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3 Simple Steps For Easy Money

Well, you asked for it. You don’t want to bust your butt to make a few bucks online. No problem. This article is going to share a few simple things that you can do that will earn you a decent amount of money without having to kill yourself in the process. You won’t get rich off of this system, but considering the very small amount of work that you’ll have to put in, this is some really easy money that’s hard to beat. The key is following the system. So pay attention. There’ll be questions at the end of this article.

First thing you gotta do is get yourself a blog if you don’t already have one. Why a blog? Google loves blogs. Don’t ask me why. They just do. Just having a blog that you update often will be enough to get you soaring up the search engines. And the great thing is, you don’t have to spend any money to do this. You can get a Blogger or Wordpress blog for absolutely no money at all. I suggest Blogger because they’re actually owned by Google, and you can’t beat that.

Next thing you gotta do is go to an affiliate marketplace and find yourself a product. I suggest Clickbank because they have the largest selection. Now, you can’t just select any product. The selection process is very important. At the end of this article, I’ll show you where you can find out just how to pick the best products. This is critical. If you pick the wrong product, you won’t make many sales, if any at all.

Next, you want to write a review of the product. It will probably help to get a free copy from the product creator. Just tell him you want to promote it and 9 times out of 10, he’ll be glad to send you a review copy. After you get it and read it, write an honest review of the product. Trust me, prospects will smell a snow job right out of the gate, so keep it real. At the end of the review, include your affiliate link to the sales page so that the prospect can check it out.

Those are the basics, but there is more to it than that. There’s promotion of the blog, which can also be done dirt cheap or even free. That’s where the link in my signature comes in. I have a great book called “Affiliate Assassin” that will make this process almost fool proof. I’ve been doing it for a long time and it’s very effective. The best part is, it doesn’t cost me an arm and a leg.

There you have it…3 simple steps for easy money.

Try it…You’ll be pleasantly surprised at the results.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim
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The Real Truth About ASD

I am writing this article as a warning to anybody who plans to get involved with ASD - Ad Surf Daily. I have no vested interest in the company and my review is totally unbiased based on years of marketing and financial experience. It is my hope that you will seriously take these warnings before investing in this program.

Ad Surf Daily (ASD) is an auto surf program. The concept is simple. You pay a fee to have your site advertised to the other members. In return, every 90 days, you received a return on that fee called a rebate. So let’s say you put in $100 in advertising fees. In 90 days, according to the current interest rate, you would get back $125, or a $25 profit. In theory, this all seems perfectly innocent and sound. The problem is, the model isn’t sustainable and will eventually collapse. I will explain why.

Let’s for argument sake say that there are 60,000 members, which as of this point in time is what they have. If each member were to put in $100 say on January 1, on April 1, each member would have to be paid $125 or a total of 7.5 million. Now, the members have the option of leaving the money in and compounding it even more. I won’t go into further number crunching because you can see where this starts to add up very fast.

This extra money that has to be paid out, has to come from somewhere. It comes from the newer members. Now, here is where we run into the problems. When the members involved, the ones looking for really big payouts, leave their money in for so long and in huge amounts ($5,000 invested or more) when the time comes to cash out, the money needed to pay them is so astronomical that it actually exceeds the quarterly income of some of the biggest companies on the Internet. If you do the crunching, you will see that this is just not sustainable.

All programs of this kind that have come before it have all either collapsed or have been shut down by the FTC. Therefore, you are literally taking a HUGE risk by getting involved with ASD or any program like it. Look up some old programs like 12 Daily Pro or YMMSS and you will see the ugly histories of these programs. Financial analysts and mathematicians have proven that these models aren’t sustainable because of the high compounding factors and none of these programs are big enough to take in the required income from outside sources to keep them afloat for more than a short period of time. The end result…complete collapse.

So please do yourself a favor…find something else to invest your money in. In my signature is a free report that can help you to actually start your own business online with almost no cost and virtually no risk.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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Boost Your Affiliate Business with Behavioral Targeting

This is a guest post by AffiliateTips.com. Have a look at their site to learn more about affiliate marketing, download helpful affiliate marketing tools or compare affiliate programs.

Targeted marketing is the wave of the future for Internet advertisers. The key to advertising is knowing what consumers want. Once an advertiser understands the potential consumer’s needs, he has a much better chance of making a sale. This is the theory behind online targeted marketing.

And while in the Internet’s infancy the best way to advertise via the Internet may have been to simply rapid fire your advertising message to as many places and users as possible, today’s Internet marketer can make use of targeted approaches to online advertising to create a more efficient advertising model. One interesting example of this is indeed behavioral targeting.

What is Behavioral Targeting?

