A Website having targeted visitors is the key to profits. Afterall what is the point of having a website. The more targeted visitors you possess, the bigger your bottom line. Regardless of whether you're launching a new product or just desire a speedy influx of cash, often you necessity lots of traffic speedily. Here are 5 rapid answers to hard drive traffic to your internet site.
#1 Social advertising. Social advertising operates speedily and if you possess a large following on any of the sociable advertising locations, you can generate a ton of traffic to your internet site speedily. The key is to create extra attention taking hold of posts that arouse curiosity, generate individuals laugh or stir up a controversy. You want to generate click on through to your internet site.
Generate the most of your sociable networking tactics and use technological innovation to get the job done. For example, one StumbleUpon submit can be integrated with both Fb and Twitter information so you're creating waves on all three sociable locations at once. You can also take a cue from the sociable bookmarking tool I have at the top right of my blog.
#2 Article Marketing. Article marketing operates well when you focus your projects on high quality article marketing locations with large audiences. One well created and educational article, rewritten a few times, and sent over to several article directories can generate the traffic you're wanting for. Make sure to involve a bio box that contains a call to motion and a hyperlink to your internet site to encourage click on throughs.
#3 Blogging. Submit on your own weblog or be a guest blogger on a weblog with a large number of subscribers that pertains to your theme. Like sociable networking, if you offer an educational, controversial or entertaining submit, you'll attract individuals clicking through to your website really quickly. Naturally, if you also promote such amazing blog submit(s) via sociable advertising, you can double your traffic results.
#4 Video Content. It's incredible how speedily a video can go viral. Like print articles, videos that entertain, stir up a bit of controversy or offer serious value cause a buzz. They are forwarded to pals and downloaded on laptops and smartphone devices nearly the globe. A great movie can generate all the traffic you need. Once again, integrate a bit of sociable advertising to encourage your video, blog about your video just as I discussed in #3.
#5 Partnerships. Partnering with an associated company really get you targeted traffic. The key is to create a mutually benefitial agreement. Locate individuals in your marketplace that are inclined to do the job with you and improve each and every other hard drive traffic. A partnership may involve guest running a blog on each and every other's sites, swapping advertisements or even marketing on each other's ezine
It'ss feasible to hard drive a ton of traffic to your website. The strategy is to have a plan in place, understand your vistors and what they want, your goals, and take action.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Create Your Own 3d Book Cover For Free
I was scouring the internet looking for how I could create a 3d book cover for free and I came across this great resource. 3d Pack.com
Its free and easy to use. No watermarks (like other websites that would paste their watermark in the trial version).
You can save your created ebook in PNG format, JPG or GIF
Its free and easy to use. No watermarks (like other websites that would paste their watermark in the trial version).
You can save your created ebook in PNG format, JPG or GIF
Monday, January 24, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
An Alternative to Paypal
Paypal!! hmm., I finally got one, with several precautions to prevent me getting banned once again because Paypal doesn't see it fit to include my country Nigeria which has the highest number of Internet users in Africa. To be honest I am fedup with the whole Paypal thing, if it wasn't for the fact that its indispensable to my Internet Business because most merchants I do affiliate business with use it, I would have long ago done away with it.
So I was thinking, wouldn't it be great to go about doing Internet business without Paypal?,so in my quest for an alternative, I found "AlertPay" which is fast becoming the preferred solution to Paypal.
AlertPay, allows Nigeria and works just like Paypal. You can fund your AlertPay with your Nigerian Debit Mastercard of Visacard and withdraw money into your debit card, they even issue debit cards you can use at any Nigerian ATM. Also there are some businesses Paypal doesn't permit e.g. MLM online and others.
So after signing up I got thinking wouldn't it be great if I could transfer money from my "AlertPay" to my Paypal account, because most of the guys in Naija have rates of about N180 to $1 to fund a Paypal account.
So after due dilligence I finally got one http://move-funds.com/. ( one of the ways you can check if a website is legit and not a fly-by-the-night website, always check the date of domain name registration which should be a couple of years old, I did so using http://whois.domaintools.com and then checked several forums by googling the name of the website) . http://move-funds.com can help you transfer money between Alertpay and Paypal and vice-versa.
