Do you have what it takes to be an e-entrepreneur?

Do you have what it takes to be an e-entrepreneur?
Copyright © Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy
Author of "Dotcomology - The Science of Making Money Online"

These days, it seems like everyone wants to work
from home and make money on the Internet. But
before you even turn on your computer, the first
question you have to ask yourself is whether
you’re cut out for this kind of work.

The fact is, building a home-based business isn’t
for everyone. Some people like the commute. They
really do enjoy having a boss who tells them what
to do, and they like the routine of working
nine-to-five for an ordinary salary that can
barely pay the mortgage. Personally, I think
they’re nuts.

More reasonably, there are people who are
concerned about the risk of starting up their own
business. They’re not sure it’s worth the
investment of time and money, and they’re scared
of the responsibility that comes with running
their own company. They wonder if there is
another way to escape the rat race.

I’m sure there is. You could win the lottery or
wait for your Aunt Sue to keel over and leave you
her condo. Or maybe you could sit down with a pen
and paper and draw the blueprint for "The Next
Big Thing". Anything can happen... Right?

For me, what happened was creating a successful,
self-running Internet marketing system. It didn’t
happen without effort. It didn’t happen without
at least some initial investment of both time and
money and, of course, it doesn’t happen now
without me making sure that the taxes are filed
and the paperwork is done. But it happened.

I’m my own boss. I work from home according to my
own schedule and I get to pocket all the cash my
business makes. If you’re prepared to give an
e-business the time, the work and the money it
needs to get started and get growing, it can
happen for you too.

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Promoting Through Article Marketing

One of the most effective ways I use to promote all my online businesses is through ‘article marketing’. This strategy involves writing and submitting articles to 100s or even 1000s of online article directory databases with links back to your online business.

Now, most article directories will not allow you to put live links in the article body itself, but you can put one or two of your own links in the article resource, or author bio box.To find examples of articles in every category imaginable check out ArticleDashboard. This is arguably the most popular article database.

I suggest you checkout the internet marketing and home business sections of ezine articles and browse other marketers’ articles for ideas for your own. There are two ways to submit your articles, either manually or using an Article Submission services or software. If you want to do this manually then you can find a comprehensive list of Article Databases at the link below: Article Database list

I personally use an article submitter software called Article Submitter to submit my articles to 100s of online directories.

Article marketing should be an integral part of any online business.

You can use this strategy to send targeted visitors to your online business site. Also linking to your own website from your articles is a great way to raise your search engine ranking. It has to be said that some article databases will not permit you to link to affiliate programs like PIPS and SFI from your article, so it is always better to promote PIPS or SFI through your own site.
Click here to get your own home business in a box now that will promote SFI and 6 other home businesses.


Happy Money Making!

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To find the best home based business ideas and
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Avoiding Information Overload

It's very common when you start with the Plug-In Profit site, or any other internet marketing project for that matter to feel overwhelmed with information, especially if you are new to this.
First things first - don't panic! Most people feel like this at some point or another. It does get easier, honest :-)

When I first started with my Plug-In profit site I had my moments of information overload. I knew absolutely nothing about internet marketing and would often find myself spending ages reading emails, browsing through websites, reading forums and aimlessly surfing the internet without achieving anything. Then I'd suddenly think "Arghh, there's so much to learn, how on earth am I going to do this!" and feel like I had a mountain to climb.

There are a few things you can do to try and ease these feelings:

(1) Stay positive - remember that everyone feels like this when they learn something new. You will never know everything. It will get easier.

(2) File your emails. When you start with the Plug-In profit site you will receive email training from Stone and the various affiliate programs that you have joined. You do not need to read all these emails right now. Sometimes when your inbox gets cluttered up this adds to your feeling of panic. Create some folders in your email program e.g. PIPS, Empowerism, SU, IMC, Traffic Swarm, Host4Profit. File all the emails into these folders immediately. This way everything will be much more organised and you will feel more in control.

