Hi…thinking about starting a membership site? Did you know there are 6 different types of membership models? When it comes down to it, you may be asking yourself, ‘is starting a membership site really for me’?
The Internet is the ultimate ‘equal opportunity employer’. Anybody can start a membership business on the Internet. All that is needed is a subject, a website and the tools to build the site. You can start a membership website business but the question is should you?

Many people that decide to start a home based membership website business are destined to fail because their motivation and expectations are completely unrealistic. Before you attempt to start a membership website business you need to do a reality check.

First, if you really think that you can build a couple of web pages, invest little or no money, time or effort and start making an income tomorrow, you are so wrong. Building a business…any business…takes time. It also takes a monetary investment, a lot of effort and energy, and, above all else, patience, passion for the theme of the website, and a drive for success.

Almost equally important is the need to have realistic economic expectations when undertaking a home based membership website business. A home membership website internet business provides many rewards such as working in the comfort of your own home, avoiding a stressful commute, being your own boss, setting your own hours, no dress code, etc., etc., but anyone that is also expecting instant riches is sadly mistaken.

Study the opportunities of a membership website business carefully. If you have the personal traits required to succeed then select the theme that seems to fit your own particular interests or talents. What is a good choice for one person may be a very poor fit for someone else. The common thread that applies to everyone is that you must passionately believe in what you are doing and anything less than total commitment isn’t enough.

Start your research today by claiming my free lifetime Silver Membership offer to ‘Membership Marketer’s Club. This has a real ‘no-hype’ value of $27 and will assist you in making the best decision about available membership models and whether you’re ready to get started.

Enjoy

Alan

There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.

Traffic Exchange

This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Write and Submit Articles

There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter.

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

All the best

Alan

PS. Check out my Traffic Generation Club. I invited you to a free back-door pass to a life-time Silver Membership. Lots of ideas here on how to generate traffic for low or no cost…go on, have a look, it’s free.

There is no doubt that times are hard and though you might not be part of the pack who have lost their jobs in recent months, you’d still feel the crunch when prices are sky high and you just understand why money is harder to come by these days. You are not probably thinking of ways to either earn additional income or ways to save money.

This is especially true for those who are used to having part time jobs that supplement their income. Right now, additional jobs are harder to come by. Not only are their fewer jobs, there are also plenty of competition and frankly, employers will prioritize those who do not have day jobs.

But saving money is actually not as difficult as people make it out to be. Like everything else, it’s all about discipline. If you are committed to the task and you can do anything you want, even manage to squeeze in all your expenses into one measly budget and have enough left to put in the bank. Here are some of the ways on how to save money that you never really thought of.

1. Mind the plug
One of the biggest wastage that people do is their electricity. You don’t realize it but you are probably paying far more for your electricity that what you are supposed to be not because of the cost of electricity but because you have managed to waste those watts when you forget to unplug the appliance or you have left the lights on even when nobody is there already. By changing the schedule of your laundry and your ironing, you can already make a lot of changes in your bills and therefore save tons of money. All you need to do is to always remember. Besides, you will not only save money but you will also be able to help lessen the problems on energy.

2. Skip the coffee
If you are the coffee addict and you just can’t go through the day without the cappuccino, curb the habit. If you can’t, at least resolve to have that cup of coffee inside the house and not buy it from Starbucks or other coffee shops. Coffee there are just so expensive and it is an absolute crime to spend money on just a single cup of coffee, something that you will be able to do at home. Lessen your trips to the coffee shops and you will find that you have a room in your monthly budget.

3. Take a walk or the sub
If you are so used to taking the taxi to work, now is the time to start walking and riding the sub. It’s not actually so hard. You just need to wake a little bit early so that you will have enough time to walk. Although it will definitely take more effort, commuting offers a lot of advantages. If you are on the plump side, you can already lose a lot of pounds when you do it. You can even forgo with your gym class because you are already getting the exercise that you need from it. If you are the fashionista, commuting can provide you with the chance to display your fashion sense.

Just imaging traipsing through the sidewalks of California or Manhattan. It will be a wonderful way to save that money.

All the best

Alan

PS: My new membership site is now up-and-running. You get a free Silver Membership and lifetime access. Nothing to pay, just a club that’s about helping you with money.

Enjoy

Should you sell products that people need? The answer might surprise you. And that’s because the answer is “not always.”

You see, lots of beginning marketers start out by creating products that people need. But here’s the thing: Needing a product and WANTING a product are not the same thing. If you’re creating products that people need but don’t want, you’ll go bankrupt trying to persuade your prospects that they should want your product.

Instead, start by figuring out what your prospects want. (If they also need the product, that’s even better).

Let me show you what I mean…

What does a male college student need? He needs to get good grades. He needs to attend class. He needs to start getting higher grades on his exams.

