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Start Earning Cash Today. There is nothing better than being your own boss. Looking For A Change? Do you want to make money online working at your own schedule from the comfort of your own home or office?

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In fact, if you are reading this article the odds are that you are interested in working online. So, the question I put to you, is it such an endeavor lucrative?

The first thing that we need to consider is what we mean when talk about working from home. Day traders work online, but trading stocks is not the type of activity that I am referring to here. When I talk about working online, I am talking about doing things like blogging and operating websites from which you make money.

There are all sorts of ways to make money online, but I am just going to focus on the one-man operations, the people who typically own a website. Do these people make a lot of money? The short answer is: It Depends.

For the top earners in the profession, internet marketing can be very lucrative. Some people who own popular websites that provide a service or sell a product make over a million dollars a year. But this is not typical. Most people who try to make a living online quit before ever earning more than a thousand dollars. That is just the reality of the matter. But, those who do stick out, sometimes end up making a very nice living working from home on their computers.

How much can a typical person make?

A hard working internet marketer can make around $50,000 a month if they are skillful and savvy. But, like I said, most never approach these levels of earnings. Nevertheless, the lure of making that much draws many people into the fold. To take advantage of such people there are internet marketers who sell products that claim to teach people how to make money online. I have bought a few of these products in my time and I never learned how to make a lot of money from them.

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The fact of the matter is that the information that you need to make a living on the internet is available for free on countless websites. If you believe you have what it takes, I would encourage to begin educating yourself. The sooner that you begin, the sooner you can start to earn.

Of all the marketing tools that a business uses, brochures are among the most effective. They allow the business owner to get specific information into the hands of many target customers.

However, as in most areas of life, there is always room for improvement. You should constantly monitor the success of your brochure printing projects, and constantly search for ways to improve. Incorporate a method of determining how a customer has heard of you. In other words, when a customer buys from you, find out if they were driven to your business by your brochures or by some other means. That will tell you how effective your brochures have been.

Here are some additional tips to help you constantly improve you brochure campaigns:

Always Strive for Improvement

It is always good to have goals. In business, it is absolutely essential. Whenever you design a new brochure printing project, your goal should be to improve upon your last effort. If you have determined (through your monitoring system) that your last brochure generated a response rate of 5%, then aim for 10% on your next ones. Or, if you have determined that 500 customers were driven to your store by your last brochure, set a goal of 750 for your next brochures. Set a specific goal for your business.

Try Different Versions

If possible, produce several different types of brochures and monitor the success rate of each. Keep track of which brochures were most effective, and incorporate the aspects of the winning brochure in all of your future efforts.

If you cannot afford to produce more than one type of brochure, do not worry. Each time you print brochures, you are producing a different type. As you monitor the success (of failure) of each brochure printing project, you will find out what methods work and what methods do not work. Make sure to constantly record these results and incorporate all of the effective methods into your future advertising campaigns.

Follow Up

As we have mentioned, you have to have a system in place to monitor how effective your brochures are. In addition, you should ask your customers if they like your brochures or not. When a customer comes in and says that it was your brochure that led them to you, ask them what aspects of your brochure were most effective for them.

Be a Copy-Cat

Take a look at what other companies are doing with their brochures. This includes your competitors; do not be afraid to look at your competitors’ brochures. I am not saying that you should blatantly copy anything that they are doing. Obviously, that would be a violation of copyright laws. But try to determine what aspects of their brochures are working, and incorporate those methods into your own efforts.

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The internet is just not the greatest marketplace; it is also a goldmine if you know how to use it to your advantage. If you are a student or someone wanting to make money online fast then there is a lot of hope for you. Most people believe that you can’t grow rich overnight, which is true but you surely can make fast cash. All you require is a PC and an internet connection.

Yes! We are talking about affiliate marketing and this is one market that has grown in leaps and bounds over the last 5-7 years. So what is this business model we are talking about? It is more of relationship marketing where a company sells their products through an affiliate and the affiliate gets a certain amount of commission for the same. If you want to get into affiliate marketing then you need to have at least a website. This is important because as an affiliate you will need to place a link of the business whose affiliate program you have opted for.

