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I could have sent you a fruitcake this Holiday season to thank you for being a loyal subscriber and reader, but I think you'd appreciate something with more enduring value. So instead I'm giving you the gift that keeps giving – your own money generating system. homebusinessideas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/happy-new-year.jpg" alt="Happy New Year"> As you (hopefully) have already discovered, making money online isn't difficult, but it does take some knowledge and the ability to put that knowledge to work. I'm going to outline a rather simple and straightforward system that I believe anyone can use to make income. It can be scaled up as large as you like, depending on how much time you want to put into it and what you want out of it. And it's easy enough for even new marketers to do. Mind you, this is not my invention, but rather a system that has been working for many marketers for years. It's not a shiny new bauble – instead, it's a prov...

There's a common theory that you've got to warm up your list for a few days, or even a few weeks before you try to sell them anything. But if someone came to your website looking for answers and opted into your list – then they are a hot prospect right NOW. That's why you should go ahead and make them an offer within the first 7 days. In fact, make them 2 or 3 offers. Yes, you still need to provide some great content, whether it's telling captivating stories or giving them hot tips. But at the end of each email be sure to make them an offer they can't refuse. You may be surprised how many of your prospects become customers in that first week. And as you know, once they buy from you they are far more likely to buy again and again, as long as you continue to make them happy. But we're not done yet. In addition to making them offers via email in the first week, you also want to make them an offer IMMEDIATELY. Let's say they sign up to get your free report on 10...

No matter how hard you try to prevent it, sooner or later you'll have prospects land on your 404 error page. When they do, they have a choice – try to find what they were looking for or give up. Care to guess what happens more often? They leave in frustration. So instead of the usual “Whoops! We're sorry but what you're looking for has moved” page, consider customizing your error pages to get these people to do something. For example, you could give them an option to opt into your list with an offer that is different than your landing page. This can be highly effective. For example... “Congrats! You just found our secret page where we give away ___. Just tell us where to send it and it's yours.” Or you might make them an offer they can't refuse, such as a great deal on one of your most popular products, or a combination offer for a super low price. Like this... “Oops! You just landed on our error page, but we're going to make it up to you. Here's $xx....

Popular thought says there's something about turning 40 that makes one think, “Holy ^%!*, I could actually get old one day.” Then 50 starts approaching at warp light speed, and some start to think whole new thoughts, like, “Where did I put my keys?” And, “What did I come into this room for?” And “What was I going to write in my blog post? Wait, what's my password? Never mind the password, what's my domain again?” If you can't relate yet, good for you, and I hope you never do! In fact, this article is meant to inspire you to avoid such mental collapse. No matter what your age, you can benefit from a better brain. And I don't mean trading your brain in for a new one, although that could be awesome. I mean growing your own brain so that it functions better, makes new connections and thinks up creative new ideas constantly. Just like there's weight training and cardio for the body, certainly there must be ways to improve how your brain functio...

I get a lot of questions about how to build a business online. Here's some of the top questions and answers to help you get your own online business started and profitable. Q. I keep hearing that I've got to get people to know me, like me and trust me before they'll buy from me, but how do I do that? A. You've got two choices, and I recommend you do both. First, position yourself as an expert in your field. If you're not an expert, surround yourself with experts by interviewing them, letting them guest post to your blog and working with them. Second, be generous. Give away great content that instills confidence in your abilities and expertise that builds your reputation. Offer free tele-classes or podcasts, guest post on popular blogs with info-packed posts, and author a book or report. The better your free content is, the more people will trust you and your content. As an added bonus they'll also be more likely to share your content with others, thereby helpi...

You already know that a buyer is generally worth ten times more than a prospect who signs up for a free product. Here's the best way to continually build a list of buyers without having to buy solo ads or place advertising. Create a simple product that solves one pressing problem in your niche. This might be a video, audio or ebook - it doesn't really matter. What does matter is that it delivers on exactly what it promises. Create a simple sales page for the product and price it in the $7 to $12 range, depending on prices in your market. This should be an impulse buy for customers, not something they have to think long and hard about. Use a program such as Rapid Action Profits or JVZoo to manage affiliates and pay 100% commissions. That's right, you're going to pay 100% instant commissions to affiliates because you want to give them maximum incentive to send you traffic. Right now you're looking to build a list of buyers, and by offering 100% commissions your affili...

