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“Affiliate Marketing – Discover The Best Single Guide to Affiliate Marketing With PPC!”

Trevor Fooks — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:52:00 +0000

Forget what you may read in the never-ending flood of sales letters and emails promoting the latest great money-making idea. Affiliate Marketing using Pay Per Click is by far the most effective way for anyone to start making decent amounts of money online instantly. Nothing else comes close.

There are dangers in the use of this method of course, that I discuss elsewhere. But I have been asking myself recently: if I was restricted to recommending only one guide or course to a newcomer, what would it be? The big names in PPC are Perry Marshall’s “Definitive Guide to Google Adwords”, Chris Carpenter’s Google Cash 3rd Edition, Kyle and Carson’s Beating Adwords and Chris McNeeney’s trilogy Adwords Miracle, Affiliate Project X, and Day Job Killer.

These are excellent and recommended works. But when I reviewed all of these, and considered which one, and only one, that I would recommend to newcomers as the best all-round guide, the answer rather surprised me. It’s unquestionably Chris Carpenter’s Google Cash 3rd Edition, and here’s why. Remember, we are specifically discussing affiliate marketing with PPC here.

The “Definitive Guide to Google Adwords”, good as it is, is not specifically directed to affiliate marketing, but is aimed at all users of Google Adwords for any type of marketing. So I don’t consider it to be the optimum stand alone guide. Affiliate Project X, and Day Job Killer are aimed at more advanced users of Google Adwords, and don’t cover the basics, so once again they are not suitable as stand alone guides.

So it comes down to a comparison between Google Cash 3rd Edition, Beating Adwords and Adwords Miracle. And in my opinion, Google Cash 3rd Edition wins hands down. Its 201 pages provide the most detailed step by step instruction to affiliate marketing success with PPC that I have seen. It backs up the written word with excellent videos. It provides a better group of bonus materials than the other two. It also covers some very important affiliate concepts like CPA which are not included in the other guides. And most importantly, it really emphasises and covers in detail the importance of an unrelenting commitment to testing and tracking every element of PPC campaigns.

You will discover, if you are successful, that testing and tracking is the real secret to PPC success. It’s simply a numbers game. So here’s my conclusion, and some advice, born of real tough experience. Buy Google Cash 3rd Edition. Study it, master its techniques. When you prove that you can make money with the Google Cash 3rd Edition techniques, then, and only then, you can consider expanding your education with other ebooks and courses. But, if you can’t make money with Google Cash 3rd Edition, I am sorry to say I think you are just fooling yourself, and wasting your money, if you think that buying all these other products will somehow magically transform your results. I really wish I had known this when I first started out. It would have saved me thousands of wasted dollars. Click Here For More Information On Google Cash 3rd Edition.

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“10 Easy Steps and You CAN Make Money Online!”

Trevor Fooks — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:20:00 +0000

I have been pursuing the dream of making money online for a few years now, after a career as a corporate executive and business consultant. I must confess that I have invested several thousand dollars gathering the best information I could find on internet marketing and making money online. Maybe I’m a slow learner, but it’s taken me quite a while to really understand how to fit together the elements of online marketing in a way that can make money for me.

Looking back now, I realise that one thing everyone needs when they are starting out is a simple, honest, step-by-step guide to making money online. There are tens of thousands of ebooks and courses out there covering many different methods. Affiliate marketing, eBay, build a list, SEO, email marketing, product launch, social bookmarking, blogs, Adsense, Adwords…..the list goes on and on.

The fact is that each individual needs to find a method that suits their circumstances and personality. And if you are new at this, frankly you will very likely be quickly swamped with information overload, and you may well give up in total frustration.

That’s why I recommend you take a look at a program called ForexEnterprise. This program has been one of the best selling courses on the internet for the past two years, and for good reason. It sets out in simple language the main methods of making money online, and it systematically, step-by-step, shows you how to go about it. It will help you discover for yourself what method is most likely to work for you. And it provides an exceptional database of free and paid resources that you can use to develop your money making endeavours.

