Home Based Internet Businesses

The Potential Of Fan Websites – Part 3

KenJ — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:19:05 +0000

Examples of large portal sites covering many different celebrities

Some of the example websites are very large and others are simple blogs. They all make money.

http://unrealityshout.com/

http://www.classicpopicons.com/

http://www.throng.com.au/

http://www.thexfactor.com/

Examples of single contestant/star websites

The first example is a contestant in the UK X factor TV programme. At the time of writing Cher Lloyd has got to the semi final. The google keyword tool for UK only shows 201,000 searches for her name alone. Below this are hundreds of other search terms with her name plus other words.

The competition is very low because she has only recently become famous. 10 weeks ago no one knew who she was.

Lady GaGa has U.S. Search volume of 30,000,000 per month. Look for yourself and see the tiny amount of competition.

http://www.cherlloydfansite.co.uk/

http://www.jamescordenfansite.com/

http://www.justin-b.org/

http://ladygagafansite.com/

http://www.beyonce-knowles.com/

Section Five – How To Find Next Years Stars

A. Looking For Next Years Famous People

There is one resource that will give you 1,000′s of people who will be famous next year. This resource is Television Programmes that are coming to screens in 2011. You need to be aware of what is coming up on your television next year. Find out who is taking part in these programmes and look for new faces.

For Example – If there is a new season of your favourite crime series coming out in 2011 find out what new actors have been added to the cast. You are looking for relatively unknown actors who do not have a following. See if “House” has any new doctors in the new series and you will probably have a potential fansite.

The easiest programmes to profit from are the reality shows such as Xfactor, Biggest Loser, Strictly Come Dancing, Dancing On Ice and Talent shows. They will give you lots of new people to follow. You will need to use some judgement to choose the best ones.

Sites to search

http://www.tvguide.com/

http://tvdramas.about.com/od/tvshowsaz/TV_Shows_A_Z.htm

http://www.thevine.com.au/entertainment/tv/default.aspx

http://www.bbc.co.uk

B. Looking For Next Years Shows

The other method is to build a fan site around a show. Star Trek has already been done many times and has a huge fan base. There are other shows that you can prospect for. I think the new “Hawaii Five 0” has potential both in the USA and the UK. Assuming it will be shown in the UK.

The reality shows mentioned above in section A will all be good candidates for a fan site. The point is you can check last years statistics for these shows to confirm that there is plenty of traffic for them.

Then you go ahead and build a site in the knowledge that when the time is right you will be sitting pretty with a great website 1,000,000′ s of people want to visit. Reality shows are seasonal but because there are so many people involved as contestants and judges you have many search terms you can use to drive massive traffic to your website.

My TV Shows For 2011 Would Be

Biggest Loser 2011
X Factor USA 2011
The Paul Reiser Show
Harry’s Law
Castle New Series
Glee New Series

But there are a huge number of opportunities out there.

C. Looking For Next Years Movies

This is a very easy group of potential celebrities to find. The Big Studios are always telling you what they are working on. Find out what films the studios are making and look for new stars. With MGM now saved from bankruptcy they will be worth watching closely for new projects. Look at late night TV interviews and see who is working on what.

Search For New Movies

http://www.themovieinsider.com/

http://the-movie-trailer.com/

http://www.movie-moron.com/?p=13779

http://teaser-trailer.com/movies-2011.html

My Movie Recommendations for 2011 would be

Harry Potter 8
Transformers 4
Pirates of The Caribbean 4
No Strings Attached
Apollo 18
Section Six – How to keep up to date with the news.

Google Alerts – Set up alerts for your personality or TV show. This way you will know who is saying what about your subject. You can then report it on your website. You become a clearing house of news and gossip which fans love. Google Alerts HERE

Watch Oprah – And any other chat shows and celebrity interviews. You will discover new opportunities. When your celebrity is interviewed you can use it for sound bites and quotes. You can also report the interview as a whole.

Watch The Show – If you are following a TV series then you will have to watch every episode. This will help if you are a fan yourself as you will enjoy the experience.

Start A Twitter Following – While you are watching the show you will be using twitter to have live conversations with other fans. You website will of course have your twitter feed displayed. To get a group of followers takes time but after the first 100 fan followers it gains momentum as people share your conversations on twitter. Every time you tweet you will get visitors to your website.

