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Don't be a "Follow up Failure"

harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:59:00 +0000

Bottom line: It is more cost effective to retain customers than to acquire them. Time to build plan of customer retention, don't fail to follow up!

It cost you plenty to build your customer base so don't waste the time and money by lacking a fresh and interesting series of follow up e-mails.
Out-smart your competition by Building Relationships with your client/customer/prospect list.

You need a reliable programed follow up to sell yourself and to identify your customer's interests. Successful internet marketing is being able to target your sales message and communication with your list. That follow up is necessary to build professional relationship. To effectively set up an e-mail retention campaign you need an autoresponder. Here are a few of the things an autoresponder can do for you.

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Going back to what makes your success, builds your prospects, sells your customers, puts clients on that list, TRAFFIC! {Read More on Traffic} Your success really starts with traffic to your web sites and sales pages. Lacking traffic will generate NO Revenue-Traffic builds visitors, visitors mean sales furnishing you revenue.

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Tips to Make E-Commerce Web Sites Better

harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:34:00 +0000

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E-commerce is becoming increasingly popular as more and more companies decide to take their businesses online. Not only can it act as a efficient revenue channel for businesses, it can also boost their existent sales figures by increasingly accessibility to the audiences.

Here are 8 tips that will help you make your e-commerce website better and more effective.

Make your website Interactive!

Your e-commerce website may have a great visual appeal but what customers really look forward to is the usability. Include tools and features that would help your customers interact with your website and understand your products better. Remember, the more they know about your products and their benefits, more are the chances that they'll buy them. So, include product reviews, interactive images, demo videos and even chat app where visitors can talk to an online customer care person.

Track Shopping Cart Abandoner

An abandoned shopping cart is not always a lost sale. Rather, you can use it as an opportunity to turn freebie hunting customers into actual revenue generating ones. If your customers are looking for some free stuff, tempt them with the same. Use the 'Get it for Free' model and make them buy products in order to receive free goodies.

Target your Email Campaigns

Different people have different interests and shopping patterns. This is why you need to segment your customers and divide them into groups based on their behavior or demographics and then send targeted email campaigns. The more targeted your audiences are, the more effective will the message of your newsletters be.

Use Google Alerts

Google Alerts will let you stay up to date with what is happening in your industry. Just include keywords pertaining to your line of business and industry along with your company name. You will get regular alerts about all the relevant news items and happenings.

Establish good Inbound Links

Inbound links determine the online popularity of your website. They not only attract traffic but also play a crucial role in determining the search engine ranking of your website. In fact, effective link building is one of the most important processes of SEO.

Think about Interactive Presentation

One factor that contributes to the uncertainty of online shopping from physical shopping is that customers cannot touch or feel a product as they can do in real life. You need to bridge this gap by providing big and neat interactive images so that they can experience the product just like they do in a retail store. Make sure all your products are presented in a organized manner accompanied with vibrant images and accurate descriptions.

Include Client6 Testimonials

Reviews and testimonials by clients go a long way in making new customers feel more confident about their purchase from your website. They increase the credibility of your business leading to lower shopping cart abandonment and higher overall revenue.

Do some Intensive SEO

Search engine optimization is important for all the website, especially so e-commerce website. This is what enhances the visibility of the website on the web and attracts more traffic. With intensive SEO procedures, you can be sure that you get relevant shoppers on your website and not just window shoppers. Hire professional SEO services to make this happen.

Author Resource:-> Kabir Bedi works as a senior web consultant with LeXolution IT Services, a professional web designing company that offers a range of web services including website maintenance and website design & development services. He helps the company deliver all these services efficiently and effectively.

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Traffic to your Web Sites-SEARCH ENGINES

harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:09:00 +0000

Here is a real easy, but profitable way to earn money from home. Everyone on the internet dealing in E-Commerce needs visitors, start your own traffic exchange.

Here is an outline of several ways to drive traffic to a web site with a short discussion and examples of some of the most active sites. Each merchants web site built will need use of as many options as time and experience can build.

A large number of "hits" can be obtained free by listing "key words" in Search Engines. Fortune 500 Companies list their web site links in Search Engines to drive traffic to their web sites for new business and acquiring new customers based on the specific items of interest they have listed.

A camera manufacture or retail outlet will list in search engines words that describe the products for sale on a web page by listing words that describe the web page that offers their products. When a prospective customer is looking online to find sources of supply the keywords will link right into their web site and lead the prospect to the sale page.

Search engines will charge for use of this shopping method, however, with work free space can be obtained and depending on the effort large numbers of new customers can be sent to any web site. An example of two major opportunities to list in search engines are listed here. Following the instructions a start at populating links to the web sites can be started. Free listings take time to drive traffic and most of the time renewing the listings every 30 days will pay the best dividends.

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Blogging for Profits...Solid Income

harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:36:00 +0000

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else''s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that''s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

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Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don''t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that''s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger''s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it''s sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it''s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it''s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it''s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

I hope you enjoyed my list of traffic tips. Everything listed above are techniques I’ve put into place myself for my blogs and have worked for me, however it''s certainly not a comprehensive list. There are many more things you can do. Finding readers is all about testing to see what works best for you and your audience and I have no doubt if you put your mind to it you will find a balance that works for you.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

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Made a contact, Now the real work begins

harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:48:00 +0000

Is selling or building a relationship the most important?

The Internet allows the gathering of a sale here and there, but the development of real and useful listing of clients is yet another task. The objective should be selling a product or service online. But wait, how much did that sale or contact cost?

A plan for repeat business and building a relationship for future profits is in order. Finding prospects and turning them into customers and then developing a long term client relationship will take time, but a lot less money than our original investment in the first sale.

Many times the successful marketing professional will lay out some bait, a free offer, a special discount or some type of bonus to get that first order. Why? The successful e-market professional knows it is important to complete that first sale, get a loyalty and trust underway in order to build a new business relationship. Just as a tree grows and branches out so can the success with one new client. Future orders, recommendations and most important, additional introduced contacts for future sales is at stake.

It is great to accumulate a long list of customers, but there is also the need for rewards to cultivate that list. A huge responsiblity is to care for the customers needs and to follow up on the sale. Additionally recording the experiences of the customers is mandated. Success is building this customer base of clients willing to give testimony to the great service and value of the products acquired. The added benefit is the clients willing to finding new customers and referring them for more business. The objective of making any list should be to build a relationship to make future meaningful contact and sales.