So check it out, but sign up for your AlertPay account by clicking on the link. If you are in need of a Paypal account with a US address you may contact me, if you already have a Paypal account and want to fund it you can try these guys out http://move-funds.com
So I was thinking, wouldn't it be great to go about doing Internet business without Paypal?,so in my quest for an alternative, I found "AlertPay" which is fast becoming the preferred solution to Paypal.
AlertPay, allows Nigeria and works just like Paypal. You can fund your AlertPay with your Nigerian Debit Mastercard of Visacard and withdraw money into your debit card, they even issue debit cards you can use at any Nigerian ATM. Also there are some businesses Paypal doesn't permit e.g. MLM online and others.
So after signing up I got thinking wouldn't it be great if I could transfer money from my "AlertPay" to my Paypal account, because most of the guys in Naija have rates of about N180 to $1 to fund a Paypal account.
So after due dilligence I finally got one http://move-funds.com/. ( one of the ways you can check if a website is legit and not a fly-by-the-night website, always check the date of domain name registration which should be a couple of years old, I did so using http://whois.domaintools.com and then checked several forums by googling the name of the website) . http://move-funds.com can help you transfer money between Alertpay and Paypal and vice-versa.
So check it out, but sign up for your AlertPay account by clicking on the link. If you are in need of a Paypal account with a US address you may contact me, if you already have a Paypal account and want to fund it you can try these guys out http://move-funds.com
Sunday, January 2, 2011
How to Burn a Blog Feed and Have Subscribers Follow Your Blog
To burn your feed and have subscribers follow your blog, you just have
to go to http://feedburner.google.com
What is a feed? A feed is merely allowing your readers to receive updates of your latest articles through their own e-mails. In that way, they could easily be updated of your latest posts. In that way
also, you get to know how to contact them. This is very important because this is the way by which you could invite them to read important announcements or even to buy relevant products that you
could sell to them online. In this way, you earn money fast!
also, you get to know how to contact them. This is very important because this is the way by which you could invite them to read important announcements or even to buy relevant products that you
could sell to them online. In this way, you earn money fast!
Now all you have to do is to easily install the short code for subscription in your blog sidebar so that readers could see a form where they could enter their email address. To do this, go to http://feedburner.google.com again and click the name of your feed. Next, click "publicize" among the words you can see at the top of the page. Next, look at the left sidebar and click "email subscriptions". See the code now? Near the bottom of that page, you can see the option "use as a widget in". Just choose BLOGGER and you're on your way to installing the code :-)
If you're successful in installing that, you could see a nice form in your right sidebar just like the one I have at this blog. See and compare.
Source: Make Money Faster
How to Use Feedburner as Autoresponder for Email Subscriptions
What are autoresponders? Ever heard of an Autoresponder for your e-mail subscriptions? The famous one's we've heard about are aweber and getresponse. Most professional bloggers use these autoresponders, but here's the catch. You may not be able to afford it yet!
An autoresponder is an automatic mechanism whereby if a reader subscribes to your blog, the reader is automatically taken to a page where the free item promised can be downloaded. Of course, you can do that manually. You can e-mail every subscriber who follows you. But can you do that for a hundred readers a day? Or can you do that instantly? Readers don't want to wait. If you make them wait too long, they'd think you're a fake.
For a simple way to do this without costing you much, you can use FEEDBURNER. (If you don't have a feedburner account yet, click here)
Go to your feedburner account. Click PUBLICIZE then EMAIL Subscriptions, and then to COMMUNICATION Preferences. You will now see a proformatted letter your readers will receive in their e-mail when they subscribe to your blog. Now are you thinking what I'm thinking? Simply revise the format and include in there the free link to your e-book for download!
TIP
For steps on how to store your e-book files and have them downloaded with a simple link, read my article "Where Do I Store Files for Download in Blogger?"
