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How To Get Free Publicity for Your Business.

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:33:30 -0500

Publicity is the "EASY WAY" to business success that everyone is looking for.Put simply, product publicity is advertising that costs you nothing, yet brings in the orders for your product or service.

Whatever type of business you have, you should want and in fact, strive for as much publicity for your business as possible. Because it's "free advertising" that is essential for the growth of your business. However, to get free publicity, your efforts must be well thought out and carefully planned for maximum results.

Primarily, the basic form of obtaining free publicity is through what is known as a press or news release. Normally, this is one page article about your business or your product or service. Or it can be related to an event in your business that is about to, or has recently happened. Normally, these publicity stories are quickly distributed to the various media, local newspapers, radio and TV, and trade publications.

Of course, the biggest problem is getting the people to whom you've sent your publicity stories, to use them and publish or broadcast them. This of course leads us back to the "correct way " of writing
them and sending them in.

Do send short covering letter, addressed to the person you want your material to be considered by, in every case. This means that you are sending your story to the city editor of the newspapers, the
news directors of the radio and TV stations and the managing editors of the trade publications. There is no point whatsoever in sending your material to the advertising, circulation or business managers, explaining that you are a long-time advertiser, subscriber or listener. It is vital that you make contact with the person who has the final say about what is to be published or broadcast. You must convince them that the use of your material will somehow make them a "hero" to his or her readers, viewers or
listeners.

Your covering letter should just be a short note. Find yourself a paper supplier and tell him you want hundred or so sheets of good bond paper.Preferably choose a pastel colour such as blue or ivory and have this paper cut into quarters, giving you a total of 400 sheets of note paper. Notes saying "From the desk of..." are too elaborate until the people you're contacting get to know you. For the first time, until they use your material, don't use these semi-formal note sheets.

On your note sheet, type the date across the top, then a couple of spaces below, tell the recipient of the note, that the attached material is new and should be of real interest to his or her readers, viewers or listeners. I suggest that the following format be used to send to the editors and news directors
of the media in your area:

"Here's something new and for a change, truly helpful
to anyone trying to cope with inflation, the soaring costs of
living and those engaged in building their own extra income business.
This should be of real value and interest, to your readers.
Please take a look and if you have any questions, or need
more information, then please give me a call at: ............."

You then skip about four spaces and type your name, your business name, and your address. Sign your name above where you've typed it and staple this note to the upper right hand corner of your press release. Your note should always be typed and double-spaced.

So, you've now got your covering letter and you know who to send it to. Type up one note, take it to a nearby quick print shop and have them copy the note four times. Paste the four copies onto another sheet of paper and print 50 to 100 copies. Cut the paper into individual notes and you have all your notes for less that $10. Do not try saving money by photo-copying or Xeroxing. A photo-copy is a still just a photo-copy and will not do the job for you.

Now of course you will need the actual publicity release. This too must be "properly" written, if you expect it to be used by the media. As with nost things, there's a proper form or style to use and of course it must be typed, double-spaced, and short. About half a page in total will suffice.

An inch or so from the top of the paper, with inch and a half margins on each side. of the paper start typing from the left hand margin. Using capital letters, type: PRESS RELEASE:, underline these words and immediately following the colon, put in the date. Always put the date forward by at least a day, after the day you intend to mail the release.

On the right hand side of the page, on the same line and again in all capital letters, type the words
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:. Underline thisand immediately below, not in all capital letters, type your name, phone number and address.

Go down the page a couple of spaces, then in all capital letters and centered between the margins, type a headline, and underline it. Skip a couple of spaces and from the left hand margin, in capital letters, type FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: From here on, it's the news or publicity story itself.

Write the headline and then a story to fit the headline, or the story and then a headline to fit it. Whichever way you do it, it's basically the same as writing an advert or a sales letter. You just attract attention and interest with the headline and fill in the details with your story.

Below is an example of a headline you can use for press releases.

NEED HELP IN MAKING ENDS MEET?

NEW PUBLICATION FOR EXTRA INCOME SEARCHERS.
Here you continue to sell or involve the editors. Their readers are always looking for ways to make ends meet and they'll be interested in what your promise involves. Readers will be pleased to be enlightened with this source of help, so the editor reads the story to find out who, what, where and how.