I have been a member of this program for more than a year now. I would have saved myself thousands of dollars if I had started with this program from the beginning. If you are really serious about making money online it’s a resource you most definitely should consider……

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“Got a Work At Home Cash Flow Problem? Here’s a Solution!”

Trevor Fooks — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:38:00 +0000

Cash flow is the life blood of any business regardless of size. So even though the costs of running a work at home business are about as low as business costs can ever be, they still exist. Most newcomers will underestimate these business costs. To make the situation worse, it’s likely that a newcomer will have an exagerated idea of the potential of a work at home business. Fortunately, there are some relatively simple ways to generate extra cash flow while getting your core business up to speed. One of the best ways to earn some extra cash is to join a popular paid survey site, such as SurveyScout. Paid surveys are widely promoted as a great way to make money for stay at home moms and dads, students,retirees, unemployed people, and anyone looking for an extra source of cash.

Let’s try to understand what a paid survey really is. The fact is that companies spend billions of dollars every year on what is commonly called market research. Success in business depends heavily on understanding your market, and knowing what your market wants. Market research today is extremely sophisticated, because the information gathered in this way can literally make or break a company.

A very common way and popular way to obtain information for market research is with surveys. Most people will have participated in a survey at some time or other. Surveys usually consist of a number of questions with multiple choice answers. Now, companies often spend vast sums of money hiring specialist market research companies to carry out surveys. The bigger companies will have their own market research departments. The point is that it costs a lot of money to do market research, and it costs a lot of money to prepare and conduct statistically valid surveys.

Companies will usually seek responses from at least one thousand respondents in order for the survey to have statistically validity. The more respondents the better, of course. Ideally a company would like to survey everyone in the market. However, a total market survey is generally not feasible due to the sheer cost of such an undertaking. One of the methods companies use to gather survey data that is useful is by paying individuals to participate in the surveys. And this is where we come in.

Paid surveys are a method used by many large companies to gather information for market research. The purpose of a paid survey membership site is to maintain a database of companies that offer paid surveys, and to distribute those paid surveys to members. In other words, your membership fee gives you easy access to paid surveys being distributed by large numbers of companies. Imagine how difficult and expensive it would be if you had to find all these companies yourself. It is the database of membership sites that makes it feasible to earn worthwhile money from paid surveys. Simply put, you complete the survey and the company pays you, usually by check. The more surveys you do, the more you earn. It’s still work, and in some respects it’s not much different to a job, but you can do the work at home, in your own time, and at your own pace. So those people who claim that all paid survey sites are scams are misinformed.

Some survey sites may indeed be scams, but there are scams in all industries. The better survey sites have been in business for a long time, and for good reason. They perform, and they keep their members happy. “Can you make money with paid surveys?” Emphatically, yes! However, paid surveys are not going to make you rich. They are a way to earn some extra cash, and if you work at it, quite a lot of cash. But don’t expect more than that. They are very useful for anyone starting out with a work at home business that needs some extra cash flow while getting other more potentially lucrative areas of their business up to speed. And paid surveys are great for anyone who needs a simple easy way to get extra cash for any purpose. So as long as you understand the nature and limitations of paid surveys they really can be a great source of extra income. However, do stick with the more popular proven membership sites, like SurveyScout, and you can’t go wrong.

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“What You Need to Know Before Starting to Work At Home” (Part 2)

Trevor Fooks — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:38:00 +0000

Planning is an essential element of any complex operation. Even a small work at home business has a large number of elements that make it a more complex undertaking than the run-of-the-mill activities we do everyday. These elements require proper organisation. A business plan can serve two important purposes (among others): bring a dose of realism to your thinking before you start down this path, and provide a conceptual framework that will guide you in the way you organise your business.

A small business plan usually starts with an executive summary, although you will not be able to complete the summary until the body of the business plan has been completed. The main introduction that follows will address key issues such as the type of business, its goals, legal structure, skills and experience of the owner (you), and competitive advantage.

The next section will address marketing issues such as the type of products or services, characteristics of the market, pricing strategies if relevant, and marketing methods.

The critical financial section follows, which describes how your business will be funded, and what records will be kept so as to track the progress of your business. Typically, the records that you keep will need to comply with taxation laws in your state and country. Financial projections need to include at least a simple budget, and should also incorporate break even analysis.

