E-book publishing

Want to publish an e-book and start a business selling your own book? You can list your book for sale with clickbank from your website. You can then recruit affiliates to sell your product for you paying them however much you want from 10%-90%. It is your call, you can probably get more people to promote your product if you offer a higher bounty.

The things that you need to get start, a pdf printer. You can use any word processor to type your book and print it through the pdf printer. It is saved to your harddrive as a pdf file. You then start marketing and selling.

You may also look to recruit a copywriter to write the book and sales letter for you. You can hire a good copywriter for about $200. You pay them up front so you never need to give them commissions.

That is a great leverage tool for you to make money on ebay, your website, or pretty much any site. You can also purchase an ISBN and have the book published and sell it from amazon.com. Stay tuned for more great tips on how to make money legitimately online.

Here are some free eBooks on how to make money online and various marketing tools available to you as a web publisher.

147 Killer ePublishing Strategies (562Kb) by Larry Dotson
Increase traffic, make money, get answers to your ebook questions, and hot product ideas.


101 Compelling Text Makes you Money (1.2Mb) by Leann Schmidt
The purpose of this compelling e-book is to offer a free shortcut guide to writing successful, compelling text. Included are sections for writing effective promotional copy in banners & buttons, getting answers for "What goes into the intro?" & "How much is too much?", and how to get more traffic, customers & resources.

How to write, create, promote and sell E-books on the Internet (474Kb) by Dirk Dupon
This book -or manual if you prefer- will show you exactly how you too can write, create and sell an E-book on the Web in 4 chapters. I wrote this book from my own experience as an E-book author and publisher, and I'm 100% confident that once you have read it, you'll be able to launch your own profitable E-book on the Web

Handbook of E-Zine Publishing (1.1Mb) by Kate Schultz
A comprehensive e-book covering all aspects of e-zine preparation, planning, production & publishing, promotion & profit. Several excellent tips on writing content.

Write Profitable Classifieds Ads (1Mb) by Info-Report
Here's a great ebook that shows you how to write profitable classifieds ads. The same techniques can be used to create signature files, banner ads, or clickable links for your website.

Magic Letter's That Create Millions In Profits! (474Kb) by The Marketing Internet Warriors
You can write sales copy that sells! Discover certain words that are irresistible. Educate, Inform and Sell More. Be Dramatic, Bold and Exciting.

TrendSiters - Trends in e-Publishing and e-Books" (620Kb RTF File) by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
An anthology of dozens of essays about digital content, e-publishing, and e-books.

Windows Live Office giving 1 domain to everybody

Windows Office Live is giving everyone who wants to start an internet based business a free website and free webhosting. You even get discounts on advertising.

Click here for details!

If you use this in conjunction with the information I have given you, you will be making money soon.

Good luck and thank you.

Scott

Planning Your Affiliate Program

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Shawn_Collins]Shawn Collins

This is chapter 4, Planning Your Affiliate Program, of Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants.

As the old adage goes, businesses don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

I've got a number of items you should take into consideration when putting your affiliate program together.

One thing is that you have to identify who you are selling to; who are the affiliates you are trying to reach? Make it a point to know what they want and need. If you don't know, just ask them. And if at all possible, give it to them.

How are you going to track the affiliate program? Are you going to build it yourself, buy software off the shelf, or go with an affiliate network?

How much are you going to pay your affiliates? Take a look at your margins and what your competitors are doing to ascertain what would be the appropriate commission rate.

Determine the terms for your affiliate program. Will you permit pay per click search engine bidding on trademark names? Will you be providing solo e-mail creative?

A key to your affiliate program with be the setup. As Declan Dunn, one of the forefathers of affiliate marketing, once said, "Affiliate marketing is about partnerships, not technology."

That is important to remember, because some folks have this perception that affiliate marketing is a channel where you can just throw money down and watch it perform on auto-pilot.

It's about people. While technology and creative are important components to an affiliate program, the central focus should be on the people and the relationships.

Some major points when setting up your affiliate program:



Think like your customer. I would urge every affiliate manager to become an affiliate themselves (if they are not already), so they can walk in the shoes of affiliates and get a 360 degree understanding of the business. This will enable affiliate managers to look at their affiliate program from a different view and identify areas that need improvement.

Staffing of the affiliate program is of paramount importance. You've got to determine if your affiliate program will be managed in-house, outsourced to an agency, or turned over to an affiliate network.

The affiliate program model you go by will be significant. Will you focus on pay per click, pay per sale, pay per lead, or some sort of hybrid?

If you're going with an affiliate network, which one and why? There are a number of choices out there, so check out the landscape and take a number of them for a test drive.

