When first creating an online empire it's easy to focus on the wrong things.
And guess what? Ironically, focussing on making money is the WRONG thing to do. Your focus should be on providing useful content. After a while the money will follow.
As you may be aware I create blogs that are focussed on particular hot selling internet products. I would not suggest this approach as a way to become wealthy either. I do it purely as an extra service to my readers so they get a glimpse of what is inside these products. They may even decide to promote the products themselves.
When blogging it is important to be clear on what you're trying to achieve.
Read this latest post by Kenneth Koh to see what I'm talking about.
Have a great day.
Sharon
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
How To Advertise an Online Store
Making money with an online store is not easy. You are competing with others who have exactly the same store. The only only people making money from your online store are the people who sold you the store.
Having said that I have a couple of online stores.
One I expect I'll do quite well with because I intend to customize the heck out of it and make it purely my own. I've already done a lot of work on it and intend to do more. You can see what I've done so far by clicking here. As you can see there's a lot of rubbish in there that I can't imagine anyone would download even though it's free! On the other hand I am adding my own ebooks that can't easily be gotten anywhere else. They will be my point of difference.
I also have another store which has all the clickbank products. Click here to have a look. Even though I love many of the clickbank products and the fact they all offer a 60 day money back guarantee I seriously doubt that anyone is going to browse the store looking for something to buy. I bought it for it's contextual advertising that looks like google ads, but for which I'll earn a commission if the product is purchased.
Unfortunately, people have paid money for a similar store expecting to make a lot of money but I think they will end up very disappointed.
Click here for some great advice on how to get some exposure for your online store.
Having said that I have a couple of online stores.
One I expect I'll do quite well with because I intend to customize the heck out of it and make it purely my own. I've already done a lot of work on it and intend to do more. You can see what I've done so far by clicking here. As you can see there's a lot of rubbish in there that I can't imagine anyone would download even though it's free! On the other hand I am adding my own ebooks that can't easily be gotten anywhere else. They will be my point of difference.
I also have another store which has all the clickbank products. Click here to have a look. Even though I love many of the clickbank products and the fact they all offer a 60 day money back guarantee I seriously doubt that anyone is going to browse the store looking for something to buy. I bought it for it's contextual advertising that looks like google ads, but for which I'll earn a commission if the product is purchased.
Unfortunately, people have paid money for a similar store expecting to make a lot of money but I think they will end up very disappointed.
Click here for some great advice on how to get some exposure for your online store.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Top 18 Reasons Digital Photography Makes a Great Home Career
It's been a while since I've posted to this blog because I've been busy with renovations etc. I thought this may be an interesting article to begin posting with given it's an easy way for people to make additional income.
With jobs becoming increasingly hard to find and difficult to keep, many are looking for ways to earn money from home. Digital photography is an excellent way to work for yourself and make extra - or even a full-time - income at home.
If you're interested, download this free report called "Make Money with Digital Photography."
If you're still undecided, this might change your mind. Here are 18 reasons why digital photography makes a great home career:
1. Minimum equipment required
To make money with digital photography, all you need are: a digital camera, a computer, and Internet access. In fact, you may already have all three.
2. No need for special training
Anybody who can take decent pictures can make money by selling digital photos. You don't have to have formal training, or so many years of experience. You can be young or old, male or female.
3. Low start-up costs
Aside from the equipment required, you don't need to make any other investments. This means you can get started immediately.
4. No need to leave home
If you like, you can do sell digital photographs completely from home. Yes, that includes taking photographs.
5. Money in your hard drive
You may already have pictures in your computer that you can sell right away. In fact, you should begin with those.
6. Make money when traveling
If you like to travel, you can make your trip pay for itself by taking pictures on your trip and selling them online.
7. Location independent business
You can have sell your digital photographs from anywhere, as long as you have your equipment (see number 1). This means you could be a nomad and still make a living.
8. Flexible hours
Work when you want, as much as you want. Do it full time or part time. It's up to you!
9. No need to build websites
Although you'll be selling digital photographs online, you absolutely don't have to build a website - unlike other online marketers.
