14. Fill as much of it in as possible
Remember, you can always come back and add, or subtract
information. It’s usually something people don’t do often though, so
spending those extra few minutes at sign up to create a proper profile is
well worth it.
15. Security from the outset
We talk more about security later, but some people join Facebook
simply to keep up with a tiny group of friends – if you’re one of these
people, then you will want to ensure your security is as tight as can be
(see security and privacy)
16. Finding friends, colleagues and ‘fan’ pages
Facebook has made it fairly easy to find people and add them, but in
the mix with the people you can find are fan pages – which are like mini
profiles (we talk about these more in section) and groups. It’s important
to remember that people, such as authors or local personalities may
have multiple listings in search results, so you may need to contact
them and ask which to add. You also have to take one extra step to
make sure people can find you. You can currently have 5,000 friends
total.
17. Searches
Searching by name may bring back dozens of results, so if you know
the person well enough, find out what email they use and add them via
that. Adding people via email is often easier than searches too because
it means you’re certain you’ve got the right person, without opening
yourself up to unwanted attention. If you add someone that isn’t
actually the person you wanted to add, they can see your profile.

18. Adding people via friends

If you’re a close knit group of friends, or a new group that met through
University or similar pursuit, it’s normally ok to go through another
friend’s list and find those that you know, but don’t abuse this – adding
everyone from every friend’s list can get you flagged as a spammer by
Facebook.
19.More than one profile?
Be careful not to create more than one Facebook page – it’s against
their TOS and can lead to confusion when people add you. It is possible
to create a main account and make the rest of your ‘accounts’ as pages,
but again be careful – Facebook has a policy about fake pages, fake
names or abusing that facility.
20.Fan pages too much for you?
You can hide fan page (and app, and even ‘friend’ updates) from view
easily by setting your feed up (we talk more about this in the feed
management section). Hiding fan pages, even temporarily, can let you
get your Facebook reading back under control, and let you decide
whether you want to follow them long term.
21.Removing friends, or pages
Removing friends is easy – you just go into your friends list and click the
x beside their name. You can find your friend list by looking at the left
column of your main feed based Facebook page. Or you can go to
‘Account’ and then ‘edit Friends’
You can remove pages in a similar way, in ‘Edit friends’ then scrolling
down to around the middle of the page and clicking on ‘pages’ (it has an
orange flag next to it).

We finished at number 8 so lets continue.

9. Profile information – personal information
Many people don’t list all of their hobbies- instead list the ones you’re
interested in attracting friends for. If you’ve got a ‘guilty pleasure’
remember that people may be able to access your information, even
before you add them, so you may not want to publish that. The boxes
in this section are entirely optional.
10.Contact information
One of the boxes you can fill in is ‘contact information’. Be aware that
depending on your security settings (see security and privacy) you may
then place your ID out in the ‘open’ which can open you up to spam or
bot contact.
11. Profile information – Network
If you’re interested in chatting with, or meeting up with people in your
region, you can add where you life and join that ‘uber-group’. Some
require email addresses or other information that ‘proves’ affiliation, but
Facebook has recently improved that interface, so it works very well.
Your network affiliation is listed on your profile, unless you change the
security settings (see security and privacy)
12.Profile information – friends
As we’ll explain later, you can keep those that you’ve added from
appearing in your search, but your friends list is always visible. Be
careful when adding ‘controversial’ people in your life, as it’s very easy
for other friends to use your list to find others to add – the only
exception to this is if you add someone with extremely tight security
settings
13. Profile information – relationships
Facebook allows the listing of relationships in your profile – but until the
person you’re in a relationship confirms it; you will only be listed as in a
relationship. Otherwise you will be tagged as ‘in a relationship’ but not
with whom.

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Facebook. Having passed the $1 billion revenue mark some time ago, Facebook is now closing in on 1 billion users. The company claimed 800 million users in September, so it’s not surprising that claiming membership of one-seventh of humanity is now within the social network’s grasp.