You'll need a marketing plan to reach potential affiliates and sell them your affiliate program.

Activate and educate. Recruiting affiliates isn't the end of it. You should have a program in place to activate and educate the affiliates after they are in the door.

If you decide you want to outsource the management of your affiliate program, you'll find that management services typically range anywhere from $1,500 to $10,000+ per month. Levels of service and experience will vary wildly, so be sure to get references and call them.

In order to create the optimum affiliate program, you need to know what affiliates want. Here is a list of minimum requirements:



Provide a true partnership. If the deal is skewed in your favor, don't expect affiliates to knock down your door. They're already promoting you on a leap of faith, so make things as reciprocal as possible.

Run a credible affiliate program. Affiliates want to work with affiliate programs that pay them on time and provide reliable tracking. It's simple, do right by your affiliates or they're going to walk.

Have offers that sell. I've seen all too often that companies roll out their affiliate program in tandem with the launch of their site. Bugs, poorly planned landing pages, tracking issues converge to undermine the work of the affiliates.

Offer a fair affiliate program. This goes back to the true partnership and beyond. Fair terms are essential.

don't complicate things. This won't generally be an issue if you go with one of the major affiliate networks. But some homegrown affiliate systems are a convoluted mess.

Next up, I'll cover why some affiliate programs fail. The reality here is that affiliate programs don't fail, affiliate managers fail, and it happens for a number of reasons.



Failure to activate the affiliates. Don't settle for the 80/20 rule. That's the rule of the lazy affiliate manager that doesn't have an activation plan.

No education for the affiliates. Provide your affiliates with the tools they need to succeed. Let them know your target demographic and best sellers. Create a sales guide that gives a road map to promoting your company. Give them some degree of training, no matter how informal it may be.

Lack of support. Some make themselves available 7 days a week. I'm not saying you have to do that, but be there for business hours in a number of ways: phone, e-mail, IM, Skype, or whatever. Be there for affiliates when they need you, or risk missing out on big promotional opportunities.

Ignoring the competition. You've got to know your competition, know who they are, what they're doing, how they're doing it, and who they're doing it with. Take a look at all aspects of their affiliate programs. Know them inside out. the better you know your competition, the better you can create a best of breed affiliate program.

There are a lot of items there for planning an affiliate program - do your best to follow all of them. http://blog.affiliatetip.com

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Make money from home without getting scammed!

I have a method of making money from home using the internet.

It costs you absolutely nothing so there is nothing to lose. If you spend about 1 hour a day for a month, you can have a money machine. You may ask why would somebody tell me the secrets to making money online for free? The answer is merely this, I have spent thousands of dollars searching for ways to make money and none of them worked. I would purchase a system to find out that it was nothing more than a book that a gazillion other people had bought and were doing the same thing that I was doing.

Naturally, this wouldn't work for me nor half of these people. I am not one to rip people off, I am just being straight with everybody and want them to be a success, just as I have found success online. The fact is, the internet is a HUGE place and there is plenty of people who are looking for something every minute. The real question is, will you have what they are looking for?

Before we start, you should think about your business plan and stick to it. You should think about what niche you are going to do good at and stick with your plan.

The first thing that you will need is high-speed internet. If you don't have broadband, click here. You will also need a good computer that runs relatively fast and stable so that when you are working on something, it won't crash.

The next thing that you need to do is get your game(and business) plan. There are a multitude of ways to make money online and along the way there are a lot of scams as well. Before you choose any particular program, google it. See if it has a lot of complaints. This will prove to be very valuable. If I had have done that in the beginning, I could've saved myself a lot of money.

Here are the various ways to make money:

Make Money On eBay

That is probably one of the best ways to make money. You can start off making money on eBay by selling stuff that you plan to get rid of. The saying, "One man's junk is another's treasure." proves to be whenever you sell things on eBay.

To sell on eBay, you need only a couple of things. First, you need a bank account or credit card. If you don't have a bank account and would like to open one, click here to open with Washington Mutual. If you don't have a credit card and would like one, you can apply for a WorldPerks® Visa® Credit Card today or Discover Card.

If you can't get the bank account or credit card, then get an AccountNow Vantage Debit Mastercard or NetSpend Prepaid Visa with 100% guaranteed approval.

After you have done this sign up for paypal. It is free and that allows you to accept credit card payments, e-check payments, and paypal payments for a small fee that they deduct immediately. It also enables you to be paid instantly and then you can ship the item out to the buyer.

If you don't have extra things that you would like to sell, find a dropshipper. This is a company that you will actually purchase the item for wholesale after you sell it. You will see the price that you get it for, raise the amount a couple of dollars and then let the bidding begin. It is a great feeling to make $20 or more on an item and never have to physically touch the item yourself. The biggest and best dropshipper is
doba.

