Wednesday, November 26, 2008

How Much Is Internet Marketing Costing You? With Your Stay at Home Mom’s Business Opportunity.

One common complaint you see in Internet marketing discussion forums is the amount of money people are spending in comparison to what they are actually earning. However, when you analyze this you will find that most people really do not know how much their Internet marketing business is costing them.
 
Let's see if we can analyze the question how much is Internet marketing costing you by reviewing it from the standpoint of money and time.
 
One thing the Internet has become famous for is how it does not discriminate against anyone when it comes to becoming an Internet marketing success. There are people earning unbelievable amounts of money, and doing it regardless of how much money they have, their race, their sex, their age, where they live, and so on.
 
The two constant factors that is available for everyone is time and money. Some people have more money than they have time, and they choose to build their Internet marketing business by outsourcing various functions. Other people have more time than money, and they personally have to invest their time and learn how to do things to become successful.
 
Nowhere is this more evident than when it comes to advertising and promotion. The bottom line with an Stay at Home Mom’s Internet marketing business is you will never make any money if you do not have visitors coming to your website and making a purchase.
 
You can buy advertising in the form of pay per click and immediately begin getting traffic. This does not mean you are guaranteed to make a profit, but rather that you are guaranteed to have visitors at a predetermined price per click.
 
If you don't have money to invest in advertising you will have to try free or nearly free methods. The most popular of these that is been proven to be successful over the years is article marketing.
 
Writing and submitting articles for your stay at home business opportunity is a great way to build up back links to your website and in turn generate traffic over a period of time. This is not necessarily a fast way, but can be a consistent form of Internet traffic for you in the future.  You can also submit your stay at home business opportunity website to directories.  There are thousands of them ranging from free to 50 dollars a month.  This will also bring good backlinks to your website and drive thousands of people to your website over time.  I suggest you submit at 10 a day to see the benefit of this.
 
Regardless of whether you spend time or money you should calculate what your Internet marketing business is costing you. Determine what your time is worth on an hourly rate and keep track of that every week.
 
You should also keep track of your expenses for everything including website hosting, auto responders, advertising and marketing, domain names, and so on. 
 
By keeping track of your time on an hourly rate, and of your monthly business expenses, you can get an accurate picture of exactly how much your Internet business is costing you in comparison to the income you have coming in.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Maverick Money Makers

I am always looking for stay at home moms business opportunities and I came across one that could benefit my readers in their search.

Maverick Money Makers is a powerful system that can teach you how to earn an income all the while earning money.

Here are some amazing benefits that this program will give you…

  • You will get step-by-step video tutorials

  • You will not have any working obligations

  • You will be GUARANTEED an immediate position on our team

  • You will be able to work as little or as many hours as you want

  • You will have full access our to hands-on training

  • You will be able to contact our support desk 24/7

  • You will have a full-blown “Learn at your own pace” curriculum

  • You will have full access to our private members community area

  • You will discover how to build your business from the ground up

  • You will learn how to make at least $345/day within your first 2 weeks

  • You will be given your own personal account to log into each day

  • You can finally throw your alarm clock away and sleep in everyday

Everything inside Maverick Money Makers is so easy and we’ve broken it down into easy-to-follow bite sized chunks that anyone can use to make money on the internet. The neat thing about this system is that the owner of the system has a 100% money back if you are dissatisfied. Well, this is just my opinion but get informed for yourself.

Maverick Money Makers

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Top 5 Tips To Avoid A Stay At Home Mom’s Affiliate Marketing Disaster

Because affiliate marketing continues to have a high failure rate it should make you want to step back and analyze what successful people are doing. One way to do that is to consider things that do not work when it comes to affiliate marketing.

Here are my top five tips to help you avoid in a stay at home moms affiliate marketing disaster.

1. Choosing the wrong market to start an affiliate business in is a sure fire way to affiliate marketing failure. One thing we do know today is that it is easier to sell a product in a market where people are already spending money.

It is somewhat amazing that some of the top markets never reach saturation. You see people starting new websites and begin making money almost immediately in certain niches such as weight loss or diet, sports such as golf, work at home, health, and many others.

You stand a much better chance to succeed if you choose affiliate programs to represent in these types of niches.

2. Not focusing on a specific product initially can create a disaster for you as well. There are many affiliate websites that have so many products on them that they never make a sale.

Initially you are better off to focus on one product and create a profit from it before adding more products.

3. Be sure and get one website up and running profitably before adding another. This is a common mistake affiliate marketers make where they jump around from one to another and never ever make money in any of them.

4. Using the website provided for you by the affiliate merchant is a big mistake too. There are many different reasons for this, but the main one is you are not going to differentiate yourself from your competition when you use the same website everyone else has.

5. Not using landing pages and sign-up forms is another common mistake you see affiliate marketers make. The most successful affiliate marketers understand the importance of building a list for future follow up regardless of the niche that they are in.

