The other day,a valued subscriber to my newsletter asked me: “Kevin, what is the greatest thing you ever did for your online business.”

That got my head spinning because I have done quite a number of things that made great impact to me and my business.

Before I could hit the reply button and answer her question (by the way, I always answer my subscribers’ questions), I thought, why not share this with all the valued readers of my blog too?

So,here we go…

The best thing I did was to start blogging.

Let me explain why. To start with, my website was a static mini site with only the homepage, privacy policy and support page.

To be frank, I got disappointed every time I headed over to google to search for my domain name only to be asked whether I was looking for another one closely related to mine. Even though my website was still returned as the first result on Google, the impression passed on by google to someone looking for my website was not the best, right?

Kind of like this site is not all that authoritative (at least in Google’s eyes)

Yet I had done most o the things the seo experts advised me to do and continually pumped up my effort but every step i took seemed to yield little results

Then one day, one nice guy on digitalpointforums (forgive my poor memory guys I forgot his name, but I was not so good in school either) advised me to start a blog and keep working for back links. Since I was already generating back links to my websites, I decided to follow through with his other advice in addition and I started a blog several days later.

I am one person who strongly believes in taking action and starting the blog was a great game changer for me. My pagerank automatically shot within a few weeks and my website shot to life. I now get amazed everytime I find new keywords for which I am ranking and it’s not surprising to find me on th first page of google for some of them. It’s as if I became a friend of Google instantly.

All that happened within a span of a few weeks and I thank goodness I started blogging.
So if you have not yet started blogging, consider adding this weapon to your arsenal for website and online business promotion strategies.

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While the term Viral easily depicts a virus, a word very much dreaded by all computer owners, Viral marketing doesn’t involve using a computer virus to market your online business. It’s called that because of the similar effect it has, a tendency to spread and infect people….in a good way!

Viral marketing is a marketing technique used to build public awareness of one’s product or company and is a perfect way to trigger a domino effect in your online business.

Oxford dictionary defines domino effect as “a situation in which one event causes a series of similar events to happen on after the other”

To paint the picture,let me give you one weird example and from an even bizarre source.

I came across this in the washrooms (I warned you)when I was in campus and some funny guy had written on the wall…

“People who write on walls are jerks”

…and what do you think followed?

This guy forgot that just by expressing his feeling about people who write on the walls, he became one of them. The next person to visit the washrooms with a pen in hand responded…

“Just like you”

And the next? “Just like you” . It went on and on and I guess it still does and will continue for as long as the the next person to respond remains relevant and the painter doesn’t show his head there with a can.

That was a weird example of a viral effect but let’s now go back to viral marketing in the context of your online business.

Viral marketing basically refers to letting people spread the word about your online business to others when they come into contact with each other, who then let others know and so on and so on…

You can use many forms of media (videos, websites, pictures, games, emails, free stuff) to reach out to the public with the help of the user.

In a nutshell, you ride on the idea that if people like the content of a media they will pass it on to their friends and family, and they will do the same, resulting in it spreading like a virus.

The motives can be as simple as just being nice by forwarding a nice email or there could be some monetary incentive like you’d find with an affiliate program.

Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising and marketing because they are relatively low cost and the results can be extraordinarily high.

For business owners, using Viral marketing techniques is a good choice to get their product out there quickly.There needs to be effort at first to get the ball rolling, but once it starts, it gets bigger and hard to stop.

Here are a few ways being used to implement viral marketing by online business owners.

Giveaway and resale rights: This as a viral marketing technique is hot right now. Basically, you create short informative reports or videos on a topic relevant to your online business and pass giveaway or resale rights to the users of such products.

If the products are worth their salt, they get passed along really fast as free bonuses to other products or as freebies on squeeze pages.

Rebranding rights: This works like the former but instead of giving people resale and giveaway rights, you give them the opportunity to brand the products with their affiliate links before passing the product along to their friends and family.

If the people they referred then purchases the products recommended in the products, you credit them with the sale and they earn affiliate commissions. You can also develop rebrandible softwares.

Wordpress themes: If you are proficient with php, you can develop wordpress themes and give them away for free. You can then drop your url right at the bottom of the themes.