It is most important that you know your basic or fixed cost level. No business can run without some level of basic fixed costs. These are costs like internet providers, telephone service, and electricity. These costs have variable elements, but there will be some minimum cost level just for access.

You will need to include a section on operations. This will provide information on the the process of daily management, provision of any equipment and services, management of outsourcing, customer service, ecommerce providers, website hosting, and various other operational issues depending on your business type.

This is a very broad overview of the elements a business plan. A search of Google or other search engines will give access to plenty of free templates that you can modify for your purposes. Do not overlook the importance of preparing a proper plan before you start your work at home business.

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“What You Need to Know Before Starting to Work At Home” (Part 1)

Trevor Fooks — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:55:00 +0000

There are some very critical skills you need to learn if you are to have any chance of being successful working at home. These are skills very rarely if ever mentioned in most internet marketing or work at home ebooks. They are what might be broadly referred to as “small business skills”. Without these skills you will almost certainly struggle to succeed, no matter how good your money making concepts are.

You should start with a formal written business plan. Imagine that you need to convince an investor, your bank manager, your accountant, or some other professional that your idea is commercially feasible. This will force you to really think about where you are heading in a very detailed way. It will help you do identify potential problems, such as lack of finance.

Remember to be conservative in your projections. The Work At Home Industry is notoriously over-hyped. Frankly, it is very unlikely you will get anywhere near the results claimed in most sales letters.

You will find that there are business plan formats readily available free on a number of websites, including those of government small business departments. The formats are generally fairly similar, because the experience of millions of small businesses over many years has proven what business plan format works.

Do not fail to take this step before you proceed any further. It really is critical to your success! I will add more comments in my next post.

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“There Are a Million Ways to Make (and Lose) Money Working At Home!”

Trevor Fooks — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:13:00 +0000

If you are looking for a way to make money working at home you will quickly encounter a bewildering array of offerings all promising to lead you to the promised land of wealth, financial independence, and a generally fabulous lifestyle of your own choosing. Whether you believe that or not, you do need to understand that there are a myriad different ways of earning money on-line. You need to find something that suits your style and personality, something that you really enjoy doing.

The reason is simple: if you want to be successful you will need to work hard. It is easy to work hard at something you enjoy. In fact it might not feel like work at all. But try to succeed at something that leaves you feeling indifferent at best and you will not perform at your best. After all, the reason many of us get into the work at home industry is so that we can control our destinies, and that surely includes the type of work that we do.

So don’t rush into the first opportunity that appeals to you. Remember that what you read is a sales letter designed to catch your attention. It is not the actual product. You will often find that the actual product is nothing like what the sales letter appears to be offering. You must do your research. Analyse your strengths and weaknesses. For example, if you don’t like cold calling on the telephone you will not want to get involved in building a down-line based on a system of telephoning leads. If your computer skills are poor you will very likely want to avoid anything that requires you to use HTML.

Put simply, you are setting yourself up for failure at the very beginning if you commit to something that doesn’t suit your personality and skills. You will have an awful lot to learn anyway. Don’t make it needlessly hard for yourself.

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“Easy Ways to Make Money at Home?”

Trevor Fooks — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:09:00 +0000

So, are there easy ways to make money at home? Well, it depends what anyone means by easy. If what it means to you is making money with no work, or if you like, with no time and effort being expended, then I think you will be disappointed. If it means working at home, being your own boss, working your own hours, and generally being in control of your income-producing situation, then I would agree that there is such a thing. But make no mistake, you will need to put in plenty of time and activity to make any sort of decent money.

You may well hear someone claim that they make “$X,000″ working say fifteen minutes a day, or some kind of similar statement. It’s a classic case of a half truth. There are certain kinds of online activities which will run on virtual auto-pilot, after they are set up. For example, affiliate marketing using Google Adwords, or websites that are monetized with Google Adsense and that also are able to attract good organic search engine traffic. But what you are not being told about is the hours of work that was expended before these programs reached a state of virtual auto-pilot. Nor for that matter are you being told about the amount of knowledge that must be acquired through research and experimentation. Sometimes it has required the investment of cold hard cash to acquire knowledge and expertise from others.

