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Garry Conn Vs John Cow - The Battle Is On!

2008-05-14T17:37:00.004-05:00

There's an epic battle brewing in the make money online blogosphere right now. This is a war between Garry Conn and John Cow who happen to be two of the top make money online blogs in the world according to the top 100 MMO blogs list. Garry Conn currently comes in at #22 and John Cow is currently at #29 so it's clear that both these guys know what they are doing.

It all started when Garry Conn called John Cow out in this post - John Cow dot Com’s Lifelong Dream of Scamming The Blogosphere and the Cow fired back with a couple posts - John Cow dot com Called Out Garry Conn dot com and then Learn How to Kill Your Competition as We Beat Up Garry Conn - and the battle was on! It soon became a war of words between these two money making titans in the posts and comments of their blogs.

Garry Conn gave an explanation of the contest he will be having with John Cow in this post - John Cow VS Garry Conn in a COWpetition - MMO Case Study Enroll Today! - and I do suggest you join his case study list because you will definitely get some great tips on how to make money online by following along as he battles the Cow.

There have since been even more posts on both blogs about this competition...

* John Cow:
- Cow vs Conn Win Affiliate Elite
- Cowpetition

* Garry Conn:
- Contest To Win WhiteSmoke.com Software Package Worth Over $250 dollars

It officially starts May 19th and ends on June 18th, so get all caught up on the action now before the contest kicks off. Not only is this entertaining but more importantly it's a chance for us all to learn a lot about making money online. They are both going to share their progress so we can see exactly what they are doing to win this competition. You'd be a fool not to subscribe and follow along to see what they are doing. It will be a free internet marketing education that most people would pay to get. I have subscribed to both.

May the best man win!

Oh and for the record, I am rooting for Garry Conn. Nothing against John Cow but I have always followed Garry much more closely and I do think he usually gives better make money online advice in his blog.

Research to Riches - Niche Marketing Makes Money

2008-05-05T17:53:00.002-05:00

So, you want to make money online? That's great! It's an awesome way to earn a living. But please read this post before you go starting another blog about making money online (there are already too many of those).

You've probably already seen about 100 different make money online blogs talking about how they earn a million dollars a minute from their blog. So, of course, you want to start your own make money online blog so you can start making money like all these guys do. I can understand that considering you don't know any better. But I am about to let you in on a little secret...

Hardly any of those so-called "make money online blogs" are actually making any money at all. Only a small percentage of them really do make a profit and even most of the ones claiming to earn thousands upon thousands of dollars per month are lying to you! It's a simple fact that blogs about making money online are the very same blogs that aren't making much money. Some do, most don't!

If you don't believe me then go ask Griz, Court, Vic, or Mark. They all own highly popular MMO blogs but they will be the first to tell you that they earn the majority of their income from niches outside of the make money online niche. They'll also tell you to do the same.

There are plenty of reasons for this that I am not going to get into right now so just take my word for it. The reason for this post is to tell you NOT to start another MMO blog if you really want to make money online.

You might be asking yourself, "If that's not the way to do it then what is?" and I will tell you right now...

Go back to the title of this post, "Research to Riches - Niche Marketing Makes Money" and I am sure you can at least somewhat figure out what I am about to tell you.

Yep, you guessed it, if you want to make money online then you should be starting blogs and/or static websites in smaller niche markets. This will sometimes require quite a bit of research on your part but it is more than worth it in the long run. And sometimes you can hit a good niche market without much research at all.

When you think of a niche that you might want to pursue you first need to research to make sure there is a market for that niche. One way to do this is to type in the niche keywords in quotes in Google and see how many Adwords ads come up on the right side of the search results. If there are none that usually means one of two things...

1) You have either just found a killer niche that nobody else has tapped into.
2) There isn't enough of a market for that niche to make it profitable enough for Adwords advertisers.

Most likely it's the second one, but don't dismiss it as a bad niche just yet. Do some more research first! More on that in a minute.

If you find there are a lot of Adwords ads then it is most likely a profitable niche. Typically a good niche will have some Adwords ads to show that it is profitable but not too many because you want to be able to make money from this niche without spending all your time trying to beat out a lot of competition.

Ok, so now you have found a niche that appears to have some profit potential but not a lot of competition solely based on the Adwords ads. Well, that's not enough. So, what do you do next?

More research! I told you this was "research to riches" didn't I?!

Now you need to figure out how often your niche keywords are searched for and how much competition there really is.

First the searches...

The most basic way to do this for free is to use the free keyword suggestion tool from Wordtracker so you can see how often it is searched per day. I've heard varying opinions but most people say that you need to take the number the tool comes up with and multiply it by 4 to get the number of times it's searched for per day on Google.

Now the competition...

Go back to Google and search for your keyword phrase in quotes. It must be in quotes or you won't get a good estimate of your competition. Now look at the top right corner and it will say, "Results 1-10 of about XX, XXX" and the X's will be the number of sites that match your exact keyword phrase. This is how many people you have to compete against to get the top ranking on Google.

If the number of searches exceeds the number of competing sites and there are Adwords ads promoting products in that niche, then you have most likely found yourself a gold mine. Get started in that niche right away!

Most likely that isn't going to happen. But if there are only maybe 20,000 or less sites competing for that niche and it does get quite a few searches, and there are at least a few Adwords ads, it's probably a niche worth going after. Anyone with a little SEO knowledge and internet marketing experience could dominate a niche like this pretty fast and make a lot of money.

Another super way to make money online through niche marketing...

Building niche trend blogs is a great way to make money and it's a lot easier to find the niche this way. What the hell is a niche trend blog? Well, let's see if I can put it very simply...

A niche trend blog is a blog you start around a certain trend or "hot topic" that is happening right now.

For example; if you would have been one of the first to start a niche trend blog about the popular MTV show "The Hills" and marketed it correctly, you probably would have a blog that is pulling in some pretty darn good profits right now. Or you could have started a blog about any of the main people on the show like Lauren Conrad, Audrina Patridge, Heidi Montag, Whitney Port, Spencer Pratt, or Brody Jenner.

Being one of the first to jump on a hot topic and get a blog going about it puts you in a good position to take the top Google rankings for those keywords and cash in on the trend. These don't usually last long but if you keep adding more and more niche trend blogs you will continue to make money off each new one. There is never a shortage of hot topics to start niche blogs on. You just need to stay on top of the gossip and get your blog going right away.

I suggest using the free blogger.com service for these for many reasons. Mainly because they are free and you don't want to be spending money to create these because you will be creating so many of them and you don't know for sure if they are going to produce any income. Also, they are very easy to create and you want to be able to get these up quickly. And since Google owns blogger.com it only makes sense that they would rank well on Google and that is exactly what you are trying to do.

Many of your niche trend blogs will probably turn out to be duds but some of them will make money, and the more you create the more chances you have to make money. Since they are free and you won't be spending much time on each one, you don't need to worry about all of them pulling in profits for you. Just move on and find another hot topic to cash in on.

So what have we learned here?

1) Starting a "make money online" blog is actually one of the worst ways to make money online.
2) Niche marketing is a much easier and faster way to make money online.
3) Niche trend blogs are a very easy way to get into niche marketing.

You stand a much better chance of getting rich by doing research to find profitable niche markets then you do by throwing up another MMO blog and trying to compete in that niche. That's why I called this post, "Research to Riches - Niche Marketing Makes Money" because niche markets are where the money is at!

So, get started on finding profitable niches right now so you can really make money online!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
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Could You Be Doing More to Make Money Online?