Personally, I discovered webdesignlessons.com blog from another site that used their free theme (I can’t exactly recall which site that was) and even though I later dropped their theme myself for another one that matched my preferences, I still visit the blog from time to time. So? The darn trick works. Period.

These are just some of the ways being used by internet business owners to create a buzz about their products or services. There are many more and I will share them with you on this blog in the next posts.

One last thought, have you ever come across an email or video that get sent from one person to the next, then the next and before you realize, it gets sent back to you for the second or even the third time?

Personally I have several of them in my inbox. I can send one of them to you if you like. (just kidding… but yeah, I can send one to you).

What if you had your URL or a graphic branded with your website URL in one of those viral videos and emails?

So, get creative and get viral marketing working for your online business.

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I always wondered how to make money on facebook. I was completely convinced that there was some way to make money with facebook.

After a thorough search online, I bumped into a nice app developed by an independent author (not facebook). It’s called “facebook profile html” and is really easy to install on your facebook profile.

To test it, I installed it on my facebook profile and it has been there since July last year.

What’s cool, you can use this app to advertise any website since it allows you to add any html code to your facebook profile. You can see it live in action on my profile at

http://www.facebook.com/kevin.njoroge

It’s kind of like hacking into facebook but it is 100% ethical, so there is nothing to worry about.

The app sends traffic to any website of your choice and so there are basically two ways to monetize your facebook profile using this nifty app.

1. Promote your website: If you have a website, why not drop a text link or banner ad right there for your friends to see and hopefully visit your website or blog?

2. Affiliate marketing: If you don’t have a website, you may consider promoting an affiliate program of your choice on the facebook profile and make some money out of it.

In the next posts, I’ll show you how to add text link ads and banner ads to your facebook profile.

I’ll show you how to add your Insider Secrets Course Affiliate Links and Banners as an example. Before you ask “why insider secrets course?” let me explain.  This is a free to sign up and very lucrative affiliate program. You earn $65 per referral.

In the meanwhile, you can sign up for the affiliate program here.

Then watch out for my next posts where I will take you step by step through adding your banner ads and text link ads to your facebook profile.

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Like we said in the last post how to make money online for beginners, a good online business is based on a system and you must have a solid plan of action before you fire up your effort, based on your time availability, budget and competence.

You the execute your tasks systematically to achieve your financial goals and freedom. That’s how you end up in Hawaii to hang and dine with the gurus. Heck that’s Sweet, huh!

The purpose of this post is to show you proven methods to stay motivated as you build your online business empire like the Gurus.

Have a Vision Board: – This is kind of like a practical application of the much acclaimed Law of attraction. What you essentially do is to figure out what success rolls out to in the context of you, you and you alone

-how will your life be like once you are truly successful?

-What dream vacation does your heart cherish?

-What is your dream car like? And house?

- What do you want to accomplish before you die? (Damn, death is certain like taxes)

Then develop a vision board shouting all these to you and keep it where you can see it every day. Let it shower you with all those nice things.

See every task you accomplish as a leap towards pulling all those things in your vision board into reality.The joy of drawing nearer to success that was once only a dream is motivating enough to keep marching on.

The first thing I did in 2010 was to develop my vision board. Heck, it’s out of this world with nice photos, goals and great quotes that sooth my spirit every time I glance at them

Purposive learning: – We’ve talked about this before but I’ll mention it yet again because it is so important.

Don’t force your head to absorb and keep track of everything there is to learn in one go. Don’t spend the next five years trying to learn everything under the sun or else you will never get started or worse still get overwhelmed along the way-you have heard about information overload, right?

You don’t have to get everything perfect right off the bat. Get the initial effort rolling then go back to perfect and add-on to it later.

Break your tasks into small manageable chunks then accomplish them progressively while learning what you have got to learn along the way.

Remember there are thousands of freelancers you can hire at elance.com should you ever get stuck along the way.
So, keep going and have fun while you build your online business empire.

Success is imminent as long as you take action, keep focused, follow directions and, of course, have fun while you are at it.

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There are many how to make money online for beginners guides on the web today.

After wondering for long how to make money online for beginners and seriously searching online when I was starting out, I noted that most of these how to make money online guides for beginners only list an extensive list of ways to make money online or are simply a mini-copy pitching some turnkey cash kits or something like that.