An email marketing list is an asset you can continue to tap into for many years to come. Therefore you want to build as large of a list as possible, and get to know your subscribers before you expect them to purchase from you.

If you see a failing affiliate marketer there is a pretty good chance they are not doing these five things. If you want to avoid affiliate marketing disaster follow these five tips and watch your affiliate business grow.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Are You Failing With Your Affiliate Marketing Opportunity?

Affiliate marketing is one of the true opportunities for entrepreneurs to pursue. There are thousands of programs to consider and a great possibility to make a lot of money with this opportunity. But are you finding yourself failing with your affiliate marketing opportunity?

If you are, you are not alone. There are more people that fail with affiliate marketing than succeed despite this being a legitimate online opportunity to consider. Fortunately, you are not bound to a certain program for the rest of your life. Because of this, there are some things you will want to reconsider the next time around.

First, look at the company and the products you will be promoting. You want to get involved with a program that you believe in and actually care about the product. If you do not see yourself purchasing the product, what makes you think others will think differently?

A big part of the reason for failing with an affiliate marketing opportunity has to do with the owners of the company. A lack of training results in many failing because they do not understand the company completely. A legitimate opportunity will provide you with training materials, tutorials and guidance from the upper management.

In addition to training, you should be given quality materials to promote the program with. While there are a number of different methods you can use to promote your affiliate program, you should be given some materials for free. Many programs will provide you with text links, banners or some other form of advertisement to promote the program with.

Next, look at the commission rate that the program is offering. There are far too many programs on the internet for you to settle with a program offering just 15 percent. This is not to say you should join the program offering 50 percent because the quality of the company matters as well. Look for a combination of a high commission rate with a legitimate program.

The last reason you may be failing with your affiliate marketing opportunity is because of poor marketing. Some believe that any traffic is good traffic, but in reality the only good traffic is targeted traffic. You want to take the time to find a target market and promote your program specifically to them. It is far easier to convert a prospect into a customer if they are already interested in what you have to offer.

PIPS Power Group

Todays post will be brief, but I wanted to add something about the PiPs Power Group. I started my pips site a couple of months ago and optimized it for the key words Stay at Home Mom’s Business Opportunity, which is the title of the site. However, I had no idea what to do with it and how to get it crawled on the web. Because I belong to forums connected to Stone Evans sites I came across the PIPs Power Group. It is kind of pricey, but I gave it a try. What I found was a plan of action for the newbie which is what I am. They also have a plan for the person in the middle making more than 500 dollars a month, and an advance course. All this to keep you on track in your marketing. They don’t pull any punches, they tell right up front this will be a lot of work and it will take a while to build some good money. They also give you ideas to make extra income to help pay for your programs. If you haven’t looked at a Stone Evans PiP site take a look and then take a hard look at the power group. For one Stay at home Mom or her husband this is what I needed.

Why Your Stay at Home Mom’s Network Marketing Opportunity Cannot Be Put On Auto Pilot

Can you automate your stay at home mom's network marketing opportunity? This is an extremely pertinent question today with the internet becoming such an important part of business.

Let's get one thing clear...if you have been attracted to the MLM business with the promise that you just join and all the work will be done for you, then you are joining for all the wrong reasons. You need to go back to the drawing board and figure out exactly how serious you are about achieving financial wealth.

Maybe it's possible to completely automate other types of businesses but the simple fact is, you cannot possibly apply this automation to your network marketing opportunity for one very valid reason. That is because of the relationship building aspect which is so vital to sustaining a solid long term business.

The MLM business is built on relationship building. It's often referred to as relationship marketing. Without this vital component then any network marketing opportunity is doomed to failure.

So what do we mean by relationship building? The two most important areas of a hands on approach include your lead generation and prospecting, and your training system. Sure, your marketing system can be automated but without your personal follow up, then you'll be frustrated in your efforts to convert your targeted leads into distributors.

Lead Generation And Prospecting

Leads are so crucial to any stay at home mom's network marketing opportunity. Let's face it, without them then you may as well forget about growing your downline. Even more important is avoiding the temptation to let someone else do your lead generation for you.

Understand this and you'll be ahead of most other network marketers trying to build their business. Unless you know where your leads are coming from and how they were sourced you will never have control. By implementing your own lead marketing system you have the control of where they are sourced from and the knowledge that they are targeted prospects. This is crucial.

Training

Again, how do you automate training? Letting others train your distributors takes away any control you may have had.

- It's you your prospects will join rather than your network marketing opportunity.

- It's you they need to trust and like before they commit themselves to a business.

- It's you they will turn to for advice and guidance if they encounter any obstacles.

Without your relationship input then your network marketing opportunity really has no foundation. It's you who will be responsible for holding it together and not an automated system.