Network marketing requires building relationships and loyalty that comes only with satisfaction that a fair trade has taken place. E-commerce is the art of taking a prospect turning them into a customer and building a long term trusting relationship for mutual satisfaction and benefits.

Once the sale is consummated the real work begins. Building a mailing list and maintaining the connection into a useful and loyal client is one of the things that makes the Internet such a wonderful business. Think about this fact:

Using the Internet we have the means of immediate and inexpensive return contacts with our customers.

In the world of bricks and sticks too often the customer leaves the store and slips away never to be seen again. There are of course methods of retaining that priceless connection, but is it done? Or better yet, has the clerk or sales representative done the job of building a relationship?

The avenues of maintaining and building on our precious lists are varied, but in most cases, it is cheap and fast for repeat contact and additional profits online once we have established our initial contact. E-commerce affords us the opportunity of continued contact on each and every sale.

A simple thank you, a follow up for service , or a request for referral helps build a loyalty. A simple request for grading of our product or service builds us a step closer to that next sale. This is the base for referrals, testimonies, that are used to build credibility for future marketing and to put the client into a permanent relationship on a mailing list.

The bottom line is the need to be careful with each newly acquired contact, working to enhance the trust and confidence of this never seen customer.

In doing this, the right to ask for more business is established. It is possible that a meaningful exchange can take place where a newly enlisted customer will want to do business again. Even before another order is requested.

Once the sale is complete, the real sales work begins.

Bottom line: It is more cost effective to retain customers than to acquire them.

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The first letter should be set to go out immediately. The next 6 letters should be set at least 24 hour apart. Your follow up letters should stress the benefits of your offer. Features don't make sales, benefits do. Your first follow up letter should be a get acquainted email. Thank your prospect for requesting you software, ebook or report. This is the time to introduce yourself and let them know who you are and how to contact you. It's also important to have a bonus for prompt response. You have to create an urgent reason for them to act now.

In your second letter it's important to keep stressing the bonus for prompt response. You should also give more details on the benefits of your program. Most sales are lost because marketers don't give the reader enough information to give their program an accurate evaluation. You're like a skilled prosecutor. You're building your case with every letter. Your list of benefits are your evidence.

The third letter is the time to tell your story. Here's where you stress how the program has helped you. Let the reader know all the benefits you've received from the program. Also remind them of the prompt response bonus. Make sure you stress that you'll be there to help them.

Many of your contacts will be new to marketing and need to know you're serious about helping them.If you're an experienced marketer, remember how it was when you started. Wouldn't it have saved you time and money to have someone help you smooth the ride up the hill? Ah it's day four and your fourth letter.

Now's the time to start adding more bonuses. Now they have two bonuses for a prompt response. Each letter is like a high stakes poker game. You keep upping the ante. Uh Oh! They haven't signed up yet. Are you wondering why? Maybe now's the time to ask. Your fifth letter is where you ask them why they haven't signed up for your program. It's also a good time to add a few testimonials.

You need feedback to help you understand why they aren't taking advantage of your offer. The feedback you receive should help you increase your conversion rate. Offer the reader an incentive to answer your questions. 72 hours and they still haven't signed up.

The sixth letter should supply more testimonials. Ask them to contact other members of your program. Network marketers call this the tag team approach. Offline they've been using this for years. They've found through trial and error that their sign up rate increases when two members of a program sit down with a prospect.

Well it's day seven and this is your last chance. If you don't make your case now, good-bye! Don't hold back. You must make your offer "Simply Irresistible." Pile on the benefits, add more bonuses. Make it an "Offer They Can't Refuse." You've stated your case. You've piled on the benefits. You've kept adding to the bonuses. Wow! You're going to sell every visitor. Well not quite, but if you take the time to put some time and effort into putting your system and letters in place, you should see your sales and conversion rates start steadily increasing.

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harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:30:00 +0000

Here is a real easy, but profitable way to earn money from home. Everyone on the internet dealing in E-Commerce needs visitors, start your own traffic exchange.

E-Commerce and Bird-Dogs

When seeking ways to expand and build your Internet business look
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Just as important, don`t be reluctant to ask them about contacts they
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E-Commerce, Make Contacts and Hold

harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:23:00 +0000

"E-commerce - is a CONTACT Sport,
the more CONTACTS, the more you SCORE!"
Part TWO
This is important, in order for us to succeed, we must find "buyers" people willing to share the benefits of our extremely profitable online homebased business. AND...provide us with income for our efforts of bringing them to our products or services.
Our course of action is to go out and use the very best methods, invest in the greatest "rate of return" advertising and attempt to receive massive response for our promotional campaign by attracting an expanding audience of interested people willing to join to build their own stream of income or use our products.
First mistake... NOT having a system of follow up marketing pointers for sales effort.
Do not waste advertising money with a "one shot does it all" and move on without making several attempts to selling Contacts. [Here is the need for some reason for the respondent to give a follow up contact number...e-mail address.]
A good auto response system set to make followup contact and deliver additional informational material is needed. Closing the sale and signing up the Contact is the name of the "game". Scoring is the result of efforts and keeping score is the number of Contacts that are willing to join our team or buy our products.

Second mistake... NOT making every effort to understand and enlist personal contact and build a personal relationship with each contact.

Not just, "here is the sales pitch", but a first hand account of what a contact is looking for and what and how they can build together and receive all the benefits. It is the FOLLOW UP and relationship trust and business building with contacts that make the money.
Don't always expect everyone to find what is being promoted so spectacular they are willing to spend their money at first glance. If what is being offered is truly worth the marketing efforts and the followup information to enlist the purchase will need to be advanced for each prospect many times. Listing the benefits and bonus offers for acting immediately.
First make the Contact, develop them into a Prospect and direct them into becoming a Customer.
Now more of the BATTLE begins!
Third mistake... NOT having marketing and follow up program, a winning sales agenda must be designed to build a series winning strategies to SCORE. That's the bottomline...making money, and building the income stream. In this case NEVER waste a precious newly found prospect! Time, money and effort has been spent, don't lose the sale. Equally important follow up and continued contact is just as necessary as the original "sales pitch".