While I’ve no problem with this approach, it inevitably comes with the risk of information overload and confusion to the beginners. Both of these can deter or delay your success online.

My idea of how to make money online for beginners is a bit different. I am not going to go so much into the details of ways to make money online because I’ve already done that in The Insider Secrets of Internet Wealth. Instead, my approach to how to make money online for beginners will focus on several secrets that will help you leverage on your efforts to get rich online quickly.

My first advice to make money online for beginners is to take massive action. The reason why most people don’t get their online business off the ground is not because they lack the technical know-how but because they are simply too lazy to get anything done or lack the motivation to take action.

There are many how to make money online for beginners guides that promise overnight wealth but none of them will ever work for you if you can’t take action. Period.

Of course there is a learning curve involved but you don’t have to get it right off the bat. Get things rolling then go back to perfect later. Don’t spend the next five years trying to master everything.

My next how to make money online for beginners advice is to have a plan. Have a plan of action before you fire your efforts to build an online business. This will of course depend on your budget and time. Decide on what to sell, traffic generation strategies to use, how to monetize your traffic, how much to spend on paid advertising e.t.c.

However you must be flexible enough to adapt to arising needs and new circumstances. Again, don’t start a day without a plan of action and do something everyday to help you build your online business.

The other how to make money online for beginners advice is to practice continuous education and learning. The web is dynamic and things change pretty fast on the internet. What worked yesterday might not work today. You must therefore keep up with the current trends to remain competitive in your niche.

My next how to make money online for beginners advice is to focus on one project to completion. The problem with most of us is that we are too easilyt distracted online. Don’t scatter your efforts trying to do all sort of projects at the same time.

The next how to make money online for beginners advice is to provide real value to your customers and subscribers. Recommend a product only if you strongly feel and believe it’s going to add value to the lives of your subscribers by helping them achieve their objectives. Don’t recommend that killer product that everyone and their dogs are talking about if it doesn’t add value to your subscribers’ lives.

I hope my version of how to make money online for beginners has helped you in your quest for internet riches. I now challenge you to take massive action and sytematically build an online business. And then of course make lots of money online.

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Hi guys I like it when I can find you something really cool and helpful in your efforts to build an internet business and make lots of money online just like the gurus do.

Today is one nice day because I found something I just couldn’t let pass you over. It’s about Eminem of “My Name Is” and “Smack That” fame and how his ingenuity can help you become a writing and marketing machine

Hope you enjoy the post as it helps you to make lots of money online. Cheers.

We’ve already covered the first pre-requisite to make money online for beginners.
Now, we’re going to look at the second pre-requisite to make money online for beginners which is to create an offer for your target market identified in the previous step.

Your offer is going to be a product or service that meets the needs of your target market, solves a problem being experienced by your target market or improves the lifestyle of your target audience in one way or the other.

The principles of business whether online or offline are very much the same. Any business thrives on its ability to provide value to its customers. This value should be etched in products or services that are worth your customers’ every last cent. Otherwise they wouldn’t part with their hard-earned dollars and you’ll be faced with dozens upon dozens of refunds and that’s no fun, right?

Your offer is everything and should be something that really adds value to your customers’ lives. So, if in “the first pre-requisite to make money online for beginners” which we have already covered you identified a gap you might fill, go ahead and do it.

Basically there are two possible ways for you to create an offer for your online market.

1. You can sell products to your target market as an affiliate.

2. You can create and sell your own products and sell to that market.

Both methods work and are proven ways to make money online. But whichever way you choose, your offer should address your prospects’ biggest question: “What’s in it for me?”

Show your potential customers how they stand to benefit from your offer. If you found that your target want to lose weight, for example, your offer should show them how to do it. Your offer should show them how you can give a boost to their lifestyle or the kind of lifestyle your product can afford them.Your offer is as god as it solves the needs of your target audience.

One more important thing before moving on to the next step, you also need to have a way to build an email list of present and potential customers. This is especially important for several reasons:

First, most people will not make a purchasing decision until they are exposed to an offer multiple times.

