Earn money online today

Some typical questions I am asked by newcomers to internet marketing are;

Q. How can I earn money online?

Q. Do I need previous experience with working online to succeed?

Q. I don't know how to build a website! is it essential?

Q. I have never done anything like this before! how do I start?

Q. Does it matter where I am in the world?

Q. Can anyone make money online?

All of these questions can be answered very easily and positively,

you can earn money online by simply copying the methods used by others.

You do not need any previous experience with earning money online to be successful.

There are methods available that do not require you to build a website to earn money online.

If you have never done anything like this before you should start by finding someone (a mentor) to help you and gather as much information as you can.

This type of marketing can be successful from anywhere in the world, all you need is an internet connection.

Yes anyone can make money online, take a look at this easy to follow method.

http://bit.ly/c2r0RQ

Gordon Bloomfield (c) 2010

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How Your Title Can Make or Break Your Email Marketing Campaign

Email marketing is one of the BEST tools that you can use to grow your business on eBay, Amazon and beyond. Sending out newsletters, sales and promotions to your customers is one of the best ways to sell more products more often.

However, there's an important KEY to successful email marketing that most people overlook, and that is...

The TITLE of Your Email
In fact the way you title your email is SO important, the success of your email marketing campaign depends on it.
Why an Email Title is Important
In your eBay listings your 55 character listing title is the "map" that helps searchers find your listings in eBay's search engines.
With email marketing, your title serves one primary purpose...To get your email OPENED!
Because an email that's not opened will never be read. And an email that's not opened will be the target of the delete key. Therefore it's key to write an email title that will get your email opened and read.
The payoff for you? A great email title and newsletter will bring you more customer sales!
Motivating People to Open Your Emails
Most sellers tend to send out emails with fairly generic email titles. For example:
eBay Seller Email: Save money! Shop my eBay Store for great deals
New in my store
eBay: Great deals!
Check this out!
Winter Clearance Sale
And while there's nothing inherently wrong with these email titles, there's also nothing engaging about them either. They are all fairly generic email subject titles.
You certainly can intermix generic titles into your email campaign, but use them as the exception not the rule.
You might think that writing an intriguing email title requires a lot of work. Not so!
With the knowledge you're about to gain in the next section (and a little help from a tried and true writers tool )you'll be writing effective emails titles in no time!

5 Strategies for Writing Titles that Get Your Emails Opened
Next we're going to look at 5 different strategies you can use to get those emails opened!
These 5 kinds of email titles will engage your reader and inspire them to OPEN your email!

1. Target your email title to your customers interests. The more specific the better. If you're sending an email in which you want to promote your vintage lace linens, rather than using a generic email title such as "Check Out Our New Linens" create a more specific title such as "Introducing Our One of a Kind Vintage Lace Linens"

Generic title: Check Out Our New Linens

Targeted title: Introducing Our One of a Kind Vintage Lace Linens

As you can see, the 2nd title targets a very specific audience and arouses curiosity about the new, unique linens you've just brought in stock. Which brings us to our second strategy...

2. Arouse Curiosity. People are naturally curious. And we like having our curiosity peaked! An email title that peaks your reader's curiosity is likely to get opened.
For example...

The owner of a pet products store could write an email newsletter with a title of...

"The Top 3 Things Every Poodle Owner Must Possess..."

A seller who wants to promote flat irons (for your hair) in their email marketing newsletter might write...

"How to Turn Your Unruly Hair into a Sleek and Shiny Mane"

By using an element of curiosity in your email title people will want to click on your emails and see what's inside!
Note: Do NOT make your curiosity emails SPAMMY or MISLEADING. Curiosity alone with no substance will turn people off. If you are going to use an element of curiosity in your title, make sure you follow through on your promise and deliver the "goods" within the email content.

If you are promoting "The Top 3 Things Every Poodle Owner Must Possess..." - your email must follow through and share those top 3 things with your customer.
Misleading email titles are even worse. "Loose 150 lbs in 30 days" is simply untrue and will cause your readers to immediately delete your email.

