If you are good at developing products, may it be E-books or software, selling Private Label Rights to these products can be suitable for you. Private Label Rights have a high perceived value because it allows your buyers to put their name on a product which they haven't created themselves. It can save them a lot of time.

In case you already have an existing digital product which you have created and sold in the past and you are looking for additional sources of income, you can consider selling the Private Label Rights to other Internet Marketers.

Why other Internet marketers? Because they are constantly on the lookout for new products to sell. There are only so many products they can create themselves in a month so buying the rights to products they can start selling as their own seems to be very attractive to most of them.

Making Money from Selling Private Label Rights products

The following are ways you can make money from selling Private Label Rights products:

• Upfront Sales. This is the most attractive part of selling Private Label Rights. Private Label Rights can range from a few dollars to even thousands of dollars, depending on the quality of the product, its demand and how proven it is (aka how many sales you've made for the personal use version…).

• Selling Basic/Master Resell Rights to the Private Label Rights product. You can sell the Basic/Master Resell Rights to the editable, raw format of the product separately. If your buyer wishes to resell the Private Label Rights, you can charge him 4-5 times the normal price of the product and up 10 times if the buyer wants to have the Master Resell Rights, allowing him and his customers to resell the Private Label Rights to the product, as you are doing.

Pros

• You can make a lot of money from selling Private Label Rights, as these are some of the most expensive rights you can buy in the Internet Marketing field.
• Your customers will mainly be Internet Marketers, and savvy Internet Marketers are usually busy people and they prefer to focus their efforts more on marketing than product creation and setting them up. Thus, they do not have any problems with making purchases on Private Label Rights products, as long as you give them good reasons to buy from you and presupposed you help them to save their time from having to create their own quality products from scratch.

Cons

• There is often no residual income in selling Private Label Rights products. This is because your customers, who are mainly Internet Marketers, will edit your product and use their own affiliate links in it. Unless you start a Private Label Rights membership site, you'll make your money solely from upfront sales.
• Selling Private Label Rights products means that you cannot take the credit of authorship. One of the main benefits that make Internet Marketers buy from you is because they want to have the privilege to put their name on the product as the author. You remain anonymous.
• Creating your own Private Label Rights product demands a high degree of expertise, talent, thorough research, programming (for software) and writing skills on your part. If you do not have any of these traits, creating your own Private Label Content can be a difficult challenge.
• Creating your own Private Label Rights product is effort and time consuming. Unless you are using the product yourself, it may not be worth your time and effort in the long run even though there is a lot of potential income to be made from selling Private Label Rights.

What You Need Before Getting Started

You will need the following before getting started on creating and selling a new Private Label Rights product (if you don't have an existing one):

1. Word Program

If you are going to create a Private Label Information Product (E-book), you will need a Word program to create your Information Product in .doc format. If you are using MS Office, the Microsoft Word program should already be installed on your PC.

Alternatively, you can use your free NotePad program to create your Information Product in its raw format, though Microsoft Word is preferable, since you'll be able to add different formattings to the text.

2. PDF Converter

You need a PDF Converter program which will convert your finished Word document to PDF format (the PDF format is the best format out there because it allows you to offer your product to MS Windows users AND Mac users - .exe files can only be opened by Windows users…). If you do not have any PDF Converter program installed on your PC, you can get a free PDF Converter software here.

3. Graphics Program

You'll need a program to design your product’s E-cover. I use Adobe Photoshop to design my E-covers (in combination with some nice plugins). Adobe offers a free trial version (30 day usage) here.

4. Good Salesletter

This is a very important element of your Private Label Rights sales success. If you cannot convince your prospects to buy from you, you cannot make any sale - no matter how good your product is. If you don't know how to write a good salesletter yourself, then outsource that part to places like Elance.com or Scriptlance.com. They have a feedback system there which is similar to Ebay's system so you can choose the freelancer with the best feedback/price ratio.

5. Web Hosting and Domain Name

You'll need to register a domain name for your product (at e.g. Namecheap.com) AND you'll need web hosting for it. These are not the same things. Registering a domain name simply means that you have a www.yoursite.com address registered in your name.

In order to let other people come to your new website, you'll still need to rent web space on the Internet so you can store the files for the salesletter, Thank You page and your digital Private Label Rights product (the PDF file). Basically, you rent this space from a web hosting company which specializes in making servers available with a direct connection to the Internet.

6. Auto Responder

You need an Auto Responder to:

• Follow up with your prospects who do not buy from you for the first time, and

• Build your mailing list. By having your own mailing list, you can make your money from your customers within a short period of time.

Personally, I'm recommending Aweber as it has the best delivery rates for emails on the Internet. It's the one I'm using to send out my own newsletters and it's a service which comes highly recommended by all the top Internet marketers.

7. Credit Card Payment Processor

You will need this to collect the payments from your customers. If you don't expect a too high sales volume, you could go with Paypal since most Internet marketers who are going to buy from you will expect this payment solution. You can use it in combination with some script so you can automate the payment and delivery process and protect your downloads.

Alternatives are Clickbank (one time fee to register as a merchant - it has Paypal integrated now), 2Checkout (one time fee to regsiter as a merchant, too - Paypal has been integrated, too) or 1Shoppingcart (monthly fee).

Conclusion:

Once you have all of these things in place, you can start driving traffic to your salesletter. If you already have a list, this can be as easy as sending an email to your list. If you don't have such a list of prospects and customers, you'll need to contact other list owners who have potential customers on their lists (also known as JV). But this also means that you'll make less per sale as you need to pay them a commission for each sale (usually between 50-100%).