Facebook is a great platform for meeting friends, creating a following for your hobby, service, or project, and for relaxing. There’s an app for every taste, and several of them are incredibly fun and addictive.
These 101 tips will get you navigating Facebook like a pro in no time.

Over the next few weeks I will be giving you 101 Facebook Tips. If you are into Facebook you may find that there are a few new things here. If you are new to Facebook then just go through each step in order, don’t be tempted to jump all over the shop. As I said theses Tips will come out weekly.

Part 1 – finding friends and influencing people
Depending on why you join Facebook, you may find it easy to make
friends, or may only have it to stay in touch with friends in distant parts
of the world. No matter what you do, signing up can be a process that
will take up to a couple of hours (including your profile).
1. Signing up
Your own name
You should use your own name or your nickname if people use it more
commonly, to sign up. It’s important to ensure that your friends, family
and colleagues can find you easily.
2. Your email
Facebook sends out a lot of notifications once you start signing up with
various groups and fan pages, apps and even comments. But people
can also find you by your email, so you should probably use a personal
email account. Check it frequently for friend requests and more. It has
to be real though, because Facebook uses it and sometimes your
mobile number to verify who you are.
3. Read the terms and conditions
You should always read the terms and conditions on any site, and
Facebook is no exception, though, it should be noted that Facebook
frequently updates it’s TOS causing a lot of outrage in the community.
Know where your rights are and read their documentation.

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Due to the massive interest that I have had relating to the Privacy Policy I have I have decided to give you guys the link to create your own.

http://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/

Hook into it and set up your very own Privacy Policy for your web site – it’s a must have for all credible sites.

Enjoy.

Happy New Year.

2012 has just commenced and I hope that you are on fire to grow your online business to the next level.

For your own sake please have a look at this video.  “Making It Happen in 2012″ created by Steven Clayton.

This video is 13 minutes long. Be encouraged as you to watch the video. You will discover: – The 4 main methods that people use to make money online – The 3 important components that is needed to make money online – Why Planning is crucial – Why you should have a partner in this business – And more.
Do watch it as I hope it will inspires you to have the right mindset and take massive action.

http://www.clickbank.com/blog/2011/12/29/making-it-happen-in-2012/

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My goal with this site is to provide a collection of resources and information from the internet to bloggers who wish to gain a better understanding of how to make money online!

In other words providing information relating to making money online either with affiliate marketing or direct sales. In my blog we talk about domains, hosting, paydot.com and how to market your business as a new player in the market. There are links to free stuff and links that will provide you with adding to your tools required to make money online in this very competitive business of internet marketing.

I try to scour the internet and pull together the snippets of juicy morsels and put them together for my readers. Some readers like that fact that I place this information on my site and others just comment that they might have seen it elsewhere. I get 100′s of emails daily from affiliate marketers. A lot of these guys are selling the latest “HOT” affiliate product so you could possibly receive multiple emails offering you these items. This is the nature on Internet marketing. Like it of lump it, it is here to stay.

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Your website is the front of your business. You should put as much thought into your virtual storefront as you would to the front window display at a traditional store on Main Street. Your website needs to attract customers and keep them coming back.

1. A visitor to your website typically has an attention span of only a few seconds. That means your website must “hook” them in that amount of time. Make sure the first thing they see/notice is something of interest. Its the same thing with a magazine. Where does you eye go first? How about getting a friend to have a look at your website, get them to be critical. What captures there eye first. Is it where you want the eye to be?.

2. Is your website telling a story – in other words can you identify what your business is about? Can the viewer see what you are about, or is it so cluttered that it has moved away from it’s theme.

3. OK so we are on your page trying to have a look around. Is it easy to navigate your page or do you have to scroll all over the place to read content & view offers. Lets face it you might be giving away a free Ferrari but if no one can find out how to get it then you have lost the visitor. The visitor must feel that it is worth their time to keep visiting your site. They are willing to invest time and effort into your business then you better show some respect and make sure you have something worthwhile to offer them in content.