3. Use Urgency. No one wants to miss the big "it". That one thing they wished they'd known about. Email titles that convey urgency will ensure that your customers at least give your email a quick glance! (Once they're reading you can grab them with your copy!)

Your email title can contain an element of scarcity.
For example:
"It ends tonight at midnight!"
"Only 4 vases left."
"20% off for the next 24 hours."

As with curiosity emails, urgency emails must follow through. If you're promoting a sale that ends at midnight, it MUST end at midnight. Using a sense of urgency in your emails but not backing it up by doing what you say you're going to do will cause your customers not to trust you.
And that will kill all chances of your prospect ever reading an email (or buying from you) again.
But if you DO have limited quantities of a product or the sale IS ending in 24 hours - writing an email title with a sense of urgency is a great way to promote it!

Note: Fostering a relationship with your customers that is built on trust is the best thing you can do to build a successful business! As the old saying goes "You must walk the talk."

4. Tell a story. We all love stories. It's part of human nature. Creating an email title that is a lead-in to a story can be very intriguing to your buyers.
For example:

"I Found These Beautiful Crystal Vases for You in Maine"
"The History Behind Our Hand Crafted Wall Clocks"
"Why 9 Out of 10 Customers Prefer Our New Steamer"

Then in your email continue on with the story that you started. Emphasize the human connection. Your customers want to buy from a person, not from a nameless, faceless eBay store or website.

5. Have fun. A little fun and humor in your email title can go along way. Have fun! Be creative.
This past holiday season I received an email from an eBay seller with a title that read...

"A Sale So Hot Even Santa Stopped to Shop!"
I opened this email immediately!
The Writer's Insider Secret Ideas for Email Titles

Now you may be thinking... "This sounds like a GREAT idea but I don't have a creative writing bone in my body."
Well the good news is that a copywriting degree is not required to create a clever email title!
You see examples of good email titles are all around you. In fact, your next email title may be as close as the magazine on your desk!
Writers have an insider secret for coming up with good ideas for email titles, emails, advertising copy, articles etc....
It's called a "swipe file".
A swipe file is a collection of tested and proven ads, sales letters, headlines etc. You'll use your swipe file as a springboard to write your own email titles.
Now you won't be copying the headlines directly, but rather taking bits and pieces of titles and repurposing them for your own specific niche email!
For example, this title used on a recent People Magazine "The Real Reason People Gain Weight" can be re-purposed for your pet products store:
"The Real Reason Your Pet Gains Weight" (This could be used to sell pet exercise products.)
"The Real Reason Your Dog Keeps Shedding" (This could be used to sell dog deshedders.)
When you come across an email title or headline you like, simply make a note of it in your swipe file.

Note: In case you are worrying that this is plagiarism, it's not!
Keeping a swipe file is a common practice used by advertising writers, authors, anyone who creates copy.

It's perfectly legal to take an existing heading and target it to YOUR market. And while you can't use the email title "Got Milk?" you can repurpose it to "Got Game?" "Got Candy?" "Got the Latest Shirts for Spring?" etc.
To help you find samples for your swipe file, simply take a look at the headlines on the covers of magazines in the grocery stores, tabloids, and newspapers. Look at the emails other companies send YOU.
When you look at these headlines with a fresh "eye" you'll see that most headlines today are variations of existing headlines.



Newsletters in Your Niche
Signing up to receive emails in from other online retailers in your niche is a great way to get some creative ideas about how to market products in your category.

For example, if you sell in the Home and Garden niche, sign up to receive the free email newsletters from stores like Smith and Hawken, Plow and Hearth etc.
I guarantee you'll get some GREAT marketing ideas!
Start Writing Better Email Titles Today
Email marketing is one of the fundamentals that you need in your marketing toolkit!
Lisa Suttora is the Founder/CEO of WhatDoISell.com, one of only 3 eBay Certified Providers in the categories of eBay education/consulting and product sourcing.
Lisa has been a featured speaker on three eBay Live! Product Sourcing Panels (2004-2007) and will return again this year to co-present on the top rated panel "How to Find the Products Buyers Want" at eBay Live! 2008 in Chicago.
She is the creator of the exclusive product sourcing strategies: The Product Sourcing Mindset™, Power of 10 Product Sourcing™ and Product Sourcing with Idea Hotspots™ which have helped thousands of eBay sellers of all levels find products to sell on eBay and find their niche in the eBay marketplace.
A noted trendologist, Lisa is the Product Trending Editor for Product Sourcing Radio.
Copyright (c) 2008 WhatDoISell.com, all rights reserved.
To reprint or distribute this article contact support@whatdoisellsupport.com
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Starting an online business the basics.

