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		<title>Scams and Limited Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2017 15:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cheney</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Scams and Limited Markets &#8211; Guest Post &#8211; Robin Joyce &#160; What is a scam? -a dishonest way to make money by deceiving people; -a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit. It is a scam if NOBODY makes any money from it (except the fraudster). What is NOT a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>What is a scam?</strong><br />
-a dishonest way to make money by deceiving people;<br />
-a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit.<br />
It is a scam if NOBODY makes any money from it (except the fraudster).</p>
<p><strong>What is NOT a scam?</strong><br />
If you do not profit, but other users do, it is not a scam.<br />
You need to have provided the time and skill required to make any product work.</p>
<p><strong>Read reviews before buying</strong><br />
I have saved a lot of money and time by Google searching<br />
‘review + product name’ or ‘review + product creator name’.</p>
<p>You need to read the first 3 pages of results to find independent reviews,<br />
as many are written by affiliates, using text supplied by the creator (and not objective).</p>
<p>Reviews are useful to understand the product:<br />
is it what you need and are you capable of operating it?</p>
<p>Better reviews will explain the upsells (oto) and the value they add.</p>
<p>If you have booked a webinar, check the reviews so that you will know the<br />
product and price.</p>
<p>For you, no purchase means no loss to a scam.</p>
<p><strong>Criteria of a scam.</strong></p>
<p>Legit-Review.com applies the following<br />
6 criteria in reviewing products:<br />
1. Are they providing so many false promises, or not?</p>
<p>2. Real Users’ Experience Rating.</p>
<p>3. Is there any Honest Money Back Guarantee or not?</p>
<p>4. If they have any Scam Approach or not?</p>
<p>5. Our Expert Team rating after using.</p>
<p>6. If there are so many OTOs, UpSells, DownSells ?</p>
<p><strong>1. Are they providing so many false promises, or not?</strong></p>
<p>This is not easy for the buyer to know, unless the promises are too incredible.<br />
Key promises are that ‘a newbie can do this’, ‘you do not need a site, list..’<br />
can secure a sale and have to be true.</p>
<p>One of the key failings of products is their inability to generate traffic without<br />
depending on spamming.</p>
<p>As most newbies lack a list, traffic has to be resolved for the product<br />
to be of any value.</p>
<p>For most products, I will need support.</p>
<p>Often, I send a question to the seller during the launch period.<br />
I am amazed that many questions either are never (!) answered,<br />
or take 3-4 days to receive a reply.<br />
From this, I can judge that support will be substandard.</p>
<p><strong>2. Real Users’ Experience</strong></p>
<p>For a new product, only insiders (including beta testers) will have had a chance to evaluate it.</p>
<p>You need to wait until late in the launch period, with the hope that independent reviews will be published.</p>
<p>If none is found, you have a choice:<br />
buy it with the discount and bonuses,<br />
or buy later when reviews are available.</p>
<p>You might find reviews of the product creator. If the creator has an excellent reputation for value, this is probably going to be a quality product.<br />
If the reputation is negative…..</p>
<p><strong>3. Is there any Honest Money Back Guarantee or not?</strong></p>
<p>This seems straight forward, as you see one at the foot of each sales page.<br />
However, some vendors do not pay out, or use delaying tactics.<br />
My sites were with a reputable host, which abruptly terminated hosting in the<br />
middle of the year. (I am now happily hosted by D9.)</p>
<p>A refund for the refusal to continue hosting? No.</p>
<p>If you pay by credit card, in some countries, you can reclaim from the<br />
card company.<br />
Otherwise, you need to check the rules of the market: JVZoo, Warrior+Plus, etc<br />
and Paypal for resolution.</p>
<p><strong>4. If they have any Scam Approach or not?</strong></p>
<p>Webinars provide opportunities to avoid searching questions, as well as creating<br />
the greed atmosphere with luxury cars, houses, pools, sun tans<br />
(I do not mean to boast = I do mean to boast).</p>
<p>Webinars give you little written information to review afterwards.</p>
<p>In contrast, you can check a sales page and email the vendor.<br />
Which affiliates are promoting it?<br />
If Partnership to Success folks are involved, I am happy.<br />
If not, I am wary.<br />
Checking testimonials is useful (even if it is often boring) to understand<br />
the challenges and how the product (and buyers have met them). If the<br />
testimonials lack product detail, you may need more assurance about the product.</p>
<p><strong>5. Our Expert Team rating after using.</strong></p>
<p>You may have to wait for this until after the launch period, but some independent reviewers move quickly.</p>
<p><strong>6. If there are so many OTOs, UpSells, DownSells?</strong></p>
<p>OTOs, UpSells, DownSells are components of a sales funnel, which is needed to grow a profitable business.<br />
Once the buyer has bought the initial $9.95 product, other more-expensive products are offered.</p>
<p>The issue here is whether, or not, the initial product can fully function<br />
without buying other products.</p>
<p>In an honest sales funnel, the additional products will make the initial product work better, faster or provide additional sales, but the initial product should not need other products to operate as promised.</p>
<p>If this is not the case, the buyer might have to spend $50 or more to buy the combination of products to function.</p>
<p>A lesser issue, but sharp practice, is to offer an upsell at $49; then, if it is refused, the same product combination is offered at $29.</p>
<p>This is cheating any buyer who paid $49. An honest downsell is to reduce the $49 package, by a bonus or two, to offer it at $29.</p>
<p>Reviews often identify this cheating and save you money.</p>
<p><strong>Limited Markets</strong><br />
These are not scams, but offer buyers less than they might expect.</p>
<p>Arbitrage (risk-free profit):<br />
This is buying in one market and selling in another market at the same time.</p>
<p>Apart from having to buy as well as sell (twice the work), a risk-free profit appeals to most of us.</p>
<p>I teach arbitrage and it always disappears quickly.<br />
You have to be fast in and leave before the rest arrive.</p>
<p>There is no mass market for arbitrage.</p>
<p>Also, the software designer/seller has a head start on you for the same business.<br />
We have chosen making money online as it has millions of potential buyers.<br />
The buyers are far less in the following examples:</p>
<p><strong>Domain Names</strong><br />
A number of professional firms operate in this market. Between them, most of the arbitrage opportunities have been recognized and eliminated.</p>
<p>Why do you think that you will repeatedly find what they cannot?</p>
<p>The only people interested in robinjoyce.com are me, those who share my name<br />
(and want a website with our name) and speculators who want to hold us to ransom. Nobody else!</p>
<p>Today, we can use another suffix (mine is .site) to avoid dealing with the speculators.</p>
<p>Also, the speculator has to buy, or control, the domain name. This is an investment in inventory.</p>
<p>Done for You System for Physical Goods- Arbitrage from Selling Books</p>
<p>A new service received a large amount of coverage about 6-9 months ago.</p>
<p>It is a done-for-you system of buying books cheaply from US book stores and selling them to Ebay/Amazon in the US.<br />
You rent the software, anywhere in the world.</p>
<p>It will identify where you can buy low and sell high (arbitrage), you make the buy/sell transaction and they will transport the books for you.</p>
<p>Risk-free profits! Nothing could possibly go wrong, could it?<br />
I left this great opportunity alone, possibly missing out on earning a fortune.</p>
<p><strong>My reasoning:</strong><br />
