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PROSPER ONLINE TIPS
Bryan Thorby
webmaster@home-business-and-marketing.com
http://www.home-business-and-marketing.com
Date: June 6, 2007
Welcome to This Edition
In This Issue:
Thoughts of the Day
Article 1: Beware of Affiliate Spamming!
Article 2: Choosing a Popular and Profitable Theme For Your Blog
Article 3: Is Starting a Membership Site for You?
Resources
Disclaimer & Privacy Statement
I trust all is well at your place.
To prosper online is not necessarily going to be easy, and there
is certainly no proven way to get rich quick, but your
opportunities to have your own home based business on the
internet are virtually limitless. Whether you are looking to
make a go of it online as an individual, or if you're looking
to expand the prospects of your existing business, the internet
offers you the chance to do just about whatever it is you wish.
The chances for making money online will depend on many factors,
but the most important of those factors is you. Knowing what you
want to do, how you want to do it, and what obstacles you will
face are important. Drive, determination, and an attitude of
success will serve you well online. While the innovations of
the internet provide new paths to success, the values that
achieve success are still the same.
To Your Online Success,
Bryan
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"All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So
how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to
associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in
your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past,
but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only
bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous
pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief."
-- Anthony Robbins.
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Beware of Affiliate Spamming!
The modern variation of the practice of paying finder's-fees
for the introduction of new clients to a business is a popular
method of promoting Internet businesses called affiliate
marketing. An affiliate marketer is paid for every visitor,
subscriber, or customer provided to an Internet business because
of his efforts. The affiliate marketer earns compensation based
on a certain value for each visit (Pay per click),
registrant (Pay per lead), or a commission for each customer or
sale (Pay per Sale), or any combination.
You can see where an affiliate marketer would be sorely tempted
to send out email advertising the products he makes money on
for promoting. This resulted in so much SPAM being generated
that anti-spam laws were enacted. Spammers are severely fined
and the newest twist in the anti-spam laws are that the
merchants whose affiliates spam are being held responsible for
the spamming as well. So caution is well advised to merchants.
Merchants who are considering adding an affiliate strategy to
their online sales channel should research the different
technological solutions available to them. As affiliate marketing
has matured many affiliate merchants have refined their terms and
conditions to prohibit affiliates from spamming. Some types of
affiliate management solutions include: standalone software,
hosted services, shopping carts with affiliate features, and
third party affiliate networks.
Spamdexing or search engine spamming is the practice of
deliberately creating web pages which will be indexed by search
engines in order to increase the chance of a website or page
being placed close to the beginning of search engine results,
or to influence the category to which the page is assigned.
Right now there is a lot of debate about the affiliate practice
of Spamdexing and many affiliates have converted from sending
email spam to creating large volumes of automatically
generated web pages each devoted to different niche keywords
as a way of search engine optimizing their sites. This is
sometimes referred to as spamming the search engine results.
Spam is the biggest threat to organic Search Engines whose
goal is to provide quality search results for keywords or
phrases entered by their users.
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Choosing a Popular and Profitable Theme For Your Blog
Choosing a popular and profitable theme for your blog will
determine whether or not you are able to stay in business for
an extended period of time. While narrowing down the theme from
a list of themes can be a fairly scientific process, choosing
the themes on that list to begin with is considerably more
experential.
If you're planning to market your own products, you may want
to start by finding a need, rather than looking at data.
For instance, do you know of a pressing need that many people
have? Could you provide some sort of substantive solution to
that need? If so, would a blog be the appropriate means though
which to provide that solution? Something might come to mind
immediately, but if it doesn't, you can proceed with
data-analysis as a means of choosing a popular and profitable
theme for your blog.
You can start by using a program like WordTracker to begin
choosing a popular and profitable theme. WordTracker will
allow you to view a list of the 100 or 1000 most searched
topics on the Internet.
You can then break this list down into smaller pieces. For
instance, if number 10 on the list is “cars” and you have
some sort of an interest in cars, you can then take the
keyphrase “cars” and search for it on Wordtracker using
overture pay-per-click results and demand/supply analysis
called “KEI.”
This will tell you two things: it will tell you approximately
how hard it is to penetrate your niche; and it will tell you
roughly how much money people are making in your niche. For
instance, if pay-per-click amounts are high and have a lot
of bid competition, that means that people are making a lot
of money in your niche, which is why they are purchasing
advertising for large sums of money per click. It also means
that you can potentially make a lot of money for serving
ads for these advertisers via Adsense and YPN.
And there you have it: through data-analysis and need-analysis,
you can begin the process of choosing a popular and profitable
theme for your blog. If the topic you select is popular, has a
good KEI rating, and has a high PPC rating, you know you have
a winner.
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Is Starting a Membership Site for You?
The Internet is the ultimate 'equal opportunity employer'.
Anybody can start a membership business on the Internet. All
that is needed is a subject, a website and the tools to build
the site. You can start a membership website business but the
question is should you?
Many people that decide to start a home based membership website
business are destined to fail because their motivation and
expectations are completely unrealistic. Before you attempt to
start a membership website business you need to do a reality
check.
First, if you really think that you can build a couple of web
pages, invest little or no money, time or effort and start
making an income tomorrow, you are so wrong. Building a
business…any business…takes time. It also takes a monetary
investment, a lot of effort and energy, and, above all else,
patience, passion for the theme of the website, and a drive
for success.
Almost equally important is the need to have realistic economic
expectations when undertaking a home based membership website
business. A home membership website internet business provides
many rewards such as working in the comfort of your own home,
avoiding a stressful commute, being your own boss, setting your
own hours, no dress code, etc., etc., but anyone that is also
expecting instant riches is sadly mistaken.
Study the opportunities of a membership website business
carefully. If you have the personal traits required to succeed
then select the theme that seems to fit your own particular
interests or talents. What is a good choice for one person may
be a very poor fit for someone else. The common thread that
applies to everyone is that you must passionately believe in
what you are doing and anything less than total commitment
isn’t enough.
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