Yes, some people even give away 100% commissions just to get customers on their own list. Later down the road, they can start selling their own stuff to them and they get to keep everything - which is the whole purpose of giving away the full commissions. The other reason is that they might have a One Time Offer behind it, on which they make 50% so they can still profit from a high number of sales when giving away 100% commissions…

Tags: adsense, affiliate, clickbank, internet marketing, traffic

Poooh,…..I finally got your video about social bookmarking finished. It feels like it took forever.

My original plan was to have it released… yesterday…! But I soon had to confess to myself that this was absolutely impossible .

Not just because it took me almost half of the day to shoot the video. That was not the real problem.

The video consists of 3 individual parts which I had to combine into 1 big AVI file (the final file was 584 MB to give you an impression of the size). It took my PC hours and hours and I don't have a particular slow one.

I own an Intel PC with 3.2 Ghz and 2 GB RAM (maybe the 2 GB weren't enough - who knows…). And when I had combined all the 3 parts, I needed to convert the avi into a Flash file in order to make it smaller and to have it display on a web page… Baaaaammm…. it took my PC another 2 hours again.

D**n…!

Of course, I'm not Steven Spielberg or an actor so maybe you find it a bit boring…

The video consists of:

a.) A personal introduction done with my Camcorder which I bought last year when I went to Mauritius to do the personal IM coaching

b.) Explanation what Social Bookmarking is all about and why you need it (with Powerpoint Slides)

c.) Practical examples of how to bookmark and "tag" a web page + a free service which can help you to save time when bookmarking your site

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Let me tell you that I've put in a lot of sweat and time into the creation of this video. If you like the video, I hope, you'll at least leave a nice comment on my blog

It would really be appreciated…

In case you haven't yet understood what all this talk about "social bookmarking" is about then this video is for you (click either on the picture or the link below):

17:47 mins. playing time

==> http://hopurl.com/42238

(The video is still quite large - please be patient)

And yes, I had to read most of the stuff from my powerpoint slides because I'm neither an actor nor good at doing free public speeches so please bear with me…

I'm just a regular guy, not a professional movie producer.

With that said, I hope, you'll find the video useful. And if you want to receive more of them then I want to let you know that the other parts will go right into the members' area of my Niche Content Websites membership area (paid members only, though…).

Because what I am about to show in these different parts are exactly the steps you absolutely need to take to PROMOTE your Adsense sites in order to be successful and have them make money for you.

Whether you are getting these kind of pre-made Adsense sites from me or someone else doesn't matter. If you're not doing the required promotion (==> think ONE-WAY BACKLINKS!) then you won't be getting free traffic from the mentioned resources, nor from the search engines!!

That's just a fact which newbies often tend to ignore…

I'll do another update on my NCW site and the change will be huge (you've just learned that there will be some new educational videos in it but there's still more to come). You've personally voted for this so stay tuned… I've blocked the signup of new members for now since I will be introducing completely new membership levels in April.

Tags: adsense, free traffic, search engines, social bookmarking, tagging, traffic, websites

I balance the two. SEO is more of a long term strategy for me, PPC a short term… among other marketing strategies like JVs (although I have seriously cut back on them).

Sometimes PPC is actually a good way to get traffic until the Search Engine traffic does finally barrel in…

AND you don't always have to wait 3 months. With the proper niche research and some luck, you can draw traffic in days… Once your site is crawled regularly, you can put a page up and be indexed within a day.

I don't think SEO is a waste of time unless you don't plan on being in this game for a long time. I plan on being here in 5-10 years. So I'll be patient.

SEO is a tough game no matter how you look at it. You can be at the top of the SERPs one month and drop out the next… I've seen people who have held number one positions for years and suddenly disappear all together.

It's a dangerous thing having 100% of your efforts in one area and depending on one form of advertising… diversification is a good thing.

SEO and PPC aren't even the only way to market online… some people do neither and make a ton of money.

Really… There is no predicting Search Engine's… they will always mess with your head. Sandbox or no sandbox. The algos always changing… Their index is updated frequently. Google's PR is always in flux…

After the last major update there was a lot of talk if there is even a randomization factor involved now… maybe even certain industries being treated differently… Outbound links becoming a factor also.

What I experienced could have easily been something I did… It's the closest thing to a Sandbox I've had. One day I have 50 keywords ranked high the next day they disappear. 2 months later I see visitors from those keywords back in my logs and sure enough they came back…

SEO has changed a lot since the beginning of last year. It is not as predictable as it once was. A webmaster would be a fool to rely on Google for 100% of their revenue. I've seen it happen… huge revenue generating websites dropping out of the SERPs completely… what a rush that has to be!

LET ME be honest. Like I said. The sandbox could have been something I did or some random shift in the index… who knows… I can't explain it so I call it a sandbox… but I'm always tweaking my sites… and most importantly:

I'm always trying to get new one way links pointing to my sites. Either by means of article submissions, directory submissions, social bookmarking, blog comments, article/content submission to sites like Digg.com and lots of other things… Links are still an important factor in your rankings.

Some new webmasters think if they follow the book they should find themselves at the top of the SERPs… when they don't, they automatically call it a "sandbox" if they can't figure it out…

Reality is… it might be that there are 10,000 websites that were there first with more inbound links and experience. You have to earn your spot…

Bottom line. Sandbox seems to occur, but it will only occur for crowded markets… you need to work much harder than in a niche market with no competition… If there is no competition and your site is relevant, it will certainly rank well… That's why keyword selection is so important. Choose the wrong keywords and you will get ranked nowhere, choose the right keywords and you'll find your site on top of the SERPs a few weeks later…

Until recently, if a new IM eBook came out, and I placed it on my website… you simply had to do a search for the title and there I had been… but I am not focusing on ebooks and courses anymore. I want to help you to get your first websites up and running - that's where I personally find more satisfaction in.