2008-04-14T20:03:00.003-05:00

People come to me all the time with the same old sob story about how they aren't making any money even though they "have been working at it for a whole month" - or maybe even a few months. It brings up one very big question in my mind every time... Are you really doing all you can to make money online?

I don't mean spending your days looking for some great money making opportunity that is going to make you rich by next week. Good luck with that! If you find it then please tell me, I would love to know what it is. But I guarantee you won't ever find it.

What I mean is, are you really working and doing all you can to make money online? How much time do you spend each day at your computer strictly doing tasks that are going to help you make money right now or in the future? I would be willing to bet it's not a lot!

Just because you have been "working at home" for months supposedly doing all you can to make money online doesn't mean you really have been. Do you work every day? How many hours? Are you really working or just on your computer doing who knows what?

Watching videos on YouTube, checking your Myspace ten times and emailing all your buddies the latest funny forward isn't going to make you any money! Neither are all the other things you are wasting your time doing while you are supposed to be building your online business.

The point is that real internet marketers, making the big bucks, probably put in more real work in a couple days than all these people whining about not making any money do in a month.

Sit your butt down, without any distractions, for a set period of time every single day and really get some work done. As long as you consistently do a few things to actually grow your online business on a daily basis you will start to make money before you know it.

Once the money starts rolling in it's NOT time to stop working or slow down at all. That should just be the incentive you need to work even harder.

Making money online is not rocket science. Just about everyone can do it if they really want to. All it takes is for you to actually do some work on a consistent basis.

Dedicated to your home business success,
Trent Brownrigg
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2008-04-12T10:20:00.002-05:00

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I Won A New 20" Monitor and It Arrived Today!

2008-04-09T20:50:00.003-05:00

The great folks over at the Work at Home Community of WhyDoWork.com have held some awesome contests in the past couple years and I was the winner of the most recent one.

What did I win? I suppose the title of this post probably tipped you off, but if you are still unsure...

It's a new computer monitor. Actually it's a Black Acer AL2016WBbd 20" WSXGA Widescreen LCD Monitor to be exact.

The UPS driver pulled up today and I immediately got excited because I just knew he had to be delivering my new monitor. I was right.

As soon as I got it in the house I hooked it up. And I love it!

This will help me tremendously when building my work at home websites because I can now view them in all sorts of sizes to see what they will look like to my visitors with various screen sizes. So I can give my visitors a better user experience.

It will also help me with my home business in many other ways simply because my other monitor was old and out of date. I was very much in need of an upgrade.

Not to mention watching videos online is about a million times better on this new monitor than it was on my old one. It's so much bigger, clearer and easier on my eyes.

I was going to get my digital camera out and take a picture of it to show you what it looks like, but I got lazy. Instead, I found one online. The picture you see above is the exact monitor that I won.

Anyway, I am just very happy to have won this nice prize and wanted to share it with all my wonderful home business tips blog readers.

I highly recommend you become a member of the WhyDoWork.com Work at Home Community so you won't miss any of their contests.

Well, that's pretty much all for now.

Dedicated to your home business success,
Trent Brownrigg

How To Make Money Blogging - 10 Step Solution

2008-04-09T17:52:00.004-05:00

First, we all want to know How to Make Money Online, and one of the best ways I have found is by creating blogs. In this article I intend to show you how you too can learn How to Make Money Blogging by telling you how combining the techniques I have gathered from across the web helps to make me $$$ every day.

Second, I am not trying to sell you my latest "Get Rich Quick" scheme because I don't have one. Each eBook you read will have a wealth of information within them which will, without a doubt, help you to discover the secrets of How to Make Money Online. I am only going to tell you which ones out of the 100's available you SHOULD read if you too want to make lots of money.

I use a 10 step guide to setting up and starting all of my blogs.

I will give you a list of the top 10 resources later that I use and recommend to everyone who is serious about making lots of money online. One of the vital aspects people seem to miss out when they first get into blogging is the fact that their blog must contain information that people want to read.

Many bloggers are looking through closed eyes in this regard and if you browse through 50 blogs you will notice that most will tell you they know How to Make Money with Blogs when really all they tell you is where they went on their vacation or how many cars they have.

Are you ready to learn How to Make Money Blogging?

If the answer is YES then read on and start to make money with your blog. I am not here to tell you how to write your blog, that's up to you, but what I am about to tell you is the 10 things I use to make money on the internet. You can choose to use these techniques or not, that's your prerogative.

Step 1 - Finding a Topic

Turn off your computer, grab a pen and some paper and sit somewhere you can relax but also stay focused (if you are just starting out this step can be a pain because we all want to know How to Make Money Online and we want to know how to make it NOW). Think of a topic you are interested in and write it down (this helps because you will be more committed to trying instead of giving up in a day or two) and also make sure it is something other people are interested in too. A couple of ways I use to think of a topic is by using MetaSpy to find out what people are searching for, Ask IQ to find what's popular and VRE Toolbar to find out how many people search for the topic (this is also useful later on to get traffic). Write down your top five keywords, you will want to use them later in your blog.

Step 2 - Create Your Blog

Find and create your blog online. I like to use Blogger but other popular Blog platforms are Wordpress and Movable Type. You can find all the help in the program you use to get information when setting up the blog. Create your content, make it original, and make it informative. This is one of the main keys to learn How to Make Money with Blogs. You need to include the keywords you wrote down in Step 1 in the content of your blog. Try not to overuse these as it sends out bad signals to the search engines, and this is 100% not what you want.

Step 3 - Go Google

Sign up for Google Adsense and insert the code in the margin of your blog. You can customize your ads in many ways, such as including text links or image links. I prefer the text links only, as they are easier to blend in with your blog and don't take the focus away from the information. Google Adsense will probably not make you a millionaire but it is an instant way of generating a small amount of money.

If you want to track where your visitors are coming from with regards to direct hits or from search engine results then I would suggest you use Google Analytics and again you can get all the help you need setting that up from within the program.

You will also want to add your URL to Google's index.

Step 4 - Find Something to Sell

If you don't want to sell anything and are happy with the income Google Adsense is bringing in then you can skip this step. If you want to maximize your income and truly learn How to Make Money with Blogs you will want to find an affiliate program to join. A couple of affiliate programs I would suggest are ClickBank and Commission Junction. You can sell anything from office furniture, pet supplies, movies and clothing to PC games, Dieting tips and Audio software.

Whatever program you join will give you help inserting the code you will need to insert into your blog, but be sure you do this correctly or you WILL NOT earn money from your visitors. If you do not know how to edit HTML, W3Schools HTML tutorial is a great place to start.

Step 5 - Social Bookmarking

There is no better advertising than word of mouth, but the next best thing is social bookmarking. You will want to make things easier for people to do this. Social bookmarking sites I use and recommend are OnlyWire and SocialMarker and they are used for people to share their bookmarks or websites that they have liked with other people in their online community.

I would not suggest you add your own links to these services, but provide visitors to your website the ability to do so.

Step 6 - Write an Article

Whether your blog is about a specific product, for example a certain MP3 Player you are promoting, or just about giving people information, I would suggest you to write an article or a review of it. Most article directories require articles of 500 words and over so I would use this as a rule when writing to ensure your article is published.

Submit your article to any of the 100's which are out there. I personally use a few of the Top Article directories such as EzineArticles, Article Dashboard, Amazines.com, isnare and SearchWarp. I also use a nifty piece of software called Article Submitter which will submit your articles to over 600 article directories, which saves you lots of time and leaves you to focus on writing your blogs.

Step 7 - Ping The Hell Out Of It

Every time you add new information to your blog, you want to let the blog directories know about it, this is known as pinging. Some Blog providers automatically send out pings when you update, but to be on the safe side you will want to do this manually too. ONLY PING WHEN YOU UPDATE.