Secondly, your present customers will most likely be your return customers and you can make repeat profits in the future from them by making new offers and recommendations over time. Your list can even help you with surveys when you want to create an information product in the future

Thirdly, building a list enables you to build a relationship with your potential and present customers. If you prove useful to your subscribers’ objectives, you’ll build credibility, trust and respect from your target audience and profit big time in the long run.

To build a list of subscribers, you’ll need an autoresponder. This is basically a piece of software that makes email communication and promotion a breeze.

Basically, an autoresponder sends a pre-loaded sequence of email messages automatically when a prospect fills an opt-in form or sends an email to the autoresponder address.

There are many autoresponder services on the web today, but with unmatched reliability and deliverability, Aweber is hands down the best and the #1 choice for most marketers.

In conclusion, the second pre-requisite to make money online for beginners is simply to create an offer for your target market. That’s simply put, filling a need for your target audience you’ve already identified

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Email profits are the result of how responsive your list is to your offers and the level of trust you have developed with your list as well as other factors such as the conversion of the sales letter.

Nurturing a strong relationship and trust with your subscribers, thus improving your list response rate, can greatly boost your online profits.

To do that, there are three things that you have to pay attention to and together they form what I like to call the 3C Email profits Formula.

1.Consistency: The first component of the the 3C Formula is consistency. The term points to your being consistent with your subscribers’ interest and needs. It emphasizes on the need to deliver what you promised to your subscribers. If you fail to do that, you are then very likely to lose your credibility among your subscribers.

Every email that goes out to your subscribers must be geared towards building a continuity to your subscribers’ interests and goals.

If they are on your list because they want to lose weight, then you must be crazy enough to send them a golf-related product no matter how hot you think it is.

The subject of your Email should be in one way or another aligned to the overall goals of your subscribers unless you are very much interested in an outburst of unsubscribe, which i highly doubt.

So, just keep the foreign stuff out and give your subscribers what they want and you’ll be rewarded with respect and trust by your subscribers and, of course, huge profits.

2. Content: Information is king and with this I mean solid information that will bring added value to your subscribers’ lives.Ifyou can give your subscribers solid content, they will come to trust and respect you as a useful expert and they’ll look forward to your next email.

There are thousand ways of expressing any thought or idea. But it’s not how the idea is told that’s important but rather what the idea itself is. In other words, it’s not the words that are so important but they ideas that convey or express. The content is what remains after you have stripped away all the fluff.

Your subscribers will be after content and at the end of the day, it’s what really counts to them. So, be of value to your subscribers by providing them with useful content and they will be looking forward to your next email.

3.Copy: By copy we mean the art of persuasive writing and communication so that your prospects are motivated to take action. In marketing, whether online or offline, you must be able to convince your prospects enough to have them buy or take any desired action. This could be to click a link, fill out a form, pick up a phone and call you or to sign up for a free sample to your product.

As an email marketer, your words acts as the bridge between you and your prospects and your copy must be able to motivate your subscribers to take action and click through the links in your email.

The basis of writing a killer email copy is to realize that everyone has some form of buying resistance which must be overcome if your readers are going to take the desired action.

The objectives of your copy should therefore be to overcome the mental barriers leading to their buying resistance while persuading them to take action. This can be overcome through a combination of benefit, urgency and an incredible offer but that’s another topic for another day.

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Forums are an excellent source of targeted traffic and in fact forum traffic is one of the most laser targeted. This is a good idea because like we said in the Ebook “Easy Internet Profits: How To Make Money Online For Beginners“, the traffic to your website should be laser targeted if you are to make good money online.

Forums are actually useful across two platforms:

First, forums are a great way to know what people in your niche are looking for or want to know but that’s another topic for another day. Today we are going to look at the second way to use forums to build your online business which is:

Getting backlinks and free traffic to your websites or blog. Now, to drive traffic to your website or blog using forums, you need to find forums related to your niche and become an active member of the forum(s). Two to three forum posts are not enough and I am going to reveal to you another secret why you will want to become an active contributor of a certain forum if you keep reading.

You can easily find forums online on almost any niche you want, some free others fee based. You can find them easily by searching over at Google or any other search engine using the search phrase “Niche+forum” e.g. Pet training forum.