4. If your website is too busy or jarring, you will lose visitors. Take time to coordinate colors and to implement high-quality images. Make it pleasing to the eye. However in saying that if you happen to have a site for promoting Flower Power from the 60′s then maybe your site will be different. Keep in mind the type of font style and size also. Try to keep all these points in keeping with the theme and image you wish to portray. This goes for color schemes also.

* More than happy to look at your website – shoot me your web page details but make sure you tell me to have a look and comment otherwise your comment will end up in my spam folder – cheers.

Place your Ad on..

Get your site listed in the search engine directories is a fantastic way to give your site a boost in link popularity and improve search engine ranking in other search engines. Its free and its creative. Get listed on as many of these sites as possible. Yeah I know it takes time and there are quite a few but it will be worth the effort.

While you are at it look at other blogs that you are interested in keeping in contact with and get involved with that blog. Be constructive, be helpful and be encouraging.

Paid Directories worth the money

We Love Advertising

Ever heard of affiliate programs? These are forms of Internet advertising that rewards the affiliates for driving traffic to the advertiser or for other transactions. The advertiser pays the affiliate to place a link on their website, and the affiliate sends traffic to the advertiser in return. Simply put, it’s about paying commissions to people who help you make sales. It’s that easy. NOT.

Affiliate marketing has its ups and downs. It could be draining if you are not armed with updated information and the technical how-tos. But this article’s sole objective is to reach out to you and not to badmouth affiliate marketing.

Here are the following reasons on why web marketers go gaga over affiliate marketing as a form of Internet advertisement.

1. Low cost

Many are scared to go on a home based business because of the capital required. In affiliate marketing, you don’t have to spend much to start raking in moolah.

2. Inventories not included

Product management fuss could be very stressing. An inventory is not asked to be maintained. The merchant does the maintenance required.

3. Unlimited income through leverage

When you have a paid job, your monthly income mainly relies on whether you go to work or not. With affiliate marketing, your affiliates could all just lead traffic to your site without having to lift a finger after providing them your ad copy and links. Though not every web marketer earns limitless, it still is a fact that all the necessary matters for the advertiser or Internet marketer are all there to be successful.

4. Go worldwide

With affiliate marketing, you are dealing with a global market place. All you have to do is choose a niche product and prepare all the necessary tools for your affiliates to lead traffic from just about anywhere to your website.

5. Low risk

The very main reason for Internet marketer’s enthusiasm with affiliate marketing is its having a low risk factor. Especially for those with low budget set aside for advertising, affiliate marketing is just the way to do it.

6. No closing time

With affiliate marketing, your business works every single second of the day while targeting a worldwide market! What could be better than that?

But all of these will be put to waste if you don’t have the right niche product and all the other important tools to make it big in affiliate marketing, i.e., well-SEO-ed website. So better work on this first before ever considering those benefits.

Free Web Advertising

You have finished making your own website. You have introduced your company and presented your products and services. You have added propositions and promos to catch your target audience’s attention. You have achieved the dos and don’ts of building a company web site. But why isn’t your website a major success?

Maybe you’re not planning the key to the best promotion of your web site. Here are some guidelines on how to acquire free web site promotions for your company’s success.

If you have started to promote your web site, keep it constant. If you promote your site with persistence, it will catch your audience’s attention.

Be patient. Try each method in promotion until you acquire the best, free promotion there is. You have to accept trial and error for your web site to reach the top.

There are many ways for your web site to be seen. Here are some free web site promotions you could try until you find the most effective.

*Free promotions such as search engines and directories would give your web site the deserved traffic you always wanted.  Make sure to check your web site’s ranking to know whether or not this type of free promotion is right for you.

*Make a deal with other web sites on trading links which could help both web sites.  Make sure to use words that could easily interest the audience.

*Find free classified ads that could boost the promotion of your web site. These ads could be seen by other people who you are not targeting for, but may as well be interested in your services.