Source: Make More Money Faster
An autoresponder is an automatic mechanism whereby if a reader subscribes to your blog, the reader is automatically taken to a page where the free item promised can be downloaded. Of course, you can do that manually. You can e-mail every subscriber who follows you. But can you do that for a hundred readers a day? Or can you do that instantly? Readers don't want to wait. If you make them wait too long, they'd think you're a fake.
For a simple way to do this without costing you much, you can use FEEDBURNER. (If you don't have a feedburner account yet, click here)
Go to your feedburner account. Click PUBLICIZE then EMAIL Subscriptions, and then to COMMUNICATION Preferences. You will now see a proformatted letter your readers will receive in their e-mail when they subscribe to your blog. Now are you thinking what I'm thinking? Simply revise the format and include in there the free link to your e-book for download!
TIP
For steps on how to store your e-book files and have them downloaded with a simple link, read my article "Where Do I Store Files for Download in Blogger?"
Source: Make More Money Faster
10 More New Ways to Make Money Online
One of our most popular posts continues to be Anne Zelenka’s classic list of “10 New Ways to Make Money Online.” The ideas and strategies she suggests there are still good ones, but they’re not the only ones available. As the Web and its opportunities continue to evolve, and web workers continue to invent new niches for themselves, there are always more new ways to make money.
When you look for new revenue streams, think about what you do well. Whether you’re an expert in your field, a talented designer, a programmer, or a producer of content, there are ways to leverage your knowledge, skills and abilities, package them and provide them for a fee. And don’t forget that successful web workers are often pursuing more than one income stream at the same time. You may be able to assemble a career out of numerous smaller activities.
Read our latest list of 10 new ways to make money online after the jump.
1. Team up with Yahoo! to offer custom search services.
Yahoo! recently launched their BOSS API, which lets anyone build their own custom search engine or mashup using their search results. But you may have missed this teaser on their blog: “In the coming months, we’ll be launching a monetization platform for BOSS that will enable Yahoo! to expand its ad network and enable BOSS partners to jointly participate in the compelling economics of search.” The details of that platform aren’t out yet, but if you think you can come up with a compelling niche search offering, now’s the time to stake out your place in the market.
2. Sell freelance support.
Software and solutions like Copilot and Bomgar make it easier than ever to take over someone’s computer remotely, whether they know anything about how to let you connect or not. If you’re a whiz with solving operating systems and applications issues, why not sell your expertise to others who are less sure of themselves? At a reasonable hourly rate, you can still offer personal service that’s infinitely better than putting up with anonymous bored workers in a telecenter somewhere.
3. Create and maintain social networks.
While companies, organizations and individuals do see the value of marketing through social networks, many of them are afraid that they’ll “waste time” setting them up and maintaining them. Step in as their social network “developer” to determine the right places – MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, et. al. – to have accounts to help them achieve their goals. Then set up their pages and manage them on a regular basis. You can also submit reports that measure your clients’ online buzz and turn that in along with your monthly invoice.
4. Plan and host virtual events.
If you’re great at organizing, publicizing and managing events, why not offer your services online? Whether a live text chat on a client’s web site or a 3-dimensional avatar-based voice chat in a virtual world such as Second Life, companies and organizations could use your help developing and coordinating these events. You can even approach conferences and offer to create an online version of their event to reach a whole separate audience of people who cannot attend their offline happenings. Throw in some event hosting and moderating a la Oprah, and you’ve got yourself a global gig without having to jump on a plane.
5. Offer remote software demos and training.
So you’ve got a way with software, particularly newfangled Web-based applications. Offer your services as a Web apps trainer and hold online demos – for a fee. You can use GoToMeeting.com, Yugma, and similar services to broadcast your demos from your computer desktop to the computer screens of your audience members. Or approach the developers of these applications, show them you know their product almost better than they do, and offer to provide desktop demos to the media and to their higher dollar business customers.
6. Hold educational teleseminars.
Are you great at web design or online marketing or any other kind of Web work and have wanted to share your skills on a larger scale while getting paid to do it? If you’ve got the expertise, bottle it and sell it widely in the form of a live teleseminar where you charge a fee for participation and then archive it in your online store to generate recurring revenues. You can do simple web-based conference call coordination through Rondee or get fancier with simultaneous text chat and online documents with Calliflower.