This means asking for the order AGAIN and expand the need for the prospect to have the product or service being offered. Timing, opportunity, closing the contact is a talent....practice and follow up assures the best sales potentials are not lost.
Here is a PERFECT opportunity to make CONTACTS, build up some POINTS and expand. You will be able to SHARE some pointers on how to market and best sell online products and services. Follow up your experience with a great opportunity to make some new contacts and share important marketing and sales ideas.

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E-Commerce is a Contact Sport No Hits, No Results

harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:43:00 +0000

E-Commerce is a Contact Sport, the more you Contact, the more you Score!

Setting up the web site for a business is really the easy task. The real work begins to make use of the web presence and deliver profitable business from the site. Getting prospects to the web site and making use of the Internet for extending business success is the next order of the day. The web page and the Internet has the unique ability to handle prospects not only 24 hours a day, seven days a week but can effectively sell and take orders from a massive number of customers at the same time.
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Once you have made a contact the real work begins

Is selling or building a relationship the most important? The Internet allows the gathering of a sale here and there, but the development of real and useful listing of clients is yet another task. The objective should be selling a product or service online. But wait, how much did that sale or contact cost? A plan for repeat business and building a relationship for future profits is in order. Finding prospects and turning them into customers and then developing a long term client relationship will take time, but a lot less money than our original investment in the first sale. Read more

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harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:49:00 +0000

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harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:08:00 +0000

Attending a marketing event will pay BIG dividends when you are prepared and know why you are participating. Just to rub shoulders with a group of internet millionaires is not enough, you need to take away knowledge and connections that you can put to immediate income advantage.

"It is not just you attending a conference, it is everyone you know and everyone the other participants know. A local event attracting 100 people expands out to thousands. Be prepared to take full advantage of that great opportunity. This what you paid to attend!"

Joint Venture Marketing, Alliances in Co-Marketing and collaboration on the Internet to make money faster and easier are given new emphasis to what is called e-commerce. Big name and big money are following online marketers across the globe. Conferences, seminars and marketing shows are the meeting place and connection point for top income players to position themselves for additional online business domination.

The value of the contacts made at these events are the spawning of strategic alliances for income production that is almost unbelievable. Experienced marketing managers are teaming up with each other and "newbies" to quickly broaden their sales and income potentials with Joint Ventures.

One of the greatest ways for new marketers to learn successful techniques and speed up their online marketing skills is joining into Joint Ventures. This enables them to start pocketing real income and gain new talents for their future e-commerce undertakings. In these joint efforts the participants can take any new or existing program, e-books, affiliate web sites and share in the marketing and profits.

The opportunity to partner with a major established marketing whiz depends not on their goodwill but the new persons ability to deliver to the venture additional sales power. It is the purchasers or prospects that the new partner can deliver. This gives added meaning to the axiom, 'it's in the list', nowhere does your contacts and relationships mean more than when you look to start a Joint Venture.

It is that list of contacts, established relationships that you can bring to the table for your alliances. "It's the list you have built!"

Read here An individual contribution to a Joint Venture is the personal endorsement of the product or service you can provide to your carefully built and maintained lists.

A Joint Venture can be undertaken by two or more people that have non-competing and perhaps complimentary products and/or services. A very profitable arrangement can be worked out using the talents and resources of the parties. Each can provide endorsements or recommendations to the customers in their personal promotional efforts. It is this collaboration that gives entry from prospect to a proven online customer that is quicker and provides better results.

The reason this works so well is that the partners have already established relationships with everyone on their list. Proper customer care has built a solid connection where the list owner's opinion is valued as well as the trust for delivering value. "Once the sale is made the real work begins."

Attending live events allows individual personal contacts to be made. It is well worth the cost every time. In addition to the program and training provided the exposure to the connections afforded is another portion of why the attendance is so valuable.

In order to get the full scoop read my note about a one day conference I attended.

I traveled from the desert of Tucson, Arizona to the lush green Glasgow, Scotland the weekend of May 11-13, 2008. Robert, {Robert Puddy, Advertising Know How} I want to say about your "Brit Pack" conferences, well done! I received valuable content, useful ideas, and a better understanding of Internet marketing. You put so much together for me personally, it was truly worth the trip from Arizona to Glasgow, Scotland for your "on-the-road" session.

Just from the talk around the lunch period I know that I am not alone in saying, more than expected and it was packed not only money making but money saving material. Making the right money saving choices is just as important as the path you fixed for income production. You painted a great picture of residual income for old folks like me to supplement our retirement income. Thanks, Harvey Akeson... Tucson, Arizona

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Easily more can be added to this list as thinking through the profitable combining of efforts with Joint Ventures that have been proven. The Joint Venture shortens the learning period and builds practical knowledge. Not only does it enhance acceptance, build stature, credibility
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Through out the process of the Joint Venture communication, trust and understanding must be cultivated. A positive outcome is foremost at all times so that the partners will be positioned for additional Joint Ventures. This type of marketing is powerful, easy to originate and very cost effective.

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Financial Leverage, the secret to wealth, using borrowed money to control the resource, in this case real estate, while the value soars. At 5% appreciation at the end of ten years your $10,000 original investment has grown five times. The investment is now worth $150,000 plus from the value of $100,000 controlled at the time of purchase.

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The best locations where the most prospects passing by could command compensating rents and determined the choice of location placement for business managers. Today, with the advent of massive online shopping, location is now being replaced by the need for traffic clicking on merchant's web sites. Today location in search engines to drive traffic to web sites is important and better placements is to the web page's advantage for traffic. Now the need is for traffic and "clicks" to expose the products and services.

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The most important advertising or promotion of a business web site costs NOTHING and is possibly the very best to bring people to the web page.

As soon as a business web site is published the inclusion of the URL right along side the phone number is mandatory. A business should not list a phone number without listing a web site address right along side. Newspaper ads, telephone books, business cards, physical location signage, mailings, invoices, receipts every piece of paper listing the business name and phone number need the web site address prominently included.

In fact, special promotional efforts should be directed just to announcing the business web site and extra service available online as a new and unique feature of the business. Reviewing expectations for the new Internet presence we know that our purpose is to build brand recognition, announce special sales, present new offerings, acquire new costumers, retain existing customers and with the additional opportunity of reaching beyond just the local area build profits and make more money for a business.