*Free and low-cost Internet banners are spread all through out the World Wide Web.  Banners that pop-up at the top of a page or in a separate window would automatically catch your target audience’s attention.

If your web site and its free promotion did not work even after accomplishing these methods, analyze your web site. Track down all visitors, advertisements, and transactions. Then locate errors in your web site. Upload new files to your web site continuously for audience to return for new products and services. Monitor your own web site if it’s up in the market or down.

Then be ready to try the methods again and surely it will work.

It has always been said that the best things in life are free. Yes they are. And as soon as your free web site promotion proves to the audience its worth, then you’ll believe it’s true.

Free Web Traffic

Best things in life are free, as many would say. This especially holds true with efforts in advertising one’s products or services. With free Internet marketing services, one can save a lot. Instead of shelling out for the marketing aspect of your product or services, that chunk of money could be put to other important elements of your business since many information websites now offer knowledge regarding Internet marketing services that comes with no price tag at all.

This is not to tell you that better focus on plain Internet marketing. It still will do your business a lot good if you mix traditional advertisement efforts such as traditional and new marketing media.

Here are few of the free methods that you could employ to make your products and services be in their most visible, thus saleable, form.

1. Promote your business through free search engine submission and optimization.

Submit your website to various search engines monthly. This will make many more people know that your website actually exists. Aiming for the top search engines will help a lot in this endeavor.

2. Improve your articles.

Remember that information on articles with good content as traffic-bringer of websites? This time it’s about making these articles serve your website better by using keyword suggestion tools that are offered for free. Update your web site’s content by regularly checking the standing of your keywords with the current market.

3. Acquire free content.

If you have no time to increase the SEO or search engine optimization-friendliness of your articles, you can look for free content from article directories. All you need to do is retain the resource box of those write-ups.

4. Avail of free comprehensive web traffic analyzers.

These are tools that you can make use of without costing you a cent. Your website’s hits statistics will be produced by this kind of Internet marketing tool for your own analysis.

5. Learn to manipulate web design templates.

You don’t have to be too techie-geeky to be able to design your web site. Oftentimes, web design templates or custom-made layouts are available for the Internet marketer to use.

6. Monitor your website’s visibility.

Tools such as search engine position trackers may be used to see your website’s standing.

These processes are very convenient to use as long as you keep in mind that you use and try to master their use for your own benefit. Just don’t get obsessed with your achievements when you finally learn how to use them and incorporate them in your Internet marketing feat.

Article Marketing - What's The point

Affiliate Marketing Without a Website

Having your own website to promote your affiliate products is a good option. But it is not necessary. There are many methods available that can be used to do your affiliate marketing business. The list is long, but the most important methods are email marketing, writing articles to e-groups, joining online discussions etc. Let us discuss some important methods that can be used to promote your affiliate products without having your own website.

Email Marketing

In this method you can promote your affiliate links and you don’t need your own website. People can click on your affiliate links present in your emails and can go directly to the merchant website to purchase the products.

Your email should contain the introduction about the product you are promoting and your affiliate links. Try to make your emails interesting and brief.

Try to expand your contact list. Use as many methods as you can to grab the email addresses of new people. Use online forums, chat forums etc to make new friends. Your email list must contain a few hundred contacts, at least. But don’t spam. Don’t send emails to the people who don’t know about you or who don’t want to receive your emails. Otherwise they will just block your emails and you will lose your contacts. As I said, your emails should be interesting to get the reader’s attention.

Offline Promotion

You can use the offline methods of promotion, like the classified ads, flyer’s etc. The best choice is the classified ads because its exposure is largest.

Writing free e-books

It is similar to email marketing. But in this method you will write the informative and interesting e-books and will send to the people via their email address. These e-books should be easy to read and helpful for their readers. The topics should be related to your affiliate products so that you can recommend the products in the body of e-books. Alternatively you can add a brief note about your affiliate products and affiliate links for promotion. If the readers like your e-book, they may visit the merchant website and make a purchase.