I've been on page one or two for e.g. the phrase "Automated Cash Formula" ever since I placed a review on my site about it (5 months ago…)… It was instant because my site is being crawled daily and in the beginning, there was hardly any competition for that phrase…

PPC? Sound familiar…

SEO? (Search Engine Optimization) not to discourage…

It's not my intention to discourage anyone from practicing SEO - I probably made it sound very difficult. It's not as long as you're staying away from the hyper competitive niches. Choose a niche in which your site could really help other people and where not all the SEOs (Search Engine Optimizers) hang out and you'll rank well quickly because other people will be linking to your great content.

SEO is certainly an incredible way to get free traffic - and lots of it. Any free traffic is good traffic…

I make money with the traffic. Absolutely… it's interesting to see a commission show up for something odd… then look at your logs and see someone had landed on a page you weren't promoting with anything.

… Someone just did a search on Google.

You just have to be smart and spread your risk by using other traffic generation strategies as well… just in case your SEO efforts are NOT paying off.

Tags: adsense, digg.com, ebook, free traffic, search engine optimization, seo, social bookmarking, traffic, websites

First of all, Google Pagerank has nothing to do with Adwords… although indirectly I suppose it does. One of the reasons Adwords is so valuable is because you can go around this important factor that Google has… And it also might be a good thing if the website you are promoting has a high PR, because the visitor might see that website as being more important and more of an authority website… etc.

This is related to Search Engine Optimization and Organic Results…

Google uses PageRank to measure how important a website is. It's based on a few factors, but the main factor is how many inbound links (and the quality of those links) you have pointing to your website.

PR is combined with Google's Algorithm (other factors like the quality of your content and the number of times your keyword appears in the visible text etc.) to determine your position in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs)… if you notice the sites at the top of your search results they usually have more inbound links than the ones below them.

Sometimes, it's close because the quality of links are important also. If you have a PR8 website pointing to you, you are in better shape than if you had a PR3 website pointing to you… in essence, it makes your website more important…

If you install Google's toolbar… or if you visit:

http://www.pagerank.net/pagerank-checker/

…you will see a bar that says "PageRank". That bar ranks a site from 1 to 10…

9 or 10 are very difficult to get. Google.com has a PR10… W3.org has a PR10… DMOZ has a PR9…

Those are websites that have a lot of links pointing to them. W3.org is considered an authority website…

It takes some effort to get to a PR5… generally, I think PR5 and up is really good. A lot of people when they are out looking for people to trade links with, like to focus on websites with a good PageRank…

Check this out… One of the biggest things PR is used for these days is determining the value of a web page and selling ad space based on the PR:

http://www.linkadage.com

There is a lot of controversy as far as the true importance of PR goes. I've noticed most people that are against it are people that can't seem to get it right.

In the beginning, PR was designed to be an indication of the importance and popularity of a website, but in true Webmaster fashion, a lot of community members were looking for different ways to get Inbound Links in order to manipulate Google. And from there the Link industry got a start… link exchanges, renting links, selling text links etc, etc….

I just saw a guy last week that spent over $650 to get PR3 or better links from 50 different websites…

One of the problems with it is that PR alone does not provide you with traffic…

You still need to have a well optimized website, have done your keyword research and considered the other 100+ factors (some known, some unknown) that Google uses to rank a site in the SERPs… PR might be an important factor, but it isn't the only factor and it certainly hasn't the weight anymore which it used to have.

AND ON top of that, getting 100s or 1000s of UNnatural links doesn't give PR a good name AND can get your sites penalized quickly (PR bar will be greyed out or reset to 0!).

Some more info:

http://www.google.com/technology/

Tags: adsense, adwords, search engine optimization, traffic, websites

Sometimes things are not what they seem…

While I had the intention of giving great value to my subscribers with the free CD offer I made on Saturday, it turns out that it wasn't as good as I thought… in fact, it's another nightmare for me because of the way this offer was set up.

Even though the content of the CD itself seems to be very good, their business practices are not. I mean, I knew there was some kind of additional charge involved because this was a CPA based offer. (CPA means Cost Per Action).

But I didn't know that they have the additional charge in their fine print and not just as a one time fee but set up as a monthly subscription at a rate of $49.95 but even worse:

The trial already ends after 24 hours. I now feel really bad to have endorsed this kind of offer!

It certainly does not comply with my understanding of ethical Internet marketing practices :< (

There was no way that I could have foreseen this, though.

Of course, I'm still expecting that my subscribers do their own due dilligence with that kind of offers in the way like several of my subscribers have done, too, and who notified me of the situation (Thanks to William, Hoss & Graham!).

Let me tell you how I found out about this offer: I stumbled upon this offer while doing research on CPA offers for my niches on Primaryads.com and it looked like a good fit for my subscribers - there are not too many courses on making money from Google's services suitable for beginners.

I really can't understand why Primaryads is supporting this kind of dubious business practices, though. But what's even worse: Why don't these guys just sell the CD at $49,95 instead of using camouflage tactics with a "free" CD?

As I said, the content itself seems to be good - I've heard this from several subscribers who already signed up to this offer.

Here's my suggestion if you signed up for this offer and you don't want more CD's/ additional charges:

Cancel your subscription by phone. In case that you already have a charge on your credit card for this "free" offer - do a chargeback on your credit card if you don't agree on this.

There also is phone number where you can call them and have the trials cancelled.

The number to call is the following:

888-362-6221 and talk to them or leave a voice mail. They will email you back that they have canceled your trial after doing this.