Starting an online business the basics.

The first thing to do is to find the market you wish to sell to and then conduct a keyword search using google external keyword tool. This will give you an idea of how big the market is for your chosen niche.

The next step is to see how much competition already exists for that niche. It is highly unlikely that you will find a niche with no competition at all but you don’t want to be competing within a market that is already saturated.

Once you have chosen your niche you are going to need products to sell. There are several options here,
1. Produce your own.
2. Buy ready-made products to sell on.
3. Sell other peoples products (affiliate marketing)
4. Build a content only site and earn revenue from advertising

Now you will need to build your website or have it built for you. It is surprisingly easy these days to build your own site with programmes such as XsitePro who offer full support and video training.

While you are busy building your site you will need to start finding the customers to sell your products to. Using a simple capture page with some kind of offer included is a good way of building up a following of potential customers. This can be achieved quite easily by starting a blog page dedicated to your chosen niche, include an email sign up form using the services of Aweber or a similar auto responder supplier

There are of course other alternative fast track methods of starting your online business, you could purchase a system such as this Marketing Method, with this method you do not need to build a website at all and can start earning within a very short amount of time.

You may prefer to look for a complete package, there are many marketers offering these ready-made businesses. You can purchase the website, domain name, products, and everything else you need. If you have products of your own to sell and need a website or just want a ready-made business out of the box, I can help get you started.
Sign up here, click the link below for a free marketing course and to receive a free ebook that you can sell on, also you can contact me with your requirements. --Free course—

Wishing you every success with your online business © Gordon Bloomfield 2010-06-15

How to optimise your blog for search engines

Search engine optimization, SEO, is not the black art many people think it is. Back in the early days of the World Wide Web, people tricked search engines by repeating the same keywords over and over again in the page, meta keywords and hid the long lists of keywords from the readers to improve their search engine rankings.

Happily, this doesn't work anymore. The search engines are improving their ranking methods and they are becoming smarter. But there are things we can do on our blogs to help the search engines find our sites and content better. This is what SEO is all about. With SEO, you are helping people to find exactly what they are looking for. When you're publishing something, you're putting it out for other people. And that blog post, video, article or audio will not help anyone unless they find it, right? If people search for the exact information you are providing, but don't find it, because you don't have the foundation in place, your content will lose much of its value.

Yes, there are ways to promote a blog and get people into your site than just the search. But think of it this way: wouldn't it be great if someone is looking for an answer to a question they have or a solution to an urgent problem they are facing, and when they search for that information, they would find exactly what they're looking for? I think so. The secret is to understand that search engine optimization is helping the search engines deliver your content in front of the people looking for that exact information. It is as simple as that. If you put a title on your post with words people type into a search when they want to find exactly what you give them in the text, you're doing it right.

If you want to ensure that there are people looking for the information you provide, you do keyword research. You are looking for keywords and keywords phrases people actually type in the search engine. You can do this with free keyword research tool from Google, for example. Think what you would type to a search if you would be looking for the information you wrote. When you include such keyword phrase in your post headline, you have done yourself, your blog, and the visitors who now can find the information more easily from the search engines, a favor.

Apart from writing valuable and unique content, you don't have to do much else, because it is done automatically in the background, taken that you have the blog SEO basics in order, most importantly a SEO friendly theme or template that displays the title of the page the right way. The title of the page, shows as the title tag in the HTML code, is what you see on the top of the browser window. If the page is not setup correctly, that title won't be the same as your blog post title for example.