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harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:21:00 +0000

Electronic Commerce to Expand the Smallest Business

Setting up the web site for a business is really the easy task. The real work begins to make use of the web presence and deliver profitable business from the site. Getting prospects to the web site and making use of the Internet for extending business success is the next order of the day.

The web page and the Internet has the unique ability to handle prospects not only 24 hours a day, seven days a week but can effectively sell and take orders from a mass number of customers at the same time. On the Internet prospects are all around the world. The United States, Canada, France, Great Britain and Australia all have ready access to the business as those who could drive up to a physical location and purchase from the store site.

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"No matter what your business is, without traffic to your web site you might as well not exist on the Internet."

A smart site on main street where the traffic was heavy and prospective customers had easy access to a merchant was demanded. The more people passing and convenient access was in high demand and commanded high property value. Over time as the towns grew every business couldn't afford the cost of a prime main street location and the development of strip malls provided for a lower location cost.

Major shopping malls became in demand where they were anchored by large chain stores that could attract large numbers of buyers from expensive advertising. In the major shopping malls visibility became a large concern. The best locations where the most prospects passing by could command compensating rents and determined the choice of location placement for business managers.

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Whether paid inclusion in search engines and directories or simply pay for click links to web sites the delivery of visitors takes huge effort. The promotional work has so many avenues to attract customers it is a whole additional topic. The next blog entry will cover some ways an individual can make additional income taking on the task of driving traffic the web sites.

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This is great news for Internet Marketers. If you are in the Internet Marketing business or have wanted to break into it, now is the time. If you are ready to cash in on enormous profits, you need to look no further than the small business owner s in your local community. Quite surprisingly this is an untapped market that is just starting to be discovered.

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Besides the website, there are also some other key things you can do to help the off line business owner. First, you will want to make sure that the business owner is listed on the internet yellow page websites. Second, you will want to get them registered with Google Local. Third, you can also work with the business owner to come up with coupons to lure in new and returning customers. There are a variety of coupon sites that you can post these on.

In conclusion, it is easy to see that the off line business owner could see a huge spike in their business if they were to tap into the internet market. Most brick and mortar business owners however, have no idea where to begin and yet they would love to have the edge on their competitors. So, if you are an internet marketer or looking to become one, now is the time to take action. Your fortune could very well be waiting for you.

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E-commerce is a matter of building a method of contacting and presentation to an ever growing audience of buyers looking online through search engines and directories to satisfy their needs. Building a data base of e-mail addresses with contact permission privileges and creating traffic to web sites on a regular schedule is a major component of your new home based business.

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Newspaper ads, telephone books, business cards, physical location signage, mailings, invoices, receipts every piece of paper listing the business name and phone number need the web site address prominently included. In fact special promotional efforts should be directed just to announcing the business web site and extra service available online as a new and unique feature of the business.

Reviewing expectations for the new Internet presence know that it will serve have many purposes:
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+ Reaching beyond the local area to build profits and make more money.

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Visibility is Vital to your web site and e-commerce success.
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*Use words relating to your product or service with information and pictures
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Only if I could get traffic.

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Visibility is Vital to your web site and e-commerce success.

Visibility-Boosting Tips

Use words relating to your product or service with information and pictures on your web site.
Don't clutter your message make it clear and readable.
Link other sites to you, use Networking to feed you traffic.
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Avoid "sales talk" stress facts and benefits.
Don't expect visitors to find you, seek visitors and take advantage of free options to bring traffic to your web site.
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Word of mouth advertising. Getting others to put in a "good word".

When seeking ways to expand and build your Internet business look close to home for leads.
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Just as important, don't be reluctant to ask those closest to you about contacts they know that would be interested in your business or service.
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harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:30:00 +0000

Homebased business setting up web sites for local business just starts the avenues of making money on the Internet. Bank deposits will grow as expanded services are provided.

Substantial publicity and free web site traffic can be driven to a merchant's new web site with location connection and piggyback advertising.

New and low cost traffic needs to be cultivated.
Here is an outline of several ways to drive traffic to a web site with a short discussion and examples of some of the most active sites. Each merchants web site built will need use of as many options as time and experience can build.

A large number of "hits" can be obtained free by listing "key words" in Search Engines. Fortune 500 Companies list their web site links in Search Engines to drive traffic to their web sites for new business and acquiring new customers based on the specific items of interest they have listed.

A camera manufacture or retail outlet will list in search engines words that describe the products for sale on a web page by listing words that describe the web page that offers their products. When a prospective customer is looking online to find sources of supply the keywords will link right into their web site and lead the prospect to the sale page.

Search engines will charge for use of this shopping method, however, with work free space can be obtained and depending on the effort large numbers of new customers can be sent to any web site. An example of two major opportunities to list in search engines are listed here. Following the instructions a start at populating links to the web sites can be started. Free listings take time to drive traffic and most of the time renewing the listings every 30 days will pay the best dividends.

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Each letter is like a high stakes poker game. You keep upping the ante. Uh Oh! They haven't signed up yet. Are you wondering why? Maybe now's the time to ask. Your fifth letter is where you ask them why they haven't signed up for your program. It's also a good time to add a few testimonials. You need feedback to help you understand why they aren't taking advantage of your offer. The feedback you receive should help you increase your conversion rate. Offer the reader an incentive to answer you questions. 72 hours and they still haven't signed up.

The sixth letter should supply more testimonials. Ask them to contact other members of your program. Network marketers call this the tag team approach. Offline they've been using this for years. They've found through trial and error that their sign up rate increases when two members of a program sit down with a prospect.

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Networking--Relationship Building Requires Strategy

harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:01:00 +0000

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Networking - Communications
Relationship building takes a long term strategy.

Communicating with new prospects can take on a number of methods. I am calling it publishing or broadcasting because that is the fastest and most common way of attracting people to your web site or sales offers and relates to how most of the world has communicated in recent years. News and advertising has been relayed by newspapers, radio and then television.

Today with the large percentage of people using their computers to communicate, the internet has presented yet another unique opportunity to merchandise goods and services. In total a completely new industry of advertising and loyalty building programs has been created.

