Internet has become indispensable in our lives. It has become the biggest source of communication and information for us. Just pause for a while and imagine being without it.
Impossible huh!
Yes! Though called virtual this world of internet is a reality of our lives. As the time moves ahead and technology becomes more sophisticated the internet will penetrate deeper into our lives, works and cultures. Our next generations to come will witness a world which will make our look like prehistoric.
Quite a percentage of population uses the internet. But most of are unaware of the potential it has to churn out the money.
Internet has become a business arena like nothing else. There are innumerable ways to make tons of money here. Every company from small to large has to have a web presence in order to succeed. You will agree with me that every successful company does have a web address which they display wherever possible.
Why?
First the technology of the net has made the whole world into your market. Web technology including websites and browsers permit a far more number of communications possible.
Whether you provide a service or sell a product, you reach millions and millions of potential customers. Any one who has a computer and internet connection is your potential consumer. Can you think such a reach possible using any other method!
Second reason is the economy of running a business. The cost of setting up and running a business is a fraction of what you need to run a business in the real life brick and mortar business. The internet saves you cost of running and maintaining the office, reduces the number of staff required to run the business and many others.
In fact a number of home businesses on the net are run by a single individuals and quite a number of them do this in their extra time after the office.
Third reason is that the business on the net runs 24 hours a day throughout the year. Once your internet shop or website is up and running it never closes until you want it to. When one part of the world sleeps other wakes up. Your office is up and running throughout day and night. Minimum of office hassles and minimum of employee related headaches.
That implies two things -
- You have more time for yourself. You can enjoy your life better; devote more attention to your family and hobbies.
- You need to work for lesser time to run the business. If you are working you need not to leave your job while you grow your business.
It is no wonder that there are more webpages now than the human population on the earth. More and more people are turning to the net to make a good living.
Internet has surely become darling of business.
Have you embraced it yet?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Monday, February 01, 2010
How to Drive a Swarm Traffic to Your Site Using Blogs
After a lot of research and discussion, you got the blog set up. Posting of useful information has also started. However, even after a couple of months, you are receiving no comments and traffic stats are disappointing. There is no need to feel disheartened, as it is a very common situation. In order to drive traffic to the site, you need to do a little blog promotion. You must apply the following steps to enjoy huge traffic.
First, setting up a bloglet subscription form on the blog would be quite beneficial. You must invite friends, family members, colleagues, associates and clients to subscribe to your blog.
You must read as well as send comments on other blogs that come under your target niche. You must not write comments such as, nice blogs or great post. It would be advisable to write intelligent and significant comments and placing a link to your blog. In order to ping blog directories, you must go for Ping-O-matic. Whenever you publish, you must do this.
Submitting a blog to traditional search engines plays a key role in enhancing traffic to your blog. Submission of blog to blog directories would be quite beneficial. In order to track your submissions, you must create a form. When you do it for the first time, you must schedule an hour a day for the submission or hire a VA to do it.
It would be helpful to add a link of your blog inside your email signature. Adding a link on each page of your website is also advisable. In case, you are publishing a newsletter, then ensure that there is at least one link to the blog in each issue. Blog must be included as a standard part of all outgoing correspondences like auto-responders, sales letters, sequences, white papers and reports. Your business cards, brochures and fliers must have the printed URL of your blog.
There must be an RSS feed URL so that people are able to subscribe. RSS stands for Rich Site Summary. It is also considered as Really Simple Syndication. It is usually a document type and incorporates an updated list of websites or blogs that are available for syndication. In order to read RSS documents, aggregators should be used. RSS feeds either show headlines only or both the headlines as well as summaries.
It would be advisable to keep postings frequently to attract more subscribers. This will make them to come back and refer to others those belong to their network. Do not forget to link to other blogs, articles and websites in the post.
First, setting up a bloglet subscription form on the blog would be quite beneficial. You must invite friends, family members, colleagues, associates and clients to subscribe to your blog.
You must read as well as send comments on other blogs that come under your target niche. You must not write comments such as, nice blogs or great post. It would be advisable to write intelligent and significant comments and placing a link to your blog. In order to ping blog directories, you must go for Ping-O-matic. Whenever you publish, you must do this.
Submitting a blog to traditional search engines plays a key role in enhancing traffic to your blog. Submission of blog to blog directories would be quite beneficial. In order to track your submissions, you must create a form. When you do it for the first time, you must schedule an hour a day for the submission or hire a VA to do it.