Writing in Forums

Search for some forums, at least three, that are related to your product and have high page rank. Register on these forums and start some discussion in the forum where maximum people are involved. Just post your questions there or answer some questions of other members. But don’t add any promotion text in the body of your posts. You are allowed to put your signature at the end of your post. Here you can write you name and your affiliate links.

When you become an active member of this forum then you may get some traffic from these forums to your merchant website through your affiliate links. This will ultimately result in more sales of the products you are promoting.

Writing Articles

You can write articles and publish them in the free article directories. You can embed your affiliate links in the text of your articles. If your articles are well formatted, informative and the article directory has large traffic then you can expect some good traffic to your affiliate links. And you know that more traffic on your affiliate links will result in more sales through your affiliate links.

Conclusion

The use of a website to promote your affiliate products is a good idea but it is not necessary. You can use the alternate methods to promote your affiliate products and links. The most popular among these methods are email marketing, writing to forums, article writing and offline promotion like classified ads. The main idea is that instead of promoting your website you will directly promote your affiliate links and people will directly go to the merchant website by clicking your affiliate links to purchase the products. This way you do not have to pay extra for your website creation and maintenance.

Clickbank

Tips for Clickbank Affiliates

Clickbank is a well known, reliable affiliate network. It is known as the best place to earn fast money as an affiliate. Clickbank’s fee is very reasonable and the tools and services they provide are great. All new affiliates are recommended to join Clickbank to start their business.

Clickbank deals with digital products which are downloadable on the internet. There is no requirement of any physical delivery. After you are registered with Clickbank as an affiliate, you can choose any product from the pool of available products to promote. There are more than ten thousand products currently available.
The sales commission offered by the merchants on Clickbank is usually very high and affiliates can make 50% per sale.

Thousands of affiliates have joined Clickbank and are earning an income on a regular basis. You shouldn’t hesitate in joining Clickbank if you want your business to take off!

Let me give you some tips while working with Clickbank.

Promote Your Products in Forums

Search for some forums, at least three, that are related to your product with a high page ranking. Register on these forums and just start a discussion in the forum where maximum people are involved. Post your questions there or answer some questions of other members. Do not add any promotion text in the body of your posts. You are allowed to put your signature at the end of your post. Here is where you can put you name, your website link and your affiliate products link.
When you become an active member of this forum then you may get some traffic from these forums to your website. And you may know that when your website is getting the hits from some high rank website, then the page rank of your website is also increased. In this way you will get a double advantage. One is the traffic and second is the higher page rank. This will ultimately result in more sales of the products you are promoting.

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Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is very beneficial both for merchants and affiliate marketers. It is a popular method to earn profits from the websites and also helps the merchants to increase their sales.

It is the cheapest business on the Internet that can make you the highest profit.

Lets us discuss some important benefits of affiliate marketing to affiliate marketers and merchants.

Benefits to affiliate marketer

1. No Need to create a product!

One important benefit of affiliate marketing is that you are not required create or produce any products.  It is the duty of merchants to create the products. So you are only required to select the products to sell, get the affiliate links and start your business in ten minutes. You can focus on selling the product as you don’t need to do anything with the production or delivery of the products.

2. You Can Start with No Money, or with as little as $100

Another important feature of affiliate marketing is that you can start your business with little or no out of pocket expense. This is the lowest possible investment in today’s world to start a business which has a great scope in the market. If you simply don’t have any money to invest, you can always use free tools to start your business.

3. The Easiest Online Business

It is the easiest online business due to the fact that the merchants do all the hard work like making products, delivering products to consumers, handling money transactions etc. Affiliate marketers are not responsible for any of these tasks. They just need to focus on promoting their affiliate links.