Again: I am really sorry to have brought some of you into this situation! I had the best intentions with this offer, though.
Note: In the meantime, Primaryads.com has taken the offer offline after I contacted them and had let them know about what these crooks were doing…!!

Tags: adsense, internet marketing

Hi there,

I've just stumbled across an offer which could be quite interesting for newbies or if you are not yet familiar with the possibilities Google offers you to make money online.

It's a CD with several video explanations which they are shipping to your home - but only if you live in the US/UK or Canada. This means, I couldn't test it out myself, first, like I usually do.

It looks like a good and genuine offer, though. They only require you to pay for shipping: $0.99

Here are some of the benefits:

- How to pick the right keywords

- How to promote your business

- How to get listed in Google fast

and more.

I HAVE REMOVED THIS OFFER. AS I SAID IN MY EMAIL, I COULDN'T CHECK OUT THE FULL OFFER BECAUSE I'M NOT LIVING IN ONE OF THE ACCEPTED COUNTRIES.

IT SEEMS THAT THIS OFFER IS NOT AS GOOD AS IT SOUNDED - I WILL BE SENDING MORE DETAILS TOMORROW. I'M REALLY TIRED NOW…

(I've been at the CeBit in Hannover all weekend and just returned from there. More about that -incl. some photos- tomorrow, too…!)

Detlev

Tags: adsense

I often do get asked how illegal "business opportunities" can be recognized. Well, I am now trying to answer this question and make it a bit clearer with the following article…

So called "Pyramid schemes" have been around since about the time the actual pyramids in Egypt were built. You'd think that in the last few thousand years people would have been able to easily recognize a pyramid scheme when they come across one. They don't…!

The people who dream these things up, however, are pretty slick characters. A pyramid scheme never, ever, comes labeled as a "pyramid scheme".

It is really easy to get sucked into one of these schemes. You need to understand how they work and be able to spot them for what they are. There are a few "buzz" words that can tip you off:

1. Recruit: "to engage in finding and attracting employees, new members, students, athletes, etc." That’s one of the definitions of the word according to the dictionary.

The use of the word, ‘recruit’ (or any variation) should be a major tip off that the program that is being promoted to you is most likely a pyramid scheme. Some of these schemes can be easily spotted while others are a little harder to identify. Just beware when you see the word, "recruit". There was a scheme that went around awhile back that was sent by unsolicited email that offered an "exclusive opportunity" to earn a boat load of money by recruiting people to sell a device that would provide access to the Internet by television. No, I’m not kidding. This happened and people fell for it.

2. Buy the secret and sell… This is a typical pyramid scheme that you will often see. This is another "offer" that arrives in your inbox that you have not solicited. You are offered an "exclusive" opportunity to buy a secret that will allow you to make a hundred thousand dollars a month (no work required) and then you can sell this secret to others for a substantial profit and they will make money for you. These gullible folks will just fill your bank account with beautiful green-backs. Wait! You are the gullible folk they are targeting.

You can believe me when I tell you that there really aren’t a lot of people out there in this world that are eagerly awaiting the opportunity to send you money.

You can also believe that there is no legitimate Internet business that is going to immediately make you hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. You might someday make that kind of money but if you do, it will be after you have put in an incredible amount of time and effort into it and not because you bought a "secret"… - there isn’t one.

Creating an online business still means hard work and if you're not willing to accept this and are still looking for shortcuts, then an internet business isn't for you! Better get back to your J.O.B.!

3. Let "others" do the work: This little phrase has pyramid scheme written all over it. The "pitch" is usually for a non-existent product or for a product that is being sold for much more than it is actually worth. You will often be sent information by bulk email that gives you instructions for getting others to promote this "product" (…which product?) and all you will have to do is count your millions.

Right… - Don’t fall for that one!

Disguised MLM

If you are really new to the world of internet business or work-at-home job opportunities, you may not know what MLM means. It means Multi-Level-Marketing. MLM is similar to a pyramid scheme but it isn’t exactly the same.

True pyramid schemes don't involve the selling of an actual product but real MLM is ALL about selling an actual product.

According to a glossary of Internet terms, "Multilevel Marketing is selling products by using independent distributors and allowing these distributors to build and manage their own sales force by recruiting, motivating, supplying, and training others to sell products. The distributors' compensation includes their own sales and a percentage of the sales of their sales group (downline)."

"So," you say, "that just sounds like a good idea for making money." Well, it IS a good way for making money. The problem is that it is illegal when there is no real product involved, where only the opportunity gets marketed as a way to riches and where they are talking about the money making potential only. This is what I mean by "disguised" MLM. In this case, there would be no product involved - only a business opportunity which promises people to make money without having to do anything apart from promoting the "opportunity".

Do you see that tip-off word again: "recruiting"? The other tip-off that this is a MLM scheme is the phrase, "percentage of sales".

There is nothing illegal about setting up an affiliate program and PAYING a percentage of sales to those who sell your products or services to others. There is nothing illegal about COLLECTING the percentages that are offered by the producers of the products or services. That is simply good business and more than just common practice in the Internet business world.

The problem arises when you start COLLECTING percentages of sales from people whom you have recruited to sell the product. Then another level is added and it becomes multi-level marketing.

Even with just one additional level, it could be identified as MLM even though completely legitimate affiliate programs often have 2 levels as well (that’s why you can’t use Paypal to pay for products which involve more than 1 affiliate level - they see almost everything as MLM even though in many cases it's not! They probably want to be on the safe side and not get associated with ANY MLMs.) but there are MLM schemes that will have many, MANY layers.

The main Internet banking and money exchange on the Internet is Paypal. Paypal employs full-time personnel to search for and identify MLM schemes. When these schemes are uncovered, the accounts (and all attached accounts and credit cards) are frozen.

