Buying and Selling Websites - A Proven Business Model  

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There is a saying that says "buy low and sell high". Have you ever heard of it? Well, the old adage is especially true in buying and selling websites. Let's face it, there are so many people out there who can build a web site. Most skilled web developers can put up a website that looks great and is SEO friendly in about 20 minutes. How do they do this? Believe it or not, who cares? They build great websites and sell them for dirt cheap because they don't know how to get the site profitable and sell it for big bucks. How are you going to to it? I am glad you asked. Pull up a chair and let's get started.

Finding a site is not too hard if you know what you are looking for. If you go to SitePoint's marketplace, look around at completed auctions. Make a list of the winners and selling points. You will have a list of website topics that are constantly raking in the cash. Now take your list over to some webmaster forums. One such forum is Digital Point. You will see tons of sites for dirt cheap. Look for those that match your "hot topics" list. Before you buy the site, we'll go into some criteria for making a selection.


First off, does the seller have a good reputation? Look for sellers with lots of positive feedback. This won't guarantee the quality, but it helps a lot. Look at the domain name. Domains that are at least 6 months old are desirable and I try to buy only .com domain web sites. Look at the design and content. If the content is readable, that should be good enough. For your first flip, look for something under $100.

Once the site is yours, fix all the grammar and spelling errors, fix formatting and whatever looks bad. Now, go and promote the site and get traffic and income will follow if you have great offers. You could also use Adsense to get money for surfer's clicks.

Once the site has traffic and income, you are ready to sell for a nice profit over at SitePoint. Simply repeat the process and build your business from there.

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Do You Make These Mistakes In Your Home Based Business?  

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Sometimes in order to succeed we need to learn how not to fail. There are many things you should do to succeed in network marketing or home based business, but there are also some things you should not do. What I'm going to share with you goes against the common grain! You are going to learn how to generate free leads for your business, effectively, and what you should not.

These are the mistakes you should not make;

1. You should not waste your hard earned money on lead sales. 2. You should not waste your precious time cold calling leads. 3. You should not listen to everything your sponsor is telling you. 4. You should not waste your time and money on direct marketing campaigns. 5. You should not spend money on advertising, at least for the next 3 months! 5. You should not do network marketing the traditional way ONLY!

If you are doing these things STOP IT!


I hope the above are self explanatory and don't need any further clarification. Now look at what you should be doing. (Unfortunately, maybe that is what your sponsor told you to do as a-how to do network marketing or build a home based business.) What is set out below is the foundation on which you business should be built on. You must learn how to implement the following building blocks and learn them well! This where you turn you traditional home based business into a partially online home business! A hybrid.

This here is the foundation for your business;

1. You need a website or a blog or a squeeze page, call this a lead capture page, specifically for your business, to collect contact details of your prospect.

2. You need to be giving something away for free at your lead capture page. This something must be related to your business. It must be valuable and shedding some light and help your prospect make an informed and intelligent decision about your business.

3. You must have a real time reporting mechanism or system to inform you when a prospect submits their contact details to get the FREE something or require more information about your business. This free something can be an ebook, an ecourse, an online movie or presentation, etc.

4. You must have a reliable effective follow-up email system and be able to track who opened your emails. This will help you to know who is serious about your offer! Now here you can call this prospect- they are no longer cold.

5. Your must have a continual feedback system using fear of loss concept that informs your prospects if someone else has shown interest in your business. This will instill urgency on them to act fast!

6. Your business must have a strong support system.

7. Your business must be proving a good product or service.

8. Your business must offer other products of value to your prospects. Something they can use even if they don't join or buy your main product. This kind of sales will eventually make your business to be self-funding.
9. You must brand yourself or promote your business under your name. Don't build someone else a list!

10. You must eat and sleep your business, be laser focused on your business! Know what you need to do to build and grow your business and do it!

The above are very key to your success- for now don't be worried about how to do the above. Just realize that that is what you need to do. You are answering the what and why, the how will come later. Also realize, with the above system your business can grow globally - no more advertising or cold calling locally!

The above is a seed for your development, plant the above ideas in your head first, assimilate them and you will be surprised. Cold calling no! Unfortunately I'm limited by space here to tell you how to generate free leads for your home based business. Remember I said you should not spend money on advertising at least for 3 months, I need to tell you why and how to get free leads.