My point is that you must expect to work for what you get. For example, I mentioned in a previous post that paid surveys are a good, simple way to make money at home, and that’s absolutely true. But it’s not all that much different to having a job, because you get paid per survey, or per hour, as the case may be. So you have got to put in the time and effort to make it work. The big upside is of course, as I said, that you are in control of your own activity. You are not wasting time commuting to work, and being tied rigidly to standard working hours, under the direction of a boss you may not like.

The fact is that it is possible to make a decent income working from home, and with a lot of work and skill you just might get rich. But don’t expect a free ride.

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“Do You Have What It Takes to Work at Home?”

Trevor Fooks — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:58:00 +0000

It may be an unpalatable truth, but I wonder how many people who have spent their lives as employees of someone else are really equipped to suddenly become “self-employed”. Work at Home opportunities are so often sold as the key to a fabulous new lifestyle, and indeed they can be. But the experience of many self-employed people over the years is that they have gone from working well-defined if sometimes long hours for someone else to working almost non-stop for themselves in a desperate, chaotic struggle to get a small business up and running. Yes, they are “free” in a manner of speaking, but they have only become an employee of a different kind.

I’m not talking about someone doing some additional part-time work at home. I am talking about the dream of financial independence that is often a key element in the promotion of work at opportunities. The danger is that the dream will turn into a nightmare if certain critical skills are missing. Those critical skills are those that are needed to build and manage a business. Because if you are going to be successful working at home you must treat your venture as a business, not as a hobby. Now, you can be sure that any ebook that you buy that purports to tell you how to make money will not tell you anything about how to develop business skills. At least, I have yet to find one that even touches on the need for business skills.

Ask yourself, what do you know about business skills like time management, financial management, taxation issues, project management, outsourcing, legal issues, and the list goes on? Understand that achieving financial independence by working at home will take a lot more than the purchase of the latest $97 ebook.

It is not my intention to dissuade you from pursuing your dreams, in fact quite to the contrary. But you need to properly prepare yourself for the path ahead. In my next post I will discuss what you can do to better prepare yourself for your bold new venture.

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“Making Money Working At Home. Is It a Realistic Goal?”

Trevor Fooks — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:51:00 +0000

According to research a very significant proportion of the world’s population hate their jobs and would love to find an alternative. Either a different job, or to be self-employed and in control of their own destinies. Now traditionally, being self-employed meant that the budding entrepreneur needed a significant level of capital to start a business. It also meant a high risk of failure. But the growth of the internet potentially created unprecedented income and business opportunities for small players. Suddenly it was possible, at least theoretically, to start making an independent income with almost no capital at all. And in fact, there are plenty of documented cases of individuals who have done just that.

However, it has always been the case that certain exceptional individuals have been able to achieve remarkable things, regardless of the medium in which they operate. But anyone who has done any investigation of the internet world at all will have discovered that there are countless claims of easy money being made with often minimal investment of money andÂ time. And it is usually claimed that “anyone” can do it.

I am sorry to say that I don’t think that it’s quite that simple. It sounds altogether too much like the claims of easy riches at your nearest casino. In fact, so much of the internet hype that we see is based on the age-old appeal of fast easy money with no work. Whether its the lure of a gold rush, or the appeal of the flashy lights of Las Vegas, its just human nature to want great success and great wealth in life with minimal effort. Clever marketers have always exploited this human weakness.

In my experience there are some relatively simple ways to make some money working from home online. But don’t imagine that it doesn’t take some time and effort. The idea of getting something worthwhile for nothing is not a principle that generally applies in this life. I said generally. There are exceptions. You could inherit a fortune, or you could win the lottery. But none of these are outcomes that anyone can control.

If you want to make a serious amount of money working at home you will have to work at it. Seriously work at it. A simple way to make money online is to join a reputable paid survey site like SurveyScout and it won’t cost you anything more than the one-time membership fees. But you still must put in the time and effort to make it work for you. It’s a fundamental principle of life.

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