Facebook – Start a fan page based on your show/personality and look for news and gossip from other fans. It almost doesn’t matter how true the gossip is. Gossip is Gossip. It provides a backdrop for you to use google alerts to “report” the latest accurate news.

ABC, BBC and more – Bookmark on your google home page the feeds from the main entertainment pages of television websites. This will ensure you are up to date with what is happening.

Just Spotted – Here is a brilliant website for keeping up to date with the whereabouts of your favourite celebrity. Http://www.justspotted.com/radar

Celebrity Websites – Follow the generic celebrity gossip websites for any snippets of information and news. 4 examples:-

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/

http://www.celebritygossip.com/

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/

http://www.heatworld.com/

Pay special attention to this Heatworld website. It is an object lesson in how to monetise a fan website. Look at the layout and the affiliate programmes they are promoting.

Section Six – Tools & Resources

What Website Building Platform Should You Use

I recommend WordPress for fan websites as it is the easiest way to build this type of site, where you are daily adding new content. You must make it “hacker proof” with a proper user name (NOT Admin) and a good password. Change the password every Monday to be sure. The IP Lockdown Plugin will also help with security.

The reason for using WordPress is mainly the magazine type themes you can use. Further to this is the ease of use when adding a forum and a membership web site. For complex sites the magazine themes are ideal. For a single person fan website, the standard twenty twenty theme with a new header will work fine.

If you are completely strapped for cash you can use blogger.com to host your fan website. Once you start making money from the blogger website then you can use these funds to buy hosting and domains for your next fan website.

Domain Name Selection

There are a number of ways to approach domain names. The simplest option is “famousnamefansite.com” Hyphens are not a problem in my opinion e.g. “famous-name-fansite.com” I tend to stay with .com domains. Another option is the “Unnofficial” domain name. e.g. cheryl-cole-unofficial.com (Example)

Resources

The Best Spinner – A Tool to help you create many versions of the same article – A great time saver.

Xheader – A free online header graphic tool. Make a replacement header for the standard wordpress graphic options.

The Potential Of Fan Websites – Part 2

KenJ — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:26:31 +0000

Section Two – The Types Of Fan Websites You Can Build

Daily News & Information Website

There are a number of website types you could build to profit from your celebrity. The most basic is a daily news website or blog. You daily put the latest news on the website. You build up content day by day.

Your aim is to have more content than any other website on your celebrity. List every news item, album track, acting part, TV appearance and anything else you can find. Be comprehensive. This is easier to do for emerging stars as there is little information about them. See examples later on in this report.

List Building Website/Newsletter Approach

When you promote your website you can send people to a sign up squeeze page. Fans will serve you a very high sign up rate if you offer them the latest news about their star. You can also offer a free report about the star as well.

This list building will ultimately provide a good stream of income when you announce by email the latest products connected to your star. You can also run a full weekly newsletter for your fan subscribers. The open rate from fans will always be high. You need to have well thought out subject lines for your emails. You can send out a mix of information and product offers.

Fan Forum

Once you have a good number of subscribers you can launch a forum. Announce it to your list and you can then send the subsequent sign up people to the forum. Topics could include:-

Tour Dates
Where In The World Is “Eric” Today
Online Store
Episode Discussion
Rumours
plus General discussion

With a forum you open up a huge wealth of opportunities for making money with the website.

Membership Website

Once your list and forum is really getting business then you can offer a membership to your subscribers. Being a fan club membership site is so well suited to online marketing because you can send digital goods for free. Not like the old days when you had to send out badges, certificates and goodies by post. You can structure the whole thing around digital products.

Section Three – The Different Type of Celebrities

Classic Celebrity

There are people who are true artists in their field. They have been around for years and have a huge worldwide following. Their output is always good quality and their fans appreciate them for what they do. These are not so easy to start a fansite with unless no one else has thought of it. The fans are more circumspect and will not run around in circles shouting “sell me a poster” or whatever. I would generally not try to run a website on a classic celebrity unless it was for love rather than money.

“One Day Of Fame” Celebrity

There are people who suddenly appear on the scene and have a moment of fame. The problem is that many of them disappear just as quickly. From the marketing point of view they are worthless unless they have numerous “Days of Fame” These Days are usually forgettable and not worth a fan site.

The Latest Thing

These are the newest stars to hit the headlines and capture the hearts of a group of fans. You need to be quick to recognise up coming stars. A Current hot example is Justin Bieber. (December 2010) See example Justin Beiber fansite later.