My space has run out now and if you want to see how the above system works I suggest you go to my resource box and click the link to my website or blog.

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How You Can Get Paid For Surveys in 5 Quick Ways  

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Genuine opportunities to get paid for surveys do exist. You should know how to filter the bad ones and move on with the good ones.

You have been enthused by those unsolicited e-mails to consider some ways to get paid for surveys to complement your 9 to 5 income or even as a full time occupation. Unfortunately, the scam sites in the segment outnumber the genuine ones and many people give up in frustration even before they can start. Here are some sure fire tips to get you started with genuine programs to get paid for surveys.

1. Importance of demographics

Every marketer needs statistical data as well as factual data to support his marketing strategy, understand consumer behavior, price trends, competitor activity, product movement and similar information relevant to what they are marketing. Demographic information will also include factors like age, sex, employment, marital status, place of residence, religion, racial background etc. Using these inputs, a variety of statistical tables will be created by experts to analyze and determine marketing strategies. Collecting such diverse information through in-house mechanisms is often difficult or ineffective. It becomes a lot easier when you understand this basic character of surveys when you set out to get paid for surveys.



2. You should be paid

Several scam sites would ask you to pay small sums of money upfront before you start getting the surveys. When you are rendering service, it does not make sense to pay upfront to get paid for surveys. Genuine people interested in engaging your service will never ask for any upfront fee and that acts as the first step towards your success.

3. Thorough research

Once you succeed in identifying the genuine opportunity, you should devote adequate time researching the company that is making the offer as well as the type of survey that you will be assigned. Before accepting an assignment, you should know the extent of information that the survey aims at and your ability to gather that information in quick time. Most of the regular surveys involve 5 to15 minutes to answer and can be done straight away without moving from your chair. But, in other cases, you may need to gather relevant information from your neighborhood stores, shopping malls etc. and then complete the survey.

4. Identifying scam

A simple tool to identify scam is doing a Google search of the URL with the suffix scam. For example if the web site making the offer to get paid for surveys is XYZ.com, then your search should be for XYZ.com scam. If there are several negative comments in the results page and you find that several people complain of not getting paid, it is best to avoid those sites. Understand however, that even genuine sites can be target of disgruntled elements.

5. Choosing multiple sites

In most of the genuine situations, you may not receive several survey requests from the same site every day. Some offer one assignment a week and some others may be more frequent. By signing up with more number of sites to get paid for surveys, you will be assured of a regular flow of work and choose surveys that are of optimal benefit to you.

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List Building - How To Get Targeted Traffic To Your Squeeze Page?  

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There are different methods that you can use to build a list with one of the most common being to put an optin box on your website and offer your visitors a free gift for subscribing.

This is a good method and you should use it but one method of capturing subscribers that many Internet Marketers are now using is to build a squeeze page specifically for capturing your visitors.

A squeeze page is a page that is for no other reason than to entice your visitors to sign up to your list. You can do this by offering them some valuable information, gift or anything free in exchange for signing up to your subscriber list.


You can create your squeeze page so that it is a 'semi' sales page which you will use to 'sell' the free gift that you are offering so that your visitors won't be able to say no.

How to drive traffic to your squeeze page?

Write articles and submit them to article directories with high page ranking and mention your free giveaway in the resource box and you will have plenty of visitors coming your way.

It is also useful to visit forums relating to your free gift and have the link to your squeeze page in your signature.

When your subscriber list starts to grow you will have an immediate customer base to promote products to in the future. You can earn a lot more in income through sales when you have a good list to sell to. It is important to build up a good relationship with your subscribers and don't come across as a 'spammer'.

Gain their trust and they will be more than happy to purchase the products that you will recommend to them.

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4 Great Ideas to Increase Adsense Revenue  

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Boosting your Adsense revenue could be easier than you might think. These four unique ideas will show you how it’s done.

If you are not already using Google Adsense to earn money on your web site, this is the first step you should take. Most site operators today know this is one of the best ways to earn the funds you need to cover the overhead for your site or to cover marketing expenses or just to have a little extra profit. However, if you’re already using the service, you might very well be interested in the ideas below which can dramatically increase your Adsense revenue.


