Saturday, April 30, 2011

The ONE page Solution...

A website doesn't have to be complicated or detailed to earn you money.

There are one-page websites called Squeeze Pages that present an offer to the visitor in exchange for their name and email address. Why is this valuable? Collecting a list of subscribers and providing them something of real value builds relationships and trust. Recommending products that you have tried and have found valuable - one you have established this trust - will, in many cases result in you selling that product to many of your subscribers.

Here's an example of a great, but complex, squeeze page (I'm also a huge fan of this guy and have subscribed to his membership site for almost two years and am an affiliate of his and a true believer): Create a Free Website

This is Chris Farrell's squeeze page but it contains my affiliate link and grows my list monthly including commissions from *smart* people following his membership site!

As nice as that page is, squeeze pages do not need all of those bells and whistles to be valuable or effective. There is an amazing free service that will allow you to create really professional-looking free video squeeze pages. Remember, I like free! http://www.freevideosqueezepage.com/

Check it out and tell me what you think.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

A One Page Website is All You Need to Start Making Money Online

Building your own website for the purpose of making money online is not as difficult as you think.

Call me cheap, but I'll always look for ways to do things for free. Maybe it's good business sense, because I think of things in term of ROI (Return on Investment) and I know that I'm going to be putting in some time in directing traffic to the site. I do consider my time to be valuable. After all, aren't we doing this to have more free time while getting the bills paid?

Many people new to the work of eCommerce make the mistake of thinking that if you build it, they will come. Not so! Websites require traffic to be profitable and employing traffic-getting techniques can be confounding for the uninitiated.

In this blog we're going to look at ways to get that site up and drive traffic to it. For sure, this is a numbers game. The more targeted traffic you get to your site, the more sales you'll make. Plain and simple.

I'll be showing you how to get this traffic, but first things first, you'll need to decide what your market or niche is. This is an all important step in the process.

As a seasoned internet marketer, I cringe when I see people new to the business (and that's what it is) go for the biggest markets online, e.g. Weight Loss, Dating, Make Money Online, etc. and expect that something will miraculously happen and the cash will start flowing in.

It doesn't work that way.

One more word of caution (and I have many of them) avoid the bright shiny objects; the sites that promise your own personal ATM or instant wealth. If you are starting out, there's absolutely no way of taking advantage of most of the information they offer. You're going to have to learn new skills and there's no escaping this fact!

Having said that, if you follow a system that already works and that teaches you all of the basic skills, you can make money online.

Repeat after me....

I can make money online.
I am willing to learn new skills.
I will apply the skills I learn.
I will not waste my money on promises of instant, work-free wealth.

No one can stop me....