The Big Opportunity – Next Years Star

The best website to set up is for people who are not yet famous. They will become household names within 12 months but at the moment they have not appeared. The problem is that you do not know who they are yet. But you can predict who they are.

Predicting The Next Celebrity

There is a group of people who are going to be famous by the end of next year that you can predict. They might not be celebrities in the true sense of the word but they will bring many visitors to your website if you are ahead of the game. You can build a website ready and full of content for them. Then when people start searching for them you will be ready with a website to satisfy their need for knowledge for these new stars. See later in this report to learn more.

Making Money With A Fan Website

The Money making side of a fan site will vary from one celebrity to the next. Some will have a host of DVD’s, Blu-ray, MP3 downloads, posters and books you can link to as an affiliate.

These people will have associated products that can be affiliated to. You can also make good money as a “Fadsense” website. That is a fan website dedicated to getting adsense clicks. Make sure to check that there are advertisers paying good money to advertise your chosen celebrity.

Look at the examples given later on to see how you can set up fan websites and make money from them.

You can also monetise your website by writing an “unofficial” biography or other information product. It can be a download ebook, a book in print with createspace.com. The other format to consider is the Kindle format.

The Lifetime Of A Fan Site

Most sites run with the popularity of the star. If they fall out of the front pages for a while that is no reason to stop your site. Movie stars will always have new films in the pipeline which will be your subject matter for the website. When the film is released you will see another burst of traffic. The same goes for music artists and album releases.

There is another type of site that is very seasonal. At the same time these are very profitable for a period of 3 months of the year. See later in this report to learn more.

The main key to succeeding with this type of website is knowing what is happening and being one of the first to report it. A second key is enthusiasm for your subject. If not a fan you at least need to have some interest.

Section Four – Promoting Your Fan Website

Your main promotion will actually be your constantly updated content. This content will be added on a regular basis and will give you a huge base of writing, videos and pictures to attract search engine traffic.

Facebook – Your Top Source Of Targeted Traffic

There are many ways to promote a fan site but Facebook ads lend themselves perfectly to a fan site. This is because you can choose to have your ads only appear to people who have said they are fans. This demographic selection process is what make Facebook the ideal place to promote your site. Send facebook visitor clicks to your squeeze page to get sign ups to your list.

Search Engine Traffic

If you are building a site for a new star then you will get a good amount of search engine traffic simply because you were first to get relevant content indexed.

Use video to report newsworthy items. For example you could list the latest tour dates in a video. Post the video to youtube with the title “(Your Star) Tour Dates” and put a link to your website in the description.

Note about adwords.

You could use adwords for traffic but I don’t use the adwords system as it is stacked against you. A good profitable keyword can disappear on you at the whim of an algorithm. It just is not reliable enough for me. But if you are an adwords wizard you could get traffic that way.

Note about article directories.

You want all your unique content in one place and one place only – your website. If you want to use article directories for backlinks then that’s fine. I usually rewrite my articles myself. If I am pushed for time I occasionally use The Best Spinner to spin my articles before submitting to GoArticles and other directories. I do not worry about ezinearticles as their rules are too stringent for spun articles.

The Potential Of Fan Websites – Part One

KenJ — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:16:49 +0000

This is the introduction to my 2011 Niche report. It shows you how to predict 1000′s of profitable new niches that no one has ever heard of.

You can predict your next profitable niche using the simple methods you will find in this report. Just imagine the power of setting up a website ahead of time that will be ready for cash rich visitors hungry for your content.

Fan Websites take advantage of being the first marketer to produce content for a particular niche. By being first you can dominate the search engine traffic. By further updating your website on a regular basis you will easily stay top of the search engine results pages (SERPS)

The Opportunity

Fan Websites are an opportunity that very few marketers take advantage of. Those enterprising marketers that successfully make money from this type of website are not letting on about it. This report will lift the lid on thousands of possible niche idea websites for you to follow through on.

I came across the idea simply because I am an Eric Clapton fan. I was looking for information about his latest album after hearing a track on the radio. So I typed “Eric Clapton New Album” into google and pressed return. That is when I discovered that there are numerous fan websites for him.

Being a fan I was lost in wonder at all the wonderful information about my hero Eric. I was also completely taken in to the various websites before I came to my senses and saw what was happening. I was a fan being drawn in and was clicking from site to site and following links. I could have bought songs, albums, posters, memorabilia, calendars, T-shirts and much more. I did order the new Clapton album. I also must have made at least 5 or 6 adsense clicks while looking around so someone made some money from my search for information.