Translations
Most of us would not think about translating our blog or web site into different languages. However, this can be a great source of Adsense revenue. Think about it: each of the translated pages counts as a separate page with its own Google ads. The best part is the content doesn’t change so you have no additional work to do. Some experts recommend that translating your page into just 9 different languages can increase your Adsense revenue by up to 200%. That’s pretty significant. The good news is you don’t have to be multi-lingual to pull off this task. Instead, you can find tools on the Internet that will handle the translation for you.

Insert Ads into Content
Obviously, the key to having a successful Adsense campaign is getting site visitors to click on your ads. If they don’t do that, you’re not going to earn any money. One of the best ways to do this is by incorporating the ads into the page’s content. Because the ad stands out from the content, the visitor’s eyes are drawn right to it and, if it’s relevant, they should click on the ad. You earn Adsense revenue and everyone is content with the results. Remember to remove the borders around the ad to get the best results. This makes the ads seem more seamlessly integrated.

Pick a Wise Domain
Did you know that the domain name of your site could determine the ads placed their by Google? This is something many people who want to earn more Adsense revenue don’t know. You see, most of the time Google decides which ads to place on your site because it has used spiders to scope it out and knows what keywords are being used. However, if your site has not yet been reviewed by Google, the generated ads will be chosen based on your domain name. That means you want to make a careful choice in order to maximize your success.

Use Email Signatures
To increase your Adsense revenue you generally also need to increase the traffic to your site. Although search engine optimization and marketing are key ways to do this, another idea is to include your URL in your email signature, along with a catchy phrase, quote, or other attention-getting content. Have the signature automatically attached to every email you send and you’ll be surprised how quickly traffic starts to increase at your site. It’s one of the easiest and most effective steps you can take.

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Baby Boomers Create Passive Income  

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A hail to various creative thinking that made possible the way towards increased wealth to almost anyone even to the emergent figure of baby boomers by creating passive income so that they may have something to boast with their retreat portfolio.

Honestly speaking it is now a well-known fact that the social security is incapable in offering the security people are looking for as what was developed as a safety net has many a slip between the cup and the lip.

It has been discovered by so many individuals that after getting a pension or retirement benefits from working all your life out for XYZ company, the value is less likely for you to appreciate since it can hardly sustain the value that you need when put to actual utilities.

**Benefits and contributions are now cut off and reduced by American organisations.


I can point out that there is one firm I know that left their employees who have worked for them for almost 20 to 30 years retiring with the retirement benefit of 30 percent and even lesser to the value they truly deserved.

Shocking but true, this is not a new story but this is a story gaining more and more attention as the baby boomers come closer to retirement age.

As much has society has been conditioned to expect an entitled way of life there are no entitlements.

One of my friends had worked for a single firm for 30 long years and now that he's out of the service, a monthly retirement check of 30.00 bucks was given to him.

His reality is that he is working long after retirement and he is not alone.

Many people are working second jobs to supplement whatever they receive for their retirement income.

Most of these people approached the web based look for ways to generate income, but soon found that this was a failure's paradise, since most internet-based business models were distributorship oriented, with no real clients buying from you.

Marketers, marketing to other marketers who jump from firm to company looking for the next get rich fix that never really works has been the name of that game up until now.

Thomas Prendergast Chief Executive Officer of Inetekk and founder of Veretekk is one person that has a useful belief towards helping the helpless average individuals like us succeed in life by having an Internet based business at home.

Prendergast has gone of record in a recent interview where he confessed that most of these online business enterprises which start and try to survive with the distributor model can bring in profits for a short period of time, but eventually can not overcome the tide of time and would go bust in the long term.

individuals are already tired of making investments to such Internet based business enterprises wherein you won't be able to find a way to establish a practical client base and finish off with using out of date and overused leads after you have spent a fortune over them.

Haven't you even thought of utilizing your individual and financial resources to the ever loyal and common customers of your firm who are already used to buying and using your products?

Can you ever imagine the thought of you creating a passive flow of income with no recruitment of manpower whatsoever, no trading involved to sweat you out and rejection of your efforts and the like can never be experienced?

This may sound as a pipe dream but it is not, so for you "baby boomers" out there who want to make really good business, wake up and find your way towards it.

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