Yes, it is true that sometimes Paypal does misidentify a perfectly legitimate business as a MLM scheme but it doesn’t happen very often and the problem can usually be resolved in just two or three business days. This very thing happened to a friend of mine not long ago. It was resolved but not without him being able to prove that his business was not a MLM scheme.

This does point out the fact, however, that there are those who are looking for illegal MLM schemes. You may think that you are very anonymous on the Internet but when you do business on the Internet, you are no longer anonymous.

Beware of Lions

There are a lot of big hungry lions in the Internet jungle. They are looking for easy marks… they love "newbies" best of all… You have been warned!

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Let me know what you think about these illegal opportunities and what your personal experiences are by making a comment on this post - I'd love to hear from you!

Tags: adsense, affiliate, affiliate program, affiliate programs

As you probably might have noticed, I have been taking part in quite a lot of Giveaways recently. That's because I have set myself a goal. And that goal is to reach the 10,000 subscriber mark before the end of March…

And I am really getting very close. I now have 9208 subscribers on my main Internet marketing list. One of the Giveaways I am putting a lot of trust into is the "Free PLR Giveaway" by my buddy Xavier Nelson and Doug Champigny.

But I also realize there will be a lot of "takers" from these giveaways. Meaning, these are the ones who take whatever is being given away without the slightest interest for the newsletters and messages the author / developer has put together.

This is really a shame and one of the reasons why I am getting tired of the Internet marketing "niche"…

FREE PLR ROUND 4 - DOWNLOAD GIFTS WITH FULL AND UNRESTRICTED PRIVATE LABEL RIGHTS

Anyway, week 2 of the Free PLR (Private Label Rights) Giveaway has just started. It includes a lot of new gifts which have gone live on Sunday - incl. my own gift. Grab your gifts here and put your name on them:

==> http://viralurl.com/visitus/61711885

(If you want my own gift, you'll need to subscribe there, too)

ANNOUNCEMENT: MY BUSINESS WILL CHANGE DIRECTION

I also have an announcement to make… As I've already mentioned above: I am simply getting tired of the Internet marketing "game" or "niche".

The same old crap gets republished and rehashed and people, especially newbies still don't know which of the many ebooks and courses will lead them to success.( I will introduce a highly recommended resource to you tomorrow - it's called Mafioso Marketing. You can download some preview chapters from here ).

The problem is: Most people don't want to try and apply the knowledge to niches but to Internet marketing itself which makes tens of thousands of people flock to Internet marketing - instead of the niches where the easy money is…

While IM might be an option if you have years of personal experience in this area under your belt, it is usually a way which leads newbies to nowhere land as you can only make it there with very innovative ideas and products and not by publishing and selling the same stuff as thousands of others.

I have written an ebook which does not make empty promises but tells you what you need to do in order to make money online - step by step and up to $9,183.21 in one month.

People have been thanking me for having written like it is:

==> http://hopurl.com/41142

Personally, I will be going a different route, too. I will continue to serve my subscribers and customers but mainly with complete, turnkey niche businesses and niche products.

BONUS FOR NEW NICHE CONTENT WEBSITES MEMBERS - PLR TO IM PRODUCT BUDDY!! PUT YOUR NAME ON ONE OF MY TOP LEAD GENERATORS…

I think, the real money is in: NICHE MARKETING.

My Niche Content Websites membership website is a perfect example of what is needed in niche markets: Products (e.g. ebooks and audios) and content websites.

If you're dreaming about multiple streams of income and you want to go the easy way by not having to create your own products in these niches then look no further than here:

==> http://hopurl.com/41143

Sign up for free and if you like what you are seeing then get yourself a full membership - this allows you to tackle up to 13 different niches (you'll get 13 UNIQUE content websites with income streams like Adsense and Clickbank ads for up to 75% commissions have already been integrated).

The next 30 members who are getting a paid membership at Niche Content Websites will receive THE FULL PRIVATE LABEL RIGHTS TO MY "IM PRODUCT BUDDY" SOFTWARE. This means, you'll be able to put your own name on it and start giving it away as your personal lead generator/list building tool! I'll even add my personal squeeze page to the mix (which you can see at http://www.viraldatabases.com/ …).

NOt only that but the PLR gives you the source code, the Filemaker Pro files which allows you to change the whole look and feel of the software.

You can even "nichify" the whole software and create e.g. a "Golf Product Buddy" or a "Bass Fishing Product Buddy" where people within these niches can save the details about products they have purchased. Even in those niches, you'll be able to use it as a lead generator…

You'll receive the complete package after you've made your second (2nd) monthly payment for NCW. And then you simply go to:

==> http://www.ethicalinternetmarketer.com/helpdesk

and enter your subscription ID so I can verify your payments. I'll send you the download link directly after this.

That's it for today… Have a great week!

Tags: adsense, clickbank, ebook, internet marketing, websites

Do you even HAVE a strategy for your business?

From my observations, I see a lot of people online that are moving forward without much of a strategy. Or they are stuck using other peoples strategies and don't develop their own based on their needs and abilities.

It is very important to understand that those that are teaching you things online, are doing what they know or have been successful with themselves. It is not necessarily the path for YOU or the only path you should take…

You need to know what YOU want:

• What market do you want to be in?
• What business do you want to be in (e.g. selling physical products, info products or just publishing content)?
• Where will your income come from (what's your frontend/upsell/backend/recurring product)?
• Who will be your target customers and where do they hang out?
• Which methods will you be using to build your list (you ARE building your list, right…?)?