Needless to say, your headline and the story you present, must sell him or her the benefits of your product or service to readers. Unless it does so, an editor will not use it. You must sell to the first person receiving your material. Keep this uppermost in your mind as you write your aricle. The editor must quickly see and understand how your product or service will benefit his or her readers and must be assured that it will do what you promise in your headline.

Always come straight to the point and say that your product is lower in price, more convenient to use or how your product or service is useful to people. It's also a good idea to include a sample of your product or the opportunity to try your services.

Editors receiving your information are fully aware your purpose is Free Advertising and you should keep this in mind. They're not in the least bit interested in you or your credentials. If they want
background details, they'll call you, which is why you listed your telephone number and address.

They are busy people and they havent the time or the interest in reading your trials and tribulations or
plans for the future. They only want a signal, that alerts them to something new and possibly of real interest to their readers. Convince them you've found a better mousetrap, or that your product or service fills a need or will interest a large segment of his readers, viewers or listeners.

Always follow-up with a short thank you note when an editor uses your publicity release.But never send a press release to an editor and then contact them demanding to know why they didn't use it or only gave you a quick mention. Do this just once and that particular media will "round-file" all further material received from you, unopened! If they don't ise your first effort, then review the story and perhaps write it from a different angle and try again!. Make sure that you're sending it to the correct person.

As mentioned previously, these are busy people, with hundreds of publicity releases landing on their desks every day. So your material has to stand out and in some way, fit the information they want to give to their readers, viewers or listeners. Regardless of your product, service or business, you must build your press release around the particular angle or feature that makes it beneficial or interest
to the readers, viewer or listeners of the media you want to run it. Without this special ingredient, you're finished before you start!

Timing is always important, try to associate your press release with current events in the news.
Job lay-offs and increased unemployment in the newspapers and on TV and radio should prompt you to send a release to all the media about the help and opportunity offered to make money from home.

Another kind of timing to keep in mind are publication deadlines. Always try to time it so that your material reaches the editor for the Sunday paper, because that's when the papers have their greatest circulation. Plus, readers have more time to look at them.

If you want it to appear in the Sunday paper, you usually have to get your release in at least nine days before the publication date. But if in doubt, call and check up on the deadline date.

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Jane is the owner of My Web Cash Store website and writes about Ways to Make Passive Income, how To Make Money From Home and Online Affiliate Business. If you would like more information on these or any other home business topic,why not visit www.MyWebCashStore/holloway1217

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How To Submit Your Website to Search Engines

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:48:53 -0500

If a significant portion of your business is done on the web or through your website,then the best way of advertising and marketing is by submitting it to a search engine. No amount of press releases, newspaper or radio advertd, banner ads, spam emails or newsletters will achieve the same results. Although all of them may be effective in a small way.

Take care with companies that offer automatic submission of your website to hundreds of search engines. These are usually just false promises. The best and most reliable way to submit your website for search engine ranking and inclusion, is to do it yourself. You could also hire an expert to do it manually, by contacting the search engine companies and directories.

Make sure before you begin to submit your website to search engines, that your websites are thoroughly designed to professional standard. They need good graphics and pictures and the relevant content as well as using the right key words, don’t submit incomplete websites. When submitting to search engines, make sure you provide keywords and any other information that may be relevant, including the name and contact information for your business.

Because there are thousands of new websites being published every day, submission to search engine companies won't guarantee your site being listed immediately or that the ranking will be high. It may take sometime before your site is reviewed by the editors. An important factor to remember when submitting your site is to include a site map, which makes crawling easier for the web robots. Some search engines such as Google hardly consider submissions without sitemaps.

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Jane Holloway is owner of Tap-inprofit.com and writes on work from home business, including affiliate marketing.
If you'd like to learn more about this topic, Jane recommends you visit
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You Must Build A List Are You Tired Of Hearing This?

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:56:23 -0600

When you spend any amount of time on the Internet, eventually someone will tell you that you must build a mailing list. In fact one of the most common tips Internet marketers give each other is the importance of building an email marketing list of your own.

If you've ever wondered how many people actually make money with their email marketing list,then let's talk about some important points when it comes to building a list and making money with it. Perhaps you've been trying to build a list yourself and not getting anywhere with it? If so then do take notice of the points below.

1.Getting subscribers onto your mailing list is not as simples as it sounds. In fact most people never build a meaningful mailing list, because they never get enough traffic to their landing page or website, where their opt- in form is located.

If you really want to make money with your mailing list, you have to spend most of your time driving traffic to a page where people can subscribe to the list. The truth is, if you are not getting enough traffic, you are never going to get enough subscribers.