The software designer/seller has a head start on you for the same business (books).</p>
<p>Everybody was focused on the same books sector<br />
– market saturation<br />
– too many people eating from one plate.</p>
<p>Even if everything is done for you, the risk is yours.</p>
<p>You are dealing with only two buyers:<br />
Ebay and Amazon, who control (and can change) the price.</p>
<p><strong>Complaints reported:</strong></p>
<p>1. Profit margins falling to almost nothing (standard in arbitrage opportunities).</p>
<p>2. Postal delays, books arrive late, and Amazon has cut the price.</p>
<p>3. Long time to find opportunities.</p>
<p>I would add:</p>
<p>if anything went wrong, I am 8-10 time zones away, possibly asleep, and have<br />
few US contacts who can help in such operations.</p>
<p><strong>Finally, from the complainant:</strong><br />
‘I will be requesting a refund but they had some funky 365 day refund policy implying they weren’t going to refund anyone until they had tried the system for 365 days.’</p>
<p>I suggest that you fully understand how such novel systems work before investing<br />
and know who is responsible for what.</p>
<p>Done-for-you does not guarantee that it is risk-free and trouble-free.</p>
<p>If you see Arbitrage and/or Risk-Free Profits in a promotion, be skeptical,<br />
very skeptical!</p>
<p>Review and understand products before you buy them.<br />
You will be glad that you did.</p>
<p>Also, there is an excellent complementary webinar:</p>
<p>John Thornhill, my mentor and leading UK internet marketer with a global reputation ,<br />
is letting me give you access to his special invite-only FREE online workshop in which<br />
he reveals how you can make $275+ per day with his PROVEN 3 Step Success Blueprint<br />
that took him from zero to over $5,000,000 in revenue!</p>
<p>Book here:</p>
<p><a href="http://profmoscow.part2suc.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://johnthornhill.com/webinar/jvzoo-blueprint-john-thornhill/</a></p>
<p>I wish you great success in your business! This is where you start!</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Robin Joyce<br />
<em><br />
This is a Guest Post written by Robin Joyce.</em></p>
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		<title>My Recipe for Internet Marketing Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 09:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cheney</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[What happens when you blend quiet desperation, an entrepreneurial spirit and a few bitter surprises? You might just end up with a winning formula for sweet online success… Four years ago, I was spending 40+ hours every week in a soul-sucking, mind-numbing, life-wasting job. I would sit in my dingy little office that wasn’t even [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>You might just end up with a winning formula for sweet online success…</p>
<p>Four years ago, I was spending 40+ hours every week in a soul-sucking, mind-numbing, life-wasting job. I would sit in my dingy little office that wasn’t even really an office; in my half-broken chair; doing a bunch of mindless, boring work in exchange for an insultingly tiny so-called salary. I was constantly struggling to pay the bills and keep food in the house. There was never enough money left to do or have anything special – ever!</p>
<p>Every day, in spite of the distress I felt, I reminded myself of my life-long dream of owning my own business. I had many failed offline attempts behind me, I suppose just to keep me feeling trapped in that dead-end pit of despair… but, still I dreamed every minute of my work days about getting out of there and being my own boss. I wanted to use my love of food and my knowledge of health and nutrition to help people to improve their lives while bringing in a reasonable income for my efforts.</p>
<p>And, then life intervened to change everything…</p>
<p>First, my eye-sight which had always been very limited, began to further deteriorate. This led to a surgery that was supposed to improve my vision, but which actually resulted in near-total blindness.</p>
<p>Then, as you may be predicting, my full-time job of more than 11 years was snatched away from me in the blink of an eye. Oh sure, lots of politically correct excuses were thrown around having to do with corporate restructuring and similar nonsense. But, obviously, it was because of my blindness and the refusal of the company to even try to provide reasonable accommodation for me so that I could continue to do my work. You may be thinking how terrible this must have been for me and my family… But, it has turned into one of the biggest blessings of my life…</p>
<p>Once I recovered from the shock of losing my vision and my income, I adjusted to the stress and uncertainty that comes with being unemployed, I began to pick up the pieces and search for ways to survive the personal and financial disaster. It was in this apparent crisis that I found several opportunities for generating income online and was delighted to discover that I could share my passion for natural health and great food and make money at the same time.</p>
<p>A few months after my job ended, I bought a course called Inbox Blueprint (Thank You Anik Singal!) &#8211; followed by many other IM products, and thus began my immersion into the world of internet marketing. I was the very definition of newbie and made a ton of mistakes to prove it…</p>
<p>Fast forward a couple of years &#8211; and believe it or not, I’m actually making this online marketing thing work for me. It has been anything but easy – there definitely is not a button out there that you can push to start filling buckets with money as it falls from internet heaven (believe me, I looked)… But, I am slowly, steadily, sometimes painfully, and with much help from some very talented sighted people, actually making it happen – and if I can do it, anyone can do it.</p>
<p>The beautiful part is that now I get to write about food and healthy living every day and never ever have to call someone else “boss” again. You can see the fruits of my labor of love at: <a href="http://www.naturalhealthwiseblog.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.naturalhealthwiseblog.com</a></p>
<p><em>This is a Guest Post written by Karen Mcray.</em></p>
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		<title>Online Business Success Checklist</title>
		<link>https://michaelcheney.com/blog/2017/04/28/online-business-success-checklist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cheney</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Online Business Success Checklist Let’s start with some facts: A lot of jobs are now replaced by machines / AI (artificial intelligence) &#8211; According to an article on Business Insider, it is expected that more than 3,500 retail stores will be closed in the next few months in the US. That would mean there is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Let’s start with some facts</strong>:<br />
A lot of jobs are now replaced by machines / AI (artificial intelligence) &#8211; According to an article on Business Insider, it is expected that more than 3,500 retail stores will be closed in the next few months in the US. That would mean there is a huge job cut happening. There are lots of reasons why this is happening, one of it being the popularity of ecommerce.</p>
<p><strong>Mobile devices vs computers – very obvious</strong>: what is the main device that you use to check your emails these days? Do you wait until you sit down in front of your computer in the evening, or simply check your emails with a quick swipe on your mobile phone?</p>
<p><strong>IoT (Internet of Things)</strong>: A lot of devices are now connected to the internet and data can be accessible remotely online. That includes even the microchips of some cows in the farms!</p>
<p><strong>Purchase behaviour change</strong> – with the ease of buying online, and also the rise of auction / shopping sites like eBay, Amazon, TaoBao, AliExpress, and various online stores, we don’t really need to go shopping anymore (well, apart from the enjoyment, if you do enjoy it). Shopping can be done entirely online, from the comfort of our homes.</p>