The point is that an obsessive fan always wants to know everything there is to know about their favourite celebrity. Your task is to create a site based around this person or group that meets the needs and wants of a fan.

Look at the Google zeitgeist listings for 2010. Look in particular at the “Fastest Rising People” section. Just think how many website visitors you could have had by setting up a fansite for some of these highly searched famous names.

The Sheer Size Of The Opportunity

Celebrity and fans go hand in hand. And there seems to be a never ending supply of new faces to follow and be devoted to. Think of the latest pop singers, groups, movie stars and people who are just famous for being famous. These people are always in the news and fans are always wanting to know what is happening to their favourite stars.

You can probably bring to mind 10 famous people who are current and in the news on a daily basis at the moment. These are the people you want to build a site around. You could end up with a sizeable home based internet business just by setting up some fan websites.

Building a Residual Income On The Internet.

KenJ — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:50:18 +0000

There are very few ways that the “small guy” can compete with the online gurus who are making millions. I doubt actually that too many are in fact making what they claim, but that’s another matter. The “big guys” have one thing that you do not have when you are starting out with an online business and that is contacts and a list of subscribers. It is still quite possible for a new person to start building a residual income on the internet. As a new person to internet marketing the first thing you want to concentrate on is building a backdrop of residual income. Once you have established a home based business residual income going on in the background you can focus on building more online businesses.

The Beginners Way to Build A Residual Income

There is one way that I suggest you set up your residual income and one way only for beginners. Affiliate income based websites will allow you to set up a referral process that will earn you commissions. The products are not yours. You sell other peoples products and get a payment for every sale made from your referral. The skill is to build a website that gets visitors who then click through to your affiliate products to buy. You need to create a smooth channel that takes a person searching for information to the point where they make a purchase.

The Best Place To Find Affiliate Products

You should start your residual affiliate website by selling digital products only. They are the easiest to set up and administer. The largest source for these products is Clickbank. There are many thousands of digital products that you can advertise as an affiliate. There is no sign up fee and most of the products are excellent.

Once you have set up your sales website sending clicks to your affiliate merchant you can simply repeat the process to get more and more of these website working for you and providing you with a passive income.

What you need to concentrate on is getting visitors to your website. There are many ways to do this but I always start by daily adding new content for one month. Then I add an article a week for the next 48 weeks. That means that after one year you will have 78 articles on your website. As long as you are writing well and using good keywords you will get good free traffic this way. At the same time you will be building backlinks to your website.

4 Ways To Get Free Web Traffic For Your Home Based Internet Businesses

KenJ — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:20:02 +0000

When you have set up your website and have a sales process of some kind working, you need to find ways of getting traffic to it. You can pay for traffic with a number of strategies but my favourite kind or traffic is free. Free web traffic is in many ways the best sort of traffic because it means you have set up your content in the correct way. Each of your web pages is written with good on page SEO in mind. The pages will be set up with a logical structure that looks good to both your human visitors and to the search engines. So assuming you have got all this set up correctly lets look at how to get free web traffic to your home based internet business website.

Written articles for your website

This is the method I first used to get free traffic to my websites. I still use it today as I find it brings a constant stream of traffic to my website. These articles will work for you in 2 main ways. The main thing to do is put good well researched articles on your website pages. If you build up a portfolio of good articles the search engines will recognise this and increase your search engine rankings accordingly. You link you articles to each other so that none of them are independent. All your pages should be a part of the linking network on your website.

Written articles for syndication

The second way to use articles is to place on articles directories, press releases and other peoples websites. These syndicated articles will bring you traffic for two reasons. Firstly you will get the readers of these articles visiting your website to find out more. Secondly you will have a large number backlinks to your webpages. The more your articles are published the more visitors and backlinks you will get. The beauty of using written articles is that they will bring you free web traffic for years to come. They keep on working.

You tube videos for traffic

This method has become more popular in the last five years but still only a few website owners really use it. There seems to be an unwillingness to be bothered with making and posting videos. This is good for anyone who does take the trouble to do the work. You can use any form of video from live to camera videos to powerpoint presentations. The trick is to name the video with a keyword phrase that no one else has used for a video. These are very easy to find and you will rank highly for the search term. When you post your video you can put your website url in the description box which gives you a direct link.