10. Stock photo sites do the marketing for you
You don't have to do any marketing, either, because stock photo sites do it all for you. All you have to do is take high-quality photographs. (More on that in "Make Money with Digital Photography."
11. No fees to sell online
You don't have to pay any fees to sell in stock photo sites. It's completely free to become a member and start selling your photos.
12. No need to set up a shopping cart
Again, stock photo sites take care of processing payments for your photographs. You will have to be able to accept payments from stock photo sites. A PayPal account should be enough.
13. Enhanced creativity
This business forces you to become more creative, such as in the way you choose the subjects of your pictures, to how you edit them.
14. Sharper photography skills
You have to improve your photography skills if you want to succeed in this business. The longer you keep at it, the better you'll become.
15. Build your portfolio and expertise
Selling digital photos online helps build your reputation as a photographer. You can easily build a portfolio based on your best-selling pictures.
16. Profit from passion
You can easily combine this home business with a hobby or special interest you have. Because of the wide range of subjects that are in high demand, you don't have to take pictures that you don't care about.
17. Steady demand
As more and more stock photos are sold and bought, the demand for fresh photos increases. Marketers always want unique pictures for their materials, which further increases the demand for more digital photos.
18. It's profitable
Because of low overhead costs, it's easy to earn a full-time income from selling digital photography. University students are doing it, stay at home Moms are doing it, and you can do it too.
However, you have to know some insider secrets. Which types of photographs sell easily online? How do you avoid legal problems? How do you work with stock photo sites? How can you sell more photos?
You'll find the answers in "Make Money with Digital Photography." It's completely free, so go and grab it now.
With jobs becoming increasingly hard to find and difficult to keep, many are looking for ways to earn money from home. Digital photography is an excellent way to work for yourself and make extra - or even a full-time - income at home.
If you're interested, download this free report called "Make Money with Digital Photography."
If you're still undecided, this might change your mind. Here are 18 reasons why digital photography makes a great home career:
1. Minimum equipment required
To make money with digital photography, all you need are: a digital camera, a computer, and Internet access. In fact, you may already have all three.
2. No need for special training
Anybody who can take decent pictures can make money by selling digital photos. You don't have to have formal training, or so many years of experience. You can be young or old, male or female.
3. Low start-up costs
Aside from the equipment required, you don't need to make any other investments. This means you can get started immediately.
4. No need to leave home
If you like, you can do sell digital photographs completely from home. Yes, that includes taking photographs.
5. Money in your hard drive
You may already have pictures in your computer that you can sell right away. In fact, you should begin with those.
6. Make money when traveling
If you like to travel, you can make your trip pay for itself by taking pictures on your trip and selling them online.
7. Location independent business
You can have sell your digital photographs from anywhere, as long as you have your equipment (see number 1). This means you could be a nomad and still make a living.
8. Flexible hours
Work when you want, as much as you want. Do it full time or part time. It's up to you!
9. No need to build websites
Although you'll be selling digital photographs online, you absolutely don't have to build a website - unlike other online marketers.
10. Stock photo sites do the marketing for you
You don't have to do any marketing, either, because stock photo sites do it all for you. All you have to do is take high-quality photographs. (More on that in "Make Money with Digital Photography."
11. No fees to sell online
You don't have to pay any fees to sell in stock photo sites. It's completely free to become a member and start selling your photos.
12. No need to set up a shopping cart
Again, stock photo sites take care of processing payments for your photographs. You will have to be able to accept payments from stock photo sites. A PayPal account should be enough.
13. Enhanced creativity
This business forces you to become more creative, such as in the way you choose the subjects of your pictures, to how you edit them.
14. Sharper photography skills
You have to improve your photography skills if you want to succeed in this business. The longer you keep at it, the better you'll become.
15. Build your portfolio and expertise
Selling digital photos online helps build your reputation as a photographer. You can easily build a portfolio based on your best-selling pictures.
16. Profit from passion
You can easily combine this home business with a hobby or special interest you have. Because of the wide range of subjects that are in high demand, you don't have to take pictures that you don't care about.