It would be helpful to add a link of your blog inside your email signature. Adding a link on each page of your website is also advisable. In case, you are publishing a newsletter, then ensure that there is at least one link to the blog in each issue. Blog must be included as a standard part of all outgoing correspondences like auto-responders, sales letters, sequences, white papers and reports. Your business cards, brochures and fliers must have the printed URL of your blog.
There must be an RSS feed URL so that people are able to subscribe. RSS stands for Rich Site Summary. It is also considered as Really Simple Syndication. It is usually a document type and incorporates an updated list of websites or blogs that are available for syndication. In order to read RSS documents, aggregators should be used. RSS feeds either show headlines only or both the headlines as well as summaries.
It would be advisable to keep postings frequently to attract more subscribers. This will make them to come back and refer to others those belong to their network. Do not forget to link to other blogs, articles and websites in the post.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Seven Ways to Generate Income From Your Website
If you own your own website, there are a variety of things you can do to generate extra income for yourself. To enjoy the most success for your efforts, you must take into consideration your existing website content, as well as your particular target audience. You will also want to know the approximate number of visitors you regularly receive to your website.
Once you have this information, you can decide which idea (or ideas) will apply best to you:
1. Include Google Adsense on your web pages. Google delivers text and image ads that are targeted to your site and its content. When people click on an ad, you will receive a portion of the amount paid to Google by the advertiser. On average, you can expect to receive anywhere between 2 cents to a dollar per click, depending on the keyword.
2. Make money selling other people's products and services through affiliate programs. Each program you register for should provide you with an affiliate link to track your referrals. Depending on the program, you will normally be paid on a per sale basis or for each sign-up you generate.
3. Sell advertising space on your web site. You could sell banner and/or classified ads. If you want to make additional money, sell sponsor ads and place them is a special section or towards the top of your website for the most exposure.
4. If you have enough web space available on your server, you could rent web pages to other people. You could also give the web pages away for free, but include your banner or advertisement on them to generate income for yourself.
5. Charge people a fee to access a dedicated part of your website. People will pay you money for your website content if it's valuable to them. The content can be ebooks, reports, software, etc.
6. Sell your own products or services. Of course, they should be related to your target audience. You will also want the ability to securely accept credit card payments directly from your website. Other forms of payment such as PayPal, ClickBank, etc. is also preferred. Delivery of your product should be as fast as possible.
7. Publish an e-zine from your website. Have people subscribe to the e-zine right from your web site. In addition to direct sales of products or services you are promoting, you could sell classified or sponsor advertising inside your e-zine.
Each of these ideas will generate income, but if you are a new website owner, I recommend starting with Google Adsense. These ads continue to grow in popularity and are easy to customize and install on your web pages-simply copy and paste a block of HTML.
For new internet home business entrepreneurs, in addition to Google Ads, you should also consider affiliate programs. Most affiliate programs are free to join and usually offer marketing tools and resources that are readily available for your use.
Once you have this information, you can decide which idea (or ideas) will apply best to you:
1. Include Google Adsense on your web pages. Google delivers text and image ads that are targeted to your site and its content. When people click on an ad, you will receive a portion of the amount paid to Google by the advertiser. On average, you can expect to receive anywhere between 2 cents to a dollar per click, depending on the keyword.
2. Make money selling other people's products and services through affiliate programs. Each program you register for should provide you with an affiliate link to track your referrals. Depending on the program, you will normally be paid on a per sale basis or for each sign-up you generate.
3. Sell advertising space on your web site. You could sell banner and/or classified ads. If you want to make additional money, sell sponsor ads and place them is a special section or towards the top of your website for the most exposure.
4. If you have enough web space available on your server, you could rent web pages to other people. You could also give the web pages away for free, but include your banner or advertisement on them to generate income for yourself.
5. Charge people a fee to access a dedicated part of your website. People will pay you money for your website content if it's valuable to them. The content can be ebooks, reports, software, etc.
6. Sell your own products or services. Of course, they should be related to your target audience. You will also want the ability to securely accept credit card payments directly from your website. Other forms of payment such as PayPal, ClickBank, etc. is also preferred. Delivery of your product should be as fast as possible.
7. Publish an e-zine from your website. Have people subscribe to the e-zine right from your web site. In addition to direct sales of products or services you are promoting, you could sell classified or sponsor advertising inside your e-zine.
Each of these ideas will generate income, but if you are a new website owner, I recommend starting with Google Adsense. These ads continue to grow in popularity and are easy to customize and install on your web pages-simply copy and paste a block of HTML.
For new internet home business entrepreneurs, in addition to Google Ads, you should also consider affiliate programs. Most affiliate programs are free to join and usually offer marketing tools and resources that are readily available for your use.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