There are a couple of Ping sites I use which will send a ping to multiple blog directories at the same time. PingMyBlog would be my first port of call and then if for some reason that site is down I would use Ping-o-matic. Remember, to only ping when you update or you could get blacklisted, and that is bad.

Step 8 - Yahoo! Answers and Forums

One of the easiest ways to get targeted visitors to your blog is to make use of the people you want to target. I would suggest you sign up to at LEAST one forum in the topic you are writing about, and don't just go straight in there and start posting comments for people to look at your blog, they won't.

The secret is to add the link to your blog in your signature and actively become a member of the forum, posting relevant topics and starting debates within them. The more you post, the more your link will show, and if you provide someone with good info the chances are higher they will click your link.

Yahoo! Answers is along the same lines as forums but the beauty of this is it's viewed by thousands of visitors each day. If you don't already have a Yahoo! account get one and then login and search for questions relating to the topic of your blog and answer them well. You can then insert the link to your blog and as with the forums, if you answer well you may have not only earned yourself a point or two on Yahoo!, but also earned a visitor to your blog.

Step 9 - Update Your Blog

This can be by several means, one is to add new reviews or content to your blog, and if you are going to do this I suggest updating every couple of days. This helps to keep the search engines happy as they love to see new and original content.

Another way of updating your blog and keeping the content fresh is to add RSS feeds to it. Make sure the feeds are relevant to your blog and provide visitors with helpful information. Visitors to a World of Warcraft blog don't want to read feeds about knitting, or do they?

Step 10 - More, More, More

Repeat steps 1 - 10, this is the only way How to Make Money Blogging.

Step 11 - A Bonus Step

If you have your own product or newsletter, give your visitors an easy way to sign up to receive updates or information. This helps you to contact the visitor again with more great info or products you wish to sell.

How to Make Money Online is easy if you follow the above steps.

Some important things to remember so you don't get disheartened with your blog is the fact that you will not become a millionaire overnight, it takes hard work and a lot of effort. If you are really serious about learning How to Make Money with Blogs then stick with it and eventually you will have an Ah-Ha moment. This is when things start to work and you think to yourself Ah-Ha, that's how they do it. Your moment could be sooner than you think.

My Top 10 resources I use and recommend are:

1. Rob Benwell's Blogging to The Bank 2.0

2. Wordpress Goldmine

3. Rob Atherton's Building A Blog Empire For Profit

4. The Blog Challenge

5. Hinge Marketing Magic

6. Blogging For Riches - Complete Video Tutorial

7. Social Bookmarking Demon

8. Adsense Inbox

9. Wordpress SEO Sniper

10. RSS, Blogs and Syndication...

About the author:

My name is Andy I'm 31 and I'm from Manchester, UK I like to read a lot (Discworld, Sci-Fantasy) and listen to music (The Doors, Wu-Tang, Amy Winehouse, Kaiser Chiefs, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix). I also try to be a skateboarder when I get time and dry weather. Please view and leave comments on my blog.

What Do You Want to Know?

2008-04-02T19:50:00.000-05:00

I just realized that this blog contains somewhere around 400 posts about all sorts of topics pertaining to home business, working at home, making money online and many other general internet marketing topics.

However, in the 4 years this blog has been going, I don't recall ever asking you, my readers, what YOU want me to blog about. So, I am asking right now.... What do you want to know?

Is there anything in particular that you want to know about online business?

Do you want to know more about specific methods for making money online?

Are you wondering how to go about ranking higher in search engines?

Do you want more information on work at home jobs and opportunities?

Would you like more reviews or recommendations of home business opportunities?

Or are there any other internet marketing topics that you want me to blog about?

I've always called this the "free home business tips" blog and I want to make sure you are getting the business tips that you need. Leave a comment on this post with anything you want to know more about or any suggestions you have for topics. If you don't want to post it publicly as a comment then go ahead and contact me privately.

Dedicated to your online success,
Trent Brownrigg
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Are You Making Money or Wasting Your Time?

2008-03-25T20:31:00.003-05:00

There are thousands of so-called "internet marketers" who are sitting at their computers right now trying to make money online. However, most of them are not making any money, or if they are making money, it's not nearly as much as they would like.

So, why is it that so many internet marketers are not making money? It's because they are wasting their time! There are countless ways you can waste your time when you are online. Even though you might think you are working, you aren't.

One way you might be wasting your time is by thinking that you are getting stuff done when you actually aren't doing anything productive at all. How many times a day do you check your email? How many times a day to you visit internet marketing forums and end up spending 30 minutes reading posts? How much time each day do you waste reading post after post on all your favorite make money online blogs? How much time do you waste each day just surfing the internet? I could go on and on but I think you get my drift. Just because you are online it doesn't mean you are working!

But that is not the biggest way people who consider themselves to be "internet marketers" waste their time. Most of them waste it by doing things that actually are building their online business but are not going to help them make money. One example of that is blogging. Yeah now I got your attention! You are probably wondering why the hell I would say that blogging is a waste of time and will not make you any money?

Let me explain...

In order to make money online, you need traffic to your blog. There is no way to get around this fact. However, when you are blogging away all day long every day you are forgetting to do one very important thing... Market your blog! As an "internet marketer" the most important part of your job is to market.

You might have the best blog in the world with more original content than all ten of the top blogs in your niche, but that means nothing if you don't get any visitors. You could have a blog that contains the #1 absolute best secret that everyone in the world needs to know, but if nobody knows about your blog they will never read it. Do you see what I mean? Unless people coming to your blog, you won't make money!

But not just any traffic will do either. You don't want untargeted traffic. You don't want Web 2.0 traffic. You don't want other internet marketers and bloggers as your main source of traffic. Why? Because none of these people will click your ads, buy from your affiliate links, or even notice any of the things you have on your blog that will make you money.

What you need is search engine traffic. The visitors you get to your blog from search engines are targeted, they are actively searching for your blog, and they don't have a clue what Adsense is or what affiliate links are. And if you have done your research and are in the right niche, they are ready to spend money. You will make money from these visitors!

Stop wasting every day posting a hundred times to your blog just hoping someone will come read it. Or wasting even more of your time on digg, furl, myspace, delicious, or any of the other social bookmarking and social networking sites that will only bring you the kind of traffic that won't make you any money.

Instead, spend more of your day getting inbound links and working on other search engine optimization techniques. Use as much time as you can each day getting your blog ranked at the top of the search engines and getting more of the kind of traffic you are looking for to make money online.

Doing this one simple thing will greatly increase your chances of making money online and becoming a full-time internet marketer to live the life you have always wanted. So stop wasting your time and start making money!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Owner of Free Money Making Tips

5 Top Money Making Blog Posts

2008-03-18T19:18:00.000-05:00

Here are five posts I recommend from some of my favorite make money online blogs in the past couple weeks...

Multiple Income Streams - A very eye opening and informational video blog (vlog) that Vic made about making money online through multiple income streams. He never sugar coats his posts and this one is no different.

How To Increase PageRank and Keyword Authority - Court does a great job of explaining PR and keyword authority, and how you can increase both.

The Scourge of Web 2.0 - Griz delivers another killer post about how to really make money online by optimizing your blogs for search engines, getting links, niche blogging, and staying away from the web 2.0 crowd.

A Letter To My Parents - Monika writes a letter telling her parents the same thing we all would like to tell ours... that we are happy working at home and doing anything else we do with our lives and they should mind their own business.

How to have a Constant Stream of Blogging Ideas - Darren tells us how to keep our blog ideas coming so we can update our blogs regularly without running out of things to say.