Once you have a link on your website, people visiting your website will click on these links and this might mean thousands of impressions every month. If the people clicking on the link to visit the company website buy the product or service then you will get a percentage of the sale or sometimes a flat rate. The important aspect is that the customer should buy the product but this is a win-win situation for you because you have nothing to lose.

We all know that the online content industry is worth millions of dollars, but today millions of sales are lost due to inefficient or incomplete payment services that do not solve all the concerns of the customer and cater to their every need. The question is how do we fix this and turn consumers browsing the web into customers.

Well one of the things that would help would be to put up more payment options, in fact, the more the merrier! Consumers are more likely to purchase content if they can choose the payment method that suits them. According to research that was done by CyberSource, merchants can convert as many as 20% more customers by offering them more payment options to choose from.

The problem is there are so many options, it is very hard to choose which ones would work the best and convert more customers, and each payment option has it own glitches in the system, here are some examples:

Some payment options work very well for inside the US but once you live abroad, you have a problem to pay through them. Some payment options require the customer opening an online account with them and funding it from their credit card or bank account. That might be a problem for teenagers or others who do not have a credit card or bank account, which according to the Yankee Group, are 40% of internet users .

Some content providers opt to put their content on the operators’ portal and not have to deal with payment processing issues. This means that the mobile operator has put the site up on his “walled internet garden” and the customer gets charged for the download through his mobile operator monthly bill. But will that really solve all the problems? That will definitely not help users who download content to their PC’s and not to their mobile, they cannot charge the content to their mobile bill. And what about all the users that surf outside the operators portal, how will the merchant generate that audience to his site? Also the revenue share that the merchant receives from the mobile operator is pretty low. The “walled gardens”, or the operators portals are crumbling due to customer demand for “open internet” browsing. Mobile carriers are not the only way for buying content to the handset, consumers are downloading also from the open web and from their personal collections. According to Parks Associates’ “The New Frontier: Portable and Mobile Gaming” report, US mobile games sold through carrier decks are predicted to generate 72% of revenue in 2012, down from 90% in 2007.

Then there is the issue of credit cards. First of all, not everyone owns one, and second; people are less reluctant to use their credit cards for micropayments since they are worried about security issues, fraud and identity theft. Online fraud and identity theft have sadly become a daily event, as online shopping become more popular because of its convenience. Hardly a day goes by where we do not hear of an individual whose life was destroyed or nearly destroyed because someone hacked into their personal information and made purchases on their behalf, leaving them to “pick up” the bill. In 2007 in America alone identity fraud reached $45 billion in losses and affected 8.1 million American consumers! (According to a research conducted by Javelin Strategy & Research)

Of course this is a worldwide epidemic and the numbers are staggering and growing as we speak…

If people’s worries about security issues were at ease, the pool of online shoppers would become greater.

So what is the answer, how can merchants create a bigger churn and more customers?

Remember my initial answer, more online payment? Well there is a relatively new “kid on the block” for payment processing for digital downloads.

eBIZ.mobility LTD has created a revolutionary online payment processing service for digital downloads, called OneTouch Online Purchasing™. The OneTouch Online Purchasing™ service enables consumers to purchase digital content (such as music, ring tones, games, video clips, wallpapers etc.), via their computer or their mobile handset, and charge their purchase directly to a billing account with any telecom service provider, bank, or ISP of their choice. Simply put, OneTouch allows your customers to make purchases without the need of a credit card, or even a PayPal account.

Using OneTouch to make an online purchase, no personal or financial information is transmitted to the merchant, or to OneTouch. Their payment system was designed to eradicate the possibility of identity theft online. It’s simple really: since they do not store any personal or financial information anywhere in their system there is nothing for criminals to steal.

By offering OneTouch as an additional payment method alongside or as an extension to other payment options, merchants will be able to reach millions of consumers who are afraid or unable to use traditional payment methods. OneTouch solves the problem of consumers overseas who want a fast way to buy online since there are no country limitations for using this payment method.

It solves the problem for teenagers and others who have no access to credit cards or simply do not want to use them for online micropayments and it solves the problem for those who are afraid to give out any personal information online. So by adding the OneTouch payment solution to your other online payment services, your site has a better chance of casting the net on potential consumers giving them an all round solution to their limitations and fears.

Millions of dollars are floating on the internet sea waiting to be caught. By putting multiple payment options on your site you are casting the right nets in place to pull the consumers in and to change them into customers. ..

