Internet Business

One day I was talking to a friend who had made his money in real estate. He had bought apartment buildings, paid them off, and now lives off of the income his building bring in month after month. I said that sounds easy enough. He told me that if he had to do that today he wouldn’t even try. At the time he bought his buildings real estate doubled in price about every 6 to 8 years. He told me that you would have to wait at least double the years to see any real increase in value.

But the concept of having multiple income streams coming in month after month intrigued me. Online is the absolute easiest means of doing this. An income that continues to come in whether you work or not, and that does exist.

Many programs promise to do this for you. But the problem with most of these “opportunities” is that they are money-making ventures aimed NOT at giving YOU the opportunity to earn a significant income, but are rather schemes designed to line the pockets of the programs’ creators!

So the problem is how do you find the programs that will create that multiple income stream. Why not let the experts do it for you. That’s what we do. There are experts out there looking for the best programs, and they will share that information with you, after all, it benefits everyone when they do.

What To Look For

Whether you follow a program such as the ebizrotator for example to have new opportunities delivered to you or you are looking for opportunities yourself there are some criteria you should use to judge whether a program is worth the time and investment. For example the company should provide or have:

The company should provide some legal information about their company.

A product or service that has real value at a fair price.

A compensation plan that provides for spillover (you get members under you automatically).

And a forced matrix that “compresses” (you’ll never have “holes” in your group).

If the product or service is not distributed via network marketing a revenue share or commission pay out that pays a good commission, at least 10% to 20% or more.

The complete specs on their technical aspects including their server information etc. Are they using a shared or dedicated server.

A complete profile of everyone on the program’s management team.

A means to contact downline members

A money back guarantee

A try it free program so you can learn.

Running Multiple Programs

It’s highly unlikely that if you try to become successful trying to run multiple programs that you will have the success you are looking for. The trick is to develop one program then move on to the next one. You can try and join free programs to “get in line” so to speak and when they launch you can decide whether you have the time or decide whether the program deserves your attention to make it successful. For example I recently heard about a new search engine called ZaBang. They have the intention of becoming one of the top search engines on the Internet an sharing their revenues with you. You can join free, check out their information and when they launch and you can decide whether it’s worth your while. You can join free here.

Another option is to use a service such as the ebizrotator that are screening opportunities for you. That way you have some confidence that these opportunities are worth the work you put into them.

Online Success Programs

Even if you join a good program getting that message out to as many people as possible is at times very difficult. Use the expert advice that we do. The 5 Pillar Program is free to join and you get literally thousands of free pages of information on how to build a successful Internet business. This is well worth the time and can get you started on the right foot.

About The Author:

Bob Power has been an educator, Internet entrepreneur and author of tutorials, the newest trends found on the Internet, and Internet work at home business. He is the owner and operator of WYYNvillage.com, a group of web sites dedicated to community and Internet business. For more articles on this subject and more visit his articles site.

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Everybody makes mistakes, but nobody likes to talk about them. We feel silly and foolish, even though we could not possibly have known. I know I have made many mistakes during my online business career and it’s embarassing! While my rational brain knows it is not really true, my irrational brain thinks that the whole world has seen my mistake and is pointing and laughing at me.

One of my biggest mistakes was not getting the account information when I first registered my domain. That may sound silly to some, but as a beginner I had no idea how to register a domain name or what I might need the login information for. I had my host register it and everything worked fine, great! Eventually, when I wanted to change hosts, I started to think about how to access my registration account. I had to ask the host and luckily they gave it to me with no problem.

Another early mistake was uploading web pages with graphics that included the wrong path. I know a lot of people do this when they start. You want to include a graphic from your hard drive on your web page, so you select it and it looks gorgeous. Great! You upload the page. Unfortunately, people online can’t see the graphic because the web site is looking for it on YOUR hard drive! Worse is when your helpful computer supplies the image from your hard and you don’t realize that the rest of the world can’t see it!

SPAM. Almost everyone sends some SPAM when they start, mostly without even knowing it. Replying to ad confirmation emails is not allowed, who knew? And buying a list to send ads to is also SPAM. Those people didn’t say, “Cathy, send me your ad,” so they cannot be considered an “opt-in” list. Again who knew? Outblaze STILL won’t let my mail get through to some domains! To this day I wonder how list sellers can get away with it.