7. Write part of Google’s encyclopedia.
Anyone can contribute to Google’s new Knol project, an encylopedic collection of knowledge in the tradition of Wikipedia. But unlike Wikipedia, Knol shows some prospect for paying its writers – because you can automatically hook up Google Ads to a Knol entry, and you’ll get a share of the take. If you’re an authority on some subject of interest, maintaining a Knol page could at least help pay for your internet usage.
8. Flip Web Sites.
Forget trying to think of a brand new hot web site to launch. The New York Times recently reported on people who are making a good living by “flipping” existing sites. The idea: find a niche site with good potential but poor execution, and buy it. Invest your own sweat equity in a site redesign and search engine optimization, then turn around and sell it to someone else who actually wants to run the site. Repeat as often as you can.
9. Sell your video footage.
We’ve covered the microstock photography market several times, but did you know that there’s a budding microstock video market too? If you’re a digital video fanatic, turn your high-quality b-roll into bucks using stock imaging sites that also carry video footage like Pond5, iStockPhoto Video and Pixelflow. Set your price, set your terms, and add this new revenue stream to your income.
10. Sell virtual goods.
From fashion to business tools to décor for virtual homes and offices, people who are avid users of virtual worlds are hungry for well-designed virtual goods.
While there is a learning curve for each proprietary virtual environment such as There.com, Kaneva, Lively, and Second Life, if there is a commerce component of the world that converts to real dollars, with a keen eye for design and detail and the right building skills, you can generate income from creating products made of bits and bytes. In Second Life, for example, some of the more successful clothing designers are bringing in thousands of dollars (US) a month selling items of clothing at 75 cents to $1.50 a pop. And if you are truly an artist, your virtual goods could sell for a pretty penny.
Photo credits: stock.xchng users kipcurry, len-k-a, nkzs and secondlife (taken by Cybergrrl Oh).
What other new ways do you know of to make money online? We’d love to have your input – but please understand that we’re not going to allow WWD to be turned into a dubious link farm. Any links to sites that the editors consider spammy or scammy will be deleted without notice.
Source: Gigaom
When you look for new revenue streams, think about what you do well. Whether you’re an expert in your field, a talented designer, a programmer, or a producer of content, there are ways to leverage your knowledge, skills and abilities, package them and provide them for a fee. And don’t forget that successful web workers are often pursuing more than one income stream at the same time. You may be able to assemble a career out of numerous smaller activities.
Read our latest list of 10 new ways to make money online after the jump.
1. Team up with Yahoo! to offer custom search services.
Yahoo! recently launched their BOSS API, which lets anyone build their own custom search engine or mashup using their search results. But you may have missed this teaser on their blog: “In the coming months, we’ll be launching a monetization platform for BOSS that will enable Yahoo! to expand its ad network and enable BOSS partners to jointly participate in the compelling economics of search.” The details of that platform aren’t out yet, but if you think you can come up with a compelling niche search offering, now’s the time to stake out your place in the market.
2. Sell freelance support.
Software and solutions like Copilot and Bomgar make it easier than ever to take over someone’s computer remotely, whether they know anything about how to let you connect or not. If you’re a whiz with solving operating systems and applications issues, why not sell your expertise to others who are less sure of themselves? At a reasonable hourly rate, you can still offer personal service that’s infinitely better than putting up with anonymous bored workers in a telecenter somewhere.
3. Create and maintain social networks.
While companies, organizations and individuals do see the value of marketing through social networks, many of them are afraid that they’ll “waste time” setting them up and maintaining them. Step in as their social network “developer” to determine the right places – MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, et. al. – to have accounts to help them achieve their goals. Then set up their pages and manage them on a regular basis. You can also submit reports that measure your clients’ online buzz and turn that in along with your monthly invoice.