Nowadays many people are making money working from home via the internet.  There are many different ways this can be done but there are also many scams out there so one must be very careful.

First let me start of with a legit no fee work from home business.  There aren’t too many of these types of home internet businesses, but this is one of the few.  It is called “Niche Marketing” among other similar names.  The basic principle is to create a website about a certain topic that has the ability to make it to the first or second page of the Google search results.  The main reason being that if you can get to the first or second page of Google then it’s highly unlikely anyone will ever find your site.

This Niche Marketing has no fee whatsoever attached to it.  That doesn’t mean however it is without costs.  You will need to buy a domain for each site you make (about $10 per year) and also have webhosting.  It is by no means a scam but of course it is by no means easy either.  You need to have some computing knowledge as you need to buy domains and create websites.  Many use WordPress which is fairly easy to use but even for an experienced computer guy setting up your first WordPress website will take some time.  Once you have done one, of course, it gets very easy.

Further you will need to do “keyword research”.  This is possibly the longest part of the job as you need to find “niches” i.e. keywords where the competition is low so that there is a good chance you will reach the first page of Google, or close to it.

Once you have found your topic then there are a couple of ways you can make money with your new website.  The most popular and perhaps easiest is with Google Adsense.  This is completely free to join and you basically give Google some space on your website and when people click on the ads you earn money.  Very easy!

You can expect to make about $1 per day with Google adsense on a niche site.  (Unless you are lucky enough to find a niche with high search traffic – very hard to find).  The idea is to have many of these websites so that you can make possible $100s per day depending on how many sites you have.  The nice thing is that once the site is set up and running it shouldn’t need any work afterwards.  So you spend a lot of time creating the sites but then you just relax forever as the sites earn money.

You can also make money through affiliate programs.  So if your site is about Pet Toys then you can find another website that sells pet toys and become an affiliate for that site making a commission off of each sale that is made from the customers you send to that site.  Therefore you can have 2 potential forms of income from the same site.

Now perhaps you aren’t very good at creating websites but you are eager to try to make money online.  The other very popular way is by joining some sort of MLM or Pyramid scheme.  Many people think that these are scams but they aren’t really.  Sure there are many that are scams, but just because some are scams doesn’t mean that all of them are.

Things to avoid are anything that sounds like “Google Cash Kit” or “Make Money With Google”, these are very scammy in that they try to sell you a kit for $2-$5 (very low price).  They make it out that this is all you pay, a small fee for the shipping but what you don’t realize is that you have just signed up for a subscription service that might cost you $50-$100 per month.  The crazy thing about this is that it’s completely legal.  The reason being that at the bottom of the page where you provide your credit card details there is some very small writing about the monthly fee.  Of course it is never mentioned anywhere else and all the sales pages make you think that it is just a cheap kit you are buying and all you have to do is pay the shipping.

Another scam to avoid is the work from home stuffing envelopes scam.  The websites promoting this supposed work from home job make it out to be that many companies are willing to pay people to handle and process their mail for them.  This is by no means true.  I should know because I used to fix the machines that are used to perform this job.  Companies like Francotyp Postalia, Pitney Bowes and Neopost all make machines that automate this process and work infinitely faster than any human can.  Further many companies offer this service in bulk (because they have these machines) and it works out to pennies a piece.  So what company in their right mind is going to pay anyone $10 or more per hour to do a job that can be done by a machine at 100 times the speed and therefore much cheaper?  

If you have seen any sites trying to promote this type of work you will notice that you will need to pay a fee in order to do the work.  This is your first alarm signal.  They say the fee is to weed out the people who aren’t serious or to purchase the names and contact details of companies who want this work done but it isn’t true.  You are just buying into a scheme whereby you try to get others to do the same and earn a commission for doing so.  The companies promoting this are not very up front about this so that’s why I would label it as a scam.  You can of course make money from promoting this, but you make your money by duping others into falling into the same trap.  Not a really nice way to make money.

Other scams should be easy to identify.  Any site that has a “guarantee” about the income you can earn is a scam as no one can ever guarantee anything.  All success is down to how much work you put in and a little bit of luck.  This is something that no one in their right mind can make a guarantee for.