17. Steady demand
As more and more stock photos are sold and bought, the demand for fresh photos increases. Marketers always want unique pictures for their materials, which further increases the demand for more digital photos.
18. It's profitable
Because of low overhead costs, it's easy to earn a full-time income from selling digital photography. University students are doing it, stay at home Moms are doing it, and you can do it too.
However, you have to know some insider secrets. Which types of photographs sell easily online? How do you avoid legal problems? How do you work with stock photo sites? How can you sell more photos?
You'll find the answers in "Make Money with Digital Photography." It's completely free, so go and grab it now.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
What I Learned From Secret Affiliate Weapon 2
For under $10 Secret Affiliate Weapon 2 is a must have for anyone who wants to succeed at affiliate marketing but is not successful yet. There is a 100% money back guarantee if you're not satisfied.
- affirmations work! (not that I didn't already know this. LOL. If you know me you know I love affirmations)
- how you should be promoting your affiliate links. Linking directly to the sales page is NOT the way to do it.
- wear the colour red for the next 30 days.
- there are opportunities to make money in network marketing online and how to go about it.
- "How can I make money?" is the wrong question to ask yourself if you want to be successful.
- one of the easiest ways to make money is to help other people make money.
Secret Affiliate Weapon is awesome! Click here to read all about it. If you actually purchase it you'll find out what I've done here to promote Secret Affiliate Weapon that is wrong! (only because I haven't got the time right now....)
- affirmations work! (not that I didn't already know this. LOL. If you know me you know I love affirmations)
- how you should be promoting your affiliate links. Linking directly to the sales page is NOT the way to do it.
- wear the colour red for the next 30 days.
- there are opportunities to make money in network marketing online and how to go about it.
- "How can I make money?" is the wrong question to ask yourself if you want to be successful.
- one of the easiest ways to make money is to help other people make money.
Secret Affiliate Weapon is awesome! Click here to read all about it. If you actually purchase it you'll find out what I've done here to promote Secret Affiliate Weapon that is wrong! (only because I haven't got the time right now....)
Friday, August 21, 2009
Can Self Help Be Dangerous?
Apparently so according to a segment on Sunrise this morning. However the self help they were referring to were 2-3 day seminars where participants were sleep deprived and forced to reveal deeply personal experiences in front of a huge audience.
I don't see that you need to be psychological expert (which I'm not) to see that this type of "self help" could be dangerous. After all sleep deprivation has been used as a form of torture long before it became a tool used by self help gurus.
Many years ago I particpated in one of these seminars called The Forum. I don't recall much about it, but I do remember being hassled by "volunteers" to become a volunteer myself. Apparently The Forum was the only true path to self fulfillment and enlightenment... And it could be all yours if you worked ridiculously long hours for zero recompense. Not that there's anything wrong with volunteering your time but I think you're better off volunteering your time to help people who, for whatever reason, can't help themselves. The Forum leaders definitely were not in that category!
One thing I do remember learning is that we shouldn't let fear stop us doing what we want to do. I wanted to go parachuting but was too scared.... So I went parachuting. Now that I'm much older and wiser (well defintely older) I'm starting to think I may have misinterpreted the real significance of moving beyond fear....
So, was this self help seminar a waste of time for me? I don't think so. At least it got me to go parachuting!
Hmmm, self help can indeed be dangerous!
I don't see that you need to be psychological expert (which I'm not) to see that this type of "self help" could be dangerous. After all sleep deprivation has been used as a form of torture long before it became a tool used by self help gurus.
Many years ago I particpated in one of these seminars called The Forum. I don't recall much about it, but I do remember being hassled by "volunteers" to become a volunteer myself. Apparently The Forum was the only true path to self fulfillment and enlightenment... And it could be all yours if you worked ridiculously long hours for zero recompense. Not that there's anything wrong with volunteering your time but I think you're better off volunteering your time to help people who, for whatever reason, can't help themselves. The Forum leaders definitely were not in that category!
One thing I do remember learning is that we shouldn't let fear stop us doing what we want to do. I wanted to go parachuting but was too scared.... So I went parachuting. Now that I'm much older and wiser (well defintely older) I'm starting to think I may have misinterpreted the real significance of moving beyond fear....