Key strategy: Diversify your traffic sources I use a combination of strategies but the most important one is to focus on list building - this way, you'll never get stuck for traffic… and I strongly use the old saying, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

I just saw a guy the other day freaking out because Google was wiping out his business… He fell by around 400 visitors to his website per day which crushed his income.

Why? Because he had all his eggs in the Google basket! Google is the type of animal that can make changes that don't make sense, have no ryme or reason, and simply just happen. You may think you have control, but you don't.

That's why you must diversify. Have a strategy that takes into account these type of things… Don't do just one thing… Let me rephrase that… You can do one thing, but make sure that you are covered within that one thing.

For instance if you depend on Google Adwords for 100% of your income, that's fine. Just make sure that you are not doing just one thing within that. Make sure you are not in one market or are driving traffic one way.

Things are changing rapidly

Things are in a continuous state of change online. You must brace yourself for that change. Make sure you have a strategy and you aren't just mesmerized by some opportunity and you lose sight of the big picture.

This is a business not just a way to make some quick cash… it can be, but generally I think most of us want to have long term results and not live on the edge…

So have some sort of strategy in place for your business that insulates you from the environment. You should have a short term, medium and long term strategy and goals. Where do you see yourself in 1 month, 6 months, 5 years?

How are you going to get there - what are your personal/business goals?

There are things I do to make money now, but there are also things that I am building now that will blossom in the future or offer long term stability.

Just sit down for a few minutes and write down some of your goals and what you want out of this business. After you know what you want and have taken into consideration the environment, map out how your are going to get there… every single detail.

If you do this, you will not only find financial stability over the long term, but you will find peace of mind.

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Let me know what you think by making a comment on this post.

Tags: adsense, adwords, google adwords, traffic

Christmas is only days away. The new year is around the corner…

It's time for me to decide where my business will be heading to in 2008. I want to do my best to bring you products and services which you really want and need.

I can only do this with your feedback…

Therefore, I've created a little survey with mainly multiple choice answers which won't take you very long to complete (maybe 5-8 minutes).

Please, you will help me enormously if you're taking it and it will benefit yourself as well:

http://viralurl.com/visitus/2008-Business-Survey

And just in case you aren't in the right Christmas mood yet, I want to give you links to 2 videos which feature my all time favorite Christmas pop songs:

Do they know it's Christmas? - Band Aid:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jEnTSQStGE

Last Christmas - Wham:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5dDI7xMVZw

This is my last email to you before Christmas…

I wish you: "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!"

Wanna have a good laugh…? Let's ROCK IT:

==> http://www.myvideo.de/watch/2932532

All the best for 2008,

Detlev Reimer

P.S.: Rich Schefren just released his "Business Acceleration" Home Study Course. If you've put aside some money for business investments then now is the time to spend it (it's tax deductible for 2007!).

Rich simply is the master of Business and Internet marketing strategies and his results speak for themselves.

Get prepared to compete with the "big guys" in Internet marketing in 2008 - Get a copy of Rich Schefren's Business Acceleration Program:

==> http://viralurl.com/visitus/BAP

I highly recommend his course.

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P.P.S.: Dirk's "Crazy Christmas Event" will be closing its' doors on Monday. If you haven't picked up your personal best deals of 2007, it's your last chance to do so here:

==> http://viralurl.com/visitus/Crazy-Christmas-Deal

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Last but not least, the Niche Video Site Builder is selling like hot cakes… Will you miss out or have you gotten your copy already? It's available here:

==> http://hopurl.com/38905

It will make a good Christmas gift for yourself )

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Tags: adsense, internet marketing

I've heard people say that they want to start their own online business because they don’t want to have a boss that tells them what to do and when to do it. These people say that they don’t want to have to ‘punch’ a clock.

They will work when they want to and IF they want to because they won’t have a boss telling them what to do.

They are wrong! Or, at least, they had better be wrong or they are doomed to failure. The fact is when you work from your own home, YOU are the boss and you had better be a darn demanding one.

You, the boss, must see to it that sufficient time is invested into the business every single day and that the time is used as productively as possible. You might no longer have working hours as required by others but you sure better have working hours.

Your old boss might have overlooked your being 10 minutes late getting back from lunch but you will need to be a lot tougher on yourself if you are to ever succeed at any internet business and you better forget about that old forty-hour week, too.

The internet marketing game is tough! Don’t you ever believe those advertisements that you see on TV that tell you that you can make thousands and thousands of dollars every month working on a part-time basis.

You MUST set up a working schedule for yourself. You must adhere to that schedule and you had best remember that quitting time is when you get through and not precisely eight hours after you went to work.

Your time IS your own to manage. You must supply your own discipline. You are still accountable to someone. You are accountable to YOU!

Guesswork and Becoming “Cheap” is NOT Smart!

Being thrifty is a good thing but there is a huge difference between being thrifty and just being cheap. You need to remember that in the Internet marketing game the objective is not to keep the money you have. The objective is to make more money than you have.

Have you ever heard the adage, “You have to spend money to make money”? It is a true statement that has come about through the experience of those who have gone before you. You can’t be so afraid of spending a few dollars that you prevent yourself from making money.

I have heard otherwise very intelligent people say that they didn’t take a marketing course that had been offered because it was ‘over-priced’. Now there is a dumb statement if I have ever heard one.

What they could have learned in that marketing course would make them many times over the cost of the marketing course. They ‘saved’ a couple of hundred dollars and prevented themselves from making many thousands of dollars by being cheap. They were certainly ‘thrifty’!

Another really dumb thing that I have heard a marketer say is that he didn’t buy a piece of software that could save him a lot of time because it just cost too much and maybe all the ‘bugs’ aren’t worked out.

What kind of thinking is that?