2. A shortcut you can use, is to buy co-registration leads from a lead list company. Although this is a hands-off way of list building, it and can pay off if the leads are handled correctly.Many of the largest Internet marketing gurus have l purchased co-registration leads at one time or another.

It's very important that you spend the initial phases when dealing with these leads, by getting to know them as people. You can do this by offering
them some useful information and by not trying to do any selling at this point.

Your goal is just to get to know these subscribers as people, not just as a name or email address This will help you to brand yourself as someone who
can be trusted and as a credible source of expert information.

One of the best things about purchasing co-registration leads is that your list continues to grow as long as you are buying leads. This way, you don't have to worry at all about growing your list, just about beginning to develop a quality list of people who know who you are and trust you.

3.You mustn't let your list become stagnant. There really is no excuse for this to happen these days, because an autoresponder allows you to program your messages for many years in advance. The very least you should be doing is following up regularly this way.

There is certainly money to be made if you have a quality mailing list. How you go about building this and then how you work with your list, is the key to whether you will make money with it.

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Jane Holloway is owner of Tap-inprofit.com and writes on work from home business, including affiliate marketing.
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Driving Your Landrover Off- Road.

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:05:11 -0600

Driving your Landrover offroad takes practise, so do practise techniques first beforeyou need to use them in earnest. Don't take risks and think safety at all times.Make the most of an off road centre. Although there are environmental issues to consider when off-roading, on serious expeditions in other locations, vehicle safety may take preference over environmental issues. Your life may depend on it.

Driving Through Deep Water:

You should always check for submerged objects and underwater potholes, also whether the bottom is soft mud or a solid one . If you can't see bottom, walk where your left tyre will go and return by where the right tyre will go. If you've got air conditioning, turn it off. If water could reach the cooling fan, it's far better to switch off the engine and let it cool, then the electric fan won't start up when your in the water. The fan blades can bend in the water and damage the radiator if they're rotating.

Remember that sideways currents can affect the directional steering and your tyres act as floats, reducing the pressure your Landrover puts on the ground, making it easier for the vehicle to be pushd sideways.You are usually safe with water up to the hubs and probably the door sills.

Drive slowly and steadily, pushing a bow wave in front of you, this will create a lower water level inside the engine bay. Don't stop or accelerate through it and keep your engine running, if water gets in the exhaust it's very difficult to re-start. Check your brakes when you're out the water, putting light pressure on the brake pedal whilst driving for a short distance will dry both the brakeshoes and drums. Disc brakes will dry out more quickly.

If the water was muddy your brake drums should be removed and cleaned out whenever possible.When the axles are submerged water may be sucked in through the breather valve or oil seals as they suddenly cool. It's a good idea to let hot axles cool before entering cold water, changing the oil is much cheaper than changing the diff and bearings.

If you go deep water crossing intentionally, the breather tubes should be raised up above possible water level. Properly fitted snorkels are essential in deep water and all the electrics in the engine bay also need to be waterproofed . In an emergency with no snorkel, a radiator blind can be made from tarpaulin. This should stop the water from going through the radiator and guide it under the engine. Keep the tarpaulin clear of the wheels and avoiding the hot exhaust, tie it behind the engine bay securely,. If you stall the engine in water you will probably have to dry all the electrics before it will restart. Failing this you can move the vehicle forward or backward by cranking the engine in gear .

Driving in Ditches and Deep Ruts:

Make sure you know your vehicle's ground clearance and the location of its lowest points. Let the wheels follow their own route when inside a deep rut and avoid over steering. Grip the steering wheel lightly but be ready to take firm control if needs be. Ditches should be Crossed at an angle, never direct on. Before you try this technique, learn about your Landrover's approach and departure angles.

Hill Climbing and Descending:

Take a good look before you start. Walk it if possible, choose the easiest route, avoiding rocks, stumps, holes etc., check for departure and approach angles that could cause problems. Find out what's at the top of the hill. Make sure everything inside the vehicle is safely stowed away or tied down.
Select your gear and go at a steady pace, using the accelerator as little as possible, but enough to avoid stalling. Stay on the power but if a wheel spins, come off the power enough to get traction again. If you stop on the hill, apply the brakes and clutch and immediately select reverse. On the way down, release the brakes and engage the clutch fully - do not use the brakes. If the wheels lock you'll lose steering and slide sideways and could even roll over. Without braking, reverse down the hill in gear in the straightest line you can. . You can safely back down a hill far too steep to climb without braking, as the engine will brake safely for you.

