Invest Kid

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Today I want to touch base on the issue of effort. There’s a certain amount that has to be exerted if you really want to make money online, and let’s face it: 90% of the people “trying to make money online” aren’t exactly “trying.”

You can read all of the testimonials you want. You can even find a golden plan to making money online. However, you’ll never actually earn any if you don’t put forth the effort. By effort, I mean the work. I actually had a huge realization a couple weeks ago. I’ve been working on a huge project that could potentially be worth thousands and thousands of dollars, but I had seen minimal progress. I finally figured out that I was just being lazy.

I love, love, love reading forums. One day I read a post about a guy who wrote 10 articles per day and submitted them like crazy! It made me think, “Geez, I feel burnt out after writing one article. And then I usually rest the next day! HA!” If I were writing 10 articles per day, I could be filthy, stinking, rich.

Now, I’m not saying you have to work that hard, but you should take some time to intervene your regular schedule of online work and truly ask yourself, “Am I doing what I need to do, as much as I should be?” You’ll find out that you’ve been cheating on yourself and you’re literally letting money fall through your fingers.

How many times have you gone to a website and you see a long sales copy about an ebook or program that costs way more than it’s worth? I’ve seen too many! These are the websites of affiliate marketers who obviously have no idea how to presell instead of plain old selling.

When you go to the Click Bank marketplace to find a product to promote, it isn’t meant for you to just use the tracking link as your only website. Unless you plan on using Adwords to promote the link (this is another whole story!), you need your very own website or blog to promote your product. If you just use the Click Bank tracking link, you won’t get any sales!

Preselling is getting to know your website visitor and letting them know about what you know. (This may get confusing!) When I see an affiliate site for a product that costs $50, I’m going to be very skeptical. However, if I’m at a really good blog with lots of information about that niche, and the blogger recommends that product, I’m going to have an open mind about that product.

I highly recommend that you read Ken Envoy’s Affiliate Master’s Guide. It will teach you a LOT about preselling. It’s free and very inspirational.

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I found a site a few days ago that pays people to just be a member of their site! I thought, How easy does that sound? And when you think about it, you’ve seriously got nothing to lose!

So this site is called My Free Shares. You earn shares of the site’s revenue. For example, if they make $100 and you have 100 shares out of 1000, you’ll get 10% or $10. It’s a very simple concept. However, there are some things I really dislike about there interface. You can earn more shares by signing up for free offers. But in order to receive credit for them, you must email the confirmation email and account data to My Free Shares. In the world of web 2.0, things like this are automated and done by web scripts!

Anyhow, My Free Shares seems easy enough! Sign up today and tell us about any of your experiences (good or bad) in the form of a comment!

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Along with selling your products on your own website, you can post them for sale in forums. Most people would not think that it would work as well as it actually does. Forums such as Digital Point get millions of views and have thousands of members. Someone is bound to see your product and your chances of finding a buyer increases.

On the downside of this, you have to keep a good reputation. A single bad checkout may cost you you business. In most forums, users can give you a “Rep Rank”. You may have a rank of 10, but if 1 person gives you a 2 for bad checkout, your rank goes down to probably a 7 , depending on how many total ranks you have received. Believe me when I say this: “Word spreads fast!”

Of course, we can’t rule out Ebay, Craigslist, or other classified ads/auction sites. I would first start out on Craigslist and if your product doesn’t get sold, you should move on to Ebay. I say this because Craigslist doesn’t charge a listing fee and buyers are usually more legitimate. (In my humble opinion!)

There are also countless strategies to advertise your products and store. I’ll explain them later, but for now, go ahead and get started building your website and creating some forum memberships. Remember: you can find free webhosts that provide free cPanel hosting. I know this for a fact! x10hosting.com is a good one. Get started!

There are basically two ways you can interpret this question. 1.) “Where will my buyers purchase my products?” and 2.) “Where will I show off my products so everyone can see them?”

The first interpretation is what I’m going to go over in this post. You should almost always sell your products on your own website! Post them their and allow your buyer to check them out using whatever tool you choose to. If you are using affiliate programs it would be much simpler. You’d list a picture and link it to you affiliate URL. However, if you are not an affiliate, you should consider using Zencart (my favorite) for checkout needs.

To go more in depth, I need to tell you actually where to build your site. I think I’ve said this before, but if you are less technical, I would recommend using Iompi to sell your products. Ecrater.com also has a program for those who want to quickly set up a site. Others who would like to build nicer sites with more tools and customization, you should try Zencart for processing and your preferred CMS tool for your homepage. cPanel is definitely a must for any website builder and has auto-installed scripts. There is not much more to tell you and I don’t want to drift off into web design, so I’ll leave it at that!

When I think about marketing, I instantly think of an annoying man trying to sell me something. But online, it’s much different. This type of marketing isn’t face to face. Your buyer has all the time in the world to come back and buy your product. Unlike when you are in the store, the buyer needs to make the decision whether they want to purchase the product or come all the way back to the store again and get it. It’s a whole different game online.

The first step to successful online marketing, whether it is your own product or an affiliate product, is to choose your niche. A niche is the topic, basically. It’s the whole idea of the website. (And by the way, you will need a website. We’ll get into that later!) In order to choose your niche, most people would tell you to think about what you like to do. Or think about what you have done. However, I believe that this approach is silly and quite unsuccessful. In order to have a profitable niche with a product, you need to think of a niche that has not yet been discovered by everyone. For example, this blog is about making money online. There are millions of blogs about making money online. But how many blogs are about a 13 year old girl making thousands of dollars each week? Name one. That’s the point, you can’t.

A strategy that I prefer to use to create a niche is looking at what people like to do. One day I joined myLot. It’s a community of people who get paid to participate in the website discussions. This is a good website to look at because you can see what people like to talk about and what people like to do. Take cheerleading and photography for example. As a teenage girl, I love cheerleading and photography. But when I look at myLot, there are 2 members who enjoy the hobby “cheerleading”. Yet there are 1,744 members who enjoy the hobby “photography”. That’s a huge difference! And if you don’t understand, this means that you’ll have over 1,744 people to market to if you have a photography website. Now this doesn’t mean that you should go start taking photos of your backyard. These people don’t want to buy photos, they want to learn how to take them, edit them, and sell them! Of course, a page where you sell your own photos wouldn’t hurt. Are you seeing what I’m seeing? This is a money making opportunity!

Now it’s your turn. I want you (yes you!) to join myLot and discover your interests. Choose an interest that has at least 1,000 members and read the discussions. This is like auto-generated content. Members will ask questions that they really want answered in depth. Just post a link referencing a post on your blog and just like that I promise you’ll get 10 permanent visitors instantly (if your content is good).

So you know what to sell (or you know how to decide) and all that’s left is to put it into action. Use my tips under the “Preparation” category to prepare your business. Make sure your content is good or else you’ve blown your reputation. Word spreads around the internet fast if people think you’re a scam… but that’s a whole other topic. Good luck finding your niche!