But not every college student wants those things. There’s a group of college students who want to play sports and party. Going to class and getting good grades sit low on their priority list (probably somewhere near “cleaning the apartment”).

And that means that if you try to sell something that this group needs, like a “How to Get Straight As” book, you’ll fail. Miserably. That’s because they don’t want it.

If you want to make money, you have to figure out what this group wants. You have to figure out what they’re already buying. And then you have to create something a little better.

For example, maybe this particular niche market devours books about drinking games. Or maybe this group wants to know how to go on a cheap spring break vacation to party spots like Cancun. Or who knows, perhaps this group wants to know how to get washboard abs so they can look great on the beach during spring break.

See what I mean? Bottom line is this: If you give people what they want (even if you don’t think they need it), you’ll find the money. And if you give people products they both want and need, you’ll do even better.

And now for the million-dollar question…

How do you find out what people want?

Some experts suggest that you survey your market. You ask them. But you know what? While surveys can give you some interesting insights and ideas you’d never thought about before, surveys can also be biased. Just because someone says they would buy a certain type of product doesn’t mean they actually would buy it if the opportunity arose.

So here’s what you do instead…

Find out what your market is ALREADY buying. Now you don’t have to guess whether the survey is accurate. You don’t have to predict what your market would do in “real life.” You find out for sure by seeing where your market already spends their money.

If you’re selling information products (like ebooks), then you can start by:

* Finding out what’s selling on Clickbank.com
* Finding out what kinds of books your market is buying on Amazon.com.
* Finding out what the top websites in your niche are selling and advertising. (Just search for your main keywords in Google and see what your competitors are selling.)

It’s that easy.

Now, just knowing you need to create a product that your market wants isn’t going to automatically put profits in your pocket. You also need to figure out what kind of product you should create. And you need to learn the secrets of creating hot products, fast.

You can learn about these issues and more by grabbing your free Product Profits Club Silver membership. You’ll save time and money once you know these product creation secrets! Click here to claim your free membership right now…

You’re in business because you want to make money, right?

Of course. You need to pay your bills, put food on the table and enjoy some of the finer things in life. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Your business should be profitable enough to take care of all your wants and needs.

But here’s the thing: If you focus solely on your needs and wants, your business is going to sink faster than a ten-pound brick.

You see, a good business person knows that profitable businesses sprout from the desire to help others. If you focus on your customer’s problem and how you can help him, your business will make more money than you know what to do with.

Really.

But some marketers get this backwards. Instead of focusing on their customers’ problems, they focus on their own problems. The business person starts thinking about the lifestyle he wants to achieve. He thinks about how much money he needs to make the mortgage this month. And he starts thinking in terms of “units” and prices.

Then the number crunching starts.

For example, “If 50 people buy my $100 product, I’ll make $5000 this month. But I need closer to $10,000 this month… so I need to find 100 people who’ll buy the product. Or I need to jack the price to $200. Or I need to…” (Well, you get the idea.)

And so the marketer runs off to create a killer promotion.

Except here’s the problem: He’s still crunching those numbers. He’s still thinking about what HE wants. And the prospect who’s reading these promos is starting to get the feeling that the marketer cares more about profits than about solving problems.

You’ve probably experienced this yourself as a customer. You get the sense that the marketer doesn’t even care about it. Maybe you felt this way because of a desperate, pushy email you received. Or perhaps you got this feeling the last time you negotiated a purchase with a slick used car dealer.

Your prospects feel the same way. They want to be treated with respect by marketers. They want marketers who truly care about them. And if they get the feeling that you don’t really care about them, they’ll take their business somewhere else.
But you can prevent this and keep more money in your pocket simply by making one simple mindset shift. Namely, instead of thinking about your problems (e.g., your mortgage and other bills), think about how to solve your customers’ problems. When you give people what they want, you naturally get what you want too.

Yes, it is really that simple.

However, that’s not the only mindset shift you need to make in order to grow a profitable business. You also need to find out how to think like a wealthy entrepreneur. You need to start thinking like a project manager and stop trading your time for meager earnings. You need to distance yourself from the toxic people who want to sabotage your success.

Fortunately, it’s not hard. And better yet, you can learn these secrets for free!

Click here to find out just how easy it is to develop the mindset of a rich and successful entrepreneur!!

Hi again. How’s things going for you? Today’s post looks at a few ideas to keep in mind when creating your sales’ letters.

One of the goals a writer has in copywriting is to convince the reader. Good, authoritative copy is very easy for readers to trust because it sounds more truthful and caters to their wants, needs and interests. As a result, response rates are better and there is a higher likelihood that the desired results are achieved. Integrating a tone of authority in writing a copy is a studied process but it is not entirely impossible. Here are the top 7 ways you can improve your copy and make it more influential and convincing:

Know your topic

Never write copy about a subject you have little or no knowledge about. If you want to prove you have authority in writing that copy, you should be able to show your audience or readers that you know exactly what you are writing about. Your readers can tell if you’re only bluffing.