Publishing can come in many forms....but each in this case takes putting words together and reaching out for prospects. Internet networking is no different than ground based meetings, you bring together people individually or in groups with common interests and goals by written or published words.

Making connections, building relationships by electronic means delivers some very unique opportunities to demonstrate your knowledge, expertise as well as "show off" your products and services. Building credibility and increasing awareness of your business is key to converting the prospects to customers and then maintaining that client base with follow-up before and after any sale.

A couple of networking sites that deliver a number of features and encourages links and association of "friendships" is YUWIE and AdlandPro while free to join both other advanced memberships and benefits. Networking and broadcasting your products and services are not the only benefit of these networking sites, important to your overall success is the contact and exchange with others in your industry. Whether it is additional cost saving measures in production or a new advertising media just starting out your exchange with your fellow e-commerce partners will enhance our knowledge and build your business.

Hundreds if not thousand of different groups of people are members and trade information and opportunities around the world. YUWIE is social networking with a Twist, it pays members! AdlandPro has begun an online chat room to which hundreds are joining at different times of the day and night to trade and network.

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Programs like these offer networking and just plain sales opportunites as you become acquainted with interested people and trade ideas and thoughts. It is just like a few years ago and a little today....going door to door displaying your wares....only now it's faster by electronic internet connections. Broadcasting your business, displaying your wares still means going to your prospects where they are...at home or in their places of business.

Important to ground operations is location, location, location be it main street with lots of traffic or a convenient "strip mall" with quick in and out parking or the massive shopping mall with anchor stores bringing foot traffic and shoppers for your opportunity to sell them. Without foot traffic, or shoppers, in our case surfers we don't make sales and we don't make money.

{Without expanding into it now....that is another new industry that has been created and thrashing about earning MILLIONS of dollars within the electronic industry, Search Engines.}

Just as the sincere approach and purposeful demonstration of your merchandise was the method for the door to door salesman attempting to make sales so is the need today. Only trust and confidence is a little harder to build in this day and age, but it can and does exist over the internet. It is to build popularity (your product or service over another) and credibility...trust you will deliver.

Demonstrating your knowledge, sharing your information and generally just building relationships is still in vogue and when worked little by little it will build a customer base for your financial security. Only by increasing your reach and maintaining your hard earned contacts will you expand and profit from the "cost of sale".

In many cases just building a solid connection and personal friendship will deliver big dividends over the long term. A successful salesperson has "bird-dogs" or people to refer them business. Your connections can be a great source of support and testimony of your honest and worthy intentions. Trust and support will build you a working data base with "friends" of "friends" to boost your business relationships....meaning sales and income!

Even if you never buy one thing from me, your value as a friend and possible referral will pay big dividends in financial rewards for me in the future. Other means of publishing and excellent sources of new prospects are available with once again the written and spoken words.

Writing articles for e-zines or even publishing your own, BLOGs like this one are very popular opportunities to introduce yourself and your e-commerce wares in a more relaxed and friendly way. People are not "captured" they travel to your site or article on their own and leave as they please.

And just as important, they can take what they want and leave the rest on the table when they move on. Each set of communication tools need to be handled differently. Did the reader dial in, as in linking to this blog or subscribe and put their name on a list as in a newsletter? Respecting those differences are important! Do you have permission to approach them?

Customers can be asked to keep in contact for updates and news about the product or service they purchased by subscibing to your newsletters. New prospects can be rewarded something for free to disclose their addresses and joining your newletter.

Newsletters will broaden your broadcasting as will Online GROUPS, a well know and massive offering is by YAHOO . While filled with advertising it is another quick way to communicate with a lot of people usually with common interests.
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In addition to optin safelist you can establish your own data base or list of people willing to exchange communications in what could be called a "fair trade". Share e-mail addresses for e-mail addresses. The last is a relatively new product that is being tauted online as the next great resource builder of communications between online users. It limits the number of e-mails you receive but builds a huge list of correspondents. "ADLANDPRO" .

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Just as families have "relations", relatives, so do successful e-commerce businesses. It is those marketing relationships that will explode your business and guide you to increasing your income online. It does not matter what business or online activity you are engaged, your best marketing and most attentive audience will be with the people you have build solid relationships and satisfactory business dealings.

Just as every profitable business require customer and client referrals to build, and just as every sales person needs "birddogs" or people pointing to their wares, so do you need, if you are to succeed with your e-commerce business the connections of lots of effective bridges to others.

Enlisting business partners or buyers is a crucial part of running your business. In business and professions it is often called "networking", online I perfer to think of it as relationship marketing. You can only increase the effectiveness of your programs and projects by having a "built in" market for your efforts. Networking gives you connections, relationship marketing builds you ready customers and affiliates to continue your marketing enterprise.

Joint ventures for solid, detailed business operations and projects are more of a contractual relationship. Marketing relationships are built on trust with past confidence and success. Succeeding with building your data base with contacts and filling your portfolio or storage folder with solid marketing relations will translate into higher profits. Take care of those marketing relationships, continue to build networking connections and keep your birddogs full of thanks and rewards...this will keep your bank account bursting with deposits.

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E-Commerce is a Contact Sport

harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:21:00 +0000

E-Commerce is a Contact Sport, the more you Contact, the more you Score!

Setting up the web site for a business is really the easy task. The real work begins to make use of the web presence and deliver profitable business from the site. Getting prospects to the web site and making use of the Internet for extending business success is the next order of the day.

The web page and the Internet has the unique ability to handle prospects not only 24 hours a day, seven days a week but can effectively sell and take orders from a mass number of customers at the same time.

The Internet prospects are all around the world. The United States, Canada, France, Great Britain and Australia all have ready access to the business as those who could drive up to a physical location and purchase from the store site.

Over the years the cry for a business was, "location, location, location". Now with the growth of the Internet the needs have changed. Joining location is the needs for "traffic, traffic, traffic". Without viewers, people finding and getting the exposure to the web sites delivers no sales on its own.

"No matter what your business is, without traffic to your web site you might as well not exist on the Internet."

A smart site on main street where the traffic was heavy and prospective customers had easy access to a merchant was demanded. The more people passing and convenient access was in high demand and commanded high property value. Over time as the towns grew every business couldn't afford the cost of a prime main street location and the development of strip malls provided for a lower location cost.

