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Revenue is one of the most important pieces to building an online business. Without it, your business is going to die plain and simple. But generating revenue online is not done by just putting up a website and hope that you’ll get some traffic. No, it’s done through marketing your business. Here are the top 2 ways to market an online business for free.

The first way is through article marketing. Now how is this done? Really, it’s not all that hard to do. All you need to do is write an article about your area of expertise that your market would be interested in. So if your website that sells your product is all sail boats, then write articles that someone interested in sail boats would want to read.

After you’ve written your article you can take it and submit it to one or several of the article directories out on the web. And how exactly does this bring you revenue? Well in each article you will add a link pointing back to your site. Once someone reads your article and wants to find out more about what you’re talking about, they will click your link and you will now have a qualified visitor on your site.

The second way is video marketing. Video marketing is done basically through the same format as article marketing. What you basically do is you create a video out of an idea that you have around what your prospect might be interested in.

If we think back to the sail boat example and take that same idea that you had for the article and just made a video about it instead, you’d now have a great video ready for you to upload it to the video directories. Once you’ve uploaded your video, you just add the link in the description box pointing back to your site and you just created another piece of marketing sending traffic back to your site.

So you can see how these two different forms of marketing are very powerful for building an online business. You can create an idea once and then use it for two different marketing pieces that you can then submit to hundreds of locations throughout the web. This is a big way marketing is being done online for free and it drives a lot of revenue for a lot of online businesses.

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A few years ago I was in Grand Central Station and was literally overwhelmed. I have a few crowd issues that I won’t discuss at this time. Suffice it to say that as we walked into the lobby I saw people everywhere. Some sitting. Some standing. People moving in every direction. Everyone was on their own mission with their own purpose. People moved with haste. No dawdling, except for those who were planning to stay all day.

Wouldn’t it be nice if your website generated traffic like that? That would be ‘grand’. Getting traffic from multiple directions with a specific purpose and mission. Traffic that sought you and found you so they could garner some key information from you to help them perform a task or reach a goal.

It’s possible. And it can be done for F*R*E*E.

The traffic sources are only limited by where and how you choose to market yourself and/or your products.

I’m sure you’ve read about marketing yourself on Social Sites, like:

1. Facebook – Behind Google, facebook is the #2 trafficked site. Everyday people are joining by the thousands. If you’re going to conduct business, you should create a fan or business page. They don’t like people using their personal page to conduct business. If you join groups you can talk to like-minded individuals or at least those who have similar interests.

2. LinkedIn – This is a site for professionals. This is not the place for witty status comments and family pictures. The people here are about business and professional matters. If you respect that you can use it to your advantage. With the median income of LinkedIn users being ~$109,000 and about 40% of the members being business owners, this is indeed fertile territory.

3. Youtube – Video marketing is huge. Youtube is another top 3 trafficked site. Whatever can be said with words can be said even better and more readily with a video. People like videos. If you check out youtube you’ll see that the quality of the video is really irrelevant. The content is what matters. Virtually everything you’re looking for can be found on youtube. Why not include your business in the line-up?

4. Twitter – You can update your followers all day long with your tweets. This site currently holds the #5 ranking for amount of traffic. Because it processes millions of tweets daily, it’s a great place for marketing.

5. Article writing – This is one of my favorite. Virtually any topic can be covered. You can then publish the articles on free article sites, LinkedIn, and/or your blog. Article marketing is great because the written word is eternal. The content should be focused on adding value. Answer the questions that meet people’s needs. Be concise. Don’t succumb to the desire to market your business within the article body. Let the resource box be the place for that.

This is definitely not an exhaustive list as there are many other options, like myspace and free classified ads. In each of these above mentioned venues, you have the opportunity to tailor your profile to inform your visitors of who you are and what you do. You want to add a nice professional picture of yourself so people can put a face with your name.

All of this generated traffic is to be sent to your primary site. You want to be sure to update it regularly and make it inviting and easy to maneuver. Driving traffic to an outdated site is like marketing suicide.

Arlissa Pinkelton

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Ok, you’ve got the best article/video/podcast etc ever seen in your niche so money’s just going to come pouring in, right? Wrong! What good is having great content if that great content isn’t found?