Another very popular way to make money legitimately online is to join a real MLM scheme.  One of the most popular and well known schemes is GDI (Global Domains International Inc).  You basically pay $10 per month to be a member and that $10 gets you a very basic webhosting service.  Illegal MLM schemes don’t give you anything for your money (ie no product), but this is a real product.  It just so happens that most people don’t really care about or use the product.  Nevertheless it’s real and legal.  They have been going for about 10 years now and I even think they are traded publicly on the stock market (I could be wrong).  

You earn money by getting others to join, so you advertise on the internet wherever you can.  Most people use free advertising like traffic exchanges and so forth.  The commission is $1 per month per person.  But you also get the same commission if one of your referrals gets a referral.  This happens up to 5 levels down.  So, simply speaking, if you got 1 person per month, and everyone did the same, you would be earning $1000s per month after your first year.  It’s very slow going in the beginning but it picks up as you stick at it and the idea is to get the snowball rolling.  Now the goal of 1 person per month seems very easy but in reality it isn’t.  Not necessarily for you, but perhaps for others.  The numbers all seem very easy in theory, but in practice it just doesn’t happen that way.

However, if you are very skilled in sales and marketing then you will likely be successful with GDI.  They also offer a very good bonus scheme.  If you get 5 signups within a week you can earn a $100 cash bonus.  This is possibly the best bonus scheme available on the internet.

The drawbacks with GDI is that it’s been around for so long so almost everyone is in it or already has been.  The only possible or potential customers are the new people who come to the internet in search of work and haven’t heard of or tried GDI yet (like me a year ago – I am no longer a member now however).  These people can be considered “fresh fish” for GDI marketers.  The thing is there are thousands of thousands of GDI marketers online.  It’s kind of like fishing in a lake where there are thousands of people fishing at the same time.  If 1 new fish enters the lake what are the chances that you will catch it ?  So in the end I dropped out of GDI as I didn’t see a great future in it.  However, that may not be the case for you so by all means give it a try.  The most you can lose is $10 per month.  Don’t let me put you off if you were considering trying it out.  Nothing ventured nothing gained right ?

However before jumping into GDI, you might want to consider some of the new competition that has come on the scene in the last year.  One of the best, in my opinion, is Teamwork Revolution.  They are very similar to GDI in that they are $10/month and the product is again webhosting.  Their webhosting product however is far superior to GDIs.  GDI only offer 100MB of web space or 10 pages, whichever comes first.  Teamwork Revolution offer full blown cPanel webhosting service with 700MB of space and unlimited pages as well as unlimited traffic and other necessary things like MySQL Databases.  Therefore GDI can’t even hold a candle to Teamwork Revolution when it comes to product comparison.

Their compensation plan is also much better.  First of all it is a forced matrix program.  If you aren’t familiar with what a forced matrix is it basically means you have the possibility of getting spillover.  The whole point of these MLMs is to get people to join under you.  Well, if you are in a forced matrix it’s possible that you will receive spillover from your upline thereby earning commissions without even doing anything.  This isn’t only a great benefit for you, but it is also a huge selling point for future potential recruits.  Everyone loves forced matrices, so if you aren’t in one it will likely be much harder to entice people to join as there are so many forced matrices now.

As for compensation, you earn up to 6 levels down, unlike GDIs 5 levels.  Further, Teamwork Revolution give you $2 per month per person for the first 5 people which means once you have 5 people on your first line you break even, unlike GDI where you would need double that (ie 10 people) in order to break even.  Moreover, Teamwork Revolution give you $2/person per month commission for the recruits on your 4th line as well.  All in all, the commission structure is far superior to GDI’s.

The only advantage GDI have over Teamwork Revolution (and pretty much every other competitive company) is their bonus scheme.  I already said that GDI pay $100 for every 5 people sponsored within 1 week on top of the $1/person per month residual commissions.  Teamwork Revolution don’t offer this so if you think you can sponsor 5 or more people per week into GDI then GDI is definitely for you.  However, for most people, 5 people per month is hard enough never mind 5 people per week.  So for these reasons I would recommend Teamwork Revolution over GDI any day.  I hope I have given you some food for thought if you happen to have been considering GDI as a way to make money online.

