Do Not Browse The Internet Again, Until You Read This!

When last did you visit the Internet and did exactly the only thing that took you there?

Chances are that you wanted to visit a blog or a website where you will get information that will help you increase your knowledge of your business, which will eventually lead to increased income. But before then you wanted to check your private mail to know whether a relative or bossom friend sent you a mail, and then before you logged into your inbox, you saw a catchy MSN or Yahoo news headline on Obama or George Bush, Clinton, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Beyonce, Shakira, Sean Connery, your favorite actor, your football club, your best artiste or just anybody or anything. You love politics or business or sports or entertainment, so you click on the news on your area of interest. After the news, you either consider making some further findings on what you read (yes, I bet you will want to do that because we are at the age of information, and nobody wants to get it second hand. Besides, who knows if you will be the next President Obama or the next Bill Gates or Abramovic or the big time investor in the next award-winning movie or music?), or you quickly check your inbox, and there lies some messages from your friends in Myspace, or Facebook. Then you want to reply the message. Then before you know it, you sign in for chatting. You are yet to visit the site or blog that made you want to browse the Internet in the first place. And as these things are happening, another important thing is also taking place: time is fast ticking away!

There are so many scenarios that I can’t quite remember now. But sadly enough, they exist and all they do is take your precious time. You hardly browse the internet and come out having done exactly what you had actually planned to do, except, of course, you know what I’m about to tell you now.

So, how did I know? I wonder if that question is necessary, considering the detailed description I gave of exactly what obtains when you browse the Internet casually. I’ve been there before, that’s why I know what is obtainable. Browsing the Internet in a casual manner is destructive, or better put, a waste of resources. You waste your time and you waste your money. You might even be surprised that some people will drift from the conditions mentioned above to pornographic sites where they will spend the rest of the day getting sexually aroused (This is especially if the person has his personal computer).
The reason you practically loiter around the World Wide Web jumping from one website to another aimlessly is because you do browse the Internet casually. And if you are an Internet marketer, it is a crime against yourself.
You see, the way we learnt about the Internet was that it is for pastime. You just go there when you want to lazy about or chat with a friend. And to so many people, the Internet has not changed from that. It still is where you visit casually and come out the same way. That casual mentality has made even those who are into on-line business to see money therefrom as “money that comes by the way”

But today, I have an advice for you: each time you want to browse the Internet, plan and write down in black and white, whatever you want to do on the Internet!
This is also why you need to have your writing materials handy, so that each time a thought about what you want to do on the Internet comes into your mind, you will have somewhere to record it.

Once you write down whatever you want to do on paper, and visit the Internet with the paper where you outlined where and where you want to visit, then you’ve got the precision of a man working with his “to-do list”. This way nothing will distract you because your notebook (or a very small jotter) will act as your compass that directs you on where you are sailing to, and get you focused whenever there’s any likelyhood of you getting derailed. I have my little jotter, which I use as my compass as far as browsing the Internet is concerned. It keeps me organised throughout my stay on the Internet, for each day.
This advice can easily be overlooked (in fact it is too simple to mean much to unserious marketers.), but it has the capacity to make a success of many struggling on-line marketers.

SEVEN BENEFITS IN INTERNET FORUMS

Internet forums are wonerful places to be, especially as an Internet marketer. If you join forums in your niche, then be sure to benefit so much, especially when you try as much as you can to be active in the forums. Just take a look at the following benefits:
Ø Free Knowledge: In forums you have access to knowledge worth some real money for free. Forum members are ever willing to share their knowledge and experience with others, and you can, especially as a newbie, benefit from these free knowledge.
Ø Cost Saving: You are saved cost by having somethings that you would ordinarily spend money to achieve given you for free by your forum members. When I was to publish my first site, I had some difficulties. Yet I had it piblished by a member of one of the forums I belong. I would have spent so much money to have someone else do it for me.
Ø Mentorship: Forum members provide a form of mentorship to newbies. There are those in every forum who are ever willing and ready to offer you help in every topic. And from there you can even develop a lasting business relationship with some of the gurus in the industry.
Ø Opportunity to build credibility: Forums offer you the opportunity to build credibilty and establish yourself as a guru in the Industry where you operate. If you are the open-minded type that will always offer help to peopl, especially the newbies, you will soon be seen as a guru and an established expert in the Industry. The idea here is for you to always be willing and ready to offer useful help to people.
Ø Opportunity to advertise your products: The forums have sections where you can advertise your products for free. This is also another way of saving you cost. You also have the opportunity of advertising yourself.
Ø Early Guidance: I was in warrior forum and saw forum members discussing a particular product that was bought by some of them and found out that the product was just nonsense, and worse still, when they asked for refund as promised by the product owner, he said their guarrantee was just for thirty days and that the time to ask for refund was over. This issue actually came up because somebody in the forum wanted to buy this product and wanted to inquire from the forum members whether to go ahead with the purchase or not. After all he heard about the product, I’m sure no charm in this world would make him want to buy any product from this owner.
Ø Source of Motivation: You can easily see people who will give you the motivation and encouragement you need to keep on in your business and eventually succeed. It is great to have people of like minds and in the same business line who are willing to co-operate with you and help in building you up. Remember that iron sharpeneth iron.

These are some of the benefits of joining Internet forums. And if you are yet to join one, I wonder what it is you are still waiting for.