I’ll give you an example to try yourself. Do a search for your niche. Skip ahead to somewhere between page ten and twenty and open a few pages. You might be surprised to find the content in a lot of the pages is as good if not better than the sites that come up top in your search.

The reason for this is simple; the site hasn’t been marketed properly! Without getting too technical, search engine optimization is creating content which is likely to show up high in a Google search. Remember 80% of a site’s traffic is usually from a search engine! Search engine optimization in the form of choosing the best keywords to target is a vital part of weather you’re going to get traffic and succeed online.

The good news is it’s quite easy to find the best keywords to help you get high search results! Google Adwords Keyword Tool is a free to use tool that gives you results of searches made in google in the last month. You type in the word or term that you’d like to create content about (something from your niche). Next hit search and see what results google gives back. For example type in bodybuilding and you might get back bodybuilding routine. These are actually real searches made in google and the search statistics to go with them. This information is extremely helpful in choosing the right keyword!

Next you have to choose the best keywords to use from the suggestions you are given. I like to pick keywords within the 8,000 and 30,000 global monthly search volume. Within this range you know there are a lot of searches being made for the term but the competition may not be as high as for the terms with very high search volumes. Check out my other articles on how to use these keywords.

For an excellent video by Neil Russell; The Net Cash King on Choosing the best keyword using Adwords Keyword Tool click here: Choosing The Best Keyword Using Adwords Keyword Tool

If you want to get thousands of visitors who wish to indulge in your content, subscribe to your offers or even purchase your products, then your main objective is to get free website traffic. Getting this type of traffic is desirable for the reason that it provides you with ample opportunities to make money. Additionally it offers you a means to develop your rating online. This rating includes your visibility and your potential to get visitors and determine a reputable position online.

However, getting free website traffic is not totally free. You would need to shell out some time and effort in order to create income-generating traffic for your website or blog; to do this, you would need the right tools and strategies to employ. Here are a few social media tools and strategies that you may want to utilize to get the free traffic that you need:

Blog Affiliates Most bloggers didn’t successfully emerge in the top lists alone. They often have affiliate bloggers and a group of people who have increased their popularity. So if you want to be a blogger and your goal is to get more visitors to your website, you can begin by working on your group of visitors and readers by doing the same for others. As you converse with and mingle with the users in the blogospere, you will get many backlinks to your site. This helps SEO and also brings direct traffic.

Microblogging Microblogging is a derivative of blogging. Top microblogging sites that you can look at are Tumblr and Twitter. These sites give you an easy mode of sharing links to your site or blog seeing this social media tool is generally smaller in size and the messages shared are also normally short and basic.

Social Networking The power of social networking sites is tremendous. In fact, these sites belong to the list of the most visited places on the internet, a tool which, if you can tap, would provide you tremendous free website traffic for your benefit.

So, go for it? Figure out more about tools for producing free traffic.

For an excellent article by Neil Russell; The Net Cash King go to: Social Media In Overdrive

If you don’t like making videos, podcasts etc. Maybe you should try article marketing to make extra money online? Just so you know if you don’t want to create videos etc.; you can try other things like outsourcing; I’ll talk about them in another article.

Just like video content article marketing when done effectively can earn you money long after the article has been submitted. But before you can expect this you need to write articles that people want to read and just as importantly; that people will find. The following are some helpful pointers to do just that!

1. Choose the right keyword for your article, this ensures you’ll be found in searches (check out my article on keyword research for help doing this).

2. Next put this keyword in the title and three times throughout the article (it is usually best to have the keyword in the first paragraph aswell).

3. Write articles that are read! As obvious as that sounds a lot of people don’t do this. On the internet people don’t read every word they scan whole paragraphs. Studies have shown that; if a user isn’t interested in what they are looking at after eight seconds they move onto another page. You have eight seconds to grab their attention!

4. Keep sentences short and sharp, this helps keep the reader’s attention. It’ll also stop readers from clicking any links and leaving the page.

5. Have sentences that flow onto each other so the reader will feel the need to keep reading. Ideally if the sentences are easy and fast to read the user will not mind taking the time to read your article.