(3) Make a to do list. Once a week or once a month have a think about what you want to achieve and write this down. Then list everything you need to do to achieve this, taking into account how much time you have available. Make sure there is time on your to do list for reading emails and training, especially in the beginning. Every day when you sit down at your computer focus on completing the tasks on your list.

(4) Follow the 30 days to Success. Stone's training program is an excellent way to get started. You don't have to do it all in 30 days though. Perhaps you can aim to do 2 days of the training each week, or more if you have time. This is exactly what I did when I started with the Plug-In Profit site and it works!

Finally, if you still feel overwhelmed, ask for help. Email your sponsor or make a post in the Plug-In Profit support forum. There are always plenty people in the forum who will be happy to help you out and encourage you.

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Taken from Suzanne Morrisons blog:
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To use or not to use - Safelists

What is safelists. Basically, a safelist is a group of people all willing to receive each other’s promotions via email --in the hopes that their promotion will generate more business. In other words, safelists are many, many "marketers" that have agreed to receive each other’s email. The drawback is that everyone is trying to sell and no one wants to buy. Some do buy, however, and that's your market. You just need something that other "marketers" will want or need. Currently, there are many tens of thousands of members to various safelists, and some are more effective than others. Also, there are different types (i.e. web-based and PC-based) that we will explore.

Safelists enables you to get your message out to thousands of potential customers every single day (in some cases) --without being accused of SPAM. SPAM is a big NO-NO... regardless of what anyone might tell you.

Unfortunately, this isn’t as effective anymore, seeing as there is many and I mean MANY safelists out there, everyone trying to convince you that they will generate you sales. If you want to use safelists, you are probably better off using paid safelists.

Here are some of the basic differences between free and paid safelists:

Free safelists are generally not as well maintained as paid safelists, meaning that the safelist owner rarely monitors what gets posted to the list and how often people post. This only makes sense because the moderators are not making any money; so they don't have an active interest.
Free safelists are generally more unreliable than paid lists. The free safelists typical use less than professional quality hosting, so they tend to be up one day and down the next. Stuff like this may cause you to waste precious time.

Free safelists generally attract people who are not looking to buy --they ONLY want to sell and usually are inexperienced safelist users.

A lot of people join safelists with junk email addresses, and don’t keep up on their email, so they get bounced from the list. The reason being is that they don’t have anything to lose, since they didn’t pay to join the list.

Paid safelists on the other hand are generally better maintained, and monitored because the list owner is making money to keep his subscriber base up to date.

Reliability and Reach are very important, but probably the most important factor is the REACH (that is the number of members the safelist has and how often you can email them). The reliability and reach of safelists vary greatly -even between free and paid categories.

For example, a Business World List free membership allows you to submit to 200 members in the database every other day. However a paid member is able to email to 30,000+ members every other day. That is worth the difference because you have to consider how many free safelists it would take to be able to email 30,000 members.

The same holds true for the other mentioned popular safelist known as Herculist. As a Herculist free member you are allowed to email 700 random member addresses. Although paying members with Pro Membership can send to 23,000+ members every other day.

Personally, I don’t use safelists. For me this is a bit of a waste of time. But other people have had some success with it

Till next time.
Happy Money Making!

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To find the best home based business ideas and
opportunities so you can work at home visit:
http://www.WebMoneyMaker.org/pips.html
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Traffic Exchanges - Do's and Don'ts

Today is my 6th day with my new Internet business and thus far I have had 1468 hits to my site. The best part is that I have 19 subscribers already. That meaning people that wanted to give me their name and e-mail address to become part of my newsletter (http://www.webmoneymaker.com/pips.html).

For a while now I've been signing on with safe list (checkout my next post in a day or two) and Traffic Exchanged every chance I get! PLEASE don't do this. My main reasons for this is:

1. Now I get about 300-400 e-mails a day, which I had to setup a rule for to delete as they are downloaded.
2. You will spend your whole clicking on links, browsing websites to gain credits, so that you can advertise your own site or banner. Again not worth it.