How To Make Money From Home Quickly

2008-03-13T20:20:00.000-05:00

Make Money From Home Quickly

When you need to make extra money you need it now not two months from now. I will review the top 3 ways to make money from home quickly. Making money from home is a popular interest. However, most who try fail. Why? Most of the information online is misleading. Many people are lured into money making hype by MLM, Direct Sales and Money schemes. What I am offering is straight forward and easy. The cost to get started is minimal and the income potential is enormous! Let's get started:

1) Ebay is free to join and the cost to list items for sale is inexpensive. If you need to make a quick $200 bucks this can be accomplished by going through your old, unwanted stuff at home and selling it on eBay. The things that sell well are antiques, artwork, clothing and electronics. Go through your stuff and do some searches in eBay to see the going prices. Structure your ad and prices with similar products. Remember, pictures and detailed descriptions will add value to your product no matter what you are selling.

2) Craigslist has made many millionaires and is the essence of making money from home quickly. The traffic this site gets is huge. By placing a classified ad in the appropriate category almost guarantees immediate exposure. The key to selling on Craigslist is not being too detailed and aiming your ad to just get the prospect to click on your link. Just like eBay include a picture to build interest. Get the prospect to click on your affiliate link and 90% of the job is done. The sky's the limit on what sells on Craigslist. Remember to target your ad to the right audience, spell check your ads and build interest and a sense of urgency. Using humor and negative outcomes are best. Tell someone how to avoid a negative outcome and you'll get the click.

3) Clickbank is the number one online resource to sell digital products that other people design. It is totally possible to sign-up for a free Clickbank membership, build some links, post some ads and be cash positive in a few hours if not minutes. I've placed ads for some products and within 30 minutes I've had a sale! When you make up to 75% on each sale it is very possible to just sell Clickbank products and make $50,000 or more each year with minimal effort.

Making money from home quickly can be easy. It can also be hard if you follow the herd and jump on the next best thing. If you follow these three steps, determine your needs you can make money. Review your resources, write out your goals and set a deadline. If you stick to your goals and learn as you go you will see profits.

About the author:

Tracy Mullins is a freelance content writer who lives in Denver Colorado with his four boys. Tracy has a wide range of experience and enjoys writing to educate and help others how to make extra money from home. You can read more about him and his recommended resources at: Tracy's Website.

How to Get A PR6 Website in 2 Hours!

2008-03-05T20:13:00.002-06:00

I am about to tell you how to get a PR6 website in as little as two hours!

If you know anything about internet marketing then you know that getting a PR6 website usually takes a lot of time, patience, hard work, and probably quite a bit of money. Even then it's very difficult to make it to a PR6 and most webmasters never do get there, no matter how hard they try.

But you can get a PR6 website without spending countless hours and waiting months, or even years, to get it only to never reach that point. And you can do it TODAY!

How? It's actually quite simple...

Now you are probably thinking I just uncovered the best kept secret in internet marketing when I figured this out, but the truth is that what I'm about to tell you is not really anything amazing or earth-shattering. There are actually plenty of internet marketers that already know about this but not a lot of them are willing to tell the world about it.

I’m not lying at all when I say I know how to quickly get a high PR site, but I am purposely messing with you a little bit here just to keep you crazy with anticipation. But I suppose I will get to the point of this post now...

There are thousands of domains at any given time that the owners don't want anymore for whatever reason and you can get them VERY cheap. Most of them are only $5 and you can sometimes even get the higher PR ones at that price. Usually the ones with higher PR are a little more but still not much. I've gotten quite a few of them for $10-$50, which is a steal for an established domain with built up PR.

You see GoDaddy.com has a place called The Domain Name Aftermarket where you can see all these domains listed for sale. From there, you can bid on expired or expiring soon domains. If you sit down and take the time to go through all the cheap domains and do some research on the ones that you think might be useful to you, then you can come away with a great domain that already has some PR and has been established.

Ok so the chances of you finding a PR6 domain in two hours, as the title of this post suggests, is slim but it can definitely be done. I found one a few weeks ago that was PR6 in less than an hour and the bid on it was only at $45 but it still had a couple hours left on the auction. I was going to come back and bid at the last minute but of course I forgot and didn't get it. I also have a friend who has scored two PR6 domains in the past couple months and he got them both for less than $20 each.

What's more likely is that you will find PR1, PR2, and PR3 domains. In fact, I found four PR3 domains earlier today that were all still priced as low as $10. I bid on one of them and won the auction. It will be transferred over to me in a few days.

But even getting a PR3 domain for just a few bucks in less than an hour is freaking amazing! Throw up a website or blog on one of those PR3 domains and you are way ahead of where you would have been if you registered a new domain. It can be developed into a higher PR site much more quickly and you don't have to worry about being sandboxed by Google, because the domain is already aged. Plus, all things being equal, a site like this will increase in search engine rankings more quickly anyway.

Not to mention, if you do happen to land a PR4, PR5, PR6, or higher domain just think of all the things you could do to make money from it. You would have just landed on a goldmine for the price of a nugget. One thing you could do right away is link it to your other sites to boost their PR and rankings. You could also put up a mini site promoting an affiliate product and push it quickly to the top of Google so you can really cash in.

Another thing you could do is put up a site on it and then resell it. You could easily get a few hundred or even a few thousand dollars for a site with good PR even if it doesn't have anything else going for it. Plus, there's always paid reviews. You could do a bunch of paid reviews and make a lot of money very quickly. You'd have people lining up to pay you a good amount for a review on a PR6 website. Of course, if you did that it would eventually get slapped by Google and the page rank would be taken away, but that wouldn't matter because you would have already cashed in a huge return on investment from it.

Basically, the possibilities are endless! With a very minimal investment and a couple hours of your time you could have at least one PR3 domain (most likely more) and you might even find yourself a proud owner of a PR6 or higher domain.

So, go start sorting through the domain auctions and find yourself a goldmine right now!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Free Online Money Making Tips

Making Money On The Internet

2008-02-28T21:44:00.000-06:00

Is it possible to make money from the internet? Sure it is, and there are people making money right at home using their internet. This article will give you some ideas on how to get you started in a successful business from your computer.

Research!

This is very important before joining an online business. People that are looking for a home business usually join the first business they see online. Once they get scammed by the first business, they think that all home business opportunities are like that, but they are not. You have to research a company before joining them. There are several things that you have to look into before joining an online business. These things that you should look into are researching the founder/CEO of the business, the products that the business has, and the compensation plan.

Let's Get Started!

After you have found a business that you want to join, its time to get started. I know it may seem like a big leap, but you will not make any money if you do not get started in a business. Yes, it is good to have dreams about having a business, but you have to follow through with your dreams!

Get A Mentor

This can really help you have success in your business. It is really important to find someone that has experience in an online business, and someone that you can trust. Your mentor will also help keep you focused and motivated in the hard times, which is a lot tougher doing it by yourself.

Don't Give Up!

This is very crucial when starting an online business. There are so many people that give up too soon. When they do not see money in a short period of time, they give up. What they forget to realize is that it takes time to build a successful business. In the meantime, you should definitely learn different marketing strategies that will help build your business to be successful. Just remember you are wanting to build a long term business.

About the author:

Bruce Beard is a top internet marketer and one of the top internet earners in the home businesses industry. He specializes in helping others succeed in marketing online home businesses.

If you want to be successful making money on the internet, visit Bruce Beard's website.

Blogging Power Tips For Easy Traffic

2008-02-19T20:34:00.001-06:00

Things to do before you post and advertise your blog, and what to do after it's up and running, such as getting traffic and using AdSense.