Twitter Followers

Many people now use twitter and so should you. Make it easy for people to subscribe to your twitter account on your website using any of the widgets that twitter provide. I already have over 10,000 followers. When ever I post on twitter I get a burst of traffic to my website. To get followers you should make your profile interesting. My profile says that I have written 2 books which seems to make people follow me. Make yourself sound as interesting as possible and people will follow you.

Keyword Research – The Reason Your Internet Based Business Is Going to Succeed

KenJ — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:59:00 +0000

Keyword research is among the bedrocks of Online marketing. It truly is the means through which you discover which pages to develop in your web-sites and what content material those pages should contain.

Effective on-line marketing is all about getting maximum earnings from just about all of one’s work and keyword research will be the method you do that – it concentrates you upon what counts instead of arbitrarily creating and setting up web pages which are not logical or targeted.

Almost all folks go on the net to find out about something because the web is really a huge stash of information which any person can easily gain access to. They are sent to web sites that may provide them with answers through the search engines like google. People type in a word or key phrase (collectively called a keyword regardless of how long the words might be) and are offered suggestions of internet sites to visit.

The goal for Online marketers is always to make their own web-sites and web pages authorities for particular key phrases so that the search engines like google will offer them higher rankings and therefore deliver a lot more free traffic to them. Efficient ‘keyword research’ is the method one discovers which keywords to best target.

Keyword research is really an easy to do procedure: you can find a number of fantastic keyword research programs available to purchase which not merely find the keywords and phrases for you but also carry out a great deal of analysis to assist you assess which might be the best. The superior applications in addition have extra features to offer a lot extra info that internet marketers will need.

Two of the best on the market right now are Market Samurai and Micro Niche Finder. Both work with Google as their information source, but the two include levels of more features to make the keyword researchers’ life less complicated.

For example, the two applications allow you to separate out the frequently extensive lists of key terms they put up to ensure that you just concentrate your attention upon the most effective ones. But they each go even further and help you with all types of additional tasks which could otherwise take a lengthy time to complete. One extra function means that you can right away learn if website names based on the key phrases you may have found are readily available for instant purchase.

Because it is in most cases a very good idea to own a domain to fit your primary keyword, this is really a really handy element to have built in a keyword research program.

Other functions that you can count on with this sort of top-end applications as Micro Niche Finder and Market Samurai will be analysis of Google’s top search rankings for your search term and suggestions of items you could sell to monetize a page centered on it.

Used effectively, premium keyword research tools will probably pay for themselves numerous times over in an extremely brief period.

Newcomers to Online marketing don’t, however, need to purchase any software to start to get to grips with keyword research. It is totally achievable to perform it free of charge using the assistance of the researching application which Google them selves offer you. The link to that tool is actually very lengthy, however if you Google the expression ‘keyword tool’ their very own one is typically in the #1 position.

Current improvements to the way it appears and behaves have made it less helpful and easy to use as it once was, but for those on a tight budget it nevertheless can provide some useful end results.

Whether you use a easy tool like Google’s cost-free one or a superior application which you have bought, the principle is the same – you start off by typing in a root, or top-level term and the program will go off and uncover other search phrases that folks have used that contain the main phrase or alternatives or derivations from it.

It’s usually a good idea to start your study having a relatively broad root expression and then narrow down afterwards. And so, for example, if you’re in search of popular keyword phrases within the bad acne niche market, start out using the broadest key word of all: acne. You’ll discover that there are lots of searches for sub-terms such as ‘acne treatment’, ‘acne mediation’ and so forth. Those search phrases are likely to still have significant search amounts.

However it is not just the search numbers that is significant. Seasoned on-line marketers know that although a root term such as ‘menopause’ may have a large amount of people in search of it (at the moment above 32,000 queries per day), the chances of getting your online page into a high listing placement with Google are usually remote given that you’ll find already over ten million other internet pages that you’d be contending with.

Instead, a clever keyword specialist would seek out what’s often known as ‘long tail keyword’ – one that still has a decent day-to-day or monthly amount of searches, but also has a low level of competition.

In this particular instance, ‘menopause anxiety’ has about 3,500 searches monthly, but no more than 5,000 webpages in competition – a far simpler number in order to beat away from a 1st page listing!

While such information is tough to evaluate making use of free resources, and may be time consuming to collate, the premium keyword research programs like Market Samurai and Micro Niche Finder do it all for you in the click of a button.