What I have found is 3 of the best ones that work for me and I would encourage you to use them as well. It takes only about 15 mins a day of surfing to gain credits and that is it. Here they are:

• Advertising Know How
• TrafficSwarm
• InstantBuzz

These three are unique advertising methods. First off, they don't cost you any money. You can sign up for free. So here is what makes them so unique and best to use.

Advertising Know How:
With advertising know how you can surf for credits as per usual with any other Traffic Exchanges, but if you surf 50 sites a day for 5 days out of 7, Advertising Know How will add one free referral to your account. This means within a month you can have at least 4 referrals in your down line, helping you to surf for credits to advertise. Not mentioning that if they upgrade to the pro account you will earn commissions. :)

Secondly, Advertising Know How have an option to add banners for your site, to your account. You can then convert your surfing credits to banner "impressions". These impressions is used to show your banner to people that are surfing. I use this option exclusively. Every 10 credits will earn you 1 000 impressions. Very nice right?

TrafficSwarm:
With TrafficSwarm you also check out sites to get credits, but what sets them apart is the fact that they give you an "startup url". This you can put in your browsers startup page and everything you open your browser, the browser goes directly to that "startup page" and you earn 1 credit. Now this might not sound like a lot, but I've tested this. For me this brings in 50 plus credits a day, without surfing any additional adds. Then if you refer people to there site and they sign up, you will again earn credits for your referral's views of sites, plus commissions if they sign up for the pro membership.

InstantBuzz:
With InstantBuzz it is even easier to earn credits for advertising. You simply install a little program that becomes an toolbar on your browser. Every time you visit a site, it will show you a new advertisement and that counts as 1 credit. Within writing this blog I've earn 130 odd credits. Simple as that, setup your account here, setup you ads in your account profiles, install the toolbar and that is it. Check in once a day to see your ads stats. :) PS: your antivirus program might see this as "Adware", which of course it is, seeing as it does show you ads. It DOES NOT contain any viruses or spyware. When prompted, simply add this program to you antivirus exception list.

Now just to make it clear, none of the people you refer needs to sign up pro membership with any of these kind of sites, just the extra credits you earn will be benefit enough!

These 3 sites have helped me a lot, but believe you me, it took a while to get to these three. Use them, they are free and will generate a lot of traffic to your site.

Till next time,
Happy Money Making!

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Starting my own Internet Based Business

Copyright © Paul Bester
http://www.webmoneymaker.org/

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This past week I've taken the plunge to start my own Internet based business. After almost a year of studying, research and yes scepticism, I've decided to sign up with a guy with the name of Stone Evans. He had a system that intrigued me for quite a while. After all my research he was still standing on the top of my list of where I would like to go with my Internet based business.

Boy of boy was I in for a surprise. Everything on his sales page was brilliant, he made promises and stated facts, yes even the bad facts. Internet business isn't for everyone. If you are not willing to make the plunge and do the investment, either time of a bit of money, rather stick to you job. His system, anyone can do on a shoe string budget. That is one of the things that attracted me. Others promise loads of money and its not going to cost you anything. THAT IS RUBBISH! Nothing in life it for free ... well almost nothing... An e-book he has written is free and that was my turning point. After reading it, I just realised, I HAVE TO JUMP AT THIS!

So I've signed up and yes, 24 hours later, I had my fully setup website! That was AMAZING!!! After that I logged into my account on my own page and the more I read the more amazed I was. Everything and I mean EVERYTHING was shown for me, all in a 30 days of success guide. Everything was outlined, step by step. He even setup an Auto Responder system for you, with 218 pre-written auto responders for you!! You don't need any experience or business knowledge. He shows you everything.

I've started with day one and couldn't stop to read, I went on to day two and day three and now, I'm at day 12, in 4 days. :) I've started everything and as I am writing this, I've had 441 hits to my site! Isn't that AMAZING!

I would HIGHLY recommend to start this own business for yourself. It will only cost you an dinner out a month and all you need is 6 referral sign ups and you are covered even for that! Mine is covered and it didn't take any convincing! This was just my friends, they jumped at the opportunity! So should you! Click my link below and see for yourself. But even if you just want to start with the e-book, here it is to download for free!

Happy Money Making!!


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