motivators for reader to read furher.

So what do I mean by "Power" word?

A "power" word is a word that appeals to the
senses (e.g. Unlimited, guaranteed, step by step,
free, new, amazing, exclusive, deadline, first 10,
etc). It's been shown in research that we do not
buy based on logic, but rather on emotion. Email
marketing works on that same principle.
It will be powerful if you could combine any of
the Power words with a deadline.

The next thing is to use promising which is used
to present a desirable result. Your subject line
must make some kind of promises. In a split
second when the reader views the email subject,
it must clearly indicate to them that there is
something that awaits them if they read your
email. It must be something that the reader does
not want to miss out on and it must appeal to the
emotions as those they were waiting for the
climax of a great movie.
Your email subject line should also create
expectation. Reader don't buy products because
they want your product... they buy products
because they want the result of your product.

Look at the following examples:

1) "Setup your own internet business today..."
2) " Setup your own internet business in a day"

Both have a power word and fairly interesting.
But which one creates expectation? The second one
makes a promise. This is one of the biggest keys
in email marketing, and yet is often overlooked.
You will always have better results with a
subject line that creates expectation.

If you can apply these three keys, "Personal,
Powerful and Promising" to any form of email
marketing you use (e.g. autoresponders,
newsletters, joint venture offers), you will be
successful.

By: Patrick Sia

With so many paid survey scams those days, and so many websites promoting those scams, often it is difficult to determine which is real and which is the ugly, especially for survey newcomers. However, there are ways you can identify them and avoid them:

1. Please remember: Never pay anyone to do paid surveys and get paid. Legitimate paid survey sites are always FREE to join and cost absolutely Nothing to take surveys and get paid. If anyone ask you to pay or provide credit card information, walk away!

2. The most common scam sites work like this: They claim they are paid survey sites and ask you to sign up and provide your personal information. They then turn around sell your information. Often those sites are overly simplified, no company information etc, all they ask is your name and email address, and you won't know what's going on until you register. If you see a site like this, walk away.

3. If you come cross a site that you are not sure if it is legitimate or not, please be sure to check their privacy policy. If you are not happy with their policy or they don't have a privacy policy, stay away. A legitimate company's privacy policy should state something like "We do NOT reveal or sell your personal information to any third parties..." in the "How do we use information collected" section.

4. Please be aware the difference between paid surveys sites and get paid sign up offer sites. The later sometimes say they are survey sites, in fact they are not. They are the sites you get paid for signing up free or trial offers, and sometimes you need to provide credit card information to sign up non-free trials or offers.

5. Stay away from the websites promoting known scam "survey" sites - usually those sites promise you make thousands of dollars doing paid surveys, and lot of them claim that they have a list of 300+ or 400+ paid survey sites. ( The truth is there are NOT hundreds of sites that pay! Over the course of 3 years, there are only around 70 survey sites have paid me or at least sent me a survey!) - They are just promoting anything they can find for commission, and they can NOT be trusted.

6. Trust your instinct - sometimes you just have a gut feeling about a scam site just by it's look and feel. In this case, you are probably right, trust yourself and walk away.

7. You can always do your research for a certain survey site. Fox example, type "A survey site" in Google, you might find "A survey site is a scam!" listed among the top search results!

8. Finally, remember NEVER provide sensitive personal information to anyone, never give out your social security number, driver's license numbers, credit card, bank account information to anyone. I have never has a survey site requires me to provide these information to get paid.

Copyright 2007 Mei Lynn

The internet is full of information about earning money online and when you believe the claims, making money online should be a very easy thing to do. But we all know the truth. Earning money online is not as easy as they say.


MY “EARN-MONEY-FAST” FIASCO

Okay, I have to admit that it took me a couple of months to figure that out. Like hundreds of thousands of people I tried a lot of those “earn-money-fast opportunities”. If I didn't make any money the first couple of months after I had signed up, I just gave up and moved on to the next opportunity. I began the whole process all over again. I searched for a new site that promised a lot of money fast and without hard work and joined again.