Oddly enough I see this question pop up every so often in popular online marketing forums. Sometimes I even see people get pretty upset about the answers they get, demanding proof that a person is making money writing articles. So I thought maybe it's time to add my own two cents. Yes, article marketing is all but dead if you're referring to posting junk articles on article directories and expecting people to knock down your virtual door. Thanks to the changes in Google over the years, those days are over and done. Even posting an outstanding article on a site like Ezine Articles likely won't garner you more than a few website visits a week at most – probably not enough to make it worth your while. Because if you're writing quality content that people really want to read, there are far better places you can place your own articles. For instance, you can place them on your own website . These days Google is rewarding sites full of quality information with better rankings...

A hot online business model is to build a membership site and sell those memberships for $27 to $97 a month or more. It sounds like a great idea – theoretically just 100 members paying you $97 a month will gross $9,700 per month and $116,400 per year. But it's not as easy as it used to be to get someone to sign up for a hefty monthly payment. And if you do, a majority of members tend to cancel after 1-4 months. So why do they cancel? Because in their minds you are not delivering enough value for the money. They see that their finances are tight and they look for ways to save some money. “I'll cancel that monthly membership because I wasn't really using it anyway.” The only way to prevent this from happening is to be indispensable to their business or their lives. If, for example, your membership gives them the software or the content that enables them to run their business, they're not going to cancel. Same way if you provide them with something they can immediately tu...

Don't be alarmed, but right now I want to shake you by the shoulders and slap you silly... Because I suspect you're fast asleep at the wheel of life. Well I have news for you, and I'm sure you've heard it before but maybe, just maybe this is the time when you finally sit up and take notice and start making some real changes in your life, because... Life Is Too @#$Z&% Short! Remember when you were a child and you believed life just goes on and on and on? And now here it is, barely a few minutes later (or so it seems) and you discover that a major chunk of your life is now forever gone. What the heck happened to it??? Did you blow it like someone blowing money on the horses? Or did you make the most of every moment? There are millions of people who struggle just to make it through the day. They're in jobs they hate, lives they don't like doing things that hold no interest for them. And yet the clock ticks for them as it does for the rare person who is complete...

Let's face it – it's getting a little harder these days to do offline marketing. There's more competition than ever before as more and more marketers break into the field. There are also more potential services to sell, which just tends to confuse the heck out of both the business owners and the new offline marketers. And as more and more marketers are offering more services to business owners, the owners are often saying “no” before they even know what they're turning down. But it's still true that offline marketing can be hugely lucrative for anyone who makes a serious attempt at it, especially if they find a way to stand apart from the crowd. Imagine the edge you could enjoy over every other offline marketer if you offered business owners just one thing – the thing they want the most – more customers. Very few marketers are doing this, yet it's probably the easiest service of all to sell to a business owner. You could practically pick and choose which cl...

If you've ever read Napoleon Hill's “Think and Grow Rich,” you know that he repeatedly alludes to “the secret” without ever stating exactly what the secret is. A quick aside here – I wonder if his book would still be popular to this day if he had simply STATED the secret, rather than leaving it a bit of a mystery? I don't think so. Some have said the secret is to, “Conceive it, believe it and then achieve it.” That is, you need to decide what you want, believe with all your heart that you can and WILL achieve it, and then take the action necessary to make it happen. Others have said the secret lies in Chapter 2, where even Napoleon's own son said he was able to identify the secret. That chapter is about “Desire: The Starting Point Of All Achievement.” Chapter 2 reads, “The method by which desire for riches can be transmuted into its financial equivalent consists of six definite, practical steps..." “First. Be definite as ...