Behavioral targeting is marketing ads to individuals based in prior buying or surfing habits. When an Internet consumer comes to a website enabled with behavioral targeting code, the site analyzes prior habits and places relevant ads on the site based on those patterns.

To do this a special program is used that, like we mentioned, gains access to where the visitor has been before. The program then uses this information to generate ads on the site.

Why Is Behavioral Targeting Useful?

Psychologists know that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. People who like to buy state of the art stereo equipment over the Internet are unlikely to restrict their online purchases to floral bouquets anytime soon. If advertisers can find out what someone has bought or taken an interest in before, they know the right things to try to sell to them in the future.

Putting the same ads on the same pages for every viewer to a certain webpage is simply a missed opportunity. Just as car manufacturers advertise in car magazines and makeup vendors advertise in beauty magazines, Internet advertisers want to advertise to people who are interested in their products, which is just what behavioral targeting allows them to do.

What Are the Concerns About Behavioral Targeting?

There is an ethical question of whether recording and storing people’s buying and viewing practices and habits is an invasion of privacy. However, since only the practices and not the personal information of the individual are analyzed by the program, this is not as much of an issue as some people may believe.

Hence these programs generally function “blind,” that is to say, they take the pattern data and spit out ads as a result. Not only does this benefit the advertiser but in the end also the consumer. Rather than being bombarded with irrelevant banners and ad-messages website advertisements is tailored to fit our needs and desires. It’s a win-win!

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Ramblings Of An IM Junkie - The Holiday Is Over

Okay, the holiday is over. You discovered that you didn’t make squat this past fourth of July. Or maybe you were like me and had a really great day. Either way, you’re ready to get back to work and tackle the summer. Are you REALLY ready for it? Are you prepared to take on the world with your super marketing efforts? Great! Let me give you some tips that will make this summer your best yet.

For starters, get out of your mind that the summer is dead. It is not dead. There are plenty of people out there who are potential customers for your products and services. Just because it’s hot and humid where you live doesn’t mean that it’s like that in all parts of the world. Some people do their best work during the months of July and August. So there is no reason for you to give up on your marketing efforts during this time.

Once you’ve decided to get your butt into gear, the one thing I would do is work on some new ads for your products. You’ve probably been using the same tired ads for months now. Don’t you think it’s time for a change? Sometimes, just putting out a new ad will ignite a failing campaign. When a new ad hits the Internet, everybody has to check it out…including your competitors. They want to see what you’re up to as well. So put on your ad writing hat and get cranking.

Finally, you want to search out some new promotional methods that you might have not tried yet. There are plenty online to choose from including article marketing, safelists, message boards, classifieds, pay per click, solo ezine ads, FFA sites, forums and a slew of other things. You’d be surprised how much success you can have promoting to a safelist if you know JUST how to use them. Every advertising medium has its place and can be profitable IF you know how to tackle it.

Just by putting the few tips above into practice, you’d be surprised at how successful the summer months can be. Some of my best months in the 5 plus years that I’ve been marketing have been during the summer. The reason is simple. I don’t believe people when they tell me that the summer is a waste of time.

Nothing is a waste of time if you put your mind to it.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim
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Are You Suffering From Information Overload?

This seems to be a common complaint from Internet marketers. There’s too much info out there and they can’t keep up with it all. As a result, they’re completely overwhelmed and get nothing done. Are you one of these poor souls? If you are, don’t fret. There are ways to deal with information overload. Even as an established and successful marketer for over five years now, I have to deal with this problem as well. In this article, I am going to share my personal tips for dealing with information overload. I have no doubt that you will find these to be very helpful.

At the top of my list is doing just that…making a list. What kind of list? Let’s say that you’ve decided that you want to learn pay per click advertising, list building, article writing and copywriting. Now, obviously, you can’t learn all of those all at one time. Your head will explode. So what I do is make a list of each item I want to learn and order them according to importance. In other words, which one do I need the most right away? I then concentrate on that one and ONLY that one until I have mastered it. I then cross if off my list and move on to the next thing. Trust me, this is a very effective method to dealing with information overload.

Another great method for dealing with information overload is developing what I call tunnel vision. This is a little harder to do, but if you can pull this off, you’ll be way ahead of the game. Let me try to explain how this works. Let’s say that I am working on a project that requires me to do certain things and have certain skills. I will look at my list of things I want to learn and see if any of those skills for that certain project are on it. If so, I will tackle ONLY that skill and master it. I will pretend that the other skills don’t even exist, no matter how tempting it might be to include them in the project. If they’re not needed, pretend they don’t exist.

Basically, what this all comes down to is discipline. And quite honestly, I don’t know how to teach that. Yes, it’s very easy to see the new shiny ebook on whatever and convince yourself that you have to have it. But if you really look at it rationally, you’ll discover that there are very few things that you really need.

And THAT is how you handle information overload.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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