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Affiliate Marketing

So you have been wanting to get into affiliate marketing, and want to know the rules. You have your website and or blog all set up and ready to go. You have chosen your niche and market that you want to promote and make money off of. You just need links to start making money. Promoting other’s services and products is not something that is difficult to do. However, you will find that with all of the many companies that offer affiliate programs, and referral options, they all have their own rules that you must follow.

Affiliate marketing is pretty easy to follow, that is unless you have many different programs that you are a part of. When you start getting so many that you cannot remember the rules, or the guidelines that you have to follow, you might have a problem. This is because the rules for affiliate programs are as different as the companies. Each company is allowed to make their own rules. However, you might see many similarities. That does not mean that they are copying one another, or cloning their affiliate program so to speak, but yet it means that they have the same rules.

Affiliate marketing rules can be so very different. They can range from not mentioning the brand names that they sell anywhere on your website, to not have that particular market in your website URL. Because they are so different for each program and company that you promote, you are going to have to be sure that you read each one well and make sure that you understand it fully. If you all ready have your URL for your website, you may not be able to participate in some of the affiliate programs. This is because you will not meet the requirements for the rules.

Another rule that you are going to see often when you are into affiliate marketing is the page rank rule. Some of the companies that will allow you to promote their services or products will not want you to have a higher page rank than they do. Nor will they allow you to have a website that is higher in the search engine rankings. For example, if you were promoting coffee, and you wanted to become an affiliate for Folgers coffee. Your website would not be able to come up above the official Folgers coffee website in the search engine results when coffee, or Folgers coffee is used as the search term. The companies that have this rule in place for their affiliate marketing programs feel  as if your website were higher than theirs for the product that they are selling, that it would hurt their business tremendously. And, it just might. They would rather have the straight sales any day, than the commissioned sales. Who wouldn’t?

Keeping a spreadsheet of the affiliate marketing programs that you are a part of and their rules is a great idea. This way you are never confused and know just where you need to stand to be a part of that program. This is the best thing that you can do for your affiliate marketing business. Not only that, you will also find that some of the sites that have broken rules and have been caught have resulted in law suits. Cover your tracks and make sure that you are following the rules that are set by that company for the best results.

You will also find that there is a thing that is called affiliate marketing software. If you can find a program that fits your needs and will help you keep everything straight, you may not have to worry about keeping track of them yourself. Use your software to keep track and make sure that you are doing your affiliate marketing the right way. Your efforts will pay off eventually, and you will be glad that you went by the book and followed the necessary affiliate marketing rules.

Always learn to possess a simple but smart website. The design you give your website will determine how easy it will be to navigate it. Have a simple design that will enable your visitors to simply travel through your website so that they become familiar with what they are offering. An easy design can help Google to easily tell you and be able to find your site.

So “Keep It Simple”.

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to blog or not to blog

In case you keep a blog, you are supposed to write new materials on a regular basis. Adequate stated. There are loads of blogs which might be not obtaining adequate attention from readers only because of the reality that they tend not to have an adequate quantity of material on them. However, when you have been a blogger for any time period, you comprehend that that is mostly tied in to coming up with new tips to post about. This would provide you with the likelihood to make new weblog posts. It is not that simple to generate new content material if you do not know the direction in which you’re going.So what really should you do to produce this much less complicated? Whether or not you have a tiny blog geared toward individuals searching for “does revitol stretch mark cream work“ or a larger Internet site within the “Currency” niche, you’ll obtain these recommendations to be helpful.

Investigate Old Posts: If you have written posts that are about one topic, you can write other related posts. By analyzing previous posts, you will get that flicker of ideas that is needed to create new posts. For example, let’s say that you’re running a blog about “dog training”. You’ve already written an article about “dog training for beginners”. Today, you can produce a post that is just like it. It could be something such as mistakes that beginners make while training their dogs. The idea is to use your existing content to generate topics for your other blog posts.