<p><strong>Why are these facts important?</strong> For me, these clearly show that we are in an entirely new era. An era where people are living a ‘connected’ life – everything is around the internet.</p>
<p>That simply means that if you want to run your own business, it needs to be online.</p>
<p>Running an online business, especially when starting up, also has its benefits:<br />
Very low cost upfront: you only need a computer with an internet connection. You do not need to rent an office, hire any staff, buy furniture etc. That means you can save a lot of money to invest in marketing instead and you can start right the way!</p>
<p>Accessible anywhere: as long as there is a reliable internet connection, you can basically run your online business anywhere you like. Beaches with a cocktail, on a cruise, when traveling… you name it.</p>
<p>Fast turnaround, fast results: things happening online are so fast, that you can shorten the buying cycle tremendously.</p>
<p>Easy to optimize: every marketing effort that you have done online is trackable. It is very easy to identify what does or does not work, hence very easy to optimize your marketing effort to get best results.</p>
<p>There are several items that can assure you to be able to run a successful online business: Have the right infrastructure in place A large part of online business can be automated, when you have the right infrastructure setup.</p>
<p><strong>What you would need is</strong>:<br />
&#8211; A good web hosting account<br />
&#8211; A WordPress website setup<br />
&#8211; A good email marketing service a.k.a. auto-responder<br />
&#8211; An easy-to-use page builder</p>
<p>In a nutshell, you need a place where you can quickly setup a squeeze page and place a form on the page which feeds email addresses into an auto-responder. You would be able to build a list that you can keep marketing to. This is commonly known as “List Building”.</p>
<p>You can follow the step-by-step instructions of my ebook, 3 Steps to Profit, to have this built.</p>
<p><strong>Promote a Lucrative Offer</strong>: Affiliate marketing is quick and simple. Basically, you sell a product, and get a commission. However, a lot of ‘affiliate marketers’ are only earning a few bucks here and there. This is because they don’t understand the power of upsell. You need to find an offer which has a low-priced front-end product (hence it is very easy to sell) and then a high-priced back-end product would be treated as an upsell.</p>
<p><strong>Scalable</strong><br />
A common perception amongst affiliate marketers is that SEO (or free traffic in general) is a long term strategy. Let me point this out, that’s not quite the case.</p>
<p>In fact you should be good in driving quality traffic, and this can be done much faster with paid traffic methods.</p>
<p>Eg. If you use Solo Ads to drive traffic to your offer, then once you have optimized your campaigns right, you can easily scale it up with buying more traffic. You cannot scale up your business if you rely purely on SEO.</p>
<p><strong>A Proven System</strong><br />
It is very true that there is no point in reinventing the wheel. You don’t have the calling or mission to create the most original and unbeatable money making business here. (OK maybe you do, but let’s start small.)</p>
<p>The easiest and fastest way to build a successful online business is to follow a good, proven system. A system that somebody else has spent their hard-earned money to test and tweak, and you simply deploy it to earn the cash.</p>
<p>All you need to do is to grab a copy of an ebook named “<a href="http://www.leochanonline.com/wifi-mil-john-thornhill-blog-guest-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wifi Millionaire</a>” to get yourself started. For the price of a cup of coffee (or less), this is really a no-brainer.</p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.leochanonline.com/wifi-mil-john-thornhill-blog-guest-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wifi Millionaire</a>, you will learn how to utilize an already-proven system, to run a lucrative online business from anywhere in the world with Wifi connection.</p>
<p><em>This is a Guest Post written by Leo Chan.</em></p>
<p>Leo currently runs a blog on which he writes information on how to run a successful online business. You can read his blog here: <a href="http://www.leochanonline.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.leochanonline.com</a></p>
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		<title>12 Tips To Get More Visitors To Your Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cheney</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Finally. Your blog article is finished and you&#8217;ve placed on your website. But how do you get more visitors and comments on your blog? In this article, you will find 12 tips to get more out of your blog. 1. Check the title of your post: Is it a catchy title that curiosity and invites [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Finally. Your blog article is finished and you&#8217;ve placed on your website. But how do you get more visitors and comments on your blog? In this article, you will find 12 tips to get more out of your blog.</p>
<p>1. <strong>Check the title of your post</strong>: Is it a catchy title that curiosity and invites the reader to read? Titles in the form of a question often do well. Especially when it is combined with the promise of a solution. For example, &#8220;Enough of [the problem]? 10 tips to achieve [the solution]. Also be &#8220;video&#8221; and &#8220;Checklist&#8221; often provide more clicks.</p>
<p>2. <strong>Check the title of your post again</strong>: Is there a common search term? Find your topic in the keyword tool from Google, choose appropriate keywords with high search volume and use that word in your title. And in the first paragraph and the &#8220;meta-text.&#8221;</p>
<p>3. <strong>Provide an inviting and representative &#8220;meta-text&#8221;</strong>: This is the text that the search engines for search results. With a well-written meta-text, you can still get ahead of your competitors who do not bother to do this in Google. How to tackle this you can read in this article: &#8220;Get you there neatly into Google&#8217;s search results?&#8221;.</p>
<p>4. <strong>Help the hasty reader</strong>: Readers on the web scan the text. So make between headings, lists and make the essential words bold. And ends with a clear call to action. What is a logical next step after reading the article?</p>
<p>5. <strong>Bring your followers by mail about</strong>: Of course, you have a full mailing list with loyal readers who are waiting for your article see before you &#8220;send&#8221; click a moment the subject of your email. You can of course just use the title of your article, but you do have to be processed in any keyword. Can you change something in the subject line in order to increase the likelihood that the email will open faster?</p>
<p>6. <strong>Write a tweet</strong>: Usually I use the meta-text of my blog article as a basis and make a short version. A tweet contains fewer characters, there is still a link to the article and perhaps a hashtag.</p>
<p>7. <strong>Write a LinkedIn update</strong>: Here I usually use the meta-text of the article, including the link to the article on my website.</p>
<p>8. <strong>Be a Facebook update</strong>: On Facebook, you have the most room to draw attention to your blog article. Still, it usually gives the best results if you remain concise and link sets in the first (visible) paragraph. Always ask for a response and a &#8220;find-me-like &#8216;. Oh yeah, Google+ still take a while? So you yet again earn some extra points for your &#8220;PageRank&#8221; in Google.</p>
<p>9. <strong>Put the title and link in the signature of your email</strong>: How many emails you send a week? Quite a lot, I guess so. A good opportunity for that classroom activities can also be used to draw attention to your valuable article, right?</p>
<p>10. <strong>Ask if you can have another guest blog writer</strong>: You certainly know entrepreneurs who have the same target market as you, but not competitive. Discuss with them once the opportunity to occasionally write an article on each blog and ask them to link to you regularly in their own articles.</p>