How long did it take you to realize you must always include mailing list addresses in the Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy) field of your email message? Not long for me! I had people writing me hate mail immediately because I was displaying their address to everyone on my list! One kind, but snide, person clued me in to using the Bcc field.

How about posting an ad with no URL? Come on! You’ve done it! I’ve done it, too.

Less common mistakes I’ve made include editing a bit of ad copy that had finally made it to the first page a huge site. That little boo-boo put my ad at the end of the list, totally burying it again.

I tried a loading page once. One that said “Please wait while the site is loading” so that viewers would see the complete page at once instead of loading bit by bit. BIG MISTAKE! Nobody ever bothered to wait.

I’ve changed hosts and forgot to include subdirectories when I uploaded the site to the new server.

I’ve had various bugs, bad URL’s and web site snafus that are really too numerous to mention. I have grown to hate cgi.

I don’t know if this is really my mistake, but it sure looked like one to a brand new client. My hard drive crashed right in the middle of emailing back and forth with him. It took me several days to repair it and I never heard from him again.

I hope this will help you to avoid some of the most common online business mistakes. If you’ve already made them, at least you know you are not alone.

About the Author - Cathy Wagner, owner of ONE STOP Internet Business
Services, will help you reach your online business goals faster with expert, hands-on marketing guidance and support, personalized for you own unique business. Learn how to save hundreds of dollars and countless hours of frustration with her complete Online Profits System and recommendations for over 100 online business tools and services.

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Credibility is the ultimate foundation of the success of any business. It is especially important on the Internet. By building credibility people will trust you, you will create a better relationship with them, which will ultimately lead to more business for you.

So what can you do to increase your credibility and enhance your reputation online?

Here are 25 ways quick points for you to consider:

1. Provide quality products and service.

2. Design a user-friendly simple easy to navigate website. Focus on providing useful information, details about the products and services you sell, how the customer can benefit from it.

3. Regularly update all of the information on your site.

4. Put a privacy statement on your website that includes your policy toward protecting customer’s personal data, and reassure people that you’re not going to sell their data to other companies for marketing purposes.

5. Give excellent customer service.

6. Offer and stand behind money-back guarantee.

7. Confirm order sales by e-mail.

8. Always put a contact info on your site so potential and return customers can easily contact you.

9. Present real-life testimonials from satisfied customers on your website.

10. Make a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page and post it on your website.

11. Use auto-responders for follow ups and to provide answers to commonly asked questions.

12. Answer all your inquires as soon as possible.

13. Personalize all your emails whenever possible.

14. Abide “Netiquette” - don’t spam = don’t send unsolicited email.

15. Use permission “opt-in” and “opt-out” choices in your marketing campaigns.

16. Promote back-end and repeated sales.

17. Initiate Viral Marketing - start a “virus” by offering a free gift, download, consulting session, or other unique special offer to your hottest prospects. Invite them to visit your website to redeem your offer. More importantly, encourage them to “Tell a Friend” about the offer, giving them and extra incentive if they do so.

18. Offer E-Courses. F.e. a simple e-course which can show your consumers how to use your product or service, or teach your affiliates/resellers on how to sell it.

19. Write and submit press releases.

20. Write your own articles and offer them free for publishing. Articles will help establish you as an expert in your field, increasing your credibility instantly.

21. Publish your own newsletter.

22. Foster an Online Community - offer discussion forum, exchange of ideas. Repeat visitors are more likely to buy from you as they grow to trust your dedication to meeting their particular needs.

23. Use stealth e-mail marketing campaigns through newsgroups, forums and discussing boards.
Offer free advice, suggestion, tips so people start recognizing and remembering you.

24. Join complementary Affiliate/Associate programs. Chose only a good quality programs you can honesty endorse and recommend to your customers.

25. Connect with similar or complimentary businesses for joint-ventures, so both of you can benefit.

Dagmar Rakos is a Webmaster and Publisher of ArticlesMoneyMachine.com - the site which helps you to Build Money Making Content Websites Fast Without the Worry About Duplicate Content Penalty! Highly Optimized Adsense Templates included.

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