Use Yahoo! Answers: As a blogger, you must be certain that you can locate subjects in your area of blogging. Besides, when you are research different resource, how can you overlook Yahoo Answers? You can scroll down through the various topics and find the ones that interest you. Usually, you will discover that people are searching for information about their particular problems. You will also get to see how these people’s questions are answered by other interested parties. This will also turn in to a good source of resource for your future blog submissions. You obviously will have to do other types of research too. But, basically, you will get a good background of information for what people need and how you should write about it.
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Click N' Bank

If you’ve been wondering how you can

make money online, then follow along and allow me to take you through the process. Follow these steps and you’ll be making a second or even a full time income in no time.

There are many ways to make money online, it’s just about knowing which method to select. Here I’m going to take you through some simple steps that will enable you to create either a nice second income for yourself, or even a full time income.

The very nature of the internet make it the perfect forum for advertising and for networking. This being the case, there are many people (myself included) who use it to sell other people’s products in order to bring in an income. The opportunities for earning commission are endless as there are so many merchants who are looking for a middle person to sell their products. This is what is known as ‘affiliate marketing’.

Each merchant could have hundreds of products for sale, and will offer a percentage of the sale in the form of commission to the person who sells his of her products. The products might be furniture, beauty products, digital products, electronic products or even telephone ring tones. The list is endless.

Step 1. Select a Product

All you need to do is to pick one of the products to start selling. I recommend that you visit a site such as Clickbank or Commission Junction. There are many merchants who are signed up to these affiliate networking sites and their products with commission rates are listed. You just need to pick something that you find interesting – ideally it might be related to something that you already know something about.

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Today I was hacked into by some nasty little person or persons. Basically the hacker overtook my password so that I could not log into my WordPress account.  Anyone trying to get into thebusinessshed.com website would automatically go to the hackers page. One vital word of advise – regularly change your password and make your password a good one.

Create strong passwords

Strong passwords are important for protection.

Keys to password strength: length and complexity

An ideal password is long and has letters, punctuation, symbols, and numbers.

• Whenever possible, use at least 14 characters or more.
• The greater the variety of characters in your password, the better.
• Use the entire keyboard, not just the letters and characters you use or see most often.

Create a strong password you can remember.

The Next Up On Our List is One That Always Seems To Have A Nice Ring To it… A Way To Accept Money!

4. A way to accept money online: I’m sure you have heard of a little company called: Paypal? Paypal is without a doubt the most used Merchant Payment Processor on the Internet! But Why? Well… this isn’t really an awesome reason, but… it’s because your potential customers already know, use, and trust Paypal. So no matter how great our ISP is… how perfect your autoresponder series is written… …or how professional our website looks. Without a way to “Sell” your product You Cannot make money! Pretty simple right..? So if you do not yet have a Paypal account, now is the time to head over to their website and Paypal is Free to use, but you will have to go one step farther than most in order to “receive” money. register an account. Once you have your Paypal Personal Account you need to “upgrade” your account to a Business Premier account.

This will allow others to SEND YOU Money. The Upgrade to a Business Primer Account is just an option – It doesn’t cost any money. Once you have your new Business Account all in place: You can create “Buy it Now” buttons, which you will of course put on your web page for your customers to click and purchase through (very simple)

Now Wasn’t That Simple?

I’ll never understand why our dear friends (the marketing gurus) feel the need to write 700 pages give 3 eBooks, and do 10 videos just to get across that you NEED these simple tools to make money online… So take it in: Do yourself a favor and go have a look at the websites mentioned above… -

Aweber

1 & 1 Hosting

Paypal

A Domain Name is www.YourSite.com a.k.a URL (universal resource locator) – A Web Host Connects Your Domain Name(url) To The Internet.

Webhost: I currently Use and Recommend justhost.com Why? Simple: Because unlike the majority of web hosts out there who use a back end administration called “CPanel”, was built for people who have absolutely No Experience building a website.

I think it’s safe to say… when learning to make money online. One of the biggest stepping stones is: Instead of taking on the more advanced “cpanel” where you need to know html, php, mysql, ssh, phpmyadmin, etc.