When the title tag is taken care of by the blog settings, you just have to write content that will help people , articles that people want to read, and ensure you have titled your post properly. The title is important because it will tell people what your post is about. Because the title is the first thing people see and decide whether or not they should click on it and read the whole story, search engines value the title as well. And that's why it's important to put focus on it, to ensure the search engines find your content and index it the right way, and more importantly, for the people will then see information they're looking for.

There is more to blog SEO than just this, publishing great content with amazing titles , but if you don't do this, everything else will be for nothing. And you don't have to worry about putting a lot of the same keyword phrases in the post. That might even hurt you. You are writing and helping people, keep that in mind.

SEO should not be comprehended as something you do for a machine. It should be about helping the people who use the search . In fact, it should even be called search engine optimization, just optimization. With proper blog SEO, making sure your theme or template is optimized the right way, that is what you'll be doing; optimizing to help people find the answers they are looking for.

Antti Kokkonen helps people and their businesses to become more effective and more profitable online by focusing on all aspects of online media, including blogging, social media and Internet marketing. Antti has also published an in-depth article about blog SEO, which you should check out now.

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New XsitePro training video collection Did You See?

I have listed here the brand new releases of XsitePro training
videos and I have included the links for each one, just
cut and paste the links into your browser to view each one.





Did you hear about the videos released last week, showcasing
some of the features of the XSitePro website design software?

If you did then you'll probably know they were a neat set of
mini-tutorials demonstrating just how easy XSitePro makes the
whole process of building a website...

Well (and you heard it here first, folks!)... I can announce
Intellimon are going to be releasing another *FIVE* videos this
afternoon!

These videos are perfect for anyone who is curious about how
XSitePro makes building websites *so* easy (and why so many top
marketers recommend it as the site-builder of choice)... and the
video series itself promises to build into a valuable resource
over the coming weeks.

The five new videos I'd like to reveal to you today are:

1. Build mailing lists with XSitePro's Forms Wizard (5'25")

Ever hear the saying "The money is in the list"?

As anyone who's been marketing online for any period of time
will tell you, building a mailing list is an absolutely
essential (and potentially very profitable) part of any Internet
marketing business.

Yes... *any* business - including yours!

It's one thing to 'know' it's important, but of course it's
entirely another to be able to actually add a quality name-grab
form to your web pages... one that feeds into one of the leading
mailing-list management solutions on the market...

Fortunately that's where XSitePro steps in for you. Watch this
video to find out how easy XSitePro makes your list-building:

http://www.xsitepro.com/index_r.html?p=GBSXIT&w=forms-wizard-video-tutorial-for-xsitepro-website-design-software.html



2. Create pages fast, with our Multi-page Wizard (4'54")

Search Engines love sites with plenty of quality, relevant
content. But many of us simply don't like the idea of spending
hours building page after page of content.

What if there were a way to quickly add dozens of pages to our
site, with minimal effort, all of which were optimized for the
search engines; keyword rich and ready to publish?

Using the in-built Multi-page Creation Wizard, XSitePro makes
this possible. Create any number of pages, complete with
customized content and meta-data, in a matter of minutes.

http://www.xsitepro.com/index_r.html?p=GBSXIT&w=multi-page-creation-video-tutorial-for-xsitepro-website-design-software.html



3. Page Layout Designer - for full design flexibility (5'47")

One of the beauties of working with XSitePro is that you can
pick one of the professional templates right out of the box and
simply add content... awesome for creating great-looking
sites fast.

For those who want it, however, XSitePro also features a Page
Layout designer, giving complete control over the look and feel
of your site.

So, if at some future point you want to tweak the color scheme
for your site, swap the graphics about, or even change the whole
look and feel of your site completely you can - and in record
time!

http://www.xsitepro.com/index_r.html?p=GBSXIT&w=page-layout-video-tutorial-for-xsitepro-website-design-software.html


4. Push-button publishing (4'21")

No more muddling about with multiple pieces of software -
XSitePro really does the whole lot for you.

Keeping your FTP details safely stored along with the web pages,
images and other content, never again will you have to hunt
around so you can publish your site.

What's more, having FTP functionality built in, XSitePro makes
publishing your site as easy as clicking a single button.