Prove your experience

Another way to show you have authority in writing copy is by proving you have the correct experience about the subject. You can’t write about rocket science with authority if the closest you’ve ever come close to a rocket is by watching a fireworks display.

Use your USP

Every product, idea or statement has a USP or unique sales proposition. Find out what yours is when writing copy. The USP will help define your statement and make you stand out from write-ups that have a similar idea. You can use this to your advantage to create authority.

Make the statement clear so your readers will understand immediately the message you are trying to put across.

State the benefits and advantages

There will always be disadvantages or limitations to your product, idea or statement. Instead of detailing them to your readers, focus on the advantages and benefits. Tell your readers what it can do and what it can’t do.

If you’re promoting a bicycle, for example, you don’t have to state that it’s not as fast as a car. It can’t fly but it can help its user reach his destination. It’s cheap, doesn’t pollute the environment and can even be an instrument of fitness.

Use facts

Embellishing your statements may sound harmless but the effect on your readers may not be advantageous to you. Consumers and readers are a bit sensitive and they will take it personally if they find that you were pulling the wool over their eyes. There is nothing that works as fast as an overstatement to decrease your credibility.

If you want to have authority in writing copy, state only the facts – statements that are easily verifiable.

Back up your claims

Authority in writing copy is similar to writing news stories – you need proof of your statements. If you make one, make sure it’s backed up by details and figures that may be corroborated. If there is a study, research or statement made by an expert that will support your claim, use that as well. So in case someone asks, you can point them to the reference that will support what you said.

Don’t mess with the language

If you want to be trusted as an authority in writing a copy, make sure you take care to show good grammatical and spelling skills. Nothing destroys an authoritative position than bad language because it speaks of carelessness and a lack of knowledge. If you want to be seen and accepted as an expert, show respect for your readers and write well.

All the best

Alan C/-Amadavit

Think back to when you were a kid…

You wanted something from your folks. Maybe you wanted to borrow the car. Or perhaps you wanted to go somewhere that you knew they wouldn’t be thrilled about. Either way, you probably didn’t just come right out and ask for what you wanted, did you?

Nope.

You spent some time in your room, mulling over the right away to convince your folks to your way of thinking. You came up with your arguments. And you thought about the best way to approach the individuals you needed to speak to.

See, even at that tender age you already knew quite a bit about persuasion. You knew you needed to construct your request just right in order to get a positive response. And what’s more, you tweaked your message depending on whom you were talking to.

Now you can take those same skills, polish them and apply them to your sales materials to create high response ads and letters!

Just as when you were a kid and you needed to create a custom-tailored argument, your first step in creating a good sales letter is to get inside your prospects’ heads in order to truly understand what motivates them. Once you do this, you can create a custom-tailored sales letter that speaks directly to their needs, wants and fears.

How do you do this?

Simple: You need to become a part of your target market – or at least spend some time with your market.

For example: If you’re selling to people who live in RVs, then rent an RV and live in an RV park for a week. If you’re selling to golfers, take up golf so that you can talk to other golfers. If you’re selling to college students, spend a lot of time on your local college campus.

Now, I realize this isn’t always possible. For example, if you’re a male trying to sell a product to women who do yoga, then you probably can’t join a female-only yoga class.

However, you CAN go online and join any number of social networks, forums and blogs to eavesdrop on your target market. Read the archives on these sites. Look for patterns, such as discussion points that come up repeatedly. Take note of which topics (and their associated emotions) create flaming-hot discussions. And, whenever possible, join the discussion and ask your own questions.

You see, until you actually become a part of your market (or at least immerse yourself in it), you’re just guessing about what motivates your market. And so any sales letter you create will fall flat. But once you know how to get inside your prospects’ head – and once you know how to stir their emotions – you’ll be well on your way to creating a high response sales letter.

Of course that’s just the beginning. Your next step is to take what you know about your prospects and plug it into the proven, time-tested copywriting formula – the same formula the world’s best copywriters use every day to turn out cash pulling sales letters. And now you can get your hands on this formula for free by clicking here now!

All the best

Alan

Hi.

You can build your list simply by writing articles, whether you have thought of it or not.

Quite simply, you write and submit your articles on your topic of expertise or business nature to popular article directories where eZine publishers and readers are looking for the information you provide.

Leveraging your viral marketing efforts on article writing can be rewarding, if done right. In the real sense, you are actually proving your worth and demonstrating your expertise about your business through the articles you write.

So, how can this method in effect build your mailing list? The answer: the resource box you attach to your articles. In your resource box (also known as bio box), you include a brief detail about yourself and your business site together with its URL.

It is strongly suggested that your resource box URL links to your mailing list’s landing page where you can get your visitor’s name and email address, which will in turn help you build your mailing list at no cost.