Would you keep cutting grass with an old fashioned push mower rather than buying a power mower because it cost too much and it might have a problem?

Here is the thing that you need to remember: Being thrifty is not a crime.

Being dumb isn’t a crime either.

If you really want to be a successful internet marketer, you have to be willing to invest in your own knowledge and provide the tools for yourself that makes success possible.

Tags: adsense, internet marketing

I do not know one single very successful internet marketer who has only one income stream. They all have their fingers in a lot of different pies, so to speak.

They have multiple income streams and multiple websites and you need to pay attention to what successful people are doing and learn from them so that you can also become successful.

Have you ever heard the term, ‘that’s just peanuts’? It’s a term that means that something is too small to be worthwhile. I beg to differ. Let’s talk about peanuts. Let’s say that a person raises some peanuts and sells them at a roadside stand. He has one income stream.

Then he starts making peanut butter and sells that as well. Now he has two income streams. Next he starts roasting the peanuts and selling them giving him three income streams. Then he buys some pecans and adds them to his inventory and has four income streams. You get the picture.

His business is no longer JUST peanuts. He might have started out with JUST peanuts but he has built additional income streams and now his business is thriving because he is appealing to the tastes of more and more potential customers.

That is precisely how internet marketing works. People are attracted by different things. The more different things you have, the more different people will be attracted. Every internet business begins with just one idea and just one website.

That is exactly where every ultra successful internet business person started. The ones who are ultra successful didn’t stop with just one, though. They built and built. They added websites and products. They created additional income streams and you should also strive toward having multiple income streams.

Tags: adsense, internet marketing, websites

Project Quick Cash - This is my personal review of Alok Jain's latest ebook.

Some info about the author, first…

Alok is from India and he has also written: "Viral Profit Machine", "Two Minute Profits" and "Silent Profit Machine". I have them all and they were all very helpful. Project Quick Cash is about 5 very specific methods of making money which can be implemented quickly.

And "Quick Cash" is something almost every Internet marketer wants, although in most cases, I personally prefer methods which will build you a solid business like described in my own ebook called "Revenue Blueprint".

What is Project Quick Cash all about? Is it really revolutionary or have we seen it all before?

I will be describing the techniques so you can decide for yourself if these techniques are for you or not.

Method #1 "Cashing The Spike - Part 1"

This Project Quick Cash technique is being used to cash in on current trends and events and can bring you a lot of very targeted visitors quickly. It makes use of a resource that I hadn't known about before. But now that I know about it, I will be watching it very closely myself.

The trends which you can discover there, can be monetized with affiliate programs. I really like this method because just like Alok's ebook title promises: It's quick and easy to implement.

Method #2 "Cashing The Spike - Part 2"

It's almost done in a similar way like in part 1 with the main difference being that the monetization is done via Google Adsense. It is dependent on the niche which you choose whether it's better to use affiliate programs or Adsense.

Both parts have a lot of potential and I will be using them myself very soon.

Method #3 "Underground Niche Profits"

The method which is explained in "Underground Niche Profits" is very similar to the techniques described in George Katsoudas' "Hybrid Traffic System". But it's not as comprehensive as George's ebook and doesn't make use of the twist George is revealing.

Therefore, the uniqueness factor is not very high but nevertheless it IS a very effective technique if used correctly. Alok explains exactly what kind of forums to target and how to find the best niches to get into in order to maximize your return on investment (ROI).

Method #4 - "Super Placement Targeting"

This technique is one which I had actually read about in a report which I bought as a WSO (Warrior Special Offer). It's about using Adwords to get clicks for as low as $0.01 per click. Initially, I never thought that getting clicks for such a low CPC was possible but after reading the WSO report and now Alok's ebook, I've actually tested it myself and I can say: Yes, it can be done!

You should not be using this method in Internet marketing related niches because it probably won't work. Most likely, the click costs will be much higher there. But for other niches, this method is perfect to get very low cost clicks but highly targeted traffic, nonetheless.

Technique #5 - "Leeching On A Launch"

This is a good technique and I have seen quite a few marketers make use of this. It's a very specific way of profiting from a big launch within the Internet marketing arena and it can make you from several hundreds to several thousands of dollars from the launch day to about 1-2 weeks after.

The technique doesn't require you to have any technical skills at all and it can be implemented within 5-10 minutes depending on how experienced you are with the set up of new domains.

Cost of implementation: About $9 for a domain registration…!

Conclusion:

The title of the ebook really doesn't promise too much. These are "Quick Cash" methods which can be implemented in a few hours, some even in a few minutes. I knew about 3 of the techniques already but nevertheless, the explanations were very well written and they've actually enhanced the knowledge which I already had about them.

Who can profit from this ebook?

Newbie and intermediate Internet marketers can definitely profit from the content which is included in Project Quick Cash. But it supposes that you are at least familiar with using Adwords, implementing Adsense and integrating affiliate program links. If you have never done these things before, it could be quite difficult to put these things into practice.

But just like I did with Google Payload, I am going to give you bonuses, which will help you to understand the presupposed basics and from there, you can go on and actually implement the techniques Alok describes.

Click here to visit the Project Quick Cash website

MY KILLER BONUS PACKAGE:

Even though the techniques are quite easy to implement, they require you to have at least some basic knowledge in the following areas:

Adwords - You'll get the ebook "Google Adwords Primer" from me as a bonus.

Adsense - You'll get the ebook "Adsense Profits Exposed (3 PDF files)" from me as a bonus.

Keyword research - You'll get a video from me which will show you how to use a free software tool to do basic keyword research.

Blogging - You'll get 12 videos from me which will show you how to set up a Wordpress blog. These videos are actually part of my Wordpressprofitmachines.com package…!