<p>11.<strong> Post comments on blog posts and social media updates from others on websites of other operators</strong> <strong>(groups)</strong>: Facebook pages and groups on LinkedIn and Facebook with lots of activity. Please note that you will remain relevant and valuable.</p>
<p>12. <strong>Find people who need your help</strong>: Look for the topic of your blog post to Twitter and LinkedIn groups. Maybe your blog article is the answer to a burning question asked there. Genuine assistance is one of the best ways to get more followers&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>For more information on Affiliate Marketing and building a Real online business, Go here =&gt; <a href="http://www.enliwen.com/" target="_blank">http://www.enliwen.com/</a></strong></p>
<p><em>This is a Guest Post written by Ravi Kiran.</em></p>
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		<title>Is Your Online Business Like a 3D Puzzle?</title>
		<link>https://michaelcheney.com/blog/2017/03/28/is-your-online-business-like-a-3d-puzzle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cheney</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Most people decide to start an online business the wrong way. They start with a product or an idea, slap up a website and sit back to wait for the hordes of traffic to come in. They shortsightedly see their business in a one dimensional way and so the business flops. A successful business is [&#8230;]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-3724" src="http://www.johnthornhill.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Fotolia_35020598_XS.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" />Most people decide to start an online business the wrong way. They start with a product or an idea, slap up a website and sit back to wait for the hordes of traffic to come in.</p>
<p>They shortsightedly see their business in a one dimensional way and so the business flops.</p>
<p>A successful business is like a 3D puzzle that has all of the pieces put in place from every angle.</p>
<p><strong>Level One: Research</strong></p>
<p>There are several questions you must ask before building your business:</p>
<p>1. What niche are you going into?<br />
2. Is there pain in that niche? Are people desperate for a solution and willing to pull out their wallets.<br />
3. Who exactly is your target audience?<br />
a) Male, Female or Both<br />
b) Age group<br />
c) Income Level<br />
d) Education Level<br />
e) Where do they hang out online<br />
4. What are their main concerns? This can be determined by surveying them and getting the answers straight from them.<br />
5. What products are already on the market to help them?<br />
6. Can you create a better product that is better than what is out there or will you market someone else&#8217;s products with a great reputation?<br />
7. How much competition is there in the market?</p>
<p><strong>Level Two: Building the Foundation</strong></p>
<p>1. Create a siloed site around the questions and keywords they use<br />
2. Create a product that solves their problems or get permission to market someone else&#8217;s products.<br />
3. Create a sales funnel, including sales letters, upsells and downsells<br />
4. Create an autoresponder with follow up messages and a free report for list building<br />
5. Create you social media accounts – Twitter, Facebook, Linked In, etc&#8230;.<br />
6. Link your social media accounts to your website<br />
7. Create an IFTT account or syndwire account to syndicate content.<br />
8. Join Forums, groups that these people congregate in and build a relationship before you market to them<br />
9. Form JV alliances, if you are marketing your own product</p>
<p><strong>Level Three: Launch and Market</strong></p>
<p>1. Create Marketing materials for your affiliates and any JV partners<br />
2. Announce your launch, if your own product, on sites like Muncheye<br />
3. Launch<br />
4. Promote on Facebook Twitter, Linked in, Youtube, Forums, etc..<br />
5. Create PPC and Retargeting Campaigns<br />
6. Continue to interact with your target audience, continue building relationships, along with selling your product<br />
That is the basic framework of your 3 Dimensional Business Model. Go through these steps and you will be 90 percent ahead of your competition.</p>
<p>*Want a completely done for you business, where all you have to do is market? Go to:* <a href="http://www.AffiliateMentor.org" target="_blank">http://www.AffiliateMentor.org</a></p>
<p><em>This is a guest post written by Caterina Christakos.</em></p>
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		<title>5 Ways You Can Reuse Your Content For Profit</title>
		<link>https://michaelcheney.com/blog/2017/01/09/5-ways-you-can-reuse-your-content-for-profit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2017 11:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cheney</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[We have all heard it…Content Is King! But I have seen so many people struggle to keep up with fresh valuable content. Are you on the same boat? Today I want to share my content strategy with you. It’s all about working smart, NOT hard. Ok, so here’s the thing…who says you have to keep [&#8230;]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-3662 size-medium" src="http://www.johnthornhill.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/5-Ways-You-Can-Reuse-Your-Content-For-Profit-rev2-300x282.png" width="300" height="282" />We have all heard it…Content Is King! But I have seen so many people struggle to keep up with fresh valuable content. Are you on the same boat?</p>
<p>Today I want to share my content strategy with you. It’s all about working smart, NOT hard.</p>
<p>Ok, so here’s the thing…who says you have to keep coming up with fresh content to get new traffic. As long as you are creating valuable content the first time, then you can reuse your content multiple times to reach traffic from multiple sources. Sounds simple enough, right?</p>
<p>Let me introduce you to my content circle. The content circle is made up of:</p>
<ul>
<li>Forum Posts</li>
<li>Blog Post</li>
<li>Facebook Live</li>
<li>YouTube Video</li>
<li>Facebook Ads</li>
</ul>
<p>You can start from any point of the circle, hence the circle, and you will see the same great results. But for the interest of this article, let’s start with forum posts.</p>
<p><strong>Forum Posts</strong></p>
<p>This is a perfect place to start if you don’t know what to write about. Head over to sites like Quora or Reddit and find questions to answer within your niche. Answer the question that is being asked and provide as much value as you can. This will help you later when you reuse the content plus it builds your credibility.</p>
<p>Here is a trick I use to drive traffic from these forums. At the end of my answer, I insert something like this:</p>
<p>“Did my answer help? You can let me know on <a href="http://www.shreyabanerjee.com/" target="_blank"><strong>my blog</strong></a> or reach out to me through <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012306131642" target="_blank"><strong>Facebook.</strong></a><strong> </strong>And let me know if this was helpful.”</p>
<p>I tailor it to fit the answer so it’s not the same every time but you get the idea. This helps me drive traffic to my blog and helps me connect with people on Facebook. You will be surprised to how many people have reached out to me from adding this part at the end of my answers.</p>
<p><strong>Blog Posts</strong></p>
<p>Ok, now that I have a well written full of value content in a form of a forum post, I simply modify it a bit to make it a blog post. For example, I take out the part about visiting my blog because people are already on my blog.</p>
<p>Just some very simple minor edits that takes me about 5 mins to do. Then, they get scheduled to my blog as a post.</p>
<p>Here is an example of the question I answered and the blog post that came out of it:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-Clickbank-an-effective-way-to-get-sales-of-my-product/answer/Shreya-Banerjee-55" target="_blank">Quora Question Link</a></p>
<p><a href="http://shreyabanerjee.com/is-clickbank-an-effective-way-to-get-sales-for-your-product/" target="_blank">Blog Post Link</a></p>
<p>On this blog post, I simply told my readers that this was a forum post and pasted my answer. I just added an intro and an ending to the article.</p>