The Learning Curve Do yourself a favor and eliminate this stress in the beginning. justhost.com has a 24 hour, 7 day a week, 1-800# where expert techs will literally walk you through ANYTHING! Trust me, not being a web genius… I use these guys all the time. They Are Awesome! On top of that, they have tons of prebuilt website templates that you can instantly use and setup (they will walk you through the setup on the phone). For those who have never made a web page and don’t have a clue where to start, This is an absolute must.

Because let’s face it, if you have a web host… but can’t build a website to put your autoresponder sign up form on. Your pretty much dead in the water… So 1 & 1 web hosting is great because they have: – Child like simplicity when setting up prebuilt websites – 24/7 toll free technical support, with people who actually know what they’re talking about – Unlimited bandwidth (some web hosts only allow a certain amount of traffic ”customers”(bandwidth)) to your website – Great Rates (something like $3 a month) – 1 Free Domain Name with hosting Check out their website and see if they are right for you… I have been using and recommending justhost since 2002… if that says anything!

What’s The Number 1 Asset For An Online Business?
2. Your Autoresponder! I’m sure you have heard the old saying: The Money Is In The List…
This is absolute Truth in any
It is statistically proven that a consumer will not buy until they have seen a product 7 – 10 times! online business regardless of the Market/Niche.
Knowing this, it is absolutely imperative that you have a way to contact your potential customers.
But what happens when your subscriber list (potential customers) grows to the size of… 100? How about 500, or 5000?
Are you going to be able to physically send out an email to over 5000 people by hand? Of course the answer is: eh, no?
In this industry we use a tool called an auto responderIn this industry we use a tool called an auto responder to combat this problem.
You see, by using an auto responder you can collect your potential customers name and email and then send them “broadcasts” or “follow up messages” automatically!
You simple write a “series” of emails you would like each customer to receive, set how many days apart you would like the emails automatically sent…
… and every single person that “opts”(signs up) into your list/autoresponder, will automatically receive the email series that you have setup.
Do you see the power in that?
I literally have WebPages that I setup my “auto responder sign up forms” on years ago!
Those Sites to this day get visitors > the potential customer subscribes to my list (opts into my auto-responder) > receives my prewritten messages > and is sold the product their interested in 7 – 10 days later…
…ALL AUTOMATICALLY.

My Autoresponder builds a relationship between the potential customers automatically…
… Again, That’s the power of the internet!
The autoresponder I currently use and highly recommend is Aweber.
You can go to their website and do a little more due diligence. I’m pretty sure they do a $1 trial for 30 days or something like that…
… BUT! There is a huge key that works behind the scenes that a lot of people don’t know about.
You see, there are loads of different autoresponder services out there. But here’s the difference.
Aweber pays a Boat Ton of money to be: “White Listed”
Which is HUGE!
Without going too far into detail, basically Aweber Pays this “white listing service fee” to ensure that the email you send from your auto responder ACTUALLY goes into you Subscriber(“Subs”) email inbox, Not the Spam folder.
White listing is almost like being added to the customers email contact list. Making sure They Actually get the mail you send them.
That’s the difference!

If You Don’t Have These, Throw In The Towel

“The ‘Forgotten’ Newbie Training System That Is RIGHT 98.1% of the Time…”
An Absolute Newbie’s Guide To Making Money Online
“I Promise You, This is the Start!”
You either have these 4 things or you DON’T own an Online Business. PERIOD!
Upon completion of this guide (a quick 5 min read) you will have a solid start to create money online.
So No fluff, just the Stuff: Let’s Get into it!

Now Here: Learn The 4 Components You Must Have To Own An Online Business/Make Money Online
1. An Internet Service Provider(ISP):
This is pretty basic… I think we can move right past this one. Right?
Basically, if you don’t HAVE the internet
So, your internet service providers are companies like: Time Warner cable, Comcast, Verizon, etc. … it’s going to be hard to make money online.
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