So, was this self help seminar a waste of time for me? I don't think so. At least it got me to go parachuting!
Hmmm, self help can indeed be dangerous!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Overhaul of Weight Loss Industry In Australia
I heard on the news this morning that weight loss programs will have to give details of how successful participants are in keeping off the weight two years after their initial participation.
Sounds good to me! Afterall, judging by all the testimonials you read on weight loss websites there are a lot of programs that work well in the short term.
However, long term success eludes many of us. Kilos that we worked so hard to lose simply creep back on and before we know it we are in a battle that we have very little chance of winning.
To add insult to injury this battle of continually losing and putting on weight is more dangerous to our health than being overweight in the first place. (so I remember reading somewhere)
For any chance of success in maintaining weight loss, weight loss programs must include working on your mind as well as your body!
Click here to join my new free membership Web Weight Warriors!
Sounds good to me! Afterall, judging by all the testimonials you read on weight loss websites there are a lot of programs that work well in the short term.
However, long term success eludes many of us. Kilos that we worked so hard to lose simply creep back on and before we know it we are in a battle that we have very little chance of winning.
To add insult to injury this battle of continually losing and putting on weight is more dangerous to our health than being overweight in the first place. (so I remember reading somewhere)
For any chance of success in maintaining weight loss, weight loss programs must include working on your mind as well as your body!
Click here to join my new free membership Web Weight Warriors!
Friday, August 14, 2009
Nomophobia? Just stress and anxiety in my humble opinion.
Who has ever heard of nomophobia (the fear of being deprived of a mobile phone ie no mobile phone phobia)? I hadn't until I was listening to the radio while picking the kids up from school last night
And I must say I'm not surprised that such a phobia exists. Most of us are used to being able to contact our loved ones 24/7 no matter where they are or what they are doing.
If they fail to answer our call it's easy to get ourselves worked up into a frenzy of stress and anxiety wondering if an ambo will have the decency to search their contact lists for "mum" while resucsitating our precious offspring at the site of the worst accident in living memory.
Then total relief... They phone - they are OK (which is good because now you can kill them yourself). They didn't answer because they knew it was you and couldn't be bothered talking.
Oh, but they'll talk now. They've spent their bus money and need you to pick them up..... But not before you start explaining (loudly), in gruesome detail, the nightmare they put you through. Don't they understand how much you love them for heavens sake?
You begin to weigh up the pros and cons of grounding them. You decide against it as it's usually more of a punishment for you than them! Unfortunately, the scene is set for similar altercations in the future.
Whatever happened to the days when kids just went off for the day and came home only when they were hungry or it got dark? But don't let me start on that just yet! That's another issue.
The point is that mobile phones are another convenient way for stress and anxiety to manifest themselves. And they will manifest in some way or another unless you learn to tame them.
Click here for articles on dealing with stress.
And I must say I'm not surprised that such a phobia exists. Most of us are used to being able to contact our loved ones 24/7 no matter where they are or what they are doing.
If they fail to answer our call it's easy to get ourselves worked up into a frenzy of stress and anxiety wondering if an ambo will have the decency to search their contact lists for "mum" while resucsitating our precious offspring at the site of the worst accident in living memory.
Then total relief... They phone - they are OK (which is good because now you can kill them yourself). They didn't answer because they knew it was you and couldn't be bothered talking.
Oh, but they'll talk now. They've spent their bus money and need you to pick them up..... But not before you start explaining (loudly), in gruesome detail, the nightmare they put you through. Don't they understand how much you love them for heavens sake?
You begin to weigh up the pros and cons of grounding them. You decide against it as it's usually more of a punishment for you than them! Unfortunately, the scene is set for similar altercations in the future.
Whatever happened to the days when kids just went off for the day and came home only when they were hungry or it got dark? But don't let me start on that just yet! That's another issue.
The point is that mobile phones are another convenient way for stress and anxiety to manifest themselves. And they will manifest in some way or another unless you learn to tame them.
Click here for articles on dealing with stress.
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