Updating your site has never been easier.

http://www.xsitepro.com/index_r.html?p=GBSXIT&w=publishing-video-tutorial-for-xsitepro-website-design-software.html


5. Automatic breadcrumb navigation trails (2'58")

Have you ever noticed how easy the professional sites on the web
make it for you to find your way around?

It's no accident - the big site operators know that having
intuitive navigation not only helps visitors find their way...
it also helps keep them on their site.

With XSitePro's easy-to-use 'breadcrumb trail' feature you can
quickly add breadcrumb trail navigation links to your pages
automatically, no matter how many pages you add.

Watch the short video below to see just how easy it is, with
XSitePro:

http://www.xsitepro.com/index_r.html?p=GBSXIT&w=breadcrumb-trails-video-tutorial-for-xsitepro-website-design-software.html

Internet Marketing Tips - There Are No Stupid Questions

This is actually a bit of a rant. I've noticed, over my years of marketing online, that many marketers get annoyed with other marketers when they ask supposedly stupid questions. Well, here's a news flash for you. There ARE no stupid questions. Just a lot of stupid answers. If you're interested in my opinion on this matter, regardless of which side of the fence you're on (questioner or one giving the answers) you might want to read this article.

Let me start off with the person asking the question. Assuming you're not just trying to be a wise guy (I get a lot of them) I am going to assume that you're asking your question because it is something you honestly don't know the answer to and want to get an answer to. If you're somebody just starting out, you might be a little intimidated by this. After all, you're seeking the advice of people who have been doing this a while and don't want to sound stupid. Well, let me set the record straight.

These so called "experts" were once new at this too. They didn't always have all the answers. There was a time when they probably asked the same questions. Problem is, a lot of marketers seem to have forgotten where they came from. Suddenly they're all high and mighty in their ivory towers and think that anybody who asks a question that should be "common knowledge" is either stupid or lazy or both. Hey folks, it's time to come down from those ivory towers. Point is, you new people...don't be afraid to ask questions. There are still those of us out here who haven't forgotten what it's like to be new.

Now, for you folks in those ivory towers. Yeah, I know, after years and years of doing this, it gets a little tiresome answering the same questions over and over. I get it. So here is what you do. If somebody asks a question and you just can't bring yourself to answer it because you've answered that same question 1,000 times before, just stay out of the conversation. Don't make the person asking the question feel like an idiot. It's totally unproductive and makes YOU look like a jerk. Blunt enough for you?

There are no stupid questions. Just a lot of stupid answers. Hopefully, if we use a little common sense, we can reduce the number of stupid answers given on any one day.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

Tired of busting your behind for peanuts online? Go to my web site and find out how I earn a monthly income that exceeds 5 figures and how I can help YOU do the same. Get your free report at http://www.mysecretarticles.com/report.html

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Internet Marketing Success and the Importance of Quality

There are now thousands of eBooks, video and online courses all promising rapid online success to ordinary people like you and me. In this article we are going to look at why the majority of people fail to make any money simply because the fail to grasp a basic principle.

In the first instance I want us all to be really honest and admit that at one point or another we have been so inspired by what we have read or learned in an internet marketing course, so pumped up about the latest marketing method or gizmo that we have invested in, that we jump into a mode of fanatical almost frenzied activity only to be disappointed when we do not get the results promised and sadly the money does not come rolling in.

There are a number of reasons why people fail like this but in my experience there is one very common reason that is probably the greatest contribution to the failure on an internet marketing business.

What I am referring to can be summed in one word 'quality' or to be more accurate the lack of it.

Think about this for a moment in regards to your own internet empire. Do you rush sites and web pages out? Do you write poor quality content and articles simply because you are in a hurry or are focussed on quantity?

If your answer to either of the above is yes then I want to ask you to complete change the way you work. Make it quality an imperative of everything you produce. This may mean you produce less and what you do create will take longer. My own personal success has taught me that not only do the search engines (especially Google) reward quality but also and more importantly do my cash-in-hand customers.

Hope you enjoyed reading this article. Writing is a huge passion for me as a result I write about everything for example I have recently created content for a local site looking at Cheap microwave ovens and also a specialist ceramic tile finder

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