I made this simple to understand, for maximum usability. I even added the easiest and best tricks to get great traffic, just don't abuse the tricks. If you are here to get the traffic tips, just scroll down to - Advice for Getting Traffic.

First Thing To Do

This is a big step - get Feedburner setup for you website, ASAP. Make your RSS buttons easy to see so people can subscribe. I have several new visitors who stop in for a few seconds, click the RSS button and leave, namely people from Digg. If you are using Wordpress, you need to get the plugin Feedburner Feedsmith. This will make sure that all your subscribers are going through Feedburner and not the default RSS feed in Wordpress.

Make sure to have a good list of RSS buttons available for people to choose from. The fastest and easiest way to do this is by going to toprankblog.com/tools/rss-buttons/ and making your buttons. Make sure at step 2, you set it to default and use your Feedburner URL. To get your feed address, just go to feedburner, log into your account. In the top left you will see something that says My Feeds, once you click on it, click on the feed you want to use. Once the page loads up, look under the feed name and click on Edit Feed Details. On this screen you will see the address for you feed. The feed address will look something like this - http://feeds.feedburner.com/your-feed-name

Before You Post

If you are using Wordpress, I recommend to not get banned for multiple pings. Did you know that every time you go back into an article and fix or change something, it pings the blog sites. So this will result in your post getting banned. To combat this, I recommend downloading MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. It monitors your posting and makes sure you don't get banned because of multiple pings. Once you publish an article, it sends out one ping, and then every time you go back into that article to change it, it does not ping anymore.

If you are going to be doing any type of writing in Wordpress, from just typing an article, to html coding, I recommend getting a better WYSIWYG editor. I use Dean's FCKEditor for Wordpress. It's easy to use, it doesn't mess up your articles with weird wrapping, and it doesn't mess up programming code One feature I love, is the image add, which is right on the interface, it handles the uploading of pictures, and makes it's it easy to change what you need to.

I can't say this enough; you need to get Wp Super cache. If the website is slow loading for people, they will leave. I know my web host is not perfect, but I try to keep the website as fast as possible for everyone. On this same note, I recommend getting Optimize DB plugin. This Wordpress plugin is simple and easy to use. Just go to your manage tab, click on Optimize DB, wait for it to run, then click optimize now. It works great and I use it a few times a day when I am posting a lot.

Article Publishing

Do not publish just one article first.

I recommend writing 2 or 3 articles, then putting them on the website. This way when you get the first surge of traffic, the people have other articles to read besides just one. Too many blogs have come and gone with only posting one article and nothing else. So as a result if you don't have more then a couple articles your chances of people returning or subscribing are a lot less.

If you really want to start off on the right foot, I recommend finding the best one of the 3 articles and submitting it to EzineArticles.com. Expect 3 to 5 days turn around for them to review it and put it on the website.

I lost a lot of traffic on my first great article, because it was all I had posted and people came, read the article and left and were never heard from again.

Looking back on this, I wish I had other articles I posted before hand so people had a reason to stay. My first article I posted had around 200 visitors in the first 30 minutes, the visitors read the article, then disappeared. Now when I post good articles, I get a surge of traffic, people read the article, then browse around me website and come back a few days later.

Don't sensationalize an article, do a brief intro, then get down to business. Some people have this annoying ability to write an insane amount of paragraphs, for something that could be said in a few sentences. I noticed that my articles that are straight to the point get more readers and people stay. Something about hyping up a subject puts people off, can't blame them, it annoys me to.

I don't care what people say, there are times to submit articles that are better than others. I have been testing this since I started and I find that I get more traffic later in the day around 3 - 6pm then I do at any other time. Some people think it's best to post in the evening when your article stays on the front page longer for people to see it, this doesn't work. I also found by watching traffic trends, Monday is the lowest traffic day, and Thursday to Sunday is when I get the most traffic.

Adsense Advertising

For adsense beginners, text ads are the best ads you can use. I have been switching back and fourth between image ads and text ads. I get a lot more clicks when using text ads, I do not know why, maybe because they are less intrusive for readers. But again I do not know why it works that way, but it does.

Do not put big ads between your post, on the main page. I have been experimenting and noticed that when I put an ad just after the latest post on the front page, people have a tendency of not going past it. In most cases they just leave. Now it's fine to put an ad just above the comment box, when people are on a single post page.

Advice For Getting Traffic

One of my readers turned me on to using Socialmarker.com for getting traffic to my website. Social Marker by itself has made brought more than 90% of my traffic, I highly recommend using it. What it does is connect all the social networking places together, in one easy interface. The website is free, and for each website you submit to, you have to have an account with that. It takes some time to get registered to all the websites, maybe 30 minutes to an hour, but once you are registered you are good to go and never have to do it again. The ranking you will get from keywords used during the submit process is insane. Within 2 to 4 hours, the article you post will be search able and will have great ranking in search engines. The bookmarking websites are awesome for this, I have several articles that come right to the top of search engines without me having to change my keywords, or the keyword Density to them there. I don't even have to links to the page to increase the search ranking.

Words of advice, do not submit articles to websites that are not congruent with your article. Example - if you write an article about the weather where you live at, do not submit it to Slashdot or some technology based website. Nothing will get you banned faster than doing that.

Not getting Digg or Stumble votes is not the end of the world. Digg does have the highest chance of getting the largest surge of traffic to your website, if you get on the front page, your website can crash from the Digg Effect. But I find that most of my traffic comes from Reddit, Fark, Indian Pad, and various other social-networking websites. Myspace blog has been really good for my website, whenever I write a post; I just copy and paste it over there. For the extra 100 to 200 readers I get from spending an extra minute or two, is worth it. I recommend setting up a Squidoo page, even if you have no intentions of sticking with it. The reason why I recommend it is when you make a lens, and put a link on the site to your website, you get a Page Rank boost. At this present time, squidoo does not use nofollow bot code, now do not abuse this.

Comments, Feedback, & Tracking

Don't get discouraged if you are not getting feed back, comments etc, from people. It doesn't mean that people don't like what you are writing about. The best way to see if people like what you are writing is by checking you traffic.

My traffic continues to grow and my returning readers are increasing. They just don't like to leave a comment, so I'm guessing since they are returning that they must like what I have to say, but they are not much for chatting. So if you are not getting comments, just check your traffic with a service like Google analytics and Feedburner, and see what the trending is. If you are not getting returning readers then it's safe to assume you need to modify your content.

This article is far from the end all be all for blogging. I plan to continually add new information from my experiences so help people avoid problems so that they can start off on the right foot. If you see something I need to correct, or if you have any advice or tips for new comers in the world of blogging, please leave a comment or two.

Author: Derek Zar - If you like this article, please visit my blog at http://howbits.com.

How to Fake Alexa. Can I Fake My Alexa Ranking?

2008-02-12T23:28:00.002-06:00

You most likely found this post because you were thinking to yourself... Can I Fake My Alexa Ranking? So you decided to search for information on How to Fake Alexa. In today's free home business tip you will find out how to increase your Alexa rank...

Right now I am going to show you how to fake Alexa. Next time you say to yourself, "How Can I Fake My Alexa Ranking?" You will know the answer! I’ll show you how to fake your Alexa rank so you can quickly get a low Alexa rank for your new site even though most people think that is not possible.

Let me clear something up right away... I cannot actually fake my Alexa rank and you can't fake your Alexa rank either. But there are definitely some things you can do to boost it. This isn't exactly how to fake Alexa but it is as close as you can get.

To give yourself a nice boost in Alexa rank, one thing you can do is write a post about how to fake Alexa. Yes, that is exactly what I am doing right now!