<p>This was me being lazy but you see that it doesn’t take that much work.</p>
<p><strong>Facebook Live</strong></p>
<p>You already have the content, you know that people are asking the question. Why not share the answer with your Facebook Friends that might have the same question?</p>
<p>As long has you know the content, Facebook Live is very easy to do. It really is as simple as pressing a button and talking about your topic.</p>
<p>I know I said that it is super simple but for some of you, it might not be. You might be camera shy or just not feel comfortable with talking to people. That’s ok…here are some tricks to help you overcome those fears.</p>
<ul>
<li>Create a Script: Done! You already have your forum post; that is your script.</li>
<li>Practice: Practice saying your script in front of the mirror. You have already used this content twice so you already know it. You just need to talk to it. Practice it a couple of times and you will be great at it.</li>
<li>Practice Again: If you feel like you are ready after practising in front of a mirror, then go for it. If you still feel nervous, then practice on Facebook. When you click on Go Live on Facebook, you have the option of selecting who you go live to. Click on the Public drop-down menu and select ‘Only Me’. Then go for it because only you will be able to see it. After you are done, you don’t have to post it on your timeline. Once you start nailing it, then go live to the public.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3667 size-full" src="http://www.johnthornhill.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FB-Screenshot-1.png" width="497" height="306" /></strong></p>
<p><strong><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3669" src="http://www.johnthornhill.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FB-Screenshot-2.png" alt="" width="203" height="248" />YouTube Video</strong></p>
<p>After you finish your Facebook Live, then you have the option of downloading your video before you post it on your timeline. Download the video!</p>
<p>Now you have a video to post on your YouTube channel. Wait…did we just upload a video to YouTube that is packed with valuable content in like less than 5 mins? Oh yes we did!</p>
<p>If you are not so happy about the Facebook Live video, then no problem. You already have the script ready, just create another video using the script without the pressure of being live.</p>
<p>And just like that, another free traffic source added to your funnel.</p>
<p><strong>Facebook Ads</strong></p>
<p>Have you ever browsed around on Amazon…then you logged off to go to Facebook and BOOM you just found an ad for the same thing you were looking at on Amazon.</p>
<p>What just happened?</p>
<p>You my friend, have just been targeted. Don’t worry though, it’s not the end of the world. The best part is that it is very easy for you to do that with your blog too. You don’t have to be big like Amazon.</p>
<p>So, how do you do it?</p>
<p>Facebook has an ads manger, where you can log in and handle all your ads that you run through them. In the ads manager, you can get a pixel to put on your blog or any other site you have. A pixel is just a fancy word for a short code that will track who visits your site.</p>
<p>So say you installed the pixel on your blog. Someone from your forum post visits your blog and then leaves. Chances are they are never going to come back again but you have the pixel installed. So you go into our Facebook ads manager and run a campaign that retargets everyone that has visited your site.</p>
<p>This is very targeted traffic and it allows you the opportunity to build trust with them. What could be better?</p>
<p>Oh yes, there is one thing. You already have content from your blog, your Facebook Live and your YouTube Video that you can use for your Facebook Ad. Yes, that is definitely better…no extra work creating the content and ton of targeted traffic.</p>
<p>There you have it, one jam packed with value content used 5 different ways to get you traffic from different sources. It doesn’t get any better than this.</p>
<p><strong>Want to learn a simple trick to rank your YouTube Videos on the 1<sup>st</sup> page of Google fast so that you get more traffic? Grab my <a href="http://shreyabanerjee.com/youtube-rank/" target="_blank">FREE video ranking trick</a> here.</strong></p>
<p>This post was written by Shreya Banerjee. She believes in making fairy dust through hard work because there is no magic wand for Internet Marketing. Want to know how? Connect with her on her <a href="http://www.shreyabanerjee.com" target="_blank">blog</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ShreyaBanerjee17" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.</p>
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		<title>Optimize Your Presence on Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2016 16:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cheney</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[BEST OF FACEBOOK According to recent studies, 47 percent of Facebook users say that Facebook has the greatest impact on the purchase behavior. That is compared to just about 34 percent in 2015. Now interestingly enough, Twitter actually ranks about 5% and lower. So, what does that mean? That means that, if you really want [&#8230;]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BEST OF FACEBOOK</p>
<p>According to recent studies, 47 percent of Facebook users say that Facebook has the greatest impact on the purchase behavior. That is compared to just about 34 percent in 2015. Now interestingly enough, Twitter actually ranks about 5% and lower. So, what does that mean? That means that, if you really want to drive person&#8217;s behavior within all the social networks, you have to use Facebook and you have to have a Facebook presence.</p>
<p>Now, what&#8217;s amazing is that Facebook has a large opportunity in communicating with consumers in a non-intrusive way. So, in other words if done correctly you can make sales<br />
without having to directly sell. Right! Hence, if your business doesn&#8217;t have a Facebook presence that is optimized the right way, you actually missing out on a lot of potential leads, sales and relationships.</p>
<p>If you’re a local business owner thinking, well there&#8217;s no way in the world that this impacts me. Then let me show you some stats. Surprising stats from recent local search studies show people that use Facebook actually use Facebook for local business searches to find out what people are really saying about your business. In fact, Facebook is only outranked by Google Maps and that means if your business isn’t on Facebook, there&#8217;s no doubt in my mind that you&#8217;re missing out on attracting prospective customers and building brand recognition.</p>
<p>So, as you can see, whether you’re a local business owner or online business owner that sells a product or service, it doesn&#8217;t matter. You need to have an optimized Facebook presence or<br />
else you&#8217;re leaving money on the table. Now Facebook is not just for teenagers or college students alone. In fact, just in the USA market alone, 55 percent of Americans about ages 45 to 54 have a profile on the social networking site.</p>
<p>Let’s Take a Look at Some Up to Date 2016 Facebook Stats: &#8211;</p>
<p>&#8211; Users to date – 1.65billion on a monthly basis<br />
&#8211; Facebook Daily Users – 109 billion daily users<br />
&#8211; Monthly percentage of Facebook users – 66.1 %<br />
&#8211; Which country are Facebook users more active – Canada<br />
&#8211; The average number of female friends – 166<br />
&#8211; The average number of male friends – 145<br />
&#8211; Average time spent per user per day on Facebook – 20 minutes<br />
&#8211; Daily users in USA – 167 million<br />
&#8211; Adult Women Users USA &#8211; 66%<br />
&#8211; Adult Male Users USA &#8211; 77%<br />
&#8211; Europe active users – 233 million<br />
&#8211; Europe active users per month – 315 million<br />
&#8211; UK daily users – 24 million<br />
&#8211; Asia monthly users – 522 million<br />
&#8211; Male users &#8211; 42%<br />
&#8211; Age between 18 to 29 &#8211; 34%<br />
&#8211; Over 65 years old &#8211; 45%<br />
&#8211; Bachelors degree &#8211; 30%<br />