To slow your descent down a hill don't use the brakes, use engine braking .Should the back end start to slide around, then accelerate slightly so that you regain control. If you do brake when driving down a hill and a skid develops, ease of the brakes. Although it goes against your instincts, you will gain traction again and be able to steer. To be steerable, Wheels must be turning and If your vehicle turns sideways it will probably roll.

Driving on Long Grass:

Long grass can hide the most amazing obstacles and holes, as well as wrapping round the crank pulley, blocking the radiator and even catching fire on the hot exhaust.

Driving on Sand:

It's not really a major problem driving on moist or wet sand, if you can see tyre patterns then you know that the sand is firm. If the tyre tracks are narrow v's, the sand is soft. You should check that there isn't virtually all dry sand just below the surface. If you're following another vehicle which is breaking through a thin crust, drive your own crust, don't follow in their tracks, there's less chance of loosing critical momentum that way.

Maintaining momentum, avoiding braking and not making sharp turns, are the golden rules for driving in soft sand. When you're setting off, do it slowly, slipping the clutch if necessary, in an automatic, use 2nd gear. But you must never change gear or slip the clutch when you're under load, or you will come to a stop immediately. You might need a running start to get enough momentum, but we are not talking about speed here, but you should be in the highest gear that will do the job.

To reduce the need for momentum, reduce the tyre pressure by half. Compressor air pumps come in very useful here! Spinning wheels will dig the vehicle in to the chassis in seconds, so if you do come to a stop, get out and take a look first. Don't try to power your way out of your difficulties, if necessary use a recovery technique.

On steep sandy descents,don't brake, but accelerate your way out of a slide . Don't traverse a dune, drive straight up or down it and don't drive blindly over the top of one. The desert terrain is most easily judged when the sun is low or when the spot lights are placed high on your Landrover. If there's a sand storm, don't drive through just park the vehicle downwind and sit it out. Corrugations should always be driven over at the best speed to minimise vibration and if you drive on sand regularly, it would probably be wise to invest in a long handled shovel and sand ladders.

Driving Through Mud:

Making progress through mud depends ultimately on the tread on your tyres. The more aggressive your tread, the more likely you are to reach your destination. However even the most aggressive treads can't cope with wet clay. Turning the steering left and right will often find a bit more grip when progress is about to holt. Steady momentum is again the key to success, frequent gear changing and acceleration are not. You can lower tyre pressures by half, in the same way as driving on sand. Braking should be checked after driving deep mud. Remove mud from your vehicle to prolong chassis life. This is where pressure washers are useful!

Rock Crawling:

Usually, it's best with large rocks to hit them squarely as the most vunerable part of a tyre is the sidewall and you need to avoid cuts and scratches. Use slow steady progress in a low gear with your foot off the clutch pedal and with a manual gearbox, brake only if it's essential. Automatic gear boxes give less engine braking, so you'll probably have to brake gently on the down side of a rock. It's much easier to maintain a slow steady pace than to start off again after you've stalled the engine. Make sure you know where all your wheels are and where they are going to l be a few feet further on. Choose a route which avoids getting high-centred and if in doubt, get out and move a rock or pack smaller ones near it.

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The Environment:

Remember that the Earth is here for everyone, not just for off-roaders, so why not care for the land you drive over. Don't use more aggressive tyres than is really necessary, lower your tyre pressures on fragile land and don't make new tracks, follow ones that exist already.

Four driven wheels are less damaging than two driven wheels because they spread the traction effort needed, but even so, don't travel in large groups and be aware of the interests of wildlife and other people.

If you're looking for off-road or other accessories for your Landrover whatever the model, you'll find a huge selection at:

Landy Accessories

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Jane is the owner of Landy Accesories which has a huge selection of accessories for all models of Landrovers. Whether you own a Series, Defender, Range Rover, Discovery or Freelander there are off-road and other accessories to choose from at:

http://www.landyaccessories.com

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9 Simple Ways To Get Backlinks To Your Website

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:52:15 -0600

Backlinks are very important for building popularity for your internet business and the more of them you have the more potential traffic they can bring you. A backlink is simply when you have your website URL on somebody else's website.

So let's take a look at just 9 ways that you can get backlinks and so increase the amount of traffic coming to your site every day.