Now, before firing your forum marketing, you need to read the rules and regulations of the forum you just joined to stay out of trouble with the forum moderators. It’s also a good idea to introduce yourself to the other members and to get a general feel of the forum before posting. Get to know the tone of the forum members as well as the forum moderators.

You’ll also need to create a signature file which is where traffic to your website will come from. The signature file appears at the end of every post you make in the forum. By including the link to your website, interested members of the forum can click through to your website.

Your signature file doesn’t have to be so big; just your name, a statement or two and your website link are enough. It must however have a clear call to action e.g.

Need to shed those extra calories starting now?

Visit Weight Loss Solutions for time saving solutions.

Discover right here and right now how to shed those

extra calories eating as much as you want.

Visit Weight Loss Solutions for simple weight loss solutions

Once you have read and understood the rules of the forum and have a good feel for the tone of the community, it’s time to start contributing to them.

Spend some time to develop a good relationship with the community. By that I mean that you should contribute something. Don’t post junk or spammy comments that don’t make sense in the context of the thread you are posting in just for the back links to your website or get advertising credit. They will only get deleted by forum moderators in the very least not to mention that you could get your account deleted.

Instead, ask your own questions, respond to other people’s posts by offering solutions and answers to their problems and questions as well as offering useful links to free resources that other members of the community need.

your long term goal is mainly to build your credibility among other members of the forum community. Be seen as a reliable source of useful information and an active member of the community. Again don’t be afraid to learn from other members of your forum. Don’t get stuck with your own problems when you’ve willing members of the forum community to help you out.

Another powerful strategy is to introduce a free report as a solution to a problem that was posted. It could also be a piece of software, audio file or even video-as it best fits the given situation.

You can even offer some free (but useful) gift to the members of the community for their own purpose if the forum rules permits you to. This could be a set of articles,an autoresponder series etc.

If you are an internet business owner, there is one forum you must be an active member of and that is Rusell Brunson’s ConquerYour Niche forum.

ConquerYourNiche is one amazing forum where you get rewarded simply for participating in the forum. Rusell Brunson allows you to earn FREE advertising credits so you can get quality traffic just for posting in the forum! There is no other forum like this.

Everytime you post, reply, or even READ a post, you can earn advertising credits. So, if you participate in forums a lot, your earned credits can soar and your ad can be displayed multiple times. The best part: it’s totally free to join as well.

Forum marketing is one very reliable source of targeted traffic to your website. If you can take the time to participate in forums, you can gradually accumulate links back to your website and get some search engine love and some free traffic (free is good huh!).

So get your forum marketing campaign rolling and get help for those obstacles to your online business while you generate free qualified traffic to your website or blog. ConquerYourNiche is a nice place to get started.

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Hostgator is one of the world’s top 10 largest web hosting companies with more than 2,200,000 hosted domains.

I personally use their service and I like it. I switched from another web host earlier this year (name withheld please) after a nightmare hosting experience with them.

Choosing the right web host for your online business is a critically important decision and if you choose the wrong host you will most likely suffer massive downtime and poor (almost elusive) support.

Hostgator has a very affordable pricing structure from as low as $4.95 and a 24/7 support. They even give you an iron-clad 99.9% up time guarantee so that you don’t have to worry about your site being down and costing you a fortune in sales and profits.

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They even allow yo to host unlimited domains with their baby package at no extra cost for each. They also guarantee a 45 day money back guarantee and a lot more punch than You can expect from most other web hosting service providers.

But that’s not even the best part. If you decide to switch to their hosting service from another web host , Hostgator will handle everything for you from scripts transfer to domain, file and MYSQL transfers. They did it for me and I was very grateful they spared me the agony.

If I ever had to make a recommendation for a reliable web host, the it would have to be Hostgator at all times. It’s no at all hard to see why hostgator is preferred by well over 2.2 Million internet business owners once you test their service risk free Here>>

I suggest you choose the Baby package which will allow you to host unlimited websites. Hostgator doesn’t charge you for Addon Domains meaning you can host multiple sites on one account.

I am recommending Hostgator’s hosting service because I have had a personal experience with them and I like their service.

I want you to use the most reliable hosting service and at the best price possible and in my opinion , Hostgator is by all standards it. So, go ahead and get yourself a hosting account or better still, make a worthwhile switch over at Hostgator