&#8211; India active users – 142 million<br />
&#8211; Users in India accessing via mobile phones &#8211; 90%<br />
&#8211; Chinese male users – 34.9%<br />
&#8211; Chinese female users – 65.1%<br />
&#8211; Russia users – 6.04%<br />
&#8211; Vietnam users – 30 million<br />
&#8211; Thailand users – 28 million<br />
&#8211; Millionaires users &#8211; 57%<br />
&#8211; Australia users &#8211; 93%<br />
&#8211; Japan users – 37.7%<br />
&#8211; Facebook users shopping online &#8211; 69%<br />
&#8211; Video views on Facebook daily – 8 billion</p>
<p>There you have it. Pretty amazing stats on Facebook. Don’t you agree?</p>
<p>Now I know I know that brings you to the big question. How do you optimize<br />
your presence on Facebook the right way? Which is what you want in the end. Which brings you results in terms of conversions, sales, profits and more.</p>
<p>There are 4 key focus areas to address in order to optimize your Facebook presence and to make sure that you succeed: &#8211;<br />
1. You need to create a customized action plan<br />
2. You&#8217;re going to need to brand your company<br />
3. You need a Facebook Marketing Blueprint plan<br />
4. You need rapid speed content creation so that you don&#8217;t have to worry about sitting there for hours and hours and hours creating content.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s address their outlines so that you can see exactly what you&#8217;re getting into. Then I&#8217;m going to show you exact samples so you know what to expect and more.</p>
<p>Basically before we jump right in, I’m going to give you a quick overview of each area. You&#8217;re going to learn how the system works and what you need to get started. Then of course we going to go over the 4 key focus areas.</p>
<p>KEY FOCUS AREA 1</p>
<p>Action Plan<br />
You need an Action Plan. What is important to learn is how to create an action plan. Before we look at these 4 key focus areas, you want to make sure that you understand your personalized customized action plan before you get started so that you can actually succeed.</p>
<p>KEY FOCUS AREA 2</p>
<p>Branding<br />
This brings us to Key Focus Area 2 which is branding. Getting ready to get your brand onto Facebook. A lot of people make the mistake of just jumping onto Facebook and creating a Facebook fan page and assuming that it’s going to work. If you do not have your brand set up, then that is going to complicate things and make things harder for you in the long run.</p>
<p>Memorable Slogans<br />
You want to make sure that you set yourself up for success. Therefore, on that point, you must create a memorable slogan for your Facebook presence.</p>
<p>Colors<br />
You need to learn how to use colors to sell subconsciously so you can actually tap in the subconscious mind and create a specific environment.</p>
<p>Quality Logo<br />
Learn how to create a high quality and low price logo. However, if you do have a logo, you might want to consider upgrading your existing logo. I can show you how to do that as well.</p>
<p>Use of Mascot<br />
You also need to know how to use mascots to brand your company on Facebook.</p>
<p>KEY FOCUS AREA 3</p>
<p>Facebook Traffic<br />
This brings us to Key Focus Area 3 which is the Facebook traffic section. Do you actually know how to drive traffic to your Facebook fan page and how to do it the correct way? Would you like to learn how to do it? Then keep on reading.</p>
<p>Right Mindset<br />
How do you get into the right mindset to gain free traffic from Facebook? It all comes down to quality over quantity. Quality focused fans over Quantity of fans.</p>
<p>Demographics<br />
How to find your demographics of your audience and find the framing of their mind so that you can understand how to read some more impact fully.</p>
<p>High Engagement Groups<br />
This brings us to High Engagement Groups. Do you know how to find high engagement groups with a lot of active followers? This is key to learn how to do it in order to be successful on Facebook.</p>
<p>Seek and Find Fans<br />
You will now need to search and find active fans so that you can build up your fan page. Building up your fan page is an important role in terms of sales, profit, products and services that you offer.</p>
<p>How to Find Engaging Fans<br />
How to find engaging fans and how do you really engage with them. There is a right way and a wrong way. Which one are you following right now?</p>
<p>Outsource and Automate<br />
Then of course from that point on you need to know how to outsource and automate this process if you don&#8217;t want to do this yourself. If you want to do it yourself that&#8217;s fine. You don&#8217;t have to automate or else outsource this process.</p>
<p>KEY FOCUS AREA 4</p>
<p>Content<br />
Key Focus Area 4 is content. Created content is key, because that&#8217;s what keeps the community growing. People are interested in your videos, your post and everything like that. That keeps the conversation going, because you don&#8217;t want the conversation to stop.</p>
<p>Create Simple Video Intros<br />
That brings us to creating simple video intros. If you want to make sure that you brand yourself every time you put out a new interesting video, you want to make sure that you have a good video intro that brands you and your company. So that when somebody leaves your site, that brand sticks in their minds.</p>
<p>Build Trust<br />
Build trust with educational videos are also very important. In this case we&#8217;re going to use edutainment. Basically educational videos that are entertainment as well.</p>
<p>Branding Facebook Post<br />
Let’s now look at branding with Facebook post. I will show you in a specific video a secret method that reveals to you how to create content at a rapid speed pace. So, don&#8217;t worry about having to sit there for hours and hours and hours creating content. I will show you how to create lots and lots of content within a few minutes.</p>
<p>Conclusion<br />
You can make money on Facebook if you do it the right way and if you follow your action plan. You have to make sure that you put everything into action in order to succeed.</p>
<p>Well, we&#8217;ve created a 20-part video course and the purpose of it is to help you drive free traffic from Facebook and build a community of Facebook fans. Not just any type of fan, but the action taker type fan.</p>
<p>So, now what I want to do is to show you a simple video so you know exactly what to expect in the video course. In this particular video you get to see the overview of the whole course.</p>
<p>Get this Course for Free<br />
Grab access down below. Don&#8217;t worry you&#8217;re going to be able to watch the videos immediately after you sign up. So act now and begin to optimize your presence on Facebook<br />
the right way</p>
<p>IT IS ABSOLUTELY FREE!</p>
<p><a href="http://go.goproducts.biz/best-of-facebook/" target="_blank">GET FREE ACCESS NOW!</a></p>
<p><em>This is a guest post written by Nadeem Bijley. If you would like to be considered for a guest post please contact me.</em></p>
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		<title>Make Money Using WikiHow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cheney</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Many exciting and easy to start business ventures have emerged on the Internet in the past decades and more would emerge in the next few years with greater advancements in technologies. One of the sprouting online business ventures today is wikiHow. This is an interesting web platform that offers a host of relevant guides on [&#8230;]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many exciting and easy to start business ventures have emerged on the Internet in the past decades and more would emerge in the next few years with greater advancements in technologies. One of the sprouting online business ventures today is wikiHow.</p>
<p>This is an interesting web platform that offers a host of relevant guides on ‘How-to’ in a myriad of tasks and projects which consumers may be interested to know. This impressive online virtual ‘guidebook’ is extensive on its offering with a growing list of items as the days go by.</p>
<p><strong>What wikiHow Offers</strong></p>
