Work at Home Based Business

Archive for September, 2009

I’m amazed at how many people think it’s not possible to make money online legitimately. I, and all the other authors on this blog, are living proof that it is indeed possible to work at home or make a living online. With the common knowledge that most internet marketers put out there nowadays, it’s no wonder most people think that it’s impossible to make money online! Most of the “guru”  tips are horrible and lead us nowhere fast.

Here at the Work at Home Based Business Blog, that isn’t the case. You have a team of full-time internet marketers who know the ropes of the make money online game – and know it well! We are here to tell you that if you know the right strategy and have the tenacity to implement this strategy, you will succeed at working from home (or anywhere for that matter!)

So what are those strategies? I advise you to pay close attention to what we do just as much as you do to what we say. Let our actions guide you. Making money on the internet is not hard, but it’s also not simple. You must be consistent and do a little each day toward your goals. Some background to basic strategies in an online money making guide will be of help to you. Rather than Googling terms related to making money online all day and getting your head spinning from information overload, an “organized, no nonsense” guide with all you need to know to get started is now available. It is all you need to start making money online.  You really can make money at home – it’s all up to you!

To your success,

Janet Smith

When it comes to networking on Twitter, what turns you off?

Besides the obvious spam, for me it’s the constant self-promotion. The second turn off is a person can offer the best tips, the best resources and the best information, but it’s all useless to me if they don’t engage with me.

Twitter is a popular social networking site that can be so powerful and so beneficial when it’s done the right way.

Here’s what you should do:

1. Use your real name, real photo of you, fill out your bio and add a website link if you have one.

2. It’s polite to acknowledge your followers. Send a brief direct message. No spam links.

3. It’s not a number’s game; follow people who interest you.

4. Share your knowledge, thoughts, opinions. Ask questions to open doors for responsive communication. Reply to questions you can answer. You never know where these conversations can lead.

5. Pay it forward. Help others grow their business as they will also help you. Read tweets and then retweet what inspires you, what you think your followers would appreciate reading and learning.

6. Self-promote, but not-in-your-face-shoved-down-your-throat tactic. Offer other things in between the self-promotion. You can also repeat your own tweets, but wait at least an hour between your repeats.

7. Space out your tweets. You don’t want a whole wall of your tweets on someone else’s page.

8. Be genuine, be yourself, and be consistent. Hardly anything done now and then is effective.

Use these Twitter tips to become a better networker and grow your business every day.

To your success,

Sophia McIntyre
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There aren’t many Internet marketers who don’t screw up somewhere along the line with one or more of their Internet marketing initiatives.

But what marks out a successful Internet marketer from a loser is how you respond to failure.

How do you respond when you find that the advertising campaign you just invested a few hundred dollars in produces no results?

What do you do when the 150 affiliates who you added to your team do nothing?

What do you do when the program you have been promoted suddenly morphs into something else, or simply goes belly up?

Here is a 5-step response strategy to help you respond to failure and handle the stuff that goes wrong with your Internet marketing business…

1. Face up to your own mistakes honestly, but don’t brand yourself a “failure”. “You” are not the problem. A failure is someone who and gives up after making just one or two mistakes. Don’t allow yourself to join their ranks.

2. Regard any of your screw-ups as wonderful opportunities to learn something new! Cheerfully admit your mistakes and invest your emotional energy in learning from the process and benefitting from it.

3. Study what went wrong. How did the screw-up occur? Was it carelessness, lack of research, or was it due to circumstances out of your control?

4. Seek a solution, or shelve the project and go back to the drawing board. Ask yourself what you can do to prevent it happening again

5. Squeeze out further benefit from the screw-up by teaching others how to avoid it. Since you have direct experience you will be able to speak with authority and this will enhance your impact as an Internet marketing coach.

You can also write an e-book of make a video course in which you teach others how to avoid all the dreadful mistakes you have made in your progress towards Internet marketing success.

Viewed properly, the mistakes you make as an Internet marketer offer you excellent occasions for making a great leap forward with your Internet business. Do not miss the boat by branding yourself as a failure. Instead, learn to use the techniques that Olympic athletes such as Ruben Gonazalez use to turn the power of belief into a motivator for generating success out of mistakes, failures and unpromising circumstances.

David Hurley
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If you have an already strong domain that carries some authority with Google, then you can make use of that domain authority to either boost newer sites that you own, or leverage the domain’s authority to make money for you. So what is domain authority? Well, I’ll get to that in a moment. The first point is pretty well known to most people, since it merely involves linking to other sites you own to give them some keyword authority. But its the second point that is more interesting, if you have the time and energy to put in some work as it can bring some unexpected rewards.

Some domains are niche specific thanks to their url and the way you’ve already built them. Some are more general, and its these that can be pure gold, of you work them right.

Now, this method involves article writing, or outsourcing if you can afford it, but you will want to edit any outsourced articles to make sure they are good quality. Then you create a few categories that you want to target that encompass a related collection of keywords that bring in fairly high CPC from adwords if you are targeting PPC, or high traffic with low competition (there are still some of those) if you are targeting affiliate products. Set up your articles within the categories and use good strong keyword relevant urls to describe each article.

That means you don’t go and call them yourdomain.com/article1.htm or similar. You want maximum on-site SEO here, so if you are targeting weight loss and your article is about high protein diets, then call it yourdomain.com/high-protein-diets/ and use a sub-folder with that name (high-protein-diets) uploaded to your server with the article in a file called index.htm or index.php if you prefer to use php includes and all the other good labour saving stuff.

It helps to build a header file for each article so that you can replace the site name in the title tag with the title of the article, as well as the h1 tag. These are small things, but all go to creating an article that is fully on-site SEO’d for its main keywords (which you will also include in the text of the article). Google is changing to give more weight to that side of things so it is in your interests to create the strongest articles you can on your authority domain.

The next step is to send some links to the article from places that also carry some domain authority weight, such as Ezine Articles, Infobarrel and Hub Pages etc. Once your article ranks in the SERPs and starts bringing in search traffic, put up your ads. You can do this faster on an authority domain than you would on a new blogger blog because the domain’s authority will keep it from being slapped and if you are using Adsense, then you will get relevant ads almost immediately as long as your article is perfectly optimized for your keywords. Now you see why it is so important to get that on-site SEO just right.

Whether you target PPC or affiliate products, as long as you get the traffic by choosing good keywords, you will make money from each article you put up and promote correctly. The domain’s authority will ensure your article ranks well, so don’t stop at one article, get writing and put a ton of them up.

The more articles you create on that domain, the more authority you give it, making it ever stronger as you go. The same thing works for targeted domains too. You just write a ton of articles targeting all the long tails in its niche for the same effect. And the best part is that you own the domain so you get to keep 100% of the revenue it generates! Is that cool or is that cool!

Terry Didcott