Disappointed and almost believing that making money from the Internet was just a dream, the cold, hard truth hit me like a brick: ”There is no way that you can make money online unless you are willing to work hard.”

YOU CAN MAKE MONEY ONLINE

There is no way that you can make money online unless you are willing to work hard. But, if you are persistent and willing to work for it, you really can make money online.

Actually, believe it or not, there is a roadmap that almost can guarantee that you will make money online. It won’t make you rich overnight but if you work one or to two hours each day you will see that making money online isn’t so hard after all.

Step 1 – Let your passion be your guide in finding a lucrative market

Making money online is hard. It won’t be easy and you must be willing to work hard, so make sure you are passionate about what you are doing. If you are passionate you are more motivated. if you are not passionate, you are less likely to persist and succeed.

Make a list of all your interest, all your knowledge, all the hobbies you have ever persuaded, … and ask yourself what you are passionate about, what topic you’d like to learn more about, … After a few minutes you should have a list of jobs, hobbies and interests that could lead you to your lucrative market. Please keep in mind that the Internet is huge and there is an audience for almost anything. If you really believe that you do not have any skills or knowledge, you are selling yourself short.

Narrow your list down to four or five topics that you would like to explore further. Once you finished this task, you should have a few subjects on with to base your further research.

Step 2 – Start Researching your Market Online

It really doesn’t matter if you are starting a business online or if you're simply looking to grow your current part time internet business. Market Research is the only thing that can help you avoid making expensive and time consuming blunders and it can literally make the difference between significant success and abject failure.

When you research your market online, you will not walk into a new market blind. It will make it possible to run the right promotions, to make offers your visitors love, and to out market your competition in the search engines.

Market Research will not only reveal all the information you need to start or grow your business the right way, you will also find out exactly who you're up against. Knowing your competition, knowing what they are doing and sometimes finding out what they are doing wrong, will give you the opportunity to fly past the competition and become really successful.

Market research is an essential step when you want to start your own online business. Especially when you do not know anything of the market that you are entering. Market research is necessary to get something that’s known as affinity to the market which means getting any sort of experience or relationship with the market and that’s really where market research comes in. The better you know your market, the better you’re likely to do. Otherwise, you’re just guessing, and guessing isn’t very good for the health of a business.

The level of market research depends on what you want to achieve. You might want to make some extra money and maybe earn just five hundred extra dollars a month or you might want to move into a market and build a 50-thousand dollar a month business. Your goals are very important because it will determine what kind of time and money you’re going to spend starting or growing your business, which will in turn influence how long you will spend researching, because of course the more time and money you need to spend, the fewer chances you want to take.

Step 3 – Take action

When doing your own market research online, you may have more information than you’ll know what to do with. That’s a good thing, of course, but at some point you’ll have to stop your research and make your decision about whether to proceed into that market or not. Look at your list of topics and look at your research and decide on with market you want to focus. Make a decision and act.

By Luc Lauryssen

You've created a website. You've joined affiliate programs. The ads are up and running, but the money isn't rolling in.


What now?

If you really want to get your affiliate sales rolling, the next step involves making sure your website is appealing, that it gets traffic and that the content converts visitors into willing and repeat buyers.

While this might sound simple on the surface, it does take a little work. You cannot slap things together and expect to be able to quit a full-time job, thanks to your new online revenue. The fact is you're going to have to work at it a little. The most successful affiliate marketing websites are those owned by people who aren't afraid of using a little ingenuity and resourcefulness to increase their affiliate profits.

Here are some of the best tips out there to help affiliate partners make money with their sites:

Limit affiliate programs. You don't need 100 ads on a single website to make money. Plus, promoting too many programs at once is just not effective and does not pay off. The reality is it is smarter to limit affiliate partners to a select few and tailor a website's content around promoting those products or services directly or indirectly.

Create a name for yourself. If you're using a blog, for example, make sure to register a domain name. Your own name as a domai name is a good way to brand yourself. This can help create identity and make your website a destination rather than a place people stumble on by accident.