You see, "How to fake Alexa" is one of the top things that bloggers and other webmasters search for because they know having a good Alexa rank is can be very important to their success. So the whole reason for this post is to get ranked for the keyword phrase How to Fake Alexa and get as many people here as possible looking for tips on boosting Alexa rank. This will, in turn, help my Alexa ranking.

Can I fake my Alexa Rank? No, I can't.

At least to my knowledge there are no methods on How to Fake Alexa. There are no real ways to fake Alexa so you will just have to live with that fact. But you can easily increase your Alexa rank by doing some things such as what I am doing right now.

This is the best method I have found for lowering your Alexa rank as quickly as possible. Like I said before, I am going to keep using keyword phrases related How To Fake Alexa so I can get this post ranked as highly as possible and lower my Alexa rank from all the traffic I get from internet marketers, webmasters, and bloggers.

Doing this will attract the attention of people who know what Alexa is, such as; internet marketers, bloggers, and webmasters. They will come here trying to figure out how I can fake my Alexa rank and hopefully learn how to fake Alexa themselves. And that's perfect because these are the people I want to come here because they are the ones who will probably have the Alexa toolbar installed.

If you aren't even sure what Alexa rank is, the simplest way to define it is that the Alexa rank is a ranking system that bases its ranking on the amount of traffic a website receives from people who have the Alexa toolbar installed. The Alexa ranking tends to be highly skewed towards websites that get most of their traffic from internet marketers, webmasters, bloggers, and other technical people. This is because these people are much more likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed than your average internet user.

Your Alexa rank is used by internet marketers, webmasters, and potential advertisers as one of the factors in determining the value of your website. Simply put, the value of a link on your website, an ad on your site, or the monetary value of your site as a whole is very much related to your Alexa rank.

So you definitely want to have a good Alexa rank. And like I mentioned before, the best way to fake Alexa rank is to get tons of people who have the Alexa toolbar installed on their browser to visit your website.

By attracting internet marketers and other web savvy people who have the Alexa toolbar installed, you will be able to increase your own Alexa rank. That's exactly how I will be able to bring my Alexa ranking way down by making a post like this. Because when internet marketers come to see if I really do know how to fake Alexa rank, they will be helping me lower my own Alexa ranking.

To be honest, the ability to attract as many Alexa toolbar users here to the free home business tips blog as possible will artificially enhance my Alexa ranking and that is really how I can fake my Alexa rank.

One other great strategy that I can give you on how to fake Alexa is to simply install the toolbar on your own browser and set your website as your start up home page. And visit your own site as much as possible. Yes, your visits do count toward your Alexa rank. Every little bit helps.

If you are reading this post and have the Alexa toolbar installed, then I want to thank you for helping to increase my Alexa rank! If you don’t have the Alexa toolbar installed then you really need to because it is an important part of any online business.

If you need to get the Alexa toolbar you can get it here: Install Alexa Toolbar

So, to conclude this post I want to leave you with a couple thoughts... Can I Fake My Alexa Ranking? No. Are there any methods out there on How to Fake Alexa? No, not really. But I have given you some ways to boost your Alexa ranking so go give it a shot.

Make sure you install the Alexa toolbar right away to help your Alexa rank every time you visit your own site. And since I taught you how to do this, I would appreciate you coming back here after you get it installed to help my Alexa rank too. Thanks!

The Best Make Money Online Information You Will Ever Find!

2008-01-23T15:55:00.000-06:00

There are thousands of make money online blogs on the internet. Some of them are very well known and we all visit them frequently, but if you really think about it, most of them don't really give much money making information that we can actually use.

There is now a blogger who has changed that. His name is Vic and his blog is called Blogger Unleashed. The name fits perfectly because he truly is like a hungry rabid dog that has been "unleashed" and is now tearing up the make money online niche.

Some words that come to mind when I think of Vic and his Blogger Unleashed blog are: Informative, Useful, Valuable, Entertaining, Real, Honest, Blunt, and Brutal.

This guy holds nothing back when it comes to giving real money making advice. He doesn't care what anyone thinks, he just tells it like it is.

If you are easily offended then maybe this blog isn't for you, because Vic is not shy about dropping four letter words, usually beginning with F, or calling out other bloggers for giving false or flat out stupid information. But he cuts through the crap and gives online money making tips that most well-known blogger won't give.

I've been an internet marketer for almost 5 years and I make a pretty darn good living online. I thought I pretty much knew it all when it comes to making money online but Vic's posts have shown me that I definitely did not! He has taught me more in the past couple months than all the other blogs, forums, and information products combined have in the past year.

Actually he is probably pissing off a lot of so called "experts" and top bloggers because he is giving away all the online money making secrets for free.

I was going to list some of my favorite posts from Blogger Unleashed here but as I started going through them I realized there are just too many great ones and the list would have been too long. So I suggest going through his archives and finding your own favorites.

Be sure to read the comments under each post because even the comments on most of his posts are a goldmine for money making information you can use.

Why Blogger Unleashed is not on the 45n5.com top 100 make money online blogs list is beyond me. You could easily make the argument that it is the #1 make money online blog, and I don't think anyone would disagree that it's at least one of the top blogs.

Update: I was contacted by the owner of 45n5.com after he read this post and he has now added Blogger Unleashed to the Top 100 Make Money Online Blogs list.

To put everything I said above into one sentence...

You'd be wise to save Blogger Unleashed in your favorites and visit it often!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Owner of Free Home Business Tips

Reciprocal Links Aren't Dead - Stop Believing This Crap!

2008-01-21T16:37:00.000-06:00

Reciprocal Linking is a topic that I have been meaning to write about for a long time but never have for one reason or another.

One of my favorite bloggers, Courtney Tuttle, posted on the subject of exchanging links in a recent post, Building Authority With Blogroll/Sitewide Link Exchange.

So I figured this is the perfect time for me to put in my thoughts about reciprocal linking and confirm what Court discussed in his post.

Just about everywhere you read these days you will find the "experts" saying that reciprocal linking (exchanging links) is dead. I am here to tell you that is NOT true!

Sure it might not be as effective as it once was but that doesn't mean it's dead and doesn't work at all anymore.

Think about it, when you exchange links you are still getting an inbound link from another website and search engines do like inbound links. It's not as good as a site simply linking to you without a reciprocal link, but it's better than nothing.

I know this for a fact because I have built very high search engine rankings for many of my websites and blogs, and a large part of how that happened was through reciprocal linking.

Plus, high search engine rankings are not the only way to get traffic to a website. There is still a little thing called humans who click links on one site to take them to another site. Doing link exchanges with other sites gives you a link on their site that people can click on to visit your site.

Now don't go reciprocal linking with any site that will accept your link exchange request. That method certainly does not work anymore! If you want to use reciprocal linking to your advantage then you must only exchange links with quality sites that are somewhat related to yours.

What does that last paragraph mean?

I suppose "quality" is a relative term and will be seen differently in each individual. However, you can usually tell a quality site fairly easily. Does it provide any useful content? Is it loaded with ads and not much substance? Is it ranked in search engines? Does it have any PR? Are they spammy? What kinds of sites do they link to? Etc... Look at these factors and you will be able to determine how quality a site is.

As for "related" that is very easy to define. Basically that just means that you don't want to be exchanging links with sites that have nothing to do with the topic of your site. If your site teaches people how to make money online then you don't want to do link exchanges with sites about dog training. They have nothing to do with each other. Instead, you will want to exchange links with sites about home business, working at home, internet income, making money, and others similar to these topics.