1. You are reading this article right now and at the bottom of it there should be what is known as a resource box. The resource box will contain a link pointing back to the author's website. One simple way to increase the number of backlinks is to write and submit large numbers of articles to online article directories. Each one that publishes your article, is linked to your site through your resource box.

2. Writing blog articles and submitting them to social directories is another way. This method is known as bookmarking a blog post and is a valuable way to get backlinks to your blog. Social directories love these as do search engines. The more people go to your blog, the more search engines rank your site, so the more visitors you get.

3. Make a habit of posting comments in other people's blogs. Do however post only to those blogs that allow you to include a link back to your blog or website. Otherwise you'll spend an awful lot of time, with no reward.

4. Visit and participate in online discussion forums. Include your signature file which should always contains a hyperlinked keyword phrase back to your website. These posts in discussion forums usually stay online, so are giving you backlinks for years to come.

5. Trading links with other websites is a fairly slow business for most people. This is known as reciprocal linking, but you can speed up the process by joining a reciprocal linking company, thus finding hundreds of link partners to trade with.

6. Adverts placed in ezines that are archived on the Internet is another useful way of getting back links. The archived issues can serve as backlinks when your advert is published in them. Multiple adverts can be purchased from ezine advertising companies such as HBAds so you save money by being in multiple ezines with a single purchase.

7. Put out a press release each time your Internet business has something new to offer. Press releases should contain a link back to your website which can bring traffic immediately and well into the future.

8. Purchasing text link adverts on other people's blogs can end up on thousands of pages giving you massive exposure with one link. If you can get on a blog sidebar your link will be seen by millions if it's a really popular blog.

9. If someone asks you to write testimonials for a product launch, make sure you do it. Such testimonials can give you immensely valuable backlinks and traffic as people will read the sales page over and over again.

Here are only 9 ways to get backlinks to your website or blog. There certainly are plenty more ways to get them and as you can see, the more backlinks you have the better. Keep your eyes open, for opportunities to get your URL out there on each aand every website you can.

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Jane Holloway is owner of Tap-inprofit.com and writes on work from home business, including affiliate marketing.
If you'd like to learn more about this topic, Jane recommends you visit:
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Time-Tested Tips To Becoming a Professional Internet Marketer

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:59:11 -0600

To become a professional Internet marketer you must excel at promoting something online. Whether you sell a product or a service there are millions
of potential customers waiting for you on the Internet every day.

Online advertising is far less expensive than promoting using the old fashioned methods such as newspaper, radio, magazines, direct mail, and
television. However to become a professional Internet marketer you must still master basic promotion techniques.

Here are four methods that the professionals use .

1. Backlinks are still the most important thing you can have for long term Internet success.

A backlink is where you have your website address on somebody else's web page.Therefore to become a professional Internet marketer you must develop
thousands of backlinks using various methods. Some of the most popular ways to do this are reciprocal linking, blogging and social bookmarking, article
marketing, forum marketing and posting comments on other people's blogs.

2. Branding yourself isa vital part of becoming a professional online.

One of the most popular ways to do this is by taking part in discussion forums. By participating in the discussions you will develop your credibility and brand yourself as an expert in the theme of your internet business.

It takes some skills to become a professional forum marketer, however once you master these, the potential revenue they can bring to your Internet
business is staggering.

3. Internet marketing professionals focus on building an opt- in email marketing list.

Today an email list of qualified subscribers can be worth

thousands of dollars to you in revenue every month. You therefore want to focus your efforts on building your list in any way you possibly can. That means promoting splash pages and giving away free reports and ebooks in exchange for your visitors name and email address.

4. To take your online business to new heights you must do more than free or nearly free advertising. This means using paid advertising methods as well.

Creating a pay per click advertising campaign with Google or Yahoo is one way to do this. Other ways include purchasing text link and banner adverts, ezine advertising, and other forms of paid promotion.

To summarise, a professional Internet marketer is someone who constantly works at improving themselves and all aspects of their Internet business.

This takes a lot of time, effort, and hard work, but the monetary rewards can be tremendous if you are willing to take up the challenge and do it.

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Jane Holloway is owner of Tap-inprofit.com and writes on work from home business, including affiliate marketing.
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Should You Use 2 Tier Affiliate Programmes as Ways To Make Passive Income?

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Passive income is one of those fantastic concepts that doesn't always seem achievable to many people. However thanks to the Internet and two tier affiliate programmes that has changed dramaticaly . These programmes do represent some fantastic possibilities to make recurring income.