Make sure content is relevant and updated. If you want to reap the rewards that online affiliate marketing has to offer, you need to promote your affiliate programs a little. A great way to do this is to write and submit articles to the numerous article databases.

While many article databases don't appreciate direct selling, they do allow for informative articles and information that indirectly promote the products touted on a web site.

When adding unique content to your site for example, articles, eBooks, reports and so on that are relevant to the products advertised are more than okay. The more content the better, too.

A lot of people achieve this by creating content that's informative and compelling that happens to have particular keywords worked into the mix. This can really help boost affiliate advertising returns.

Increase traffic. The only way to get people to visit a website is to promote that site. Super affiliate moneymakers achieve this by submitting their sites to search engines, taking part in social networking site and even by writing articles for other websites. Anything that gets your link out there in a good way can increase traffic and in turn help your affiliate business. Just don't spam people or posting sites to the point of annoyance.

Making the most out of your affiliate programs will take a little time and effort, but those who manage to do it well see some pretty good returns.

By: Mal Keenan

There is big money in finding freelance writing jobs online. Whether you want to write for websites, or for magazines advertising for writers online, or other companies looking for people to write content for them, there is more work out there than you can shake a stick at.

If you can find it.

Knowing where to look is half the battle in finding work. Here are three top tips to help ensure you’re looking in the right places:

1 – Subscribe to as many free writing ezines as you can. If you search for the terms ‘freelance writing’, ‘article writing’, ‘online writing’ and so on, all manner of excellent websites will come up in the results. Many of these offer a regular newsletter, and the best ones have up to date job listings in every issue.

2 – Sites like Constant Content allow you to post numerous articles and blog entries for free. You only pay a percentage to them if an article sells. Write articles on as many different subjects as possible, write pieces tailored towards requests made by people wanting a specific type of content, and vary your prices to see what sells best. There is the potential to sell a lot of work at this site. I know – I’ve done it.

3 – Keep job bank sites that are tailored towards writing bookmarked, and check them every day for relevant jobs. Craigslist, Genuine Jobs and Online Writing Jobs all list writing positions and contracts on a wide variety of subjects. I regularly find a large number of leads at these three sites alone.

The key to successfully finding and selling your writing online lies in persistence, and in knowing where to look. The above leads will send you in the right direction, without any of the hunting around that I had to do in the beginning.

Write new content regularly and post it at Constant Content. Search the job listings on a daily basis. And when you find something you like the look of, apply right then and there. Competition can be fierce, and getting in at the beginning will give you an even better chance of success.

by Allison Whitehead

You've seen them. The websites that tell you they'll make you rich and allow you to tell your boss exactly what you think - as long as you give them some money first, that is!

They can be very tempting. After all, who wouldn't pay $49 if it meant learning how to make thousands a week? Most of them assure you that without their help, you have no chance of becoming a successful affiliate marketer. But is that true? Or is it possible to work out what to do on your own?

It can be argued that yes, it is possible. After all, what do these programs really tell you? That it's a good idea to build a website? How to drive traffic to your website? How to write a good sales pitch? There are some who would say these things are just common sense. Most people now realise you need a website to make money on the internet, and there are websites that tell you how to get traffic and write good copy for free.

So why do so many people keep spending money on affiliate programs?

One good reason is to save time. It is possible to become a successful affiliate marketer without help, but you'll make mistakes along the way. A good affiliate marketing program will tell you what to do and where to do it. The author will already know the most effective ways of generating sales, and they'll pass that information on. The money you spend on an affiliate marketing program could therefore be earned back in the first week, as you save the money you might have spent on ineffective marketing techniques.

A second reason is because setting out to become an affiliate marketer can be quite a daunting task. After all, where do you start? What product do you choose to promote? Is it best to try several products at once? Where do you find said products? The list of things you need to organise is long – a website, link tracking, autoresponders, affiliate links for the products you want to promote. You need to submit your site to search engines, find ways to drive traffic to your site, try to improve your page ranking…an affiliate program can be useful simply because it takes you though how to do these things step by step. For those of us who sometimes struggle with organisation, that alone can be worth paying for!