Hopefully you are the exception to these mistakes. If you're not, take heart: 9 out of 10 online marketers make these very same mistakes. Here's how to rise above your competition and increase your bottom line simply by NOT making these 5 mistakes... Spamming on social media . You opened your Twitter account with the best of intentions to Tweet valuable content and answer questions, but now nearly every tweet you send out is a link promoting a product. If this is you, then it's time for a change. Promotion is fine as long as it makes up only 20-30% of your tweets at MOST. The rest should be content rich and helpful to your followers. And this goes for every social media network, not just Twitter. Not testing . You create a new squeeze page but you don't test one headline against another. Result? Every day that goes by, you are losing money. Test everything and eventually the exact same effort will yield 1.5, 2 or even 3 times the results. Not asking for the sale . Whet...

“Find out what people want and sell it to them” is advice you'll hear time and time again. Why? Because it generally works. After all, if someone wants breakfast cereal made out of toads and frogs and you're the only one selling it, you can command your own price. But what if there is massive competition in the toad and frog cereal niche? Then you've got to differentiate yourself. You've got to find a way to stand apart and above the others selling a very similar product. Or you can go a different route, the way companies like Apple roll, and that's to find out what people WILL want. You see, all of the greatest products were at one time non-existent. No one knew you could ride in cars and so they used horses and maybe buggies. Then along comes the car – something no one had seen before, and people quickly realized they wanted it. Decades later consumers didn't know they wanted computers and the Internet. Nor did they know they wanted cell phones and then super ...

Have you tried offline marketing yet? If not, why not? Odds are you're hesitant to offer offline services because you're afraid of sounding less than super intelligent when talking to business owners. Maybe approaching them makes you nervous. Maybe you just don't feel like enough of an expert. Whatever the reason, take heart. Business owners are just people who need help, and you are there to do exactly that – help them. Treat them like they are your new friend and you can not only eventually turn them into clients, you can also keep them as clients for years and years to come. Perform a service for them, no matter how small. Even if you only charge $100, that token amount is your foot in the door and a slam in the face to all other offline marketers. Now when someone approaches that business person about marketing, they will say, “No, I already have a guy/gal for that.” And once you earn their trust with that first small job, you can get bigger and bigger jobs from th...

Tony Robbins is fond of saying that “Success leaves clues,” and he's right. Let's look at how to use this to your advantage so that you can reverse engineer your way to success. Say your goal is to make $10,000 a month with your online business, since that's a very popular goal among Internet marketers. How do you want to make that income? Perhaps you want to create and sell products in a particular niche, or list build, or do CPA, or build a membership site. Your first step is to decide what it is that you want to do and what niche you want to do it in. I suggest running some numbers as well. For example, if you're creating products then you need to sell 100+ $97 products a month to reach $10,000 a month. Or sell twice that many if you're using affiliates and paying 50% commissions. If you've got your niche selected but you don't know what to do next, then your first step is to find every big marketer in that niche and get on their lists. See what they'...

Every niche has its share of movers and shakers, including yours. So how do you get those big personalities to share your amazing content with their readers? <img src=" homebusinessideas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/influencer.jpg " alt="Getting Influencers to Share Your Content"> First, you should have built a foundation of quality content. Have at least a half dozen posts on your blog, and make sure that each one of them is either chock full of well-written targeted content, or entertaining or both. No one with a reputation is going to send traffic to your site if they can't vouch that it's worth their audience's time. Now then – make a list of the interesting personalities, experts and big movers in your niche for a blog post you're going to write. Include background information on them, accomplishments and why they're important. If you like, rank them according to any criteria you choose – influence, charm, good looks – it's your ...

If you're in the IM niche, you probably get the same emails I do asking: “I need to make money YESTERDAY, what do you recommend?” Or maybe you need some extra money for a project you're working on right now, or you've got an unexpected bill. Here's a method I sometimes suggest for earning a quick $500 or $1,000, and what people seem to like about it is how simple and straightforward it is. Ask yourself what skills and knowledge you possess right now. Maybe you can write really well, or you're good at building WordPress sites. Maybe you're a graphic artist, or a photographer or videographer. Maybe you've got great people skills and you can act as an affiliate manager or set up joint ventures. Perhaps you can coach people on how to do something specific, or teach them how to find the perfect virtual assistant. I guarantee you have at least one skill or piece of knowledge that others are willing to pay for. “But I don't have a skill!” Really? Then you need ...