Monday, 29 October 2007

Making Money Online Fast with Networking Schemes - is it possible?

So, you’ve decided you want to make money online fast.

You’ve had a look around, maybe checked out my site StartUpOnline and visited some of the pages, got the free reports, the freebies, and maybe a course or two. But did you subscribe to any of the networking schemes?

Networking programs are possibly the best way there is of creating a residual income - one that keeps paying you every month for work you did in the past. Let me give you an example, with Success University you get paid a faststart bonus for recruiting then a monthly residual each month they are in the program. You also get paid for people recruited by people you recruited and anyone in their downlines to an infinite level. So what that means is you get paid money and share in any success anyone on your team/downline has - great eh?

The only problem is, you have to build your team in the first place - the speed at which you do this is upto you. I know someone who recruited 24 people in his first month, so he has had a profitable month, and his income will have raised substantially. Having so many people in his immediate downline means excellent bonuses and a residual income of several hundred pounds.

He has generated a great income in just a month, and his chance of his team growing fast, while dependant on his signups, is excellent. Within a few months, he’ll be earning thousands in faststarts, and a residual you could buy a car with each month.

Once you join a a team - you can even join my SU team via StartUpOnline, then you’ll be part of the same team as myself, world famous DJ Legend Danny Rampling, Simon, a network marketer of over 20 years experience - and the gentleman I used as my illustration, Simon Hinton, and a talented, hardworking team of entrepreneurs all brought together with a common cause - to better ourselves, and achieve enormous success through teamwork. Unique to our team, we offer daily webinars and an online presentation to enable people to find out more about the opportunity, meet us and ask any questions they may have.

Affiliate Schemes whereby you can generate a commission by selling someone else’s product are another good way to generate income, providing you would be offering an in-demand product. Your commissions are paid into your paypal account, or by cheque. The problem here is, you need to build a massive targeted audience who you need to market your product too - unless you already have a site relevant to the product, you may find yourself spending a lot of time on traffic exchanges, opt-in lists, and other list building exercises to generate people who you can promote your product to.

It is possible to make money fast, but in the crowded Internet Marketing market, it’s also easy to lose money doing PPC Ads for a product nobody buys. You can go it alone, but in my experience it’s better to have a team with the same goals behind you - to support, mentor, advise, and help you.

Sunday, 21 October 2007

Get Started Online with Nothing

How you can start earning good money using the Internet, even if you have no money today.

by Rob Bell, October 2007

The Internet offers a fantastic opportunity for you to get RICH! Never before in history has the average person had the ability to get their product or service in front of billions of people throughout the World. Never have fortunes been made so quickly by so many.

Before the Internet Age, products could take years to catch on. Now, products can be introduced to instant demand, and markets can change in the blink of an eye. A product which could have lasted 20 years in days gone by, is now obsolete in 2 years.

Look at USB Memory Sticks for example – my first memory stick not 5 years ago cost me £30 for 32MB. Last week I bought a 2GB Stick for £15.00. I can’t get any useful amount of stuff on the 32MB stick anymore because data nowadays is so much bigger – pictures, movies, music all take up large amounts of MB or GB.

I’ve got 4 boxes of Vinyl records from when I DJed in the early 90s… I haven’t owned a record player for 15 years though, cos everything I listen to now is on CD – actually that’s a lie, everything I listen to now lives on my PC, either ripped from a CD, or bought online. You see my point?

Before the Internet Age, when you introduced a product, you had to design it, get it printed/produced, hold stock, take orders then mail the product out. All these things cost money, that you have to recoup before you make a profit – and each time you make a sale, you have to subtract your costs from your sale before you get your profit.

Information Products, such as Ebooks, Reports, or Software, are where you want to be today. What do people use the Internet for? Yeah ok, I’ll give you that - some use it for porn! A lot more people use it for INFORMATION. Yep – Google, Yahoo and the other Search Engines get billions of hits every day, from people looking for information – information about everything under the sun.

Information Products mean that you don’t have to produce anything physical, so you don’t have the costs associated with that. Let me give you an example - If I write an EBook “StartUpOnline.co.uk – the Beginners Guide”, the cost to me there is just my time (although that’s a precious commodity when you’re as busy as I am!). Once it’s written, I add some graphics, convert it to a pdf, upload it to my website then begin to market it, using free methods you can learn more about on my site StartUpOnline. Every time I make a sale, I either mail it to the customer automatically, or they download it from a link I send them. So it costs me just about £0 to send out that product – No postage, no packing, no printing, no dispatch, no waiting in line at the Post Office… You see the benefits, and see how your profits will be so much greater? It’s also for sale 24/7 – anyone from anywhere can buy it anytime once it’s on my site.

