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Add Comment »One of the biggest myths in the business world is you need to spend a lot of money to make money. One of my good friends was making $800 to $1200 per week with his online search engine optimization service. All for the low price of $30 per month in overhead….how?
Well I don’t want to give away the exact service he was using…but basically he bought an SEO tool and provided a service with it. Other Internet marketers were too lazy or didn’t know how to use the tool so they would pay him $20-$30 for him to do all the work and set up the tool (only took him 20 minutes).
This did 2 things for him. First it got him some money going to invest in other projects. Secondly and maybe even more important he got to see what other people were ranking for in the search engines. It game him ideas and strategies to follow. He started to learn the industry and see the potential it had for making money.
After a month or so of doing his service he started making enough money running his own affiliate SEO campaigns that he quit the service to go full time working on his own business. In other words, he got paid to learn how to make money. How cool is that? Unlike colleges who make you pay them to learn he flipped it around…he was making about $1000 a week or $52,000 a year and learning how to make even more. Does this sound like a good strategy to start to learn and grow a business?
This basic model for getting started making money online is perfect for beginners. You can build come capital to invest in your own business while learning everything you need to know. So what’s your first step? You need to join and frequent yourself in some internet marketing forum like www.wickedfire.com and see what tools people are using. Buy the tool and master it, be the best at it and then offer the service.
You’ll probably have to offer the first 5 people a free test on your service to get some good reviews. Only allow respected members to have the free test of your new service. This will get the ball rolling and you should see orders coming in once a few reviews get posted. It’s very important to be fast to respond to questions and keep communication very open. After each order have the customer post on the forum about your service and what they think. This will keep your service at the top of the forum while not looking like your spamming it for this reason. Make sure to wait a few hours to post your thank you comment to boost your service post back to the top, this is how you build momentum with your service.
Follow this simple map to having your own successful online service business while growing your knowledge and getting paid to do it. Good luck and don’t forget to leave your comments and thoughts.
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Add Comment »Tired of filling out surveys or doing data entry for nickels and dimes? Then keep reading. We’ll show you how to utilize the hours you spend making little money, and show you how you can make big money instead.
We have decided to post a whole series of articles on how to make money online with offline clients, and the first one is about doing Public Relations (PR) for your local clients.
“But I’ve never done PR, and I don’t know anything about PR, so how could I, or why should I do PR for local clients?” Here is why:
- Easily make an extra $2000 a month with only a few hours of work per week
- Get tons of perks – free party invitations, products, services, you name it!
- Make valuable connections with the press and bloggers, so you can get bigger clients or release your own products and have them write about it!
- PR is easy, and it’s fun – anyone can do it, and you can start right now!
Here is a very easy way of doing it, and this is how I personally used to make money online when I started with internet marketing:
- Find a local business client – tell them that you will handle their PR online, which will give them exposure, increase their rankings, and generate more sales/leads.
- What to charge?I would usually pitch them with two or three options, and they are all a monthly retainer with a 3 month minimum commitment:
- 500 dollars a month will include 1 press release a month and a weekly report.
- 1000 dollars a month includes 2 press releases a month, follow ups with the most important online outlets, and weekly reports
- 2000 dollars a month could include unlimited press releases (you’ll probably never do more than 2-3 a month for a small/medium sized business anyway), distribution through Associated Press (a service that distributes your press releases to all major news outlets in the country), weekly reports, and perhaps trade show monitoring or something else that would apply to your client.
- Most will probably go for option 1 or 2 to test you out, so let’s get started on those.
- Writing a press release is not very hard, but it does require a little bit of creativity. I suggest checking out the resources on PRWeb.com on how to write a press release if you absolutely want to write it yourself. I would suggest outsourcing it to someone who already knows what they’re doing. I always use people from Warrior Forum (www.warriorforum.com). You can have someone write a very good press release for under $100 there.
- After that, we need to distribute the press release. For the smaller ones, I use WebWire (www.webwire.com) and the $19 option, or PR Web (www.prweb.com) and their cheaper options.