If your articles are found worth sharing, eZine publishers will republish your articles together with your resource box for their readers and subscribers. The wonderful result: viral marketing without effort on your part!

You can start by writing and submitting your articles to trusted article submitter sites such as http://www.articlemarketer.com/ and begin your article marketing journey today.

All the best

Alan c/-Amadavit

PS. Building a list and getting traffic to your offer/site, is probably always on your list of  ‘to-do’ things. If your a serious marketer, then you’ll probably want to experiment with many different free and paid ways to advertise and increase interest in what it is you’re wanting to promote. The eMarketer’s Club is a resource to show how to build a list of ‘rabid, hungry buyers’, who will snap up everything you’re selling. Click the banner above for a free complimentary Silver Membership.

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It is essential if you are starting a new, home-based business that you plan every possible thing that could happen. Not only does this help you reach a goal for the future, it also helps if you are trying to get financing for your home-based business. This important information is what makes up a home business model and there are four basic components of each stage of building a business. A great business model can only be composed after the components of each stage have been identified.

The components of a home business model include the infrastructure.

The core capabilities are capabilities and competencies necessary to execute a company’s business model.

The partner network is the business alliances which complement other aspects of the business model and the value configuration, which is the rationale that makes a business mutually beneficial for a business as well as its customers.

The offering of a home business model is the value proposition. These are the products and services a business offers. In short, it is what the customer gets for what the customer pays. A customer can evaluate a company’s value on two broad dimensions with multiple subsets. The vendors marketing and sales efforts offer a customer value proposition.

Next come the customers. You need to know who your target customers are, the target audience for your business products and services.

The distribution channel is the means, which a company delivers its goods and services to a customer. This could be through a simple means as the postal service or a major trucking company driving your products across country.

Customer relationship is key in a business model.

All the best

Alan

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 Being in the affiliate marketing business is not that hard now with the internet at your disposable. It is much easier now compared to the days when people have to make use of the telephones and other mediums of information just to get the latest updates on the way their program is coming along.

 So with technology at hand, and assuming that the affiliate is working from home, a day in his or her life would sound something like this…

Upon waking up and after having breakfast, the computer is turned on to check out new developments in the network. As far as the marketer is concerned there might be new things to update and statistics to keep track on.

The site design has to be revised. The marketer knows that a well-designed site can increase sign ups from visitors. It can also help in the affiliate’s conversion rates.

That done, it is time to submit the affiliate program to directories that lists affiliate programs. These directories are means to attract people in joining your affiliate program. A sure way of promoting the affiliate program.

Time to track down the sales you are getting from your affiliates fairly and accurately. There are phone orders and mails to track down. See if they are new clients checking the products out. Noting down the contact information that might be a viable source in the future.

There are lots of resources to sort out. Ads, banners, button ads and sample recommendations to give out because the marketer knows that this is one way of ensuring more sales. Best to stay visible and accessible too.

The affiliate marketer remembered that there are questions to answer from the visitors. This has to be done quickly. Nothing can turn off a customer than an unanswered email.

To prove that the affiliate is working effectively and efficiently, inquiries would have to be paid more attention on. Nobody wants to be ignored and customers are not always the most patient of all people. Quick answer that should appear professional yet friendly too.

In the process of doing all the necessities, the marketer is logged on to a chat room where he or she interacts with other affiliates and those under that same program. This is where they can discuss things on how to best promote their products.

There are things to be learned and it is a continuous process. Sharing tips and advices is a good way of showing support. There may be others out there wanting to join and may be enticed by the discussion that is going on. There is no harm in assuming what opportunities ahead.

The newsletters and ezines were updated days ago, so it is time for the affiliate marketer to see if there are some new things happening in the market. This will be written about in the marketer’s publication to be distributed to the old and new customers.

These same publications are also an important tool in keeping up to date with the newly introduced products. The marketer has put up a sale and promotion that customers may want to know about. Besides, they have to keep up with the deadline of these sales written in the publications.

It is that time to show some appreciation to those who have helped the marketer in the promotions and sale increase. Nothing like mentioning the persons, their sites and the process they have done that made everything worked.

Of course, this will be published in the newsletters. Among the more important information that have been written already.

The marketer still has time to write out recommendations to those who want credible sources for the products being promoted. There is also time to post some comments on how to be a successful affiliate marketer on a site where there are lots of wannabees.

Two objectives done at the same time. The marketer gets to promote the product as well as the program they are in. Who knows, someone may be inclined to join.

Time flies. Missed lunch but is quite contented with the tasks done. Bed time….

Ok, so this may not be all done in a day. But then, this gives you an idea of how an affiliate marketer, a dedicated one that is, spends the marketing day.

Is that success looming in the distance or what?

All the best

 Alan c/-Amadavit