Now you may be wondering if I think it’s such a great company and money making opportunity why did I leave?  The main reason is that it didn’t quite work for me personally.  I tried it out for about 5 months and I was able to personally sponsor about 10 people but the problem was is that’s where it stopped.  Those others weren’t able to replicate the process.  Possibly because they didn’t bother trying (an unfortunate drawback with forced matrices is that they attract lazy people who think they can get rich purely on spillover – impossible!) or it’s possible they did try but they just didn’t succeed.  Whatever the reasons, eventually the people I recruited dropped out after they didn’t see the expected or hoped for success.  This is a huge challenge with these monthly payment matrices.  You feel like you are constantly bailing water out of a leaking boat.  Although you have no boss or anyone telling you what to do and when to do it, you still feel under a lot of pressure to recruit quickly.  If you don’t keep the ball rolling then it’s very likely your matrix will implode as people drop out.  If you aren’t able to keep recruiting new people and providing spillover then people drop out, which in turn causes others to drop out as they see their own downline dropping out.  So for this reason I decided to give up all together on the monthly payment matrices.  I don’t like working hard to build a business only to see it collapse.  It feels like you are building a house on water.  I prefer to build on concrete (so to speak).

Where I have had most of my success and profit is with 1 time payment matrices.  These are great and also have excellent potential.  You can make just as much money with these MLM programs and possibly even more.  What I like about them is you only ever make 1 payment so your risk is limited entirely to that 1 payment as apposed to monthly payment matrices where your risk is dependant upon how long you stay in the program.  Further, with 1 time payment matrices if you decide to take a months holiday there is no risk.  People don’t drop out of 1 time payment MLMs.  If you stop marketing for a while, there’s no leaky boat feeling.  Theses MLMs never implode or go backwards, this is like building on top of concrete.

One of the successful programs I tried was 4×1 Fortune.  It is only $11 to join and it is a “Cycler Matrix”.  What that means is you need to “cycle” before you make any commissions.  Once you make 6 sales you will cycle and earn $30.  So you nearly triple your money after only 6 sales which is pretty good.  If you make 5 sales you earn nothing.  The commission doesn’t happen until the 6th person.  It is also a forced matrix so you will possibly get spillover or spillunder once in a while but I always stress this should never be relied upon.  If you do this you won’t get anywhere.  Although it’s possible to get spillovers I recommend just carrying on as if this didn’t happen that way when it does it’s just a nice bonus.  The “product” in this case is just some e-books and videos and stuff to help you with online marketing.  Most people don’t care about the product, they just want the chance to make some money.  So if you are looking for a simple program with low risk and one that actually works and pays, then 4×1 fortune is definitely one to consider.

If for some reason you don’t want to risk $11, or you want to try something that is even easier, then I recommend Work for $3 (WF3D).  This is only $3 to join as the name implies (well there is a $0.40 alertpay fee).  This is basically a mailing list builder.  This is a highly useful tool especially for online marketers.  As you recruit others to join this list you earn a little bit of money.  It is by no means a lot of money but it has the potential to turn into millions.  For example, if you recruited just 3 people in your first month and then never recruited again ie retired, and everyone else did the same thing, then in your 11th month you would earn almost $18,000.  It seems crazy but it’s a fact.  Only 3 people in the first month seems easy, especially considering I recruited about 30 people in my first month.  However, I am in my 7th month or so and the reality is that other people are not able to recreate the same success I had.  In fact there are many who after 7 months haven’t recruited a single person.  Possibly because they haven’t tried or perhaps they have tried and failed, and then there are others who consistently get signups every week which is contributing to the growth of my downline.  I have personally now recruited about 100 people, but my downline is about 500 because some of the 100 that I recruited have become successful recruiters themselves.  It’s all about what you put into it.

So if you are looking for a really easy program with the potential to turn into decent residual income then give Work for $3 (WF3D) a try.  The worse case scenario is that you lose $3.40 right ?  But the best case scenario is you will have a residual income for years to come like I am enjoying right now.  Even after 7 months I am only seeing about $10/month in residual commissions, but it’s still free money and I’m not really trying hard at it anymore.  Further, it definitely has the potential to grow into a lot more than that.

So there you have it.  There are many ways to make money online via the internet.  Above are just some online opportunities that exist.  I hope my experiences and reviews will help you to make your decision as to which online business opportunity you will try out.  If you try any of my recommended programs I would love to hear about your experiences good or bad.  We can all learn from each other.