Major shopping malls became in demand where they were anchored by large chain stores that could attract large numbers of buyers from expensive advertising. In the major shopping malls visibility became a large concern. The best locations where the most prospects passing by could command compensating rents and determined the choice of location placement for business managers.

Today, with the advent of massive online shopping, location is now being replaced by the need for traffic clicking on merchant's web sites. Today location in search engines to drive traffic to web sites is important and better placements is to the web page's advantage for traffic. Now the need is for traffic and "clicks" to expose the products and services.

Whether paid inclusion in search engines and directories or simply pay for click links to web sites the delivery of visitors takes huge effort. The promotional work has so many avenues to attract customers it is a whole additional topic. The next blog entry will cover some way an individual can make additional income taking on the task of driving traffic the web sites.

The most important advertising or promotion of a business web site costs NOTHING and is possibly the very best to bring people to the web page.

As soon as a business web site is published the inclusion of the URL right along side the phone number is mandatory. A business should not list a phone number without listing a web site address right along side.

Newspaper ads, telephone books, business cards, physical location signage, mailings, invoices, receipts every piece of paper listing the business name and phone number need the
web site address prominently included. In fact special promotional efforts should be directed just to announcing the business web site and extra service available online as a new and unique feature of the business.

Reviewing expectations for the new Internet presence we know that our purpose is to build brand recognition, announce special sales, present new offerings, acquire new costumers, retain existing customers and with the additional opportunity of reaching beyond just the local area build profits and make more money for a business.

Exciting, interesting and enjoyable work of turning the web site into additional income and profits for a business is coming....mark your computer's "Favorites" to our blog page now.

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Blog-Your Hobby for extra income.

harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:01:00 +0000

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1. Setting Up Your Blog
2. Posting Great Content
3. Implementing Money Making Techniques
4. Building Your Readership

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert.

Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc… experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don’t Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a “guru” (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of…well fear.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from “scratch”, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.

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Buying or Selling a Home in Today's Market

harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:07:00 +0000

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Prices are reasonable, interest rates are low, the market is full of anxious sellers and the government will reward you as a first time home buyer with up to $8000 tax credit or rebate.Sellers that need action and can't wait for prices to climb again, now is the time to sell. Literally hundreds of thousand new buyers are now on the Market.

*$8000 Home Buyer Tax Credit is for "first-time" home buyers only. Don't Stop Read More!
A first-time home under the rules of IRS (Internal Revenue Service) is someone who has not owned a principal residence during the three-year period prior to the purchase.The tax credit available is equal to 10% of the purchase price up to a maximum of $8000. A tax credit should not be confused with a tax deduction. A tax credit will be added to any other federal income tax withheld or paid during the year.(example: estimates & withholdings) A tax deduction is a qualified payment you made during the year and reduces the amount you are taxed upon. "Adjusted Gross Income"

A single taxpayer with income up to $75000 ($4000 tax credit) and married couples with incomes up to $150,000 ($8000 tax credit) qualify for the tax credits on homes purchased after January 1, 2009 and the sale closed by December 1, 2009. Don't wait, it will take you time to find the right home, complete the negotiations, arrange financing and close the sale before December 1....this year.

Unlike the earlier legislation this "Tax Credit" is not a loan to be repaid to the government later. The tax credit enacted in July 2008 had to be repaid and was just a tax free loan. The home buyer under this new program must use the home as their principal residence for at least three years or have a liability to pay back the tax credit. (However, certain exceptions apply.)

You can leverage your down payment with a loan from a number of different sources, your IRA, a relative or even the seller. You can purchase the home on a land sales contract or trust deed with the seller financing until you can refinance and cash them out. Any bank or mortgage company can qualify you for a mortgage in advance. Qualifying in advance will provide you and your seller the reasonable assurance that you will be able to payoff contract within a reasonable time after you receive your tax refund in 2010.
(Give yourself plenty of time and do not commit to more than the cash you have for a down payment plus the tax credit coming in 2010.)

In addition to the federal tax credit different local and state governments have low income incentives for home buyers. Depending on how you finance your purchase there are a number of mortgage plans that you can talk to your bank or mortgage agent about including 100% Veterans Loans to low down payment FHA loans. In many cases the sellers are willing to help with the cost of obtaining financing. Just make sure you have any agreement for the seller to help with any costs as part of the purchase agreement.

Sellers does this add up to your advantage? You bet!
Let me relate a personal experience. I had a rental property go vacant this past month and decided it's time to sell. Using FREE online services, home made signs on the property we found a buyer and by saving on not paying a commission by selling it ourselves. We felt our final cash settlement was about the depreciation we had suffered with the recent market decline. How did we do it, we advertised the available $8000 tax rebate...and did our phone ring off the hook. Selling time approximate two weeks while we were painting and fixing up after the previous tenant moved.
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**Check with your local housing authorities for additional programs for home buying.
**Do not enter into any contract without competent advice.

**If you use seller financing, "pre-qualify" for a mortgage in advance.

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28 SureFire Ways to Make Money from Your Website.

harvey@harveyakeson.com (A1 Profit Maker) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:58:00 +0000

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com content is produced by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and entrepreneur from Australia. Yaro has created, managed and sold several different Internet businesses since 1998 and currently teaches people how to make a full time income from blogging part time through his Blog Mastermind mentoring program.

Wow, this man makes money with his blogging.

The follow article was put together by Danial Scocco from DailyBlogTips
28 Ways to Make Money with Your Website.

You might think you’ve read all the advice before, however it’s necessary that blog trainers continue to publish these articles to update the status of how you can profit online with a website. Plus of course, some of these ideas are new to beginners and we all know how important it is to help beginners.

Notice that ways to make money with a website are different from ways to make more money from it. Methods to increase your traffic or click-through rate will help you make more money, but they do not represent a method of making money per se.

For example, one could suggest that blending AdSense ads with the content is a way to make money from a website. In reality it’s not; it’s just a way to make more money by improving your ad click-through rate. The real monetization method behind it is a PPC ad network.

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Direct Methods
1. PPC Advertising Networks

Google AdSense is the most popular option under this category, but there are also others. Basically you need to sign up with the network and paste some code snippets on your website. The network will then serve contextual ads (either text or images) relevant to your website, and you will earn a certain amount of money for every click.