<p>The primary objective of this online platform is to provide high quality e-manuals on tasks and projects. It reveals in simple steps how things could be handled, made and developed in easy approaches with the best of materials and skills using sufficient knowledge to guide the explorer.</p>
<p>This useful platform has attracted millions of readers and fans who are constantly seeking for ‘Know-how’ solutions on the various types of tasks at hand. A wide array of task categories is available with well developed online guides to assist users from start to finish with resounding success.</p>
<p>A special web-based community is formed with the flexibility of contributors of relevant guides on any category of task. Every interested individual is welcomed to submit their own guide on their preferred task or project as well as make edits to existing pages to enhance the quality of the guide posted. Edits to posted guides could include adding on pictures or correcting inaccurate instructions as well as correcting typo errors or grammatical mistakes in the article.</p>
<p>The platform boasts of thousands of ‘How-to’ guides from all walks of life across the globe with a high ranking by Google Analytics. It also boasts of being one of the most popular websites with millions of readers every month.</p>
<p>There are certain standards and formats which a wikiHow article or guide must comply with to be posted and viewed.</p>
<p><strong>Money Spinning Opportunity</strong></p>
<p>wikiHow is a special online site that is driven by writers and editors who are primarily volunteers. These individuals collaborate dynamically to generate high quality ‘How-to’ guide articles to benefit those seeking simple and free solutions to their daily needs that would enhance their living.</p>
<p>Contributors could come from any part of the earth with online submissions if they have a plausible solution to a problem or task that needs a simple solution. Contributors who have dynamic solutions in addressing certain problems or difficulties in life or work could submit their helpful information for sharing on this network to benefit others in that predicament.</p>
<p>One of the ways in which a wikiHow writer or editor could generate income from their article contribution is through paid advertising on the article pages. A lot of businesses are willing to pay the contributors for an ad space on their ‘How-to’ guide pages if these contributing writers or editors are notable on their writing skills in developing great guide articles on this platform.</p>
<p>Article contributors may choose their preferred paid ads to be displayed along their articles for a fee if they were offered by interested advertising merchants. Setting changes on these ads could be controlled by the article contributor to allow or disallow the ad to pop up when one logs in.</p>
<p>With the primary objective of wikiHow being the main focal point of article contributors, sharing ‘How-to’ information freely on this platform is essential. However, a personal blog could be developed to promote the wikiHow article with paid advertisements to generate the desired income. This may be an indirect money spinning opportunity which holds true to the basis of wikiHow.</p>
<p>Many online entrepreneurs expand their market reach and visibility for their personal Internet business ventures by participating in wikiHow with excellent ‘How-to’ guides that are posted on this platform for free. However, these enterprising entrepreneurs also have their own web business site where they post high quality related content that is interesting and captivating to drive massive traffic to boost their own online business ventures. Backlinks may be considered on wikiHow guide articles to direct traffic from this platform to the entrepreneur’s web business site for a greater exposure to the business.</p>
<p>wikiHow contributors could also be affiliate marketers who manipulate affiliate marketing to benefit themselves in earning more side income. This simple marketing option allows the affiliate marketer cum wikiHow contributor to enjoy more earnings with a simple integration of both platforms if executed professionally.</p>
<p>Promotional products and services could be readily introduced professionally through article marketing and blogs on behalf of selected merchants. This would open the floodgates to more traffic and sales for higher profits desired by the marketer. Every affiliate product or service could be generated as a ‘How-to’ guide on behalf of the advertising merchant who may offer excellent commissions for every high quality guide article published on wikiHow.</p>
<p>wikiHow contributors who are creative in their literary skills could seek out companies that have a variety of products and services to be promoted to generate appropriate ‘How-to’ guide articles on wikiHow for free but be paid by the company. That same company could also advertise its web business site on that article page if endorsed by the wikiHow contributor. High commissions could be secured for generating a well written wikiHow guide article, especially if the response to the article is encouraging. But more pay could be garnered with the permitted company ad on the guide page itself. Hence, the wikiHow contributor would be basically reaping a double income from the same source when the article is manipulated in different approaches.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>A little creativity and initiative is all that is needed for a wikiHow contributor to make big bucks on this philanthropic platform. Such contributors would certainly feel good to share their knowledge and skills freely to assist those who are unable to afford professional assistance, but at the same time, these contributors are able to generate some income for themselves.</p>
<p>Nothing feels better than being able to contribute to society with a side income.</p>
<p>If you want to receive more tips on how you can make money online you can visit Dirk Wagner&#8217;s website at the link below. He will give away 90 How-To videos plus several other goodies which will help you a lot to start a successful online business.</p>
<p><a href="http://rewardunow.com/90videos" target="_blank">http://rewardunow.com/90videos</a></p>
<p><em>This is a guest post written by Dirk Wagner, if you&#8217;d like to be considered for a guest post contact me.</em></p>
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		<title>How a Nobody Made 3K in Sales on The Warrior Forum</title>
		<link>https://michaelcheney.com/blog/2016/04/04/how-a-nobody-made-3k-in-sales-on-the-warrior-forum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 09:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cheney</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Can a newbie really sell an internet marketing product on the the Warrior Forum or in JV Zoo and earn money? If you are a nobody (a.k.a. newbie) like me and you are selling &#8220;how to&#8221; information products, your chance of getting sales and building a buyers list is from zero to slim. You just cannot teach [&#8230;]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can a newbie really sell an internet marketing product on the the Warrior Forum or in JV Zoo and earn money?</p>
<p>If you are a nobody (a.k.a. newbie) like me and you are selling &#8220;how to&#8221; information products, your chance of getting sales and building a buyers list is from zero to slim. You just cannot teach about getting traffic and coaching those marketing tactics because you have to establish first your credibility to a tightly knitted community which will take time to nurture. You can try PLR pdfs and videos, but it won&#8217;t cut it because the WF buyers will know you are not the author or an expert you claim to be at all.</p>
<p>The Warrior Forum, arguably the biggest internet marketers&#8217; forum is populated by experienced marketers and newbies looking for gurus or mentors. So how did I do it and what you should do too?</p>
<p><strong>What should you be selling first if you are a newbie and have no connections?</strong></p>
<p>Marketing software is the best product to sell. First, it has a higher perceived value compared to training courses, pdfs and videos. Second, if the software is top-notch, the buyers won&#8217;t give a damn if you are a newbie or not. Remember the &#8220;what&#8217;s in it for me&#8221; is the mantra of most of the buyers. The demo of the how good the software and how it can help them in their marketing efforts are the ones doing the selling.</p>