4. Plan and host virtual events.
If you’re great at organizing, publicizing and managing events, why not offer your services online? Whether a live text chat on a client’s web site or a 3-dimensional avatar-based voice chat in a virtual world such as Second Life, companies and organizations could use your help developing and coordinating these events. You can even approach conferences and offer to create an online version of their event to reach a whole separate audience of people who cannot attend their offline happenings. Throw in some event hosting and moderating a la Oprah, and you’ve got yourself a global gig without having to jump on a plane.
5. Offer remote software demos and training.
So you’ve got a way with software, particularly newfangled Web-based applications. Offer your services as a Web apps trainer and hold online demos – for a fee. You can use GoToMeeting.com, Yugma, and similar services to broadcast your demos from your computer desktop to the computer screens of your audience members. Or approach the developers of these applications, show them you know their product almost better than they do, and offer to provide desktop demos to the media and to their higher dollar business customers.
6. Hold educational teleseminars.
Are you great at web design or online marketing or any other kind of Web work and have wanted to share your skills on a larger scale while getting paid to do it? If you’ve got the expertise, bottle it and sell it widely in the form of a live teleseminar where you charge a fee for participation and then archive it in your online store to generate recurring revenues. You can do simple web-based conference call coordination through Rondee or get fancier with simultaneous text chat and online documents with Calliflower.
7. Write part of Google’s encyclopedia.
Anyone can contribute to Google’s new Knol project, an encylopedic collection of knowledge in the tradition of Wikipedia. But unlike Wikipedia, Knol shows some prospect for paying its writers – because you can automatically hook up Google Ads to a Knol entry, and you’ll get a share of the take. If you’re an authority on some subject of interest, maintaining a Knol page could at least help pay for your internet usage.
8. Flip Web Sites.
Forget trying to think of a brand new hot web site to launch. The New York Times recently reported on people who are making a good living by “flipping” existing sites. The idea: find a niche site with good potential but poor execution, and buy it. Invest your own sweat equity in a site redesign and search engine optimization, then turn around and sell it to someone else who actually wants to run the site. Repeat as often as you can.
9. Sell your video footage.
We’ve covered the microstock photography market several times, but did you know that there’s a budding microstock video market too? If you’re a digital video fanatic, turn your high-quality b-roll into bucks using stock imaging sites that also carry video footage like Pond5, iStockPhoto Video and Pixelflow. Set your price, set your terms, and add this new revenue stream to your income.
10. Sell virtual goods.
From fashion to business tools to décor for virtual homes and offices, people who are avid users of virtual worlds are hungry for well-designed virtual goods.
While there is a learning curve for each proprietary virtual environment such as There.com, Kaneva, Lively, and Second Life, if there is a commerce component of the world that converts to real dollars, with a keen eye for design and detail and the right building skills, you can generate income from creating products made of bits and bytes. In Second Life, for example, some of the more successful clothing designers are bringing in thousands of dollars (US) a month selling items of clothing at 75 cents to $1.50 a pop. And if you are truly an artist, your virtual goods could sell for a pretty penny.
Photo credits: stock.xchng users kipcurry, len-k-a, nkzs and secondlife (taken by Cybergrrl Oh).
What other new ways do you know of to make money online? We’d love to have your input – but please understand that we’re not going to allow WWD to be turned into a dubious link farm. Any links to sites that the editors consider spammy or scammy will be deleted without notice.
Source: Gigaom
10 New Ways to Make Money Online
So you want to ditch your corporate cubicle and join the ranks of web workers? But you have a mortgage, maybe a dependent or two, and a taste for Venti Mochas from Starbucks? You can make money in the new economy, though it might not be as easy or cushy as keeping your old economy job.
I’m not talking about advertising or affiliate marketing or selling your junk on eBay. Those are so last millennium! I’m talking about the new new economy.
1. Offer your professional expertise in an online marketplace.These days, you can do more than just sell your old books via Amazon and your old Coach handbags via eBay—now you can sell your professional capabilities in a marketplace. No longer are you limited to looking for a permanent or contract job on Web 1.0 style job sites like Monster or CareerBuilder. The new breed of freelancing and project-oriented sites let companies needing help describe their projects. Then freelancers and small businesses offer bids or ideas or proposals from which those buyers can choose.