One more thing you want to be sure of when reciprocal linking is that your links have a good anchor text on them. Again if your site is about making money online then you want that for your anchor text instead of your name or simply the URL of your home page. For example, my home page is http://www.work-at-home-jobs-iowa.com and my site is about home business so I would want my reciprocal link on their site to look like this - home business. Doing so will help you improve your search engine rankings for your keywords and will also tell any potential visitor what your site is about.

Before I end, I want to send you to another post on one of my favorite internet marketing blogs. It is also about link building. It's not actually about doing direct reciprocal linking but something similar with a different twist. Here you go: Link Building - Leveraging Pre-Existing Sites to Build Authority

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Owner of Free Home Business Tips

Online Home Business Goals for 2008

2008-01-16T16:08:00.000-06:00

Let me first start this post by wishing you all a very happy new year!

Since about the middle of December I have not been online very much at all with the holidays, vacations, and just flat out laziness (yes I can admit it). I apologize for the lack of posting but I am back now and will be regularly updating with free home business tips and online money making advice just like I always have.

What I want to talk about in this post is business goals for 2008. What I plan to accomplish with my business this year and also where you want to take your business.

In 2007 I focused mainly on creating info products and getting my existing home business sites more authority and higher search engine rankings. This year I plan to focus more on building new websites and niche blogs.

I have been reading a lot of Vic's posts over at Blogger Unleashed and Grizzly's posts at How to Make Money Online, and they have put a whole new perspective on where I want to take my online business.

Up until now I have mainly focused on topics such as; home based business, work at home, make money online and other similar niches. There's not necessarily anything wrong with that, I have built a very profitable online business that I am extremely proud of. However, these are some of the hardest niches to build a profitable online business in and they take a lot of hard work to get anywhere.

Thanks to all the great advice from Vic and Grizzly, this year I will be spending more time expanding into other niches that are much easier to profit in with a lot less work. Of course, I will continue in the make money online niche as I always have, but will not put all my effort towards it.

Doing this will take my online business to new heights. By focusing on smaller, easier, and more profitable niches, I should be able to at least double my profits from last year without working much more than I do now.

So, where do you want to take your online business this year? Have you thought about it? If not, it's time to sit down and figure out what you want to accomplish in 2008.

Get started on it right now! This is very important to your online business success. Running into the new year without a plan or any specific goals will only leave you disappointed next December when you realize your home business didn't grow and your profits are slim.

Here's to a profitable year for all of you in 2008!

Dedicated to your online business success,
Trent Brownrigg
Free Home Business Tips

3 Idiot Proof Home Business Success Tips

2007-12-20T23:09:00.000-06:00

Starting a home business and turning it into a long-term profitable business venture is the dream of millions of people. Many pursue that dream and succeed; others fail and give up, but most never even try.

Remember you can't build a successful home business if you never even try and you certainly aren't going to get far if you can't get up from your failures. You are in control of your own destiny. You have the freedom to choose success, failure, or just keep cruising through life on your safe wagon never going up or down.

Below I have given you three idiot proof home business success tips. They are the basis for creating any long-term profitable business. If you follow and stick with them, you won't fail.

Idiot Proof Tip #1 - Promote high converting products with large profit margins.

It's very hard to make a living if you are only selling products that make you a few dollars profit per sale. If you want to build a profitable home business you should be promoting products that make you at least $25.00 profit per sale. Remember, that this is what you need to make in profit so you must factor in your expenses and make at least that much extra per sale.

Idiot Proof Tip #2 - Take the time to create high converting marketing material.

You can have the best home business in the world but if your sales material does not bring in any visitors and then convert them into paying customers, you will not make money. Marketing is the life of your home business so this is very important!

Your advertisements, salesletters, promotional emails, affiliate marketing material, articles, etc... All need to work for you and bring in results. If you are not good at writing good sales copy then hire someone to do it for you or take the time to learn how to do it yourself.

Idiot Proof Tip #3 - Automate your home business as much as possible.

If you want to actually have any time to enjoy yourself then you will need to automate your home business as much as possible. Not to mention the fact that this will help tremendously in increasing your profits and free up time for other business tasks that actually help you to make money.

Autoresponders, outsourcing, and PLR are three great ways to save you a ton of time and increase your income potential. By automating your business and using pre-existing resources available, you can concentrate on the part of your home business you really enjoy... Making Money!

Follow these three home business tips like your life depends on it and you will have a successful home business. But before you can even begin to follow these tips you first have to take action and get starting on making your dreams come true. Stop sitting there waiting for the right time because that time is now!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Free Money Making Tips

Stop the Money Making Hype - Get the Facts!

2007-12-13T10:54:00.000-06:00

In keeping with the theme of my last post, I wanted to expand a little more on this topic and give you some ways to help protect yourself from money making lies...

We see them all the time; sales pages that simply blow our minds with amazing promises of insane amounts of money. I saw one just the other day that started out something like this:

“Earn $8,500+ Every Day!”

“No Website, No Selling, No Recruiting, You Can't Fail”

And then it went on and on about how this was a money making system where you don't even have to work. They will do all the work for you and all you have to do is sit at home and collect your money.

Do you actually believe this is true?

If you don’t, good for you! If you do believe this crap, I am extremely disappointed. I truly hope you never believe something like that.

The sad part is that crap like this gets sold to us each and every day. The sales pages are loaded with blatant lies and outrageous promises. And the reason that these sites get away with this crap is because there are always new people coming into the work at home marketplace and falling for it.

You don't have to fall victim to this work at home hype because there is a simple solution to this problem... Instead of believing everything you read, take it upon yourself to get the facts. If they won't give you the facts then you know that the person has something to hide.

While this might sound easier said than done, it really isn't. You just need to have the nerve to approach the site owners and ask them some questions about their money making product. What kind of questions should you ask? Here are a few to get you started:

Question #1 - What exactly do I have to do to make money?

This is probably one of the toughest questions to get answered. One reason for that is the owners only make money if you buy into their program so they don't want to give anything away before you buy. But if they have a legitimate and honest online business they will be happy to answer that for you.

Another reason is because in order for you to make money in many programs, you have to recruit people into the program itself. Also, you might actually have to pay to upgrade before you even qualify to earn. Many money making programs don’t pay their free members. So, while they say you can join for free, what they don’t tell you is that in order to earn you must become a paid member.

Question #2 - Are there any additional costs?

This is related to the above problem with having to be a paid member in order to make money. Some programs also require you to buy “product” before you qualify to earn. So it's your job to find out if there are any additional costs before you join the program.

Question #3 - Can I see proof of income?

Another thing you want to do is ask for proof of their earnings with this system, not money that they made just because they sold it. You will very often find people showing you huge amounts of money that they made. But if you dig deeper you will find it’s not because of the system itself, it’s all the money they made by selling the system. For all you know the system could be worthless.

Question #4 - Are the testimonials real?

If there are any testimonials on the site they will usually post a link to the person’s site who gave the testimonial. Visit their sites and contact them to ask if their testimonials are real and if they still recommend the product. They have nothing to lose by giving you their honest opinion so this is a great way to get a true outside perspective on the product.

The bottom line is this... Don’t blindly jump into any money making program. You have the right to ask questions and get all the answers that you need before you put your time, effort, and money into a work at home opportunity. If they don't provide you with the answers you need or you simply don’t like the answers you’ve been given, then stay away from that program and find another one.

There are plenty of legitimate online opportunities so don't settle for anything you are unsure of.

Forget the money making hype… Get the facts!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
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Why Are You Attracted To Money Making Lies?

2007-12-11T19:31:00.000-06:00

There was a question I answered today on a work at home forum I moderate and I wanted to share it for you as well...

Why are people so easily attracted to promises of making money fast when they know they can get scammed by a get rich quick scheme?