The profitability of PPC advertising depends on the general traffic levels of the website and, most importantly, on the click-through rate (CTR) and cost per click (CPC). The CTR depends on the design of the website. Ads placed abode the fold or blended with content, for instance, tend to get higher CTRs. The CPC, on the other hand, depends on the nice of the website. Mortgages, financial products and college education are examples of profitable niches (clicks worth a couple of dollars are not rare), while tech-related topics tend to receive a smaller CPC (sometimes as low as a couple of cents per click).

The source of the traffic can also affect the overall CTR rate. Organic traffic (the one that comes from search engines) tends to perform well because these visitors were already looking for something, and they tend to click on ads more often. Social media traffic, on the other hand, presents terribly low CTRs because these visitors are tech-savvy and they just ignore ads.

2. CPM Advertising Networks

CPM advertising networks behave pretty much as PPC networks, except that you get paid according to the number of impressions (i.e., page views) that the ads displayed on your site will generate. CPM stands for Cost per Mille, and it refers to the cost for 1,000 impressions.

A blog that generates 100,000 page views monthly displaying an advertising banner with a $1 CPM, therefore, will earn $100 monthly.

CPM rates vary with the network, the position of the ad and the format. The better the network, the higher the CPM rate (because they have access to more advertisers). The closer you put the ad to the top of the page, the higher the CPM. The bigger the format (in terms of pixels), the higher the CPM.

You can get as low as $0,10 and as high as $10 per 1,000 impressions (more in some special cases). CPM advertising tends to work well on websites with a high page views per visitor ratio (e.g., online forums, magazines and so on).

3. Direct Banner Advertising

Selling your own advertising space is one of the most lucrative monetization methods. First and foremost because it enables you to cut out the middleman commissions and to determine your own rates. The most popular banner formats on the web are the 728×90 leaderboard, the 120×600 skyscraper, the 300×250 rectangle and the 125×125 button.

The downside of direct banner advertising is that you need to have a big audience to get qualified advertisers, and you will need to spend time managing the sales process, the banners and the payments.

4. Text Link Ads

After Google declared that sites selling text links without the nofollow tag would be penalized, this monetization method became less popular.

Many website owners are still using text links to monetize their sites, though, some using the nofollow tag and some not.

The advantage of this method is that it is not intrusive. One can sell text links directly through his website or use specialized networks like Text-Link-Ads and Text-Link-Brokers to automate the process.

5. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a very popular practice on the Internet. Under this system you have a merchant that is willing to let other people (the affiliates) sell directly or indirectly its products and services, in exchange for a commission. Sometimes this type of advertising is also called CPA (cost per action) or CPL (cost per lead) based.

Affiliates can send potential customers to the merchant using several tools, from banners to text links and product reviews.

In order to find suitable affiliate programs you can turn to individual companies and publishers like Dreamhost and SEOBook, or join affiliate marketplaces and networks.

6. Monetization Widgets

The latest trend on the web are widgets that let you monetize your website. Examples include Widgetbucks and SmartLinks. Some of these services operate under a PPC scheme, others behave like text link ads, others yet leverage affiliate links.

Their main differentiator, however, is the fact that they work as web widgets, making it easier for the user to plug and play the service on its website.

7. Sponsored Reviews

PayPerPost pioneered this model, with much controversy on the beginning (related to the fact that they did not require disclosure on paid posts). Soon other companies followed, most notably Sponsored Reviews and ReviewMe, refining the process and expanding the paid blogging model.

Joining one of these sponsored reviews marketplaces will give you the opportunity to write sponsored posts on a wide range of topics. Not all bloggers are willing to get paid to write about a specific product or website (because it might compromise the editorial credibility), but the ones who do are making good money out of it.

If your blog has a big audience you could also offer sponsored reviews directly, cutting off the commissions of the middleman.

8. RSS Feed Ads

With the quick adoption of the RSS technology by millions of Internet users, website owners are starting to find ways to monetize this new content distribution channel.

Feedburber already has its own publisher network, and you can sign-up to start displaying CPM based advertising on your feed footer. Bidvertiser recently introduced a RSS feed ad option as well, with a PPC scheme.

Finally, some blogs are also opting to sell banners or sponsored messages on their feed directly. John Chow and Marketing Pilgrim are two examples.

9. Sponsors for Single Columns or Events

If you website has specific columns or events (e.g., a weekly podcast, an interview series, a monthly survey, a special project) you could find companies to sponsor them individually.

This method increases the monetization options for website owner, while giving advertisers the possibility to target a more specific audience and with a reduced commitment.

Mashable illustrates the case well. They have several advertising options on the site, including the possibility to sponsor specific columns and articles, including the “Daily Poll” and the “Web 2.0 Invites.”

Problogger also runs group writing projects occasionally, and before proceeding he publicly announce the project asking for sponsors.

10.Premium Content

Some websites and blogs give away part of their content for free, and charge for access to the premium content and exclusive tools.

SEOMoz is a good example. They have a very popular blog that gives advice and information on wide range of SEO related topics. On top of that visitors can decide to become premium members. It costs $48 monthly and it grants them access to guides, tools and other exclusive material.

11. Private Forums

While the Internet is populated with free forums, there is also the possibility to create a private one where members need to pay a single or recurring fee to join.

SEO Blackhat charges $100 monthly from its members, and they have thousands of them. Obviously in order to charge such a price for a forum membership you need to provide real value for the members (e.g., secret techniques, tools, and so on).

Performancing also launched a private forum recently, focused on the networking aspect. It is called The Hive, and the monthly cost is $10.

These are just two examples. There are many possibilities to create a private and profitable forum, you just need to find an appealing angle that will make it worth for the members.

12. Job Boards

All the popular blogs are trying to leverage job boards to make some extra income. Guy Kawasaki, ReadWriteWeb, Problogger… you name it.

Needless to say that in order to create an active and profitable job board you need first to have a blog focused on a specific niche, and a decent amount traffic.

The advantage of this method is that it is passive. Once you have the structure in place, the job listings will come naturally, and you can charge anywhere from $10 up to $100 for each.

13. Marketplaces

Sitepoint is the online marketplace by excellence. Some websites and blogs, however, are trying to replicate that model on a smaller scale.