+ You'll get 6 months FULL access to my Niche Content Audios website (A $60 value!)

+ You'll get 3 months FULL access to my Niche Content Websites website (A $75 value)!

+++++++++++ MEGA BONUS:+++++++++++++

+ MY HIGHLIGHT:

You'll get a BRANDED version of my latest database software called IM Product Buddy:

This brand new database actually has 3 strategically placed banners inside… I will replace them with YOUR banners and YOUR affiliate links and you can start giving away this branded version to your list. Or you may even sell it.

In case that you're getting Project Quick Cash today, you don't have to wait until the 1st to get my new software. I will send you the download link to the unbranded version immediately and a branded version 1-2 days AFTER you have sent me your banners and affiliate links. This is manual work and can take a while, though. Please be patient!

After you have purchased your copy from here, just visit my helpdesk and paste your Clickbank receipt with the subject line "Project Quick Cash Bonus" in order to get my bonuses.

Click here to visit the Project Quick Cash website

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Tags: adsense, adwords, affiliate, affiliate program, affiliate programs, clickbank, ebook, google adsense, google adwords, internet marketing, targeted traffic, targeted traffic, traffic, websites

There are different reasons why many people (some say as much as 80-90% of all "marketers" or at least people who are trying it) aren't making much money online. I've picked the ones which are most obvious and which should give you some food for thought if you belong into that category of non-successful marketers as well.

They are ordered from least important to most important…

Reason 10: No technical knowhow.

Some people never start because they don't know any HTML or they don't know how to edit PHP or JavaScript. What a lame excuse is that? You can outsource almost anything and if you know nothing about building a website, then hire someone to do it for you. You can go to freelancer sites like Elance.com or ScriptLance.com and people from all over the world will get the work done for you. You just tell them what you have in mind and they are designing the site or adding some scripts to it. Then you only have to give them the text which should be put online and maybe some pictures.

It's better to learn how to do it yourself though. Web Editors have been created so you don't have to deal with all the HTML coding. Basically, if you can use Microsoft Word, you'll be able to use a web editor, too. You just need to learn some basics about e.g. FrontPage or Dreamweaver or for us Internet marketers, the best choice is Xsite Pro because it is a content management system and it's easier to make changes to a complex site. If you have no money for these tools, then wait for your next birthday or for Christmas and put it on your wish list. Where there's a will, there's a way!

Reason 9: No knowledge about the basics.

If you don't know what Clickbank is or how to insert a Paypal button into a salespage, that's something you need to work on first. Also, you need to know what kind of strategy you want to use in the sales process. Do you want to have a one time offer? Will you have a backend product in place? Will you be offering resell rights or have an affiliate program? Do you have an autoresponder series in place? What is an autoresponder in the first place…?

These are all questions that will come up once you start selling your first product. Be sure you are prepared to answer them when the time has come. Learn the basics before anything else. It will be much easier for you to generate an income on the Internet once you are ready and you feel you have the right idea for a business.

Reason 8: No contact details.

I don't know about you but if I come to a page where a product is being offered and there is not a single detail given about the person who is selling it, I am not buying (I could look up the details in the whois database but that's a different story - they could have protected their personal details).

Moreover, if there's not even a possibility to contact the product owner, it gets even worse. Because what should I do if something goes wrong with the product delivery? Things like these just happen all the time and if I can't reach anyone, they have lost my purchase.

So whenever you are selling something online, be sure to add your personal details. At a bare minimum, your physical mailing address and a way to contact you either per email or via a contact form. In times of spam, a contact form is completely okay. Add a picture of yourself so your visitors get to know you. You need to build trust and this is very difficult online as there are many scammers out there. You need to differentiate yourself from them.

Reason 7: No money back guarantee.

If you are not confident in your products, you probably won't like to add a money back guarantee in fear of people taking advantage of it. But let me tell you, the additional sales you're making from having a guarantee on your salesletter will by far outweigh the lost sales from a few serial refunders (people who are buying a product and ask for a refund a few hours later even though they can't have tried anything that's explained within the product).

But if you're getting a lot of refunds when offering a money back guarantee, you should ask yourself if the quality of the product is high enough. If not, dump the product or improve it. You certainly don't want to be associated with crappy products. Customer satisfaction should be one of your main concerns. You are nothing without your customers and you won't have a business if you neglect them!

Reason 6: No vision.

Ask yourself where you want to be in 2 or 3 years. What do you want to have achieved by then? Write down the steps which are needed to get there. Set achievable goals and list short term goals for each working day of your week. Basically, this is known as a to-do list. You need to write down what you want to get done or it won't get done at all. Believe me, I've been there…!

Without proper time management, which goes alongside with having a vision in place, you won't achieve anything. Don't let yourself get distracted or sidetracked and be focused on achieving that vision (e.g. you want to have a niche site "empire" of at least 25 sites and each of them should be making $500 per month at a bare minumum). Plan your days so you can achieve your vision. Set targets. When you're jumping from opportunity to opportunity, you won't have a business. Use mind mapping tools and join Simpleology to learn more about how to properly plan these things.

Reason 5: Very little traffic.

If your visitor counter is getting rusty, you definitely need to learn about driving traffic to your websites. A lot of marketers don't have any problems putting together a great product but then they get stuck with this traffic thing. There are several time tested methods for getting traffic (I've been using several of them since 2001 when I was starting out e.g. article marketing and JV marketing).

If you don't want to do this yourself like finding JV partners and sending them an email or even a postcard, then hire someone to do it for you (basically, you hire a JV broker). Some of them won't even get paid until they have gotten results for you (for example if they are getting a percentage share of what the recruited JV partners are selling). Use viral marketing by givi