What this means to you is that you have as good an opportunity as anyone to become an Internet Millionaire! What do you love to do? What do you know about? You can write about anything, there are people on the Internet who are interested in it! For quickest success, if you can write about anything, you should find out which markets are hot, get familiar with them, then write about them – the larger your target audience the larger your sales generally.

It doesn’t need to cost you anything to get started – you can get a free website from lots of places – or a blog is easier if you’re not ready to build a site. You can register with Paypal in order to take payments. You can download OpenOffice, a free suite of office tools – Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Art , Database and an Equation editor. You already have an Internet connection, or you wouldn’t be reading this.

So now you’re all set. Decide what you want to write about, and go out and create your own products – Give me a call in 6 months and I’ll see you on your yacht in Ibiza!

Rob Bell

StartUpOnline.co.uk

Rob Bell is a successful Chartered Marketer with 15 years experience creating and developing varied markets, primarily Technology. He first started using the Internet as a Business & Marketing student in 1991, and considers himself a bit of a computer addict. He runs several websites including StartUpOnline, and devotes his work to those and his Success University business. He loves music and reading, and also likes to yo-yo to focus his concentration…

Sunday, 14 October 2007

Grow Your Business Network

To be successful in business, one needs to build up a veritable network of acquaintances. Business networking is something that may help propel any business venture forward. The more people you know and can approach in different circumstances, the better you can act decisively and effectively resolve a variety of issues. After all, establishing a business network is all about gathering a group of like-minded individuals together in the aim of helping each other go towards achieving goals.

In trying to build up a business network of your own, it is also important to note that it is not only the number of people that you know but also the quality of people that you know. The size of your network can help a lot, but so will the type of people you now in your segment of industry. You must know how to strike a balance between the quality of people as well as the quantity that makes up for your business network.

When building a business network, it is also important to gather people whom you know you would be able to gather a lot of information and learn from. A good business network is composed of having people who may be able to offer you valuable advice as well as help. It is also composed of people that you may be able to easily approach and get in touch with.

In essence, you are doing more than just building a network of business acquaintances; you are trying to establish a network of relationships. What one should strive for is trying to really connect and make friends instead of looking at an established network as a mere need or requirement in order to succeed in business.

Building a business network is not really about building contacts from whom you can profit or gain something from. If that would be the case, then the network that would be built would not last long. Many people make the mistake of always considering what they can gain from a certain business contact. The "what is in it for me" attitude towards a building business network may not succeed for long.

True, it may provide immediate triumphs here and there, but building business contacts in such a way would make you look like a manipulator instead of a collaborator. That would prove to be disadvantageous to any business and in building meaningful business relationships.

In building a business network, one should always make an effort to reach out to contacts and really get to know them in a more personal manner. In usually business meets, many people make the mistake of just handing out business cards to as many people as possible as well as getting business cards from them, all without going through the effort of knowing them. As with establishing any relationship, you need to know a person first.

That is the same way with building your business networks. Take the effort to know your contacts more than just through the information from their business cards. This way, you would be building a relationship with your business network and establish it for the long term.

Blogging - Advantages of Blogging in the Field of Business and Marketing

Online diaries, weblogs, websites.

These are just but some of the words associated with blogging. The word may sound technical but it simply refers to a website where entries are written chronologically or reverse chronological order. Many blogs are personal commentaries on particular subject such as food, politics, fashion and employment. Some blogs are significant sources of news of current events that continuously gain wide readership and popularity. In today's business and commerce, blogging offers a wide array of advantages in terms of working with your clients, merchandizers, work colleagues and other writers.

1. Blog marketing offers endless benefits by drawing potential customers into conversations or forums. Because blogs are accessible for the customers to directly comment on the product being posted, bloggers receive feedbacks and build rapport, thus making your market research a lot easier than traditional market research strategies.

2. Blogs create a population of people who are interested in your products and services and what your corporation has to say about them. Just make sure that your blog links to other related blogs because blogging is all about community.

3. Blogs are communication tools allowing you to connect to new opportunities by providing contacts with people you would have never met.

4. A regularly updated business blog provides links in abundant supply making your search engine visible and dynamic to all as it allows you to communicate with a dynamic and interactive database.

5. Blog marketing spells advertising where media can be informed on news pertaining to your company products' innovations, its merchant tie-ups to other institutions as well as hiring and promotions and other important events of your company. It establishes your corporation's credibility, boosts its image to prospective business allies, investors and potential employees.

6. A business blog provides an outlet to describe your merchandize, by displaying pictures of your items, thus increasing your bidding pools in case you have auctions or sale.

With the practicality of business blogging, it is therefore strongly suggested that lessons must be learned to build a successful blog.

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed my brand new guide to blogging success, ‘Secrets of Blogging for Profit‘

Download it free here: Blogging for Profit

Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 1574 articles in print and 11 published ebooks.