Making money with affiliate programs

There are a number of affiliate programs available for any new internet marketer. Depending on the advertiser, they have different requirements for the publisher. There are a few programs that I recommend, anybody can join and the bounty is pretty high per sale.

First program that I recommend for affiliates is Dish Network. The program that I signed up under pays $110 per sale and allows you to market online as well as offline. You can run an ad in the paper and sell possibly 15 or more satellites in one week. I actually made $7200 in one week with dish network. Sign up to become a Dish Network affiliate!

The next program that I recommend is Internet Marketing Center's affiliate program. The fact of the matter is that people are all looking to make extra income and Internet Market Center's program teaches you how to get your site ranked well with search engines and how to market your website through various advertising programs to be very profitable.

Registering a domain or using a blog

You are now ready to build a website or blog. If you build a website, you will need to have a good working knowledge of html programming or you will need to hire a programmer to work for you. (Visit www.superguitartab.com to see one of my websites that has several different dynamic sites in one. This may be a good idea for any of you to build one like this or have one built like it.)

If you build a website, it is yours and you can publish whatever you choose to publish on your site. A lot of blogs are very funny about what you can post. If you do use a blog, I recommend www.blogspot.com. If you build a website, you would want to choose a hosting plan other than the free one because the free one always puts ads at the top of the page that looks bad and unprofessional. And remember, the more professional your site looks, the more sales you will get.

To register a domain, you will choose a regsitrar to register and host it for you. There are a number of companies that can do this and I have listed a few of the best for you:

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Reseller Domain Names and Hosting

If you run a data company and choose to resell domain names and hosting packages, I have found the absolute best for payouts.
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2. Resell Domains for GoDaddy.com

Once you have your site running, you look at Search Engine Optimization. That is making the site friendly for the robots that look at your site. Search engines feed on data so the more details you have on your site, the more the search engine knows about your site and how to rank your site. The next then you should do is get relative links pointing back to your site. There are plenty of webmasters that will be willing to exchange links with you because this also helps their site out as well. (Once again, visit www.superguitartab.com and use the contact form with your site details and a link to show where you have posted my site and I will add you.)

Create an eBook

You can also create an eBook. Now by this, I am not talking about one that millions of people have written about how to get rich online. I don't believe that that is going to work because of all of the scams that have been pulled and people don't buy that anymore.

No, I am talking about an eBook about how to repair a car, computer, book of music scales, cookbook, etc. You would be surprised how many people will buy these sorts of books. Plus, your options for selling these books are practically unlimited. You can use eBay and auction the books starting at $1.00. Let people bid for it and you may do good but even if you sold 100 books for $1.00, that is $100 worth of profit.

You will also be able to sell these on your website, your blog, and even myspace. You would only need a paypal business account or google checkout to do it. Once the order comes in, paypal and google gives you the e-mail address of the person who purchased your book and you then e-mail it to that address.

Plus, you can print a copy and sell these at most Mom and Pop's grocery stores, drugstores, or convenience stores. You can ask full price and give the store 10-20% for selling it for you.

To make the book, you will need a good word processor. Microsoft WordPad, for instance, is free and it is included with Windows. You can also download pdFill for free and print the book into a .pdf file that is saved on your hard drive. It is then compressed to a small enough size for e-mail deliveries.

Google AdSense and other PPC programs

You can use google adsense, yahoo, and other programs to post relevant ads on your page. This is also free to sign up for and once you sign up you make money depending on the number of clicks off of your pages. Please DON'T people's programs claiming that you make a ton of money from adsense. These are scams.

You can make money from adsense, don't get me wrong. You have to have useful information on your page for google to put the right ads on your site, though. Also with adsense, you can post youtube videos on you page with ads and referrals from Google.

Advertising Your Online Business

You can advertise a few ways. One is through organic traffic. That is traffic that naturally comes to you from search engines. The way to build this is by quality content on your site that focuses on about 3 keywords per page. You can get the quality content by a.)writing it yourself, or b.)hiring a copywriter. The other thing to get your site rank is by quality backlinks or links pointing back to your site. See search engine optimization above.

The next way is through pay per click programs. You can advertise your site through google adwords, yahoo, and msn for X amount of cents per click. If you optimize your keywords for your campaign, this can prove to be very effective advertising.

Third, write articles for your site and post them through different article sites like www.ezinearticles.com and www.goarticles.com.

After doing this, also go to www.digg.com and see list it there. If you get enough diggs on it, they will post it on their front page and give you the opportunity to get free quality advertising there as well.