Below are some of the benefits of creating a residual income from two tier affiliate programmes.

The real key to being successful with two tier affiliate programmes is to become a super affiliate yourself. If you are one of the top affiliates in the programme you are acting for, you will do far better when recruiting new affiliates to add to your team.

This means that you will need to learn everything about the product, and how to sell it online before you even attempt to teach your second tier affiliate to duplicate you. There is absolutely no shortcut to success with this. You must become successful first before you can teach someone else.

Unfortunately the downside to this is that many people are not very successful in their affiliate business. So it is not realistic to think that they will be able to create a way yo make passive income from the affiliates they recruit either.

However as you become successful you can certainly use that to your advantage when it comes to recruiting affiliates into the programmes you represent. Lots of times, people use two tier affiliate programmes just to sell the product and they overlook the second tier income aspect.

Therefore you should concentrate on building a list of successful affiliate marketers that you can cultivate into an income stream of their own. One benefit of approaching it this way, is that as you find new products to represent, you already have a list of successful affiliate marketers you can bring on board with you.

You can see this happen in network marketing, but it does not appear to be used on a regular basis for affiliate marketing. The easiest way to do this is with a separate autoresponder that you can contact your affiliates with.

Like anything on the Internet, this is a numbers game, but over time you will develop a very success oriented group of affiliate marketers that can make you rich. This is your "go to" list of people who can help to give you ways to make passive income.

You could create of course create your own products and quickly bring these people on board for them. However, as an affiliate marketer you may only want to market existing two tier affiliate programmes and that will work well if you have the right type of affiliates underneath you.

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Jane Holloway is owner of Tap-inprofit.com and writes on work from home business, including affiliate marketing.
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2 Easy Ways To Make Passive Income.

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Everyone wants to find a way to have money coming in month after month without having to work for it. However most people think that in truth, this sort of thing is only for the rich and famous, like millionnaires and film stars.

In fact, there's 2 really easy ways to make passive income, that anyone can do. Once you've done the initial work, you will be paid over and over again, just like nusicians and authors are for their work. All you need for this is the time to sit at your computer and patience.

Method1. Build yout own membership site - This is a great way to make passive income. Once your site is set up, you'll receive dozens, hundreds or possibly thousands of fees each month from your members. The only work you'll need to do each month, is to update your site, but in time, your income will vastly exceed the amount of effort you've put in.

Method 2. Become an affiliate. If you already have your own website, add advertisements for complementary products to your site, from merchants who pay you for every sale you make. However, there's an even better way to make recurring income with affiliate programmes, called a plug in profit system.

This system gives you not just one affiliate programme, but six of the very best which pay high commission and are extremely successful, established companies. Added to this is ongoing training, free ebooks, your very own website and much more. In fact everything you need to be successful. All you need to do, is to follow the system and you really can't fail.

Off course, there's a certain amount of work required, but the rewards can be huge. You'll find that there's always someone there to hold your hand when you need it.

Click on the link below to discover how this fantastic system can work for you.

A Better way to make passive income.

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Jane Holloway is owner of Tap-inprofit.com and writes on work from home business, including affiliate marketing.
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5 Reasons Why Blogging is the New Internet Marketing Tool

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Blogging is a concept that started in the late 90s. It used to be a way to comment on an existing webpage, an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or voice their opinions on that page. What started as single-sentence commentary has evolved into pages of personal ideas and opinions on just about anything and everything under the sun. As it continues to move forward, online advertising has tapped into the blog’s potential. Here are 5 reasons why you should use blogging as an Internet marketing tool.

1.Blogging is simple.

The simplest way to get your idea on the net is through blogging. No skills are needed, the average adult can read and type, or at least click a mouse. It’s like having a virtual piece of paper, you just write your ideas, experiences, new products, and hope that the truth behind your articles comes out and entices your readers to try your product. If you have a PC and Internet connection, then you can blog and advertise.

2. Blogging is authentic.

In this day and age advertising saturates our lives, we question the credibility of promoters’ claims. However, in blogs, real people share their experiences, unscathed by paid advertising. Reading blogs about first-hand product use the same as talking to people about their first-hand experience. You definitely want to buy a tried and tested product.