And finally, you might pay for an affiliate program because you need the information. You might not know much about the internet. You might only have heard the words ‘affiliate marketing' for the first time yesterday. You might not even really know what it is. If that's the case, an affiliate marketing program could be the best thing you ever buy. Many are aimed at people who have no idea what affiliate marketing is or how to get started. They simplify everything, making it simple to get started making money through the internet. You could find out all this information on your own, as it is out there – but how long would it take you? And what marketing tricks would you miss?

Of course, none of these reasons might apply to you. You might know what affiliate marketing is and have a good idea to get started. You might already know where to find the tools you need and how to use them. You might not mind the idea of making mistakes while you learn – or feel so confident that you think you won't make any!

If that's the case, then why should you buy an affiliate marketing program? It won't tell you anything you can't learn yourself through trial and error. But it's perhaps the second of those two words that is the most important – ‘error'.

You might not mind wasting time and money on mistakes. You might not mind losing sales through inexperience. It can be a good way to learn – and once you have made a costly error, it's not likely that you'll make it again. But most people want to become successful as smoothly as possible, without the set-backs a lack of know-how can cause.

Affiliate programs don't eliminate mistakes. They will not protect you from errors. But they do make the chances of you committing one unknowingly less likely – and for that, I say they are worth the money.

Author: Anita Buchan

You probably hear it all the time. Make $25,000 in your first month. This is the best opportunity in the planet! We are in pre-launch and we made an EASY $50,000 this month alone!

Although it is sometimes true that real people are making an insane amount of money with their internet business opportunity, do not join just ANY program. Before you commit yourself - see if they fit ALL six of these attributes of a good and profitable business opportunity.

Attribute #1 - Real Products That Are Of High Value.

The best business opportunity needs to market real products that offer the end-user exceptional value so that it can create a profitable and long term business. Think about it, it is just common sense for ANY business opportunity to have good products for it to survive in such a competitive market.

But if you ever come across a business opportunity in which it does not have any products to sell you better run be VERY careful. A business opportunity without a product is an illegal pyramid scheme in which you can make a quick buck here and there - but at the expense of your reputation.

Attribute #2 - Steady Cash Flow

The best business opportunity pays you immediately on all your sales so you keep a steady and growing cash flow. Seeing money flow into your bank account quickly also gives you major motivation to promote your business more heavily and thus making you more money.

Attribute #3 - Effective Advertising Sources

The best business opportunity gives you multiple ways to advertise effectively and at the same time gives you a big return on investment. The owners or someone who brings you in a business opportunity should reveal some of these sources for you so that you can get started making money fast.

Attribute #4 – The Right Marketing Tools

The best business opportunity automates your marketing process by providing you with the right marketing tools so that you can increase your daily sales. Some people confuse marketing with advertising.

Let me clarify - marketing is a system of sending out advertisements. The advertisements get the prospects interested in what you are selling.

Attribute #5 - Leverage

Nobody wants to work and sit at their computers all day to make a six figure income. That is why the best business opportunity has a system that allows you to leverage yourself.

This in turn gives you an instant sales team for you that create more income for yourself. Ideally, this system should be so solid that your sales team never slows down in making money for you. One such example that has worked very well for many people is the Australian 2-up plan.

Attribute #6 - Training And Support Most people coming into business opportunities are new and inexperienced. The best business opportunity should have some sort of training and support from real EXPERTS who are already successful and making the kind of money you desire.

These expert mentors should be making a six-figure incomes and have the proof to back it up. Most importantly these mentors should be willing to help you every step of the way and spoon feed you the process whenever you are lost and need help.

I believe ANY average Joe can make a six-figure income with the right business opportunity. If you know what to market and have the right tools to market it (like the six attributes above) – you will greatly increase your chances of creating a solid six figure income.

Author: Alan Quan