6. Break into paragraphs and or points (seven points generally works well online; hence you’ll see seven points here!).

7. Put your articles on the top article sites and also your blog. The tops sites include; Ezinearticles, Searchwarp and Articlebase. You may also find article sites specific to your niche that you should submit to.

If you keep all these steps in mind you’re sure to see the benefits of article marketing as a way to make extra money online.

For an excellent article by Neil Russell; The Net Cash King on Internet Marketing Articles click here: Internet Marketing Articles

Over the last few days I’ve been asked the same question and to be honest I knew people would ask me it. That question is; where do you start when figuring out how to make money online?

The best answer I can come up with is; do something! Choose one thing to work on and keep at it until you have made it a success and then you can move onto something else. You could if you wish; outsource what you’ve just mastered so you can put all your energy into what you’re working on now. So for example you might start on article marketing, and then you master it, outsource it and then maybe move onto video marketing.

Other than getting an opt in page up and running this would be my first step in how to make money online. You might think; ok, that sounds easy and really it is but will you do it? What I find a lot is people just don’t make themselves take the first step in starting a business online so how can they possibly succeed? There are lots of reasons for people not taking the plunge; fear, doubt and lack of knowledge have been some of the terrible excuses I’ve heard. I say terrible excuses because what I really hear from these excuses is; “I’m sabotaging my chances of making money online just because I’m afraid to try”. The online business is easy; there is no excuse for anyone not making it work for them! Another thing I commonly see is people instead of focusing on one thing try to take on about ten different things and end up getting none right. If you’re like this at least you have the enthusiasm and are not afraid to make it happen, but you need to focus.

So, let me look at some of the common barriers:

1. Fear; what’s so scary? Being made a fool of? Online people aren’t watching your every move! Really I wish they were but to get noticed you need to stand out and get in front of people’s faces. If you slip up online the whole world isn’t going to know! Then you got ridicule from friends; if they’re true friends they’ll support you and anyway it’s just friendly banter; they’ll have moved onto someone else in a day or two.

2. Doubt in ability, this one makes me laugh, because you learn best by doing and online I think this is especially the case. So take on the Nike mantra and “just do it”.

3. Lack of knowledge, well there’s an easy fix for that and that’s to learn more and as I said in the last point learn by doing so get going!

So I hope I’ve help you overcome your stumbling block if you are stuck on one and wondering how to make money online! Just go and do something. And remember I’m here to help.

For a great video on another keep point to starting out online, finding your niche by Neil Russell; The Net Cash King go to: Find Niche

If you have an online business without an opt in page you are probably missing out on a lot of cash. To build an opt list, and increase your business, you should have a quick and easy way for people to leave their details. This is the goal of the opt in page; turn visitors into subscribers.

First and foremost; definitions: a squeeze page, landing page, lead capture or opt in page is named as such because its primary goal is to squeeze the name and email.

So let me tell you the secrets of creating top class opt in pages that can capture leads from thousands or even millions of subscribers? Getting people to your opt in page or website or blog is one thing but convincing them to submit their details to grow your opt list is another. Your opt in page is only as good as the amount of visitors it turns into subscribers.

1. Opt in pages are very basic to design but if you’d prefer a web designer will do one cheap.

2. Find the opt in pages of some of the top marketers in your niche and get ideas from them, put together a swipe file, where you save copies of opt in pages you like and edit them to your liking.

3. Don’t put any outbound links in your opt in page: links give the user a reason to leave the page. Tests have shown that every link halves your traffic; don’t give your visitors a reason to leave.

4. Of course as with just about anything you do online, you will have to test and tweak your opt in page so that you can get the best conversion rates possible. I recommend testing using Google web optimizer. This allows you to run multiple pages under the same domain name and traffic is divided equally between them, so you can test which page is most effective.

5. Many believe giving away something free (an ethical bribe) can be an effective way of encouraging subscription.

6. Some find adding video to be a good way of improving subscription, test and see if it helps for you.

7. As with everything online test and see what comes out most effective for you in growing your opt list.

Once you have your opt in page online you’ll need to test it by sending traffic to it, here’s another excellent article by Neil Russell; The Net Cash King to show you how to do just that for free: Free Website Traffic

Simple! Make money online selling, the system’s been proven! Build a list and send out useful information as a newsletter to your list. Why not copy the system?