People are attracted to promises of making money fast because just about everyone wants to get rich quickly and they let themselves believe that it's possible. And the people who create these programs and opportunities know all they have to do is make outrageous promises of wealth and there will always be plenty of unsuspecting victims willing to send their hard earned money.

The people who fall for these get rich quick schemes have no idea they are jumping into something that is bound to leave them broke and confused. The website looks legit and they are blinded by the thoughts of making incredible amounts of money in a short amount of time.

However, they inevitably fail or get outright scammed and they soon find out that getting rich quickly isn't going to happen.

Making money online is a long road full of pot holes, speed bumps, and construction. It's not an easy journey and anybody that tells you that you will get rich quick is flat out lying to you!

Only a very small percentage of people who start on the journey to make money online are able to quickly find a high amount of success. The chances of it happening are slim to none.

I have been Making Money Online as an internet marketer for almost 5 years and even now I am far from being rich. In my time as an internet marketer I have seen countless people start with high aspirations and then quickly fade away. The reason is almost always because they came in thinking they were going to make money online quickly and easily, but it never happened.

Please don't get caught up in the hype of getting rich quick! It will almost certainly end in disappointment.

Don't get me wrong, you can make money online! There are plenty of people making a great living on the internet. I make my entire income online and I know many others who do as well. Just don't expect it to come quickly or easily. You will have to put in a lot of time and hard work before you are rewarded.

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
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Secret Project Finally Launched - Plus $500 Giveaway

2007-12-10T21:25:00.000-06:00

One of my friends, George Manty, from Can I Make Big Money Online has finally unveiled his long-awaited top secret project. It's called "Barter Genius" and it's a great way to get the things you need but can't afford.

Even I wasn't let in on this secret a minute early. I had no idea what it was until yesterday when he launched it. Now that I do know what it is, I personally think it's a spectacular idea! It really is Genius. I just wish I would have thought of it.

What is Barter Genius all about? Here's what George has to say...

Just imagine being able to get the professional help you need without spending lots of money. So many new online business owners don’t have the money or skills to do everything they need to succeed. With Barter Genius you can trade your skills for the skills of others. Not only that, but if you want you can trade your skills for almost anything else imaginable (vacations, clothes, cars, hotel rooms…). You name it; it’s probably available to trade.

You can read more about it on his blog post.

Wait! That's not all...

George is also holding a contest for this new site. He's giving away $500 to one lucky winner! For more details about how you can enter the contest and have your chance to win $500 just click here.

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Home Business

10 Internet Marketing Principles for Your Home Business

2007-12-05T18:13:00.000-06:00

Below I have listed ten principles of internet marketing that you can use to build a successful home business online. They are not in any order of importance but all are very important!

1) Give your website visitors lots of quality information. Give them content that they will learn from and that they can actually use. They key here is to provide exceptional quality without charging for it. Writing in-depth articles and lessons for them based on topics in your home business niche are great ways to do this. Internet marketing success is largely about freely giving and helping others.

2) Stick to the theme of your home business website. For example, if your website is about making money online then you should only provide information and resources about that and similar topics. These can be topics such as; home based business, work at home, business opportunities, home jobs, online business, internet marketing, affiliate marketing, niche marketing, blogging, etc...

As you can see they all have a similar theme related to making money online. People coming to a site like this don't want to read about car racing or fantasy football or anything else completely unrelated. You will lose business fast if you don't have a noticeable theme to your site and stick to it. This is one of the main internet marketing principles.

3) Build your list. One of the things you will hear very often in the internet marketing world is, "the money is in the list" and it's true. Building a list is one significant part of building a successful home business. One great way to build your list is to offer a free ebook, an e-course, a newsletter or something else valuable to your visitors in exchange for their email address.

Another powerful way to multiply your subscriber list is to form joint ventures with other internet marketers, swap ads with each other telling your subscribers to join their list and vice versa. Most internet marketers know the huge benefits of doing this and many are willing to agree.

One important point to remember about building a list is that it's not necessarily the size of the list that matters; it's how responsive they are. You need to form a great relationship with your subscribers. Send them valuable information and resources on a set schedule and put your personality into the emails. Give lots of value and keep giving it unconditionally. Your goal is to have them begging for your emails! Then you will reap the rewards.

4) Give freebies. As I stated above, success with internet marketing has a lot to do with how much you give freely. One great way to create a buzz about your home business and establish yourself as a well-known and respect member of the internet marketing community is to create ebooks and give them away for free.

Write an ebook that is loaded with quality, useful information, tons of tips, and valuable resources. Make it valuable enough that you could sell it for a great profit, but give it away for free instead. Doing this will sky-rocket your profits more than you can ever imagine when it comes time for you to actually sell a product.

5) Create a plan. Have you ever heard that if you fail to plan then you plan to fail? This is very true when trying to build a successful home business. You must know where you want to go and how you are going to get there. There are many internet marketers who are more than willing to help you plan your home business, whether it's in the form of a product they have created or by actually helping you personally. Take what you learn, adapt it to your needs, and create a home business plan for yourself.

6) Start a blog. Home business blogs (like the one you are reading) are a great way to quickly and easily publish content to your website. Search engines love them because they are updated frequently and so do people. Plus, internet marketers typically link to blogs much more often than they do regular websites so it's easier to get inbound links, high search engine rankings, and more traffic. And there are several blogging communities, such as MyBlogLog that you can become a part of to connect with other bloggers and increase the readership of your blog.

7) Get affiliates. When you create products or services be sure to add an affiliate program for them and get as many affiliates as possible marketing for you. Top internet marketers know that it is much easier to build a successful home business when you have an army of affiliates promoting your products and making money for you.

There is only so much you can do yourself and having hundreds of affiliates helping you out is an incredible way to leverage the work of others for mutual benefit. Offer them at least 50% commissions on each sale. I recommend even higher. The more you pay the more affiliates you will get. Even after paying them such a high commission you'll still make a lot more money then you would without affiliates selling for you.

8) Make friends. Forming relationships with other internet marketers is one of the most vital parts of building a home business. Networking is a key factor of success. The more online business friends you make, the better your chances for finding JV partners, affiliates, and getting your name known to the world. Once you build up a nice entourage your business will hit new heights and it will be much easier to launch any of your new projects.

Plus, having internet marketing friends will make your "job" more satisfying. Running an online business can be very lonely since you don't have any co-workers or anyone else around all day to chat with. Having online friends at least allows you to have a little conversation on a daily basis. Admittedly, it is through a computer screen but it's better than nothing.

9) Get your visitors involved. Allowing your website visitors to get involved is a great way to bring back repeat visitors, build relationships, and also increase your sites content without writing it yourself. Some of the best ways to do this are by adding forums or message boards, allowing blog comments, surveys, and accepting article submissions. Getting them involved may also give you valuable feedback to help you improve your business.

10) Market/Advertise/Promote. Although these are technically three different things, they are closely related and often referred to collectively, so I am putting them here together under "marketing." There are hundreds of ways to market your business and yourself on the internet. Some of the more popular methods include: Article marketing, advertising on other websites, PPC, buying text links, forums, link exchanges, SEO, ezines, blog reviews, online classifieds, etc... and there are tons more.

Each of those marketing methods would take their own article to explain in-depth, so I am not going to do that here. If you need more information on any of them, you can find many internet marketing articles and blog posts on this website talking about each of them. Or just do a search on Google.

Alright, there you have it! If you apply each of these ten internet marketing principles to your home business on a regular and consistent basis, you will soon find yourself very successful!

Ok that's it for today's home business tips.

Do you have anything to add to this post or any questions about it? If so, please leave a comment below.

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
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