Everyone knows that there are a few "simple" things you have to do if you want to make money online. I'll tell you what you need to do to start your own online home business. Even if you are a student like me, a stay-at-home parent, a teen, or just someone who wants to make money from home, you can do this.
First, you'll need a product that people will buy, and "Information is Everything" on the Internet. Almost anyone can write an ebook about something they have either done before or don't mind researching, like how to make money or how to train a dog. If you can't write, don't worry. You can buy the resell rights to ebooks and sell them as if they were your own.
Ebooks are mostly used for two things. The first and most obvious is to make money. Most people who sell ebooks have low or no overhead costs. If you write it or buy the master resell rights, you can sell it over and over and keep all the money you make. Because of this, most people who really make money online sell information in some form.
The second goal of ebooks is to drive targeted traffic to your website. "Branding" includes links to your website in the ebooks you sell, so they can bring in orders and traffic 24 hours a day.
Second, you need to have a site. Whether it's a website, a newsletter, a blog, or an RSS feed, you need a way to reach out to potential customers. It's better to have more than one, like a website and a newsletter. This way, you can keep in touch with people who didn't buy the first time, and you can also connect with people who might like to have a choice. A good package that includes hosting and a domain name for a website should cost less than ten dollars a month.
A domain name (http://www.yourname.com) is important if you want to be seen as the professional you are. When you think about how many customers those "free" sites lost, they aren't really free. Not to mention the banner ad or text link they put on your page, which drives a lot of free traffic to them.
Tracking your visitors is an important tool that many new online marketers don't use. It's important to add some kind of tracking service when you set up your new website. This way, when your new site starts getting a lot of visitors, you'll know where they all came from.
You want to do this so you can see which ads are working and which aren't. Track all the way to the page where you place an order. This lets you keep track of both visitors and orders. You can find free tracking services online, and some of them even have counters that can't be seen.
The last step is to let people know about your new website. There are a few little-known tricks I use to get the right people to visit my sites. One, tell search engines and directories about your site. It takes a while for this to get a lot of hits, but once they do, they are highly targeted based on the keywords you choose. Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the process of getting your website ready to rank high in search engine results, which will bring you more visitors.
The second thing is submitting articles. Like I said before, everything is online, and this is also true for advertising. A well-written article can be picked up and used free of charge thousands of times. What does it mean for you? At the end of every article you write, there is a "resource box" or "bio box" with the author's information and websites. Since it is against the law to remove this box, people who want to use your article in their ezine, newsletter, website, etc. will give you free advertising on thousands of sites.
This is also a great SEO tool, since search engines use the number of links to a site to figure out how important it is. Also, if you think you can't write articles, you can find a lot of free ones that you can change and use as your own. They are called plr articles or private label rights articles. Make sure to rewrite them, because search engines can tell if they are the same.
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