By giving out information like this; your followers will being to value your opinions and recommendations, this way you strengthen your relationship. You should try and establish yourself as an expert or guru. If people see you this way they will be a lot more likely to value your opinion and purchase the products you recommend.

Let me give you an example; John and Mary are both selling the same product to do with growing your twitter following. John sends out a newsletter to his list saying buy this product. Mary on the other hand sends out a newsletter detailing the benefits of article marketing to make money online selling and then recommends an article marketing product that she finds very useful. It’s pretty obvious Mary is going to make more sales than John. Mary has given some useful information to her subscribers and has built their trust; people are more likely to value her recommendations than John’s who is just all out selling.

Business online and off are pretty much the same in this sense, you build a relationship with your customers and they will have little difficulty buying from you because when you, a figure of authority recommend a product, they trust this product is going to be good. That’s why it’s also good to put your photograph on your blog, social media or wherever you make money online selling. Try and keep this picture the same everywhere so people learn to recognise you and so your relationship is strengthened with them.

Another benefit to this relationship building is that people are more likely to open your emails for the value they provide and are less likely to unsubscribe from your email list. Ideally people should look forward to your newsletter and what to read it for the valuable information it provides.

For an expert article on how to earn money online by Neil Russell; The Net Cash King go to: How To Earn Money Online

Online especially in the beginning I advise people to keep costs as low as possible! What’s great about traffic generation is you can do a lot of it for free. I’m going to show you an excellent way of getting the most out of your content and driving free website traffic.

I’ve detailed a great method of doing keyword research using Google Adwords Keyword Tool in Another Article; find keywords to target and produce content related to them.

Then the final step to take with the new content is social bookmark it, do this straight after putting the content on your blog. You can do this from your blog by installing a plugin like Bookmark This and bookmark them all yourself. This will not only give you free website traffic from people following links to your blog but it will also increase your search engine ranking by having some high quality links back to your site.

Right after posting on your blog submit it to some social bookmarking sites. You can do all this very easily yourself by adding installing a social bookmark plugin like Bookmark This to your blog and then submitting your post by clicking on the different bookmark buttons. This helps to give you free website traffic in two ways, one is by people directly following the link back to your article, the second is by increasing search rank due to the high quality links you now have back to your site.

What you’re essentially doing is creating a bit of a buzz on the internet about your new content, Google search bots will pick up on this “buzz” and think if the content has had this much activity in such a short period of time it must be good. Thus a search for the keyword you’ve used has a high chance of ranking highly on search engines. You can see the results you are getting by using a free website traffic counter or monitor like Google Analytics.

For another excellent article on social media by Neil Russell; the Net Cash King go to: Social Media Marketing

I’m sick of people coming to me asking; how do you make real money online? I’m constantly hearing of people who decide they’d like to make money online but don’t know where to start and simply give up. Making money online really must be the easiest way of making money in the world!

Online there are countless ways of making money and believe me I’ve either researched or actually tried most of them. What I’ve found is that affiliate marketing is the best! It offers the best return for investment of time and money.

Affiliate marketing simply means promoting someone else’s product for a commission. What this means is that you don’t need a product of your own, you don’t even need a website! Check out sites like ClickBank and paydotcom, and you’ll find thousands of items for sale in lots of different categories. The commission offered is generally between 25 and 75%!

Some people just try to sell products in lots of different niches, this will work to some extent. However to make real money online a much more effective method is by building a following in one certain area and selling products in that area. For example someone in the dog training niche would only sell products related to dog training or at least products some way related to dogs. This type of marketing is the most effective way to earn cash online.

This way you can start a relationship with your targeted followers by sending them out valuable information in a newsletter. So when you recommend a product people are more likely to buy it because they trust you as you’ve earned their trust by this relationship building. This is how to make real money online. If you randomly collected email addresses from many different niches it is quite likely that when you send out a newsletter promoting a product; there would be a lot of people not at all interested in the product you are selling and so sales rates would be low.

For a great article on how to make money online go to: How To Make Money Online – Getting Started