<p>Look at the top 3 bestselling products to date in JV Zoo below are all software. Need I say any more? The figures speak for themselves. No contest really.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3518" src="http://www.johnthornhill.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/topsoftwaresale.jpg" alt="topsoftwaresale" width="973" height="294" /></p>
<p><strong>But software development is costly and I am not sure if the is what the marketers want ?</strong></p>
<p>There is another easy way. Buy reseller or agency rights. I have bought agency rights for $10 as a bonus from a developer many times over and have sold it and I am still selling it on JV Zoo with my own affiliates to boot. I have bought 200 reseller rights for less than $200 which I already have earned 15 times the purchase price and I&#8217;m still halfway to finish selling all the rights. I just recently paid another $10 for a product for the bonus of having my product emailed to thousands of subscribers. And guess what product I promoted?  A reseller software product I have in JVZoo and it has done well for a $10 purchase.</p>
<p>Look at my sales in WSO forum below. While majority of the gurus and the veterans in the Warrior Forum are selling their wares from a ridiculously 5 dollars to 17 dollars and have to answer to so many doubters, I am selling my reseller software products for&#8230; wait for it&#8230; $47 a pop. A pricey one compared to the average sale price inside the forum. You can check my <a href="http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-forum-classified-ads/1127558-profit-canvas-2016-have-your-own-products-software-training-less-than-dinner-2-a.html#post10499245" target="_blank">WSO sales page here</a> to learn how I presented the product.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3521" src="http://www.johnthornhill.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/guestpostprofitcanvas.jpg" alt="guestpostprofitcanvas" width="973" height="292" /></p>
<p><strong>What are the guidelines I followed in choosing a good reseller software products ?</strong></p>
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<li>Only buy reseller rights from top-notch software developers with world class support. There are many of them but be careful of some the fly-by-night ones that disappears once the software has major problems.</li>
<li>Make sure that the software was a best seller when launched. The software I am selling had more than 3,000 plus happy buyers. Buy only software that has sold at least a thousand with no bad feedback.</li>
<li>Support should be handled directly by the developer himself so you will be hands off from any technical support. Your role is to make sure the buyer has no problem accessing the product. If the developer cannot do support for the life of the software, then it is a sign that it is not a good buy and may trigger refunds.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Where can I find a top-notch software I can use to build a buyers list ?</strong></p>
<p>Most of these reseller softwares are on limited time only and comes as special from time to time only. However, you might qualify to <a href="http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-forum-classified-ads/1162966-mafia-offer-free-lifetime-access-50k-lead-generation-software-serious-new-list-builders.html" target="_blank">receive free 4 top-notch softwares </a> available in Profit Canvas Pro if you are serious about list building using email autoresponders.</p>
<p><strong>So where will I go from here after they bought the software ?</strong></p>
<p>Every buyer will be a part of your buyers list as long as you have an autoresponder integrated into JVZoo. It is a must that you own a reseller software products in JVZoo to build a buyers list. How to develop and nurture your buyers list is another topic but in general, you should continue to give then valuable content as you go through. One example is this real experience post I shared to my buyers list which can be another stream of income for them.</p>
<p>Did you find this post helpful ?  You can visit my blog at <a href="http://eknowledgesite.com/" target="_blank">eknowledgesite.com </a> for more e-learning  practical strategies.</p>
<p><em>This is a guest post written by Carlo Viana, if you want to be considered for a guest post contact me.</em></p>
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		<title>Doing Content Creation The Right Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 05:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cheney</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[When content creation is done correctly it makes your online presence more visible and everything all the more easier. However you need to create good content on a regular basis so that it becomes engaging and holds an audience. So how can you create profitable content on a consistent basis? The strategy that you need [&#8230;]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When content creation is done correctly it makes your online presence more visible and everything all the more easier. However you need to create good content on a regular basis so that it becomes engaging and holds an audience.</p>
<p>So how can you create profitable content on a consistent basis?</p>
<p>The strategy that you need to focus on is creating content consistently. Even if you suck at it first, if you keep developing content with confidence you’ll get to creating it with excellence.</p>
<p>Nobody is judging your content for its grammar, spellings or sentence structure. It’s not high school where your teacher will mark what you do with a red pen. Just write what you like best. Yes, good grammar and sentence structure are attractive but if you focus on writing what you want the public to know and the information is basic and authentic that’s pretty much what’s needed.</p>
<p>The best way you can create engaging content is to write as if you are talking to your audience. Write in the third person and talk to your reader. Be open in your writing as if you are having a conversation with someone you know.</p>
<p>Another thing that you can do to write good content is to tell the public what they don’t know. For example, if you run an online store selling clothes and accessories, you can focus on creating content that encourages people about dressing up; talk to them about latest fashion trends or what’s hot and in style. Make content that is of interest to people. Write what you would like to read yourself. Talk because dry content wouldn’t attract readers. Make lists, write about how to do different things etc.</p>
<p>People will be attracted to your opinion. Voice what you believe in and speak that out loud. That doesn’t literally mean in your own voice but tell people what your belief is so that they can know.</p>
<p>Stay away from private label rights. This PLR is you buying someone else’s content and calling it your own. If you do this, your business/product wouldn’t come across as it’s supposed to. It won’t have that personal feeling attached to it.</p>
<p>Powerful content creation is no big deal. If you learn how to hook your readers and keep them engaged you can easily sell your content to them without any hassle. Just make sure to stay neutral in your approach, write what you believe in. Don’t engage in writing paid content or reviews or else you’ll lose readers.</p>
<p>If you want to learn the secrets of creating powerful and very profitable content in as little time as possible then you need to visit <a href="http://jtpcoach.com/contentcreationblueprint" target="_blank">http://jtpcoach.com/contentcreationblueprint</a>.</p>
<p>Here you will find whatever you need to know about powerful content. It’s easy and not at all time consuming. Just follow the link and in no time you’ll have the key to high end content creation in front of you. No need to worry anymore. This is where you can learn the art of ultimate content creation.</p>
<p><em>This is a guest post written by Ramiro Trevino, if you&#8217;d like to be considered for a guest post please contact me.</em></p>
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