Elance covers everything from programming and writing to consulting and design, while RentACoder focuses on software, natch. If you’re a graphic designer, check out options like Design Outpost or LogoWorks–you don’t have to find the customers, they’ll come to you. Wannabe industry analysts might sign up for TechDirt’s Insight Community, a marketplace for ideas about technology marketing.
2. Sell photos on stock photography sites. If people regularly oooo and aaaaah over your Flickr pics, maybe you’re destined for photographic greatness or maybe just for a few extra dollars. It’s easier than ever to get your photos out in front of the public, which of course means a tremendous amount of competition, but also means it might be an convenient way for you to build up a secondary income stream. Where can you upload and market your photos? Try Fotolia, Dreamstime, Shutterstock, and Big Stock Photo.
3. Blog for pay. Despite the explosion of blogs, it’s hard to find good writers who can turn around a solidly-written post on an interesting topic quickly. GigaOM is always looking for bloggers with great content ideas and solid writing skills. How do you get noticed? Comment and link to blogging network sites. Write blog posts that are polished and not overly personal (although showing some personality is a plus).
4. Or start your own blog network. If you like the business side of things–selling advertising, hiring and managing employees, attracting investors–and have the stomach to go up against the likes of Weblogs, Inc., GigaOmniMedia, b5media, maybe you should make an entire business out of blogs. Don’t make the mistake of thinking you’ll get a lot of time to write yourself though.
5. Provide service and support for open source software. Just because the software is free doesn’t mean you can’t make money on it–just ask Red Hat, a well-known distributor of Linux that sports a market cap of more than four billion dollars. As a solo web worker, you might not want to jump in and compete with big companies offering Linux support, but how about offering support for web content management systems like WordPress or Drupal? After getting comfortable with your own installation, you can pretty easily jump into helping other people set them up and configure them.
6. Online life coaching. Who has time to go meet a personal coach at an office? And don’t the new generation of web workers need to be met by their coaches in the same way that they work: via email, IM, and VoIP? You could, of course, go through some life coaching certification program, but on the web, reputation is more important than credentials. I bet Tony Robbins isn’t certified as a life coach–and no one can argue with his success. For an example of someone building up their profile and business online as a coach, check out Pamela Slim of Ganas Consulting and the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog.
7. Virtually assist other web workers. Freelancers and small businesses desperately need help running their businesses, but they’re not about to hire a secretary to come sit in the family room and answer phone calls. As a virtual assistant, you might do anything from making travel reservations to handling expense reimbursements to paying bills to arranging for a dog sitter. And you do it all from your own home office, interacting with your clients online and by phone. You can make $20 and up an hour doing this sort of work, depending on your expertise.
8. Build services atop Amazon Web Services. Elastic computing on AWS is so cool… and so incredibly primitive right now. Did you know that you can’t even count on your virtual hard drive on EC2 to store your data permanently? That’s why people are making money right now by offering services on top of AWS. Make it easier for people to use Amazon’s scalability web infrastructure like Enomaly has with elasticlive, a scalable web hosting platform built on AWS.
9. Write reviews for pay or perks. If you blog for any length of time on a particular topic–parenting, mobile phones, or PCs, for example–you will likely be approached to do book or product reviews. You can get free stuff this way, but are you selling your soul? Is there any such thing as a free laptop? These are decisions you’ll have to make for yourself, because no one agrees upon what ethical rules apply to bloggers. Even less do people agree on services like PayPerPost that pay you to write reviews on your blog. Check out disclosure rules closely and see whether such a gig would meet your own personal standards or not.
10. Become a virtual gold farmer. A half million Chinese now earn income by acquiring and selling World of Warcraft gold to gamers in other countries. If you’re not a young person living in China, this probably isn’t a viable option for you. But what’s intriguing about it is the opportunity to make real money working in a virtual economy. People are making real-world money in Second Life too.
Looking for more money-making ideas? Check out “10 More New Ways to Make Money Online” for some great suggestions.
Source: Gigaom
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