WHAT EXACTLY IS GOOGLE ADSENSE?

You have seen Google Adsense time without number. There are lots of them placed on so many sites that you may have visited. You could just visit a site and either on top of the site, along the sides, or under it, you see some small text ads that are placed on them. And you will always see written on them “Ads by Google”.
The idea behind Adsense is quite interesting. Google is one of the smartest organizations in the world. They want to help as many Internet visitors as possible to get what they want from the Internet. Google advertises for people and they charge these people for the service.
Now what they do is to use other peoples’ sites to place these ads. That is like making use of leverage. They charge people based on how much the people are willing to pay per click. And as they place these same ads on the sites of individuals and organisations, they pay the owners of these sites some part of what they charge the ads owners. It is like connecting those who advertise with their money and those who have the medium through which these adverts can be seen by the world. Google obviously make their money as the difference between the amount they charge the advertisers and the amount they pay the website owners or, as they are called by Google, “the publishers”.

Once you open an Adsense account with Google, you are given a code, which you place on your web pages or your blog (if you like blogging). What Google then does is to look for ads that are related to the content of your sites and place them on the pages that contain issues that are relevant to the ads. For instance, if your site is talking about dogs, you could have ads on dog food, dog medicine and just dog-related items placed on your site. Interestingly too, each page of your site is given ad texts that are related to the content of the page.
You make money with Adsense when people (visitors to your site) click on these ads. The amount of money you make is calculated by first considering how much Google pays per click, multiplied by the number of clicks per day, multiplied by the number of clicked ads and finally multiplied by the period in consideration (mostly one month). That obviously means that the amount of money anybody can make from Google Adsense is totally dependent on the number of people who visit your site within the period under consideration. It also means that the contents of your site must be good enough to attract and keep enough visitors to your site.

How To Make Money From Blogs Without Google

Most people who have heard about making money with blogs think about using Adsense alone to make money. This could be as a result of the knowledge available to them. Actually, making money with one’s blog should not just be limited to Google Adsense alone. I for one have been an advocate of discouraging monopoly in every business. And so it excites me whenever I see that there is a relatively good alternative to achieving anything in business. Here I will list to you some other ways to make money with your blog.
· www.chitika.com: this is another site that helps bloggers make more money with advertisements. And interestingly too, you can run it together with Google Adsense. All you need to do is log on to their site, apply to be a publisher, giving them all the necessary and true information about you and wait for them to approve your application. Chitika has made a lot of bloggers some real huge amounts of cash. Some bloggers even say they prefer it to Google Adsense.
· www.amazon.com: a lot of people think amazon is just about books. Not true. Becoming an associate of amazon is an incredible way of making money. Here you send your visitors to Amazon products through links and banners from your blog. If your visitors click on the ads and banners from your blog, then there’s an earning for you on all purchases they make during their shopping session with Amazon.
· Affiliate Programs: Most people already know what affiliate programs are. But for the benefits of those who do not know, an affiliate program is a designed system that allows you to promote someone else’s product and got paid for doing that.
In very simple terms, this is what an affiliate program is: you look for a niche you like (and which must be profitable, of course), you check out products in the niche whose owners run affiliate programs, you study how much they pay you per sale (that is the percentage of the sales price of the product), you check out other things like product quality, and the credibilty of the product owners, you create your blog, sign up with them and start promoting the product.

Now, there are so many sites that are links between those who have products they want to sell through affiliates and those who want to promote other peoples products (the affiliates themselves). As a blog owner, signing up with any of these sites will boos the income that your blog generates. Below are the sites:
v www.clickbank.com
v www.paydotcom
v www.netriches.thesecondtier.com
v www.cj.com
v www.hydranetwork.com
v www.maxbounty.com
v www.moreniche.com
v www.markethealth.com
Using any or two of these to generate income through your blog will be worth the reading of this post.

WHAT EXACTLY IS GOOGLE ADWORDS?

If you have ever searched for anything on the homepage of Google, then chances are very bright that you know what Google Adwords are.
These are the ads placed beside results of searched items on the homepage of Google.They are also placed on the pages of other websites that are owned by individuals or organizations. The way it operates is very simple. People use Google to advertise and Google charges them for such services. Now the amount that Google charges these people is open to competition. It is called bidding. Let us assume you want to use the keyword “internet dating” and you are willing to pay Google 50cents if anybody clicks it, and then another person, say Mr. X, wants to use the same keywords and he is willing to pay Google 60cents when anybody clicks the ads, Google will place the ads of the man who is willing to pay 60cents on top of the adverts column and place yours under it. Whoever bids more gets a higher placement. And as soon as anybody who is searching for anything on the Internet clicks on the ad, Google removes the bidded amount from the account of the the man who placed the ad. This model is what is called pay per click (ppc).

This system of advertising, though somewhat costly, is a great way of getting your products and services noticed by a great number of people on the Internet. And the results are so fast that an entirely newbie can launch his website this morning, set up his Google Adwords account, and before evening he has started making huge sales. It is faster than any other known means of generating traffic to one’s website.
Another beautiful thing about this is that you do not have the control of the number of people that will see your advert. In fact you don’t even know them. You could be sleeping and people from different parts of the world are busy visting your site and are either making purchases or are registering their names and email addresses on your site, thereby helping you grow your list of would-be customers.