Do not ever underestimate the importance or even the potential of keyword research on your Web marketing. Whatever you do to generate cash online, it is almost certain that you will have to find the right keywords for your articles, weblog posts and web pages. Disregard this at your peril.

Because it is in most cases a very good idea to own a domain to fit your primary keyword, this is really a really handy element to have built in a keyword research program.

Used effectively, premium keyword research tools will probably pay for themselves numerous times over in an extremely brief period.

Current improvements to the way it appears and behaves have made it less helpful and easy to use as it once was, but for those on a tight budget it nevertheless can provide some useful end results.

Information Products And Home Based Internet Businesses

KenJ — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:46:10 +0000

Information products have long been the focus of many home based internet businesses. The classic product is the Ebook and these still make up a large part of the information product marketplace. Creating an information product is one of the most straightforward ways to build a business. Once you have it selling then you can get other people selling it for you. You always own the product and no one can take that away from you unless you decide to sell it.

The Advantage Of Digital Information Products

The reason information products sell so well is that they provide the information quickly and efficiently by delivering the product online. So instead of waiting a week or so to get the information, you can have it now. It is this immediacy of supply that make information products so profitable for the small home based internet business.

People are hungry for information. The internet is most people’s first choice to find out this information. If the information needs an urgent answer then you have a good idea for a profitable information product. Because the product is delivered over the internet there are very few costs involved to provide the item. Once you own a digital product you can set your price and just send traffic to the website. This website shows people that you have the answer to their problem and makes it easy for them to place an order.

Types Of Digital Products

Ebooks are still the most common type of product sold online. They are usually pdf files that are downloadable to the customers own computer. They can read them on screen or print them out. A well targeted Ebook that solves a problem is still the easiest way to get into a marketplace.

Audio Products are beginning to make inroads into the marketplace. They are in many ways much easier to produce as you normally make a live recording of an interview or a series of interviews. You then make them audio files. These audio files then become the product. They are just as easy to download as an Ebook.

Video Products are seeing the largest growth in the information product marketplace. This is because there is cheap and accessible technology available that you could not own 10 years ago. What was once exclusively a professional market has exploded into being available to anyone with the right flip camera and software.

These products usually carry a higher perceived value and consequently have a higher sale price to the customer. They must do the job of providing information well to avoid a high refund rate. Most information products that are video based also have the transcripts available to the buyers.

Once you have created a product that has a successful sales system you can open it up to other internet markets. You will have to offer them at least 50% in commission but a good team of affiliates will more than make up for the lower sales margins with the number of sales they make for you.

My Top 10 Home Based Internet Businesses

KenJ — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:08:22 +0000

There are so many home based internet businesses that you can do that it can be almost impossible to choose what to do. Not everyone is suited to every business model. So here is my list of the top 10 home based internet businesses that you can start up very easily from home. They all are online businesses that you can operate from home.

Writing Articles For Other Internet Marketers. You can earn good money as long as you know how to research a topic and write well. Offer your services on top marketing forums. Once you have a few customers that like what you write they will come back time after time to order more articles. Make sure you don’t under price your articles. You will not be able to put the price back up once you have offered low prices.
Graphics Preparation. If you know your way around Photoshop or other graphics packages there are many web designers who need headers, logos and ebook covers prepared. You can build up complete packages for website owners to include the page design, header graphics and product covers.
Affiliate Marketing. You can sell other peoples products online by building a niche website that reviews the top products in the market. Thus is a very good way to learn the ins and outs of home based internet businesses. You basically have a very small niche and fill your website with quality information about your niche. You have links to products the other people allow you to sell. If a sale is made you get a commission on the sale. Its best to follow an organised system like The Easy Paycheck Formula.
Adsense Website. You have a blog or website full of great content in a particular area of knowledge and place adsense ads on the pages to give you a cut of the click value. This is similar to affiliate marketing. The difference is that you make money from the google ads you put on your website. Some people find this very lucrative. Others find it hard to make a living. Its best to look on adsense as one of many income streams.
Your Own Ebook Product. If you have an area of knowledge that is unique and has little competition you can fill this gap with an ebook of your own and sell it online. This is how I started out. I bought a course on how to make my own Ebook product. 4 years on it still a few copies sells every day of the year.
Surveys. I still find it amazing that people pay for surveys but they do. As long as you can keep on filling is the surveys regularly then there is money to be made this way. To find out the best sources of surveys you can click the link here.
Blogging. Blogging is now well established as a way to have a good home based business. The big proviso is that you have something interesting to say the people will want to keep coming back to read. Once you have a popular blog youu can start making money by offering affiliate products from Clickbank or Amazon.
Video Marketing. This is an area with huge potential and very few people have got the idea yet. As well as using it to promote your business you can offer a video production service to other internet marketers. Very few internet marketers can be bothered with making videos. If you do this you can make money very quickly offering a service to other marketers.
Write Web Sites For Offline Businesses. You would think that every business had a web site but they do not. Many others are not happy with their current website. There is a huge opportunity here. You can use Xsite Pro or the WordPress blog system. For any business not to have a website in this day is ridiculous but you will be surprised how many do not.
Specialist Services For Web Sites. This can be anything from product production to making video interviews. The range of service opportunities is huge. You need to set your offer up to be unique in some way. Once you have a system you can quickly repeat what you do and adapt the content to each customer.