I hope that this has been useful information for you to get started and if you have any questions, visit www.superguitartab.com and use the contact form to send me your questions.

Earn Extra Money At Home And Avoid Work At Home Scams With EARN Principles

By Menggee Ong

Finding hard to earn extra money at home?

You are not alone - millions of people struggle to earn extra money at home.

For many, it seemed to be months and months of futile efforts whereas the less fortunate ones got ripped off by work at home scams.

Do not despair!

You will soon discover how you can earn extra money at home and avoid work at home scams with the four (4) EARN principles.

Establish Legitimate Income Sources

The first thing you need to do is to learn about genuine time-tested money making blueprints!

That is really the best and proven method to avoid work at home scams and earn extra money at home.

Not unlike the world of traditional jobs, legitimate income generating methods require time and effort - you simply cannot expect to get rich with data entry jobs nor should you think there are easy "get rich quick" schemes.

So, stay away from work at home scams and earn extra money at home by learning about legitimate money making ideas that work!

Acquire Knowledge to Make Money

Many people started on their quest to earn extra money at home immediately after they believed they have found the ideal (and legitimate) money making method only to be frustrated later with little results to show.

Realise this:

Thousands and thousands of dollars and years are spent before one completes his tertiary education and enters the employment market.

So, why should you think you can start to earn extra money at home without the need to invest in education?

The reality is that many working people simply do not have such skills; they really must acquire the right skills to earn extra money at home.

Regulate Work From Home Plan

The old adage: "To fail to plan is to plan to fail" holds true.

Many home-based business and "earn extra money at home" projects are treated like hobbies and as such lack planning that provides for sustainable focus and direction.

Measurable goals and objectives must be included in the planning process as these are significant part of success and positive accomplishments of any roadmap to earn extra money at home.

And after the work plan is developed, you need to promptly carry out the tasks every day in order to earn extra money at home.

Additionally, you must have superb memory and time management skills to avoid the numerous distractions and earn extra money at home; find that right work-life balance and consistently complete all the daily tasks at hand!

Never Give Up

Many successful people were in debt when they started to earn extra money at home but are now much better off because they persevered through their trying times.

You will face many challenging and testing situations when you attempt to earn extra money at home.

To make it to the finish line and earn extra money at home, you must develop that positive mindset from day one, stay motivated and never give up.

Apply these EARN principles consistently and you can avoid work at home scams and succeed in your quest to earn extra money at home.

Looking to Earn Extra Money At Home? Visit http://www.aim2workfromhome.com to discover how EARN Toolkit can help you earn extra money at home and avoid work at home scams.

MengGee Ong researches on work from home topics. You can sign up for MengGee Ong's free mini-course at http://www.aim2workfromhome.com/minicoursesignup.html

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Additional information: Affiliate Programs and Shopping Carts

In my initial post, I inadvertently left out some of the better affiliate programs out there. Here I am posting them with a brief description.

www.marketingtips.com
This program has a very good payout and actually a very good conversion rate as well.

www.amazon.com
There are a number of ways to promote Amazon.com. You can place widgets on your site with music, books, your wishlist, related items, a search box, or you can even place an online store on your site that includes items that you handpick for sell in it. The commission from amazon.com is between 4%-8% depending on your monthly sales. There are sites that will build you an amazon store that will mostly be for amazon products and for what affiliate links you put on the page. You can actually purchase a site like that from me for only $19, given that you own a domain name and linux web hosting with cgi, perl, and mysql. Check www.ebiz-u.com for a comparable site and see the price difference.

www.cj.com
This is Commission Junction. They actually have thousands of advertisers there waiting for publishers to come along and pick up their products. However, it is a lot of the advertisers that have strict rules to becoming an advertiser for them. They look at how much you generate monthly. As a rule of thumb, if you are designing your site after guitars for instance and you have a lot of information about this guitar and that guitar, you should have no problem actually selling a guitar or two for one of their advertisers of your site just by placing a link on there.

www.google.com/adsense
This is what you will find a lot of hype about. People claim that they earn thousands of dollars per month from adsense. I am not calling them a liar, but I can't see it. I am going to tell you why. I have over 50 websites, some with over 3000 hits per day, and I am not doing that with google adsense. I suppose that if you were spending 1000's per month in adwords to advertise then I suppose you could possibly make that driving traffic to your site only to find a page full of advertisements. It is plausible.

www.regnow.com
This site contains software. Software that sells and you can actually do pretty good with them as well.

These are the larger affiliate programs. Most companies that you would actually want to work for are signed up under commission junction and very few allow independent resellers, though you can become a reseller for ZT Systems computers.

That is going to close us for this time. Until next time, take care.