Depending on your niche, a market place that allows your visitors to buy, sell and trade products could work well. Over the time you could start charging a small fee for new product listings.

The problem with this method is that there are no standard software on the web, so you would need to hire a coder to get a marketplace integrated into your website.

You can see an example of a marketplaces being used on EasyWordpress and on Mashable.

14. Paid Surveys and Polls

There are services that will pay you money to run a small survey or poll on your website. The most popular one is called Vizu Answers.

Basically you need to sign up with them, and select the kind of polls that you want to run your site. Most of these services operate under a CPM model.

15. Selling or Renting Internal Pages

Million Dollar Wiki made this concept popular, but it was being used on the web for a long time around (check Pagerank10.co.uk for instance).

These websites sell for a single fee or rent for a recurring fee internal pages on their domain. Usually they have either high Pagerak or high traffic, so that people purchasing a page will be able to benefit in some way.

Implementing this method on a small blog would be difficult, but the concept is interesting and could be explored further.

16. Highlighted Posts from Sponsors

Techmeme probably pioneered this idea, but somehow it has not spread to other websites. The tech news aggregator displays editorial posts on the left column, and on the sidebar they have a section titled “Techmeme Sponsor Posts.”

On that section posts from the blog of the advertisers get highlighted, sending qualified traffic their way. Considering that the monthly cost for one spot is $5000 and that they have around 6 sponsors at any given time, it must be working well.

17. Donations

Placing a “Donate” link or button on a website can be an efficient way to earn money, especially if your blog is on a niche where readers learn and gain value from your content.

Personal development and productivity blogs, for instance, tend to perform well with donation based systems (one good example being Steve Pavlina).

A small variation of this method appeared sometime ago with the Buy Me a Beer plugin. This WordPress plugin enables you to insert a customized message at the bottom of each article, asking the readers to chip in for a beer or coffee.

18. In-text Adverting

In-text adverting networks like Kontera and Vibrant Media will place sponsored links inside your text. These links come with a double underline to differentiate them from normal links, and once the user rolls the mouse over the link the advertising will pop. Should the user click on it the site owner will make some money.

Some people make good money with this method, but others refrain from using it due to its intrusiveness. It is also interesting to note that very few mainstream websites have experimented with in-text advertising.

19. Pop-ups and Pop-unders

Pop-ups are a common yet annoying form of advertising on the Internet. If you are just trying to make a much money as possible from your website, you could experiment with them.

If you are trying to grow the traffic and generate loyal visitors, however, you probably should stay away from them. Just consider the hundreds of pop-up blockers out there: there is a reason why they are so popular.

20. Audio Ads

Also called PPP (Pay Per Play), this advertising method was introduce by Net Audio Ads. the concept is pretty simple: play a small audio advertising (usually 5 seconds) every time a visitor enters into your website. The user should not be able to stop it, creating a 100% conversion rate based on unique visitors.

The company is still rolling tests, but some users are reporting to get from a $4 to a $6 CPM. Regardless of the pay rate, though, this is a very intrusive form of advertising, so think twice before using it.

21. Selling the Website

Selling your website could be your last resource, but it has the potential to generate a big sum of money in a short period of time.

Market places on online forums like DigitalPoint and Sitepoint are always active with website buyers and sellers. Keep in mind that they most used parameter to determine the value of a website is the monthly revenue that it generates, multiplied by a certain number (the multiplier can be anything from 5 to 30, depending on the expectations of the seller, on the quality of the site, on the niche and other factors).

Some people also make money trading and flipping websites. They either create them from scratch or buy existing ones, and after some revamping they sell them for a profit.

22. Selling an Ebook

Perhaps one of the oldest money making strategies on the web, using a website to promote a related ebook is a very efficient way to generate revenue.

You could either structure the website around the book itself, like SEOBook.com, or launch the ebook based on the success of the website, like FreelanceSwitch did we the book How to be a Rockstar Freelancer.

23. Selling a Hardcover Book

Many authors and journalists leverage their blogs or websites to sell copies of hardcover books. Examples include Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin and Malcolm Gladwell.

While most of these people were already renowned authors before they created their website, one could also follow the other way around. Lorelle VanFossen did exactly that with her Blogging Tips book. First she built her authority on the subject via her blog, and afterwards she published the book.

24. Selling Templates or WordPress Themes

As more and more people decide to get an online presence, website templates and WordPress themes become hotter and hotter.

On this segment you have mainstream websites like TemplateMonster, as well as individual designers who decide to promote and sell their work independently.

Brian Gardner and Unique Blog Designs are two examples of websites that make money with the sales of premium and custom WordPress themes.

25. Offering Consulting and Related Services

Depending on your niche, you could make money by offering consulting and related services. If you are also the author of your blog, the articles and information that you will share will build your profile and possibly certify your expertise on that niche, making it easier to gain customers.

Chris Garrett used a similar strategy. First he created a highly influential blog on the blogging and new media niche, and afterwards he started offering consulting services to clients with related problems and needs.

26. Creating an Email List or Newsletter

Email lists and newsletters represent one of the most powerful marketing and money making tools on the Internet. They offer incredible conversion rates, and the possibility to call people to action in a very efficient way.

Creating a big list is a difficult task though, so if you have a popular website you could leverage it to increase the number of subscribers on your list.

Yaro Starak is a famous Internet marketer, and if you visit his blog you will notice that right on top he has a section encouraging visitors to subscribe to his email newsletter. Yaro generates five figures in revenues each month from his email newsletters, proving that this method works.

27. Mentoring programs

People are willing to pay for someone or something that will teach them and give them knowledge (as opposed to mere information). Education is one of the biggest industries in the world, and the online landscape behaves in a similar way.

Creating a mentoring program related to the niche of your website could be very profitable if you manage to structure and promote it adequately. There is a wide range of media and tools that you can use to deliver the information, from text articles to audio and video lessons.

Brian Clark leveraged the success of Copyblogger to launch a mentoring program teaching people how to build membership and how to sell content online. The program is titled Teaching Sells, and it costs $97 monthly. Sounds expensive, but they have over 1,000 members.

28. Creating a conference around the website

If your website takes off and becomes an authority on its niche, you could create a conference around it. Depending on the size of your audience, the event could attract thousands of people, and you could make money directly from conference passes and sponsors.

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