3. Blogging is free.

Because blogging is yet to be proven as a mainstream online advertising media, most sites see it as something to augment current marketing tools and so offer it for free. Any opportunity for free webtime is definitely a bonus, especially to businesses that are just starting up. Needless to say, paid blog pages can generate more income for your seriously growing business.

4. Blogging builds credibility.

As you write more and more of your experiences of a particular product or industry, your readers come to realize that they can depend on your posts for their own information needs. You become an expert on it and as a consequence, more readers visit your site and more bloggers link to your blogs. As companies and professional organizations notice the growth of your readership base, they may soon get in touch with you about advertising on your blog page, or make you an affiliate, which will pay you for every referral generated from your blog site.

5. Blogging builds your market.

Unless you are a Hollywood star, chances are, only your Mom reads your posts. Mom has a lot of friends, so she lets her friends know how interesting your blog is. But you dont need to depend on Mom to increase your readership base. Look into the following ways to build your market through blogging:

* By using your e-mail. Today, blogging is overcoming the e-mail’s popularity in quickly and effectively reaching and expanding a market. In this age of speed and quick access, logging in and downloading e-mails is simply taking longer than clicking into a blog site. Let them explore your site by using a short e-mail message as a teaser to your blog site. If your e-mail is on an entirely different subject, use your e-mail signature to give a link to the site.

* By using subscription. An easy way to get your readers e-mail is to give them an opportunity to subscribe to your blogsite. Keep some exclusive information for your subscribers to entice readers to subscribe and give their e-mail address. Just be responsible in using their e-mail address, as the last thing you want is a comment on your blog that you are a spammer.

* By understanding your readers. Conduct a simple survey for your readers, so you understand their profile and advertising preferences. Ask consumers to give you feedback on a post, an ad link, or a trial that you shared. This is like interviewing your readers without the commitment and intrusion of a face-to-face interview.

* By joining a blog network. A network of blogs may be a collection of blog sites that share the same industry, interest, readership base, payment mode, etc. Consumers find credibility and convenience in clicking one link to several real bloggers about a single subject. Clearly, more bloggers are better than one.

* By using RSS. RSS is the fastest growing technology on the Internet today. having RSS feeds to your blog is definitely a great means of generating awareness for your readership base. Having a variety of feeds can add interest to your blog site.

Give your business a boost by effectively using blogging as an Internet marketing tool.

Jane Holloway is owner of Tap-inprofit.com and writes on work from home business, including affiliate marketing.

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Designing the best Website for your Home Business

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

There is a vast amount of information about how to build a good business website out there. There are a lot of tips and tricks on how to build a website without needing a programmer or hiring a professional. All of these technical tips and pieces of helpful advice, often overlook the big picture. They end up making the home business owner micromanage the small details. While this is nice and will actually be good for the business, it's not the only advice a person needs to have in order to build a good business website.

There are three key points to building a good business website. These vital points can easily be lost in the technical aspect of building a website. They are very important though, to the user. When building a website, keeping the user in mind is imperative, especially when building a business website, where the user is key to success.

The three points are as follows:

Point 1:

Make It Easy To Use.

A website should be easy to use. A visitor should be able to navigate the site without hassle. This means they do not need to be bombarded with pop up adverts or have to search for anything. Everything needs to be right there for them and they should be able to see easily how shopping and checking out works.

Point 2:

It Should Be Informative.

Online users are used to websites that are informative and actually offer them something. Most people will simply leave a website if they can't get the information they want from it. People are spoilt, but that doesn’t matter. A website needs a section with a blog or articles that will allow the user to get some useful information.

Point3:

It Should Be Clear and Simple.

This goes alongside being easy to use. A website shouldn't be cluttered or difficult to figure out. People are not going to work to get to anything on a website, if they can't figure it out then they will leave. Menus should be clear and every aspect of the shopping experience should be clear and simple.

To ensure a website meets these three points, the business owner should try it out before actually going live. They should go through the website and make sure it is not confusing or that there is too much on any page. It's also a very good idea, to put up a survey that allows visitors to say what they do and do not like about the site.

Making sure these three points are covered will really help to make a website a success. It can be a big boost for a home business, as well. People want a good experience and a good experience includes a website that is easy to use, informative and clear. This is all something that can be worked into the final steps of building a website. Once the technical things are handled, the focus can shift to making it user friendly and making it a website that people are going to want to visit.

Jane is owner of Tap-inprofit.com and writes on work from home business, including affiliate marketing, network marketing and many other aspects of work at home wealth creation.

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