Make Money Easy Online With Easy Paycheck Formula

KenJ — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:43:46 +0000

The Easy Paycheck Formula is one of the ways that a total beginner can set up a website and earn money quickly. It really is the classic business in a box system. This means that you need little technical knowledge or expertise to set the business up.

You really can make money easy online because the business is automated and you just monitor it and add to it as you go. The other great thing is that you can run it as a part time home based business. You do not need to give up your day job while you start your own home business.

The best section of the training is the choice of products to promote. The keyword research videos are detailed and easy to follow. Sara Young Has a unique approach that really does help you discover new niches that will make you money.

The part of the Easy Paycheck Formula that gives you huge benefit is the superb members area. This area has all the step by step training that you need to learn the money making system. There are also all the Videos and PDF files for you to use to set up the first website.

This members area is for beginners and is very easy to follow. Experienced internet marketers will know the nuts and bolts of the business but they will still appreciate the quality of the resources that will help anyine set up a website in 10 minutes.
You can start earning money within a few days. You can also repeat the process as many times as you like. I found it very reassuring to know that there are many successful people making money with this formula. For what is quite a new business scheme that is very impressive.

I know that Sara Young is very straightforward and available to the members should they need any specific help with their own projects. She is easily available by email. She has personally responded to 2 emails I sent to her about the course and some details within it. Very good service indeed.

Online Business Ideas For People At Home

KenJ — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:16:05 +0000

The desire to leave the long hours and hard work that you have with employment is huge for many employees. There are also many online business ideas for you to choose from. There is the promise of shorter working week, better conditions and the chance to spend more time with your family is irresistible. But there is also the problem of how to succeed as a home based business entrepreneur. I am afraid to say that it is not a way of life suitable for everyone. There is the uncertainty of regular income in the early days. You also need to be a self starter with a positive outlook on life. Finally you need to have a business that you can run as an entrepreneur at home.

The Difference Between An Entrepreneur And A Business Person

An entrepreneur is not always the same as a business person. To succeed as an entrepreneur you will be able to attract people and money in your direction almost automatically. A home based business person will be prepared to work hard for their earnings. An entrepreneur will expect to use other people to do the hard work and be a director of events and strategies. They have in their mind a system to earn money almost on automatic pilot. They do not need to be involved in the daily work of the business. Can you imagine Richard Branson checking in passengers for his airline?

So to succeed as a home based entrepreneur you should start as you mean to go on and plan to operate your home business in a way that doesn’t need you all the time to keep working at it. You can easily select from a number of business types that allow you to choose when and how you work. These types of business will also keep on working when you are on holiday.

The Easiest Way To Start Your Own Business

The internet is by far the easiest medium to set up this kind of business in your home. You can do everything you need to do from your computer. You can also work from anywhere in the world by logging in with your laptop. There are many opportunities to learn about running this type of hands off internet business. At the time of writing I am getting more and more involved in promoting Amazon products as an affiliate as it is a very easy system that anyone can follow and implement. I particularly like Sara Young’s Easy Paycheck Formula as it caters for completely new people as well as well established business people. It also works very easily as a first business by introducing you to many of the tips and tactics you will need for other projects.

Once you have your first automated business up and running you can duplicate it in another field of interest. Of course your first business will open your eyes to the many and varied ways you can earn money online from home. You might choose to do something of your own. That is the beauty of being your own boss at home. You say what, when and how and just get on with it.