- If you really want to do well, I suggest you find blogs, forums, magazines and podcast sites that talk about the niche that your client is in, and that you contact them with the press release to see if they want to publish it.
- Automatic monitoring and weekly reports? Easy. Set up a Google Alert via www.google.com/alerts, put in the keywords you want to monitor (company name, and a couple of keywords that relate to them), and you will get alerts delivered to you! No need to look for them! If you really want to impress, I suggest you put in some alerts for their local competitors, and whenever they are featured somewhere, you contact that site/magazine/whatever, and ask how they can feature your company as well.
- Every week, sit down with your clients, show where the press release has gone out, show them the features, and upsell them to the next level.
So, in short – imagine this – get 4 clients, 500 bucks each, which equals 2000 dollars a month. Outsource the writing, all you need to do is upload it to the distribution sites and press “Send.” The monitoring takes 10 minutes to set up. The only time consuming thing is doing some actual research and following up with the blogs you really want to get featured on. This shouldn’t take you more than an extra 3-4 hours a week, so if you do the math, you’re making $500 an hour (4 hrs x 500 dollars is $2000).
In the near future, we will be releasing a full step by step guide for doing this, including sales scripts to use – both for phones and in person selling – and templates for press releases and a bunch of extra bonus resources, so after you’ve tried this, you can upsell your current clients and make double the amount of money!
In the next couple of posts, we will take a look at creating online marketing plans for local companies, doing PPC management, SEO campaigns and much more! Stay tuned!
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2 Comments »Blogging, or keeping a web log or journal, is a way for many people to talk about themselves, their lives or something that interests them and spread it to the wider world. Some people blog daily, others do it sporadically, but the main idea behind it was to communicate something to others. Nowadays, blogging can also do something else for you: make money. There are a couple of ways to make money blogging and they are all advantageous because the core of your work is doing something you love and something that search engines and other people love. So, how can you make money blogging?
Research, Research, Write, Write
It is very important to not just write a blog, but write a blog to make money if that’s what you’re aiming for. Very few bloggers just write anything and become successful, they have to do the legwork. If you want to blog to make money, make sure to research a niche topic which interests you and build a set of keywords and phrases to target in the search engines, then write your blogs around that. If you need help pinning these, things like Google WonderWheel can help you as can more specialized keyword targeting programs and software. Once you’ve done your research, it’s important to do a new blog posting regularly so that you keep your readers and keep the interest of search engines so that you continue ranking. Remember-the higher you rank in search engines, the more likely it is you’ll get visitors which makes it more likely you’ll make money.
Rent out Advertising Space
Once your blog is fairly established, you can put advertisements up and get money every time they are clicked by visitors. The traditional way to do this is through Google AdSense, which is a free service to use that allows bloggers and site owners to connect with other advertisers. You can also scout out individual businesses and post banner ads for them and get a commission price for every visitor who clicks and buys something from the affiliate site. These things are free to sign up for and many sites give anywhere between 10-40% commission and sometimes more.
Your blog will have to have a lot of traffic before you make any appreciable amount of money and you may need several of them in order to really live off of the income, but it can make you some good start up money for other sites or just some pocket money. Advertising space is one of the easiest ways to make money blogging; it’s fully automated and the money just builds up.
Use Your Blog to Launch Your Products
Many savvy internet marketers keep a blog on hand, either written by themselves or managed by another writer. This gives them a platform from which to talk about products they’re selling. This is particularly useful for those in multi-level marketing or ‘pyramid’ schemes. You are selling another person’s product so you maintain a blog detailing how wonderful that product has been to your life. Blogs can be made more personal which is more popular with readers and you have more control over your tone and writing style than if you were doing a flat out business website. However, you can also do a blog for your own products, particularly if you don’t know how to build a site of your own and so just use a blogging platform to advertise your goods and services.
It is possible to make money blogging as long as you do your research carefully, write regularly and with good content, and choose something you enjoy doing. There are many professional bloggers out there and they are moderately successful at it, so it is possible! Do the legwork you need to do and choose an area to write in and you too can make money blogging!
